August 14, 2025 — Town Board Work Session

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0:00Thank you.
0:30Thank you.
1:00And as we do with all of our work sessions, we'll begin with the Pledge of Allegiance.
1:03Councilman Kern, if you wouldn't mind.
1:08Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
1:12and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
1:22Thank you, sir.
1:24It's my pleasure.
1:25Okay, we have just a couple of announcements this morning.
1:28The first one relates...
1:30It relates to the Polish Fair taking place this weekend.
1:32I'll turn it over to Councilwoman Waski.
1:34Thank you, Deputy Supervisor.
1:36I can't believe it's the Polish Town Fair weekend already.
1:40It's this Saturday and Sunday, August 16th and 17th.
1:45On Saturday, opening ceremonies begin at 10 a.m.
1:49That's when the fair and festival open.
1:52And that will be at the Showmobile, which will be located in front of Pulaski Street,
1:59square.
2:00And that will be open until 10 p.m.
2:05Lots of stuff going on between the Polish Civic and Polish Hall.
2:11There will be a flag-raising ceremony at Polish Hall at noon.
2:17They have the wedding, Polish wedding, at St. Isidore's Church as well on Saturday.
2:23And then the fair will open again on Sunday at 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
2:29So come on down.
2:30It's always a great time.
2:31I will be down there working, actually, all day on Saturday at one of the civics booths.
2:37So if you can come on down and say hi, it would be great.
2:41Great.
2:41Councilman, are you going to do the polka while you're down there?
2:44Absolutely.
2:45I'm getting very good at it.
2:46A little oomph-bye-shoo-bye.
2:48Yeah.
2:49Great.
2:49All right.
2:49Well, we look forward to that.
2:51That's for certainty.
2:53All right.
2:53Good.
2:53Also happening Saturday, August 16th, the Riverhead Lions Club Music for Meals in Grangeville Park.
2:58That's going to be taking place from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
2:593 p.m. to 12.
3:03I think I might have this wrong.
3:04This says the hours of this say 3 p.m. to 12 a.m.?
3:083 to midnight.
3:103 to midnight.
3:11Wow.
3:11Okay.
3:11That's what it says on our event.
3:12That sounds great.
3:14For those that want to stay up that late, I'm not a night owl.
3:17But anyway.
3:17All right.
3:18Also Saturday, August 16th, Racetrack Knot Street, the 2025 Summer Motorsport Event taking
3:25place at EpCal from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m.
3:28And that's always a popular event.
3:29So everybody's welcome to come down and cheer on your favorite racer.
3:34All right.
3:34With that, we'll move on to open session discussion items.
3:37The first one we have is Matters Surrounded Commercial Vehicle Parking on Young's Avenue
3:41with Deputy Town Attorney Victoria Pilo.
3:47Good morning.
3:50Okay.
3:50So this is, I guess, Chapter 289-10?
3:53Correct.
3:54Okay.
3:54Okay.
3:54So we were here a couple of weeks ago to add Young's Avenue.
3:59And we did get a notification from the City of Calvertine that we were going to add a
4:04parking stop to the list of streets for prohibited parking, standing, stopping for certain vehicles.
4:10So a couple of weeks ago, we added semi-trailer trucks.
4:14But we did get some notification from Greater Civic Association of Calvertine.
4:20They wanted us to consider making the language a little bit clearer for the commercial vehicle
4:27trailers equipped with a dump body or tit-bur bed, which is basically your dump truck.
4:29So it'll be easier to write and enforce these tickets now that that specific type of truck is identified in there.
4:37Everything else is the same, same discussion we had about the dangerousness of the parking on that road.
4:42So we're just adding that in in hopes that it creates better enforcement in that area.
4:49So this will help capture, I guess, a wider pool of vehicles?
4:54Correct.
4:54Okay.
4:55Yes.
4:55Okay.
4:56Great.
4:56So that's really all I have on that.
4:58All right.
4:58Good.
4:58So, Victoria, what will the
4:59list go into effect?
5:01So if you are all good with me putting this on for public hearing, I believe the anticipated public hearing would be in September.
5:09And then once it's voted on, I would say that it would go in in October.
5:13However, the way it's written that we met a few weeks ago on it, that public hearing is going to be August 19th.
5:21Okay.
5:22So most of this will go into effect in a few days.
5:25Thank you.
5:26Yeah.
5:27Okay, great.
5:28And this is a really good example.
5:29I think it's a good example of how town officials and staff work together with, whether it's civics or folks on the outside, they, you know, helped identify a problem and we're doing what we can to try to fix it.
5:41And even if we didn't get it fully captured on the first iteration, we go back the second time around.
5:47And it's a good example of how that process can play out and work.
5:49So great job to you and obviously your team.
5:51Thank you.
5:52Being legal on this.
5:53So if the board is amenable, we'll go ahead and have the attorneys put this in for a publishing post.
5:58Yes.
5:58Okay.
5:59Okay.
5:59And I think that's a good example of how we can get the support of the Traffic Safety meeting discussed as well.
6:02Oh, good.
6:02Awesome.
6:02Okay.
6:03Thank you.
6:03Great.
6:04So kind of in the same token, we have a little bit more of a concern about being crystal clear on these.
6:14So what I noticed actually myself in court.
6:17So let me just interrupt you just one second.
6:18So we're going to jump to the second item.
6:20Sorry.
6:20Right?
6:20So we're going to move on to the second discussion item, which is matters surrounding e-bikes, bicycles, and electric scooters.
6:25We'll ask.
6:25Oh, no.
6:26I mean.
6:26Oh, I'm sorry.
6:27For local delivery defined.
6:29Oh, I'm sorry.
6:29Okay.
6:30Danielle wants to join for this.
6:30Why don't you join anyway?
6:31It's just a party going on up here.
6:33Yeah.
6:34Wonderful.
6:34This is Deputy Town Attorney Danielle Harley.
6:37Okay.
6:37So we're still on 28910?
6:38Yeah.
6:39This is still on the same topic.
6:42So in order to ban the vehicles that are overweight that are going onto those roads, we wanted to define local delivery.
6:52Because what I'm noticing in court is people are getting tickets for these and they're saying, oh, you know, I was doing a local delivery.
6:58So the issue with that is that it's hard to prosecute those without a clear definition of what local delivery is.
7:06So this really very specifically states what local delivery is.
7:12Does it start in Riverhead?
7:13Does it end in Riverhead?
7:15There's four different ways that an officer or town code can determine whether or not that's a local delivery.
7:22So this is just for the exception.
7:24So no vehicles are able to go on these roads.
7:26Okay.
7:27So they can't go on these overweight roads unless they are for local delivery.
7:31And this will kind of lock in, you know, who's making the local delivery and who's not.
7:35So it will allow those tickets to stick in court and hopefully solve that issue of these vehicles.
7:43So if you live nearby and you're having a couch delivered and they have to bring the big truck in to do that.
7:47Correct.
7:48So they're manifest or they would have a bill of sale or something, a bill of lading, something in their vehicle that they could show the officer, look, this is the address, this is the address.
7:57This is the only road I can go down.
7:58And then they wouldn't get a ticket.
8:00Right.
8:01Where you're having a party and the tent company has to come with the big truck and bring the equipment in or whatever.
8:05Correct.
8:06This is trying to kind of catch the pass throughs.
8:08You know, someone from up island that's trying to deliver something in Greenport, you're not really, it's not a local delivery.
8:14So that's why I felt that a definition would be helpful.
8:18So now I'm done with this topic.
8:21Okay.
8:22Makes sense to me.
8:23Does the board have any questions or comments on that?
8:25I have a comment.
8:26Sure.
8:27Right now is a very proud girl moment, girl power.
8:31Look around this table and look at how the women exceed the men at this table today.
8:37Thank you.
8:38We have you surrounded.
8:39I think that this is fantastic.
8:41It's fine with me.
8:42A good job is a good job.
8:44I don't care who does it.
8:45Everybody is great too.
8:47All right, great.
8:48Well, nice work on that.
8:49And now I guess we'll move on to the second item.
8:51Yes.
8:52Sorry.
8:53Yeah, no.
8:54Surrounding e-bikes, bicycles and electric scooters.
8:56And I think we're missing just one attachment that was supposed to be put online and I missed it.
9:02So that was mine and I have copies for everybody.
9:05Great.
9:06Pass these down.
9:07Thank you.
9:08And I have copies for Chris.
9:09Great.
9:10Thank you.
9:11So there is one attachment up there but it's not the most recent iteration, right?
9:17No.
9:18So one code amendment is Victoria's.
9:19It's a separate section of the code.
9:20And one code amendment is mine.
9:22But they both deal with the topic of bicycles.
9:24Okay.
9:25So I thought it would be easier to discuss them as one.
9:27Okay.
9:28Great.
9:29Yeah, mine is more analog and hers is more future.
9:30Yeah, you can go.
9:31Yes.
9:32So for bicycles and electric scooters, I have been in discussions with PD about the
9:43dangerousness of bikes that have been going up and down Route 58.
9:49So as we know, County Road 58 is our busiest commercial corridor.
9:54It includes sidewalks on both sides.
9:58And there are a lot of vehicles that enter and exit driveways.
10:02There's a lot of pedestrian traffic.
10:06So the amendment would prohibit bicycle riding on the defined sidewalks in Route 58.
10:11I have the start and the starting and the ending points of Route 58 that are listed
10:18in the underlined section under 231.1.
10:23That would be the change.
10:24And the goal is not to limit the biking in the town.
10:28It's just to prevent accidents in the high traffic area.
10:31And there are areas on 51's shoulders that the bikes can safely be on.
10:38You mean 213.1?
10:39Yeah.
10:40Yes.
10:41Okay.
10:42Sorry.
10:43I'm looking for 231.
10:44So non-motorized?
10:45I couldn't find it.
10:46Yeah, 231 is fire marshal.
10:47I mean, I'm sure they could be involved in some way.
10:49But...
10:50Ms. Puddle, so that's motorized and non-motorized vehicles?
10:51So these are motorized and non-motorized vehicles.
10:52So these are motorized and non-motorized vehicles.
10:53So these are just your regular bicycles.
10:56Right.
10:57Okay.
10:58And then Danielle will cover the motorized.
10:59The electric?
11:00Yeah.
11:01Yep.
11:02So going into that, we have the topic of e-bikes, which are known as bicycles with
11:09electric assist.
11:11So first was where to put it.
11:15We decided to place it with electric scooters.
11:19Electric scooters is also in the ETL.
11:20And we're going to use the electric scooters.
11:21Okay.
11:22Okay.
11:23So we're going to use the electric scooters.
11:24And so is bicycles with an electric assist.
11:25So the first step was defining bicycle with an electric assist.
11:30This definition came right from the New York State DMV website.
11:35So bicycles with electric assist are classified into three classes.
11:39The first one is a bike that you're pedaling and it's kind of just assisting you, but you
11:47have to move your feet.
11:48The second is one that can kind of exclusively propel you on a bike.
11:49Okay.
11:50So you can put it on a bike.
11:51Okay.
11:52So the first one is a bike that can propel you on a bike and you don't need to pedal
11:53as much.
11:54And then the third is similar to that but goes much faster, which is more just for a
12:03city population.
12:04So throughout the code we added in the ETL sections that discuss bicycles with electric
12:12assist.
12:13They will not, along with electric scooters, they will not be prohibited on the road or
12:20sideway with a posted speed limit.
12:21posted speed limit in excess of 30 miles per hour and shall not be operated and
12:27designated bike lanes except for the class one so that one where you're still
12:32kind of pedaling and it's kind of just slightly propelling you those will still
12:36be allowed in the bike lane in terms of so another concern was these which was
12:43brought to me by Councilwoman was key and Councilman Kern from from their
12:51committees was how they operate on the bike path so this will in section P
13:00bicycles with electric assist are not allowed on the bike path except for
13:07again those class one bicycles with electric assist fantastic also increase
13:15the penalties to reflect yeah the
13:21the regular bicycle codes so the
13:22the regular bicycle codes so the regular bicycles
13:24regular bicycles and the bicycle for electric assist have
13:25and the bicycle for electric assist have the same penalty section yes so
13:28the same penalty section yes so there'll be one to 250 for first offense
13:31there'll be one to 250 for first offense 250 500 second offense and 500 to 50
13:35250 500 second offense and 500 to 50 hundred for third or more hopefully
13:37hundred for third or more hopefully we'll get past there I'll just make a
13:40we'll get past there I'll just make a comment that I think this fits we'll see
13:42we'll see where this goes but with the
13:45so in my understanding electric bikes
13:49or motorized bikes
13:50so if you are under the influence of drugs
13:53or alcohol driving on one of these
13:55electric bikes on the road
13:56the police department may be able to
13:59arrest you for impaired driving
14:01of some sort under the
14:03VNT we'll see but I believe
14:05because it's a motorized vehicle
14:06and it's on a highway
14:07a public highway so we'll see
14:10but that's a way also to protect the public
14:12yeah the DA's office would handle those
14:14I know I'm just mentioning that
14:16yeah they could in theory be facing
14:18not only a criminal charge
14:20but a town code charge as well
14:22so at what speed
14:25does the
14:26town or the DMV
14:29require that you register
14:31the vehicle? I think for scooters
14:33it's 25 or 30
14:34so I'd imagine that bicycles would be the same
14:37yeah so class 1 bicycles
14:39and class 2
14:40they can only go 20 miles
14:42per hour
14:43so class 3
14:44class 3 is
14:47exclusively
14:50propelling reaching a speed of
14:5225 miles per hour
14:53so that the lines
14:55because at 25 miles per hour they'd need to
14:58register as vehicles
14:59is there anything in here that we're letting them
15:02know that they need to register
15:04with the DMV
15:05so that
15:06well right now
15:10class 3 bicycles wouldn't be allowed in our town
15:12because they're solely
15:13to be operated within the city
15:15of a population of 1 million or more
15:17and that's
15:19stated here in the definition
15:21I know we have
15:24and that's where
15:25I'm going with this
15:26now they'll be tickets able to be written
15:29to those individuals
15:31within the town under the town code
15:33because we didn't have any code for it
15:35in the first place
15:36yeah I understand but I mean
15:39since they're
15:40out and
15:42they're being used should we require that they're registered you know with
15:47with DMV that would be in the purview of the DMV yeah I was gonna say that would
15:53be a state requirement. That would be more of a criminal VTL issue, non-registration. Right but do I guess what I'm asking is should we
16:01contact the DMV do we have the right to say you need to register anything that
16:08goes over 25 miles an hour you need to have a registration from the DMV. That is
16:14something that the VTL and would handle. I would say anything you know when
16:21you're driving in the town of Riverhead we're not telling people that they need
16:24a driver's license that all of the moving requirements would be through the
16:29DMV I mean they would be alerted to that through the DMV I mean okay you could always
16:35okay I'll check but
16:38I'm just you know because I think this I mean there's a lot of people doing it
16:42they're not registered I'm wondering if I mean we can look into creating our own
16:48registration system not that we want to register guide them to where it sounds
16:52like maybe this is a good place to start and maybe then it evolves beyond that
16:56right on the state level. I don't know how it works with DMV right you know so
17:02they have a requirement but it's not like we have something in
17:08in our code that says that if you're driving a car that it has to be
17:11registered. Well that's a really good point though if you're driving 30 miles
17:16an hour in a car and it's not registered you get you you know the car is not
17:21registered right so if you're driving 35 miles an hour an electric bike they can
17:25be pulled over and they're not registered. Right so moving like Victoria
17:30said moving violations are handled by the district attorney's office of the county of
17:38the laws that come through the state. Okay. Alright does the board have any other questions or comments on this?
17:48There's a lot in here thank you guys for breaking it all out the way you did it's
17:53helpful to understand it. Good job on that. And you've covered this with your committee.
17:59Yes the alternative transportation committee. Yeah they've had a chance they've looked at this. And they're comfortable with it? From what I've heard.
18:07From what I gather they're comfortable. Okay. Good. Alright so next up I guess is publish and post? Yes. Okay.
18:15Alright great. Alright thank you. That covers it. Thank you guys. Appreciate it.
18:22Alright so that is the last open session discussion item that we had on for today.
18:31But Justin do we have a riverhead in action we're gonna fire up? We do. Alright
18:36so we're gonna
18:37amend the agenda to include that just so we have it listed forever that we are
18:44gonna run a riverhead in action video from National Night Out. They weren't
18:48sure if it would be ready for prime time today but they got it done so thank you to IT for doing that.
18:53And when you're ready Justin take it away. Hi this is Tim Howard supervisor of the
19:01great town of Riverhead and you're watching Riverhead in Action a media
19:05campaign designed to highlight the
19:07incredible work of the 350 plus employees it comprised Riverhead's 26
19:13departments and sub departments. Town events. Projects. Job openings. Local
19:19businesses. And other town happenings. I hope you find this informative and
19:24enjoyable. And thank you for watching Riverhead in action. I like that. I'm so
19:33happy to see such a great amount of people here for our first time actually
19:37doing a national night out in this format. We used to go to independent
19:42neighborhoods and visit them but this I feel is a lot better community oriented.
19:46I would like to thank my staff for everyone that's here assisting with this
19:52event. Lieutenant Abrams, you can turn it over to assist with naming all the
19:57people that helped this event kick off.
20:07Hello everyone I'm Lieutenant Dino Isgrove from the Riverhead Police Department. Just wanted to give a couple of
20:15shout outs and thank you to everybody that helped us put this on. Big thank you
20:19to Riverhead PBA, Riverhead SOA, Suffolk Credit Union, Riverhead Rotary,
20:25Rouse Rentals, Riverhead JAB, Snowflake, Daringland. Also for other vendors that are
20:33joining us Riverhead CAP, Suffolk County District Attorney's Office,
20:37Butterfly Effect Project, Thrive. Last but not least for allowing us to put this on
20:44thank you to Riverhead Town Board Supervisor, the Chief of Police and
20:48especially all the officers that are donating their time on their off day to
20:52come here and so we could put this on.
20:59Thank you Lieutenant Isgrove. People just look around at the equipment that these
21:05guys, the men and women of Riverhead PD have.
21:07Thank you.
21:07The stuff they can perform, the stuff they can do, the large drone that was up in the air before
21:13actually has the capability of dropping a light preserve around the water. They
21:16can fly it out to somebody in distress, drop a light preserver down to them, but
21:21more important than any of that is the men and women, are the men and women of
21:25the Riverhead Police Department. I say this all the time and I mean it and I
21:29truly believe it. We have the best police department in Suffolk County and
21:35probably on Long Island.
21:37A round of applause for Riverhead Police Department.
21:44They're dedicated, they have many family members here today, they're local, their kids go to school with
21:50everybody's kids. It's just, it's a real nice community police department and
21:55under the leadership of Chief Frost we've really moved forward so we
22:00appreciate that and thank you everybody that came out tonight and have a safe
22:04summer. Thank you.
22:07Thank you Supervisor.
22:09Okay we're gonna start out tonight right now with a canine demonstration.
22:14Oh wait, did you? Any questions?
22:20That wasn't as graceful, see? That was graceful for me to go up.
22:27Go get an article.
22:38You found it.
22:43You found it.
22:44You think you found it?
22:58You think you found it?
23:01You think you found it?
23:03So our dogs are trained to passively alert.
23:07Once he finds the article, he'll put his nose on it and lay down.
23:12If it's on the ground, if it's elevated, he'll put his nose on it in an elevated position.
23:16He'll either hide their legs or sit.
23:18Got any more questions, guys?
23:25Yes.
23:26Loki just turned six years old.
23:29Thanks everyone for coming again.
23:35There is a police boat on the waterfront.
23:37If you guys want to go take a look at that as well.
23:39I'm not sure if you guys can see it, but it is here.
23:41Thank you very much and have a good night.
23:43Thanks for coming out.
23:44Very nice.
23:45Oh, that's your deer.
23:46Very nice.
23:47Thank you.
23:48Thank you.
23:49Thank you.
23:50Thank you.
23:51Thank you.
23:52Thank you.
23:53Thank you.
23:54Thank you.
23:55Thank you.
23:56Thank you.
23:57Thank you.
23:59Good footage.
24:01Thank you for putting it together.
24:02Justin did a great job.
24:04And everyone else.
24:06We'll move onto our next item.
24:09Resolutions.
24:10We'll do it a little differently.
24:12Ask financial administrator Jeanette DePaolo to come up.
24:16If there are items that require her expertise.
24:20She's available.
24:21Good morning.
24:22Good morning.
24:23Good morning.
24:24Good morning.
24:25Good morning.
24:26Good morning.
24:27Good morning.
24:28Good morning.
24:29Resolution number one, authorize the sewer district employees to attend seminar.
24:34Yeah, you have a bunch of correspondence.
24:40If you have the full packet, you have to get through the correspondence and the public
24:42hearings.
24:43There you go.
24:44That's the new format.
24:46It prints everything.
24:48All right.
24:50Resolution number two, ratifies the authorization of one police department employee to attend
24:54a governor's traffic safety DRE interview.
24:57This is one of our drug recognition experts going to go on an interview to see if he qualifies.
25:04Good.
25:05Very good.
25:06So it's a good thing, for sure.
25:08Resolution number three, approves the attendance of one police department employee to attend
25:11a DCJS public safety symposium.
25:16It happens yearly, and it's great that we're able to send somebody up to that.
25:22Number four, authorizes the removal of fixed assets.
25:27Resolution number five, ratifies authorization of the acceptance of donations from Peconic
25:32Hockey Foundation.
25:33And just a point, we're going to make sure it gets included after the work session today,
25:39but there is an attachment missing from this.
25:41It's the Schedule A. We have copies here for the public, and as I said, we'll make it available
25:45online.
25:46But I think, Jeanette, we'll just ask you to give us a quick overview of this resolution
25:50and how we got here.
25:52Sure.
25:53So everybody knows Peconic Hockey has donated the dome hockey rink.
25:55And we're going to be doing that.
25:56And we're going to be doing that.
25:57So what is the resolution of this resolution?
25:58So what is the resolution of this resolution is that we are going to be giving out a donated
25:59hockey rink over at Veterans Memorial Park.
26:00They also have an outdoor rink that they've built.
26:01And I believe they're working on locker rooms, if they're not already done, and a couple
26:08of other things.
26:09I'm not exactly sure what else they're doing, but there's a bunch of improvements
26:13going on over there.
26:14So the donated capital will continue probably for at least another year or two, however
26:20long.
26:21But each year, we have to agree on the amount of donated capital.
26:23So this resolution is just the town of Riverhead agreeing on what is needed and what is not.
26:24So what is the resolution of this resolution is that we are going to keep providing donated
26:25hockey rinks and we are going to keep providing them with what is needed and what is needed
26:26Riverhead agreeing with the kind of copies list of donated capital we
26:29recognize it on our books as donated capital from them so it's nice to have a
26:35fixed asset worth 2.9 million dollars this is 320 12 31 24 so the numbers
26:42probably higher now because 2025 I'm sure they're continuing to build and do
26:46what they add value to it right so okay and this attachment that as I said was
26:52included inadvertently but will be yeah just touch on that it's a list of 2023
26:57donated items and 2024 and it kind of just summarizes out everything that
27:02Konakaki has done as far as capital improvements over the last two years
27:06again every year end we have to agree on these amounts with our external auditors
27:10so this kind of just puts it all in writing and firms it up and is ratifying
27:16it for the town board so great okay good all right thank you for that
27:22I'm gonna take this back there's more copies okay resolution number six
27:30accepts donation from Joseph C dividend dividend Eddo for the Recreation
27:35Department D Benedetto thank you for the help with that sir we certainly
27:42appreciate the generous donation that he's making to the Recreation Department
27:47resolution number seven budget transfer for capital project number 12 101 town
27:52square properties this is related to we had a recent closing took a while but we
27:58finally got there we closed on the sale of the old building department Jeanette
28:04maybe you want to just speak to the breakdown and what we're doing with
28:07those funds sure so we sold the the old building department for 201 Howell
28:13Avenue for five hundred and twenty five thousand dollars and we actually had a
28:18borrow we have borrowed money from the general fund toward the town square
28:22demolition of property and including engineering and soft costs so what
28:29happened was when we purchased the three properties in the town square 121 East
28:34Main 127 East Main and 117 East Main when we closed on that we actually
28:41issued bans for 5.5 million we or we authorized bans for 5.5 million we only
28:47issued bans for 5 million so 500,000 was actually loaned from the general fund for the other
28:52500,000 for soft costs engineering design costs and part of the demolition
28:57costs so this is basically paying back the general fund so that that's all
29:01closed up and there's no other outstanding liability related to that at
29:06this point just to point out we do have a little bit of a grant left over for
29:11$70,000 to $80,000 and we're hoping to get that at some point over the next
29:16year or so the grants take a long time right so okay and that's been it's
29:21important for us to know that we're going to be able to get that back to the
29:22public center this has been the plan all along yes with respect to the sale of
29:25this building yes I had earmarked that yes day one yes and there was no deviating from that
29:30and we appreciate your stick-to-itiveness with that okay very good thank you
29:37resolution number eight ratifies budget adjustment for grant allocation for
29:41East End Arts Council relocation we've previously spoken about the fact that
29:45we were able to secure grant funds to help facilitate the move for the East End
29:50Arts folks from their present location to the public center and we're hoping to get that
29:51moved for Sale Sale Sale
29:54Sale Sale
29:56Sale Sale
29:58Sale Sale
30:00Sale Sale
30:02Sale Sale
30:04Sale Sale
30:06Sale Sale
30:08Sale Sale
30:10Sale Sale
30:12Sale Sale
30:14Sale Sale
30:16Sale Sale
30:18Sale Sale
30:20Sale Sale
30:21Resolution number 10, CHIPS 2025-2026, Road Resurfacing Grant Budget.
30:28Number 11, PAVE New York 2025-2026, Road Resurfacing Grant Budget.
30:35Number 12, POP New York 2025-2026, Road Resurfacing Grant Budget.
30:43Number 13, Acceptance of Youth Mentoring Sports Grant.
30:46Number 14 is listed in the packet, but we had a little problem and it didn't print in the sequence.
30:59So copies are here, as I said, for the folks in the room and we'll make them available online.
31:04But this is amends resolution 2025-651.
31:08It was really just a clerical error in the prior resolution that the board approved,
31:13just grabbing the wrong salary.
31:16It's a scheduled title, so this just cleans that up.
31:21Resolution number 15, amends resolution 2025-653.
31:26Same thing, just a simple cleanup item clerical error that was made in the last town board meeting.
31:32That's all on that subject.
31:34Number 16, appoints a homemaker.
31:37Number 17, appoints a part-time harbor master.
31:44Number 18, accepts the resignation.
31:46Number 19, ratifies the resignation of the chief building inspector.
31:51Number 19, ratifies the resignation of a public safety dispatcher 1.
31:58Number 20, accepts the resignation of a maintenance mechanic 2.
32:05Number 21, ratifies a leave of absence.
32:10Number 22, ratifies authorization for the supervisor to execute stipulation with the CSC.
32:16Number 23, authorizes license agreement with Riverhead Volunteer Ambulance Corps for the use of Riverhead Town Hall basement for EMT course instruction 2025-2026.
32:34And I know, Councilman, you can speak to how well this worked last year, which is why we're more than happy to accommodate and do it again, right?
32:40Absolutely.
32:41And we need more EMTs.
32:44EMTs, I would choose to continue.
32:46We want to become paramedics, but with volunteers in our community, last year I think we put approximately 25 new EMTs into the community.
32:56That's great.
32:57It's a great program.
32:58That's good.
32:58Okay.
32:58Yep.
32:59And a few of them have already gotten CPR SAVE awards, which is even more kind of...
33:05Great.
33:06Good.
33:07So it's working.
33:08It's working.
33:09They've saved lives already.
33:10That's really great.
33:11Okay.
33:12Resolution 24, authorize the supervisor to execute an agreement with Riverhead Youth Sports and...
33:16For the Referee Umpire Services for Tanna Riverhead Police Athletic League football program for the 2025 calendar year.
33:24That means fall is on the horizon.
33:27It's unfortunate.
33:29Number 25, authorizes the town attorney to execute an agreement with certified environmental professional Jeffrey Seaman.
33:38Number 26, accepts performance bond from Kathy Lane, LLC.
33:46Number 27, authorizes the town clerk to publish and post notice to bidders for polymer mixing system for the Riverhead Sewer District.
33:56Number 28, authorizes the town clerk to publish and post notice to bidders for replacement of large meters for the Riverhead Water District.
34:06Number 29, same as before, the resolution was missing from the packet.
34:11Authorizes town clerk to publish and post notice to bidders for CVE...
34:16U.S., New York, Riverhead 215, LLC, Riverhead Landfill Water Main Extension.
34:21This is just a posting to go out to bid.
34:27Number 30, authorizes the town clerk to publish and post notice to bidders for disposal of town generated construction and demolition material.
34:36Number 31, authorizes town clerk to publish and post notice to bidders for Dow Flake Extra 83 to 87% calcium chloride or equal.
34:46Number 32, awards bid for sludge cake removal and disposal.
34:52Number 33, awards bid for police uniform items.
34:57Number 34, awards bid for fertilizer and lawn chemicals.
35:02Number 35, awards bid for grit screen waste removal and disposal.
35:06These are thick bids, that's why there's so much paper.
35:10Number 36, awards bid for liquid sludge removal and disposal.
35:16Number 37, awards bid for 2025 annual construction contract.
35:21Number 38, awards re-bid for 2025 annual procurement contract.
35:27Number 39, ratifies extension of bid for replacement of large meters.
35:34Number 40, ratifies the settlement of legal action in the matter of town of Riverhead against Robert William Kramer, 510 Toomey Avenue, Riverhead, New York.
35:43Number 40, ratifies the settlement of legal action in the matter of town of Riverhead against Robert William Kramer, 510 Toomey Avenue, Riverhead, New York.
35:44Number 41, ratifies designation of alcohol service vendor to service alcohol at the Polish Hall Festival 2025.
35:52Coming up this weekend.
35:55Number 42, approves special event chapter 255 application for the Riverhead Athletic Club Riverhead Athletic Club 5K race.
36:04Number 43, approves special event chapter 255 application for fine fare supermarket customer appreciation day.
36:11And number 44, pays the bills.
36:14And that's it on resos.
36:17So in a moment, we'll ask for a first and a second to go into executive session to discuss the following.
36:24Matters surrounding a leave of absence from employee with Stripland T.O.
36:28Matters surrounding class action grievance with the CSCA with Howard.
36:32Matters surrounding litigation with Crafted with Howard.
36:35Matters surrounding contractual agreement for the Vale-Levitt with Howard, Hurley, and Thomas.
36:40Matters surrounding contractual agreement between the town of Riverhead and Heatherwood with the Vail-Levitt.
36:43And matters surrounding possible consulting agreement for plans and review services with Thomas.
36:49So with that, if the board has any further announcements or comments.
36:55And I'll ask for a first and a second to close the work session.
36:59So moved.
37:00Seconded.
37:01All in favor?
37:02Aye.
37:03All opposed?
37:04Meeting is closed.
37:05Thank you everybody.
37:06Have a good day and have a great weekend.
37:13Thank you.

Full Transcript

Thank you. Thank you. And as we do with all of our work sessions, we'll begin with the Pledge of Allegiance. Councilman Kern, if you wouldn't mind.

Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, sir. It's my pleasure. Okay, we have just a couple of announcements this morning. The first one relates... It relates to the Polish Fair taking place this weekend. I'll turn it over to Councilwoman Waski. Thank you, Deputy Supervisor. I can't believe it's the Polish Town Fair weekend already. It's this Saturday and Sunday, August 16th and 17th. On Saturday, opening ceremonies begin at 10 a.m. That's when the fair and festival open. And that will be at the Showmobile, which will be located in front of Pulaski Street, square. And that will be open until 10 p.m. Lots of stuff going on between the Polish Civic and Polish Hall. There will be a flag-raising ceremony at Polish Hall at noon. They have the wedding, Polish wedding, at St. Isidore's Church as well on Saturday. And then the fair will open again on Sunday at 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. So come on down. It's always a great time. I will be down there working, actually, all day on Saturday at one of the civics booths. So if you can come on down and say hi, it would be great. Great. Councilman, are you going to do the polka while you're down there? Absolutely. I'm getting very good at it. A little oomph-bye-shoo-bye. Yeah. Great. All right. Well, we look forward to that. That's for certainty. All right. Good. Also happening Saturday, August 16th, the Riverhead Lions Club Music for Meals in Grangeville Park. That's going to be taking place from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. 3 p.m. to 12. I think I might have this wrong. This says the hours of this say 3 p.m. to 12 a.m.? 3 to midnight. 3 to midnight. Wow. Okay. That's what it says on our event. That sounds great. For those that want to stay up that late, I'm not a night owl. But anyway. All right. Also Saturday, August 16th, Racetrack Knot Street, the 2025 Summer Motorsport Event taking place at EpCal from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. And that's always a popular event. So everybody's welcome to come down and cheer on your favorite racer. All right. With that, we'll move on to open session discussion items. The first one we have is Matters Surrounded Commercial Vehicle Parking on Young's Avenue with Deputy Town Attorney Victoria Pilo.

Good morning. Okay. So this is, I guess, Chapter 289-10? Correct. Okay. Okay. So we were here a couple of weeks ago to add Young's Avenue. And we did get a notification from the City of Calvertine that we were going to add a parking stop to the list of streets for prohibited parking, standing, stopping for certain vehicles. So a couple of weeks ago, we added semi-trailer trucks. But we did get some notification from Greater Civic Association of Calvertine. They wanted us to consider making the language a little bit clearer for the commercial vehicle trailers equipped with a dump body or tit-bur bed, which is basically your dump truck. So it'll be easier to write and enforce these tickets now that that specific type of truck is identified in there. Everything else is the same, same discussion we had about the dangerousness of the parking on that road. So we're just adding that in in hopes that it creates better enforcement in that area. So this will help capture, I guess, a wider pool of vehicles? Correct. Okay. Yes. Okay. Great. So that's really all I have on that. All right. Good. So, Victoria, what will the list go into effect? So if you are all good with me putting this on for public hearing, I believe the anticipated public hearing would be in September. And then once it's voted on, I would say that it would go in in October. However, the way it's written that we met a few weeks ago on it, that public hearing is going to be August 19th. Okay. So most of this will go into effect in a few days. Thank you. Yeah. Okay, great. And this is a really good example. I think it's a good example of how town officials and staff work together with, whether it's civics or folks on the outside, they, you know, helped identify a problem and we're doing what we can to try to fix it. And even if we didn't get it fully captured on the first iteration, we go back the second time around. And it's a good example of how that process can play out and work. So great job to you and obviously your team. Thank you. Being legal on this. So if the board is amenable, we'll go ahead and have the attorneys put this in for a publishing post. Yes. Okay. Okay. And I think that's a good example of how we can get the support of the Traffic Safety meeting discussed as well. Oh, good. Awesome. Okay. Thank you. Great. So kind of in the same token, we have a little bit more of a concern about being crystal clear on these. So what I noticed actually myself in court. So let me just interrupt you just one second. So we're going to jump to the second item. Sorry. Right? So we're going to move on to the second discussion item, which is matters surrounding e-bikes, bicycles, and electric scooters. We'll ask. Oh, no. I mean. Oh, I'm sorry. For local delivery defined. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay. Danielle wants to join for this. Why don't you join anyway? It's just a party going on up here. Yeah. Wonderful. This is Deputy Town Attorney Danielle Harley. Okay. So we're still on 28910? Yeah. This is still on the same topic. So in order to ban the vehicles that are overweight that are going onto those roads, we wanted to define local delivery. Because what I'm noticing in court is people are getting tickets for these and they're saying, oh, you know, I was doing a local delivery. So the issue with that is that it's hard to prosecute those without a clear definition of what local delivery is. So this really very specifically states what local delivery is. Does it start in Riverhead? Does it end in Riverhead? There's four different ways that an officer or town code can determine whether or not that's a local delivery. So this is just for the exception. So no vehicles are able to go on these roads. Okay. So they can't go on these overweight roads unless they are for local delivery. And this will kind of lock in, you know, who's making the local delivery and who's not. So it will allow those tickets to stick in court and hopefully solve that issue of these vehicles. So if you live nearby and you're having a couch delivered and they have to bring the big truck in to do that. Correct. So they're manifest or they would have a bill of sale or something, a bill of lading, something in their vehicle that they could show the officer, look, this is the address, this is the address. This is the only road I can go down. And then they wouldn't get a ticket. Right. Where you're having a party and the tent company has to come with the big truck and bring the equipment in or whatever. Correct. This is trying to kind of catch the pass throughs. You know, someone from up island that's trying to deliver something in Greenport, you're not really, it's not a local delivery. So that's why I felt that a definition would be helpful. So now I'm done with this topic. Okay. Makes sense to me. Does the board have any questions or comments on that? I have a comment. Sure. Right now is a very proud girl moment, girl power. Look around this table and look at how the women exceed the men at this table today. Thank you. We have you surrounded. I think that this is fantastic. It's fine with me. A good job is a good job. I don't care who does it. Everybody is great too. All right, great. Well, nice work on that. And now I guess we'll move on to the second item. Yes. Sorry. Yeah, no. Surrounding e-bikes, bicycles and electric scooters. And I think we're missing just one attachment that was supposed to be put online and I missed it. So that was mine and I have copies for everybody. Great. Pass these down. Thank you. And I have copies for Chris. Great. Thank you. So there is one attachment up there but it's not the most recent iteration, right? No. So one code amendment is Victoria's. It's a separate section of the code. And one code amendment is mine. But they both deal with the topic of bicycles. Okay. So I thought it would be easier to discuss them as one. Okay. Great. Yeah, mine is more analog and hers is more future. Yeah, you can go. Yes. So for bicycles and electric scooters, I have been in discussions with PD about the dangerousness of bikes that have been going up and down Route 58. So as we know, County Road 58 is our busiest commercial corridor. It includes sidewalks on both sides. And there are a lot of vehicles that enter and exit driveways. There's a lot of pedestrian traffic. So the amendment would prohibit bicycle riding on the defined sidewalks in Route 58. I have the start and the starting and the ending points of Route 58 that are listed in the underlined section under 231.1. That would be the change. And the goal is not to limit the biking in the town. It's just to prevent accidents in the high traffic area. And there are areas on 51's shoulders that the bikes can safely be on. You mean 213.1? Yeah. Yes. Okay. Sorry. I'm looking for 231. So non-motorized? I couldn't find it. Yeah, 231 is fire marshal. I mean, I'm sure they could be involved in some way. But... Ms. Puddle, so that's motorized and non-motorized vehicles? So these are motorized and non-motorized vehicles. So these are motorized and non-motorized vehicles. So these are just your regular bicycles. Right. Okay. And then Danielle will cover the motorized. The electric? Yeah. Yep. So going into that, we have the topic of e-bikes, which are known as bicycles with electric assist. So first was where to put it. We decided to place it with electric scooters. Electric scooters is also in the ETL. And we're going to use the electric scooters. Okay. Okay. So we're going to use the electric scooters. And so is bicycles with an electric assist. So the first step was defining bicycle with an electric assist. This definition came right from the New York State DMV website. So bicycles with electric assist are classified into three classes. The first one is a bike that you're pedaling and it's kind of just assisting you, but you have to move your feet. The second is one that can kind of exclusively propel you on a bike. Okay. So you can put it on a bike. Okay. So the first one is a bike that can propel you on a bike and you don't need to pedal as much. And then the third is similar to that but goes much faster, which is more just for a city population. So throughout the code we added in the ETL sections that discuss bicycles with electric assist. They will not, along with electric scooters, they will not be prohibited on the road or sideway with a posted speed limit. posted speed limit in excess of 30 miles per hour and shall not be operated and designated bike lanes except for the class one so that one where you're still kind of pedaling and it's kind of just slightly propelling you those will still be allowed in the bike lane in terms of so another concern was these which was brought to me by Councilwoman was key and Councilman Kern from from their committees was how they operate on the bike path so this will in section P bicycles with electric assist are not allowed on the bike path except for again those class one bicycles with electric assist fantastic also increase the penalties to reflect yeah the the the the the the the the the the the the regular bicycle codes so the the regular bicycle codes so the regular bicycles regular bicycles and the bicycle for electric assist have and the bicycle for electric assist have the same penalty section yes so the same penalty section yes so there'll be one to 250 for first offense there'll be one to 250 for first offense 250 500 second offense and 500 to 50 250 500 second offense and 500 to 50 hundred for third or more hopefully hundred for third or more hopefully we'll get past there I'll just make a we'll get past there I'll just make a comment that I think this fits we'll see we'll see where this goes but with the VNT so in my understanding electric bikes or motorized bikes so if you are under the influence of drugs or alcohol driving on one of these electric bikes on the road the police department may be able to arrest you for impaired driving of some sort under the VNT we'll see but I believe because it's a motorized vehicle and it's on a highway a public highway so we'll see but that's a way also to protect the public yeah the DA's office would handle those I know I'm just mentioning that yeah they could in theory be facing not only a criminal charge but a town code charge as well so at what speed does the town or the DMV require that you register the vehicle? I think for scooters it's 25 or 30 so I'd imagine that bicycles would be the same yeah so class 1 bicycles and class 2 they can only go 20 miles per hour so class 3 class 3 is exclusively propelling reaching a speed of 25 miles per hour so that the lines because at 25 miles per hour they'd need to register as vehicles is there anything in here that we're letting them know that they need to register with the DMV so that well right now class 3 bicycles wouldn't be allowed in our town because they're solely to be operated within the city of a population of 1 million or more and that's stated here in the definition I know we have and that's where I'm going with this now they'll be tickets able to be written to those individuals within the town under the town code because we didn't have any code for it in the first place yeah I understand but I mean since they're out and they're being used should we require that they're registered you know with with DMV that would be in the purview of the DMV yeah I was gonna say that would be a state requirement. That would be more of a criminal VTL issue, non-registration. Right but do I guess what I'm asking is should we contact the DMV do we have the right to say you need to register anything that goes over 25 miles an hour you need to have a registration from the DMV. That is something that the VTL and would handle. I would say anything you know when you're driving in the town of Riverhead we're not telling people that they need a driver's license that all of the moving requirements would be through the DMV I mean they would be alerted to that through the DMV I mean okay you could always okay I'll check but I I'm just you know because I think this I mean there's a lot of people doing it they're not registered I'm wondering if I mean we can look into creating our own registration system not that we want to register guide them to where it sounds like maybe this is a good place to start and maybe then it evolves beyond that right on the state level. I don't know how it works with DMV right you know so they have a requirement but it's not like we have something in a in our code that says that if you're driving a car that it has to be registered. Well that's a really good point though if you're driving 30 miles an hour in a car and it's not registered you get you you know the car is not registered right so if you're driving 35 miles an hour an electric bike they can be pulled over and they're not registered. Right so moving like Victoria said moving violations are handled by the district attorney's office of the county of the laws that come through the state. Okay. Alright does the board have any other questions or comments on this? There's a lot in here thank you guys for breaking it all out the way you did it's helpful to understand it. Good job on that. And you've covered this with your committee. Yes the alternative transportation committee. Yeah they've had a chance they've looked at this. And they're comfortable with it? From what I've heard. From what I gather they're comfortable. Okay. Good. Alright so next up I guess is publish and post? Yes. Okay. Alright great. Alright thank you. That covers it. Thank you guys. Appreciate it. Alright so that is the last open session discussion item that we had on for today. But Justin do we have a riverhead in action we're gonna fire up? We do. Alright so we're gonna amend the agenda to include that just so we have it listed forever that we are gonna run a riverhead in action video from National Night Out. They weren't sure if it would be ready for prime time today but they got it done so thank you to IT for doing that. And when you're ready Justin take it away. Hi this is Tim Howard supervisor of the great town of Riverhead and you're watching Riverhead in Action a media campaign designed to highlight the incredible work of the 350 plus employees it comprised Riverhead's 26 departments and sub departments. Town events. Projects. Job openings. Local businesses. And other town happenings. I hope you find this informative and enjoyable. And thank you for watching Riverhead in action. I like that. I'm so happy to see such a great amount of people here for our first time actually doing a national night out in this format. We used to go to independent neighborhoods and visit them but this I feel is a lot better community oriented. I would like to thank my staff for everyone that's here assisting with this event. Lieutenant Abrams, you can turn it over to assist with naming all the people that helped this event kick off.

Hello everyone I'm Lieutenant Dino Isgrove from the Riverhead Police Department. Just wanted to give a couple of shout outs and thank you to everybody that helped us put this on. Big thank you to Riverhead PBA, Riverhead SOA, Suffolk Credit Union, Riverhead Rotary, Rouse Rentals, Riverhead JAB, Snowflake, Daringland. Also for other vendors that are joining us Riverhead CAP, Suffolk County District Attorney's Office, Butterfly Effect Project, Thrive. Last but not least for allowing us to put this on thank you to Riverhead Town Board Supervisor, the Chief of Police and especially all the officers that are donating their time on their off day to come here and so we could put this on.

Thank you Lieutenant Isgrove. People just look around at the equipment that these guys, the men and women of Riverhead PD have. Thank you. The stuff they can perform, the stuff they can do, the large drone that was up in the air before actually has the capability of dropping a light preserve around the water. They can fly it out to somebody in distress, drop a light preserver down to them, but more important than any of that is the men and women, are the men and women of the Riverhead Police Department. I say this all the time and I mean it and I truly believe it. We have the best police department in Suffolk County and probably on Long Island. A round of applause for Riverhead Police Department.

They're dedicated, they have many family members here today, they're local, their kids go to school with everybody's kids. It's just, it's a real nice community police department and under the leadership of Chief Frost we've really moved forward so we appreciate that and thank you everybody that came out tonight and have a safe summer. Thank you. Thank you Supervisor. Okay we're gonna start out tonight right now with a canine demonstration. Oh wait, did you? Any questions? That wasn't as graceful, see? That was graceful for me to go up. Go get an article. No! No! No! No! No! No! You found it. You found it. You think you found it? You think you found it? You think you found it? So our dogs are trained to passively alert. Once he finds the article, he'll put his nose on it and lay down. If it's on the ground, if it's elevated, he'll put his nose on it in an elevated position. He'll either hide their legs or sit. Got any more questions, guys? Yes. Loki just turned six years old. Thanks everyone for coming again. There is a police boat on the waterfront. If you guys want to go take a look at that as well. I'm not sure if you guys can see it, but it is here. Thank you very much and have a good night. Thanks for coming out. Very nice. Oh, that's your deer. Very nice. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good footage. Thank you for putting it together. Justin did a great job. And everyone else. We'll move onto our next item. Resolutions. We'll do it a little differently. Ask financial administrator Jeanette DePaolo to come up. If there are items that require her expertise. She's available. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Resolution number one, authorize the sewer district employees to attend seminar. Yeah, you have a bunch of correspondence. If you have the full packet, you have to get through the correspondence and the public hearings. There you go. That's the new format. It prints everything. All right. Resolution number two, ratifies the authorization of one police department employee to attend a governor's traffic safety DRE interview. This is one of our drug recognition experts going to go on an interview to see if he qualifies. Good. Very good. So it's a good thing, for sure. Resolution number three, approves the attendance of one police department employee to attend a DCJS public safety symposium. It happens yearly, and it's great that we're able to send somebody up to that. Number four, authorizes the removal of fixed assets. Resolution number five, ratifies authorization of the acceptance of donations from Peconic Hockey Foundation. And just a point, we're going to make sure it gets included after the work session today, but there is an attachment missing from this. It's the Schedule A. We have copies here for the public, and as I said, we'll make it available online. But I think, Jeanette, we'll just ask you to give us a quick overview of this resolution and how we got here. Sure. So everybody knows Peconic Hockey has donated the dome hockey rink. And we're going to be doing that. And we're going to be doing that. So what is the resolution of this resolution? So what is the resolution of this resolution is that we are going to be giving out a donated hockey rink over at Veterans Memorial Park. They also have an outdoor rink that they've built. And I believe they're working on locker rooms, if they're not already done, and a couple of other things. I'm not exactly sure what else they're doing, but there's a bunch of improvements going on over there. So the donated capital will continue probably for at least another year or two, however long. But each year, we have to agree on the amount of donated capital. So this resolution is just the town of Riverhead agreeing on what is needed and what is not. So what is the resolution of this resolution is that we are going to keep providing donated hockey rinks and we are going to keep providing them with what is needed and what is needed Riverhead agreeing with the kind of copies list of donated capital we recognize it on our books as donated capital from them so it's nice to have a fixed asset worth 2.9 million dollars this is 320 12 31 24 so the numbers probably higher now because 2025 I'm sure they're continuing to build and do what they add value to it right so okay and this attachment that as I said was included inadvertently but will be yeah just touch on that it's a list of 2023 donated items and 2024 and it kind of just summarizes out everything that Konakaki has done as far as capital improvements over the last two years again every year end we have to agree on these amounts with our external auditors so this kind of just puts it all in writing and firms it up and is ratifying it for the town board so great okay good all right thank you for that you I'm gonna take this back there's more copies okay resolution number six accepts donation from Joseph C dividend dividend Eddo for the Recreation Department D Benedetto thank you for the help with that sir we certainly appreciate the generous donation that he's making to the Recreation Department resolution number seven budget transfer for capital project number 12 101 town square properties this is related to we had a recent closing took a while but we finally got there we closed on the sale of the old building department Jeanette maybe you want to just speak to the breakdown and what we're doing with those funds sure so we sold the the old building department for 201 Howell Avenue for five hundred and twenty five thousand dollars and we actually had a borrow we have borrowed money from the general fund toward the town square demolition of property and including engineering and soft costs so what happened was when we purchased the three properties in the town square 121 East Main 127 East Main and 117 East Main when we closed on that we actually issued bans for 5.5 million we or we authorized bans for 5.5 million we only issued bans for 5 million so 500,000 was actually loaned from the general fund for the other 500,000 for soft costs engineering design costs and part of the demolition costs so this is basically paying back the general fund so that that's all closed up and there's no other outstanding liability related to that at this point just to point out we do have a little bit of a grant left over for $70,000 to $80,000 and we're hoping to get that at some point over the next year or so the grants take a long time right so okay and that's been it's important for us to know that we're going to be able to get that back to the public center this has been the plan all along yes with respect to the sale of this building yes I had earmarked that yes day one yes and there was no deviating from that and we appreciate your stick-to-itiveness with that okay very good thank you resolution number eight ratifies budget adjustment for grant allocation for East End Arts Council relocation we've previously spoken about the fact that we were able to secure grant funds to help facilitate the move for the East End Arts folks from their present location to the public center and we're hoping to get that moved for Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Resolution number 10, CHIPS 2025-2026, Road Resurfacing Grant Budget. Number 11, PAVE New York 2025-2026, Road Resurfacing Grant Budget. Number 12, POP New York 2025-2026, Road Resurfacing Grant Budget. Number 13, Acceptance of Youth Mentoring Sports Grant. Number 14 is listed in the packet, but we had a little problem and it didn't print in the sequence. So copies are here, as I said, for the folks in the room and we'll make them available online. But this is amends resolution 2025-651. It was really just a clerical error in the prior resolution that the board approved, just grabbing the wrong salary. It's a scheduled title, so this just cleans that up. Resolution number 15, amends resolution 2025-653. Same thing, just a simple cleanup item clerical error that was made in the last town board meeting. That's all on that subject. Number 16, appoints a homemaker. Number 17, appoints a part-time harbor master.

Number 18, accepts the resignation. Number 19, ratifies the resignation of the chief building inspector.

Number 19, ratifies the resignation of a public safety dispatcher 1.

Number 20, accepts the resignation of a maintenance mechanic 2. Number 21, ratifies a leave of absence. Number 22, ratifies authorization for the supervisor to execute stipulation with the CSC. Number 23, authorizes license agreement with Riverhead Volunteer Ambulance Corps for the use of Riverhead Town Hall basement for EMT course instruction 2025-2026. And I know, Councilman, you can speak to how well this worked last year, which is why we're more than happy to accommodate and do it again, right? Absolutely. And we need more EMTs. EMTs, I would choose to continue. We want to become paramedics, but with volunteers in our community, last year I think we put approximately 25 new EMTs into the community. That's great. It's a great program. That's good. Okay. Yep. And a few of them have already gotten CPR SAVE awards, which is even more kind of... Great. Good. So it's working. It's working. They've saved lives already. That's really great. Okay. Resolution 24, authorize the supervisor to execute an agreement with Riverhead Youth Sports and... For the Referee Umpire Services for Tanna Riverhead Police Athletic League football program for the 2025 calendar year. That means fall is on the horizon. It's unfortunate. Number 25, authorizes the town attorney to execute an agreement with certified environmental professional Jeffrey Seaman. Number 26, accepts performance bond from Kathy Lane, LLC.

Number 27, authorizes the town clerk to publish and post notice to bidders for polymer mixing system for the Riverhead Sewer District. Number 28, authorizes the town clerk to publish and post notice to bidders for replacement of large meters for the Riverhead Water District. Number 29, same as before, the resolution was missing from the packet. Authorizes town clerk to publish and post notice to bidders for CVE... U.S., New York, Riverhead 215, LLC, Riverhead Landfill Water Main Extension. This is just a posting to go out to bid. Number 30, authorizes the town clerk to publish and post notice to bidders for disposal of town generated construction and demolition material. Number 31, authorizes town clerk to publish and post notice to bidders for Dow Flake Extra 83 to 87% calcium chloride or equal. Number 32, awards bid for sludge cake removal and disposal. Number 33, awards bid for police uniform items. Number 34, awards bid for fertilizer and lawn chemicals. Number 35, awards bid for grit screen waste removal and disposal. These are thick bids, that's why there's so much paper. Number 36, awards bid for liquid sludge removal and disposal. Number 37, awards bid for 2025 annual construction contract. Number 38, awards re-bid for 2025 annual procurement contract. Number 39, ratifies extension of bid for replacement of large meters. Number 40, ratifies the settlement of legal action in the matter of town of Riverhead against Robert William Kramer, 510 Toomey Avenue, Riverhead, New York. Number 40, ratifies the settlement of legal action in the matter of town of Riverhead against Robert William Kramer, 510 Toomey Avenue, Riverhead, New York. Number 41, ratifies designation of alcohol service vendor to service alcohol at the Polish Hall Festival 2025. Coming up this weekend. Number 42, approves special event chapter 255 application for the Riverhead Athletic Club Riverhead Athletic Club 5K race. Number 43, approves special event chapter 255 application for fine fare supermarket customer appreciation day. And number 44, pays the bills. And that's it on resos. So in a moment, we'll ask for a first and a second to go into executive session to discuss the following. Matters surrounding a leave of absence from employee with Stripland T.O. Matters surrounding class action grievance with the CSCA with Howard. Matters surrounding litigation with Crafted with Howard. Matters surrounding contractual agreement for the Vale-Levitt with Howard, Hurley, and Thomas. Matters surrounding contractual agreement between the town of Riverhead and Heatherwood with the Vail-Levitt. And matters surrounding possible consulting agreement for plans and review services with Thomas. So with that, if the board has any further announcements or comments. No? And I'll ask for a first and a second to close the work session. So moved. Seconded. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Meeting is closed. Thank you everybody. Have a good day and have a great weekend.

Thank you.