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Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, everybody. Today is Tuesday, June 4th, 2024. We are gathered here today for a town board meeting. And as we start all of our meetings, we're going to please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. And Dave and Tom Lessard, would you mind leading us in the Pledge of Allegiance? 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 of us. Thank you, fellas.

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Our invocation today is being done by the Deacon James Wooten. If you would go ahead, Mr. Wooten, with your invocation. Thank you. If we could pray. Dear Lord, we thank you for our community and those whom invest their time and talent to help create a place we all can call home. We ask for your grace and for your blessing on our elected officials and give them the clarity of thought as they deliberate and ponder the future and destiny of our beautiful township. We ask you to comfort those in our community who are ill and troubled. Use their pain and their struggles. We ask for your spirit to be with all our police and our first responders who have dedicated their lives to the protection and safety of all. And we ask you and praise you, Lord, to be with our... to help guide us, to enable us, to give you glory and to do your will. And we ask these things through Jesus. Amen. Amen. Thank you, James. Okay, we have a couple announcements. This weekend around town, we have a few events. I'd like to mention Friday, June 7th, CAP is holding and hosting their 37th annual Say No to Drugs March starting at Pulaski Street School. That begins at 9.30 a.m. Following the march, there will be a brief ceremony on the steps of the school. And they will address... People will address the students and the community after the ceremony. The Loyal Order of Moose Lodge number 1742 will serve a picnic lunch to all students and guests. Saturday, June 8th, the Tour de Cure American Diabetes Bike Ride at the Hallockville Museum Farm starts at 6 a.m. Check-in is at 5 a.m. Watch out for the bikers on the roads. And last but not least, Sunday, June 9th, is Duck Pond Day and Street Market in Wading River. It is an annual tradition hosted by the Duck Pond Society and Wren Design Company. The event includes food, drinks, music, arts, and crafts, vendors, and some free giveaways. So those are just a few items that are going on this weekend around here. We're going to move in and we're going to take two resolutions, or one resolution out of the pack and go a little bit out of order and start with that right now because regarding the swearing in of new police officers, we have two young men that have been working with the Town of Wren. We have head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head [transcription gap] head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head them to full-time police officers so at this time i would ask chief hagenmiller to come up um and i would ask will leonardi to come on up and board we'll go up and the chief we got a vote on the resolution you got to pass it yeah well the supervisor's eager today well they've been waiting for this for so long and i've been teasing them telling them we're going to cancel it we're going to cancel it so we're going to have mr laski come up as well just as we vote um yeah why not why don't we have both come up we want to be able to look him in the eye when we vote 534. okay 534. the appointment of probation probationary police officers to the police department second so moved vote so move vote please hi i'm sorry i just want to say congratulations the town is going to be very fortunate to have both of you on full time you've done this all on your own merit and i couldn't be prouder than the two of you and it's a very proud moment for me i can't believe how many people are in this room uh today in support of you so congratulations i'm going to abstain from the vote

yes kern definitely yes rothwell know about these two individuals great time they are exactly river head's finest and they are our future um i look forward to working with both of you these are the two best candidates that riverhead could ever ask for and two remarkable young men so i wish you excellent success and safety in all years ahead of us proudly vote yes and supervisor resounding yes and what councilman rothwell just said we've had the honor of working with you in this building both of you for a number of months now and we've also known you before that and the work that you have done is incredible uh everybody's been doing a great job and i'm very proud of you and i'm very everybody still talks about the day the bus ran into the telephone pole over here and all you saw was smoke when andrew waski went out the door and headed right over to the scene uh two great young guys and you're only going to make our department better than it already is and that's pretty hard to do because we've got a pretty good police department so welcome and godspeed to you and let's go ahead and get the uh swearing in done down well right well first yes any place special going down yeah face the um face him like you did in old town raise your right hand will be invited you solemnly swear to uphold the constitution of the united states the constitution of the state of new york and to thankfully just start to do these are they full-time riverhead police officer to the best of your abilities to help you god

thank you this is leonardo you guys want to come on up and thank you

take some pictures you stand right there with will

you want to face out to the audience and devin can you grab some shots

wait one second

look over here should we get the board in it thank you

congratulations

next up we have police officer andrew waski and this in the first time of the history of the police department we have a town councilwoman swearing in her son for the police department this is history being made you can say that yes andrew waski from james court riverhead pd pt po since 2022 do you solemnly swear to uphold the constitution of the united states the constitution of the state of new york and to faithfully discharge the duties of a full-time riverhead police officer to the best of your abilities so help you god yes i do congratulations pat this is waski come on up pat do you want to come back for like a month and work with him you feel strange you know you [transcription gap] Thank you.

[transcription gap] Congratulations. It's also probationary firefighter of the year, I believe, as well. Great. Oh, James Ford, yes, for the fire department. Fire and police. Good man. We won't ask you which one. Ford. Thank you, everyone, for coming. Our new full-time officer. That was very nice. Absolutely. I miss you guys. Thank you. See you later. Sorry. Wait, where are you going? Well, you got to stay until the end. Come on, there's coffee and cake after this. Where are you going? Is it normal to have that many people at home? Yeah, usually, yeah. Promotions and stuff and hires, yeah. Oh, good. This is different, though, because they both work for the department. So, you know, the cops know them. This is very nice. Okay, moving on. We are going to go to see if there's any communications with Mr. Wooten. Okay, on the communications, we shouldn't be there. We have correspondence, actually. We have several letters. Judith Jacob, Jacobson, Gary Sirica, Allison Matway, Meredith Ritter, Meredith Ritter twice, actually, on the comprehensive plan, and also the DEIS for the comprehensive plan. We received a letter from Kevin and Kathy Ocher, who referenced agritourism. Received a letter from the Rivet Charter School for their board of trustees. And also a letter from Michelle Smith, referenced the roadway conditions up on Williams Way in Calverton. And Cindy Clifford. What's that? And a letter from Cindy Clifford from the Valley of Leathers. Oh, yes. I forgot about Cindy Clifford, but never forgotten. A letter from Cindy Clifford for the Vale Levitt Music Hall and concerns about that. And they're all online. If you'd like to see them, just go to their website, and you can read them verbatim. Also on the reports, we have the Rivet Tax Receiver May 22nd Collection Report at $117,950,000. We also have the May 29th Rivet Tax Receiver Collection Report at $127,650,000. And we received the Riverhead IDA Annual Audited Financial Report for 2023. And that ends the reports and communications. Thank you, Jim. All right, we had three public hearings on for today. One was canceled. The one that was canceled was titled Special Permit to Family Dwellings. That has been canceled. It has to be posted and sent out, I believe, public notice. And we have one scheduled for 2 o'clock. It's about 2 o'clock. So, we have a public hearing, Increase and Improvement in the Riverhead Sewer District. And I would ask Chris Weiss to please come up to the microphone and fill us in. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, Supervisor and everybody on the board. Everybody can stay. Thank you. All right, so just a quick synopsis where we're at. Since 2019, 2019, back in the feasibility stage, all the way to 2024, this town has moved forward with plans and specs for the biosolids project and diligently have gotten to the point where we're ready to embark on the construction phase of this project. It's very exciting. And I believe this resolution is looking to assure that we match the proposed bond amount that was initially established way back in 2021 to the current project costs that match the actual construction bids that we have received just recently. Throughout the project's timeline since 2019, COVID, supply chain issues have really impacted this project cost and timeline. And this proposed bond amount of $18,650,000 includes this cost and timeline impact as it stands today. And I'd like to point out that 75% of those cost impacts are due to material labor increases during that time period. But even with that, we're still in the process of getting to the point where we're ready to go. So, I would like to thank the board for their support. I'm going to turn it over to Chris Weiss. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, sludge improvement project. The new system will lower the average sludge handling costs from $1.2 million a year to $500,000 a year, a substantial decrease. The sludge handling costs savings, along with paying off the bond over a 20-year period, equates to approximately $96,000 a year of savings for those first 20 years paying off the bond. But then when the bond is paid off, it will ratchet up to $860,000 in savings over the course of the year for the remaining 10. The total savings to the town over this life cycle of the new sludge project is $10.5 million to bring this in. I'd like to point out that in addition to the cost savings that are demonstrated by moving forward with this project, this new biosolids system is providing a huge environmental benefit also. The new process reduces waste and waste management costs, and it's a huge investment. But there's also a huge area of waste management that's being disposed of that is currently at 3,400 tons per year down to 700 tons per year. That's an 80% reduction of waste solids that have to be disposed in landfills and other places. So it's a win-win on both sides. That's a quick synopsis of where we're at today. Thank you very much for your time, and any questions, please feel free. Board, do you have any questions? I do. I have one question. I know it's like a lot of people are going to say, I'm going to go to the next one. Last time you were here, we're at 16 million. We're up to 18 million. That's the contingency? There's contingency. A lot of that is the construction cost that went up substantially. Even the vehicle for moving the sludge, the hauling the sludge, you know, from the disposal site to the storage site is went up by another $100,000. So, you know, the vehicle cost just was surprising. It went up at $120,000. Thank you. But I think either way, over time, we'll make up the money and then the savings. Yes. Even with this increase, it's still a benefit to the town from the minute the project goes online. Yep. Excellent. Thank you. Yep. Thank you. Do we have anybody online to make any comments? Do we have anybody in the audience who would like to make any comments? Okay. We will keep this open for 10 days and for written comment. And we will close that at 4 p.m. on June 14th. Thank you. [transcription gap] Okay. Our second public hearing today is a public hearing regarding chapter 301, zoning and land development. And I would ask Matt Charters to come up and give us a briefing. Mr. Good afternoon, everyone. Mr. Good afternoon. Mr. Matt Charters, senior planner for the record. Mr. Good afternoon. Mr. All right. So, we're talking about alternative parking techniques today. This is an amendment to our existing code. As the board is aware, 301.231.F.5 deals with alternative parking techniques. Mr. Thank you. technique so when the town engineer or the consulting engineer in consultation with the planning department permits on a site plan application you can use what's called pervious parking techniques so that's pervious asphalt porous concrete or other permeable sources that can be pavers it can be gravel etc so we are running into situations where applicants are going beyond the zoning requirements of a particular zone that they're in they're either going over their far or their building lot coverage but what's not happening in concert with that they're not going over their impervious surface coverage so instead of seeking a variance for all three they're only having to get variances for their building lot coverage and their their far where this is actually another thing that they would need a variance for so I will read in what the notation is going to be just to clarify that so it'll be a letter C under 231 f5 note alternative pervious paving technique shall only be permitted in place of and as an alternative to traditional drainage structures including but not limited to subsurface catch basins dry wells recharge basins retention ponds or detention ponds and shall not be utilized to exceed or circumvent maximum building lot coverage maximum floor area ratio or maximum impervious surface calculations permitted in the applicable zoning use district and shall instead be considered part of and shall contribute to the impervious surface calculation for the purposes of zoning so basically your entire parking area or your entire parking area will be permitted in the area that you are currently in the area will count toward your impervious surface calculation in a nutshell any questions questions from the thank you man Kim

I can believe judge 737 Roanoke Avenue I had already spoken to mr. charters mr. Bergman and head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head [transcription gap] with lot coverage and FAR and which driving the, and currently complies with the current impervious surface calculation. With this change, and when people use pavers, it's usually to bring down the impervious surface calculation, right, so to get that calculation number correct, or under the 25% or whatever might be in the zoning. So I have two projects in particular that currently conform, but when this gets approved, they will not comply any longer with the maximum impervious surface calculation and will have to go to the zoning board of appeals for it. And I was just wondering if there's any consideration that could be given, because right now, the way the existing code is, the town engineer and the planning department have the ability to tell an applicant whether or not they can use impervious, or impervious pavers, right? So the impervious pavers will bring down the impervious surface calculation. And I'm wondering if there's any way to get that done. And I'm wondering if there's any consideration that can be given discretion where either the building department or the planning board can say, okay, in my client's situation, we see that your project complies to lock coverage, your project complies with FAR. And if we don't let you use the impervious pavers, you're going to be way over on your impervious surface calculation. And I was talking to Mr. Charters about, he used to work in Southampton planning, and he's familiar with the building department, and he's familiar with the building inspector. And he's familiar with the building inspector's department there. And the building inspector has the discretion to determine whether or not an accessory building is in fact no longer accessory and has taken over and is now the primary use. There's no calculation number. It's up to the discretion of the building inspector if he feels that your garage, which is now twice the size or three times the size of your house, is no longer an accessory structure. He or she, the building inspector, can send it to the zoning board for an assessment. And I think that's a very important interpretation. And I was just wondering if there's any kind of discretion that could be built into this code amendment, that way you don't have zoning board of appeal applications for the situation that I'm talking about. I understand it wasn't meant to catch this code amendment, to catch the situations I'm telling you about. But I think inadvertently you are going to have applications that are going to be caught in this net. And I'm just asking the board to consider some sort of discretionary judgment on the part of planning and building that if they see that you are complying and that you did comply, and that if you do need the pervious pavers to bring down the impervious surface calculation, that you can do that without being driven into a variance situation. Thank you. Thank you. That makes a lot of sense to me. Matt is?

Go ahead, Bob. No, that makes a lot of sense to me, because it's pavers, the impervious, right? Correct. We don't want to, I don't think we're looking to penalize anyone. We're like looking for the situation where there's a whole, I say a wholesale of going beyond what's permitted by the code. However, I would think in this case with the impervious calculation, if they had to get a variance, the zoning board when offering relief would take those factors into account. So they would look at their FAR. They would look at their building lot coverage and say, okay, you're complying, so, you know, obviously, it's discretionary to the ZBA, but they could be more apt to grant you relief if you're already complying in those other two regards. Right, but that just makes the process longer. So my question to you is, and I like the suggestion that, you know, the planning department and or the building department can have some discretion. Understood. I mean, if there's board support, we can consider adding language to that effect or leave it to the ZBA. I mean, what's the rest of the board think? No. I think she made a very valid point. Yeah, like I said, we don't want to penalize. We want to make sure there's wholesale compliance to the extent that we can. So. Yeah, I would support adding language. I agree with Councilman Kern. I think that the planning board would even be happy with that and probably the ZBA. I think it's a good move. Yeah, we can tighten it up and make it very clear. I think that's an easy thing to do and obviously because we're making somewhat of a substantial change, we'll have to re-notice and bring it back. I think Eric would probably agree with that. Because I have confidence in the planning department and the building department to, you know, make that decision. Okay. Thank you. Good. Work it up and bring it back. Good. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Judge, for bringing it forward. Okay. All right. We will close the public hearing, keep it open for written comments until June 14th at 4 o'clock. And that's all we have for public hearings today. We're going to move on. We're going to move on to comments on resolutions. But before I do that, we have resolution number 556. And from what I understand, there's an interest in wanting to possibly table this 556. Is there support to table? Yeah, I just think, honestly, Supervisor, this came across at 4.30 yesterday. And I'd like to be able, personally, to be able to sit down with the town attorney's office to kind of review the implications of it and the timeframe of it. This is a major step forward. And I think, you know, who does it affect? What landowners? Are we keeping the verbiage the same? But in addition, are we in compliance? So we had reached out to Suffolk County, and they said that we could do this for six months, I believe. And so now we're extending it. So we may be in violation of that. I'd like to know. I'd like to be able to have a little time other than putting something forward at 4.30 when all this, all the town offices are closed. And I could not be here personally this morning attending a funeral service. I just think you've got to be able to give us time to properly govern. I support that as well. You know, I respect your email that you sent that something of this magnitude needs discussion. And, you know, and so I would support tabling it. Okay. Do I have a motion to table resolution 2024? Yes. 2024, 5-5-6. I'll make a motion. Second. Okay. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? I'm opposed. I'd like to go forward with this. I'm opposed also. So let me do a roll call then. Waskie? Yes. Yes to table? Yes to table. Merrifield? No. Kern? Yes to table. Rothwell? Yes to table. Supervisor? No to table. Okay. Motion to table is carried. I'm more open if you want to put this on the work session on Thursday and want to discuss it and its ramifications and we can learn about it. But it just, it's, you know, we got to get . That's what we will do. We will have it on for work session Thursday so you can discuss about it. Okay. Moving on, we're going to go to comments on any resolution. Comments on any resolution. Do we have anybody in the audience who would like to make a comment on any of the resolutions? Okay. Okay. Do we have anybody online? We have nobody online that would like to make comments. Okay. How boring. Let's go off and start on the resolutions. Okay. Resolution 513. Resolution 513. Water District Capital Project 82411, East End Food Institute budget adoption. So moved. Second. Vote please. Waskie? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Motion adopted. Resolution 515. Water District Capital Project 82411, West End Food Institute budget adoption. So moved. Second. Vote please. Waskie? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution adopted. Resolution 515. Water District Capital Project 82401, 901-903, Scotts Avenue budget adoption. So moved. Okay. Resolution 515. Water District Capital Project 82410, West End Food Institute budget adoption. So moved. Second. Vote please. Waskie? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution adopted. Pop. New York. 2024. 2025. Road resurfacing. Grant budget. So moved. Second. Vote please. Waskie? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Kern? Yes. Yes. Merrifield? Yes. [transcription gap] Yes.

Resolution adopted. Resolution 517. Chips. 2024. 2025. Road resurfacing. Grant budget. So moved. Second. Vote please. Waskie? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 518. Pave New York. 2024. 2025. Road resurfacing. Grant budget. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waskie? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 519. EWR 2024-2025. Road resurfacing. Grant budget. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waskie? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 520. Calverton Parks Community Development Agency budget transfer. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waskie? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 521. Authorization to publish and post public hearing to amend Town Code Chapter 221 to establish Community Preservation Fund Water Quality Improvement and Pollution Prevention Committee. So moved. Second. Vote please. Waskie? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution adopted. Resolution 521. Calverton Parks Community Development Agency budget transfer. Resolution 522. Resolution 522. Establish a standard work day for elected official. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waskie? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 523. Classify special permit application of Riverhead Charter School temporary trailers as a type two action pursuant to SIGRA and scheduled public hearing 5117 Sound Avenue, Riverhead, New York. Suffolk County Tax Map number 600-20-4-3. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waskie? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? So this is just a public hearing. We're not granting permission for use of the trailers, correct? Correct. So just a public hearing. I'll hear from the public, yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 524. Extends bid to the public hearing. I'll hear from the public, yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 524. Extends bid to the public hearing. I'll hear from the public, yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution 524. Extends bid for corrosion control chemical P04. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waskie? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 525. Downtown Revitalization Project Grant Funding for Adoptive Playgrounds. So moved. Second. Vote please. Waskie? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution adopted. Resolution 526. Ratifies an extension of a leave of absence. Non Proton. So moved. Second. Vote please. Waskie? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution adopted. Resolution 527. Ratifies an extension of a leave of absence. Non Proton. So moved. Second. Vote please. Waskie? yes Rothwell yes yes resolution is adopted resolution 5 to 8 reappoints members to the small business advisory committee so moved seconded vote please waski yes Merrifield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes Hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 529 reappoints members to the town or Riverhead Beach Advisory Committee so moved second vote please waski yes Merrifield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes yes resolution adopted resolution 530 appoints a fire prevention inspector so moved seconded vote please waski yes Merrifield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes yes congratulations to Liam on passing the civil service exam no provision and getting hired full-time okay resolution is adopted resolution 531 appoints an automotive equipment operator so moved second vote please waski yes Merrifield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes Hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 532 appoints automotive equipment operators so moved seconded vote please waski yes Merrifield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes Hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 533 appoint seasonal traffic control specialists so moved second vote please waski yes Merrifield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes Hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 535 authorize a Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Submission Sub was I would like to hear the difference yeah yes of Murrayfield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes Howard yes resolution is adopted resolution 537 authorizes the Community Development Department to apply for grants for water district infrastructure for the Riverhead water district he meant department to apply for a grant well had treatment for the removal of PFA components at well number 5-2 a so moved second vote please wasky yes Murrayfield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes yes resolutions is adopted resolution 538 authorizes the supervisor to execute an agreement authorizing the town to accept funds from Suffolk County office of the City of

Aging to supplement the town's expanded in-home services for the elderly program so moved second vote please wasky yes Murrayfield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes Howard yes resolution is adopted resolution 539 authorizes the supervisor to execute an agreement with authorizing the town to accept funds from Suffolk County office of the Aging to supplement the town's expanded in-home services for the elderly program so moved second vote please wasky yes Murrayfield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes Howard yes resolution is adopted resolution 540 authorize supervisor to execute a license agreement with DMS apex holdings LLC to utilize runway at EPCA also moved second vote please wasky yes Murrayfield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes yes resolution is adopted resolution 541 authorizes the supervisor to execute a professional service agreement with LIRO GIS Inc so moved second vote please wasky yes Murrayfield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes yes resolution is adopted resolution 542 authorizes the supervisor to execute an agreement with VHB engineering surveying or landscape architecture and geology pc thank you so moved seconded vote please waski yes merrifield yes kern yes rothwell yes covered yes resolution is adopted resolution 543 authorizes the supervisor to execute contract with new york state efc green innovation grant program for meeting house creek restoration project so moved second vote please waski yes merrifield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 544 authorizes the supervisor execution of certification and point of contact information sheet with the department of navy of navy loaned aircraft so moved seconded vote please waski yes merrifield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 545 meeting house creek wetland restoration secret lead agency and negative declaration suffolk county tax map number 600-67-2-27.1 so moved second vote please waski yes merrifield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five forty five so referee service for the town of Riverhead Police Athletic League girls and boys soccer program for the fall 2024 soccer season so moved seconded full please wasky yes Merrifield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes yes resolution is adopted resolution 547 approved special event chapter 255 application for the railroad museum Riverhead Railroad Festival 2024 so moved seconded vote please wasky yes very few yes Kern yes well yes yes resolution is adopted resolution 548 approved special event chapter 255 application for the scorpion run so moved seconded vote please wasky yes Merrifield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes you yes resolution is adopted resolution 549 approved special event chapter 255 application for chicken kids October 8th through October 13th so moved second vote please wasky yes Merrifield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes Hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 550 approved special event chapter 255 application for landscape contractors association of Long Island L C américans américans event chapter 255 application for the pc richards memorial day tent sale and barbecue so moved second vote please waski yes merrifield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 552 riverhead sewer district biosolids improved improvements bond authorization amendment so moved second vote please waski yes merrifield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 553 public interest order for the riverhead sewer district biosolids improvement bond in the town of riverhead suffolk county new york so moved second vote please waski yes merrifield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution five five four authorizes town clerk to publish and post notice to amend chapter 301 zoning and land development part three supplementary regulations article 11. 51 51 51 how about that wireless communications towers and antennas so moved second vote please waski yes merrifield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution five five five authorizes the town clerk to publish and post notice to amend chapter 301 zoning and land use development part one general provisions article one title purpose definitions and interpretations section 301-3b definitions word usage so moved second vote please waski yes merrifield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yes Resolution is adopted. Resolution 557. Retabled. No. No, no, I'm sorry. That's right. Go ahead. What is 557? Yeah, 557. Is that true, Ken? Didn't we? Okay, sorry. Secret. I apologize. I'm holding the wrong one in order. 557. Yep. Secret determination for Riverhead Water District well number 5-2A. So moved. Second. Vote, please. Waskey. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 558. Pay as bill. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waskey. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 559. Sets terms and conditions of employment for a senior purchasing agent. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waskey. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Teresa, you do a great job. Thank you very much. I proudly vote yes. Hubbard. Yes. Teresa, you've hit the ground running from the day you first started here, and we appreciate it. Good job. Congratulations. Go, girl. Resolution is adopted. Now get back upstairs and go to work. Yeah. What are you doing down here? That concludes the resolutions. Okay. That concludes all of our resolutions. We'll now open up comments from the... I do. I have one more resolution... ... that you needed to call for. Oh. ... the bonding resolution. ... ... ... ... ... ...

Thank you. This is for wellhead treatment on well 5-2A. It's a bonding resolution, and it's needed for the grant application. And it's extremely time sensitive, obviously. June 14th is right around the corner. This will be indexed as resolution 5-6-1. 5-6-2? Yes. Okay. Who wants to read it? Ratify a call for a public hearing to be held on June 14th, 2024. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waskie. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution has been adopted. That's if you're taking it off the floor, and now we have to vote on. We're taking it off the floor. Now they vote on it. Now we vote on it. Same thing again, Bob. Read it again. Oh. Wait. What am I reading? First one was to vote to take it off the floor. Okay. What's this? Yes. Same one again. Okay. Ratify a call for a public hearing to be held on June 14th, 2024. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waskie. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Now the resolution has been adopted. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. All right. That concludes all of our resolutions. I'm going to now open. Sure. I'm positive this time. Theresa, you're still here. I'm going to open it up. We need pens. Comments from the public. Do we have anybody in the audience who would like to make any comments regarding anything? Okay. All right. So we have a motion. So moved. Second. So moved. [transcription gap] All right. Good afternoon. John Cullen from Northville. I'd like to talk about the eminent domain of the Long Island Children's Center that was brought up a couple of weeks back. I wish I knew about it earlier and I would've spoken before the resolution. Are you referring to the Science Center? Yes, I am. The Long Island Children's Center. Okay. Children's Center. Okay. Okay. Like I said, I wish I knew about it earlier. Do you want to have Dawn come back in? Sure. [transcription gap] That's a tough thing, eminent domain. Tim, I remember, excuse me, Supervisor, I remember that one time on the corner of Sound Avenue and Penny's Road, they wanted to do a takeover that home. And before that meeting, you came in and you tabled that meeting because you had spoken with the owner of that property and disappeared, never heard about it again because she has her property and it all goes well. I hope the same thing can be happened with my friend Larry Oxman. Just to let you know, I know Larry Oxman longer than anyone in this town, probably anyone on this board. We've been friends for many, many years, going back to the 70s. Larry's got a great family. I've been to the cardboard boat races when Larry's kids won the race, and the smile on their faces was incredible. Nothing, I mean, every parent would love to see a smile that I saw that day and the joy between them all. As far as Long Island. Sorry, I get a little nervous when I'm up here. Children's Science Center goes, Larry invited me to come over for a couple of meetings there, and they all went very well. And when I was there one time, a child came in and was doing some investigating and doing some work over there, and one of the volunteers went over and helped that child. And you could tell the smile on that child's face, how great it was. Now, you're thinking of taking over this property, right? Down there in the prime time of our little town square that's happening. And I don't know why you wouldn't want to have a children's center there. Would you ever just think of yourselves, I'd say your children, but maybe your grandchildren, taking them there and watching them work and do things in the center, having a great time, and then maybe going out and have a little ice cream cone afterwards. It would be fabulous. I think that location is fabulous. I wish the town would work. I wish the town would work better with Larry Oxman and the center. And I hope that this will also happen. I wish I had more to say, but as I get up here, I get a little nervous and I kind of forget things that I want to say, honestly. But I think it's a great thing for the town square. I don't understand why you're thinking of doing the domain there. I just hope that there's nothing in the background that brings a hotel or more housing or that. I think we have enough of it between. All the apartment buildings I've seen go up in the last five, eight years. You know, the library over here, right down Main Street. Every other building seems to be wanting to expand, going up above the the music hall across the street. Expansion, expansion, expansion, expansion. Let's do something for the children of this town. Let's do something for the children of the other towns that would like to come in by bus and have field trips to the children's center. I hope that can work. Thank you. Thank you, John. Good afternoon, Larry Oxman. This was not planned, so I didn't plan on speaking. Yes, Johnny and I have known each other for a very, very long time. But just to follow up first, it's it's the Long Island Science Center. I'm on the board of directors. There is a board of directors. So it's really again, we have a personal relationship, John and I. But it's it's not me. It's the Long Island Science Center. It's a board of directors. We've been at this for a very long time. Executive director. We educate, I don't know, over 200 schools that either come to Riverhead or we go out and do educational programs there. Again, I hadn't planned on speaking. But I guess if you don't want us there. Where do you want us? Thank you. We have anybody else from the public who would like to comment. We have nobody online. OK. We have seen nobody else coming up. I make a motion to close the town board meeting. Second. All in favor. Aye. All opposed. The town board meeting is closed. Thank you, everybody.

Thank you.