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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman. Thank you. Okay. I have a list of announcements, so I'll go over first. As I'm sure we all know, tomorrow is Halloween, and we ask everybody to be safe, have fun. Remember, Halloween ends, trick-or-treating ends, at 8 o'clock. It's 8 at night, so you should be off the street by 8 o'clock at night. And have a great time. The weather's going to be a little chilly, but we'll make it work, I'm sure. Okay. Early voting continues. The lower level of town hall. And, of course, on Election Day, November 4th, at your normal voting location. Now, today and tomorrow, Thursday and Friday, October 30th and 31st, the early voting is from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. And then Saturday and Sunday, which are the Sunday is the last day of early voting, they will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. So you have until Sunday to early vote, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. And today and tomorrow, it's from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. here at town hall. Councilwoman Wawoski, fall cleanup, do you want to? Yes. Would you mind putting this so that, Justin, if you can zoom in on the flyer that we have. This Saturday, November 1st, I can't believe it's November already, we have our fall anti-litter cleanup. It's here at town hall for West 2nd Street from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Come on down. We will supply you with pickers and gloves and garbage bags and have T-shirts for you. I know that the weather is supposed to be a little iffy, no rain, but some high winds. But that will give you extra exercise to go chasing after. The litter as you're trying to pick it up. So come on down, do your part to keep Riverhead looking beautiful. Thank you. I'll be there. Thank you. Saturday, November 1st, Racetrack Not Street, drag racing, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. up at EpCal. Sunday, November 2nd, is the Riverhead Rotary Breakfast. Justin, I'm just going to switch this over and can we turn it this way? Okay. Those pancakes are good. Yes, they do. Sunday, November 2nd, Riverhead Rotary Breakfast at Polish Hall from 8 a.m. to 12 noon. And of course, remember Sunday that the clocks go back an hour. So you can actually get an extra hour of sleep. Get up, go down to the Polish Hall, have that fantastic breakfast and you've still got a whole day ahead of you. So don't forget that. It's a great fundraiser for Riverhead Rotary. On Sunday, yep. What if you change them during the Rotary? Do you get an extra hour of pancakes? Good question. You know, that business mind of yours is always clicking, isn't it? It's just always working. It's a good idea. We should try it. Okay. Okay. Sunday, November 2nd, Racetrack Not Street, fall motorsports racing events at EpCal, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. And as I just mentioned, Sunday ends daylight savings time. Clocks roll back. It's like an hour. So don't forget to change your clocks. Anybody else have any announcements? Does anybody actually change their clocks anymore? Everything is, it automatically does it. Gone are the days where we had to like wake up and turn the time back. I still change my watch. Oh, your watch. Okay. My microwave doesn't do that. My grandfather clock. Yeah, the microwave doesn't do it and I don't think the oven does it either or the coffee maker. All right. Well, there goes my theory. The oven doesn't either. You have a new invention. I'm going to have to work on. Okay. Okay. We're here for the work session. We do not have any items on for work session and we're going to go straight to resolutions. We will have one item for executive session. I'll go over after we do the resolution. So if we could have Deputy Supervisor Higgins read the resolutions, we can go through them. Good morning to the board. Good morning. Everybody has their packets? We'll get right to it. Resolution number one. Highway department. Budget transfer for garage doors. Resolution number two. Capital project number 72515. Budget adjustment. Additional cost for improvements at Two Bears Park. That's the park that we're redoing up at Two Bears is nearly completed and these were just a, I guess, an overrun on some of the items they needed to complete the job. Thank you. That was over there on Saturday and they're really doing a good job. Yeah. Yeah. That'll be nice when that's done. That's been a long time coming. Resolution number three. Water district capital project number 82518. Sandy Pond links town hydrant budget adoption. Number four. Water district capital project number 82335. 437 to 483 Young's Avenue landfill solar project budget adjustment. Any other questions? No. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. to the Riverhead Police Department. It goes from provisional to permanent. Right. He had to take the civil service test, which he did, and did very well on it, and now he's officially, or he will be, officially our permanent chief of police. We're real happy about that. Congratulations. He's doing a great job. Resolution number 10, amends terms and conditions for employee H. Kramer.

Resolution number 11, authorizing the hiring of an administrative law judge to conduct stop-arm camera hearings pursuant to Chapter 105 of the Riverhead Town Code. And for that, I think we're going to ask the town attorney to come forward and just explain for the board and for the public what it is we're doing there.

All right. Good morning. Good morning. If you'll all recall, back in July, we did an amendment to the town code, under Chapter 105, because there is a conflict with the way that the stop-arm bus tickets were being prosecuted. Because they are not, the violations aren't actually witnessed by a police officer. There's not actually a witness for these. So you're relying entirely on the video footage from the buses. So that's something that gets reviewed by the administrative law judge, if someone is disputing it. They bring the person in, and they have an opportunity to also view the footage. Actually, they have the opportunity to view the footage once they get the ticket in the mail from the stop-arm company that's hired to manage this program. But if they plead not guilty, they have the opportunity to come in before a judge and offer any kind of explanation, justification, excuse, whatever, dispute, dispute whatever the footage is showing. And then the administrative law judge will make a determination. That is slightly different from what our judges over in Justice Court do now, which is adjudicate tickets with witnesses on criminal charges and observed violations of the vehicle and traffic law. So because we implemented that into our town code, this resolution that will be before you on the 6th just authorizes my office to, you know, start the process of reaching out to potential individuals who are interested in adjudicating these as administrative law judge. And you have to be an attorney to be an administrative law judge? Correct. Yes. Yeah. How many days a week or a month would this position be utilized? I think we would probably, right, when the Justice Court was doing it, before we implemented this change, I think they were doing it, once a month. So we would probably look to do something similar. And I think that would typically probably get you maybe 10 to 12 people who plead not guilty on them, something in that neighborhood. Eric, what's the fine? Eric Weiner, So the fine is, give me one second. The penalties for offenses are set forth at 105, but it doesn't, so, you know, it's not a fine. Eric Weiner, Yeah. Are there any fines for it? Eric Weiner, Are there any fines for it? Are there any fines for it? Are there any fines for it? Are there any fines for it? Are there any fines for it? Are there any fines for it? Are there any fines for it? Are there any fines for it? Are there any fines for it? Are there any fines for it? Are there any fines for it? Are there any fines for it? Are there any fines for it? Are there any fines for it? we're entitled to make claim for administrative costs. So I believe that would be covered. And there may be some initial outlay to hire the person. But once they're actually working and we can submit those bills to the stop-arm company, at that point we would then recover. Perfect. Thank you. All right.

Okay, Resolution No. 12 authorizes town clerk to publish in post notice to consider a local law to amend Chapter 289 of the Riverhead Town Code, titled Vehicles, Traffic, and Parking Regulations, Article 2, Traffic Regulations. You can see on the last page the proposed change, which is going to be a stop sign at the intersection of Old Stone Road and Timber Drive. And I do believe this was recently. This was recently discussed at a traffic safety meeting that we had a week or two ago. And probably Councilman Rothwald can offer more insight on that. Yes, so quite at length it's actually been a three-month long study. The chief of police did have our speed cart go out there and collect some data in there. In addition, we had some residents that came in as well as representatives from the school bus transportation authority. So that was a good thing. Thank you. And I think that's a concern there. And so we've had multiple meetings on it. And so I'm glad it's taken care of. And thank you to the town attorney for doing it so swiftly. Okay, very good. Resolution No. 13 authorizes the town clerk to publish in post notice to bidders for construction of well No. 2A, Contract E, electrical construction, Contract G, general construction, Contract P, mechanical and well pump construction, Riverhead Water District.

Number 14. Authorizes the town clerk to publish in post notice to bidders for general hardware items. Number 15. Authorizes the town clerk to publish in post notice to request for proposals for audit services for town and Riverhead Community Preservation Fund.

Number 16. Rejects bids for food and meat author and authorizes town clerk to publish in post notice to bidders for rebid for food and meat products. Number 17. Awards bid for CDE US New York Riverhead 215 LLC Riverhead Landfill Water Main Extension.

Number 18. Corrects Resolution 2025-848 awarding the bid for town and Riverhead demo material. Number 19. Approves Chapter 255 Special Event Application for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation May 30, 2026. 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 interfluve engineering for the Meeting House Creek stormwater wetland and habitat restoration project. That's it.

Okay, that's all the resolutions, and that's all we have on for work session today. I'm going to make a motion in a moment to go into executive session to discuss under contractual matters, matter surrounding contractual agreement between the Vale-Levitt and the Jazz Loft, and that will be with Howard, Hurley, Thomas, and DePola. So can I have a motion to close the work session and go into executive session? I'll move. Second. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Okay. People have a great weekend. Be safe out there. Have a great Halloween, and we'll see you next week. Oh, don't forget to go and vote. Absolutely. Don't forget to go. Go and vote. Very important. Okay? Have a great weekend, everybody.

Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.