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Thank you. [transcription gap] Okay. I don't think the second one is here. Daniel Lersh. I believe he was at a trip today and he couldn't make it either. But in first place is Thomas Schmidt. Yay! Right for the prize.

Look at this young man.

Thank you. Thank you.

Okay, the 78-year-old group winners. In third place is Akir Mims. Is Akir here? Okay, we got notifications. He may not be here either. And second place is Odin Deniseski. Yay!

I want this one, right? This one's real. Is he a parent? Do you want to come up? No. He's a kid. He's a kid.

Okay. Thank you.

Okay, first place is Joanna Cannell Crespo. Joanna? No? Okay. Moving on to the 9- to 12-year-old age group winners. In third place, we have Sophie Murphy. Yay! Sophie! Sophie!

Congratulations.

You have a parent? Are you a mom?

Mom, parent, or anybody want to come up? Yeah, Mom. All right. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Congrats. Thank you.

Okay, in first place is Hayden Makua-Salon. Do you want to come up? Do you want to come up?

Hold on. You're going to be dead now.

Good job everyone, thank you

Congratulations again to all of our winners. I have a couple of announcements today to make. As you're likely aware, there is currently a town-wide flood watch in effect through Wednesday tomorrow at noon. The weather forecast for the whole week indicates persistent rain, so the watch may well be extended beyond Wednesday. Please take necessary precautions now, particularly those living in flood-prone and low-lying areas. Highway Superintendent Mike Zaleski and his team have been busy preparing for the storm by proactively pumping problem areas in order to make room for additional water. Chainsaws, chippers and tree trucks are all prepped and ready to go as there are three trailer pumps and two giant sucker trucks. Our highway crews will be busy this week, so please be patient as they work to keep our roads clear. We'll 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 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 issues around town. The Live on 25 event scheduled for this Friday, August 9th, has been postponed to August 23rd. They're expecting rain on Friday so they're giving everybody plenty of notice and all the vendors plenty of time to know that it's going to be postponed to August 23rd. It's a Friday also and same time, same location. Riv-Ed Recreation Department has announced that beaches will be closed as of 2 30 today. All other alerts and programming changes will be posted on the riverheadrecreation.net website and their social media pages. I would like to take a moment to recognize the heroic action of several of our local police officers who rescued three people from a house fire yesterday about a quarter to seven in the evening. P.O. William Lenardi, P.O. Matthew Suprema, P.O. John Dalem and Sgt. John

Giuseppe Rosini were the four officers involved in getting three people out of the house in time. The house was fully engulfed when the officers arrived and they actually suffered a couple minor burns and had to be treated briefly but everybody was out of the house safe and the investigation is ongoing with the fire marshal's office but a big thank you to our police officers, our firemen, our fire departments who came from other towns to assist with the fire, our EMTs for being there and standing by. It was a great job by all and we're very proud of our EMS and PD in the town of Riverhead so congrats to them all. Just as an update if I can answer that supervisor we did have one firefighter that did go to the hospital last night. I spoke to him this morning. He's doing very well at home so thank God for that and thank God for watching over them. Great work they do. Absolutely. Absolutely. Town Clerk Mr. Wooten do you have something you'd like to speak on? Yes. If anybody had a chance to read Riverhead Local about the transcriptions of minutes that's something that the board and I have been discussing since the beginning of the year. It's actually a practice that we haven't done all year long so it's odd that it came up now but there's a transition happening with Granicus which is an agenda maker that we have with our we've had since 2018 and that's sunsetting and there's limitations to that particular web-based program. And because of that we've been able to get some of our information out there. Well, since it's sunsetting myself along with Southampton, South Hold and all the area towns are looking for another agenda making software program and there's quite a few out there. And we've been investigating that all year long with three different companies. Civic Plus, One Meeting and eScribe. Looks like we're narrowing it down to a certain company. In fact I got a meeting on Friday with Brookhaven Town with their officials and their clerks to look at the program that they're running in Brookhaven. This particular new software has the ability with the AI that people have been talking about. To go ahead and I can earmark the video and then get a live transcription. An AI transcription of the verbiage that's used. And that's easy enough to print out and have my staff if it needs to be cleaned up. Because you know how it is when you voice text. It doesn't always say what you meant it to say. But that coupled with the video will be able to go ahead and create a live transcript. A verbatim transcript. Oddly enough other towns don't do verbatim transcripts. They do minutes based on what's there. I mean there's some things I can add to the minutes like who might have spoken favor or against but verbatim minutes is something that no other town does. But we're looking to improve that and the reason there was a lapse in that, here it is August so it's eight months later, but was one we weren't sure about our particular transcriptionist that was doing it for us she couldn't do it anymore. And then I tried to hire her to do limited just for public meetings, public hearing meetings and she agreed and then she backed up said her health was to a point where she really couldn't do it anymore. But there's a digital recording of every meeting you watch that TV screen up there that's exactly what's being recorded. Everything is being archived so we have a digital recording of every every meeting. So any minutes that have to be created as far as verbatim minutes can be done very easily by staff if we need to recreate something for litigation or we have to recreate something for clarification. So nothing's lost. And I try not to look at the blogs and I'm not going to harp on that, but there's just a lot of misinformation out there. And I talk about transparency and lack of transparency. There is nothing more transparent than a video. It shows you tone. It shows you what was said. It shows you reactions. It shows you facial expressions. There's nothing more transparent than watching something and watching somebody, how they speak. Speaking is very important and how you say something and how you react to something can't be read. It has to be watched. We will continue to improve what we're doing now through computers and through AI and everything to make it to move into the next century, really. But verbatim transcriptions are on the horizon. As soon as we settle down, because like I said, the IQM2 that we're using now is sunsetting. In fact, all support for that stops October of next year and then the entire program goes away October of 27. But we're going to be way ahead of the game probably in the next few weeks with settling down on a vendor and moving into a new age of AI, looking for that that way. And I apologize to the board. I know you got pulled into this. It was some sort of a decision made that you were involved in and you weren't. I mean, we had the discussions early on in February and you let me run with the ball. So I'll take the heat for that. It had nothing to do with you. And that's all I got to say. Thank you. Thank you, Jim. Good job, Jim. Jim, do we have any correspondence and reports? We do. We had two letters, one from Cindy Clifford about the meeting transcriptions. That was the, I guess, the epitaph of that opinion piece. And one from Janet Bidwell as well. We had several letters with two letters on the comprehensive plan update. And then most of the other communications we had are all about the special permit for 374 Main Road. We've had several letters and what I like to call me too letters that were sent in by just a few people. And I'll just say that we have a copy of the letter that everybody signed. And all those names are listed on the agenda as well as on the minutes. And those letters can be read verbatim on the website. If you go on the website, we print everything for everybody to see. And that's it for communications. Under reports, we received the Riverhead Police Department monthly report for the month of June. And we also received the Riverhead Building Department collections for the month of July, which was $211,440.00. $457.75. And that completes our reports. Okay. Thank you very much. All right, we're moving on to public hearings. We have four public hearings scheduled for today. The first public hearing is scheduled for 205. It is now 220. And it's a public hearing special permit for 431 Griffin Avenue. And we have Heather Trojanowski coming on up to talk to us about that. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. For the record, Heather Trojanowski, planner for the Town of Riverhead. I will just give a brief overview. And I'm confirming with the clerk's office that you received the mailings and the affidavit. I did receive the mailings and the affidavit. Perfect. All right. So this is a public hearing for a special permit application. Seeking approval to convert an existing office building into a single family dwelling. The subject parcel is located at 431 Griffin Avenue in Riverhead. More particularly, Riverhead. Thank you. identified as Suffolk County tax number 600-128-1-30 and it is within the DC3 zoning use district where single family dwellings are especially permitted use. Brief history on the property, it was a single family dwelling, it was converted to an office building and now needs a special permit to go back to a single family dwelling. We have the applicant here, Ike Israel, if he wants to come up or if anyone has any questions. Okay, does anybody from the public wish to speak on for this public hearing? Counselor, come on up. Good to see you, Mr. Cuddy. Thank you. Nice to be here. Mr. Cuddy, 445 Griffin Avenue, Riverhead, New York. I appear for the two owners immediately to the north, 445 and 440. We have no objection to being a single family dwelling. We'd be happy with it. Our concern is it does not become more than a single family dwelling and we would hope that the board would ask the sponsor, the applicant, to put a covenant on this property to say that it will remain as a single family dwelling and not be more than that. But otherwise, we're satisfied with it being a single family dwelling. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Do we have anybody else who would like to comment? We have nobody online on Zoom. Okay. Supervisor, I just have a quick question for Heather. Do we have the posting proof, Heather? Yes, I confirmed with the clerk that they provided the update and actually drove past it the other day and the sign is up. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Having seen nobody else to make comment, we'll close the public hearing and keep it open for written comment for 10 days and that will be at the end of the day on August 16th. We'll keep it open until August 16th. All right. We are on to public hearing number two today, scheduled for 2-10. It is 2-23 and it's a public hearing on Chapter 301, Zoning and Land Debt. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. [transcription gap] it just simply clarifies that the zoning use the specific zoning use must specifically permit it as the as of right use or require a special permit from the town board and then it clarifies what a one-family dwelling is and the requirement that it be owner-occupied okay you have anybody from the public who would like to comment on this public hearing and we have nobody online all right we will close the public hearing and keep it open for 10 days till August 16th at the close of business okay nice and easy okay public hearing number three scheduled for 2 15 it is 2 24 public hearing chapter 251 noise and public news nuisances who do we have come in up Eric that you too that would be me as well this is the amendment we discussed in work session probably a month maybe a month and a half ago but creating an exception for paving of parking lots which currently fall fall under a construction activity that we would typically require be done during the daytime simply to facilitate ease of ease of paving a parking lot without cars in it this creates an exception where they can make application to the town board for for the permission to pave overnight without the necessity of going to a public hearing which can require which can require them to basically wait for a month or more for us to for us to schedule that it doesn't eliminate the town boards ability to require them to go to a public hearing but creates an easier avenue to do that if it's being done in an area where there's less concern about it disturbing residential properties okay okay we have anybody from the public who would like to comment on this public hearing we have nobody online also okay well we will close this public hearing and keep it open for 10 days which will be August 16th at the close of business our last public hearing scheduled for 2 20 p.m. it is now 226 is a public hearing on chapter 217 front yard parking restrictions you again this is me again right okay this is this this affects a provision of code that we adopted approximately a year and a half ago to address a persistent parking of cars in front yards we've also implemented code requiring properties to have defined front yards where cars aren't going to be parked unfortunately it hasn't had the effect that we needed it to we in we put in initially an exception for for a homeowner who out of necessity or emergency or because of having guests over or something had cars parked in the front yard for less than 24 hours this has created difficulty in enforcement and so we are eliminating that exception but in the event that these that these violations are issued and someone's required to go to justice court to deal with them you know the specific circumstances of why the cars were parked in the front yard would be deferred either to the prosecutors discretion or of course they could make their case to one of our justice court judges okay we have anybody from the public who would like to comment on this public hearing everybody did the cat take your tongue today what happened everybody today building an arc having seen nobody and nobody on up Fred come on Fred two houses down from my house they put in a big I want to it's not a two family it's two houses condo they call it and it was done around the same time that the town said no more parking in front of your house which was a few months ago they gave this person two persons it's going to be two separate homes asphalt pads in front of their house to hold four cars and four cars and what's coming up next is a seven lot subdivision right down the street on the right side and they're going to do the same with them I believe and I even said to the people there I just spoke to the councilwoman here to go look at it if they push the house back so they could put the cars in front and not on the side and then they put the air conditioner on the side so you can't drive back to instead of in the back this is common sense I think I don't have it but that's I heard about it right Thank You Fred Fred can you just state your name and your name for the record I can't do that Frederick Mars land and what else town of Rivet 207 Maple Avenue and the wonderful town of Riverhead yeah there you go we all know thanks Fred dinner yeah okay nobody else nobody online I make a motion we close this public hearing and keep it open for 10 days which would be August 16th at the close of business that's it on all of our public hearings so we will move on now to comments on resolutions comments on resolutions we have one online let's take that first so 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] on resolution 698. It's the resolution that refers the FGEIS dated July 2024 to the board for finding a final GEIS. And the first thing I'd like to point out is the resolution, I think, has an issue. It says that the FGEIS is dated July 2024. I think it needs a date, not, you know, some day in July. That's one observation. I don't know if anybody's looked at that, but I think that's rather odd that it's dated July 2024. My second question is, hmm, at the work session on the 1st of August, the FGEIS and the comp plan update were both discussed, and that was a public meeting. And all documents discussed at public meetings are supposed to be available upon request and are to be posted on the agency website under Section 103E of the Open Meetings Law. Neither document was made available. They weren't available before this, the work session, or during the work session. And I know that a request was made of the planning department after that session for a copy of both documents, and they were denied. And I think we have a violation of law here, and I'd be interested to know Why they were denied, because the SECRA handbook clearly says in Chapter 6, Section C, Recordkeeping and Disclosures, Paragraph 4, that all SECRA documents are public documents and must be made available for public review. This includes even pre-draft EISs. They are all public documents pursuant to requests under FOIL. And when they're available under FOIL, they need to be made available to the public during a work session. So I'd like to know what's going on and why these haven't been made available. The resolution says that you will make them available, but they haven't been made available. And I think this resolution should be tabled until these violations are corrected. And I'm also interested. I'm interested in knowing why we can't see the redline version of the changes to the comp plan update. At that work session, there were some, what do you call them? There were some summaries of what had been done in the redline version. But the redline version wasn't available. And everything has been online on the comp plan. And I don't see any changes. I don't see any changes. I don't see why the redline version of whatever happened as a result of all the public comments shouldn't be available to us. So I'd really like to find out what's going on and ask you to table this resolution. Mr. Howard, can you explain what's happened here? At the moment, I can ask the planning department to speak as to why it wasn't posted. But I would assume it's because the deep... The FGEIS is still in draft form. So what we would have is we have the draft and then we have the comments that were presented by our consultants at the work session. And assuming that the town board adopts this, they would incorporate those comments into the final. And then that would become the final document. That's correct. Yeah, but the draft, under the secret handbook, it says clearly that all draft documents should be...are public documents and should be made available. Correct. And we have that draft. We have full clear clear [transcription gap] it is because it wasn't made public in a timely fashion when it was discussed at the work session. As you're likely aware, there's no public comment or review on a FGIS, so it's coming for an acceptance and the public can review it, but there's no public comment period, so likely nothing would change. And I appreciate that, Matt. I do appreciate that, but they're supposed to be made available to the public. You all were able to see it. We should be able to see what had happened. That's what will happen after this meeting. People can give you input. I just think it's, I mean, the public was denied access that it should have had. I think it's wrong. I think that's true. Am I right in disagreeing with that? Correct. Yeah, I would say so. Because the comments were presented in a PowerPoint by our planners, right, at the work session. Those are changes that are being made to the draft based on the public comments at the public hearing. I don't think it's productive to really argue about this. What I would say is what was discussed at the work session is the changes that have been made. We're accepting the FGIS today. It will be made available for public review at some point in the future. The town board will accept finding statements and adopt a draft on the plan in the future. This was specifically explained by BFJ. Correct. During that process. Same process. Specifically explained. Yes, this is the same process that happened for the DGIS. Correct. I'm sorry, but you all are wrong. And Mr. Howard, I would urge you to go to the seeker handbook and the open meetings law. I'm familiar with the open meetings law. Those documents were available to the town board. They were discussed at the work session, and we should have been able to have them. It may not be productive to argue about it, and I won't say anything more, but that was a violation of the law, and you all need to clean up your act. It's not fair to the public. Thank you. Okay, Madam Perfect, thank you. We appreciate that. We have somebody else online. Thank you. Okay.

Sometimes people in life make mistakes. We tend to forgive them. Some people do, some people don't. But Supervisor, I would contend that there's no mistake. Well, I know. This is the process. Exactly. Exactly. Okay. Any other comments on any resolutions today? John, you better be perfect. Perfect up there. I'm going to call you out on it. There's some language creeping in, which on both the public and from the board, which is not so great. At any rate, John McAuliffe, Rolling Woods. This is on that same resolution and maybe a narrower point, but when I looked at it, there's a whereas clause, which says that whereas BFJ planning on behalf of the town of Riverhead reviewed, incorporated, and responded to all comments on the DGEIS. Now, I commented. I didn't receive a response. Now, maybe that's because it wasn't considered substantive, whatever substantive means. It's all listed in there. Every comment was put in that. Where? I didn't receive anything. I mean, did Pete? It's posted online, right? It's posted online in the DGEIS? No, no. Matt, you want to clarify? Yeah. Because it's bad information from one caller that just snowballs into bad information. It's bad information all throughout the town, and if you're going to accuse somebody of wrongdoing, have your facts straight before you do that, and that saves a lot of this nonsense that gets put out into the community of misnomers. So, that's it. Go ahead, Matt. So, John, you won't receive a personal response, but once the town board accepts the FGIS, all comments that were received on the DGEIS are incorporated into the FGIS. Either if they're substantive, they're responded to specifically in how they were addressed or not. If they're not substantive, it'll say comment noted, but every comment we received on the DGEIS is in the FGIS, which is going to be accepted at this meeting today, which everyone will be able to see. And they'll see that online? Correct. It'll be posted after. Yep. It's not an accusation. It's an uncertainty. The language sounded like comments were responded to. It wasn't clear that comments were responded to just online. Okay. The assumption, perhaps a common sense. The assumption I made. Semantics, John. Semantics. If you sent in a comment, you would get a direct response to your comment, but that was not the case. But simply, and I will look and see and see whether I rose to the substantive or whether it was simply dismissed out of hand. Okay. Anybody else with comments on resolutions today? Nobody online? Seeing nobody else in the audience, we will go to resolution. Resolutions. Jim, would you please read the resolution talk? Sure. The first resolution up is Resolution 680. Ratifies approval of the Purchasing Department request for change order number four related to bid for renovation slash modification of certain portions within Town Hall at 4 West 2nd Street. So moved. Second. Vote, please. Waske. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 681. So moved. Second. Vote, please. Waske. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Vehicles are falling apart. They need to be replaced. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution number 682. Budget transfer for code enforcement vehicle purchase. So moved. Second. Vote, please. Waske. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Waske. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Waske. Yes. Yes. Waske.

Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 683. Budget transfers for Veterans Memorial Park parking lot. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waske. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 684. Approves expenditure and budget transfer of community benefit funds, Nextera, agricultural and open space, and the community. Second. américans. [transcription gap] Murrayfield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 686. Water District Capital Project 82330, Budget Adjustment for Construction Fees. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waskey? Yes. Murrayfield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 687. Sewer District. Whoops. Sorry. No. Sewer District Capital Project 82210, Budget Adjustment and Purchase of Transportation Vehicle for Biosolids Facility. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waskey? Yes. Murrayfield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution. You almost had me change all my minutes when you started making the rest. Resolution 688. All right. Here's a big one. Everyone listen up. Establishes Capital Project for Downtown Parkway. Yes. Waskey? Yes. Murrayfield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 689.

Appoints Deputy Financial Administrator. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waskey? Yes. Murrayfield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Waskey? Yes. Murrayfield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Thank you, Dan. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 691. Appoints Deputy Financial Advisor. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waskey? Yes. Murrayfield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. améric améric améric améric Rothwell yes Hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 692 points member to senior citizen advisory council Parker so moved second vote please Waski yes Murrayfield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes Hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 693 reappoints member to senior citizen advisory can council Livingston so moved second vote please Waski yes Murrayfield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes Hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 694 reappoints member to the senior citizen advisory council Livingston so moved second vote please Waski yes Murrayfield yes Kern yes Rothwell yes Hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 695 promotes Andrew Smith to chief fire marshal so moved second it vote please Waski yes congratulations Andrew Murrayfield yes Kern congratulations Andrew you're doing a great job yes Rothwell the most knowledgeable person for the job thank you vote yes Hubbard what they all said yes resolution is adopted resolution 696 accepts donation from Suffolk County PAL so moved second vote please Waski yes Murrayfield yes Kern yes Rothwell just a question of these helmets for our meeting or no these are just ads don't even get the helmets vote yes yes resolution is adopted resolution 697 grants preliminary approval with conditions for the site plan application of Tomcat Realty Holdings LLC 901 dash 932 Scott Avenue Calvin Street ! [transcription gap] !. ! ! ! [transcription gap] ! [transcription gap] ! ! [transcription gap] ! ! ! ! ! ! ! [transcription gap] ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! [transcription gap] ! ! !

Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. This is the money for the police cameras, body cameras. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 700. Authorize a supervisor to execute a license agreement with Adenko Inc. to utilize runway at EPCAL Somu. Seconded. Vote, please. Waski? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern?

Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? This will allow the town police department to do DWI enforcements between now and the end of the year, so absolutely yes. Resolution is adopted. I'll drink to that. Okay. Thank you. [transcription gap] Okay. Resolution 702. Sets public hearing for the special permit application of Riverhead Charter School Portable Trailers 5117 Sound Avenue, Riverhead, New York, Suffolk County. Tax map number 600-20-4-3. So moved. Second. Vote, please. Waski? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? This is just a public hearing. To listen to the public. I vote yes. Yes to the public hearing. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 703. Adopts a local law to amend Chapter 301 of the Riverhead Town Code entitled Zoning and Land Development Section 253, thereof entitled Prohibited Signs. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waski? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 704. Sub abges. [transcription gap] 705. Adopts local law to amend Chapter 257, Peddling and Soliciting. So moved. Second. Vote please. Wosky. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 706. Adopts local law to amend Chapter 301, Zoning and Land Development, Part 3, Supplementary Regulations, Article 51. 51. Wireless Communication Towers and Antennas. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Wosky. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 707.

I don't have that one. I didn't get that. Okay. Adopts local law to amend Chapter 301, Zoning and Land Development, Part 1, General Provisions Article 1, Title, Purpose, Definitions and Interpretation. You're on 707. Which one are you on? That's right. 707. I'm sorry. Interpretation Section 301-3B, Definitions, Word Usage. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Wosky. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. I was reading the wrong one. Resolution 708. Ratifies authorization for designated alcohol service vendor to serve. Alcohol at the 2024 Alive on 25 Street Festival. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Wosky. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. To August 23rd, right? 28th, I think. It's the rain date? It was the rain date, yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 709. It says 23rd. 23rd? Yeah. 23rd. Okay. Okay.

So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Wosky. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 710. Amends Resolution 734-2023 for Racetrack Not Street Ball Classic Edition of Go-Kart and Drifting Events. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Wosky. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 711. Amends Resolution 735-2023 Racetrack Not Street Summer Classic Edition of Go-Kart and Drifting Events. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Wosky. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 712. Approved. Special Event Chapter 255. Application for the Darkside Haunted House. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Wosky. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 713. Awards bid for police uniforms. So moved. Nope. 713. 713. Approved Special Event Chapter 255. Application for Jamesport Fire Department's 5K & 10K runs sound to bay. 5k 10k runs so moved second vote please okay waski yes merrifield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 714 awards bid for police uniform so moved second vote please waski yes merrifield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 715 awards bid for 2024 annual procurement contract so moved second vote please waski yes merrifield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 716 ratifies award of rebid for residential solid waste collection and disposal service so moved second vote please waski yes merrifield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yes resolution adopted resolution 717 ratifies award of 2024 annual construction contract so moved second vote please waski yes merrifield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 718 extends bid for truck parts so moved second vote please waski yes merrifield yes kern yes rothwell yes hubbard yes resolution is adopted resolution 717 américans américans américans

Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution adopted. Resolution 721. Bay's bill. So moved. Second. Vote please. Waskey? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 722. Resolution authorizing legal actions against the owners and all tenants and occupants of premises located at 330 Baywood Drive, Calerton, New York so moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waskey? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 723. Ratifies the acceptance of the resignation of a police officer. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waskey? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hubbard? Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 724. 724. 724. Chapter 293 entitled Waterways and Water-Related Activities. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waskey. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. This concludes the resolutions.

Denise, we need those Roman numeral things. Somebody took them all. They should be. We need to do a resolution to ban the use of them. Let's do that. Matt. Okay. That concludes our resolutions. We will now open the mic up to comments on any item. Comments on any item. Seeing we. Oh, okay.

Claudette Bianco-Bading Hollow. Afternoon, everybody. The discussion that was held. I think we had earlier about resolution 698. I don't know the law. I don't profess to know the law. But if it could have been posted, it should have been posted. You're asking people today for comments on a resolution on something they haven't seen yet. So it could have been posted just for clarity. Another issue is the Peconic Bay Region Real Estate Transfer Tax. They recently allocated $4.63 million to the town of Riverhead for the first half of 2024. It's my understanding the town board can commit 10% of the revenue to be allocated to the school district. That would give our school district $460,000 that is sorely needed and give the taxpayers some relief. According to your adopted budget, there's already a balance of $14.6 million in revenue. I am aware that you have used this money for debt relief, which is good. But I request that you consider this assignment. Our schools are in dire need of additional funds and the budget only goes so far. Thank you. Thank you, Claudette. Anybody else in house? Yeah. Okay, Fred. Listen, I don't understand. You just said you're putting the cops out to get these DWI people. And you're saying that's not the case. That's not the case. [transcription gap] And that you have liquor. Okay. On the. The party at night. Does that make sense. Like on a live on 25. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. We'll get them drunk and arrest them. Right. Well, no. Fred. No. You really have to drink. You're going to ask backwards. One beer to be considered intoxicated. And we don't condone anybody getting behind the wheel of a car if they're intoxicated. Yeah. But isn't that sort of like. Well, Fred. You ran a bar for you. I know. I did. I know. But there's people drinking out in the streets. But what difference does it make? Who gets the liquor license? It's a confined area, though. No one is confined. And it's about being responsible. Each vendor is required to get a temporary permit from the SLA. They have to get that. Have to get it. Yeah. Right. But who gets it? The town? No. Each vendor has it. You oversee everybody? Each vendor gets it through the SLA. And then they have to show us that they got it before they're permitted to serve. And what about. Before this, the recreation department wanted to have liquor being served somewhere, and I think it got squashed before it got on there. Where, on the second floor? Nothing here about that? No. Okay. Have we made a decision on the one-way street yet, that silly arrow up there? Second street? On second street, going east. Didn't you get the paperwork for that from the planning board or something? Yes, we did. We haven't had a discussion on it. We have not had a discussion on it. In my first, when I read it over, I don't favor doing it, but we haven't brought it to a discussion. Okay. That was just a recommendation from the planning board. Correct. So when will we find this out? Because this is the third time I've been here for that. I was going to send it to the traffic safety committee and let them discuss it and then come back and discuss it at a work session. That's what my plan is for it. And then that's open to the public? Oh, yeah. Well, the work session. The work session is not. The traffic safety committee is. Well, then I'm against it. I am, too. It doesn't make any sense to me. Against it 100%. It's for like two little streets and that's the end of it. The traffic from Roanoke is backed up to that light already. Right. Do something about that. Yeah. Now, I went out. And there's cross streets there as well to do that. It's like, well, it's double parking out here because it's the widest street. As soon as you get to Roanoke, the street comes in. Like this there. As soon as you get to the end, it's almost like a cul-de-sac. That's okay to park on both sides over there. But one person, I think, made a complaint to Ed Deniseski. And he brought it up to you people, I guess. And I've been over there. I live over there. There is not any way that we need parking places over there. You've got a lot over here that's empty all the time. Right? On Roanoke. They're too lazy to walk there. And put their car a few, not even a block away. Same way with 2nd Street. We own the parking lot behind 2nd. That big parking lot. Businesses are cutting holes in the fence, which is good. To make an entrance there, park back there, and you don't have to come to 2nd Street. The town should, you know, make that easier for those people. And then the three houses over here between. 3rd and 2nd. All those houses have got parking behind them that wouldn't have to use over there. Over there, I counted 20 cars without license plates on them. If we can get rid of those cars out of their parking areas, their homes, we just got 20 parking spaces. Right? There's a lot on 3rd Street that's empty. It's got trees. Why don't you buy that lot? Seeing we're in the real estate business. Lately. And then make a parking lot out of it. We already have a parking lot on 3rd Street that's not used. We're building parking right here. Buy another one that's not used. We're talking about down that end now. Down by East Avenue? Yes. It comes a couple lots in this way. I used to live there. Next to this empty lot. In fact, I got the number of the people who own it from in the city for you. Before I leave, you can give them a call and make an offer. But then. You mind? I'm sorry. You buying, Fred? Huh? You buying? Buying what? The parking lot. The property. No, but you seem to buy. You bought a house over there that somebody threatened you if you didn't buy it. You can make all the faces you want. I don't know what house you're talking about. What house? Well, what is that architect we have here? He owned the house at the time. Oh, Morty's and Lucy's? Oh, Morty's and Lucy's. He made a comment that, well, I'll just put a five-story building up here then. Before you started doing the five-story building. Fred, what's your name? I'm Fred. Fred, way before our time. Well, you got to remember, this is a long time ago. Way before any of us were here. It wasn't that long. Well, I was here. Way before any of us were here. Well, you should have got educated and seen what happened before you got into the office. But that's. And then behind the fire department. Permits. Behind the fire department. Do you need permits to put these metal containers up and. Trash containers? And businesses now? Instead of a. If you'd have built a garage to hold stuff, you'd need a permit. But they got these shipping containers back there that are taking up parking spaces, which I don't know whether it's the town's parking spaces. No. Or it's their parking spaces. And have. So, look into that and fix the fence and put some signs up. You know, parking for whatever you call those brewery things there are not parking for them. Because you got a lot of park space there. And then over here, there's a taxi that's running his business. Oh, yeah. Running his business out of the first house on Third Street. Two things down, the guy's construction guy parks his construction stuff way back in his yard. And then the other stuff goes across the street. And he leaves it there in the fire department, which I don't know whether it's theirs or the town's thing. So, if you had somebody I could go see and look for it, because I'm an expert at parking. Okay. There's a few other things, but I'll let you go. I'm just going to clarify for you. I'll let you fly. But I was taking that other lady's that used it up on the TV. She said I could use hers. Just to clarify for you, the next traffic safety meeting will be on August 22nd. And what do you call that meeting? Traffic safety. That's where we can potentially discuss if it's placed on the agenda of Second Street. I don't have these fancy things. I just want to give you the dates, because if you come to the next town. I have to meet here today. If you come to the next town. I have to meet here today. If you come to the next town board meeting and you ask, you will still be two days shy of the next traffic safety meeting. So the next traffic safety. Is that the way you're working it for me? No, I'm letting you know when the next date is for the traffic safety. Two weeks before the next town board meeting? August 22nd, right here at 8.30 in the morning, right in this room. Correct. August 22nd. August 22nd. That's correct. It's always on a Thursday morning. Right. It's always the last. 8.22. We'll come to the next town board meeting. I'll give you a raise. I'll give you a raise. There you go. So you're welcome. Now that guy's right on the ball. That's right. We agree. Let me see. I'll give him a raise. Fred, always a pleasure. I don't like getting on the TV. But they're too far away. Thank you for everything. You're welcome. Anybody else? Comments on any? No. No. You're banned. I'm Korea. [transcription gap] We hope there will be a fairly large and open-ended public discussion of EPCAL. If you go into social media, you'll know that the folks that are involved in the racing want to have their ideas for how it ought to happen. And I'm sure there are a lot of other ideas. And I think at this stage, since we're sort of treading water on the legal situation, surfacing as many ideas as people have is probably a productive stage. But I'll make a formal recommendation to that. But at any rate, I did want to thank you for announcing it publicly. Thank you, John. Appreciate it. Anybody else in-house? Oh, Grace, that's right.

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Grace Swipp, South Calvertin. We seem to have a problem on Fresh Pond Avenue. The local, non-local, or whomever, landscapers are evidently having problems disposing of their leaves. And now we're getting. Big clumps of dumped leaves, basically all on the west side. And predominantly only where the tree line is, which means south of the orchard. Heading towards the businesses that are on there. And every day you go up, there's more clumps of leaves. And I understand is our recycle dumps, are they not taking garden stuff anymore? They don't take them from landscapers. Commercial landscapers have to get rid of their own debris. Not on Fresh Pond Road. There are places they can go, but they've got to pay to go there. That's probably why. That's exactly. And we have all that whole stretch of woods. Right. And. And it's kind of isolated. That's right. And they're so they can pull up and dump their stuff. Well, we will notify both the police and code enforcement to do some extra patrols up there. Because we would love to catch them doing that. I saw one landscaper one day and I was heading out and I stopped. And the four men that were with this trailer and all kind of were staring at me. And I figured, well, I'm not going to get into any kind of. Confrontation. But they were just there dumping. Yeah. And next time, just call 911 grace and we'll get a sector car up there and we can write them several nice tickets for doing that. I don't know if they're doing it like a dusk when they hope not to be seen. Because that has a lot of traffic all day long. We're right. Pass through. Yeah. Don't stop yourself. Don't don't pull your car over. Keep going and just call 911 and let them know what's going on. I think about time not to sound funny, but I think about time the cops get there. They're gone and running. But maybe, maybe not. But you know what? Sometimes we get very lucky. We might be lucky. They will be there on lucky day. So it's not complex. A lot. That's it. Thank you. Thank you, Grace.

Chip. Do we have one person online? Okay. One person.

Yeah, I think we're on Northville and Supervisor Hubbard. I don't make my comments to get under your skin. I make my comments because I'd like to see Riverhead follow laws, rules and regulations. That's all. It's not personal. It's not personal in any way, shape or form. And to that end, I'd like to get some information about the upcoming public hearing on the agritourism zoning code. I'd like to know when the town is planning to do the secret review that's required before it implements any such town town code. Secret unequivocally states that zoning actions. That change allowable uses on 25 or more acres are classified as type one actions and require secret review. And I know Mr. Rothwell has told South hold that each resort will do its own secret review, but that's not what secret requires when you're passing a zoning code like this. So I just like to find out what the plans are to get that done. And do you agree that it requires a secret review? Matt charters is going to address that Kathy. Hi, Kathy. That is correct. That's a type one action requiring mandatory secret review. We are aware of that and a secret determination will be made prior to adoption of the code.

doesn't necessarily have to be for public. I look forward to the process. Thank you. Okay. All right. The other thing I'd like to ask about is yesterday. I watched the compliance hearing before the idea and Scott's point. And, um, you know, they're not. They don't have the jobs. They've read. They've said they had. There are a number of things that they haven't done. They hadn't paid their pilot payments and the like. And this has been dragging on for some time. And I was just curious since the town has brought a legal action against them. And. And issued a number of tickets and the DEC has also gotten after them. I was wondering why I know you don't control the idea, but I also know you dealt very closely with the idea on the germasian matter and worked out an arrangement to get that whole deal in front of them. And I'm wondering why you didn't. Why? Why are you making any efforts to have to convince the idea? To claw back those tax that tax relief? Mr. Kern, you're you're the liaison to the idea, I think. Were you there last night? I was not there, but I'll tell you this, Kathy. They are completely different, separate agency. And but and I know you understand that. So to ask the question that, you know, that can we have influence? The answer is absolutely not. They. Well, it seemed couldn't you go as as people of the town and say, look, this you need to claw this back. You worked with them on the germasian, the EPCAL thing. No, that all out. No, that that agreement was signed to to give the idea to move it from the CDA to the idea to move the process forward. That then becomes an idea project, not a town project anymore. They did their own deliberations. Came up with the. Their conclusion. That conclusion then came to the town board. We had the vote to either accept or not accept that conclusion. Period. You have to you know, they are really if you look, you know, I mean, you're very familiar with law. You should look up how independent the idea is. I know that, but I also know that at the hearing of the supervisor spoke to the idea that she spoke to the idea. I didn't have clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear head clear interfere in that and create the appearance that they're influencing that board this town board has already authorized commencement of litigation in state Supreme Court against Island Water Park for their violations and we've also preferred to pursue Justice Court enforcement for the violations they've committed so I think that the IDA has a separate function and I think that they're well situated to address the Island Water Park issues that they're supposed to be addressing well this town board addresses Island Water Park issues that come before them I understand that and I appreciate those comments Mr. Howard but I think it would be in the interest of the town to bring to the attention of the the information about the violations that you're dealing with because the IDA is saying you know you don't have the the employees you're supposed to have and Scott's point is saying well that's because we're not fully up and running but they're not they're fully up and running with everything that was approved they're just not fully up and running with everything that wasn't approved I think the town should be sharing information with the IDA but I I'll just I'll just say I did I did explain to Miss Stark James the violations that were that were needed so she's clear she's clear she's clear she's that were noted by code enforcement and our fire marshal's office and I also explained to her the actions that we were taking in response to those violations so I would I feel confident that the IDA board is aware of what the town's doing as it relates to Island Water Park okay thank you very much Kathy just hang on a second you mentioned earlier that the supervisor went before the IDA and spoke about the EPCOW project just let's clarify that wasn't this supervisor okay that was the prior I would not have recommended nor would I have done it myself as a supervisor and done that because it was inappropriate in my eyes okay okay thank you thank you okay we have nobody else online seeing nobody else coming up forward I will make a motion to close the town board meeting second okay all in favor aye all opposed meeting is closed thank you everybody for coming out stay dry this week and wait a weekend if you can we're gonna be indoors it looks like who seconded

the town board meeting is closed thank you you [transcription gap]