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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Supervisor. I pledge 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, Councilwoman. Just a few announcements today. We will go ahead and kick it off. I'd have Tim Allen come forward. Tim, if you would join us. Tim is going to be here to describe in detail what happened yesterday and how we're making sure that it's all taken care of. Yesterday around 10 o'clock, the contractors that we're working on encasing our main, going down Main Street, noticed a break in the Y branch. So they assumed, as soon as they noticed it, it was leaking into the ground. It was dewatering. It was leaking on the site because it's in groundwater through well points. And they stopped the flow about 45 minutes after. They bypassed, pumped around it because the bypass pump was there from the day before. So they bypassed, pumped around it. There was no cleanup because it was saturated into the ground. The dewatering pump points might have took it into the dewatering box. I went up and looked in the dewatering box. Didn't see anything. It was still nice, clean groundwater going out into the river. No smell. No odor. The health department was notified. They came out. The health department and the DEC was both notified. They both came out. Well, the health department came out. They looked around the pit. They saw the fit was, the replacement piece was done within an hour or so. They saw that. They were fine with that. They took some samples in the river just in case. And we'll know back in about three or four days with the samples. Well, thank you so much for taking care of it before. I just want to see, does anyone have any questions? No. I think you did a great job in mitigating this situation. Thank you for, thank you so much for, and your team for mitigating this and keeping us as safe as possible. We know accidents happen and things, you know, sometimes. And so we're looking forward to those samples getting back and reporting them back. So thanks Tim. Okay. Thanks for coming. Also tonight I will be, I'll be at the Greater Civic at Riley Avenue at 630 speaking. And then again Saturday at the heart of Riverhead Civic at the River Free Library at 1030 AM. And don't forget also Monday, January 19th, Town Hall will be closed in observation of Martin Luther King Day. And I just wanted to ask if anyone has any other announcements that they'd like to make this morning? Yes ma'am. I do. Very exciting. Next Friday, January 23rd, we have our red, white, and blue ball. Ticket sales have been great. We're going to have a wonderful event. We hope that everybody has purchased their tickets. There's still a few tickets left. We encourage you to purchase your tickets and join us. Dress in red, white, and blue. And there it is. There it is. Did I get it? Thank you. If you'd like to dress in a different era and costume, there is going to be a contest. For who comes best dressed. And I actually am preparing to wear something very fancy. So I'm excited about that. Kind of out of my comfort zone a little bit. But I'm going to do it because it's such a great event. And I'd love to see Riverhead come together. So join us next Friday. Can't wait. Is that the C-Star? Yes, it's at the C-Star Ballroom. And you can see the ball. And you can see the ball. And you can see the ball. And you can see the ball. And you can see the ball. And you can see the ball. Do you have anything that you'd like to add? Just let everybody know, if you don't want to dress in costume, come patriotically in red, white, and blue. That's what I'm going to be doing. But there are people that are very enthusiastic about wearing costumes. We encourage everybody. Come celebrate 250 years of America here right in Riverhead. It's going to be an outstanding event. I hope to see everybody there. So tickets, they will not be sold at the door. So you do need to pre-buy your tickets. So please do that. So anybody else have any other announcements that they'd like to make? Thank you. Good. Thank you, sir. All right. If that takes care of it, then we will move on and start our discussion, I believe. Yep. I just want to make sure it matters. Surrounding the site plan of special permit application for 221 Scott Avenue Battery and Energy Storage with Matt Charters. Matt, come on down. I know, right? See, that washing machine was worth $1. So wouldn't you have to do us a costume? No, here? Today? No. No? No. For the prices, right? I have asked, yes. No, that's, let's make a deal. I also ask Andrew Smith to be here. Sorry. I'm old, but my memory's good. Alison, if you could just introduce yourself for the record. Of course. Good morning, everyone. Alison Sclafani, Weber Law Group. 200 Broad Hollow Road. I'm sorry, 290 Broad Hollow Road, Melville, New York, 11747. And with me, I'm Alison Sclafani, and I'm the director of the

site planning for Weber Law Group. And with me is Cara Monod from Weber Law Group, as well, for Sundial and Clean Capital. Okay. Just going to set mine open. Whomever is in the booth, if we could shoot the table. Just going to get a plan in place. Everybody. I think Justin heard you. Yes. Oh. All right. So this is a site plan and special permit application for 221 Scott Avenue in EPCAL. And I am here to tell you that we are going to be doing a special permit application for Weber Law Group. So you can see here, we have a lot of sites in here. We have a lot of sites in here. We have a lot of sites in here. We have a lot of sites in here. We have a lot of sites in here. We have a lot of sites in here. And we are going to be doing a special permit application for 221 Scott Avenue in EPCAL. If the Board is familiar, we did review this at work session in June of 2025. We were waiting on some outstanding items. Just so everyone is aware, this is a Tier 2 battery energy storage system, which does require a special permit and, in this case, a site plan from the town board because it is located within EPCAL. It's a 5 megawatt battery energy storage system with related site improvements. Southwest portion of the site, as you can see, in terms of scale, it's a relatively small footprint. This is basically, it's about 6,000 square feet, more or less, I believe, maybe a little bit bigger, 10. No, no, it's about 6 and a half. So we've been waiting on outstanding items prior to making a secret determination on this, one of which was from New York State SHPO, so Historic Preservation Area, because EPCAL is an archaeologically and historically sensitive area, as well as from DEC because, believe it or not, this was in Jersey. So it's relatively small. You can't use it for various uses. You can use it for various uses. You can use it for various uses. You can use it for various uses. 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You can use it for various uses. not to be any significant environmental impacts expected as a result of the action and scheduling a public hearing i believe for february in terms of code compliance this does comply with our battery code we have referred it out to outside agencies andrew's taken a hard look on this and had some ass but in terms of fire safety this does meet new york state fire code as well as i think the updated fire code for batteries yeah the recommendations yep does the board have any questions to andrew just so that uh the residents know you know when there's battery storage the fire department is trained on this so they do they have to uh they have to give training to the fire department in this case would be manorville fire department um that is one of the recommendations that the state put out that's mandatory and i believe there's annual training thereafter that's a requirement i think that's important for residents yeah that's my hang-up is is that we are working on a hazmat unit for our town and we are working full first to get that in the country completion and i am just not comfortable um with these these being operational until our hazmat team because we have to leave a firefighter on site for plus 30 hours and uh so it's not i'm not against the plan i'm not against the technology but we need to protect our first responders we sit in here every day and talk about honoring them part of our code does say that anything that we do uh does need to make sure that our our first responders we just had a meeting last work session where we said and had all of our first responders here and want them to volunteer and stay and then having their family know that risk and exposing them to this um you know and i understand that that the risk is like a lot of others but this is a you know the requirement to fight this fire um is it's different it's different it's just different and then the the stay you know the fact that we're required to leave someone on site post-fire uh for that length of time you know we're either we're either the taxpayers are consuming that cost we're calling in a different department we're having one of our people on site and i think not to attribute i think andrew can speak to that in terms of going through it in terms of costs and charge backs and who's responsible for what um so if you can shed a little bit about it so we're still working on getting our hazmat team off the ground i still have a couple more action items that we have to do before we formally adopt it so for right now um it's a manorville fire department would respond and have to stay on site for something like this yes there's a subject matter expert associated with it they will respond and guide but it is the volunteers until we can get our hazmat team off the ground when we finally do The idea is that we take over the scene from them and we put our hazmat team there we can build back The proprietor for our services we have that in our town code So we will recoup that whatever it costs us to be there from You know the property owner basically But until then it's the volunteer fire department They we could work up something to get them some monetary stuff back But again, you know those guys are volunteering their time Is it the Academy that is putting out the training as well because in other battery-powered energy storage systems The developer often pays for individual training to come on site to do training on site In addition Suffolk County Rogers does a lot of our training on the county

Contracted with this company to take care of any fires In addition I spoke with at length with Chris Steele who is one of the the chiefs from Manorville sent him all of the information He said that they were comfortable with it. They would just want a Site visit before the build so that they could get a handle on it as well but they were comfortable with it once we sent all the information over and we already like I said contracted with ESR G as a third party to Monitor and take care of all that. So they're not looking to put any burden on the community Financially. I did at the Maryville fire district meeting and go over this for their commissioners. They seem pretty comfortable with it I told them like just let us know if there's anything that they need from this developer to help them I don't know. You guys got any correspondence back? I think it's important, too, that they respond formally to our referral and provide anything that they need in writing so we can get that to the applicant so we can work on achieving everyone's goal, which, by and large, here is safety. Absolutely. That's the backstop of it is growing up in that family, sitting next to a firefighter, understanding that we can have the best plans, but when our people are locally, our neighbors, our community, putting them at risk and then asking them to stay that length of time. I think the plan is solid. I think everything's there. Everybody wants everything done yesterday, and I just feel like we need, as a community, we need to make sure that we're putting our neighbors and our volunteers first and our people. Absolutely. Like I said, that's part of the reason they're contracted with the SOG, to make sure that that happens. I do have correspondence from Chris Steele saying that they are comfortable. We actually asked to have a sit-down meeting, and they said it wasn't necessary. I can provide any of that information. And then, like I said, ESRG will be on site to work with them and do whatever is needed. And if they have to be there with HAZMAT or they have to take over some of that, they will. I understand. I understand all those principles. Where I'm at comfort-wise is until our HAZMAT team is loaded and ready to go. Do we know when that will be? I'm anticipating sometime this year. We still have to train some individuals. We still have to get some equipment that we don't have. We're in need for some kind of response vehicle. In the meantime, the county is going to be surplusing their trailers. We will have those. Just a clarification. There is protection in Suffolk County. The FRES does provide fire protection. And if there's an event like this, I'm sure, Andrew, you can testify that first in the beginning, training cannot just be with Mattoville Fire Department. So we have to invite and ask the other four surrounding departments within our town to participate in that training. Because any type of fire like this, we're going to be immediately mutual aid. And Suffolk County is going to come over and take over the scene. And they're going to control the operations at the time. And then work through whether they use their HAZMAT or if at that point your HAZMAT team is in place. The county does not have a HAZMAT team. They have a decontamination team. But it would be the town of Brookhaven or town of Southampton are the two active teams. They're the coordination team. So either way, they're going to obtain those services. And they're going to have them on site. And everybody will be reimbursed, correct? We have in our town code to recoup costs. Does that include the volunteer departments? Yes. It would have to go through our office. But they would have to itemize their manpower apparatus, things like that. And we could prepare something. And this is all single cell units, right? So we all need, okay. So our code is structured just so everyone knows. So we're a little refresher. It was largely based on the NYSERDA model code. With some. Added control measures specific for Riverhead. By and large, it's all related to fire safety and incident management. And to make sure the impacts of these installations are minimal and mitigated. I understand all that. I appreciate all that. That's really good work. I just think that that's a hurdle for me. Oh, yeah. No. I was at a conference in November at Stony Brook. And it was very informative. They were laying out all the new code that has come out. Eleven new codes requiring independent peer review. The person has to respond. And 15 minutes for every particular BESS operation. They have to have their person on site coordinating and helping the fire departments know what they're facing. And again, to remind everyone, BESS is about clean, reliable, affordable, and resilient energy for the town. So it's come a long way since we first looked at these just a couple of years ago. The safety measures the state has put in place. Eleven new codes. And all kinds of. It was very informative. It was a really very informative meeting that I went to with everybody from all over the state. From the New York City Fire Department. From people from Stony Brook University. For the different types of tests that they can do on these facilities. One of the tests that they do. I don't want to bore everybody with this too much. But high energy x-rays where they monitor the cells to see basically if there's a problem with any of them. They had all kinds of information. I encourage everybody to go check it out. It was very good. First level evaluation at the cell. Second at the module test data. Third unit level test. Fourth institutional test by BESS. So. It requires them to do fire testing on them to see what the propagation would be. So they are required to have those certifications. I was just going to say. And just so you know, we do have 24 hour monitoring that's going on. Whether it's thermal. That was one of the recommendations. Yeah, exactly. So they have that 24 hour monitoring. Yeah. And that's what I said. I think I looked at this plan and we have others on the docket. And I think they're really good plans. I just know where I'm at on it. Yeah. And Denise, thank you for bringing that up because I was at that conference as well. And this was, you know, this is a panel of absolute experts. And I think it's important for the community to know that there are battery storage units and skyscrapers in Manhattan. So, I mean, these things are really a lot safer than, you know, the Frankenstein stuff. Yeah. That's not my. I'm not saying you. Right, right, right. And people can put them on their homes now. You know, you can have the smaller ones next to your house attached to your. And just a point I would like to make. I don't think myself or anybody at this table is ignorant to the fact that there have been issues throughout the state. There's been an issue in East Hampton. There was an issue upstate. The good thing is all the fire safety and controls have worked as designed. There hasn't been any groundwater contamination that I'm aware of. And everything is safely shut down. Nothing's gone into thermal runaway. And I'll just say at state. Okay. The fires have stayed contained in the individual structures that are in. Right. As opposed to many years ago in the beginning process we got a domino effect. Which is no longer. I'd just like to add one more thing. Sixty percent of the electricity that goes through wires goes nowhere. It doesn't get used. It gets lost. Batteries capture that and then send it back to the wires. And I think it's important. You know, there's a lot of waste. Oh, yeah. So, grid resilience. Right. It will support that grid. Especially in the summer and when there's a storm and things like that. Oh, absolutely. When you think operation date would be in terms of a time of construction and so forth, how far out do you guys potentially? Is this something that is six months, a year, two years? Well, I was actually just talking to Laverne at the assessor's office. So, now I want to talk to my clients. So, I hate to do the lawyer. It depends. But it depends. Because I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it. What would be the shortest potential? I believe six months. I believe six months. But like I said. Now we're dealing with. We're going to look into exemptions. Which we have to see how long it takes. I believe it's March first. So. You know. I don't think it's going to be. Are there any helt. 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Are there any helt. six months is is out of a line the reason i asked to get an idea for fire marshal smith to how far out you would be with your husband yeah that's what i was asking about yeah and allison just so the public knows too the exemptions you're referring to these would not be um ida no it's not idea exemptions because i actually asked her about that i said you know my clients are not interested in now starting with the idea she said these are not idea exemptions all right i do have two uh draft resolutions for you for consideration if we could add this to the next agenda to get this moving forward one for the neck deck and the second to schedule a public hearing for the date just one brief question i'm only just curious about finances you're pretty far away from the grid no so there's a point of interconnection in here i believe there's a transmission line within epcal yeah and that's what their their interconnection is is within epco so you're using the one that's in there yep it's it's already already existing yep yep they're not digging any extra or you know trying to count in the ground

you were saying oh uh the proposed public hearing date if the board is comfortable would be the 18th of february six o'clock meeting i'm fine with it good thank you any other questions before i let everybody go did you have anything no we're good good thank you let's stick around for the next one yep not sure

our second matter surrounding special permit for 253 edwards avenue hampton jitney battery energy storage system with our good friend heather tag teams

how are you today thank you good great to see you anyone coming up to the table can just introduce themselves for their records yep dennis quinn with sprocket power representing and supporting hampton jimmy yep

just nice and loud so the mic picks you up with sprocket power okay sure do we need one more chair they're grabbing sir if you could introduce yourself sprocket power yes who did we miss oh go ahead hampton jimmy it's great um so just a basic overview this is a a new application for a battery battery energy storage system located at the hampton jitney facility 253 edwards avenue in calverton more particularly described as suffolk county tax tent number 600 171.6 hampton chutney is looking to construct a 1000 kilowatt hour battery energy storage system comprised of four separate battery units, an enclosure, and a microgrid to be tied into an existing roof-mounted solar panel system. So essentially what they're looking to do is take a 5,000 square foot area in front of the building. I know this is sort of a large-scale project area map, but just to give everyone a brief overview, they're going to construct the batteries here, and it's going to get tied into the microgrid system to work with the roof-mounted solar. So it's essentially going to be ancillary to the Hampton Jitney facility to sort of help them with bus EV charging, lower electricity bills. So nothing's going back in the grid? No, only if it was just ancillary. It's primarily all used to just capture the solar for the times where their demand is highest and just kind of keep it optimized to reduce their billings from I mean, sorry, PSG loan. So the parcel's located in the Calverton Industrial Zoning News District. It's 13.9. Acres, so certainly large enough to meet the battery code criteria. I don't know if anyone had a chance to look at my staff report. I know it was a little lengthy and verbose, but I essentially went through all of the different standards in our battery code and showed how they complied or how they will comply. It's an unlisted action pursuant to SECRA, and no anticipated negative environmental impacts associated with this application are going to be looked at. So I think that the board can issue a NGDAC and also schedule a public hearing for the same date as Matt's battery energy storage application. I did refer it out to New York State SHPO. They came back with a no effect finding, meaning it's not going to affect any archeologically sensitive areas. The fire marshal's office in Riverhead Fire District looked at it. Andrew can sort of explain. There were no significant concerns considering the scale of the operation. This is a smaller installment. Some of the ones we've seen. There's a hydrant right across the street. Talking with the fire district, what we want is kind of like a command post area, and that's typical with all these best installs that we're doing. The command post is going to store our emergency response plan and any relevant documents. It's going to have the contact information of the subject matter expert, which is also Paul Rogers. There's something else I'm trying to work in. I've been talking to Brookhaven Fire Marshals, this is what they do. They put what's called a bat phone. I kind of like the idea. It's a red phone. You pick it up and it dials the responsible party right away. So that might be something that I may ask for on these installs. But this one, Riverhead Fire District, they didn't really have much to add as far as comments. We do get to go over the emergency response plan and just fill in some blanks, but that's just. Yeah, they did supply a draft plan and that will be hammered out. Obviously all of these things will need to be worked out prior to any sort of like approvals or permits being in. I think they're good. I think they're good. I think they're good. I think they're good. One thing that I did bring up in my staff report, and I'll show you the survey just to sort of give you an idea. There is a freshwater wetland that's both DEC and Town of Riverhead regulated in the corner of the property here. When the Hampton Jitney facility was built, they were actually, they didn't need New York State DEC approval. They actually were given a letter of no jurisdiction, which runs with the land and has no expiration. Given the fact that they're not going to be able to get out of the property, they're going to have to go through a lot of work. They're going to have to go through a lot of work. They're going to have to go through a lot of work. I think that their proposed battery facility is going to be landward of their existing improvements and further away from the wetlands. I did refer it to DEC, but don't anticipate them requiring a permit just because they already have a letter of no jurisdiction. And then the applicants have agreed to delineate the wetlands and the buffers to demonstrate that they won't need Conservation Advisory Council approval. I scaled it out on GIS and they're like 500 plus feet away from the wetlands. So I don't have any significant concerns about that. I hope it doesn't upset the tiger salamanders when they're sleeping at night. I don't think the pond is, I don't think it's a vernal pond. A real question, I mean, are you guys anticipating that you'll be using electric buses at some point? Yes. It is, it is. I know you were talking earlier about sustainability. This is in large part sustainability about our services and what's coming down the road. Yes. Electrification has been talked about a lot. It's, you know, it gets pushed out. But we will in fact have our first EV motor coach as a demo sometime in 2027. So we are anticipating the power needs that we're going to need going forward. And this is part of that project. And, you know, Suffolk County Transit, which we also have a contract to operate services with, they're moving to electric vehicles. And so we need to, you know, we need to be able to get them to operate. And so we need to upgrade our facilities to handle this new electrification. And that's part of this project. 50 here. Where's the fuel storage on site compared to the batteries? The canopies are in the rear. I'll show you the survey back here. There are two. Yes, the two. Can you zoom in a little bit? Yeah, there's one here. And then a smaller one here on the northern property line. And the battery is? Up front. Up front. Yeah. Originally they had proposed it on the side. This application was made back in July. And we actually, I sent them a two-page letter. They addressed concerns. They actually relocated the batteries. Do you have footage? No, I mean, I can ask them to scale that out. Between here and here. I think it was originally, we were originally going to put it way back here. We moved it up here. That was about 600 feet. So I think we're about 300 plus feet away. Yeah. Sort of in the middle of everything. My bigger concern was the distance from the wetlands. And I think they'll be fine. Like I said, they're not going to need CAC approval. And they already have the letter of NJ from DEC. One other thing I did want to touch on. They're providing the required fencing. It's under the maximum height. They will provide planting as well to screen. They haven't chosen any species yet. I did make a couple of suggestions in my staff report. staff report Maria did bring up to me there was concern about some like underground utilities I don't know how deep they are I mean if it's a water line it should be below the frost line which is 36 inches if you're looking at like direct burial cable I think that's 24 inches if it's in conduit it's probably a little bit deeper there are plenty of evergreen species that have shallow roots that don't have deep tap roots that we can sort of work out to get to achieve the um the required screening so the only thing I would be concerned is we have to be able to see emergency signage on that fence so when we do that screening we want to be able that we could still see it from a distance away the fence is just under seven feet tall so I mean if we were to do like lower evergreen shrubbery I think that it wouldn't grow as tall and you could probably affix the signage to the top right but we can also leave an opening there we want to be able to see that signage not when we get too far away I would say that signage is probably is probably more important than screening screen it with a post out front with your retro safety markers but at least the majority of the there is another another thought that we had that we've done in other sites which is to because the battery is not an unattractive thing you know the transformer is a little bit more kind of basic but the battery can be um designed to be used for a lot of different things like you know if you're going to be doing a lot of things like a !

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the Polish community is to the town of Riverhead and and how that area I mean it's maybe unique in the country I don't really know but it's a the whole story of Polish immigration coming as farmers but then coalescing around the building of st. Isidore's Church and then gradually the community developed because this is where you could go and shop and speak Polish at the same time and and so we ended up to this whole neighborhood that was basically built by Polish Americans so our goal now is to give that the recognition it deserves and also by placing it on the National Register it could make available tax credits for homeowners who want to fix up their homes and also to make tax credits available for business owners any owner of income producing property that does a major renovation so there are both some some of the major renovations that are going on in the area and then there's some of the major renovations that are going on in the area and then there's the recognition and then there could be some nice economic benefits just to clear up one thing people often think the National Register designation brings restrictions and that's not really true local historic districts do but a National Register district only brings restrictions to property owners who want to take advantage of the tax credits if you want to take advantage of the tax credits to fix up your house you need to meet standards but other than that there's no restrictions for homeowners or other property owners so so that's in a nutshell what we like to do here I don't think I need to regurgitate the history of Polish town most of you know that pretty well it's really rich but in order to get there the first step is always to do a survey to collect all the information you can collect about the area and the area is fairly extensive I mean there could be five hundred six hundred properties involved depending on we don't know exactly how much will qualify but we're talking about a big area to do that we're going to need to photograph all of the buildings all of the resources we're going to need to do research we're going to need to do interviews with people who either live there or are familiar with the area so so what we want to do is put together a team we only need you know four or five people maybe as a community so we're going to need a team of people so we're going to need a team of people core team that can do photographs that can collect information that perhaps can do interviews do a documentary research of those kinds of things so we'd like to find people who have a little time can help and Joanne's idea was that by coming to the five of you you could spread the word the press that's here will help spread the word and some people will raise their hands and say yes I'd like to help and if they do they can contact Joanne's office and and she'll put it through to me I suppose so that's the first thing we'd like to do the second thing is there are probably people out there that have information that may have documents that may have family stories and we'd like to know who they are so that we can talk to them so that we can get that information so and again they can contact Joanne's office and we'll take it from there so that nutshell that's what we're after yes we need people this is a big undertaking and we want to get it done and we are relying on the community members to help us do this so you can contact me my extension here at Town Hall is 226 that's 631 727 3200 extension 226 or Jay Waskett at town of Riverhead New York gov and and why and why and why when I say New York so contact me and let's get this going this is this is important because you know unless you've gone to the Polish Town Fair or you're a local that's how we know Polish town there's other people that that don't know that and we don't know that and we don't know that and we don't know that and we don't know what Polish town to be lost it's such a significant part of of our community and we want you to to help us so thank you Richard for coming in today thank you for your passion on this subject you had I just encourage you what would be interesting in the process is to speak to Saint Isidore's Church yes I think that's like a prime historic focal point in the town of many migrant workers came from Poland and settled in and as a community built that church so there's yeah I presume you'd be working with Georgette as well right this is for some of the great historical course she has a well already worked with her this exciting so thank you very much I think actually able to define pretty much exactly the area of Polish town because if there was a fine line there of trying to figure out the parameter of the streets you know where where do you where does it start where does it start and where does it end up and you know I think it's a it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's And in order to qualify in the National Register, it has to be built before a certain date, but also we have to establish the Polish connection. So the town database has been very useful in that. Now it's a terrific idea, definitely. And we have spoken with the Polish Civic Association, and they're eager to help as well. So we're off to a good start. It's a lot of work. It will be a lot of work. I think it's great. And to the councilman's point about the church, I'm sure they'll be instrumental in helping with volunteers. Well, it's their history. Exactly, and civics. Just curious on the tax credits. Are they federal tax credits? Are they state tax credits? How does that work? There's a combination. And for homeowners who want to do any kind of basically, almost repetitively, hair work, there's a 20% state tax credit. And that's available. Some of the work has to be on the exterior, but you can also replace your furnace as part of that, as long as some of the work is on the exterior. And the exterior work has to respect the historic integrity of the house. That's a 20% tax credit. We're lucky in Riverhead, maybe I should say lucky, because the tax credit is available, depending on if the area's income level is below the state average, and we qualify. For owners of any income producing property, that could be a rental building, it could be a store, it could be anything else that produces income, they can qualify for both a 20% federal credit, tax credit, and a 20% state tax credit. But that's for major restoration work. And again, that can be the whole property, but the restoration work, the renovation work has to be equivalent to the value of the building, not the value of the property. And that has been used in several places in our other national registered districts, things like the Suffolk Theater. I think this is fantastic, and everybody in our town is talking about the changes coming, but downtown places, and Joanna has worked with you to help maintain something and the beauty of it, and it's Polish Town, USA. Yeah. It is unique to, you know, being someone who's been in the area for a long time, and I think that's a great thing to do. I think it's a great thing to do. I think it's a great thing to do. I think it's a great thing to do. I think it's a great thing to do. I think it's a great thing to do. I think it's a great thing to do. Being someone who wasn't raised here and coming here, it is well known for that, you know, everywhere, so it's worth it. Great. Thanks. Great. Well, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your time. This is big for me, because my father-in-law grew up on Sweezy Avenue, and he was one of the Polish Town terrorists as a kid. Oh, wow. And the locals know who the Polish Town terrorists were. So I appreciate this on behalf of, you know, my children. So this is important to us. Yeah, I think it's important to so many people, and it also shows just the inclusivity of our town. And, you know, we come from a long line of immigrants. It's incredible. All right. So thank you guys so much. Thank you. Our next item is our resolutions, and Deputy Supervisor Devin Higgins to read those resolutions. Deputy? We're ready. We'll get right into them. Resolution number one. Water District Capital Project. Number 82601 Q Dover Restaurant. 949 Old Country Road. Budget adoption. That's the friendliest building. Resolution number two. Men's Town Board Resolution number 2026-17. We just had an incorrect capital project number, so this is just a cleaning up that typographical error. Number three. Approve Sewer District Request for Change Order Number One Related to the Electrical Contract for the Class A Biosolids Upgrade Project. And as we did last time, we have the Sewer District Superintendent to just quickly walk the board through resolution number three and also resolution number four related to change order number two related to Contract E, Electrical Construction, also for Class A Biosolids Upgrade. I feel like I have it lately. What's that? I feel like I have it lately. The first one is to change on – the first change is to put in the Davis-Bacon Act. It wasn't put in in the original contract, so there's no cost to that. And then the second one – Okay. Okay. So we're going to go through the changes. Okay. So we're going to go through the changes. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. with their contingency money and all? Yeah. So it's no cost. Correct. Anybody have questions about either one of these two resolutions? Sounds great. Thanks for coming up. Okay. Okay, resolution number five, authorize the sewer district employees to attend the NYWEA meeting and training conference. Just a quick note on that. The resolution says it's going to be the deputy. I'm sorry. No, we don't need you again, I don't think, on this. It's just to quickly point out that the superintendent and the deputy are going to attend this conference, so in the event we had something like we had yesterday occur, the board and the public can rest assured we have a very capable. Number three, Alex Kirsch, you guys remember, he recently was employee of the quarter, so he would be the go-to person should something dramatic happen during the conference when Tim and his deputy are out of town. Excellent. All right. Thank you. Number six, authorizes attendance at the IAAI conference by Chief Fire Marshal. Good. Resolution number seven, ratifies the fees for the 2026 winter brochure. And for this we have Ashley Shandell. She is with our recreation department. She's going to quickly just come up. And we did talk about this during work session previously, but just to, again, review number seven and number eight, which sets the 2026 recreational fee schedule. So thank you, Ashley, for being here. Sure. The rates for the brochure are just put in as we do every season, but those are established through the cost of the programming. So I know we didn't go over it in the work session, but basically it covers the supplies of the program, the cost of the staff that are teaching it, or if they're a contracted person. I have a question on the, where are we in terms of, we print the brochure, right? So we have not printed the brochure for the past season and this season, but we will be printing one expected for spring, summer, because that's our big one. So we have printable copies. If anyone requests one, they can always call us. We can send it to them. It's digital right now, but it's in the form of our old one where we can print it for them and send it. Otherwise, the whole catalog's on our website. Can they get that on our website? Yeah. So they can print it themselves? Yeah, if they want to. And so the reason why I ask is I'm real, not concerned, but I just wonder where digital is compared to printing. I mean, how, what's your response digitally? Yeah, well, that's kind of why we think our spring, summer is so much bigger that we want it printed, because a lot of parents and such keep that in their bag and look to plan stuff, and they like to have the physical thing. So in our smaller months, our seasons, the fall, the winter, we're going more digital just to save money on that printing budget for the summer. The response is kind of hit or miss. Usually the physical copy helps more, but we have great marketing, and Rebecca does a great job in our department to do that, to try to reach everybody. And now we've seen with, if there's been a decrease in digital that we've offered the print, if people want it, we'll send it to them, or we can print it and mail it to them if they want. What kind of programming are you guys coordinating with Connick over at the ice rink? How are you doing towards utilizing that? For right now, we've just been doing a lot of open skates for residents. We've been discussing with them doing things like crawling and stuff. It's just a matter of finding the instructor that can come here to do it. I think Jordan has a lead on that to figure out even someone who can come out to start. See what the interest is and then grow from there. Great. I just want to ask. Sure. Last time at work session we were talking about there was discussion about increasing fees. Yeah. On this brochure, is it going to increase the senior resident permit? On this resolution, it does. It has the facility rentals, the beach stickers, all involved. I'm not in favor of increasing the senior resident's parking permit fee. I think that was something we discussed the last time, too. I didn't know if that's going to be separated out or not, but I'm not going to vote for any of these senior resident permit fees. I agree with that. I had made that point at the last work session on page four. It's a $5 increase. I'm sorry. It's a $5 increase, and we discussed not raising it to that. Okay. Yeah. Whichever way the town board wants to go with that, we did increase the resident rate to 30 from 25. And then look at it kind of as a senior discount, regardless of what the resident price is. But again, it's up to the board on which way they want to go with it, where we just offer suggestions and then... I didn't support the increase at all. However, I did not receive the support that I was hoping to get on that. But I would like to stand firm for the seniors not to increase them. Leave the resolution in and amend it to $10. You know what I mean? That's fine. So like if that's the most simple course of action or... We won't be selling until like February or expected whenever the stickers come in if we're going that route regardless. So nothing will be... No transactions will be done. Can the town attorney do that? Amend it after? I'll defer to the town attorney on it, but it would seem to me since this packet hasn't been finalized yet for final distribution, it's still in draft form. As the pre-final, we could... I just asked the recreation folks to change their attachment fee schedule to reflect $10 and then the resolution that would get distributed in final form at the end of the week on Friday in anticipation of the Tuesday meeting would reflect the $10. Is that a question? Okay. Thank you. And while you're here, I just want to tell you I love what you guys are doing with the puzzles. Oh, thanks. For those that don't know, the recreation department has a puzzle swap. They're looking for donations of puzzles. They're looking for people to come. They're looking for people to come in and take a puzzle, share a puzzle, help put together a puzzle that they have halfway done up there. It's great. I love puzzles, and I thought that that was such a great idea. Thank you. Thank you guys for donating. I do, too. I love them, and I think they're great in the winter months when you're stuck inside. It's great to do. When it snows. I dropped it. We both ended up dropping off about five or six puzzles apiece yesterday on the nose to each other. I think that I had like 10. Oh, wow. I had six. Oh, you and Ovi. The other day, they looked like they were going to be doing a puzzle swap. I was pretty stressed out standing around that puzzle. It was a lot of pieces. Good copy. It's great for your memory. It helps you think. Yeah. All right. And then I don't know if this is ... I know the other four of you were here for the work session as far as facility rentals and the rest of the stickers. I don't know if you want to ... I did review them. Okay. I'm good with that. I appreciate the senior fee going back. Okay. Ashley, do you want to just quickly touch on the community border pass? Yeah. So, I guess the biggest ... The addition there would be to stay with the parking permits was the community border pass, which we did bring up in the work session. And that was just essentially these zip codes that touch the town of Riverhead to allow for ... We get tons and tons of people coming who just live right outside or their kids go to the Riverhead school. They can't go with their friends to the beach. So, it just would alleviate a lot of time as well to just accommodate them. Is it going to be the same sticker or is it different colorized? It's going to be the same sticker. But we just have ... Like on the tab end of the sticker that we rip off, we mark everything so we know exactly who has what type of sticker it was, how much it was. And our prices comparatively to surrounding communities are ... So, our residents, this is great and we should utilize this and access it. It's awesome. Yeah. Thank you for all you do. Yeah. No problem. Thank you. You're welcome. Thanks, Ashley. You're welcome. Okay. Resolution number nine. And resolution number 10. Both relate to the fire marshal's office and we have Chief Fire Marshal Andrew Smith here. Number nine sets fire prevention construction fees 2026 and number 10 fire prevention operating permit fees for 2026. We should start having walkout music. You should do this. Like WWE or something. It means like baseball. Everybody should put their walkouts on. So, two years ago, we increased our fire marshal fees, which haven't been touched in probably over 20 years. Before that. And we kind of based them on what it costs the town for us to carry out these inspections and permits and things like that. So, the operating costs has went up this year, as you know. So, I'm proposing that we move the fees that same amount just to cover our costs. Yeah. And just so you know, we're doing that with every department. You know, we're going to increase based on CPI. I mean, you know, everything increases. If you don't do that, taxpayers that are not used ... Yeah. ... are going to be using your services or subsidizing the ones that are ... Yeah. And I don't want us to be in the position where another 20 years go by and we haven't touched our fees. So, these small incremental raises in the fees kind of keep us relevant. It's a little bit at a time instead of big chunks where people are going to get upset about it and things like that. This is a great way. This is a great way to make sure that we're, you know, doing things right. Thank you. All right. At least keep them places of worship at zero for that. Yeah. Well. That's a new leader's issue. He raised mine just for the record. It's all good. Okay. Resolution number 13. Authorize a supervisor to execute a license agreement with the Town of Riverheads Community Development Agency, CDA. This relates to the USGA utilizing a portion of the EPCAL runway for parking of cars during the US Open taking place in June of 2026. 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. number 13 and then number 16 relates to the secret are we at a sequence did I miss 11 and 12 sorry yeah sorry about that okay okay I'm sorry 11 no points an electrical inspector so this is just going from provisional to permanent appointment for Chris Schwartz he's been good yeah good ratifies the appointment of a part-time code enforcement officer this is the second of two that we've hired recently great and then now we have number 13 which is the license agreement with the town of Riverhead CDA as I said for use of portion of the runway to park vehicles for the US Open taking place in June and this money goes into the general fund correct I don't want to speak to that Jeanette probably can answer that yeah could you come up with a number 12 and 12 for a second please thank you this would be a oh you come up to the table

probably quicker do you want fries with it Bob's had a question to ask exactly which were that uses the USGA yeah we have a license agreement resolution that's I believe in this package believe in this package that makes it where the money will definitely go to the general fund with that license agreement thank you very much it has no fiscal impact on this resolution just curious generally do that for revenues because it's not a cost to us I usually only do that if it's an expense to the town but if it's revenues coming in we don't usually we are looking into we're looking into creating something our job time either shows their revenue or then shows if it's already budgeted that it wouldn't be the fiscal impact that was beyond the budget so we are looking to add those so that the public understands that better so this is obviously a benefit to the town is money that we didn't budget because we didn't know about ways just sitting there idle that's a fair that's a fair assessment I have the same assessment when I arrived here constraints I will say I try to put the account codes in but there's a lot of times where resolutions get entered late because we're not done working on the agreement yet it's not final so I just physically don't have the time to enter the revenue understand the final dollar amount what's the agreement is $150,000 yeah it's 150 that's in the license that's in the one with the USGA I believe that's in the packet later in the packet yeah it is too separate thank you okay resolution number 14 authorized to supervise a sign of memorandum of agreement and waiver and release for Eastern Suffolk BOCES interns we're gonna have two interns working for a period of time over at the senior center and we get more interns from BOCES and we get more interns yes I don't know the answer that question but we certainly can inquire see if we can spread that into other departments we can certainly look into that sure resolution number 15 authorizes the supervisor to execute lease agreement authorizing the town to lease an automobile from Suffolk County Office for the aging for the bargain price of $1 per year. $1, $1, $1. Number 16, this is the second resolution related to the USGA utilization of the runway. This is the secret classification lead agency and negative declaration. And just a point of reference on both of the resolutions related to the USGA, you're going to see duplicate resolutions, literally carbon copies, the same in the CDA agenda for Tuesday since it's CDA planned. So those are not included in the CDA packet at the moment, but they will be added, literally just carbon copies of what you're seeing.

Resolution number 17 authorizes renewal of a musical works license agreement with the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, ASCAP 2026. Nothing like paying that ASCAP.

Resolution number 18 approves extension of an agreement with Mark Conklin, Nunc Pro Tunc. We've done this in the past and the Water District Superintendent is here. Mark Conklin, for those that may not know, is Frank Mancini's predecessor. Frank, did you want to come up and just expound upon the service that Mark provides for us? So ladies and gentlemen, this is your public servant of the year. How about them apples? Yeah. Thanks for bringing me up and being able to talk about this. So Mark is my predecessor and he helps me. He's like, first of all, we get a great rate and he's cheaper than having a kid from H2M on site managing all these capital projects. So we've got a lot going on. In this case, he's helping me with the big tank in Wading River and the booster station. So it's a value to me because somebody I trust who knows the business, watching every move the contractors make. It's a third party because, you know, having your engineer oversee the work that they did maybe isn't the best scenario. Not that I have anything wrong with our engineer, but I think this is a cleaner way to do it. And I also have him around to just pick his brain for anything that I might ask about. You know, so I think this is a great deal for the town and I keep Mark loves the water district. He was passionate about his whole life and it keeps him involved in it and it's a great deal for the rate payers. Great. He might love water just a little bit more than you.

Frank, maybe just to make life a little easier since you're already up here, we'll just, if the board's a menable, just go slightly out of sequence just to say Frank the trip. We can jump to resolution number 24, which says awards bid for rehabilitation of plans. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. that the water district's done yes plant seven yep just as a background plant seven is on fresh pond the north side of fresh pond road it produces about 20 of the water we pump it's been pumping like that hard since the 1980s so as we approach a 50-year lifespan the equipment is old and uh we've had some issues with things catching on fire and stuff in there this is one that makes me nervous but uh we're going to replace all the electrical equipment in this and when i presented the map and plan i forgot to emphasize this because it was a little unusual that up to the years leading up to this in the winter time we stop we change our operation from a pump water operation to a maintenance one and i used my staff and work closely with them to really gut and redo this building so that when we normally redo a pump station we have a mechanical contract a building contract and an electrical one in this case we did all the mechanical and building stuff ourself so i'm going to estimate this saves the rate pair about a half a million to a million dollars because we don't even have those contracts in play it's really just going to be pure big electric and and this is how we develop our staff just like i learned we're out in the field doing the work this involved replacing pipes in this big underground pipe galley and learning how to rig them up and put them all together and now the guys know about all the fittings we use all setting up all the chem pumps a new lime tank it was really it's stressful and but that's how you learn and i was just super proud of my staff for pulling this off and uh this is now the end of this is we go out to bid with an electrical contract in this case ink was the low bidder they're a local company we're familiar with we're confident going into it so um this is a project you'll start seeing us do any you know slowly and then once the summer ends we're really going to kick it in high gear and do it questions comments you always do a great job absolutely yeah everybody's asking waiting river what color are you painting the water tank in waiting river is it it's that color it's going to stay that color which is kind of an off-white and it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it supportive of me and my operation so you do a great job thanks people who lead our infrastructure here working their tails off for the taxpayers thank you thank you guys so much okay so that was resolution number 24 we're going to go back in sequence now so now we're going to go back to 19. classify a special permit application of hampton jitney battery energy storage system as an unlisted action pursuant to secret and issues negative declaration 253 edwards avenue calverton south of canada tax map number 600-117-1-8.6

number 20 authorizes town clerk to publish and post notice for public hearing for the special permit application entitled hampton jitney battery energy storage system 253 edwards avenue calverton south of canada tax map number 600-117-1-8.6 and just a note that the public hearing pursuant to the notice that's attached to the public hearing is not subject to public hearing and the public hearing act is scheduled for the second meeting in february which is going to take place on february 18th at 6 pm resolution number 21 authorizes the town clerk to publish and post notice to bidders for meeting hass creek road bulkhead renovation engineering was able to obtain funding for the permit from the dec and now this is the next step in the process to go out and bid for that work number 22 authorizes town clerk to publish and post bid for propane fuel for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination uses for destination Number 22 authorizes Town Clerk to publish a post bid for propane fuel and equipment maintenance. Number 23 extends bid non pro ton for bid number 2022-35, traffic signal emergency repair and additional work as authorized. 24, we already spoke about. 25, awards rebid for truck parts. 26, authorizes the submission of a letter of intent and grant application to New York Sea Grant for a study and plan to address flooding issues on Creek Road and Sound Road in Wading River, New York. And for this, we have Drew Dillingham, our engineer. He's going to come up and talk to the board a little bit further about what he has in mind with this grant application, together with an email that we'll make available to the board. We have copies for anybody in the room that's interested. And we'll also attach what Drew's handing out to the resolution. Thank you, Drew. At board meeting. You want me to hand those out to him? I can take those if you'd like. Yep. There you go. Thank you. There you go, sir. Yep. There you go, sir.

All right, Drew, if you'd like to. Yes, I would respectfully ask that questions be withheld until the end. Just because this is comprehensive and rather lengthy. Recurring flooding concerns along Creek Road and portions of Sound Road in Wading River have been raised by the community. The flooding impacts public infrastructure, residents, and the surrounding environment. A comprehensive study is needed to identify the causes of flooding and recommend solutions. That improves stormwater management, coastal resilience, and ecological health. This study will complement an effort to restore Wading River Marsh. The town has been engaging with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Nature Conservancy, Audubon, and Long Island Sound Partnership to understand the health of the marsh. And identify potential restoration. New York's C Grant uses various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses

environmental risks, conceptualizing project ideas, and conducting preliminary planning efforts to advance resilience-focused projects. No match is required from participating communities. To apply, the Town needs to submit an Expression of Interest by January 30th and set up a meeting with the Long Island Sound Sustainable and Resilient Communities Extension Professional for Suffolk County. A meeting is currently scheduled for January 22nd. A detailed application will then be due by February 27th. Applicants will be notified within approximately five weeks of the close of the application period to let them know about the application. Applicants must also provide information about various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various uses for various Candidates will be notified if they have been selected to receive an award. Award determinations are subject to availability of funding and resources and engagement of a qualified contractor. Each awardee will be sent an acceptance of support letter from New York Sea Grant to outline the agreement and expectations for the awardee, contractor, and New York Sea Grant. New York Sea Grant, through Cornell, will then develop a contract with the selected contractor to provide services for each awardee. The contractor will carry out the tasks. Identify the contractor. Identify the contractor. Identify the contractor. Identify the contractor. Between us, us meaning the, um, um, Dawn, no, Dawn and Joey Majorana and Sea Grant on the 22nd. That's what it says, yeah. Thank you, Drew. Excellent. The Wading River, that area needs the help. It really does. We appreciate you coming and explaining this and going into detail and taking your time with us. So, thank you for coming forward. Thank you, Drew. Thank you, Dawn, for helping him out on the grant. So, we'll get the money. Good job, Drew. Okay. Thank you.

Okay, resolution number 27, approved special event, chapter 255, application for chicken kids, consignment event. Number 28, pays the bills. So, that concludes the town board resolutions. We do have two that are in the CDA resolution packet that you guys have. As I mentioned, the additional two related to the USGA will be added, carbon copies to this. So, there will be a total of four resolutions in the CDA packet on Tuesday when we get to the town board meeting. So, we have two resolutions in your packet before you. Resolution number one, amends procurement policy and investment policy and adopts a donation policy for the town of Riverhead Community Development Agency. Those are clones of the investment policy and the donation policies that we've previously adopted. Fantastic. For the town board. Thank you. And then resolution number two. The cannabis resolution relating to requirements of the Public Authorities Accountability Act of 2005 and ratifying all prior committee charters and policies of the Community Development Agency. We have Dawn here. We'll just have her come up and just further explain that a little bit. But essentially, these are organizational resolutions for CDA that we do at the beginning of the year every year. I like the table. I love the table. Hello. How is everyone? Good. So, our organizational meeting for CDA. Is on Wednesday. And it's the kick off meeting for the agency for the year. The agency has not had a lot of action in the past couple of years. So, there hasn't really been a lot of excitement. And the rest. But we have some resolutions for Wednesday. So, they are the adoption of the new policies which the governance and audit committee recommended that the agency adopt. And then. The omnibus resolution. So, the omnibus resolution basically kicks off the year with all of the new policies and old policies. And also, typically the supervisor will designate members to the subcommittees. We have two subcommittees. A governance committee and an audit committee. And those committees meet twice a year to look at the policies and procedures that the organization has and may need. And we just did that in the end of 2020. And we just did that in the end of 2020. And we just did that in the end of 2020. And the new policies you're seeing are those that were recommended by the committee. And. My copy says Tim Hubbard. Yeah, I apologize for that. I shouldn't be. And also, William Rother. Yeah, I don't know. I may have put the wrong one in because I took them out. So, maybe it didn't get saved or something. But this Civic Plus isn't new. So, for us. Anyway. Okay. So, those need to be added. And then there are obligations of board members because we are a separate, entirely separate government entity, a public authority, operating under public authorities law that you need to do. So, there's a training session that you need to do as, you know, within one year of taking office in the agency. And then there's an annual self-evaluation that is interesting that you, I've just sent you all a copy of. That needs to be completed and part of our records for the agency. And then we do an annual report. And then Jeanette and her staff do all of our accounting for the agency. And they do a great job at that. Is that pre-January, the, you said the thing that was sent? Because I didn't. I missed it. I did. And I just resented to you with some other information just generally speaking. And just as a recap, the agency is an economic development agency. It has some special and unique powers. Great. Great. And it uses various various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. You know it uses various uses. We have actually something to vote on next time. We'll have four things to vote on, actually. We'll have these two resolutions, the kickoff resolutions, and then we'll have the CDA leasing with the town on the USGA stuff. So, yeah. Okay. Great. Thanks for explaining that. Thank you. All right. Yeah. Well, I believe this concludes our work session for today. And in a moment, I'll ask for a second so we can go into executive session. But before that, I'd like to let you know what we're going to be discussing today, and that is contractual matters surrounding contractual agreement between the town of Riverhead and Jay Petrucelli contracting with Prudente and Thomas, and matters surrounding contractual agreement between Skip Barber Driving School and the town of Riverhead with Councilperson Hurley, and litigation matters surrounding litigation between the town of Riverhead and a former employee with Councillor Howard. And may I have a first and a second to go to Thank you. Thank you. executive section. So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Everybody's leaving. Have a wonderful day. We'll see you next time.

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