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Thank you. Good morning and happy July 2nd, everybody. Today we are here for a work session, but before we do that, we'd like to say the Pledge of Allegiance. And I'd like to ask if the Honorable Hulse, if you would lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance, that would be great today. 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 very much, Your Honor. With that, we just want to go right into our announcements. And so, Councilwoman, do you have any announcements for us today? Well, I just want to say that the Thursday night was fantastic over the Jamesport Beach with the music that Mr. Wooten had graciously donated. It was a really great time. Thank you, Joanne. Thank you. I was very, very pleased. Everybody had a great time. There were people dancing. The music was fantastic. It was all music from the 60s. and we are trying to bring a night of music to Iron Pier as well as Wading River. Councilwoman Merrifield is involved with that. And I'd like to have one more in Jamesport in September. I'm hoping to get an 80s band. If I can get somebody to sponsor that, that would be great. That's about it. Awesome, awesome. Anytime on Thursday can feel like a Friday. We've won, right? That's good stuff. So we have a couple of announcements that we want to make sure people are aware of. On 4th of July at 11 a.m., we'll be doing our Grand Parade for celebrating 250 years of America. I want to thank everybody who has worked so hard on their floats and come out. We know it's going to be warm. Bring an umbrella so that you can stay in the shade where you are. Put on that sunblock and be there. This is going to be an absolute great time. You can check out our website. And on our website under America 250 is where you'll find the updated parade route. We're going to make sure that you have that. and all of that. So if you're watching from the media, please link that out. And then it's starting at 7 p.m. at the South Jamesport Beach. We're going to have a dunk tank, and we're going to have face painting. It's going to be a good time. And then 9.30, the fireworks go off. And, yes, yes, I will go in the dunk tank. So it's exciting. Somebody asked this morning. So you can hurl your complaints and a ball all at the same time if you want to, Chief. That's the reason that we got the dunk. Exactly. No. It would be the most refreshing place there, so I'm excited about it. So with that in mind, if you saw the work session, we have an open session item, but we're going to just flip and we're going to go right to resolutions with our Deputy Supervisor, Devin Higgins, and so we'll be doing that, and then we will go into our next matter. Good morning to the board. We're ready to go. Okay, resolution number one, Water District Capital Project number 82301, budget adjustment. Number 2, Water Capital Project Number 81851, USGS Test Well Closure. Number 3, Water District Capital Project Number 82605, National Grid Hydrant Relocation Mill Road Budget Adjustment. Number 4, Water District Capital Project Number 82612, Peconic River Hotel, 127 East Main Street, Budget Adoption. Number five, capital project number 82513, EWR 2025-2026, highway budget adjustment. Number six, budget adjustment for purchase of new bucket truck for street lighting division. Number seven, ratifies budget adjustment for East Creek boat launch repairs. I just want to say thank you very much to Kentesta and everybody working on this so quickly. And there was money that we had available to use for this. It's fantastic. Thank you. Yeah, we went ahead. It's good stuff, so we're excited about it. Resolution number eight, ratifies budget adjustment for CDA EPCAL legal fees. We need to just pull this resolution. This was mistakenly added to the town board agenda, and it actually intends to be in the CDA agenda for the meeting of July 21st. So we're just going to pull that out of the queue. Resolution number nine, Suffolk County Water Authority federal pass-through grant 2025 budget adjustment. I did want to say something. I spoke to Jenna about this in detail, and this is just something that was done, and it's housekeeping. We need to make sure that we're appropriating that correctly and letting all the taxpayers, not just here but everywhere, know how it goes through. So she asked me to mention that. Resolution number 10, budget adjustment to pay down town square ban. Number 11, budget adjustment to pay down 2018 Series B bond refunding. So this is our CPF. This is what we're doing to pay off our community preservation fund balance. That is the $7 million, which we will not have debt in there anymore. So we are ecstatic about that. And alongside of that, with that ban, there was a portion that has to be taken out of our fund balance to pay back that. So that's why that combination there, if people have questions. But again, paying down that debt, that is so exciting. We're going to have a lot of money remaining to do purchasing of open space and farmland preservation. Jeanette is out for the long weekend, but we have the Deputy Financial Administrator here in the room. If the Board has any questions, Mike is ready to field those for us. Number 12, acceptance of donations from George and Janice Gabrielson family, June 2026. Number 13, accepts donation from the Riverhead Police Benevolent Association for PAL bike rodeo sponsorship. Number 14, authorizes... I've been to that bike rodeo. I don't know how the police officers even passed that test, the bike rodeo. That's a tough little course for the kids. Number 14, authorizes purchase of meals on wheels truck for seniors department and approves budget adjustment. Number 15, sets the fees for showmobile usage. So if anybody has questions about this, this is definitely something that's come through Councilman Kern. and while he could not be here this morning, he definitely has the answers for that.

Number 16, amends resolution 2026-107, setting fees for Riverhead scavenger waste. So Tim Allen, the sewer superintendent, is in the room if the board has any questions, but in sum and substance what this is doing. Come on up, Tim. We're basically just allowing for the credit card charge to be passed along to the customer, but Tim can expand upon that. The total fee for the scavenger waste hasn't changed since 2017 when we went to the credit card fees. So since then we've been gathering probably around $35,000 a year in credit card fees. So this 2.98% will go back to reversing the credit card fees. That's all. Great. Thanks for your vigil on that. If we could just go back to resolution 15 about the show mobile usage. is actually something that I've been working with councilman Kern on about two years ago we really did a deep dive into how much it actually cost the town for use of the showmobile and it's significant and we are actually losing money by not having additional fees that we could be bringing in we research what other towns that do have a show mobile are charging and we just simply are not charging enough so I think that it's important for the taxpayers to up the charges for people that want to use the show mobile and that's about it no it's great thank you because it's not just the grounds crew that's working overtime on the weekend to monitor and make sure that everything is you know the way it should be handled with the showmobile but also highway has to bring it to and from the location again on the weekend that's overtime that's a lot of money that town is spending for allowing us to use it yes thank you he had asked yeah he just told me that so I just wanted to make sure so thanks for having those questions answered for us so we'll go to resolution number 17 appoints a student intern to to the engineering department de seo number 18 appoints a student intern to to the engineering department Ocho Grosso number 19 appoints seasonal personnel to the recreation department number 20 appoints part-time court officers to the police department 21 appoints ratifies the appointment of a part-time office assistant number 22 ratifies the appointment of a part-time office assistant number 23 appoints a senior justice court clerk number 24 points of maintenance mechanic to I'm sorry points maintenance mechanic twos to the engineering department number 25 amends resolution 2026-605 appointing an automotive equipment operator number 26 appoints Amy Ellis to the Emerging Technology Committee. Number 27 appoints Salim Masood as chairperson of the Anti-Bias Task Force. Number 28 reappoints Thomas Nijon to the Veterans Advisory Committee. Number 29 reappoints Kimberly Judd to the Veterans Advisory Committee. Number 30 ratifies the resignation of a minibus driver. Number 31, ratifies the resignation of an automotive equipment operator. Number 32, authorizes town clerk to publish and post notice to consider local law to amend chapter 289-17 of the Riverhead Town Code titled Parking Time Limited. That's what we're going to be discussing partially here today. Number 33 authorizes Town Clerk to publish and post notice to consider a local law to amend Chapter 289 of the Riverhead Town Code entitled Vehicles, Traffic, and Parking Regulations. And I think Councilor Howard was going to come up and just discuss this with the board. That's the one we talked about. And then the other one we're pulling. Is that right? Can you come up to the table, Eric? That would be.

Do you want a copy of it? 33? That is some tie. That's great. Very nice. Yeah, so this is just, this probe is parking on the south side of Sound Avenue for 1,000 feet eastward from Northville Turnpike. and I guess that's because there's been some issues with parking vehicles across the street from a parking vehicles I think there's a farm stand there and so there's been some issues with the cars being there and it's like a tight turn off of Northville Turnpike okay so it's just for safety aspect thank you very much and then while you're here counseling number 34 related to so So number 34 relates to a change to Chapter 293 docking regulations. This is something that Deputy Town Attorney Anne-Marie Prudente has been working on with Senior Town Investigator Rich Downs. I was told that there's a couple more amendments to be made to it. So what I'm thinking is that we pull it from the packet for this meeting, have a work session discussion on it in a week or two, and then have it in for the July 21st meeting. Okay. because essentially what we're looking to do is kind of strengthen permit requirements we've had some issues with like derelict boats being left at the riverfront docking facility down on the Peconic River so this is intended to address that and just create greater enforcement and permitting regulations resolution 35 adopts local law to mint chapter 301 oh I didn't look up my room enumerable XV 1 1 17 17 of the Riverhead Town Code entitled business F zoning use district manufacturers outlet Center overlay zone number 36 authorizes town clerk to publish and post notice to bidders for Hughes flexi tracks C-550C portable video pipe inspection camera or equal for the Riverhead Sewer District. Number 37, ratifies authorization for the Town Clerk to publish and post request for proposals for the redevelopment of the railroad street property designated as the transit oriented development TOD. Number 38, ratifies award for request for proposals for buses for recreation Department's summer day camp trips. Number 39, approve special event Chapter 255 application for Chamber of Commerce concerts in the park. This is great. We activated Grand Tribal Park for the 4th before the 4th and this continuation through the Chamber of Commerce is great. So it's three dates. Resolution number 40, approve special event Chapter 255 application for Hallockville Museum Farm Farm Museum, Hallockville Hootenay. Number 41, approves special event chapter 255 application for Iglesia Pentecostal Familia de Diaz prayer service. Number 42, approves fireworks application for Jamesport Fire Department July 18th, 2026. Number 43, ratifies approval of fireworks and designates alcohol vendor for Tanna Riverhead America 250 July 4, 2026 event at South Jamesport Beach. Number 44 authorizes additional designated alcohol service vendor to serve alcohol at the 2026 Alive on 25 Street Festival. Number 45 authorizes supervisor to sign a license agreement with Advanced Climate Resources, LLC.

Number 46 authorizes the supervisor to execute an addendum to agreement with LVF Landscape Architects, PLLC, for East End Arts Buildings. and we have Don Thomas here, of course, if the Board has any questions on that. Number 47, ratifies authorization for the supervisor to execute stipulation with the CSCA Local 1000 AFSCME AFL-CIO Riverhead Unit of the Suffolk Local 852. Number 48, ratifies the authorization for the supervisor to execute stipulation with the Riverhead Town Superior Officers Association, Inc. Resolution 49 ratifies authorization for the supervisor to execute stipulation with Riverhead Town Police Benevolent Association. These have to do with the retirement incentive, correct? They do, yep. And all three, thank you to the union reps for giving that back to us and agreeing to that. Good stuff. Resolution number 50 authorizes release of performance security for Overlook Homes, Major Subdivision, 72 Overlook Drive, Aquebug, New York. Suffolk County Tax Map number 600-86-1-33.3. Number 51 amends Resolution 2026-320 and authorizes the release of a letter of credit for Birchwood Major Subdivision Section 3. Number 52 authorizes the supervisor to execute certification and point-of-contact information sheet with the Department of Navy for the loaned aircraft. That's over at Calverton, of course. Number 53 accepts H2M Architects and Engineering proposal to prepare a map and plan for Town Square splash pad. And number 54 pays the bills. Absolutely. I just wanted to see, I believe that's we're done with our resolutions. I just wanted to see if Mr. Farrell was available. I think he's online. If not, either way, we're going to begin. He is? He's good to go? I don't know. Oh, sorry. Either way, we're going to start. We're going to go ahead and move on to our open session item, matters surrounding parking management and enforcement, with Councilwoman Merrifield, Ms. Thomas, Chief Frost. I also believe we have the Honorable Lori House with us. So if you guys would like to join us at the table. Okay. So we'll begin that. Yeah, we have our reps from Justice Court if you guys want to come up. Kevin, Mr. Wood. Yep, absolutely. Sorry, I thought you were just going to make your way. Okay. Thank you guys for joining us. Love this. Do you want to try to text this? Yeah, sure. Thank you.

This is the proposals from FBS.

Do you have another copy? I have a few. Yeah, you can pass them around. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Did you contact him? I'm wondering if he contacted you. No reply yet, but we'll go real time here. Okay. So I think, Kevin, you're going to walk, and Denise, I believe you're going to take the lead on this. Okay. I'll just start by saying that I've been liaison to the parking committee for two years now over two years now Kevin has been our parking consultant working on our parking plan for the town In this particular item we're discussing today It has both long term because with regard to parking enforcement We're finally getting into the 21st century with handheld devices But also an immediate need for the business owners down on Main Street Street with the request by the parking committee there are two particular Lots behind Main Street on to the south side you know facing the Peconic River the moonfish I call it the moonfish lot and the lot just adjacent to that on the other side of McDermott the parking committee has been complaining and there is an agreement with the construction workers over at Heatherwood that they're not supposed to be parking there however that seems to be a continuous problem so So with the help of the police department and also with Kevin and now with us, the town, we're looking to enforce parking on those two particular lots. And I'll start by saying that the lot over there at the Moonfish lot didn't have any particular zoning required, didn't have any time limits on it at all. The chief had brought that to our attention. So we weren't able to issue tickets for that location. So what we're doing today is a combination of amending the town law to create parking limitations for that lot and also the adjacent lot that I always say it wrong. Turcaz. Turcaz Restaurant. They're located over there. But really, and Main Street. We're going to be enforcing the parking limitations on Main Street and also on those two lots. The police department is going to be issuing warnings to give people about a two weeks notice to let them know. is actually going to start being enforced and we're also trying to make sure the tenants are not parking their cars all day long on main street blocking and prohibiting people to go into the commercial businesses there and also the same thing for the restaurants in the back so with that i'll turn it over to dawn please so we just uh as as uh councilman maryfield discussed we've we've been working on a lot of this for a long time but we're finally getting down to i guess like brass tacks right so um and i think one of the things that we decided would be important and i think the park industry advisory committee was super uh exuberant about getting enforcement started in downtown and so the idea was well we have the regulations that exist and we really ought to be making sure people are complying with those um you know more uh regularly so we and there became the issue with the Moonfish Brewery. There's a small parking lot in the rear of that, which sits full a lot, and it, I think, impedes the access by patrons to that business in particular. And then people on Main Street also are sitting in those spots for overly long. And so just to quickly kind of reconstitute an enforcement effort for Main Street and those lots starting July 15th with existing regulations giving a warning period one thing I fully on board with this I'm not against it obviously it is going to be a very labor-intense I'm gonna actually have to have someone in those those time zones sitting on certain sections for the entire period of time to make sure the car doesn't move back when I first started 94 there was meters on Main Street, probably some, maybe Lori might remember, whoever from Riverhead, and we had two full-time meter enforcement personnel doing it. So I have a tight budget for my traffic control officers, so they write a lot of tickets during the summer on the beaches, fire zones, handicap parking. So I'm going to have to, just so everyone's aware, I'm going to have to dedicate someone to sit in those zones and not move because I can't say because the person come into justice court and say hey I ran out to I went out to Walmart I came back I parked in the exact same spot so I can't I the officer cannot assume that the vehicle didn't move without actually observing that's why the handhelds and I I will be pushing for obviously plate readers because you know we can't have officers it would it would just constantly be walking scanning registrations for time for time blitz so initially it's going to be a little little labor intense and it's going to it's going to draw personnel off other matters but obviously i am i'm 100 for it i know it'll help my staff and obviously you know sarah can talk for you know her side not processing how many tickets we write i think i wrote almost 4 000 tickets last year if I off the top of my head so I'm just making everyone aware like I said I have I have a budget that I'm almost you know I'm a good portion through it already so just give me the FYI so you know a lot of doing so that's been litigated and the shoot was correcting his assessment of what he has to do because it's no longer allowed that's been the only days you could you can't do it anymore yes that's what's really good the next step is the handhelds and Maybe Kevin, if you could explain how that helps with that. Changing behavior. Dennis just got the link I sent it to him, so he'll be on. He would be best to explain that. Okay. But I would just say I advocated for technology. He's on. Here he is. Hi, Dennis. Hello. Go ahead and finish. Yeah, just all along when I left the last part of 2025, my big word, as you know, was enforcement to be the basis of the system that will be forthcoming here. And we're getting there. I just think technology can do a lot for this town. and could make us very efficient, and this is the very start of it. So we're in the midst of integrating, which I'll talk more about after Dennis explains this. Okay. I just want everybody to understand that before we went to these handheld devices, which we're about to start to do, the system was the tickets were written, and you had to manually put them in the court system. Well, FBS puts them into the court system. Right, okay. But we will get the stack. so in the summer we can have a stack like that for just a week that then the girls have to inter-file into numerical order to file them as you very time consuming very time consuming and we're very limited on space so as more come in you know the electronic will be great because it's just going to be on the computer we don't have to deal with paper and hoping exactly people will scan that QR code and pay and or plead not guilty through that and less traffic coming into the court right it's good advisor for the people that are receiving the tickets as well it's easier for the TCOs as a chief as mentioned because it's a simple click as opposed to standing there and writing something out that you make mistakes when you hand write tickets this isn't going to have that issue the people get the tickets and can immediately address if they want to plead guilty or not guilty a lot of what I hear is oh I lost the ticket now I have additional fees late fees assessed so that is going to obviate that problem and I can tell you that I've come in on Mondays for court when we have a very heavy calendar and we have to dedicate staffed and putting all of the information on the tickets that we're receiving because obviously in the summertime we have a glut of those tickets hopefully with the system and I can obviously let Dennis explain it further the person has the ability to to immediately either pay it or plead not guilty, as Sarah has said, provide any documentation or information they want to. So we're also going to achieve the goal of not having as many people coming into court to challenge their ticket, which is going to be ideal. Then the town attorney doesn't have to come in and spend half of her day there, and it's going to cut down a lot on the people coming into the courtroom and feeling like they're wasting their time having to take off of work. So it's really a win-win. and filling up your docket with unnecessary things that can just get paid online. Okay, we're all stepping in now, Dennis, with all that big intro, if you would explain the process to us, please, and what it is that you're proposing to provide to the town. Yes, and thank you. I appreciate being with everybody. Dennis, can you drop your camera just a little bit down? You can just point your camera down a little. There you go. One or the other. Speak a little louder, please. Then, Supervisor, you'll know I'm at the beach. There you go. That's it. There we go. Is that better? Yeah. So we have, I provided to Dawn, I think it was about a week ago, my document is dated Monday the 22nd, and outlined a cost proposal for the devices. So we have proposed, and following up on the request by the town, to provide six units, which consists of six Zebra TC27s, the handheld devices. We had that device when we met with everybody back in March. Zebra Technology is a front-runner player in terms of the handheld technology, along with the Seiko printer MPB30. Those two devices make up what goes out on deployment. The rest of it is the software, which was $2,000 to do the custom build. software first year 5940 integration 2500 year one cost 24,259.74. Now let's just underline the $2,500 integration cost because if we do not do the integration with GoGov and I think there are some questions surrounding that it would go from 24,259 down $2,500. Year two and three would be $6,000, $3,000 each year on the software side of it. And to get into the devices themselves, as the judge was just saying, it represents a significant improvement in workflow. The violations are issued cleaner and clearer. There are less transposition issues, whether or not it's the office's writing or data entry when the ticket is data entered. They go in very quickly. They're immediate when the tickets are issued on the street. They go into the court system in a matter of minutes. The ticket being issued is going to have a QR code. I've been working with Sarah and the judge as well as the chief on the final design of the ticket itself. I think we are at a point where we're down to the last revision. And on the rear panel, which is the plea panel, it will have a QR code. One of the things that I think that you're going to see as a byproduct and a benefit is a significant increase to voluntary compliance. Because when someone receives a ticket, they will be able to respond immediately and they'll be able to do something in a productive nature because the ticket is going to be in the court system. so they'll be able to go online and pay the ticket with a plea of guilty, or they'll be able to go online and plea not guilty. One way or the other, they'll be able to very easily and quickly, without complication, meet their burden in terms of answering the ticket. So I think you're going to have a significant increase to voluntary compliance. You're also going to see a significant decrease, as Sarah was laying out, the idea and workflow of handling the paper. In FBS, we do do the data entry, but the court is involved in the paper management, if you will, filing, pulling, reviewing, updating records with paper. It's cumbersome, it's burdensome, and it's expensive. So I think in the longer term, you're going to end up with a cost-effective, efficient system that's going to provide you with the kind of technology today that the public expects. The idea is I got a ticket in Riverhead, and how do I get rid of it? Quickly, simply, and easily. Any questions regarding the equipment, the devices, the software, the process? Dennis, I just wanted you to explain. This is something that the chief was talking about. I don't know if you were here when this came up, that you can do electronic chalking in a sense. There's photos that can be taken of the car, correct? like necessarily where the wheel is so that the police officer would be able to detect whether or not the person moved the car and came back like the particular wheel will be in the same position. Is that accurate? Councilwoman Lee, yes there is within the application there is a component a function for time marking and it's where that we were talking about this yesterday at the meeting it's where they put into the application where the stem valve is, which shows you the actual position of the automobile at the time when they mark the time so that if the vehicle was moved a little bit, but in the same spot, they're going to know it. And of course, obviously, if it wasn't moved, they'll know that as well. Pictures can be taken, as many pictures as you would think appropriate on any issuance of a violation. When the pictures are taken, the pictures, along with the digital data, a text file, if you will, and also a PDF of the charging instrument, is uploaded to the cloud, and then it's downloaded to the court system. So when Sarah would log into the system and she would look up a parking ticket record, she would see a link that would give her a click and she'd be looking at the charging instrument, the ticket itself. She could click the photos and she would be able to look at any of the photos that were taken at the time. And as well, it gives her a little Google map, which gives her the coordinates of the automobile at the time the ticket was issued. because when the device issues the ticket, it picks up the GPS coordinates, so you actually can position that automobile specifically where it was at the time of the issuance. In other words, they won't have any ability to plead not guilty anymore. No, no, let's not say that. They will not have very strong cases. So what we have now is we have a significant portion of the individuals who are getting the tickets are out-of-town people, so it gives them the ease of being able to address it online as opposed to having to come into Riverhead Town Court which is really small court that's really outdated and probably needs to move to a bigger location. This is what this helps do. This is going to generate revenue which is going to help the town coffers which will help in the construction of the new building as well. well yeah the next bit like you said the expediting of people and the ease and right they don't build them up and so yeah and encourages people to address it immediately which is what everyone has been mentioning but I'm sorry I thought specifically to like what the chief said that officer can't just keep coming around this kind of take a photo know what the top where the tire was and we'll know later Romney comes and takes another photo that this took this particular car moved initially but progressing down very near future we need the plate readers to do it. It's got to be automated. And that's a feature also, Dennis, that you can provide moving forward. Is that correct? I need the plate readers. This is commercial alley down here. Yes. The integration. There's a couple of things, I think, for you guys to think about. One is Could you just speak a little bit louder? That way if somebody's listening at home, could you just pronounce a little bit? We're just having a little trouble. Certainly. So as I started to say, I think there's a couple of things that we haven't really gotten into in detail. One is, are you going to be providing a mobile pay app? So the folks that are paying, whether it be in parking lots, garages, on the street, paying for pay via a mobile pay app. The second part of that is we need to nail down the idea of an integration with GoGov to make sure that the permit information within the town is up to date and accurate so that the integration will provide the officer on the street the accurate information as to whether or not there's a permit. And then last but not least, as the chief mentioned, we would do an integration with the mobile with the uh the plate reader uh we had made a recommendation for the chief to reach out to a company that we've worked with a company called mital uh they seem to have a really good product and um i think that would be something that you would look at maybe next year where you got into the plate readers and yes the handheld devices would do that integration so just in summary we spoke about this yesterday dennis there's many parking lots downtown that have a lot of spots in them that's going to be really uh unfathomable for an officer to walk the lots every couple of hours um you know again i have to speed the plate reading process up uh at least at least one plate reader at least for the downtown area would be efficient i understand the permitting is more for the beach which is often off in the future probably for next year and that that's where we need more but i mean i'm looking to if they're looking for serious enforcement downtown you know i'm going to need i'm going to need a car that has that that ability instead of having someone sit for three hours in the parking lot watching or walking it you know it just doesn't doesn't really i don't and i don't have to dedicate staff like when we first started we did have meter enforcement who worked into chalking, but now obviously chalking is illegal, so, you know, against court orders. So, can you just send me that email, please? Because I don't believe I ever got that company's name unless it was in another email from you guys with maybe with the parking ticket. Can you just send me that company's information? I will, Chief. I'll send it to you when I get off the Zoom. And again, as I said, we've had some good working relationships with them. But going back to the summary point is this, is that the handheld devices are specifically built to, and I'll go back to, I think, some information that Kevin had provided at one time, the idea of all of these technologies talking to each other. So the handheld device would talk with the payment, the mobile payment app. It would talk with the permit application, and it would talk to the plate readers. So you have an efficient, if you will, in terms of the technology moving through the system network, the network itself, and that's a good goal to move towards. Okay. Dennis, do you want to explain to the public and us with GoGov and what he's talking about with these interconnectabilities? And I don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but so the table here and the public understands, there really are three ways that someone could park in a system. And I'll tell you what I'm advocating for as your consultant. You have a pay and display option, which means people would walk to a meter. And we've all done this. You'd pay at a meter, and you'd get a ticket, and you'd put it in your windshield. That's now outdated, but I'm just letting you know that is a possibility that would allow enforcers to enforce without LPRs. The second way would be to number your spaces. That is also going away, but it's a possibility, so I have to put it on the table. With numbered spaces, both paying by cell or at the meter would enable the enforcement officers to simply say, oh, space 93 is occupied. It's not paid. Let me go over there and give it a ticket. The industry standard now is pay by plate, and why that's important to Riverhead is we're moving towards a plate is a permit system. That's where the GoGov integration comes in. The GoGov integration is now, it's already existing for two years. You have 7,000 permits in your database. They're numbered not by plate, but by permit number assigned by Ashley in the department and or auto assigned by GoGov. We feel this could be simply changed. I really believe that can happen because not 100% of the database contents have plate numbers. forward it would be a required field so the plate becomes the permit and that's wonderful because the integration between FBS gogov which already exists and future pay by sell apps and a parking management plan all come together so I've always advocated that let's use technology to get these systems in place before policies are put in place and we all know that we've all talked about policies but if you have this you can change policies on a dime what needed to be so i have a very good understanding of that i've actually done systems with dennis's company uh in municipal government uh in other scenarios so i have a really good understanding of what needs to happen here for the future of riverhead and i think it'll just it'll outlast all of us when it's when it's done i would just say that that's and that's the paid parking piece of this project right the first part was absolutely systems first was analysis which took a while to figure out and do all of the studies and talk to all the people and the the stakeholders that have an investment in this and then to really prioritize what needed to happen. And this is the day where we are saying I think that the priority should be this enforcement start, then implement the technology, and then move eventually to a paid parking program where your information and data gets created and now people kind of roll that out in a way that people can digest it better. than just immediately starting something like that and shock to the system is stuff we don't want to do. So how far are we away from our handhelds? I'll let Dennis answer that, but we have a Wednesday at 11 a.m., and we've been meeting weekly, and it's been very good. But Wednesday at 11 a.m., we're particularly meeting with Dennis' company and GoGov to finally get an API integration on the table so that these two can talk to each other. So we'll know a lot more after Wednesday. I wanted to comment. Sarah is going to be there. Yeah, please. Ashley should be there. As many people as possible should be there. Two other comments on some of the things that have already been said. In terms of warnings, I believe greatly in them. I recommended two weeks. I'd like to see you go 30 days if possible. The thing about the warnings, Chief, is that you don't need someone really to stay there. You can eye the car, and you really don't have to be perfect. A warning is going to be such that, oh, things are coming, things are changing. And I will be instrumental in getting that out to BIDMA and our chamber. The other thing I want to make reference to is that two lots that we spoke about when we first sat down, they're 100% full today, this morning. So you ask yourself why, right? And we'll figure that out. But my experience has been that little sign that says no parking, it's not going to do it. Enforcement will help. If you could, spend the $100 or so that'll do a rail sign, one sign every two spaces. This way you really cover yourself. People, as you know, in court will say, I didn't see the sign. I thought that was for that part, not this part. So my experience has been put it right in between two spaces. I think you have 25 spaces there. You're talking about 12 signs, $1,200. It's the greatest investment in the world. I agree. And the whole thing, this is about changing behavior. making sure people park in spots they should be in and not taking commercial spots away from the downtown businesses that are having a hard time with all the construction right now. And revenue, generating revenue for the town with less man hours used in providing all the data and more people clogging up the dockets with tickets that the photos are going to easily dispose of any kind of defense they may try to come up with. Well, you know what? The good part about it, getting back to the not guilty pleas, is they can submit any documentation or photos or whatever they may have in their defense. They can submit it online. The town attorney's office can review it, decide whether they want to prosecute or not. So a lot of this can be resolved without anybody having to come in, which is going to be very nice. I think the key to it, too, is the photos. There needs to be either – I know the tickets are small, so I understand if the picture can't be on the ticket. But it's going to need to be linked with that QR code. So when they go on the QR code to either pay or plead, that somehow they're able to see that picture of their... That's for Dennis. Most of the time, people are not arguing that it's not their car. Most of the time, people are not arguing that they weren't at the beach. So, I mean, I know that everybody loves to see photos and videos, but that's not really the crux of the defenses that we hear. Most of it's the improper signage or I was only there for a few minutes. Or, oh, I didn't know I couldn't park there at a certain time. I thought it was time sensitive. So those are the majority of them. It was either I thought it was off-season, I was only there to pick up shells or have my lunch, or the notice wasn't adequate. Those are the top three defenses that we hear. So like you said, Kevin, the signs, the signage all over the place. So our art residents know this isn't, we're not trying to deter people. We're trying to create opportunity and turnover so that people have an opportunity to park close to businesses. And there are a lot of people downtown that park a car and it's there for a month. It's there for two months. So, yes, I think this is not something, if you're watching at home, you're like, oh, no, it's not that. This is about creating equitability for everybody to park. And, Supervisor, you asked when. I did. I do. I'm so excited because I know we have the beaches that our TCOs can start using this technology and having it and kind of unraveling it there. So, yeah. Dennis? for the delivery of the handhelds uh supervisor one good news is this uh two weeks ago we jumped ahead and we procured the six devices so we're in good shape as far as the equipment went um we actually went outside of our normal channels because our normal channels had told told us that there was a backlog and a delay it wouldn't be until august so we have the equipment i have been working with the judge, Sarah, and the chief on the actual ticket itself. And we've been working with the police department, the captain, as well as the chief to just nail down some of the data that will go into the build. So from the handheld place, we're in a very good position. There are a couple of things that are going to fall back on the town that absolutely need to get done, and they will control the time, the rollout. One is approving the proposal that I had submitted to Dawn for the purchase of the equipment. Two is to procure six cell contracts for the devices. They require cell service. And last but not least is sign off on the ticket, get it to the printer and get that process started. I've been told by the printer that that in itself can take four weeks. So we're looking probably at this point at early August. If everything was to happen immediately, early August, maybe the middle of August. So that's where we are. And I'll just add that as far as the two parking lots, I have a resolution being prepared to amend the park, the code, the town code to have two hour parking. And Dennis, if you want to speak to the time limitations, these two lots we're talking about, There's going to be a publish and post for the change in the code and then the actual public hearing. I have the publish and post request set for the July 7th town board meeting. And then the July 21st town board meeting would be the public hearing. And we can proceed right to approving the resolution right then and there to amending. so this is probably the after July 21st when we can actually start forcing the parking lots the two lots down there behind moonfish and turquoise and we can start immediately enforcing Main Street because that already has the time limitation Main Street is one hour parking is that one hour before you can warn now absolutely we'll start all the mornings now but the actual time the two parking lots we're looking to go from 8 a.m. until 11 p.m. is to our parking overnight parking would start at 11 p.m. and go straight right through to 8 a.m. but from 8 a.m. until 11 p.m. it's to our parking and that's for the restaurants because what we don't want to see happen is somebody go to a restaurant and you can't get to a restaurant at 8 o'clock because some tenant or someone decides to park at 8 o'clock and all of a sudden my two hours are up 10 o'clock and oh i i can stay here overnight and you've killed the restaurant crowd for the restaurants in the back there 8 p.m is still the time people would be going to bars and restaurants so that's why the time starts that it's going to start at 11 p.m it's officially 9 p.m which is fine i agree with it 9 p.m someone could be there for two hours and then be there overnight right so that's why we want to make it overnight starts at 11 p.m right okay you're gonna address the area by 40 pecanic because that's a three hours good we're changing that that's the other one that's the mcdermott one the one on the other side that is also part of that he's talking about i'm talking behind like over by summer wind right city bank we were just doing the two lots we were doing the two lots the turk has one the one behind 40 peconica avenue the apartment there's green spots in there um they're three hour yeah so right that's going to be three and the other ones are going to be two yes and we're going to restripe those two lots those are going to be restriped to two hours there is some unlimited time in that there is yeah that's that's yeah yeah i'm just at this at this given point i I can't see you even being able to enforce that because you can't see anything. There's no striping at all in that lot. Zero. Basically. There really isn't. So I would do this not to confuse the public. If you're saying green is two hours, it can't be three hours. No, it's not two hours. Green is three. We're going to wear striping with the town attorney to white, which is two hours. Is that correct, Eric? Your policy should stand on its own. I don't think you need different colors for that lot, for the Moonfish lot. Okay. Just keep it white. Keep your signage the way it is. otherwise you see what I'm saying wait a minute this said three hours over here you understand people are gonna define three hours is green all right okay well I want to make sure that this is something that came up yesterday thanks Eric thanks for your part of the conversation I only have one give it to yeah I need I don't know okay he just wanted you to see it so yes right now the code doesn't say anything about the color of the spots so that's really up to everybody just if we do that there should be sort of a central sign that delineates which color means what so right now what I bring you know done back in the day because that lot so big yeah so the green was the three hour parking and the white is for you know unlimited parking yes so it can't be all white because then you would need some kind of you know yeah yeah so the all the striping was done around 2019 i think when the strategic parking study was done and the three hour was green and then unlimited was white and then i think that there was another color it was a yellow yellow okay so really what we just need to do is we need to come up with you know how if at all we're changing this if we're keeping part of the three hour parking for that little uh corner i guess that's in the uh that's in the lot behind summerwind then you know you keep you keep that green and then you can do white or yellow for the other for the other parking times you know just whatever whatever makes the most sense because right now under the code the rest of that lot is already two hours and that's marked white right now so it might make sense to just make all the two hour parking white and then other one you know use a different color for the other time periods or just signage and then just yeah just update the signage what do you think yeah i would say forthcoming certainly by august 30th we'll have a parking plan that'll show all this i'm not a big believer in the colors it's It's one more things to be confused about it made sense when you didn't have paid parking It made a lot of sense if in fact you go to paid parking That is the restrictive aspect of what you're doing that speaks for itself. There's no reason to color anything so If you're gonna restripe, you know, we'll talk about times in this you know and plan Green three hours in green two hours That's what I was getting at. That's what he was right. That's why we're thinking going to white. Let's go white. Okay. White and signs every two spaces would be great. It will be hard to actually mark. How are you going to stick them in the parking lot? The signs? Yeah, where are you going to put the signs? I looked at it this morning. I have pictures. I'm going to show it to you digitally too, exactly where it is. Behind the summer one? No, you've got an eight-foot piece of... No, no, no. by the other big wide open parking lot how would you sign that this this could be depending again on the future plan if this was being restriped next week I would say keep it green if it was being restriped in September we should talk about it that's my answer because you can always restripe green to white my priority right now is just those two lots behind the restaurants and then mainstream businesses over there are gonna call my office and say well we see you doing it over here but you're not doing it over here so that that way ends and your office and you're gonna push the you're gonna push the parking to that area if there's no enforcement down there so I think it needs to be continued I mean I think you're getting this conversation going but we got it we definitely to push this good all right we'll talk about this further like you just got to be signed it's not it's not appropriately signed right now yeah is that gonna stay three hours is everybody in agreement that one stays is three it would be inconsequential in the future yeah in the near term it's going to create i think some kind of confusion for your officers who are writing the tickets because right now you have it marked green to denote the three hour parking spots there's not really any clear barriers on the sign at the entrance there sure is there's a huge sign here three hours if this was to be restriped even if the white wasn't going to be right absolutely okay to restripe the screen because this sign doesn't make sense come in the other side of the parking lot and never see that sign did you already said you can come on the other side of the parking lot you'll never see the sign that's right we need to sign here that's what he's like i would you know there's a bunch of uh light posts in here that you can add to it yeah i don't think yep it's usually saying make sure we add the signs if you're asking them to enforce something so they'll get yelled on the back end so okay to be honest i would say keep it at two hours it's just easier to universal you guys make decision but I know moving forward it's not gonna make a difference but whatever the plan is just the the marking issue has to be has to be sorted out because if we're gonna keep that little corner piece in the summer wind lot behind tweets and dark horse three-hour parking the officers who were writing the tickets and enforcing it are gonna need to know where that starts and where it stops so here's what i'm hearing from businesses this is the problem area they say when you say this could you tell us because i don't know if everybody can see it you call it the moon fish lot okay that's actually that's the town square a lot moonfishes a little bit i'm sorry okay so those lots are people are saying as we're seeing this morning they're full they're full of full you never see this full right therefore this is the saving grace and they say wait you're not telling me to have my customers come all the way over here the point is there's always spots here i've never seen this lot completely i have multiple times unless it's a major event and it's good tenants come in and complain yeah i mean i get calls about it and i think we're going to push people that way that's why i want to see it i mean i i'm a thousand percent on board with this we just need to make sure that we're you know not setting all of these people up and you know to to be successful right is what we want not unsuccessful so i'm just saying I'm not sure that your resolution that you want to put has to be married to this right this is part of a future conversation we know how many Kevin tenant our tenant parking spots there are there or how many tenants actually park in that lot units in the building but there's no assigned parking they're not right well I've heard that I mean what we get is the people who are tenants that come in and say well I'm I live here and I don't have any place to So I'm wondering if your study has shown how many of those people actually park in that lot I do we interviewed every single apartment building. I'll share that with you. And so how many people park there do you know?

So I didn't want to interrupt your presentation But I do have a question About I don't know who it would be directed to but for on Main Street Handicap parking like over by the Suffolk Theatre shows are usually an hour and a half maybe a little bit more I know that the door at a for an eight o'clock show the doors open at 7 how do you handle a person that needs to park in that handicapped spot and they exceed the two hours and we have limited handicapped spots so do they have to leave the show and go and drive around and try to find another handicapped spot my opinion is you would you would let them park as long as they needed to in that handicapped spot which would be different than somebody having a hand tag a handicap tag and spark and parking in any spot meaning the white spots there is a difference a designated handicapped spot and parking in a just a regular spot with the tag so i'll defer to is it ministry timed if i it's already one hour no i know but when does it stop it's from eight eight at night eight at night and it's unlimited after that so they're in a regular spot that's it is an hour i'm saying if they're in the handicapped spot right is it two hour parking for them i would hope it's not right but i would defer i don't think it is yeah you said it's 8 p.m it stops being one hour no no but in general you're talking about just the main street ones or or it's designed start I mean I have to go out and take a look I haven't looked at a couple months but I think they start you know not making in the with the handicap spot so I don't think the handicap spots are in it okay I would have to I would just like to make sure that the town code I mean in town attorneys can take a look at to see you know I think the way the codes written it could be interpreted as all the handicapped spots within the areas that that are time limited would also be time limited so you can create a specific code section that carves out the handicapped spots within the downtown district parking fields and then the other thing councilwoman I wanted to know if I would be able to bring you in to my next bid meeting so that you can explain to bid what's going on I actually it's supposed to be on the 15th but we have a conflict for that night so I have to set up another time for it so I'll arrange that with you and bitma thank you that's great thank you I just owned it is aware I'm the liaison with the Chamber of Commerce and they are very well aware of this and actively pushing for this as well besides the parking committee yeah again I know it's changed for our people and our residents but this is something that we're trying to do to help the businesses and create equitability and even residents downtown and flow through and also just the ease of TCO officers. So, you know, but that's why people have an opportunity to come speak at it. I'm sure they will. We're moving forward. That's right. I do obviously have a question. What is it going to be the warning period? I think you should go out there today. I'm going to change my VMS signs that are on Main Street for the parade to state at a certain date, you know, parking, time parking will be enforced. You know, so I don't know what the parking expert, I mean, what did other municipalities do when they started enforcing time parking or parking enforcements? What we won't do. Okay. What do you recommend, Kevin? I mean, communication is so important in parking. Yeah. So if that's what you're asking, a precursor communication to starting to move? Yes. I mean, I plan on going out myself as well and talking to the businesses. But what's a good period for the warning? Two weeks. I think it's literally 30 days. Yeah? I'd like to see 30 days. Yeah, Dennis, same thing, 30 days or two weeks? I'd like to see 30 days. yeah I think 30 I mean I think this is 30 years is fair and I think we have so much we have so much to work through and helping our residents understand it I mean I think that says to our residents to where you know we're trying to try to bring that along so you know I would just put something out you know media advisory maybe put something on the ticker channel 22 okay thank you very much i want to show our appreciation uh we've been working with dennis for 20 plus years he's a phenomenal uh person to work with he's very responsive thank you for all the work that you've done as well and the chief has been to me he's he's actually like gung-ho about this which i think is going to be uh just amazing we've been asking for this for no less than seven years we've had meetings with the town attorney's office we've had meetings with uh mr farrell and we've been asking for it so i'm just very appreciative to the town board for actually getting this done this is going to make this is going to be this isn't my purview but it's going to be a huge revenue source for the town and it's going to be much better working for our staff with this program thank you convenient for the public too you know it's just it's the same with the building permit stuff there's revenue that comes to the town but there's also this as you say they don't have to come to court and take a half a day off of work to manage their it's 2026 we were talking about this at the pandemic we were discussing this because we didn't want people to come into the courtroom and no one took and ran with it um and now we have a chief that's willing to a town board that's willing to and so we're very appreciative and dennis and i know the town attorney's office and us we've been in this posture for a long time so thank you very much for getting this done thank you for you all your work everybody's put a lot of work into this is great so thank you guys for coming in see you soon see you around thanks thank you have a great holiday everybody all right so with that uh justin could you do me a favor could you pull up the camera just throw this parade route one more time for us before we go and go into executive session yes sir you can make whatever statement you want i'm requesting uh people not park on main street for the parade so if you can refrain from parking on the main street area from probably 10 30 to about 12 30 would be much appreciated all right so if you're going to be stuck there once the parade starts you're not going to be able to move your car so thank you yeah thank you very much chief and so again heed that warning if you're with the press get chief's uh request out there for us that would be super helpful to us this is the map of the parade route we want people to know uh where they're going and i believe the green is where the parade route is going the red is for those that will be traveling so they know where they can go so just wanted to to put that up there if they're form so with that I just asked for so first and second to go into executive session where we'll we'll do personnel matters surrounding higher government employee matters surrounding change of status or employee and matters surrounding purchase of real property all with stripling Tilo and counselor Howard our Hurley we have a first all in favor aye we'll see you soon happy 4th

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