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Okay, we have a couple items or announcements to make. This Sunday, October 13th, is the Riverhead Country Fair and the weather looks great and it's from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. so if you're looking for something to do it's always a great time down there. Again Sunday October 13th Rivet Country Fair from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday October 14th Town Hall is closed for Columbus Day and tomorrow Friday October 11th is Garfield Langhorne Day and we have something special happening. I will let Councilman Rothwell explain it for us. Thank you very much Supervisor. Tomorrow is the second Friday in the month of October and we had the distinct pleasure two years ago to present the resolution proclaiming this day as Private First Class Garfield Langhorne's Day. Through the great work of the Veterans Advisory Committee we've been given the incredible honor to have on loan to us Private First Class Garfield M. Langhorne's Congressional Medal of Honor. We are truly grateful to Garfield's family to share his Medal of Honor with us. It will be on display tomorrow through Veterans Day here in the lobby of Town Hall. We invite all Town Hall employees and our entire community to join us tomorrow morning at 8 30 a.m. here in the lobby in the presence of Garfield's family to unveil his Congressional Medal of Honor for all to see. We will share his heroic story as well to keep his memory alive. There's a biblical quote that says there is no greater sacrifice than to lay down one's life for others and that so profoundly says the story of Garfield Langhorne. I'm grateful to all of our veterans and may all that serve our country and we look forward to this incredible honor tomorrow morning so please join us. Thank you Ken. I will tell you I saw you guys putting it together yesterday and the public is going to be very happy and surprised when they see what it is. A fantastic job and I encourage everybody to come out for that. I appreciate it very much. Thank you. It's quite emotional just to be able to hold his Medal for a few moments in your hand. Yes. And to place it in the case so it's unbelievable. It will be very moving tomorrow morning. Very good. Alright we're going to move on to open session. We have we'll start out with Mattis around in a follow-up discussion regarding a pilot for paid parking with Kevin Wood, Dawn Thomas and Eric Howard. Good morning. Good morning. Just to set the tone here a little bit we talked about this at our last work session. About implementing a paid for parking trial run on the day of the country fair and then afterwards we started talking and we felt maybe it was better to run to give us a more accurate model to go by. We decided to go with 30 days so we're back to talk about that today. But a little confusion in the community and everything but I will turn that over to you guys now and explain it. Thank you. I'll do a little quick intro. So. You know as we've been discussing Kevin is working on a pilot program to test a parking system including the technology and equipment and also to make sure that the stakeholders in the community are deeply involved in what we decide to do. There was some confusion as you had indicated over the idea that paid parking was coming soon. It is not coming soon. It is coming at some point but in order to make it go smoothly when it does arrive and when the time is right for the board to implement paid parking. Okay. Thank you. So we will have all of the data that we need to collect to make sure that it runs smoothly that the stakeholders and the businesses downtown understand what's happening know how the system works that the public is well aware of how the system can work. And as we also indicated at the last meeting. You know paid parking becomes necessary to manage existing parking so in our prior parking studies. It's been clear that currently we have adequate parking but it's not well managed and it's not. Prioritized to the consumers and the public. So for instance. You know the typical standard of. Parking which Kevin can tell you more about. He's an expert in this is. You know you want the turnover closest to the places of business. So. You know. So those are the things that we're working on. But. Because of some of the stakeholder engagement. The country fair was a little concerned about doing the test on that day. So. You know. So. [transcription gap] As I had said last time, the three things that I need to complete my full report is the, you know, the eventual structure of what a parking and enforcement departments look like, some very, very deep, detailed feedback from businesses and the public. And those surveys have happened before the announcement of this pilot and a survey after the pilot, I think, are consummate and very, very needed for you to see and the public to see fully. So that's the reason for this pilot. So, Kevin, I think it's important. I know you've reached out to all the businesses, which is great. I think it's important for the public to know that, number one. Number two, also that any of the patrons who go in there are not going to be paid, right? Has anybody, so in other words, they're going to be given a code? This is a true paid test. Right. So if I go into a restaurant, I'm paying even the restaurant? You'll scan the code in the parking lot when you park and you will pay and then go into your restaurant. Just during this 30-day period. After that, it can be set up differently so there can be exceptions or exceptions for certain days or certain people or it can be set up with the restaurants where you can go in and the restaurant will pay for the parking. Right. [transcription gap] but that's that's way ahead of us yet that's not what we're out I understand that I'm talking about these initial 30 days because I was under the impression that if I went to a restaurant ate in that restaurant I spent two hours in there right that not and I was going to be given a code because I was occupying that restaurant right the other the other thing is where it's being done there's a lot of offices right right there on I think it's 30 West Main 20 and 31 20 and 30 West Main well they be given a code so they don't have to pay to park because that's where they park right so so let me say this I would think that no matter what parking lot we chose that was convenient to Main Street all those concerns would still take place so I don't want to give anybody the idea that this particular part parking lot was chosen for any of the reason that it's manageable right and it's it's a size and it's a size that's not going to be a problem for us and it's a size that's and it's busy enough where we can truly get the numbers we need what you're speaking about is validation and if I may give this to you we will have validation in place but it's optional as to whether a restaurant wants to validate that'll be part of what what I'm doing in terms of educating a restaurant maybe a restaurant doesn't want to validate so if a restaurant validates just clarify that is that mean the restaurant is paying for the parking or is that that's correct okay so they have to choose to pick up that code exactly exactly so they would choose that we're a little bit ahead of ourselves because some of these ways that we validate this for great ways to validate would involve enforcement and systems that we do not let yet have in place so at this point a validation can be something as simple as for thanks for coming in I understand you're paid in the back can I take that parking off your bill it could be that simple and I will start an education process in that regard but again if somebody because what your real estate is is that you're paying for parking and you're not going to get paid for parking. really talking about is somebody going on to Main Street and not I think what you're intimating they're not wanting to pay and when I what I had said last time is only a few feet away at the parking lot we're not testing they could park for free no no I understand that I'm specifically talking about the parking lot behind diggers yep all right specifically and this is you know I and so for 30 days I mean because I just look at the businesses struggling now but aside from that they do you know for a fact they're struggling because part of what I talked to them about is how they are doing and I've heard I haven't heard that okay also Bob keep in mind that particular parking lot and you mentioned 30 West Main and 20 West Main if the employees are parking there all day it's hurting the businesses so the idea of paid parking is you come in you turn over the parking you come in you go do what you got to do and you leave and you leave but with this the people at 20 and 30 West Main can park right across the street near the parking lot for free all day long and it's freeing up spaces for customers to come and use the businesses that my second question I get that so my second question is this there's a tax that there's a parking district tax right does this conflict with the fact of the parking district tax at all that tax relates to like maintenance of parking lots okay I'm just asking the question I was asked to answer the question so Bob take one of these validation methods will be in place so that the restaurant at their choice could essentially pay for the test of parking that will be in place so just imagine this is to try to determine usage going in and out down there do we necessarily have to charge a fee or can it be simply participate in scan a code just to see the utilization of it or where people are going and how long they're there for thank you for asking that question we remember around the table on that a few times I think you'll agree any system would not be fully tested unless we had good and bad by the way I've scanned this thing and I couldn't pay or this was the easiest thing I've ever done or somewhere in between we feel we need these actual transactions coming into the town of Riverheads bank account to truly say this has been the test that we want to test I think we think it's really important that we do that and I think that's a really good question. important why the length of 30 days is that it's like can we do a week or two weeks so like tell me a little bit about like how we chose 30 days. there was in the time frame that we chose some holidays but some normal business days and some weekdays and so the longer time frame we hoped to capture you know during the one day test a busy day so we're gonna have a variety of days now that we're gonna have data on that we wouldn't otherwise have and an opportunity to for the businesses to see how it works for for us to understand if people have a lot of questions or concerns or if there any issues you know the best way to do this as Kevin said we have plenty of studies and these are but the boots on the ground study that we're gonna do here is making sure that you know once this decide once the board decides to deploy it town-wide it's smooth and easy everybody knows what you know and obviously as we've talked about people don't like change people don't feel they want to pay to park we have it we're building a parking garage that parking garage will have operation and maintenance costs we want to make sure that the taxpayers are not coming out of pocket to cover those costs at that that that structure is maintained by the existing parking system and that it you know continues to be operated and maintained at no cost of the taxpayers by the users and so you know it's important for us to test this it is it is just about as real as real could be and and we'll be able to hear what the businesses think you know are they getting more customers are people complaining less about parking are there more spaces available because of this and you know how does the validation work what's the best method to use is this the right system for us is this is this vendor the right system price all of that will be real information and no guessing so that's the idea of this you know again it's not coming soon it is coming at some point for sure the parking garage is a little bit out right now even though we have three quarters of the funding available and you know based on our analysis it looks very clear that the funds from the district parking will you know pay for that garage and all the other parking in town and so it you know it's time to do it and it's do we have a little bit like more specific time frame is it like two years out everything construction like what's what we assume the reality of that project is we have the grant award we have two grant awards we have over over seventeen million for the garage which we anticipate will cost twenty three million so we're a little bit short but that is not an insurmountable number and and is very probably easily covered by the revenue that's generated from the parking so the contracts were waiting for the contract we're working with the federal government on the contract for that grant we are We are told that the average time frame within which to enter into a contract is over a year. So we've been working, we've been turning it over quickly. We're working with accounting and our department to do that. We've made several rounds of resubmissions. We're going to push it as hard as we can. If we can get, we cannot spend any money per this grant until that contract is signed, including the match money. So originally I had hoped to take the two million from the county, do all the get up to bid specs, and then when we got the money from the feds, but we can't do that. Otherwise we can't count it toward the match. So once we get that contract, then we will be doing an RFP for design of that garage. So I anticipate it will be hopefully next summer because I'm pushing that we go shorter than a year. They said sometimes three months, but average is a year. It's a complicated thing. We've happily been... We've become good at doing these complicated things through DRI. Our staff in our office is second to none. They really know exactly how to do this. So we are really grinding through it and literally turning it right over. As soon as that contract is signed, we're going to work to get the RFP issued. Once that RFP issues, it'll give us design, preliminary design. Then we have to go to final design. Then we have to go to construction drawings and bid docs. That'll probably take six to eight months. Once we have bid specs, we go to bid. Then we start building. So I would say we probably shovel on the ground two years from now. Take a year to build? What do you think? It's their prefab. I'm told they go up very quickly. They're precast sections. So it's not going to be a giant... But we've already done ground penetrating radar. We've already done soil borings so we know what the foundation needs to look like. So we've done everything we can do. So it's just for the public. But this is sort of gearing up. I know it's... We're gearing up to that. So we need to make sure that we're ready when that happens. So just generalize. This test now is probably for a project that would be completed in about two and a half years maybe from now? Well, I think up to the board and we'll... I think let's see what Kevin's report says. But the... Yeah, for sure. We would like to implement the parking program before that happens because we want to make sure that it A, works smoothly and B, that the revenue is being generated. And the parking is being utilized in the best possible way that it can. So we're getting that turnover. We did talk about the grace period on Main Street, like a 15 minute grace period all along Main Street. So if you want to get a cup of coffee or drop someone off or at ballet or pick them up... And or this lot as well. And or this lot, right. So if you want to pick up your pizza and you're not going to pay, those are the things that we're... But these are the things we need to figure out now so that we don't want to be ready to pull the trigger the day we build the garage. We want to be ready to go. And we're going to be ready to go. Right. [transcription gap] I think it's important to reiterate. Sorry, go ahead. And then I'll help you. Go ahead. So the study is done for 30 days, but then there's a pause. It stops. And then realistically, we're talking about a garage that could be two and a half years away from now. So we're not doing the study. I know we're saying 30 days, but it's not going to continue. Yeah, it's not soon. So this is just to give a little glimpse of the future or 30-day span for a project that really won't be implemented until the parking garage is done, right? Probably a little before that. Two and a half years away from now, before the parking garage is done. However, it's not going to be a surprise. So everything that happens will be something that we've looked at, studied, known, spoken to someone about, coordinated on. And we're trying to make sure that we are not government. Surprises are never good. So we don't want to surprise anybody with anything. And then the last thing is where does the money go to? So is it being the money that's collected over 30 days? Is it being applied to the parking garage future bill? Does it go in general funds? Or where is the money coming? That would not be for me to answer. So, you know, we haven't discussed that yet. I don't think it's going to be a substantial sum of money. So I think it will be. So we'll have to figure that out. It's really just to test the flow of the money into the account because it goes automatically. Into the town's account. Whether it becomes a parking district garage. Whether it becomes a town-owned garage. Whether we create some other kind of entity to manage parking in downtown. You know, those are TBDs. But a lot of those decisions can be made based upon the things that are happening now. Jeanette, I think you might want to pipe in on that. Yeah, I can actually speak to where the funds will go. So if this lot behind Diggers is part of the parking district, the funds have to go. Back to the parking district. Okay, good. So that's where they'll go. Perfect. I wanted to further answer what you had said. The public, which is extremely important for me to be public-facing. We will have, and it's actually in draft mode, a dedicated website to the pilot with a 24-7 text-to-help number. So businesses, public, yourselves, everybody will always be apprised exactly what's happening. And then also to address what you were saying. I'm very much... Knowing that real-time changes... And we shouldn't be afraid of those. Those real-time changes, based on feedback, is really important. Look what we learned already in two weeks. We said, well, it wouldn't be fair to do one day, so to speak, because it's just particularly possibly targeting, or at least perceived to be targeting an event only. And we didn't want that. So we pulled back from a one day, and we said, let's do the 30-day. And it wouldn't be fair also if... Because what I was told was vendors parking that lot. I was actually surprised to hear that. I would not have... I have vendors parking a lot that is amazingly valuable to people coming to frequent the businesses that are on Main Street. So we learned that, and we can also now track that going forward. That should not be happening. Those vendors should drop off, in my humble opinion, should drop off and then go to a designated section to where vendors should park. Instead, because you don't have managed parking, they just park where it's closest. Nobody's blaming them. I would do the same thing until such time that it's managed differently. You know what? Just to address that, Kevin. The reason why that has been done in the past is because they have to drop off by a certain time, right? Park. And when they leave, they have to leave by a certain time. So we wanted their vehicles, their vans, close. A lot of vans come so that they could load up. You know, if we ask them to park, let's say, at the TOD, it can really mess with timing when you have, you know, over 100 booths. Right. You know. I completely understand that. But there's a lot at the 2nd Street that's huge and much more empty for that purpose. And it's just a matter of developing policy to what makes sense. That's what we're trying to do. No, I get that. Go ahead. I'll go. And I think if I roll it back to, like, 2020 when we first did the parking study, the first study that I was involved in, the businesses were clamoring because they were angry that the people would park all day in spots close to businesses. They'd sit on Main Street in those spots all day. If we don't manage the parking, it makes it harder for the businesses to do business because people drive around, drive around, they'll figure out, I'm going to go someplace else. But if you go behind diggers and you don't have to make three loops, you park right away. You're like, oh, what a relief. And you walk in there because everybody knows that's the condition it is. And currently, when those businesses, the businesses at 20 West Main and 30 West Main, those offices, they could park literally 500 feet away for free all day and not disrupt anything in that park. You know, those are the things that we're trying to get fixed. It's important to reiterate that we are not trying to hurt the business owners. We want the business owners to thrive downtown because when they thrive, Riverhead thrives. And this is something that we've been talking to them about literally for five years now. They know it's coming. They haven't been opposed to it. And the closer, but we just keep getting closer and closer to being able to actually implement. It with their input. I mean, it hasn't been anything done in a vacuum. Kevin's been boots on the ground talking to business owners directly. We've been emailing. We've had multiple meetings. We've had a lot of discussion. It's not as if people don't know this is happening and they are unhappy about it. Your premier business here, Suffolk Theater, I consider one of your premier businesses, very much in favor of managed parking. So when we do this study, are we focusing on just one particular lot or are we going to try to change signs? Are we going to change the way we park? Are we going to try to make them free for 30 minutes or less to get a better handle of what the future lies of what it's going to be like? So are we putting signage other places so that they know? Parking on Main Street, there's three areas that are 15 minutes free. With current signage? Current signage. So we're not planning on changing any of that. We're just testing this one lot to see how we go. And it's a dollar an hour. It's not a fine. I think you had cover. If I may say this, and, you know, we had the pictures taken by the newspaper here. It was only a sample sign. That's the first thing everybody needs to understand. It was only a sample to show artwork, to show the branding of the Riverhead Town. But in that, it said $5 all day. So, of course, you know, social media lit up. That was just a sample. In retrospect, we probably wouldn't do that if we're trying to encourage turnover. An event day might be different. And so we will be taking that away. So, Kevin. I like that you're doing a grace period because I think, like, if I go to Diggers and I can't park in front to pick up a to-go water, right, and I can drive around back, and you say maybe they'd be, because there's another behind Diggers to the west. There's a takeout place there. Yes. I always see people in and out of there. Yes. So how are you going to handle that? Yeah, we would absolutely instill a grace period. How do you enforce the grace period? The clock starts 15 minutes or whatever this board has a resolution decides on. Right. And then that is carried on to the people that enforce it. Okay. We do not have the equipment in place to do that. Understood. No, you don't do it. I'm just curious. Okay. So for those small shops right in there, do we not want to just consider to put 10 spots or something behind Diggers in that area that is 20 minutes or less or 30 minutes or less or something where we won't get the all-dayers? Yeah. So we're going to have to have a lot of customers that are normally in the lot across the street to go over there. Yeah, that's happening. And now Diggers is faced with a full lot all day long, and then their customers are still going across the street to pay. So how do we? Yeah. That's what I'm concerned about. Instead of just doing one lot, can we spread it out a little bit to give a better idea of what the future lies? Well, we feel we need an encapsulated lot with a single egress and ingress, which is part of the reason. But what you're starting to speak about is curb management, and I forwarded it on a video. It's kind of a first-of-its-kind curb management that's being done in Fort Lee, and it's kind of amazing what we can do. We can manage every aspect of that for deliveries, pickups, Ubers, and then at night those can become different spots. They can become drop-offs for the hotels. All that's coming. This is just one little baby sort of piece of the puzzle to get this board and the public and the businesses comfortable with what I think you'll be surprised at the positive feedback you'll get from this once it's done. What's the timeframe? When do you plan on implementing it? Like, is there a time of year? Well, so... The pilot? Yeah. Ten days after the resolution. Yeah, Kevin says he needs ten days to set it up. If the board adopts a resolution on the 16th, he could have it ready to go ten days after that. I'd like to go back to the timeframe. I mean, you know, is 30 days...I don't know, and look, you know this better than I do, but what's wrong with one week? If you go from Monday to Monday, you're going through a lot of work. Is that a weekend? I don't particularly have any professional, personal problem with a two-week trial. Okay. So one week is not enough? We were hoping to capture a holiday weekend in there, so... I mean, you know, I'm just trying to... Sure. We have to encapsulate a weekend, for sure. We have to encapsulate all times of the day. We have to encapsulate rain, right? Very important. I stood in front of this sign, and I couldn't do this, and I was rained upon. I want to hear that. Maybe we need to put covers on top of the signs, or whatever it is. Let's hear it all. But let's get through some bad weather, good weather, sunny weather, I can't see the screen, whatever it may be. This will be very, very good ballot information, and I believe it hurts no one at all. So a week is not enough, but two weeks is enough? Deferring to yourself, I'm okay with two weeks. Two weeks is fine with me. If you're comfortable with two weeks, I'm fine with two weeks. I want an accurate figure. We're talking about one parking lot. Right. But I mean, if you're going to get a sampling, you know, two weeks is enough. But to Kevin's point, he's saying he wants to make sure that he can get feedback if it rains. I saw the weather, the extended forecast this morning. No rain in sight. Right, but if two weeks, I'm fine with two weeks. And that's just me. The other question I have is, oh, do you need to have an app so when you scan that, how does that work? Do people have to download an app in order to? No. Okay, I want the public to know, you know, I understand that. That'll be on the webpage, and I will do a full explanation of this before it happens, hence why I need the 10 days. You do not need an app. It's mobile compliant. An iPhone 7 or above will be able to scan. So what happens if you don't have? You text the park. And I'm sure all platforms. So I like where you're going. You're going to say, what happens if nobody has a phone and does not have the ability to do this? How are they going to pay? They're not going to be able to pay. They're going to either have a friend do it, or as a collective unit here, we're going to say, hmm, the population here doesn't have phones, which I don't believe, but I'm just putting it out there. We might need to do meters in there, too. It's not really a problem. It's not really the way the industry's going. But I just want to say, if there was a possibility that 20% of people had no idea how to scan the park, not the truth, but if it happened, then we'd have to come up with different ways. Okay. So then you're the liaison to the Park Congress? Yes. What did they think of this whole project? Well, initially everybody was in agreement with this. There were concerns that they did not know exactly how long this was going to last. And I believe that they're in favor of this. I do. I think you have to start somewhere, as everyone agrees. They do want to have the managed parking. And you can't just build a garage and then figure out afterwards what you're going to do with it. So we start small with tests like this. It may involve other tests, like Kevin said. We may have tests with regard to the 15 minutes on Main Street. These are just little small baby steps. Small baby steps. For something, thank you for pointing it out, that's going to be two years down the road. But you have to start. So that's all this is. So the committee was in agreement with this test. He did have concerns, rightly so, of where funds eventually go. Again, those are different conversations. I think it's great because I think a lot of businesses suffer, especially behind Diggers, when the people working in some of those buildings are there all day. I try to go to Diggers and I can't get a parking spot. That's the busiest. That's repeatedly identified as the busiest lot in town. I'll give you a statistic. In Huntington, for example. 30% of the businesses that go in there fail. And they keep revolving. Because people don't like driving around the block. Driving around the block. It's like, you know what, I'll go to another piece of place. Somewhere else. And that's what happens. So I'm definitely in favor of this trial. I mean, I'm just looking at two weeks. If you feel it's enough, then... If you wanted to word it in a resolution of two weeks and then a two week extension. I don't know if that's possible. We could do that. Or you could do that. Are you opposed to the month, Bob? To the 30 days? Or is that too long for you? If the sum of the same two weeks is enough, I'm fine with two weeks. I'm fine with 30. I'm fine with 30. Just to give you a real sample size. I think we need some real data. Just more moving towards the parking garage. Don't vote me out. 30 in the summer may have felt differently. But this is now going in. We'll be into November at this point. You know, there is another issue that really hasn't been discussed. And that's overcrowded houses. Some of their parking is in these lots. And they're leaving their cars there. And this is a way to combat that problem as well. Absolutely. The first thing we'll do at 6 o'clock in the morning is we'll see how many cars. We'll call it ground zero. There should be zero cars in there. But I can bet you there won't be zero cars. Absolutely. And we'll see how many cars we'll call ground zero. There should be zero cars in there. But I can bet you there won't be zero cars. And that's a really good point. Well, the public has been in an outcry of why aren't you doing anything. Well, we're trying to do something. And this is a tool that we can use to do away with that. And free up parking. It's a good point because behind Maximus there's definitely people that are not populating any of the businesses. They're just parking home. Well, keep in mind there's apartments above Maximus. Yeah, but not very many. 20, not a lot. 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That's the kind of stuff that we have to work on. We have to collect a little data as well, so we're going to have to ultimately report at some point how many people come in and request those services, and so this is moving in that direction. Great. We're also thinking about implementing the language line system that the police department and justice court currently use and making it town-wide in all of our offices, whether it's sewer, water, or any office in this building. They would all have access to the language line, which will help if a customer comes in. It will work out. It's fairly inexpensive to do. That's great. Yeah, I mean, thankfully, between AI and Translate services and the things that are being done with different websites, there's a lot of opportunity for that. I think that's a great thing for us to provide more convenient services to our residents. I'm surprised that this wasn't implemented sooner, to be honest. And saves the expense of hiring people to do all of this, too. And waiting for them to go from one place to another. And getting as good of a translation as we can possibly provide. And in the Spanish language, there's so many dialects, it would be impossible to have a translator for every particular dialect. Yes. And we have Polish speakers and Ukrainian speakers. Joe put in a... I don't know if you can hear the stats. We have quite a few different languages. We have 4,000 Spanish, 1,700 other Indo-European languages, 124 Asian and Pacific Island, and 230 speak other languages. And so, it's time. Absolutely. Good. That's great. And that is all on that topic. All right. Okay, well, thank you very much. Thank you very much. Devin, we're going to move on to resolutions. Good morning. Everybody's ready to go? Yep. Resolution number one, Water District Capital Project 82308, Budget Adjustment. Okay. Thank you. [transcription gap] 2023-294.

Can we just get a quick discussion on that? Sure. We'll ask Jeanette to come forward and just clarify, but this is back from 2023. It's really just a cleanup item, as I understand it. Okay.

So that relates to the ARPA funding, the American Rescue Plan. So we proposed a resolution or adopted a resolution back in, I don't remember how early we did it, but for $70,000 to help with the purchase of the citizen software for OpenGov for permitting for code enforcement. And at that time, we were kind of just getting into the project, but we were going to use the ARPA funds for it. We decided not to use the American Rescue Plans for it, but we never rescinded the original adoption of the reso. So we have to rescind that because we've since reallocated the money to other ARPA spending. And we have until December 31st to obligate all of the American Rescue Plan funds, which I'm happy to say at this point that they are all obligated. So we are all good and we will have full use of those funds. Good. Very good. Thank you, Jeanette.

Okay. Resolution number four. Authorization for one police department employee to attend training, leadership training. Resolution number five. Accepts resignation of and appoints member to the town of Riverhead Industrial Development Agency. Barbara Rizzi. Resolution number six. Authorizes the removal of all litter, garbage, refuse, rubbish upon the premises known as it should be 12 Longview Drive in Riverhead. So we'll make that correction in the system for Tuesday. Wednesday. You said Longview? Correct. So we'll make that correction in the system for Tuesday. Wednesday. You said Longview? Correct. It's up in Reeves Park. Resolution number seven. Acceptance of youth mentoring sports grant. And we should add the word award. So it's really a grant award there. Resolution number eight. Authorizes town clerk to publish and post notice to consider a local law to Ment Chapter 263 entitled of the Riverhead Town Code penalties for offenses. And this is the first one. And this is the second one. And this is the third one. And this is the fourth one. And this is the fifth one. And this is the sixth one. And this is the sixth one. And this is the seventh one. And this is the sixth one. And this is the seventh one. And this is the sixth one. And this is the sixth one. And this is the seventh one. And this is the sixth one. [transcription gap] a correction. We just have to make in the actual notice. This public hearing is going to take place on November 7th at 2 p.m. and we just had a little typographical error. We wrote 6 o'clock. We meant to write 2 o'clock in the notice. So we'll make that change.

Okay. We're all set on that. Resolution number 10 authorizes town clerk to publish in post notice to consider a law to amend chapter 217 of the Riverhead Town Code entitled penalties for offenses. Another typographical error in this resolution the notice suggests that the public hearing for this code change is going to take place on October 16th and it's in fact going to take place on November 19th at 6.15 p.m. So of course we'll make that change as well. Resolution number 11 schedules public hearing on local law to amend chapter 293 of the Town Code regarding dock regulations. This public hearing will take place on November 7th at 2 p.m. Resolution number 12 schedules public hearing for residential parking code amendment. This is for chapter 301. Public hearing is going to take place November 7th at 2 p.m. Resolution number 13 authorizes supervisor to execute a license agreement with Racetrack Knott Street LLC to utilize runway at EpCal. This is a public hearing on the

number 15 approves fireworks application for Baiting Hollow Club October 29, 2024. Resolution number 16 extends bid for fertilizer and lawn chemicals. This resolution may be pulled because I'm not sure we have the information just yet. We'll confirm today. Okay. Pays the bills. We know what that's all about. Resolution number 18 authorizes the supervisor to execute an agreement with Hendrickson Fire Rescue Equipment and this allows us to again get in the queue to order a chassis and also to begin to retrofit the box. As I understand it, the ambulance is not so easy to get these. Councilman Rothwell can probably explain that better than I. The ambulance is now a year and a half to two and a half years out. So you have to get in line. So the funds that will eventually pay for this vehicle are not going to be until the 2025 year or potentially the 2026 year. But we have one ambulance that is going to be used for the next year. So the ambulance is now going to be sent out. Hendrickson is going to provide a loaner ambulance for the duration while they take the box off the ambulance, put it on a new chassis, outfit it, comes back like a brand new vehicle. Once that's done, we want them at that same time then to pick up another ambulance and take it out. So the reality is the second ambulance potentially could be three years away. But if we don't get in line and we wait until next year's budget or the following year, then we're still going to have that deal. Okay. And that's it. That's amazing. Okay. Thank you, Devin. In a moment, we're going to close open session and go into executive session to discuss under personnel matters surrounding change in status of an employee with Chief Frost. And we have a contractual matter, matters surrounding possible sale of real property with Thomas, Prudente, and Hurley. So could I have a motion to close open session and go into executive session? So moved. Seconded. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Okay. Open session is closed. We will retire to executive session. Let's go, men!

Thank you.