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Thank you. [transcription gap] Thank you, Mr. Kahn. I feel funny calling you Noreen because you were my English teacher and and and a favorite teacher I might add at that. Yes. Of many Riverhead students. But it's great to see you and it's great to see you. You've worked in the town and been active in the town for many years. So thank you for coming tonight. OK. As we start off, we do we have somebody for an invocation tonight? Why, yes, we do, supervisor. I know we do. I'm just teasing. But go ahead and announce her. We are very glad to have once again with us Reverend Mary Cooper and for joining us today as we always appreciate your wonderful work. Thank you. [transcription gap] Thank you, sir. OK. Would you like to stand? Sure. Reverend, she's going to pull the mic down. All right. Reverend Cooper, maybe just pull the mic down a little bit. Pull it down? Yeah. There you go. There it is. Perfect. All right. Father, we thank you for this beautiful day that you gave to us to rejoice and to be exceedingly glad. We also thank you for the beautiful rainbow and the eclipse. We thank you for this opportunity to gather together as one community, oh God, that we may talk together, we may reason together, that we may pray together, that we may do things that make our community so beautiful. And Lord, we thank you for even on YouTube, they said that Riverhead Town is a place, good place to visit. We ask that you just continue to bless us, lead and guide us. Bless those who serve us, oh God, with wisdom, health and strength, oh God. We give you praise, glory and honor in Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Thank you, Reverend Cooper.

It's official, we're on YouTube. Great. Okay, as we have a community development agency meeting tonight, what we're going to do is get Dawn Thomas down here. And we, as we open the town board meeting, we're going to close the town board meeting. We're going to close it for matters for the CDA.

Okay, that works. I can have a motion to close the town board meeting and open the community development agency meeting. So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Okay. The CDA meeting is now open and we will turn it over to our CDA director. Ms. Storm Thomas. Hello. Hello. Thank you. Sorry. Sorry about that. We would need open comments on CDA matters only. That's the first item on the agenda. There are no resolutions or minutes from prior meetings to approve. Do we have anybody here that would like to comment on the CDA matters only? Seeing nobody in the audience and seeing that we have nobody on the audience, we can go ahead and close the meeting. CDA meeting. So we would need a motion and a second to close the meeting. So moved. Seconded. Waskey. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Okay, CDA meeting is closed. That was a great meeting. Thank you. That was painless. That was completely painless. I know. Very efficient. Okay. Supervisor. Yes, ma'am. We have announcements. Yes. We have any announcements? Yes. [transcription gap] Yes. Yes. Anybody would like to make? Councilwoman Waskey. Yes. Thank you, Supervisor. Sunday, April 28th, the Anti-Litter Committee, along with the Town of Riverhead, is hosting an Earth Day cleanup. You can come here by 9 o'clock on that Sunday morning, and we will have bags and pickers and T-shirts available for everyone that is participating. It's going to last only a few hours. It's going to last only a few hours. We're going to be able to disperse to different areas throughout the township of Riverhead, from Wading River to Jamesport, and we would love your participation. So please come on down and help us all out and get things cleaned up. Thank you. I have one. Thank you. Bob, you have one. Yes. So Saturday night is a huge benefit. It's called Rockin' for the Homeless at Polish Hall. Okay. So this Saturday night, it's usually completely packed. There's a lot of bands that are playing for free to help the cause. So that's it. What time is it? Do you know about it? I don't know. I asked him this Saturday. Okay. He didn't get it. Okay. All right. One coming. If we get that information, we can maybe put it up online, too, and let everybody know. Excellent. So I just want to take a moment, Supervisor, on your State of the Town. I want to thank you for your leadership and your guidance. It has been an absolute pleasure working with you since the first of the year. I've been fortunate to work with you for the past two years, three years prior. And I just want to say that it's really been great, your open-door policy. And I thank you for your leadership. You're doing a great job. How much? Yeah. Well, thank you. That was very nice. Very nice. I appreciate that. I mean, it's really – things have really been going wonderful. Well, I appreciate that. And I appreciate that. [transcription gap] Well, it's the Board that makes it happen. And I'm one vote, as everybody is up here. And having the five of us collectively working together has been a blessing for the Town. So I appreciate all that each and every one of you do. And the Assistant Secretary. Yeah. And I'll echo that. Thank you. Because the one thing – there was no fat in that speech. It was all meat on the bone. You know, it's just one good thing after the other. And a lot of things that are going on continue to go on. So it's good. Oh, just wait. You know the things we have in the fire right now going on town-wide. So they're only going to get better. Absolutely. Absolutely. Thank you so much. Okay. I have – Denise, do you have anything? Other than to say thank you again for all your leadership. Okay. And a great job. Thank you. Thank you. I had the pleasure today of having a meeting with the good people from the Cornell Cooperative Extension. And I have to tell you, I knew a little bit of what they did. And I'll give you an example. I had a disease in my lawn. And I dug up a sample. And I knew I could take it there. And they would test the soil and tell me what the pH was and what maybe the disease was in the grass. And they did. And I had something called red thread disease. And they told me how to treat it and whatnot. So I knew they did that. And also, I had gotten my food service certificate back when my wife and I were in the restaurant business. And I renewed that one other time. And those were the two things I ever dealt with at Cornell Cooperative Extension. After meeting with them today. I was incredible. I was incredibly impressed on the number of programs and things that they do. And I don't think the general public has any idea. And I'm going to touch on a couple real briefly here. But to get to full effect, I think we may have to ask them to come back to a work session and do a presentation to us. Because they have a little bit of something for everybody. They run the 4-H Youth Development Program, which we kind of knew. Up on Sound Avenue, they have property up there that they've worked with. They run a program. They run a program. [transcription gap] which is both a day camp and an overnight camp out in the town of South Hold, which has been running for a good number of years and been very successful. They operate the Suffolk County Farm up in Yapank, which is kind of an incredible place to go if you've never been there. They have a marine learning center and not just one, but they have several locations all around Long Island and I know they have worked hand-in-hand with the Learning Center and the Science Center with programs in the past to put specialty programs together. And they will, if you call them and you have a need for anything that they do and they don't have a specific program for you, they will actually develop a program specific to your needs and put it together and come out and do the presentation. And they mention things like if you want to learn about llamas, we'll bring a llama out to you and tell you all about llamas and let you learn and touch and learn. But there's also a lot of fun things to do there. So there's a lot of fun things to do there. But there's also a lot of fun things to do there. Incredible stuff like that. And I suggested that maybe our summer recreation camp, I'm going to put Ray Coyne, our Recreation Director, in touch with them where, because they're always looking for things to do with the kids during the summer camps, to have them come out and do different programs with them. And they would love to do it. They love to get the call and they love to put new things together that they don't currently have. So I think that'll be good one good way that the town can immediately use them. They're heavily involved in agriculture. Obviously, we know they have the Cornell substation, I'll call it for lack of a better term up on Sound Avenue, Sound and Horton. That's all Cornell Cooperative. They have a clean energy program. And Augie, who runs that, as Bob Kern knows, they'll come out and do audits of both your home and your commercial business to let you know where you can make your house more energy efficient, whether it be through lighting or weather stripping or whatever the case may be. They'll come out and it's, this is all free of charge, all the stuff that they do. They do tons of community education workshops. And just about on anything under the sun, if you go through the information they have, it's just incredible. I was really impressed with the presentation. They can be reached at, their office is right here, Caddy Corner, across from us at 423 Griffin Avenue. They can be reached at suffolk at cornell.edu, suffolk at cornell.edu. And the executive director is a lady by the name of Vanessa Lockel, extremely knowledgeable. And her staff that came to the meeting, they presented a really good program. And I encourage you to at least go online, check them out. And if you have any need for anybody to come or help you with anything, please do so. Any of the things I mentioned, plus many, many more, if you go to their website, look them up and they'd be happy to hear from you. Okay. I appreciate the time. And I was so glad they came out with us today, or came out and met with us today. Supervisor, before you move on, just to finish up on the councilman's comments about the event coming up for Rockin' for the Homeless. I was just given some additional information on it. So the specifics are it's Saturday, April 20th from 6 to 10 p.m. Doors open at 530 at Polish Hall. And advanced, tickets are sold. And they will apparently not be sold to the door. So it's advanced tickets only. They're $50 per person. You can reserve a table for 10. So the details can be further found. We'll post this on our town website. Yeah, absolutely. So we can do that. But I'm just looking to see if there's a website here. It doesn't appear to be. Rockin' for the Homeless 2024.eventbrite.com is what it says here. Okay. All right. Excellent. Thank you so much. Thank you. Supervisor, can I just mention one other thing? Yes. About the Cornell Cooperative. I was there in February. They had a symposium for local fresh fishermen. And they were asking for help. They were terrific, educating everyone in the audience. And our town is trying to work together to give them a fresh local seafood festival here in Riverhead sometime in the fall. We spoke about that today. And that would be so tremendous if we could do that here. I mean, I know like Oyster Bay does the Oyster Festival. And I think Sayville does a seafood festival. But I don't know if we could do that here. I mean, I know like Oyster Bay does the Oyster Festival. But I don't know if we could do that here. I mean, I know like Oyster Festival. But I don't know if we could do that here. I mean, I know like Oyster Festival. But that's up west. We're out east. We have a lot of people out here that we can draw from. And for our fishermen to be able to showcase what they catch locally and what they sell locally, I think would be awesome. And I look forward to that. And I'm sure the board would be more than willing to help to do whatever it needs to take to make this happen. So it's all good stuff. I'm working with Townscape, Mr. Giordullo, and Tara McClintock from the Cornell Cooperative Extension. So hopefully, I do think that's going to happen in the fall. That would be so awesome. Thank you. Maybe we can have Justin do a little flyer about Cornell Cooperative Extension, how to reach them and about all the activities. Yeah, I can give him the information and get something up. Absolutely. That's exciting stuff. Okay. All right. We're going to move on in the meeting. And now I'm going to open up the meeting to comments on any resolution. Comments on any resolution before us tonight. Actually, I'm going to backtrack that a second. We have correspondence and reports from... Oh. Okay. Yeah, we had the four letters that came in. You can visit them on the web or either on the town clerk page or on the agenda page. One letter from Sal Mangano referenced drainage on Main Street. That was referred to the state DOT. We got a letter from Harry Denny's reference to Dale Levitt. And then we got two letters, one from Jamesport Civic and one from Barbara Glass, both revolving around the comp plan and their additions to that. And that's it for correspondence. I... I... I texted back with Mr. Dennis. He used to be a schoolteacher in the Rivette school system. Yes. I remember him well from back in the day. And I let him... reminded him of that and also answered what he was asking about. So it was good to hear from him. Yeah, I reached out to him, too. Good. And I had a long conversation with him on Saturday or Sunday. Sounds like all your schoolteachers are keeping a close eye on you. Well, you know what? It's because of all my schoolteachers that I sit here today. So that is something to keep in mind because... Mr. Dennis. [transcription gap]

online? Maybe.

We are attempting to determine whether or not we have somebody online that is raising their hand and doesn't appear to be. Okay. Well, then at this point in time, I would ask the town clerk to read the resolutions and we will go through them. Okay. Resolution number 336. Authorizes the town clerk to publish and post notice to bidders for food and meat products. So moved. Second. Vote, please. Waskey. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution adopted. Resolution 337.

Authorizes the town clerk to publish and post a public notice for a public hearing regarding an alleged unsafe structure located at 1092 Dolores Avenue, Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York. Suffolk County tax map number 015. The bill is not in the bill. It is in the bill. [transcription gap] His town clerk to publish and post a notice for a public hearing regarding an alleged unsafe structure located at 650 Avenue Riverhead, New York so moved seconded. Oh, please Waski yes, very field. Yes, turn. Yes, Rothwell. Yes, Hubbard. Yes resolution adopted resolution 340 Classifies the special permit application of 4592 middle country road to construct a two-family dwelling as a type 2 action Pursuant to seeker and schedules public hearing for 4592 middle country road in Calvert in New York Suffolk County tax map number 600 dash 97 dash 1-79 point 1 so moved second vote, please Waski yes, very field. Yes, turn. Yes, well, yes Yes resolution 341 Order approving extension 99 of the Riverhead water district Maris farm subdivision so moved second It vote please Waski. Yes, very few. Yes, turn. Yes, well, yes Yes resolution adopted resolution 342 establish its standard workday for elected official so moved seconded vote, please Waski. Yes, Mary field Yes, turn. Yes, Rothwell. Yes, Albert. Yes resolution adopted resolution 343 Appoints member to the Riverhead conservation advisory board Advisory Council so moved seconded vote, please Waski. Yes Mary field. Yes, turn. Yes Rothwell Thank You Michael Radcliffe. Yes Hubbard ditto to that. Thank you Michael and I vote. Yes resolution adopted resolution 344 Ratifies the resignation of a heavy equipment operator so moved second vote, please Waski. Yes, very field Yes, turn. Yes, Rothwell Yes, Hubbard. Yes resolution adopted resolution 345 Accepts the retirement of a senior water treatment plant operator to be so moved seconded vote, please Waski. Yes, very field. Yes, turn. Yes, Rothwell. Yes, Hubbard. Yeah, congratulations to Arnold Wolfratt He's worked here for a long time one of our better workers For the town. I know Frank Mancini the head of the water department speaks very well I know Frank Mancini the head of the water department speaks very highly of him. I've known Arnold for many many years Matter of fact were blessed with his sister works here in the assessor's office Another great employee of the town and I just wish Arnold nothing but the best in his retirement. Hopefully we see him around town vote yes Resolution is adopted resolution 346 accepts the retirement of an employee so moved Seconded vote, please Waski yes, very field. Yes turn Yes, Rothwell um, I Think our town clerk has asked us all to vote no on this one Yeah, I don't think it's that simple We're gonna miss Julie. She's been awesome and myself from private business always filing certificates and so forth in the town clerk She's always been wonderful to us and after I was getting permits and things So she'll be greatly missed. So thank you very much. So regrettably I vote. Yes I'm with you on that tremendous employee great person and she will be missed and we wish her and her husband nothing but the best in in her retirement and Although I have to say I know we have somebody coming on board that I think will be equally happy with but Julie best of luck to you and thank you for all your service for the town. We appreciate it And again, good luck in your retirement. I vote. Yes Resolution is adopted resolution 347 Appoints a deputy town clerk so moved seconded vote, please Waski, yes Murrayfield, yes Kern, yes Rothwell, I think Vanessa's making a mother very proud Yes, absolutely Hubbard, yes, absolutely All right resolution is adopted and that's Vanessa Lacan Resolution 348 Setting terms and conditions of employment for deputy town clerk Vanessa Lacan so moved Second vote, please Waski, yes, Murrayfield. Yes, Kern. Yes, Rothwell. Yes Hubbard. Yes resolution adopted resolution 349 appoints deputy registrar vital statistics so moved seconded Vote please Waski. Yes, very field. Yes, Kern. Yes Rothwell. Yes Hubbard. Yes resolution is adopted resolution 348 américans américans ! américans américans seconded vote please wasky yes merrifield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yes resolution adopted resolution 351 resolution 351 i would like to make a motion to table um we are missing information on this and i believe the form was incorrectly filled out so i'm going to ask that we table this and reevaluate it and bring it back up at a later date do i have a second yes second current okay

vote on a motion to table need to vote yes you got a vote on it okay we're waiting for you okay hubbard i'm sorry yes merrifield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yes to table 351 is tabled resolution 352. authorize the supervisor to execute a stipulation with local 1000 afscme afl cio riverhead unit of the suffolk local 852. so moved second vote please wasky yes merrifield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 353. authorizes the supervisor to execute an agreement with s barcelo barcelo law plc so moved second vote please wasky yes so moved second vote please wasky yes merrifield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 354. ratifies the authorization of the town supervisor to execute a retainer agreement with s barcel barcelo law plc so moved second vote please wasky yes merrifield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 355. ratifies application for cds funding for rwd proposed exts 95 96 so moved second vote please wasky yes merrifield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yeah i just i want to thank um the senator schumer senator so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 357. Pave our potholes. POP 2023-2024 Road Resurfacing Project Number 52315. Grant budget adjustment. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waske. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 358. Capital Project 72217 Roof Repair Senior Center Closure. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waske. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Finally a job that came in under budget. We love those. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution number 359. Capital Project 72406 Budget Adoption. Parking lot at Veterans Memorial Park. So moved. And a resounding second. Vote please. Waske. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Thank you very much, Supervisor, for your work on this. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 360. Grants Agricultural Worker Housing Permit for 422 Edwards Avenue, a.k.a. Delalio Sod Farms, LLC. 422 Edwards Avenue. Calvertown, New York Suffolk County Tax Map Number 600-117-2-8.2. So moved. Second. Vote please. Waske. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 361. Before I read this, Justin, keep note of this because this should go up also. Approved Special Event Chapter 255 Application for Long Island Antique Powers. 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Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 363. Approved special event chapter 255 application for the Duck Pond Society, Duck Pond Day. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waskey. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Pray for no rain. Yes. Always rains in Duck Pond. Yes. I know. It's good for the ducks. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 364. Approved special event chapter 255 application for the Home Depot outdoor plant sale. So moved. Second. Vote, please. Waskey. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 365. Approved special event chapter 255 application for Riverhead Townscape, Inc., Riverhead Country Fair. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waskey. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is approved. Resolution 366. Approved special event chapter 255 application for Hallockville Museum Farm. américaine. américaine. américaine. américaine. second vote please waski yes Murrayfield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes Hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 367 approved special event chapter 255 application for Riverhead Townscape Inc Riverhead Townscape country fest so moved second vote please waski yes Murrayfield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes Hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 368 approved special event chapter 255 application for Riverhead Townscape Inc Blues by the river so moved second vote please waski yes Murrayfield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes Hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 369 approved special event chapter 255 resolution 355 application for Riverhead Townscape Inc holiday tree lighting ceremony so moved second vote please waski yes Murrayfield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes Hubbard these past few uh resolutions have been all events at the Townscape are putting on this year and we're very thankful all the work that they do and they help beautify our downtown area plus all the events that they work so hard to put together so we appreciate it and I vote yes resolution is adopted resolution 370. rescinds resolution 2024-286 and resolution number 2024-324 scramble Elite so moved second vote please waski yes Murrayfield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes Hubbard yes resolution has been adopted resolution 371 correct resolution 2024-2024 so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so purchase of new servers so moved seconded vote please uh waski yes maryfield yes kern yes rothwell yes public it is great but without with old servers it's not so great so we're about to make it great again with new servers i vote yes yeah what this does is put a build in redundancy right so if we lose something over pulaski it's it's here we're safe yeah resolution has been adopted resolution 374 pays bills so moved second vote please waski yes maryfield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yes resolution has been adopted resolution 375 authorizes the town board to enter into an agreement with an employee so moved seconded vote please waski yes maryfield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yes resolution has been adopted that concludes the resolutions okay that concludes all of our resolutions we had on for tonight at this point in time i'm going to open up the microphone for public open comments from the public do we have anybody who would like to make any comments from the public on any topic seeing nobody in house and nobody online where is everybody today it's too nice out okay yeah spring fever i guess everybody has okay well this concludes our town board meeting for the evening i thank everybody for coming out and everybody for tuning in um have a great evening and a great weekend thank you very much good night you

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