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[transcription gap] little very but they think they're quick after being in there they they abandoned they abandoned the idea that's great all right thank you Ann Marie next matter up on open session we have or matters surrounding the change to excavation permit fees and that also will be with Kern and Ken Testa hi Ken happy new year good morning how are you good all right I think you got the handout yes okay so have to have extras then we need them but this is basically a revisit of the town's exploitation fee that we charge for materials that are removed from sites during development at the request of councilman current I've revisited the number that we charge was just two dollars a cubic yard and the way I did that initially we thought maybe we would look at the cost of materials that are for sale you know in the marketplace today but because the materials vary so much in what they are could be sand could be topsoil could be long whatever they were moving from the site so that didn't seem like the appropriate way to do it so looking for a good justifiable and defensible method I did two things the first is I went and I looked back at our paving bit for repaving roads this ! really the fee I think the intent of the fee is to help offset the impact of the town roads by these tractor-trailers hauling these materials over the roads so I looked at our annual paving contract and it came up with the average cost to repay of a road in 2008 of seventy one dollars and eighty three cents a ton and then I looked at last year's average cost which was 105 that reflects a forty seven point four percent increase in our cost to repay of a road to check that that of course multiplied by two dollars would be an additional dollar come out to three dollars and then to check that I went on to the Bureau of Labor Statistics website and they have a really neat little calculator that you can enter in the year and the region and I did that and I came out likewise with an increase of 299 so it seems like they check each other so the recommendation would be it may be appropriate at this point to raise the two dollar fee to three dollars okay thank you [transcription gap] for the general public you just classified this is for exporting like sand to other materials not on town property this is on private properties throughout the town of riverhead right where there's subdivision doing you know build it out of basement removing materials new shopping center or a new residential subdivision if the grades work out that they have to take material off the property to make it work the town has a fee that we charge them and the intent of that fee is to offset what it costs us to maintain the roads having these giant track the trailers full over the road of course that's a negative impact on the roads so it seems like a logical way to look at it would be what does it cost us to pave a road what did it cost when we establish a $2 free and what does it cost today and that comes out to 47 and a half percent increase which I $2 would relate to $3 so my recommendation is if you are going to choose to change the fee $2 seems to be defensible justifiable three dollars three dollars I'm sorry yes thank you so can't just said I really appreciate the work that you did on this and the fact that this is from 2008 which is you know to me we need overall fee structure annually that we look at from every single department so that we don't end up in 2025 looking at fees we haven't changed in 2008 with that set of curiosity if somebody is digging like somebody's putting in a built-in pool would they get an excavation fee they should according to the town code yeah all right so that's being removed from the property right okay digging a foundation if they dig a foundation and don't spread the stuff around the property then it gets removed then there's an excavation fee that's correct yes and it's up to the building department to be aware of that and then you try to monitor the number of trucks that leave the property on big projects in the past I know we've hired Jeff Seaman at the contractor or the developers expense to count the number of trucks to get the total yardage just left the property so they also get tickets when they when they bring the sand or the material to place that they're selling it to not necessarily because a lot of them will take it back to their own yard and save it for future projects and stuff so it's a little tough to do it that way does all right so we're going to have to do trucks is the right way to do it or by calculation if somebody's putting in a 20 by 40 pull it's pretty easy to figure out that volume and what would yeah okay and elevations likewise when we do site plan reviews we look at what's the current grade what's the proposed grade to get things to be flat and level and usually we come up with a total amount of material it's going to be removed from the site so it could be done that way as well but help me with that so if somebody's putting in a pool and you've got to count trucks we're gonna have some trucks that are going to be put in a pool and you're going to count trucks we're gonna have some trucks that are going to be put in a pool and you're going to count trucks we're going to have some somebody from the building department sitting around the house all day waiting for them to load up the trucks no I think just by I think just by inspection if they go to the site and they see that this hole was dug and the material wasn't left on the site you know that the rest of its all pretty much left the way it was when they got there then a simple calculation could determine how much material you just did a cubic footage cubic yard that's why we chose that's why we chose cubic yard as a measurement because it's easier to calculate than it is tons and people are going to need a permit to put the pool in so we'll know that's correct yeah getting cool so we'll know who they said cold right and on really large projects like the like Tenga project and some of the other big ones we did have a monitor on site because it was hundreds of trucks right so just to keep things you know up aboard the developer I believe it's in the code that the developer or the contractor could be charged the fees for the monitor who I think in the past has been Jeff Seaman to keep track of those trucks to keep it fair thank you for the work you did on this yeah thank you doesn't matter what what they're removing out of there whether this is this is whatever it is yeah that's why you know I know Councilman Kern and I looked at initially when we step when delts into this well let's look at the cost of what people are charging for sand today versus 2008 and made a lot of phone calls to a lot of research but it came up to realize well it's not always you know screen sand it's sometimes you can be taking powder sand out of the site when you're doing a lot of work and you're just so full so full so full so full so full so full so full so full so full so full so full so full so full so full so full so full so full so full so full so [transcription gap] them updated so I appreciate that and we have another one coming up now next matter we have is matters surrounding change to peddling yard sales dog licenses and taxi fees that'll be current and sir good morning good morning does anyone need a copy that hasn't printed off I like they we looked at the now that I've completed my first year congratulations for Joanne and making your first year done we looked at all the fees and when I was a councilman I never wanted to just have arbitrary raise fees because to me it's always like an aditax but actually looking at the things that we're going to propose today these are needed because we're actually working at a deficit sometimes with some of the septic absolutely the dog licenses alone we're going up a dollar I mean it's not it's not gonna break the bank but you know with the work that's involved with it not only the licensing that we have to buy the licenses but the renewal license notices and then there's also a second renewal goes out of your rabies shots doesn't coincide with your license so there's a lot of mail going out mail is not cheap anymore and then the time involved in so I mean none of this is a big money grab but it's just to make it so it's not working in a deficit and I'll have the choreo over some of the fees that so we'll start with the dog licensing again as as clerk Wooten had mentioned just a couple of dollars here and there this one hasn't been refreshed since 2011 also these are fees not fine so we don't we want to encourage people to get these licenses and not you know get them back and then we'll see what happens but I think it's a good idea to get them back and then we'll see what happens you know too expensive that we're dealing with it you know in another way so for the dog licensing as you can see it's going up just a dollar a year for the you know the spayed and neutered dogs and cats and then 20 it'll go up five dollars for the unaltered and I believe and correct me if I'm wrong the thought behind that is just to encourage population control it's cheaper to license your dog if you know they're fixed and we went out we went up five dollars for the impound just because cost of doing that has went up since 2011 that's really it for dog licensing and it has been 14 years yeah so what's important to me on going through all this reviewing all this is this that when the fees aren't at the right level all the taxpayers who are not using these services are paying for these services right they're supplementing these services and that to me is just unfair so that's why right and like I said we are you look at the time involved with it and the mailings and all that's done and if we're working at the deficit so you're right there's one dollar will sort of make it break even where people who don't have dogs aren't supplementing the clerk's office because we're running out of deficit on it and there's a few other ones like yeah and a part of that goes to ag and markets to help with animal control as well so yes that three dollars is always going to come out from each one Jim do you have any idea how many dog licenses you have you know what I was looking at that I should have got that number I was having them then I got sidetracked this morning to ask me how many dogs that we do have licensed in the town I don't know I mean I would definitely let you know because we got sportsman kennel and we licensed all of their dogs there's two or three hundred dogs there a year that we license we were licensing all of the North Fork welfare animal legal but I I stopped that policy I only licensed the dogs that are adopted in Riverhead for the longest time we were licensing dogs that got adopted period and I was mailing out renewals to Connecticut Babylon I said I'm not so I told him I'm not licensing any dog that's not harbored in Riverhead because I kept control over them because saying that every single resident of town Riverhead that has a dog should have a license for it yes it should come to your office every year to renew it yes and the whole idea of my licensing is only to safeguard with the rabies vaccinations that's really the whole idea plus it's good now if the dog is out and there's a tag that trace the number there was a state monitor on that the state relinquished that all to the towns about five years ago six years ago where you know if you're a Brookhaven dog and you run the tag you're not going to find out unless you go to Brookhaven so there's no more state database anymore they stopped doing it so it really incumbent upon us to just take care of our own in our town so I don't know the number but I certainly will get it to you I know it is probably close to a thousand dogs Is there a simple way to renew it on a yearly basis? Is it going to be done online? Is there a simple way to renew it on a yearly basis? Is it going to be done online? Is there a simple way to renew it on a yearly basis? Is it going to be done online? Yeah we send up well you know what we will look at that new capability coming up with software because that would be a great idea to renew it online With any of these and I think that's a really good idea we're looking at looking at anything we can do online Right because I mean every month first every month we generate the renewals for that month of the dog and they get mailed out we just mailed out 30 of them this morning This way they're filling out the application online your staff is not doing it they're just reviewing it it's just a matter of time they're just reviewing it it's just a matter of time It's electronic. You're not filing it anymore. So anything... And if there's a way, right, if there's a way to create even an income stream through the computer instead of... There is. That's all going to be open. Okay. What's the definition of farm animals? Is that horses, cows? They all have to have a license as well? No. All right. Because it just said dogs and domestic... Well, that's a part of AgriMarcus. They mention farm animals, whichever. Okay. Cows and goats. Chickens. Horses. Nothing about cows. Okay. Good by cows. I like cows, though.

All right. Shall we move on to yard sales? Yes. Okay. Again, this hasn't been refreshed since 2002. So, yeah. So we went up $5 for the yard sale. Right now, the yard sale is $5. We're going to get a $5 permit. I went to all the other towns to find out what they do. South Holds, a lot more than I can justify. There's this 15-hour yard sale permit. We had 420 yard sale permits this year. That and Chickens. And that all runs between April and May. April and November, I should say. What you get with the yard sale permit is one, and you're going to get a posting. Then you're going to get it on the website. So it's more than just taking them on an initial permit. Those permits also go to the code enforcement so they know who's out and about. And there are some yard sales that are pretty big. A lot of times you'll get three or four neighbors come in, and all of a sudden you've got a block party and parking and all that. So there's a lot involved with yard sales. So we went from $5 to $10, which is right in. We're cheaper than South Holds, and we're right in the line. So we're going to get a lot of that. We're going to get a lot of that. But there's a lot of line with Southampton. And Keith, I know, I just want to bring this up, because Southampton hardly has any. And I know they're not a good part of the metrics here for me. And I'm glad we're going up $5, because it's 2002. But look at all the work. That's what I look at. And we went through this when I met with Jim. All the work that your staff is putting, you know, doing to get a yard sale. That's a tremendous amount of work. It is more than just parking. to review this punching in a couple of you know but again I think this needs again this needs to go on a fee schedule you know and we need to review these on an annual basis and start to follow CPI because our employees don't make less every year however we don't include we have increased our fees since 2002 all right I think that we need to implement something to have for future board members down the road to not let this lapse as long as as it has we should have some kind of fee schedule for everything across the board because nothing is getting cheaper everything is becoming more I think part of the issue is a lot some of these are codified so it's always comes to a public hearing and having to change local law whereas if these could be extrapolated out where it's not part of the local law is just part of a fee structure that the board are fairly through that's what we've been doing over time we've been taking it out of the resolution process and yeah being able to make changes without going back and forth and so I think that's a good point I think that's a good point because then you can just base it on you know something let's face it I mean down the road if if Cal and all that stuff goes we might say well we were charged too much for that you know I mean in a perfect world you may adjust that right if it's removed from the town code book then every year you as the town clerk should just submit for your department what your renewal fees would be for everything and that really should go to work through all the departments in the town building department everybody you know in December should be submitting by December 1st what their fees would be for the following year that's why just what is the resolution of all town fees good what is the fine for not having the art cell permit do we know that I I don't know I don't think I've ever seen one come through court that's a good cause I know the code was pretty good on it and we always compare the ones that are in the local paper to see if they got a permit from us so I always because we put on our website which people I see in their car printed out from our website but then I'll look at the news review and say who's having a yard sale then I'll go to my computer and see if they got a permit oh 50 to 500 is the fine schedule for no yard sale right in front of my face now do we address the number of yard sales that a person can have per year there's four in the code four they're allowed to have four a year because some of these are operating businesses every other weekend as a yard sale at the same location yeah you can only do four and that was that was the only thing that was allowed to be done in the code so they wanted to do a weekend in the spring and a weekend in the fall you could do a two-day thing and also in the change it's per day now before I didn't give a didn't give a right so people come in and get a permit for a weekend and they get you know they get a $5.00 for a two day I said no it's per event so it's per day not per event so if you want to have two weekends that's your four for the year we should look at that fine you know absolutely okay I can tell you in the in the town of I cannot say that I cannot say that it's a Westchester County any I can't say that word anyway they do this on an annual basis they look at all their fees and all their fines they have a fee schedule and they have a fine schedule and they go through it and they adjust it according to the CPI it makes it very very easy how do you even know that because I talked to somebody from there my other concern with yard sales are the removal of signs after they have the yard sale and they're stapled up to telephone poles which technically is against code because they have two signs I believe I'm not sure under the sign permit under the yard sale okay but what about the removal of them because they'll be there weeks and months afterwards sometimes I would like to be able to somehow address that and that's through fines I'll look into it see if it's in the sign code and if not we can add something right for a fee structure if they're not removed it should be right on the application for the the rule should be stated right on the application I agree I agree failure to remove the signs within X number of days will result in another fine you know you aren't advertising for people you're posting it it's on a website so they are getting a benefit there's a problem with the sign code I think it's a good thing that you're not saying that you're not eligible for a permit you can't have it with the rest of your band for the rest of the year whatever you know there are some that you know I'll see them most of the people they have put yard sale big and their address is like this big so if you don't stop your car and get out you can't read the address oh I see big pink signs with big arrows in the neighborhood there's one that does it and I got to tell you they're very clever with some of the signs he puts something on the signs like this I don't know what that means something on the signs like threw my wife out getting rid of all her stuff yes something on Hubbard Avenue yes something like that and another one about my junk can be your treasure please stop buying you know pretty pretty crafty and intelligent way to get somebody to stop in we just want the signs taken down afterwards you buy something and you put it in your own yard sale the following year yeah never get used to it it's always the yard sale stuff is it two licenses if somebody gets married during a yard sale no it's two licenses if they have a dog it's their wedding registry if the dog brings a ring if the dog is the best man then yes that's three fines we had that too don't worry about it I had a dog they had a dog on a marriage license one of the witnesses I was not happy wow Ann's best friend oh boy okay and you got peddling and soliciting also yeah so we can add that to the event list alright so this one hasn't been refreshed yet it's been refreshed since I did see specifically in the fee section but overall it said 1992 I hope that's not true but if it is we're here now definitely is true we're moving forward yeah it's true that the tax accounting is really bad so so it's going up $25 from 1992 yeah that yeah I that's what do we do I'm open to suggestions this is just the version that I was given are we compared to what we were getting are we compared to other towns yeah how is this compared to the food truck that we just did we just set up no I'll look at it is there somebody like the trucks that pull up and sell furniture out of them or clothing sometimes you'll see they have racks of clothing in the back of the truck and it's also the guy going house to house for the second part of it yeah the old fuller brush salesman if you remember back in the day you were too young do we even allow that anymore I don't want to do it so you didn't have to do so [transcription gap] We need to beat that, like triple that. I'll compare it to neighboring towns, and then I'll come up with a better figure. Now, I just know the work that Carol does on this. I mean, it's a lot, especially with taxi cabs. That's tremendous work. You've got code enforcement involved. You've got the police department involved, the background checks, fingerprinting. There's so much involved with getting a taxi license. I don't think that's been touched since 2011 either. So we'll look at doubling these so long as it's kind of similar to other towns. Yeah, and if they're triple in other towns, triple it. Basically, I'll match it. Do you see what we charge for the peddler's license? Yeah, my thing is I'd like to be close to that. I don't want it to be prohibitive. We don't want it more than any other town, but I want to justify the increase as well. Keep something in mind, Jim. I don't want people out there saying, I'm not going to get a permit. I'll just take my license. I don't want to take my chances. Jim, keep something in mind. Keep something in mind. When we compare it to other towns, we're making the assumption that they recently did it. So we don't know when they did it. Right. So I think we have to be real mindful of that. Because they may be in the same situation that we are and just let these things pass for 10 or 20 years. Well, to be apples to apples, you've got to compare ourselves to second-class towns with around 50,000 people. I wouldn't compare myself to Iceland town or to Brookhaven town. I mean, that's just what it is. No, that's fair. And again, I'd like to know what the penalty is if they don't have peddler's permit. We've had a few of these come through Justice Court, actually. And I believe a lot of it is for the people selling flowers in kind of dangerous intersections. I believe that one was a $500 fine. I don't know if that was right in the middle or if that was the maximum. But I'll look into that as well. As long as the penalties are more than the cost of getting the permit. Otherwise, it doesn't make any sense. And now, Carol and I sat with you, so this was some of her suggestions as well. She handles this. But certainly, if we are way out of cutting ourselves, then it's worth a look at. Yeah, and I mean, that's how I did this with every department. How long is it taking you to process? Right. That's got to be cut. Otherwise, again, other taxpayers are supplementing taxpayers using this service. Right. Now, the peddling and soliciting, is that public hearing? Is that public hearing? Yeah, because it's... And there's only three that's public hearing, right? Right. The ones that are codified are going to have to be public hearing. Peddling, dogs, and... Yards. And yards. Yeah. All the rest is resolution. And then we'll do it by resolution after we do the public hearing? Yeah. Okay, everything's going to be done by resolution. Too bad we can't pass a resolution to say that from now on, all the fees and fines are going to be by resolution. Right. Why do we have to do that? But they can be taken. That's what we were talking about before. Right. But we have to have the public hearing about that. Let's do that. Okay. This public hearing should be to remove all the fees from town. All the codified fees from the pledge. Right. Right. Exactly right. And then next year, you sit before us with just what your suggested fees would be for... And then you won't even need me. Yes, we will. Wait a second. I can't let that happen. You're not getting away, Victoria, because we're going to need you to adjust the fines. I know. I was just kidding. Because you're in court. We need you. All right. And I don't want to go off track, but I'm going to circulate this today. You guys, this is... I just need three signatures for... We're going to do a publishing post prior to the meeting for the meeting on the creek. Yeah. Okay? Yep. The state funding stuff. Yep. And I already put that in the paper, but I want to make sure. Okay. Okay. So on the topic of removing the fees from the code and creating a fine schedule, this has been done for taxicabs, I believe, in 2011. So this one is a much simpler process. As long as it is okay with the board, we just put in the resolution for the next board meeting. So these were suggestions by the clerk's office. So if you want to look into it and see if we can expand them further, you can let me know. So it looks like we're generally just adding $50 to each of these. Okay. Where is that? I see my... We're going to leave the operating permit and the appeal. Right. $900. All right. But the work really goes into... The permitting. The permitting is really... That's when they come in and they have to bring in an abstract with their license, and then we take that, and they have to go get their fingerprints. It has to go to the police department. Take it to the police department. I still run a background check on that to see if it's prior. It's pretty good about that. The drug testing. And then it goes from there. It goes to code enforcement. So it's not... I mean, everybody touches a handicap. I mean, a taxi cab, which is a good thing because for the longest time we didn't. But now you can rest assured that we know exactly who's driving the taxi cabs at our home, our residents around, and that there's drug testing involved and all that. Those reports are accomplished. So it's a big deal. Jim, can you tell me, how do we handle Uber drivers in the town? Code and Riverhead is pretty silent on Uber drivers. I didn't know that. But Uber is... Uber is pretty good about policing their own, I would think. I don't know. Huh? I don't know. I'm curious whether or not... Yeah, I don't think anybody can just be an Uber driver. I think they do inspections. They have to give abstracts. And they're pretty good about when people complain. Removing their privileges. Removing their privileges. I'm just curious if the town could ever attach any fees to them for operating in the town. That's interesting. Yeah, I don't know. I can, but I feel like just... I know the airports are pretty good. Good about them. I feel like because they're serving multiple different towns, I don't know if there would be a way for us to... Well, I think that'd be interesting. So it's about the Uber driver. What's always been upsetting is that they put a big blue light in the center of their screen that says Uber on it, and it sometimes is misconstrued as a volunteer firefighter, first responder, responder scene, where they drive around with these blue lights in the center of their thing. It's more useless than advertising. I'd love to put a stop on that. Yeah, right, yeah. But my other question is, and it's not really... Forgive me, Jim, it's not a town clerk thing, but I'm curious. Do we ever inspect these particular vehicles outside of just a New York State inspection, but do we know that they in fact have seat belts in the rear of the car and so forth? You mean about the taxis? Yeah, the taxis that go out on the road. Is the police going through them? By code, yeah. Nicole is pretty good about that. They want to see the vehicle. She does. She goes through the vehicle. Do they have the good pictures of their license? Probably. Do they have the license plates? I don't know. They have the good registrations, insurance cards. They've got to make sure they're up to date. We see them probably pretty good about that. Excellent. And then I've seen some in Riverhead that I thought were questionable, and I looked up their permits and called them and said, look, I just saw a song about driving that vehicle. I want to see his license. Let me tell you, I was just going to go in there. I'm probably going to get some hate letters on this, but I will tell you that the taxi drivers in this town are the god-awful worst drivers I have ever seen. If you've ever been behind one, and all of a sudden it's, I don't know whether they don't know where they're going, or the person in the car says, oh no, turn here. And all of a sudden the car just veers off. No turn signal, nothing. They're awful. They're absolutely awful drivers. I wish we could, you know, I wish I was in a police car again and just followed some of them around because the things you see. Well, I'm on Main Street and I'll take the permit number, and then I'll come and look it up, and then I'll call the company and say, I don't know who's driving this car that day. Good idea. I want that one car, their license. That's just the police in me, but I mean. It's horrible. I hate to stereotype everybody like that that drives a taxi, but man, the ones in town are awful. They're not in New York City. I understand why they drive the way they do in New York City. That's not needed out here. No. Not in a town that's 60 square miles. Mr. Rue, could you check for me about Uber and Lyft? I don't know whether they do the background checks that the town requires. And also if there's any way to require them to get some kind of use fee in the town. Or maybe combining other towns with the county. That would be interesting to find out. If they have to get anything from the county. Sure. Yeah. Hmm. Oh, the other one that. So this is not the current? This is what the current fees are, and we're looking to change these things? These are the, you upped these, right? These are the upped ones? This is suggested. This is current. That's the upped ones. Those are the suggested ones. That's the upped ones. That's the upped ones. Sorry. These is, I just had one copy of the original. That's what. But again, it's a mild increase. $50 increase. It's mild. It's a 10% increase, but it's a 15 year old legislation. So. I remember when John Dunlavy and everybody we worked on that way back when. So 2011 I think it was. Whatever. Okay. So I will double check with the proxies and make sure that's in line with what the traffic is. with the taxis and make sure that's in line with other towns, and then we can move forward with the resolution on that. And then these three will do the public hearing about extracting and moving forward so that everything's a bit more streamlined, like the taxis are, in theory. And then you're going to see something for fireworks, right? I mean, you'll see a bunch. Fireworks, it just has to be changed on the application. It doesn't have to be, if it's not codified, it's just changed the caption on that. That is a violence. That's just the application.

Yeah, that one just changed out the application itself.

That's about it. And like I said, it's just to tone out working out the deficit. It's not a money grab. It's not an extra tax. It's a user fee, but it's meant just to cover our costs and what it takes to do it. Overall. And that helps all the residents. So if only a small portion of the user is a certain service, they help cover the cost of this. And we run a very tight budget. We cut a lot of money out of it. That worked out the way. So we try to operate within our means, for sure. Can you check with, you're using Graticus, right? For who are you using? Civic Plus, who are you going to use for your new software? Oh, it's going to be Civic Plus. Civic Plus? Yep. Can you see... And it's going to be tied into everything else? Yeah. Can you check with them on... All these things that we're working on right now, whether this can all be done online? Okay, that might be a separate application to tell you what we're using, but... Right. You know, because then that would be, that would also help you from now and into the future. We're going to start meetings with them, I think, in two weeks. Civic Plus. Civic Plus. Well, there's four different components we're getting. So I think we've got different teams. That's certainly going to be one of my... If we're going to do stuff online, that would be... Yeah. [transcription gap] Yeah. Yeah. [transcription gap] you know invite me to that meeting if you can and if I'm not there let me know what their answer is my biggest thing the biggest thing is for request right now what do we charge for foil so when we print it yeah we can't charge 25 five cents we do I believe well if you get printed the problem we have a print it could I print something but we well I I'm just a conduit to get somewhere I wish it's rare I have to answer a foil myself but sometimes I do but most of them I know the problem is it's not ever being printed it's just being sent being sent electronically and we can't charge a fee for that I understand nothing right there's nothing physically other than that does shooting emails that's gonna change yes oh my god stay there the state has to work so why don't you get don't you have a clerk's association or something I do why don't you guys get you know get the state to change the ruling on that and there should be there should be some fee to send emails it's not like nobody sends it that there's a person getting paid to send it good luck with it but you know it's like fixing bail reform but I would I would put it on their radar well I got Andy Andy Ray and Jerry Cavitello from Huntington and Babylon coming out sit and talk we're gonna have got a lunch but I want them to look at my retention schedules mm-hmm she's all an expert I mean there's miles I really want to go through somebody's got it you know shake the tree a little bit on you know free emails what work I feel sorry for most of it goes to building and planning I'll be honest with you please handle their own but the stuff that people want to know that's not you know they're all comment on that all right well thank you thank you for your time congratulations on your first year you're welcome thank you for your time thank you for your time first year yes sir your second year you too thank you both very well thank you all Victoria University thank you thanks okay next up we have resolutions I'm going to ask deputy supervisor Higgins to come on up and read our resume we have quite a few of them today happy new year everybody's ready we'll jump right into it we have a long list of results today a lot of reorganization all those right most of these are resos. 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[transcription gap] standard procedure coming into the new year so resolution number one establishes capital project number one two four two six meeting house Creek restoration resolution number two establishes capital project number one two four two five for the town-owned alleyway enhancements this is from downtown Suffolk County downtown revitalization funds to put some more better lighting in our alleyways downtown number three appoints bond council number four appoints a water treatment plant operator operator trainee let's appoint them let's keep them and not lose them to Suffolk County Water Authority yeah number five appoints a budget assistant number six appoints financial advisor number seven renews the appointment of legal representation for the Planning Board number eight renews a stipend for the oversight of the Department of Economic Development and Planning and the town's planning and building department number nine reappoints a zoning officer nunc pro tunc number ten reappoints members to the anti-bias task force number eleven reappoints member to Recreational Advisory Committee winter number twelve reappoints member to the town of river head planning board number 13 reappoints legal representation for the Zoning Board of appeals number 14 set salaries of police officers for the year 2025 so under head 14. Sets salaries of police officers for the year 2025.

15. Sets salaries of highway department for the year 2025.

16. Sets salaries of elected officials for 2025.

17. Sets salaries of various boards for the year 2025. 18. Sets salaries of sewer scavenger waste district for the year 2025.

19. Sets salaries of street lighting district for the year 2025.

20. Sets salaries of water district employees for the year 2025. 21. Sets salaries of general town employees for the year 2025. Just to pause for a minute. This is a very important issue. This is all in our 2025 budget, right? Correct. So there's nothing that... We're not sitting here today going above and beyond the budget. This is already just now being formally allocated. That's correct. Number 22. Ratifies the reclassification of a heavy equipment operator to construction equipment operator.

Number 23. Ratifies the reclassification of a heavy equipment operator to the construction equipment operator. Number 29. Number 24, ratifies the reclassification of a heavy equipment operator to construction equipment operator. Number 25, ratifies the reclassification of a heavy equipment operator to construction equipment operator. Number 26, ratifies the reclassification of an office assistant to a senior office assistant. Number 27, ratifies the reclassification of a groundskeeper to maintenance mechanic two. Number 28, ratifies the reclassification of a groundskeeper to maintenance mechanic two. Number 29, approves salary adjustment for a legislative secretary. Number 30, approves a salary increase for a heavy equipment operator. Number 31, approves salary adjustments for public safety dispatchers. Number 32, approves salary adjustments for named water district employees. Number 33, approves salary increase for a water district maintenance crew leader. Number 34, approves salary increment for a senior cook. Number 35, approves salary increment for a cook. Number 36, approves salary increment for a senior citizens program supervisor. Number 37, approves salary increment for a minibus driver. Number 38, approve salary increase for a community relations specialist.

Number 39, approve salary increase for a cultural affairs supervisor.

Number 40, approve salary increase for a recreation leader. Number 41, approve salary increase for a recreation supervisor. Number 42, approve salary increase for a planner.

Number 43, approve salary increase for a senior planner, charters.

Number 44, approve salary increase for a senior planner, Bergman.

Number 45, approve salary increase for an associate planner. Number 46, approve salary increase for a grants analyst.

Number 47, approve salary increase for chief building inspector.

Number 48, approve salary increase for a personnel assistant.

Number 49, approve salary increase for a town personnel officer. Number 50, approve salary increase for a principal office assistant.

Number 51, approves the continuation of a stipend for two IT employees.

Number 52, approves a stipend for a Spanish-speaking justice court clerk.

Number 53, approves a salary increase for a principal officer. Number 54, approves salary increase for a senior justice court clerk. Number 54, approves a salary increase for a youth counselor. Number 55, approves a salary increase for a network and system specialist, too.

Number 56, approves a salary increase for a maintenance mechanic, too.

Number 57, approves a salary increase for a maintenance mechanic, too. from Maintenance Mechanic 3.

Number 58 approves a salary increase for Deputy Tax Receiver Lisa Richards. Number 59 approves a salary increase for Chief of Staff. Number 60 approves salary increase for Deputy Town Attorney Prudente. Number 61 approves salary increase for Deputy Town Attorney Hurley. Number 62 approves salary increase for Town Attorney Howard. Number 63 approves salary increase for Town Engineer Drew Dillingham.

Number 64 ratifies authorization for employee to buy back accrued vacation time. Number 65 ratifies and accepts the resignation of a Public Safety Dispatcher. Number 66 sets the fees for the 2025 Recreation Winter Brochure. Number 67 adopts the 2025 Investment Policy.

Number 68 adopts a local law amending Chapter 103 of the Riverhead Town Code entitled Town Officers and Employees, Article 6, Term Limits for Town Justices.

Number 69 ratifies waiver of building department fees for Habitat for Humanity, Nunc Pro Tunc.

Number 70 authorizes supervisor to execute agreement with seed clam administrator.

Number 71 authorizes the Community Development Department to apply for the NYS ADU Plus One Program.

Number 72 authorization to publish a headlet. wanted advertisement for part-time police officers number 73 authorizes a release of security for East End disability associates Inc number 74 authorizes the supervisor to execute a 2025 musical works license agreement with SES AC number 75 authorizes the supervisor to execute a stipulation with local 1000 AFS CME AFL CIO Riverhead unit of the Suffolk local 852 number 76 authorizes execution of a license agreement with Research Foundation of State University of New York for installation of fish passage camera at Grand Reveille Park number 77 authorizes the chief of police to execute an agreement with County of Suffolk number 78 authorizes the supervisor to issue a letter to the Suffolk County Department of Health Services allowing the use of Pine Barrens credits originated from property located in Riverhead Expressway Plaza 1 LLC and farmingville associates phase 1 LLC accepted number 79 acceptance of 2023 audited financial statements number 80 pays the bills number 81 set salaries for 2025 beach personnel for the Riverhead Recreation Department number 82 negative declaration for an unlisted action type 1 review under secret for clean water state revolving fund loan to fund updates to the Riverhead water resource recovery facility to produce class a biosolids number 83 set salaries for vacation and recreation for the Riverhead Recreation Department of Health Services under the area's call in recreation personnel for 2025 number 84 set salaries for 2025 call-in personnel is the end of the resolution one question is are we addressing school crossing guards salary increase how do we put that out there for the general I'm going to have to wait until the next meeting to see if we can get that done. really like to see you to try to free up some of our police officers from doing the crossings so can we find out to me is it just in the in the police budget but how do we get that number to increase them we increase the TCOs and we increase the part-time police officers so the salary schedule is what we will be voting on coming up but the salaries have been increased so when they advertise for the job they can advertise for the rate of the job and the rate of the job. the rate you know what the job is off the top of my head I don't remember so I'd like to kind of get a little campaign going pushing for crossing guards in the town of Riverhead so it's desperately needed yes I agree 100% agree and the pay was and it's a difficult position because it's in terms of timing you're there and you're not going to get paid for it. you're there in the morning and then you're off for a while then you got to come back for the afternoon run and some of them are a half dayers where they got to go in and cover like a kindergarten it gets let out for a half day so it's a difficult schedule it's ideal for somebody who's retired but from what we used to pay it wasn't worth their while to come out and do it so we've increased it and hopefully we get some people applying so we don't have to put our police officers on our TCOs out there because they have other job descriptions that they're responsible for. that's right that's what we're looking to do put it out there and they're using their own cars and gas and fuel and so forth but I always say it's a great position for somebody that's retired that looks to get out of the house in the morning get out of the house in the afternoon and I just want to promote it more to free up some of our police officers. you can't play golf every day of your life right so when you're retired you got to have something else to do. you got to do nine holes after the four o'clock crossing is completed. good idea. in the summer. okay that completes all of the work session agenda that we have on the open session in a moment I'll ask to close the open session and we're going to go into executive session to speak about a contractual matter matter surrounding terms and conditions for the Rainer group and that will be with attorney Howard so can I have a motion to close today's work session and go into executive session. so moved. second. all in favor? aye. all opposed? okay we will close happy new year everybody and we'll see you next week and we're going to close and go into executive session.

thank you.