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Thank you. [transcription gap] Thank you, Terry. Thank you. Okay, we have two items on for open session today. Matters surrounding the 2025 tentative budget, and we have second matter on matters surrounding elite towers installation of the cell tower at the Wading River Fire Department headquarters, and Matt Charters will be leading the town with us on that. All right, so we had a town board special meeting, special session a short time ago, and I presented the board members with the 2025 tentative budget, so they now have that in their possession. It is posted online, and I'm going to start out by reading the memo that I have included in all of the tentative budgets. And it says, Dear Town Clerk and fellow town board members, as supervisor and chief financial officer of the town of Riverhead, and in accordance with section 106 of New York State Town Law, I am pleased to present for your consideration the town of Riverhead 2025 tentative budget. I believe my single biggest responsibility to the residents of Riverhead is the formulation of the annual budget. I collaborated with department heads, elected officials, and senior staff over every line, and meticulously weighed and considered every decision. And I will say that with the department heads, when we first started the budget process, I informed them that this was going to be a really, really tough year, and I asked them to please, not give me outrageous requests, because all it was going to do was lengthen the time that it would take to do the budget, because they would have been sent back right away and removing a lot of those items. I commend my department heads, because I think they did a fantastic job, and what they presented was a basic no-thrill, no-frills budget, albeit we still had to go through it with a fine-tooth comb, and we did get the red pen out, and we still made some cuts, but I appreciate the fact that they didn't give us an inflated budget for each of their departments. They did a very good job with that, so I want to thank them. Okay, just as the price of a box of cereal or a stick of butter have increased, so too have the costs to run the town. The town-wide 2025 budget is 4.14% over the tax cap, due in large part to increases to insurance premiums and retirement systems, contributions, and in fact, several surrounding municipalities will find the need to also pierce the tax cap for 2025. Riverhead also has contractual obligations, faces the need to replace old vehicles, and must perform required maintenance and improvements to aging infrastructure and related equipment. And I will say that in years past, it's always great to put up a budget with no tax increase, but you're going to pay for it, and you're going to have to pay for it. So, I'm going to say that, in the next few years, we're going to have to pay for it. going to pay for it somewhere, and unfortunately, that was done maybe one, two, one or two, too many times, and now we're paying the price for it now. The can was kicked down the road, and now we're at the end of the road so we've got to start replacing things. All taxing districts are budgeted within the tax cap limit, with the exception of the General Fund. As an example of how this will impact a resident, the town-wide tax increase for a property valued at a approximately $720,000 is about 80 cents per day or $288 per year. The cost for removal of residential solid waste distributed throughout the garbage district will increase approximately 18 cents per day or $5.25 per month. The total appropriations for the town operating fund in 2025 are $109,519,600. That's an increase of $5,893,300 over last year, 2024. The appropriations of school and town taxes are approximately 55.31% for the school and library. And 26.04% for the town. The other 18.65% is attributed to the various special taxing districts, example fire and ambulance. Notwithstanding rising costs, I refuse to cut corners on public safety. At 48%, the Riverhead Police Department consumes the largest portion of the tentative general fund budget, which includes funding for contractual services, salary increases for our younger force, implementation of body camera technology, five new vehicles, and new radio equipment needed to maintain compatibility and communication with Suffolk County. Every time Suffolk County changes their radio systems, our ambulance, our fire departments, and our police departments have to change their radio systems in order to be able to be in contact with them. The tentative 2025 budget does not... cut any services or programs, provides funds for the most critical town projects, and supports staffing to operate the services important to the community and vital to town operations. Three new positions will be added in 2025. One in information technology, one in the community development department, and one in the planning department. This proposed budget provides salary increases for existing positions, which are necessary to attract and retain qualified employees. We simply cannot afford to lose talented workers. From the beginning of 2024 to date, of the 172 full-time positions, not including the police department, approximately 30 employees resigned or retired, several citing salary as the reason for leaving. Additionally, department heads have repeatedly... reported difficulty in attracting qualified candidates. It is my hope that salary increases, which make up only 7% of the total increase required by this proposed budget, will assist in attracting qualified workers, maintaining continuity, and mitigate attrition. I want to thank our financial administrator and town budget officer for their assistance during this budget process, along with the town board members. It is my belief this budget best provides financial stability for the town of Riverhead going forward, enhances public safety, and will afford residents the quality of life they deserve. So that's the opening memo to the budget. What we're going to do now is we have a PowerPoint presentation. I would ask Jeanette DiPolo to come up, and we'll go over the numbers in the budget during this presentation. Jeanette DiPolo, ! Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Okay, so what we'll include in the presentation is, the first page is basically just a summary of the supervisor's message to the budget, and then we'll get a little bit more into detail in the next few slides. But basically, to start it off, all taxing districts, except for the general fund, were budgeted within the tax cap limit. So just the general fund, and then the tax cap limit. The general fund is the only one that exceeded the tax cap this year. The 2025 tentative budget exceeds the 2024 adopted budget by $4.1 million. The town-wide 2025 tentative budget is 4.14% over the tax cap. Basically, as the supervisor mentioned, the increase for a property valued at approximately $720,000 would amount to about $0.80 per day. Residential waste will increase less than $5.25 per month, or $0.18 per day. Total appropriations for the town operating fund increased $5.9 million roughly over last year. And that just summarizes the supervisor's memo. If you go to the next screen, so as I said, the general fund budget is $4.1 million over last year's budget. So we're focusing on the general fund so we can explain what that increase is. Basically, it's made up of salaries for PD, New York State retirement, the rates increase on every tier this year, most notably police. They went up four percentage points this year, which is common over the last couple of years. They're going up a lot. So that's kind of out of our control. Health insurance also increased. We had roughly a 14% increase in 2024. And now for 2025, we're proposing a 9% increase. And hopefully that's enough. But the health insurance rates are going up drastically as well. We have an increase in debt service. We have a principal payment that we have to make on this building starting next year. And that's what the increase is related to for that. New vehicles. We have a few in police, and we have some in B&G or buildings and grounds, and fire marshal. Then we have salaries, non-police department related. New radios. And then a slight increase in general liability and property insurance. So what's that new radios that were front to like all that? Similar. It's PD, police department, fire marshal and code all need new radios next year. County changes there, set up, and as you know, through the fire departments and the ambulance, then you have to change yours to be in contact with them. Yeah, they changed the bandwidth, I guess. So in order to communicate with them. RVAC is getting theirs this year though, I believe, with the different balance we just did. So this is really just for police department, code enforcement and fire marshal. And just so the public's aware, these increases with the retirement and the health care, the health plans, that's from the state. Yes. Yeah, our health insurance is NYSHIP. We have a small plan also, I believe it's with MLB. And they're projected already at 9%. We can only provide the best guess, but I look to personnel for that and they're saying, you have to budget at least 9% this year. So that's what we're doing. And the retirement rates, that's New York State as well. They send out the projected rates pretty far along into the budget process. So that was a last minute change. So we had to increase that basically just about a week and a half ago, when the rates get released. So, but they are going up every year as well. Jeanette, I have a question. The property insurance, what was the increase on that? Property insurance was a 10% increase and then the general liability was a 5% increase. So we looked to our third party insurance broker for those increases. So she provided us with those estimates. Okay, so let's go into a little more detail in the general fund. What we did on this slide was basically just break out, police department versus non-police, because the police department is such a big part of our budget. For the police department, 1.4 million in salaries, contractual salaries and related payroll taxes, is part of our increase. 400,000 for the New York State retirement rates. Again, their rates went up about 4 percentage points from last year to this year. $250,000 would be related to police department health insurance. And again, we're estimating the increase to be 9%. We increased for five new vehicles. So they already had a little bit of a budget last year for vehicles and we're just increasing at $175,000 for five new vehicles needed. And then $150,000 for the new radios due to the new bandwidth set by Suffolk County. For non-police, we have a $400,000 increase for salaries and related payroll taxes. $400,000 would be for debt service. $350,000 would be for the new vehicles. $250,000 for health insurance. Again, the rate increase up to 9%. Can you explain the public debt service? So debt service is basically our principal and interest payments that we have to make on our debt each year. Each year we have a debt database that we budget based on and we can predict out or forecast out what our payments are going to be for the following year. So the increase here is basically related to a principal payment that we have to start making on our 2020 payments. So we have a $120,000,000 bond anticipated note for this building. It's actually more than that, but we had a bit of an increase in last year's budget because we anticipated bonding improvements for $1.5 million on this building and we didn't have to. We had some excess fund balance last year, we're in 2023, so we ended up paying the $1.5 million in improvements off. So we didn't have to bond that. So otherwise the increase would have been larger than that. So that was a good thing. We have $225,000 of an increase for new vehicles, which is fire marshal and buildings and grounds. And then the New York State retirement rates again, every tier increased, not as much as police department, but that's an overall increase of $200,000 for non-police. And then insurance premiums on general liability and property insurance were $100,000. And then the new radios for code enforcement and fire marshal. So that's $50,000. And just to break down the salaries and related payroll taxes a little further for everybody. So $1.4 million is directly related to police department increases. $439,700 are contractual increases for non-police. Merit increases for non-police is $275,400. Again, this is a little bit more than the $2,000. So that's $2,000. And then the new

supervisor mentioned it's 7% of the overall increase year over year. $203,500, three additional town hall positions. We reduced the severance budget by $280,000. We're not really expecting as many people to retire this year. It's sometimes an unknown, but we feel confident that reducing that was good. And we also reduced three positions for $222,000. So basically the three that we're going to talk about today, we're going to talk about the new and the three that we added kind of offsets with the three that we reduced by. And the last slide is really just giving you an estimate of the appropriations of school and town taxes for the coming year. We don't really know this exactly yet. It's an estimate based on I basically estimated a 2% increase for all the other districts that we don't have yet, which are the schools and the libraries and the fire districts and Suffolk County. They could go up more than 2%. They probably will. So this is a very conservative estimate to say that the school and library are really about 55.3% of the overall tax levy that the residents pay. And then Residents need to understand we have to base it on a rate increase of 2% or we base it on 2% because their budget, their calendar year is different than ours, and we won't have that information in order to present our budget accordingly. According to law, we won't have that information to do it. Yeah, I don't see their budgets yet. So we don't prepare the tax levy until November. Right. So this is all estimated. But it's not going to change all that much. It's a fairly good estimate. If anything, it's a little more conservative. So if anything, school and library will probably go up some, and then our percentage will go down. But that's just to point out really to the taxpayers how much a percentage of your taxes really go to school and library versus all the other districts, including the town. And that pretty much sums up the tentative budget. Does anybody have any questions? It's hard to have questions because I just got it just now. But what we can do, we certainly can put this up for discussion again down the road once you guys have had time to digest this. But I'm sure, you know, having you work as a district, having you work as the liaisons with your departments had to help you have a better one. I wish I had that in my eight years here as a councilman because that helps you understand the budget a lot more for sure, and it gives you an active part in it. I would just say, Supervisor, just to reiterate things you've mentioned, that Councilman Kern and I are on the personnel committee. It is very difficult to get people to come to the town because the salaries are not competitive with other towns and other jobs. So it is very difficult and we're constantly going through lists to get people to come on board out here. And how many interviews do you have set up and people don't even show up? That's right. They're like, Matt, I can't. It's too much of a cut in pay for me. And in terms of with the refuse, I know we took the lowest contract. We are no longer staying with the group we had previously. We're going with the lowest, best contract. So I know there's efforts there to save costs. Absolutely. Supervisor, I appreciated the opportunity to be able to work on the budget with you and Matt, Brittany. I know how much you guys put into this. And thank you for all of your hard work. And thank you, Supervisor, for everything that you did with this budget. I was able to see how you were trying your best to put a budget together that we know that people are going to be upset that we had to pierce the cap. But across the board, across the nation, we have inflation, and it's more expensive to live today. And you have a town that needs more police officers and more police cars and all of our vehicles that need gas, and gas is more expensive. Things are on the rise. And this eventually had to come. Like you said, we've been kicking the can down the road. And that's the truth. ABC News had a segment on this morning about the cost of food. And they said the average American is paying 7% more this year for food than they were last year. So that's, I don't mean to compare it to our budget by any means, but that number makes a lot of sense. Yeah, I mean, I think it's right to compare it because that's why it's hard to retain people at the salaries that we're doing. And we've got to have some parity with other towns. And I really appreciate that, you know, what you said about the department has, because you were very clear from the beginning that, hey, don't come at us with all these, you know, big raises. Because it's not, you know, it's not going to happen. And it can't, you know, it can't happen. You know, the town is faced with the inflation like you're talking about. And people, you know, I mean, things have got to change. Especially in New York, the rates are going through the roof. The insurances and health insurances and regular insurances, incredible. It's amazing. Everybody has to, you know, bite the bullet on it. You have no choice. And Denise and I get a little bit of a break instead of, you know, with all these interviews. It's amazing. I mean, the turnover rate was getting insane. Or the number of people that we hire, we train, and then they leave to go to another agency, similar, but pays better. And it's, you know, we've wasted not only time and money, we have to then go out and try to find somebody to hire again. So we've got to be more flexible. And we're compatible to the surrounding area, without a doubt. One of the questions I have, in terms of the overall personnel here in Town Hall, can we get a listing of, like, how the funds are being allocated? So each department basically puts up a percentage or an overall cost for personnel, you know, increase in wages in that department. But it's been clear in years past that those promises weren't always kept or not allocated the way the town board thought they were being allocated. So I want to make sure that the head of each department, if they say I'm giving each, each, these particular salaries to these particular individuals, I don't want after the budget to find out that they've changed that format. No, we met with all the department heads and closed the loop. I think you missed because you were on vacation, but I can certainly give you a list of all of the approved merit increases if you want to see those by individual. I just want to make sure, because in years past, people would promise things, and they did not receive them. Yep. Absolutely. So we are keeping our word. So if it's allocated a certain way, then that's the way it will be distributed to the employees. Yes. I have a detailed list. So once the budget is adopted, it will go right to personnel to get the resolutions ready for the new year, that kind of thing. And then the budget, the other question I would ask is if we can see towards what kind of increase in tax base, like how we're doing in terms of projects overall going through the planning department and the building department coming to fruition, how does it change our tax base? Like, so each year, can we measure? We measure ourselves. So are we, in fact, increasing tax growth in the town or not? So like building inspection fees, that kind of stuff? More or less like property taxes. So if a project is approved by the planning department, it comes to fruition, and the tax roll changes, are we growing? So with projects flowing through the planning department, how are we growing in terms of our tax base compared to previous years? Right. I think that's a really good point. I mean, we should really be looking at, you know, bimonthly, you know, what projects are getting, being reviewed and getting out. So we can start to, you know, look at the timelines of things and figure out how we could maybe, you know, do better in each department to move these projects forward. Because it, and, you know, we need to capitalize on the land that we have that people are looking to build on, and that's tax revenue, which, you know, helps the taxpayers, period. That's basically the only relief. It's absolutely the only relief. When we discuss the comp plan, then we reduce far ratios and build outs and preserve land and things like that, all positive things. But we've got to know that we're getting projects through the planning department that are increasing the overall tax basis. I'd really like to see, I'd like to be able to watch that number to see what it was last year, what it was, you know, this year, how we could do some type of projections. Yeah, I mean, I could basically compare the assessed values from last year to this year by property maybe somehow. I can work with the assessors on that and then get the information from building and planning on what properties have you, you know, I need the tax map probably numbers in order to do that from them. It's just the only way that I see that we can, you know, change the pattern of a continuous tax increase is by getting projects through, developed, and getting them on the tax map. So, you know, we're waiting on the dream is EPCAL, but litigation three, five years we say, right? But what are we doing in terms of a small level to at least make, you know, steps to getting projects through the planning department? And, you know, I know we're waiting on EPCAL, but it's, you know, we have what? Matt, 400 acres outside of EPCAL of industrial, something right around there? You know, that's, you know, so when we put moratoriums, we've got to be really careful on what we're doing because we're putting, we're stopping the clock. That affects taxpayers, you know, in general, so. And that's the exact point, Councilman, is that like what, how are we doing on industrial areas? So when people are proposing ideas and projects, are they in fact moving through and are we getting them on the tax rolls? Okay. More probably a planning department question, but just trying to say that. Yeah, it is. That's the only unit that can soften these numbers. Right, right. It's got to be a balance. And with the complex. With the comp plan being completed now and the moratorium being lifted in the industrial areas in Calverton, you're going to start to see some movement, I'm sure. And people have been waiting and some people have, and Bob, I know you've mentioned some people have walked away and said, I can't wait, I've got to go somewhere else. But I think we still did the right thing by waiting for the comp plan to be done, addressing the Calverton and Bading Hollow area, the industrial areas, and now we're ready to move forward, so. Yeah. And I think as we look at that code, we should be in a position to start expediting projects so that it doesn't take, I know I'm criticized for the guy that wants the shovel in the ground. Yeah, I do want it in the ground, but I don't want it in six years, I don't want it in four years, more like two years because that affects the tax revenue three years from now, not one year or two years. So we have to be cognizant of that. Yeah. And we're doing all this. Thank you. Any other questions? No. Okay, well happy reading. And we will thank you, Janette. Thank you, Janette. Great job. We will have a future discussion on this if need be at a work session and we'll take it from there. Okay, next up we have matters surrounding Elite Tower's installation of the cell tower at Wading River Farm. Headquarters, Mack Daughters, come on up. Hello. And anybody from the tier four, come on up. Yes. Wow. Greg Alvarez. You've got a lot of company today. We have a lot of company. I'm going to sit down here in case . We do. You guys are here? Yeah, you can have seats. Yeah, you can. Yeah, this is fine. That's good. How's everybody doing today? Good. Good? Well. Okay, good. I'm so glad this just happened. You have no idea. Yeah. So I distributed staff reports to everybody on the 19th. Pretty lengthy. I'll summarize today just so we understand what's happening here. This is for a cell tower at the Wading River Fire District headquarters. That's at 1503 North Country Road in Wading River. So what they're proposing is a 190 foot concealment pole, which I think IT should have a plan that they can show up so everyone can see what it looks like. Page seven. I bet. Daniel, the fire commissioner wants to join us? Okay. Well, when it comes to . . . Just shout out. Yeah, so 190 foot concealment pole. When a concealment pole is, that means all the antennas are inside, so you're not seeing the antennas hanging on the outside. What you do see are a couple whip antennas, so those are the fire district communication antennas at the top. So the overall height above 190 of the tower is 213, and then there's another set of antennas as you come down. So four antennas at 75 feet, three antennas at 95, and then Verizon wireless is going to be at the center line at . . . Okay. So that's the first one. Okay. So the second one is going to be at the center line at . . . Okay. So the third one is going to be at the center line at . . . Okay. So the third one is going to be at the center line at . . .

Okay. So just so we know what's surrounding the area, you've got the fire district, building obviously, Waiting River Congregational Church, St. John's, the Baptist Roman Catholic churches in the area, and then the River head town line is just a couple properties behind us with the full head of what's head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head better? He's going to back away as he does watch. So page two just aerial photograph in a street view of the fire district. Obviously we have a very hefty plan set that the board got as well as a planning study done by VHB which kind of outlines the whole thing. In terms of secret this is a this is a type one action pursuant to our town code so that's a mandatory 30-day coordination period. Involved agencies in this case would be the Planning Commission, State Office of Historic and Preservation and DEC and then interested agencies would be the town of Brookhaven and the Wading River Civic Association. Moving this forward we'll have a resolution to classify the action pursuant to SICRA and then start that lead agency coordination so we can start the clock on this because you have to do that 30 days. And then in terms of zoning if the board's not already aware wireless communications towers and antennas are not specially permitted, permitted or permitted to search for use of ! within the RB 80 zoning district. The applicant has included an analysis within the application requesting limited government immunity from zoning subject to the Monroe balancing test which I'll go through in a minute. In terms of the application itself what we asked for is a complete application what would be required if it was allowed by code. So they've given us all the plans all the studies that we would normally ask for. In terms of the things that it doesn't comply with just within terms of setbacks it doesn't meet the hundred or hundred meter or height pursuant to code. It doesn't meet the separation distance between towers which is 25,000 linear feet and then it doesn't have a eight foot security fence around the base. So just to understand the Monroe balancing tests a little bit more there is a nice legal member it's called a legal memorandum LU 14 governmental immunity from zoning so that's from the New York State Department of State it was last updated in 2020 limited government immunity may apply to the subject application if found appropriate by the town board. So a point is made. Thank you. We would have a public hearing to do what's called the Monroe balancing test. We'd have testimony from the applicant. The applicant would go through what are those following nine criteria and then we'd hear testimony from the public and then the town board would need to decide by resolution to what extent this application could be immune from the zoning requirements of the town. Moving on. Just in terms of commenting on some of those things though people that are might not be familiar with the application. Yeah. So the area if you're on the Jane's Port side of town and so forth tower needs to be closer perhaps to other towers simply due to the terrain. Correct. So it's a whoever is in a hold out of the bottom. Okay and in terms of the the setback and the fencing and so forth this is really a protected space it is directly behind the firehouse it's really only accessed by your fire department members and really quite frankly you'd have to jump up over a wall to get to it anyway so it's a it's a very protected area so it's a very protected area. So it's not a cell tower that is in an open field and accessible by kids. I think that entire area is monitored by video as well so problems and so forth can be quickly addressed you know by security means. So I think that when we're concerned about some of those variances so to speak I really think if you're familiar with the lay of the land you'll find that it's really not that concerning. Yeah that's the purpose of the test. Matt can I while you're on the zoning courts town zoning I mean to me this is a very important thing to consider. You know an emergency these are people that are dealing with emergencies so I've been inside that fire firehouse I couldn't use my cell phone so if there are people if you're a fireman inside that firehouse and somebody's trying to reach them or they're trying to reach out they can't you get an SOS. Yeah so it's not even just not to interrupt you Bob it's not even just cell service the radio service is poor too so once we go through that's the focus of this. Yeah but should we be changing the zoning and you know I mean. It's something that could to consider by the town board. Yeah. The Monroe balancing test the beauty of that like there's there's special cases like this where it would be appropriate to consider just for the public safety factor and the real need to you know find something immune from zoning so. Yeah so if I could explain the Monroe balancing test so certain government acts are immune from zoning so we recognize that there is immunity that they're looking for from the zoning regulations and the way that this is determined is by the town board to figure out if they're going to be. Exempt from the local zoning regulations by balancing of public interest so there's nine factors they come from the matter of county of Monroe or city of Rochester that's where they first determine the factors there are nine factors and they go through which I'm sure Matt will speak about shortly but they go through consideration of all the topics that you're bringing up public safety and sit topics like that that's what you'll be hearing about. Yeah during the public hearing if you choose that a public hearing on this topic the applicants will talk about all the ways that they meet the Monroe balancing test and then you'll issue a written decision after that determining if they met those factors which would exempt them from the local zoning regulations that are in place right now. Or to the extent you want them to be. I can just speak of one example I know personally if you're in the waiting river Roman Catholic Church you don't have cell service and there was an incident I was attending mass and somebody had a heart attack. I had a heart issue and you couldn't contact the fire department is right down the road literally right down the road and they had difficulty getting everyone there to help they did eventually get the individual treatment but literally just run down from the church to the fire department that's what somebody would have had to do as opposed to get on the phone to contact and get help it's absolutely needed in that area. Matt this is one of the concerns which cell towers are the collapse zone. Correct. And from what I understand a lot of the towers now are they come down so they don't it's not a fall over. So this is a look at an area around the length of those. Yeah these are much safer it should have and it almost I'm sure it has happened somewhere but it it's rare that it would even happen to begin with. Very rare and this tower is too designed to fall I believe it's a 65 feet below the top. Yes. So the top if it if it was under such stress that it would need to collapse the top half of the tower would fall off which would fully meet that 100 percent. Right so it's a breakaway so like if we did get a major hurricane in the area it's going to separate based on you know the top portion may break away first then the secondary portion you're not going to get a full tower that's going to come down so when there's there are you know concerns by residents that have expressed the waiting river congregational church is very close but it the way it is designed it cannot fall you know on an intact pattern and land or anything. Right. So it's a very rare case where you know if you're going to have a major hurricane and then you're going to have to go back and impeach somebody else's property because the top is going to break away first then you'd have to break away the middle section then then the base itself so in terms of the collapse area it's much smaller in terms of its distance. Right. So I mean and we're talking a catastrophic failure in that case I mean very rare but you know you have to plan for these eventualities so just to I will go I'll just list the nine factors of the Monroe balancing test I'll leave it to the applicant if you guys choose to have a public hearing because they'll really go through how they meet everything. Okay. So the first one is the land use or function involved but that is appendix I think it's appendix in the VHB document I think it's appendix H or I. It's page five in the staff report if that's easier. Yeah. So the nature and scope of the instrument instrumentality seeking immunity is number one. So it's appendix I. Appendix I. The encroaching government's legislative grant of authority the kind of land use or function involved the effect of local land use regulation would have upon the enterprise concerned alternative locations for this facility and land use. So the first one is the land use or function involved the effect of local land use regulation would have upon the enterprise concerned alternative methods of providing the proposed improvement the extent of the public interest to be served by the improvements and then the last one intergovernmental participation in the project development process and opportunity to be heard. So it's a pretty robust test that they'll have to establish to the town board and the town board will need to make an informed decision what extent to you know if they choose to exclude them from the zoning regulations. Is the Monroe hearing required to be held in the town board? Yes. Okay. So the public hearing is required by us like must we have it? Yes. Yes. That's why I'm saying. You say if you choose to have it. No. That's a public hearing. No. Not to choose to have the hearing. To choose to what if I mean you'd have to decide today if you're going to have a public hearing to entertain this. Right. I don't want to preempt that you're going to decide to have a public hearing because you would have to do it if you choose to act on the project. The decision will be to what extent you're going to exempt if at all. So you can do full exemption. You can do a partial exemption or you can do no exemption and then obviously the project wouldn't happen. Maybe I wasn't clear but this is why I'm saying maybe we need a change in the zoning code so we don't have to go through this when it in a situation like this which we may not have another one right now. Correct. But it is an emergency situation given what you heard from the councilwoman and my own experience in that firehouse. I just thought how do these people communicate? Yeah. You know so. I think it's an important consideration and I have no objection to that. But I think for this instance where we are this is fine. I guess this is the appropriate. I mean right now the applicants are only even being considered for the Monroe balancing test because they're a fire district which is a political subdivision of the state of New York. That government portion of the application is the whole reason why they're allowed to even get to the Monroe balancing test. I guess. Yes. Let me just turn a little, turn the conversation more. This is not about putting a cell tower up. We want to put a cell tower up in Waiting River because we want better cell service because residents are having. This is about, I'll switch my hat as a member of the Waiting River Fire Department. Okay. I'm working the radios. We're going into structures. We're going to housing. Our radios simply don't work. We have an, we should have an active structure fire and we are sending our men and women into these homes to retrieve people, to save life and property. We need communication. The chief of the department needs to stand outside and have constant communication. Okay. Constant communication towards where his teams are and how they're moving about and placement of victims, removing victims and so forth. This is about an emergency conversation. The same that I'll change my hat again and say, you know, my children are in the fire department as well. And I want to know when they go into a burning structure that I have constant communication with them. That's what this is ultimately about. And it's the same aspect within our police department. Unit 604 goes down, down into the hole. We always say, going down by the fire. We always say, going down by the firehouse. And the churches, they have, they lose communication. So these bands are about setting up fire radios, police radios, all emergency responses. The ambulance can communicate. That's what this is about now. You say there's a cost to this. So we don't build it. To alleviate, I think the fire district commission is doing their best job to help alleviate the cost to the taxpayers. Well then within the same poll, they can add cell phone fields. That ends up benefiting everybody. And then residents are happy that now, you know, I can tell you that on a daily basis, I'm parked up, you know, up off of 25A and I have to, you know, on my Bluetooth, I got to stop all driving and everything because once I go down that hole, I lose the conversation is over with. So there's a benefit in terms of all residents just having better cell phone service and the money that's received that helps pay for this project. But that is not the reason of this project. From my standpoint, being in the fire department, the reason for this is to have continuing emergency communications at all. All times. We have school programs in St. John the Baptist Church. We have children in there. You can't have your police outside struggling with any type of situation that may be going inside and not having constant radio communications. It's the biggest downfall. If I could add on to what you're saying. I agree with you 100%. Our primary purpose is for fire department communications. Excuse me, I'm losing my place. Just introduce yourself. Terry Culhane. I'm a commissioner on the board of fire departments. I'm the fire commissioners for Weeding River. Yes, that is the primary reason. Our emergency communications with our first responders in the community. In addition to radio communication, the cell communication is pivotal because a lot of our medical equipment to shoot or to transmit telemetry to the hospitals is now subverted because we have no coverage. For example, someone that's having a heart attack, we have to drive three blocks with the patient. We have to drive three blocks to just send that EKG to the hospital for a doctor to look at. The third piece is, yes, it is about cell phones. How many of us in this town use our cell phones as your primary communication device at home? Nobody has landlines. Very few do. That is also an emergency issue because nobody can call 911. Denise, you had the problem up at the house. You had one in the firehouse. Yes. The fire department actually fall down the staircase, crack his skull open, and he couldn't get help. He had to run back into the building to get somebody to help him. That's what I was going to bring up, that a lot of people don't use landline phones anymore. Correct. This also affects their ability to contact the police, not just the fire department. This will also help with the new radio systems because you're going to need antenna sites. Yes. It's not just about cell phones. It is about emergency communications. It is about emergency response. But cell phones do play a part in that. Our medical equipment depends on it, and the community depends on being able to reach a first responder. I'm just sorry that the process is going to take so long. Right. Understood. Actually, this will be much ... If the board chooses to find them immune from zoning, it's a much quicker process. Well, when can we do that? Today? You'd have to have a public hearing first, and then you'd need to make a determination. Well, I'm going to tell you right now, look at the liability in general. Yes. Thank you. Right? So, you're going to have to go through this. Yes. You're going to have to go through this in general, right? So, to me, I would have the public ... Oh, we have to ... We have to have a public hearing. We have to be certain about it is. We have to have a public hearing, so ... Something like this ... We can schedule it as soon as possible. Yes. Something like this happens again. Yes. Let's schedule a public hearing way before you even get to hearing, because I did review this, and I can tell you, I responded right away, this is great, we need this, and that was what? Two or three weeks ago. Yes. So ... Look at all the time that's passed away. And that's my thing. Look at the time that's passed, and I understand you ... And our concern is, do we have to wait for someone to die? No, I get ... We're totally sorry. It's about to ... It affects response time, so very often within the fire department, we get dispatched by FREZ, and sometimes a call is not properly communicated through dispatch, meaning that if it's just simply a ... What do they call it? A BLS call type thing, and then all of a sudden, the officer ... Right. Arrives on scene, and then finds somebody in full cardiac arrest, or if it's simply a automatic alarm, and the chief arrives on scene, and thinks that, okay, this is going to be a standard false alarm, and the chief arrives on scene, opens the door, and they're full of smoke and fire, it's about then ... Now the chief is in a bad spot, and trying to access and to request additional personnel to get to that scene, to dispatch. The chief has removed himself from a communication power, and so with this, that kills the response time. Now the chief is trying to get somebody else, literally as the commissioner spoke, to drive up the hill to make communications, go and send more help. It's bigger than I thought. The problem is more severe than I thought. Absolutely. We know that minutes save lives. And five to seven minutes is all we got on a cardiac arrest, and after that, it's not. And that's the time it takes longer than that to go outside the area to gain help. It's about life and safety. Yeah. So if I can just go through the rest of this, I think we cover a lot of your questions. I think it's pretty clear that ... It's very clear. I think we have a full five members support this. I'm just going to go through some of the need, just so the public understands how we got here, and then I think we have what I think is full board support. All right. So in terms of the need for the tower, like everyone said, you guys are ahead of the game, right in the report. So what's going to happen here is this allows full communication with the district, as Councilman Rothwell had said. So the existing equipment that's on top of the water tower on Gerald Street, so that's the in-between, that's the conduit between the radios that'll be on this tower to a station too. So that'll allow your full communication. That's the number one important factor. Revenue for the fire district, which we touched on, and then offer communications for other towns and agencies. So the town has an opportunity to put their police antennas on top, or the state, whoever would want to co-locate there. To what the commissioner had said, there's a service efficiency in Verizon Wireless Cover Daring and Wading River. We have a whole RF report to what says why there's not communication. Why there's not good coverage. Seventy-one percent of adults live in a wireless-only household. Two hundred forty million calls are made to 911 in the U.S. with 80 percent or more via wireless devices. So that's really the important factor here. In terms of visual impacts, the applicant has done a visual impact analysis. That's the review shed analysis, so that's with LIDAR. It creates a model where it could be seen, because visual impacts are the number one concern typically with cell towers. Unless you're dying and you need emergency services. Yeah. Okay. So, you know, the firehouse was a crane on site. Yeah. So. And it was like, it's not even visible really from 25A at that point. The firehouse in itself was a large structure which sits in front of it. So even as you're traveling down North Wading River Road and coming up in Country Road, you're really, it's not that viewable. No, it's not. Like you really got to be looking for it. Yeah. So it's not a visual impairment within the community. The model predicted that you'd be able to see it on the northwest and southwest portion of North Country Road, to the east along North Wading River Road, and then you'd be able to see it around the duck ponds and from Creek Road. Okay. And then you'd be able to see it on the south road. They then did a one mile visibility study, which counts when that's the flag test on top of the crane, which was completely in line with what the model predicted with some additional very minor visualization of it on Broadview Circle, Cambridge Court, Overlook Drive, Remsen Road, Dogwood Drive, and Zofra Mills Road and Randall Road. So you can see it very small. They also did photographic simulations. So that's actually what you see at the end of the report. That's they do a little, it's a picture superimposed of what the tower will look like. So if you see the images from Creek Road, it's about that big from the top of the tree. And sorry, again, when you did that test, you gave a lot of residents false hope because they thought the tower was going in that day. They're like, it's coming, it's here. Yeah. Just a test. So in terms of alternatives, the code does require you to consider alternatives. So the main alternative to a cell tower is what's called an ODAS system, outdoor distributed antenna system. So that's like your net of cell, you know, antennas on a smaller cell, microcell, so they do it. They're not going to be on steeples, on telephone poles. It's just for this, the tower antennas are mounted at a higher level than would transmit above trees and buildings just because of the topography of that system wouldn't work as well to allow full connectivity. There's a lot of hills and trees in the area. A lot of hills and trees in the area. So the tower allows you to do that full permeation, allows in-service coverage, and the ODAS system in this case could really only supplement, it couldn't really be in place of the tower. We also have a system that allows you to do that in-service coverage. Okay. [transcription gap] Okay. Okay. communication issue is the tower adequate reliable network coverage for Verizon Wireless and fire district in the subject area and the ability to accommodate the additional wireless carry so it's going to be Verizon that's coming in but there is space to co-locate which we require by code and those are the parcels are significantly higher in height correct compared to where the firehouse sits literally at the low point along with yep so this is the case of you know balancing public need which I think everyone understands I guess I just want to add one other thing one issue that you touched on was revenue yeah I don't want anybody to think that the fire district is getting rich now it's just offsets costs it not only it just thought you have in your own budget the amount of money you got to spend on radios we have to do the same thing in the fire district so we're always trying to keep our tax levy down as low as possible so that's where that that money is going to it radio equipment constantly staying up to up to date so I you know I don't want the public to think they go so head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head Far from the, it's a very, very small amount of money. Yep. All right, so it sounds like everybody's in support, so I'm going to prepare two resolutions. One's to classify it as a type 1 action, so we'll initiate that 30-day coordination period, and then a second to publish a post for the Monroe hearing, and then as soon as that hearing is closed, the town board is able to make a decision. So we can't get it in Thursday's paper, right? Like for next week? Your meeting's on Tuesday? You could. October 1st. Yeah, October 1st. So just to do the, yeah, the publish and post or whatever, because is the hearing going to be required to be in the evening? I don't think it's controversial enough to make it an evening one. That's at your discretion. I think I personally would request the first available town board meeting. And we greatly appreciate that. I just want to say I'm Greg Alvarez, attorney for Lee Towers. The only thing I would say to that is, as we've talked about, we have to hit all of those 9. And we do have some of the folks here, we do have other folks as well. And so we've already vetted out those other dates that are beyond next week. So that would be the only reason to perhaps ask for one of those other dates, just to make sure, because we want to make sure all of our team members are here, to hit each of those points. And obviously it's up to your discretion in terms of how much you want to hear. We will do it at the soonest available time by law. I mean, we have so many days we have to publish and post. We have to notify. So we'll make it as long as you guys are ready with everything that you have to do, we'll do it. Just be in touch with us or with Matt and let him know. And we'll do it as soon as we can. Yes, we've already vetted with Matt the dates after that. So I believe the date after that was the 16th, I believe. Yes. We would be more than ready for that date. Okay. Yep. There's just no way to predict when the next structural fire is. We just had a very serious structural fire. We had a house that was just basically almost across the street from the firehouse. Next to the cemetery and radio communications were in fact a problem. And so we want to eliminate this issue, the safety concerns. And we never want to turn down the opportunity to come in sooner rather than later. So I just wanted to let you know. As expeditiously as you can do it, we welcome it. And we thank the board for that. Yes. I'd be happy to find a partner in the fire district. This is insane. Police and fire have no communication. It is. It's ridiculous. This is like, you know, 1400s. You've got to run down with a book. And we don't have cyber. We don't have networks to bang our nightsticks on. Old school, old school. Yep. All right. Careful, Terry. You're dating yourself. So again, if next week works better, just to understand that perhaps we won't have all of our team members. That's fine. But certainly we have our reports. Absolutely. So what will happen on Tuesday is there will be a published post-resolution. So that will be to schedule. And it will be to schedule on the 16th. So that would be when the hearing will start. Okay. Okay. Very good. Very good. Appreciate it. And then we can make a decision shortly thereafter. Thank you. Excellent. And for the public, we have three waiting river fire commissioners here. Yes. Yes. On Tuesday, I thank you guys for your service. Can I just say one thing, Mr. Yes. Come on up. Tim Devaney, commissioner from Redding River. Yeah. Just use the. Come on. Here. Come on. Or use the podium. Just a quick thing. Tim Devaney. He was the waiting river fire district for a number of years. Back in 2007, we worked on putting a cell tower up. I forget the company's name out in South Hampton. We moved along and moved along. Did soil compactions. Did this and did that. There was a couple of board members at the time. That really weren't in favor of it. Because we were afraid of the public. Okay. And I get it. You know, it's tough to, you know, I don't want to say push over the public. But this is a serious situation. Absolutely. Okay. And I'm glad everybody's on board. Because 2024, almost 25, we did this back in 07. I went in for quintuple bypass in the beginning of 08. I come back and my next meeting at the fire house. And they put it to bed. They stopped everything. I was like, why? Why did you do this? You know, this is an important feature that we need, you know, for our members. Like we just discussed here. So I just want to say, here we are, you know, 15, 8, 17 years later, whatever. And we're trying to attack it now. You know, so that's what I want to say. I'll just add to that. The difference is now many, many more people do not have landline phones. Correct. Right. That's really changed in the last 20 years. Yeah. But we're just afraid of the public being, oh, you know, well, I'm going to get voted in again. Can I put a cell tower up in our fire station? I mean, that's a different industry, you know. From a planning perspective, this makes sense. So, you know, in times past, over the past 20 years, cell towers, I feel like the controversy has really changed since most people use them now. They were very controversial when they first came in. So, I mean, it's important that we locate them. We just want to locate them in the correct places. This is a shining example of a place where it makes sense. Right. I think back then, I think they didn't fall like we talked about. Correct. The whole structure fell over onto the church. You typically didn't have as many flies. Right. You had to have a whole zone thing and everything like that. The newer technology now would be they fall within themselves. Absolutely. Correct. Well, the safety of the residents and the safety of the first responders are the most important thing for this town. Absolutely. Not a doubt. Yep. That's all. Thank you very much. Appreciate your time. Thanks, everybody. Sorry it took so long. No, there's no problem. I will get all that into a minute track and it will be in your packet. Great. Good. Thank you very much. You know that? Yeah. Absolutely. It's a good idea. I would have to pay for it for one town. That's how these tend to go. Yes. All right. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you. I'd call you, but I can't. Okay. That concludes our open session. We're now going to move on to resolutions. And, Devin, if you would please come up and read off the resolution. Okay. Thank you. [transcription gap] Okay. So, we'll read off the resolution. Okay. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. If everybody's ready to go, we'll get started. Resolution number one authorizes the removal of fixed assets. Number two. Police department accepts donation of two motorcycles from Suffolk County. Baker and Poncherello are coming to town. I just want to thank Ken Rothwell for his work. With the Suffolk County Executive's Office and making this happen, they have donated two Harley-Davidson motorcycles, 2020s. They're used from their fleet. But when they turn them in, they're in really good shape. And then they buy new ones. And Ken set this up and got the county to donate them. So we're going to have two nice Harley-Davidson's coming up. And our officers have been trained. They went to the academy and got their training ready for them. So, we're going to have two nice Harley-Davidson's coming up. And our officers have been trained. They're in really good shape. They're ready for them. Exactly. So we've already got officers trained. We've got them outfitted with uniforms and so forth. Leather jackets, helmets, all necessary. Bridges, suits. Boots. Again, I just also want to personally and publicly thank, and we'll have that opportunity once we get these motorcycles striped and so forth with our logos on it. But I got to personally thank County Executive Ed Romaine right from the get-go. He has wanted to build a relationship between the Suffolk County Police Department and the Riverhead Police Department. And it's always been a great relationship. But just like a more, this is personal. And so we have not had motorcycle units in a long time. We had one bike that's way aged out and it's not safe and not usable. And I commend our officers for stepping forward and taking your training. They all said they had one of the greatest times. They actually went through the academy with Nassau County Police Department. And they were traveling all around New York City and going up Westchester over bridges. They had an incredible time. But I feel that they returned experts in motorcycle safety. So I'm confident. But this is a great community outreach program. It's a great policing program. It's much easier to position a bike somewhere as opposed to police cars. And I'm excited about it. And I just think it's also going to be a great public perception for us in our parades, our communications, our COPE units and so forth. And having these available is similar to our K-9 units. So our police department continuously steps up and offers its volunteers to participate. Thank you County Executive Ed Romaine. Thank you for mentioning Supervisor. They also teach you in this class, in the training, how to lay the bike down. Should you feel the need you're going to crash, they teach you how to safely lay it down and they make them do that, which is pretty incredible. But not our bikes. We're not scratching our bikes. No, no, no, no. But they do have protection. They do have protection on them for that. They have a roll bar system on them that allows them to do that. Does the supervisor get to ride that motorcycle? No, the supervisor will watch. I want to see you lay that down. Supervisor is not a fan of motorcycles. I like a lot of metal around me when I'm driving down the road. And kudos to the guys that do it. But the brave souls. I would take my Harley out and go for a ride with them. So absolutely yes. Okay. Resolution number three. Authorization for one police department employee to attend a training course. Okay. Thank you. [transcription gap] Number four. Authorization for one police department employee to attend a training course. A different one. This one is the drug recognition expert. Yeah, this teaches them how to tell if you're high on drugs as opposed to high on alcohol. So. We're only sending one right now. It's a very lengthy and involved class. Really? Yes. Wow. I think that particular officer, though, could be called in at any given time as well. Correct. So use that. We have one now. And this will be a second one we can use. Resolution number five. Appoints a call in recreation aid two to the recreation department. Number six. Same thing. Appoints a call in recreation aid two to the recreation department. Resolution number seven. Amends a portion of resolution 2024-459 adopted on May 22nd, 2024. We couldn't have called you anyway, Terry. So. To correct the salary of a seasonal recreational aid. Okay. Thank you. We'll head over to you next. [transcription gap] We'll head over to you next. [transcription gap] named highway employees.

Number 11, promotes an employee to a highway labor crew leader.

Number 12, promotes an employee to construction equipment operator. Number 13, promotes an employee to construction equipment operator. Number 14, promotes an employee to heavy equipment operator. All these go hand in hand with the first one you read about the salary increases for the highway workers. Number 15, promotes an employee to construction equipment operator.

Number 16, promotes an employee to heavy equipment operator.

Number 17, authorizes the town clerk to republish and post notice to bidders for one 2024 Mack Model MD642 dump truck for Riverhead Water District. We're going to repost the bids and hopefully get more responses from that. Number 18, ratifies authorization for Goodman Marks Associates, Inc. to conduct an appraisal of town property.

Number 19, authorizes the supervisor to execute license agreement with the Butterfly Effect Project for use of the Riverhead Senior Center.

Number 20, approves the final version of the CSCA 2023 through 2025 contract. About time.

Number 21, approves the United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service access for Hi-Fi water level logging equipment at Wading River Boat Ramp.

Number 22, grants preliminary approval for the site plan application entitled Hildreth Real Estate Advisors, Calverton 1001 Scott Avenue, Calverton, Suffolk County Tax Map number 600-135.1-1-1.

Resolution number 23, authorizes town clerk to publish and post public notice to consider a local law to amend Chapter 237, Section 4 of the Riverhead Town Council, entitled Removal and Return of Abandoned Carts. And this is in section 24 of the Riverhead Town Code, entitled Permit Procedures. The board will recall we talked about this at the last work session. We're going to raise the road opening permit fee from 200 to $300.

Number 24, authorizes town clerk to publish and post notice to consider a local law to amend Chapter 269, section 5 of the Riverhead Town Code entitled Removal and Return of Abandoned Carts. And this is in section 24. And this also is going to touch on a fee increase from 125 to 175. Number 25, adopts a local law to amend Chapter 263 of the Riverhead Town Code entitled Rental Dwelling Units.

Number 26, adopts a local law amending Chapter 289-6 of the Riverhead Town Code entitled Turns. That's the no right turn off a chromer onto 58. Mm-hmm. Eight. That's right. Number 27, pays the bills. Bob doesn't like that resolution. That right turn. All I thought was pay the bills. That's what I thought it was. Oh, the pay the bills? Yeah. Number 28, authorizes the supervisor to execute a license agreement with American Cancer Society for special event.

Number 29, town board promotes and appoints a police lieutenant, Danielle Wilsey, to captain of the Riverhead Police Department. Number 29, she's head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head Number 33, reclassifies Ken Testa's assistant town engineer position number 08-1162-31 to town engineer.

Number 34, amends terms and conditions of employment for Ken Testa, town engineer, and authorizes supervisor to execute an agreement. That was a tough one to put together because he already does everything, so how do you just say does everything? It was, yeah, it was, had to work with civil service, but they granted us the position of a second-in-town engineer, which is rarely done, and we really appreciate it because by separating them up, we can get a lot more done with the two groups. Resolution number 35, authorizes the supervisor to execute a stipulation of settlement with Civil Service Employees Association, Inc., Local 1000, AFS, CME, AFL-CIO, Riverhead Union, and the City of San Francisco. Resolution number 36, authorizes the supervisor to execute a settlement with Civil Service Employees Association, Inc., Local 1000, AFS, CME, AFL-CIO, Riverhead Union, and the City of San Francisco. Resolution number 37, authorizes the supervisor to execute a settlement with Civil Service Employees Association, Inc., Local 1000, AFS, CME, AFL-CIO, Riverhead Union, and the City of San Francisco.

A grievance was filed by the union, I believe it was last November, December. We had a person in the sewer district who was leaving, and the sewer district wasn't going to have a clerical person for approximately 10 to 14 days. So we had that person doing some part-time work until another employee was transferred to take over that position. The CSEA filed a grievance over that. This simply settles it. The settlement agreement, in effect, says that the town doesn't waive its position that it did the right thing. CSEA doesn't waive its position that we should have had an agreement with them over at first, and it simply withdraws the case. It's essentially, yeah, more or less. Thanks, Evan. No problem.

Okay, resolution number 36 ratifies the authorization for the supervisor to execute an MOA with CSEA Local 1000, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, Riverhead Unit of the Suffolk Local 852, Riverhead Town Police Benevolent Association, and Riverhead Town Superior Officers Association. And that's regarding the dental plan. And that's it. Thank you, Charlie. I'm going to say his name wrong. Asari. Asari for bringing that dental plan to the town. Better? And less expensive. And less expensive. Yep. They worked hard on that. Pounding my head to get it done. Chewing my teeth. All right. That concludes our open session for today. In a moment, I'm going to ask to close it, and we'll go into executive session to discuss contractual matters, matters surrounding contractual agreement with parking consultant. That will be with Thomas and Diapola. Matters surrounding... Possible sale of real estate property, Thomas and Prudente. Matters sounding contractual agreement for website services, Kremborg. And matters surrounding agreement for electric car charges, Kern and Howard. So, that being it for executive session, I'd like to make a motion that we close open session and go into executive session. So moved. Seconded. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Okay. Open session is closed. We will now be heading into... To executive session. Everybody have a great weekend. I think this weekend, Rivet has their homecoming football game and parade downtown. So, be sure to stop out if you're available. It's always a good time to see the floats and cheer on the local home team. Have a great... What? Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead. And the Wading River Chamber of Commerce is also having a fall festival Sunday over at the Eastwind Commons over there. It should be a great day. Perfect. And I believe tonight is the last night. For Riverhead Unites, the anti-bias task force. I left today the 29th. Yes, it is. Right? Yeah, where's the one tonight? Through the weekend. Through the weekend? Yes. Okay. Is it? I had it until Friday, tomorrow. Okay. Well, it's going on. Yeah, go to our... The Chamber of Commerce. RivetChamber.com. And they'll have the schedule of who has what, where, and when. Great opportunity. So, enjoy everybody. Have a great weekend. Thank you. [transcription gap]