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Okay, Councilman Rothwell, do we have somebody here from the... We do, Supervisor. We are honored to be in the presence of Reverend Weinman from the Old Steeple Church in Aquebaug. So, Reverend, if you would please lead us. Thank you for joining us in the opening invocation. Thank you for joining. Well, thanks for this invitation. My name is Kirsten Whiteman. I'm the new pastor at Old Steeple Community Church in Aquebaug. So, new to the community. So, I think it's really cool that you have this, you know, that you invite clergy people to give an invocation. So, thank you so much for the invitation. As you probably can hear, I'm originally from Germany. So, come a long way to this place. I didn't have a clear head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head Learn what's best for the community we all serve. We often separate the worldly and the spiritual realm, but you created everything, and your spirit permeates every aspect of our lives. It may not seem that way, but the ground we stand on right now is holy ground, and each and every one in this room is created lovingly in your image. As this meeting is about to begin, may everyone gathered here remember this, and I pray God that you may give everyone here an extra portion of your spirit of wisdom so that decisions will be made that benefit all people who make up this community. And let us take a moment to lift up all those in this community who especially need God's presence and our assistance, those without housing, those who suffer from addiction, those facing uncertainty, those who are unemployed, underemployed, or a few who are in need of help. Those who fear that they will be laid off. Those who have to make hard decisions each month how to best spend their limited financial resources. All immigrants and refugees seeking to build a better life as they are facing an uncertain future in this country. And those who are near and dear to us, and whom we remember before you now in the silence.

May God's grace and mercy be with you all. Be with them and be in our midst now. Amen. Thank you, Pastor, and welcome to the community. Pastor, thanks for pushing off the snow for us too. I know you have a direct connection, so appreciate it. Okay. Town Clerk, do we have any correspondence and reports? We did have some correspondence. It's on the agenda and it's also on the agenda. I'm sorry. [transcription gap] I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

We have the Town Clerk monthly report for January at $7,873.75. We have the Building Department fees collected for January at $103,081.50. The tax receivers supplied their utility report for January at $978,230.68. And Georgette, the Rivet Town historian, delivered her annual 2024 annual report. And that's it for reports. Very good. Thank you. Do we have any announcements? Does anybody have any announcements? Yes. Thank you, Supervisor. I have just a few. First and foremost, I want to invite everyone Friday night. This is February, Black History Month, and Friday night at the Suffolk Theater, the Anti-Bias Task Force is going to be, there will be a movie. The League is playing. It's at 7 p.m. We invite everybody in the community to come and join with us and celebrate. Black History Month, the door is open at 6.30 p.m. We'd love to see everybody in the community there to support this terrific month. Secondly, I'd like to just put a call out to the community. The CAP, Community Coalition for a Drug-Free Riverhead, is asking for people to join and participate. And I'd just like to let you know a little bit about CAP. Riverhead Community Coalition for Safe and Drug-Free Youth is a group dedicated to building a safe, healthy, and drug-free community. They educate, raise awareness, participate in community activities to prevent youth substance abuse. By engaging all members of our community, including parents, business, and youth and individuals who care, and through shared skills and resources, they believe that we can achieve our goal. And they like to ask people in the community to come join and participate with CAP. So I'd ask anybody out there, if you think that, oh, this is not necessarily for you, it certainly is, and it's a wonderful experience to be able to help children, steer them away from drugs and alcohol abuse. It's a terrific organization. I encourage everybody to consider joining. Thank you. Thank you very much to the supervisor. Thank you, California. Anybody else? No. No? Okay. All right. That brings us up to public hearings. We have four public hearings scheduled for this evening. The first one scheduled for 6 o'clock. It is now 6 o'clock, and it's a public hearing regarding the electrical upgrade and the water district. And I would ask our water district superintendent, Frank Mancini, to please come up to the microphone.

Good evening. Thank you. I'm Frank Mancini, the superintendent of the Riverhead Water District. Today we're doing a public hearing on electrical upgrades to our Plant 7 on Fresh Pond Road. It's the northwestern corner of Fresh Pond Road. It was built in the mid-1980s, and at this point, all the electrical equipment is gone. All the equipment has moved past its useful life. We in fact had a small fire there a couple months ago inside one of the starter panels of our wells. So, I've got to get that up and running for the summer. But this is the permanent solution to that. So in this case, we'll be... There was another thing in play here. This is the site that may be threatened by the Navy, too. So in this map and plan, we have the cost of roughly a little over $2 million to do all the electrical work. But we thought about it and said, if we incur any... A treatment, if we're impacted by the Navy at some time, it would be terrible to have to rip all this out and replace it with new stuff. So we did an internal analysis, and we're going to pay about another $250,000 to build the station so that if we do require treatment in the future, the electrical infrastructure is there. So it makes a difference from going from a 600-amp service to an 800-amp service that would accommodate any additional treatment in the future. Inside this map and plan, we were very careful. We're very careful to separate those costs. So if that does in fact happen, this would be evidence to litigate the Navy and recover those costs. But not doing it, I felt, was just too risky. And doing more than this would be too risky. Because in a perfect world, we just build all the treatment and sit and wait for something to happen. But that's cost prohibitive. So the total cost of this project is going to be about $2,350,000. Just like all the developers, when we make improvements to our capital assets, we have to do a map and plan, too. So this is my process. And that's it. We're going to rip out the two old generators we have, install one. We're going to an 800-amp service. We're going to do variable speed drives on the wells. That will help us get more water out of the ground when we're pumping a ton and high pressure is occurring in the system. These wells produce 20% of the water that we pump on any given year. And about 40% of the water we pump towards the high zone, which is the northern half of Riverhead. On the west side, it goes all the way down into EPCAL. So these are extremely valuable wells. And we can't wait any longer to do this type of upgrade. That's pretty much it. There was one other thing I was thinking of that I thought might be interesting, but I can't remember. So I think that's pretty much it. We've covered ourselves as well as we could. That's pretty much it. I don't know if anybody has any questions. Board, do you have any questions? No. I have one question. Where is well 7 at? I don't know. [transcription gap] Is that 7 at EPCAL? No. No. 7 is the northwestern side of Fresh Pond Road. And there's two wells. 7273. Oh, that's what I was going to bring up. So you and Denise have been helping me. Everybody's supportive of Grumman. But you guys have come to the meetings and stuff. So we've made our priorities clear. Because they're getting shouted at all these types of things. We are asking for the $2 million to complete River Road. To get those people off private wells and put them on the public water system. The number two request we have. Is what we call sentinel wells. Or guardian wells. To protect this site. Where they would. We're asking them to put in monitoring wells. In between this site. And the known PFAS releases that they have on their site. So if that is coming our way. We can capture it in those wells. And we are able to take action. And put the treatment in before it blindsides us. And hits the wells without us knowing. That's what I was thinking of before. So this is a site that produces phenomenal water quality. But it is at risk. From a site that's pretty far away. But that's how the groundwater moves on Long Island. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Anybody else have any questions? Anybody here tonight have any questions for. Come on up to the microphone. State your name. And where you're from. Yes. I'm Janet O'Hare. I live on Roanoke Avenue. I wanted to ask this gentleman a question. I'm a resident of Long Island. I live in the area of the

Is that some sort of contamination in the groundwater we're talking about? Yes. Yes. The site is that we call EPCAL. Is a former military like a Grumman facility that developed aircrafts. They didn't do it maliciously. But it turns out decades ago they left behind contamination in the groundwater. In this case the PFAS compounds that you hear about in the news. So we know for sure they're moving southeast into the river. That's been in the news lately. But there are releases on the northern side of the site. And that groundwater moves to the northeast. Right towards this site. Although it's far away. We're able to model these things out to 100 years. And we feel like this one's about potentially could impact us in 50 years. And we've been operating the site since the 80s. So we're at 40 years. So maybe it won't. The groundwater modeling is not absolute. But it's something we should be aware of. So we've brought it to their attention. They've not helped us in any case as far as testing. Like doing anything or giving us money for water main. But we are members of the RAB board. Bob and myself. Denise comes to the meetings. They're twice a year. You're welcome to come too. And we basically try and hold them to the fire and make them do something. The Navy. Yeah. The Navy. And we're making headway. I got to say. Like I think lately. We don't. The other thing is we don't want to cause some kind of hysteria here. Where you. We don't want to cause any kind of hysteria. We want to make sure that we're doing something that can be managed. Just like other sites on Long Island. It just. We seem to have been stagnated at this particular site. We have anybody else who would like to comment? Nobody online? Okay. Having seen nobody else. We will close this public hearing. And keep it open for written comment until 430 p.m. on February 28th. Okay. Next public hearing is scheduled for 6.05. And it's on chapter. 301-229. Yard sales. Attic sales. Garage sales. And auction sales. And that will be with Councilor Howard. Would you mind giving us a rundown? Yes. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Supervisor. So this will be the first in a series of three public hearings tonight. Which are designed to remove certain fees. In each of these cases. Fees that are typically paid to the town clerk. We're looking to remove those from town code. And have them established by town board resolution. Which would then be a fee schedule that is managed by the town clerk. And any amendments or increases would be recommended by the town clerk. Brought to the town board. And this taking it out of the town code just affords a little more flexibility to respond to increases that need to be made based on cost of living. Comparisons with neighboring municipalities. That sort of thing. Okay. Board have any questions? No. No. I think it's just a nice straightforward that the beginning of each year the goal would be perhaps in the future that every December you know all the different departments could start just putting together a formidable list that we can act on in one resolution each year. Just simply upgrading the fees for cost of living. Rather than going to individual public hearings for each and every fee. That's you know debated by the town. So I think it just makes it a more simpler matter for cost of living. Yep. So thank you. Okay. Exactly right. Nobody online? Nobody in the audience? Okay. We will close that public hearing and keep it open for written comment until 4.30 p.m. on February 28th also. Public hearing number three is public hearing on chapter 207. Dogs and domestic farm animals. And again Councilor Howard. Thank you. Thank you. So this is same concept. It just removes the license fees that are typically payable to the town clerk. Takes them out of chapter 207. Makes them subject to being established by town board resolution. At a subsequent meeting we'll have the fee schedule proposed. Typically we would do that simultaneously with the adoption of the code in the event the town board is looking to make this change. Mm-hmm. This also keeps the fees. It's a lot easier to monitor them this way than keeping them. Sometimes they get stagnant. And it's a lot easier to bring them up via the town board, change a fee based on like what you were mentioning, cost of living or something like that. Bob's been doing a good job with the fees and digging some of the old fees up that from years ago just, oh that's what we charge. That's what we charge. Then looking into what it actually costs you to handle that particular fee. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [transcription gap] Thank you. [transcription gap] Thank you. fee, we were losing money on some and maybe I don't think we overcharged on any, but we brought everything up to date. So that's part of what this is doing. So. Male Speaker 2 I could just add to that? Male Speaker 2 Yeah. Male Speaker 2 What's important about adjusting the fees is that if you're not doing a yard sale, you're supplementing somebody who is because we're charging too little. If you don't have a dog, you're supplementing somebody who does have a dog. That's why we need to bring these fees up for the people that are actually utilizing the service so that the rest of the taxpayers who are not utilizing that service are not funding that service for the person using it, if that makes sense. Male Speaker 2 Well, no, just note that this is consistent with other town code amendments that we've made over the past several years. We've taken rental permit fees, building permit fees, fire marshal fees out of the town code and put them subject to being established by resolution. And I think that's important. I think from a practical sense, it makes it a little bit easier for applicants or residents to find out what the fees are because you can go to the website and each department is going to have their fee schedule available on the website rather than having to comb through the town code, which can at times be a little bit difficult to get through, whether that's because it's old and needs to be updated or it's just lengthy. This better consolidates what those fees are. Male Speaker 2 Okay. Thank you so much. Anybody have other concerns about this? I'll head over to américatowork.tv so you can head over to américatowork.tv so you can head over to américatowork.tv so you can head over to américatowork.tv so you can [transcription gap] permits and two peddlers permits and just makes them subject to a town board resolution okay nobody online anybody in the audience comments on this resolution not seeing any we will close this public hearing and again keep it open for written comment until 4 30 p.m on february 28th okay now we're going to move on to tonight's resolutions do we have anybody here that would like to comment on any resolution on tonight's calendar any resolution on tonight's calendar sir come on up

good evening doug adams young associates for the applicant the design professionals resolution number 20 for sandy pond i i understand that the the language in the resolution may have changed today uh but the one i read earlier today uh condition number three talked about closing or requiring that the i think the restaurant in the clubhouse be closed at nine o'clock or ten o'clock and i just thought that was uh something that was uh something that uh the applicant wasn't in favor of you know having a time stamp on having to ask people to leave at ten o'clock if they're still there or something i think that ten o'clock is a bit early so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so and having some adjustment to that we appreciated hmm I'm absolutely not in favor of 10 o'clock you know I'm in favor of increasing that time I spoke to planning today that you know and the concern was well what if they sell it and somebody doesn't operate as good well then you put you put covenants in there you know three if it closes at midnight now for example you get three noise complaints you automatically lose an hour and you know so you can deal with that because I know the operator has spoken to all their neighbors and there's absolutely no problem yeah and I think I did speak with Greg earlier today a planner who mentioned that that was going to be changed to some either eliminated or changed to a later time which would be which we would hope would happen what time you're looking for I think the preference is to have it eliminated but I think anything after 10 o'clock would be better I spoke with the applicant today and he's hoping for something pushed back or elimination is fine I don't know that we limit any other clubhouses on golf courses and I understand this one being somewhat near residential but I can think of others in town that are near residential also and we don't have any complaints or calls or anything so or do you have any thoughts or ideas what you want to I'd be in favor of just striking number three you know from I think it's number three I don't have it in front of me it was number three the clubhouse should close at 10 p.m. consistent with the restrictions on operating hours and I don't have a problem striking that out if you wanted to pass it in otherwise yeah I don't either I think it's I think it was onerous to begin with so I'm fine with striking it out thank you consider we can we can amend it when we when we call it on schedule thank you okay anybody else any audience for resolutions nobody online for resolutions either okay can I ask if you don't mind just because I thought it would maybe come to work session so I'm just gonna ask if Don Thomas can come forward if she doesn't mind just to take a moment to go over the building department fees I just want to make sure that we're not in any way like with the new fees in any way defunding the building problem any type of less that it's more you can just explain the process. If you don't mind just because we didn't have a work session on it sure and I appreciate it yep quite a bit of work went into this over time and as you know when you created the Department of Economic Development planning and building we've been looking at a lot of the systems and function one of those systems and structures was fees because the law requires that the fees have a rational relationship to the work that is done and as counselor Howard suggested earlier much easier to do the fees over in a resolution. resolution. [transcription gap] so so

Prudente and Mount Charters when they did this was would this somehow defund the building department and the answer to that was no. So what I would I just go over it quickly we looked at what we do and what other towns are doing and I've said from the beginning I felt that evaluating fees by cost of construction which we had done in the past was probably creates an inequitable result in some cases so we use the typical 3,000 square foot house if you put in granite countertops and fancy kitchen cabinets and your cost of construction is x and you do a simple house of 3,000 square foot there's effectively no difference in how in the time that it takes for us to review and approve that permit and so we were having this inequitable result and in addition so that's one so we changed the method of calculation from cost of construction to a per square foot cost and it is an incremental square foot cost based on the size of the structure. Residential permits are currently one year old and we're still done. So we're still having to do a lot of work to get them done. So we're still having to do a lot of work so we're still having to do a lot of work so we're still having to do a lot of work year. They remain at one year. And then the second proposal we had was calculating, we also changed cost of construction to square footage in the commercial permits, but we changed the time of the permit because we had a lot of individuals complaining that a commercial permit is a two-year permit and our cost to renew the permit is 50% of the original permit cost, which was really not consistent with the cost or the amount of time and energy it takes us to do that generally. You know, if it's just a simple rubber stamp, extend the permit. So we extended the permit time to a two-year permit rather than a one-year permit. And the extensions, there's four opportunities to extend that permit, which we hope no one goes to four, but they're nominal fees to do that. And so we're not, you know, overcharging in that regard. And then any changes to any permits would require the typical building department fee. So if you change your permit, you know, the fee would apply, but if it's just a rubber stamp, it's not a fee. So we're not overcharging in that regard. We're just asking you to do what's clear so you can do what's clear so you can do what's clear so you can do what's clear so you can do what's clear so you can do what's clear so you can do what's clear so you can [transcription gap] A lot of legwork was done by a lot of people on this, and we're continuing to work on building apartment fees and structures going forward. I appreciate you clarifying, and I think a good example is the kitchen countertop, where most times when the house is being built, I recall when mine was being built, all the cabinets are in place, and then until all the cabinets are set, then the man comes in and he's measuring the countertops and how everything's going to go. But if I decided that, okay, I'm going to go from siltstone to granite, am I then supposed to go back and upgrade my building department fee, or it doesn't make logical sense if I want to just, if I'm that far into the process and I want to upgrade some certain things just because it changes my overall cost of construction, it shouldn't really necessarily change my building permit fee. Correct, and that wouldn't be necessary under the new fees that we've drafted. So, yeah. I just make sure that, again, and I appreciate you saying that, it doesn't in any way defund or lessen any of the income to the building department, because obviously we need that for overall town budget. Yeah. Thank you for clarifying. And the opportunity that the board created when we... We did accelerated fees is another source of revenue. And again, as Councilman Kern suggested earlier, when you need an accelerated permit, you're not on the backs of the person who doesn't need the accelerated permit, so you pay extra for that service and it's done outside of normal business hours. So, we're trying to improve services, create costs that make sense, and just generally do a good job. I'm sorry. No, go ahead. And Ms. Thomas, also my understanding is that this makes it simpler for the builder to figure out what the cost of the fee is. Wait. It's actually... And that's another very important point. Predictability in the process is really important in the business community. We want people to be able to look at the code and figure out what the project is going to cost them so they know from the get-go, you know, where they're at. So, Dawn, excuse me, you mentioned four extensions. I just want to clarify that's four, that's each extension is six months, correct? Correct, yes. Okay. So, the other thing that was brought up to me was that this does not include the foundation permit. Because... The foundation permit is a one-year permit for... Oh, is that it? $1.50 a square foot. That is in there for commercial. Yeah. Commercial, correct? You were asking about commercial? Yeah. Yeah. All right. So, I just want to thank everybody who worked on this. The business advisory committee worked on this for a year with Andreas, and this has finally happened, and it's good work by everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Yep. I agree. Thank you for clarifying. Yep. Thank you. Thank you, Dawn. Any other questions on resolutions? No? Yep. Anybody in the room? Questions on resolutions? And still nobody online. Okay. Clerk Wooten, would you mind going through the resolutions, please? We'll start with resolution number one, which is 170. Order establishing extension number 97 of boundaries and facilities of the Riverhead Water District for Forge Road, Calverton, New York, at the properties known as Suffolk County Tax Map, number District 0600, Section 118, Blocks 5, Lots 1.1, 1.2, and 1.2. Section 119, Blocks 2, Lots 59 through 62, and Section 139, Block 1, Lots 1 through 4. So moved. Second. Vote, please. Waskey. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 171. Water District Capital Project 82422, Forge Road Extension 97. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waskey. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 172. Water District Capital Project 82335, 437-483, Young's Avenue Landfill, Landfill Solar Project. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waskey. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 173. Water District Capital Project 82501, Kent Animal Shelter, 2259 River Road, Calverton. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waskey. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 174. Budget Transfer for Water District Capital Project number 81951. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waskey. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 175. Capital Project 12418, Budget Adjustments. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waskey. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 176. 176 needs to be amended. In paragraph 1, under the whereas, it lists South Jamesport Fire Department. And in paragraph 3, it states South Jamesport. We just need to remove the word South from before each Jamesport Fire Department mentioned. There is no South Jamesport Fire Department. It's the Jamesport Fire Department. Okay. So make a motion to amend the resolution to remove South in both of those places. Second. Okay. Vote, please. I'll vote. Waskey. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Okay. Now I'll vote. Resolution is amended. Now move it as amended. Right. Now move it as amended. Authorizes free beach stickers to veterans and volunteer fire and ambulance departments. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waskey. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes, as amended. Rothwell. Do I need to excuse myself as a volunteer firefighter? No. No, because we're still going to charge you for the permit anyway. Counselor, is that okay? I think you're okay. You're okay. Yes, I support the fire departments. I want them to have it. Thank you. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted as amended. Resolution 177. Authorize attendance at New York State Government Finance Officers Association Annual Conference. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waskey. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 178. Fund balance. Yes. Budget transfer for ambulance district replacement of radios. So moved. Second. Vote, please. Waskey. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. This money was set aside last year, but the radios have finally come in, so it's just updating into new this year, but the money has already been allocated. So, yes. And Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 179. Authorizes the supervisor to execute an agreement with the Nassau County Police Activity League League. The Nassau County Police Activity League is a state-owned lacrosse unit for referee, umpire services, and team fees for town of Riverhead Police Athletic League boys lacrosse program grades K-8 for 2025 calendar year. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waskey. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 180. Appoints a call-in park attendant to the recreation department. So moved. Seconded. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution adopted. Resolution 181. Appoints a traffic control specialist. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waskey. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution adopted. Resolution 182. Appoints a fire marshal. One. Resolution 183. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Congratulations. Jordan. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Congratulations. Resolution is adopted. One. Resolution 183. Ratifies the appointment of a temporary part-time principal account claim. Yes. Warren. Yes. Warren. Yes. Warren. Yes. Warren. Yes. Warren. Yes. Warren. Yes. Warren. Yes. Warren. Yes. Warren. Yes. Warren. Yes. Warren. Yes. Warren. Yes. Warren. Yes. Warren. Yes. Warren. Yes. Warren. Yes. Warren. Yes. Warren. Yes. Warren. Yes. Warren. Yes. Warren. Yes. 185. Ratifies the promotion of a code enforcement officer, Spanish speaking, to an ordinance inspector, Spanish speaking, so moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waske. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Thank you, Ivan. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 186. Ratifies the promotion of a public safety dispatcher 2 to a public safety dispatcher 3, so moved. Second. Vote, please. Waske. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Missy does a great job in that dispatch room. She's been there a long time and she absolutely deserves it, so I vote yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 187. This is tough not to let this go for another year, but accepts the retirement of wastewater district superintendent, so moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waske. Congratulations. Michael, you've had a great career. You should be very proud of yourself, and we're sorry to see you go. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Michael, you're great. Great job. Great career. Yes. Rothwell. Yeah, this one's a tough one. Michael was excellent. Even when I came aboard, I've known him for many years prior, but just an incredible education resource and taking that plant to where it is today and the future of where it's going with additional technology coming out and we're definitely going to miss him. He's a wealth of knowledge, but I do want him to enjoy retirement and have the best. I've been teasing him that we were going to delay this and table it for as long as we could, but he's earned his great retirement, so congratulations, Michael. I vote yes. Ann Hubbard. Michael put in 40 and a half years with the town of Riverhead and the sewer department. And he started at the bottom of the totem pole and worked his way all the way up to the top. And I give him a lot of credit. It's a great story. And our sewer department, as we all know, has won numerous awards over the year for renew removing nitrogen out of the water and finishing the water product out of the sewer plant that's actually could be drinkable, although we don't recommend you do it. But we do water the county golf course with it. And that was another award winning program. And now other towns and municipalities are looking to copy what we did here, what Michael did here and the sewer department. So he's going to be missed. We're in good hands coming up with the next Tim Allen moving up. But Michael, thank you for everything. We appreciate it. All right. The resolution is adopted. Resolution 188 accepts the retirement of the town building and planning administrator. So moved. Second vote, please. Waski. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 189. Grant. This one we want to amend, I believe. Oh, we want to amend it. Okay. Under subsection three, under resolved, it mentions shall close at 10 p.m. We want to amend that. We want to amend that to what time? No time. I think we're just going to strike it. Leave it open. Leave it open. Remove that. Strike number three out, right? Yeah. Okay. So we'll take number three out altogether? Yes. Okay. All right. Can I have a motion to amend it by removing subsection number three out, eliminating the closing at 10 p.m.? So moved. Seconded. Okay. Vote. Waski. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes to amend. And Hubbard. Yes. Okay. Now we can read it off. It's amended. Motion to amend. Move it. You did the motion to amend. Oh, sorry. Now call it as amended. Right. Okay. Okay. Grant special permit for Sandy Pond Links Clubhouse, Managers Residence, Trade Shops, 1495 Roanoke Avenue, Riverhead, Suffolk County Tax Map Number 0685. Okay. Okay. Resolution 182112.1 as amended. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waski. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. As amended. Kern. Yes. As amended. Rothwell. Yes. Again. It's not. It's not the actual outside play. It's inside. So I don't think we need to go. Have people pack up in the middle of dinner and say it's ten o'clock. So. I'm good with that. Yes. Aver. As amended. Yes. Resolution is adopted as amended. Resolution 190. 25. clock so I'm good with that yes I've amended yes resolution is adopted as amended resolution 190 extends bid for chemicals for Riverhead sewer district so moved second vote please waski yes very few yes turn yes Rothwell yes yes resolution is adopted resolution 191 authorizes the town clerk to publish and post bid for water service materials so moved seconded vote please waski yes very few yes turn yes Rothwell yes yes resolution is adopted resolution 192 authorizes the town clerk to publish and post notice to amend chapter 301 zoning and land use development part 3 supplementary use regulations article 52 D battery energy storage systems section 301 dash 283 you ! [transcription gap] UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU the town clerk to publish and post notice to amend chapter 301 zoning and land use development part two districts article 41 pine Barrens overlay district section 301 josh 197 a section 8 section a clearing and open space standards pursuant to the recommendations of the 2024 comprehensive plan update so moved second vote please wasky yes Maryfield yes turn yes Rothwell yes covered yes resolution adopted resolution 197 schedules public hearing for code amendment to Town Code chapter 301 article 56 site plan review so moved seconded full please wasky yes very few yes turn yes Rothwell yes covered yes resolution is adopted resolution 198 schedules public hearing for amendment to Town Code chapter 301 article 48 signs so moved seconded yes second vote please wasky yes very few yes turn yes Rothwell yes covered yes resolutions adopted resolution 199 approves the special event chapter 255 application for the dashin J Hachishan Jay Briggs Memorial Foundation Inc run for breaks 5k so moved seconded vote please wasky yes seconded yes Rothwell yes covered yes resolution is adopted resolution 198 schedules public hearing for amendment to Town Code chapter 301 article 410 !

resolution 200 a men's town board resolution 2025 dash 110 so moved seconded vote please wasky yes very few yes turn yes well yes covered yes resolution is adopted resolution 201 authorizes the supervisor to execute a professional services agreement with the Rainer group PE and LS PLLC so moved seconded vote please wasky yes very few yes turn yes Rothwell yes covered yes resolution is adopted resolution 202 authorizes the supervisor to execute an agreement with Honk Mobile USA LTD so moved second vote please wasky yes very few yes turn yes Rothwell supportive of the agreement I do want to see you more discussion. so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved so moved [transcription gap] This is simply the contract to get them. I think we've got to get through the contract in order to expedite a plan. So I vote yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 203. Authorizes the town supervisor to execute a retainer agreement with Foles and Vigliotta, PLLC. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waski. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution adopted. Resolution 204. Authorizes submission of an application to apply for reimbursement of new pump for the pump out boat to New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waski. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 205. Amends town board resolution 2025-1. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waski. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 206. Pays bills. So moved. Second. Vote, please. Waski. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Hubbard. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 207. Budget transfer for 2024 legal fees. So moved. Seconded. américans. américans. américans. Please wasky. Yes, Murray field. Yes, turn. Yes, Rothwell. Yes, Hubbard Yes, resolution is adopted resolution 208 ratifies the settlement of legal action against Carlos Rubio Judith Rubio and Raina Garcia so moved seconded Vote plays wasky. Yes, Murray field. Yes, turn Yes, Rothwell, yes, Hubbard. Yes resolution is adopted resolution 209 Amends town board resolution resolutions number two zero two one five six three and two zero two four four three eight four building Department fees so moved seconded vote, please Wasky, yes, very field. Yes turn. Yes, Rothwell again. Thank you. Don Thomas for clarifying everything. Yes, Hubbard. Yes Resolution is adopted and that concludes our resolutions for this week. Okay, that's all All of our resolutions for this evening We're going to move on to open comments from the public on any matter open comments from the public on any matter Ma'am come on up to the microphone state your name and where you're from

My name is Lorraine Wilson, I'm from Reeves Park um, I'm I Want to talk about the cemetery that's been constructed in the parking lot Has anybody seen it? I have pictures if anybody wants to see it there's gravestones that are around the parking area of the parking lot and When the gazebo got washed away those stones got washed away with it So we thought they were not going to go back up. I went down to the recreation department. I spoke with Ray He guaranteed me they weren't going back in Then I went away for about two weeks. I come back They were all I guess they found them Wherever they washed away to and they put them all in a separate section of the parking lots and now it literally looks like a cemetery Instead of having different gravestones around the area now, they're all in one spot and the people come and they put balloons up and they put wreaths on the it's it's humiliating My nieces come Oh aunt Lorraine who's buried there. I mean, it's awful. I mean, it's awful I mean, it's awful I mean, it's awful I don't see any other town. I've gone to numerous town beaches and I have not seen anything like that in any of the beaches I don't know why we've spark was picked to do that You guys did such a great job keeping up with Reeves Park and we're very grateful for that, but I don't know why All those gravestones are there I do have pictures I also have a petition I went around and I got the people in the park to sign If you want to look at them just so you know also when I went down to speak to Ray Before the gazebo was reconstructed and you know finished I Offered to do it myself. You couldn't buy or have made Engraved bricks and you can make like a walkway with them. So I thought that would be better than the gravestones I offered to take charge of it and put the proceeds to the town the town could have them and I also offered to pay for the first time. Three that the gravestones that were already there, you know to give head start and I got nowhere I spoke to the engineering department. I spoke to the town attorneys office. I like I got nowhere absolutely nowhere. So then I thought I would do this, maybe somebody would pay a little more attention to me. I have two questions for you. Yes. I think I might have missed it. I wasn't able to hear you in the beginning. Sorry. What are they using as a, are you calling it a gravestone? Yeah, they're gravestones. I mean, I'll show you. It's literal gravestones. This is one. It's a stone with a big plaque and they have flowers going up, like a little walkway and flowers going up to it. Yeah. Yeah. Would you like to submit those, ma'am? Absolutely. That's where I brought them. Okay. That's where I brought them. And I also put in here, just so you know, I also put in here a picture of what my suggestion was to put the, you know, the bricks. And again, I will do all the work and give the town the money. It's just horrendous. What it looks like. Okay. I'm also the liaison for the beach committee and we're having a meeting next week. Okay. Wednesday. And I will discuss this with them. The letter and the pictures. And Reeves Park is well represented on the beach committee. That's why I'm surprised that I haven't heard about this. Okay. Have you seen it? I have not seen it. And I'm very surprised that this has not been brought up because the representative from Reeves Park is free. I never came to a meeting for the beach committee. I never came to a meeting for the beach committee. I never came to a meeting for the beach committee. I never came to a meeting. First of all, I'm not a good public speaker. I get very nervous. You're doing a great job. But I never came to a meeting. I just went to the recreation department and I spoke to Ray and he said, oh no, no, they're not going to go back up. And I spoke with the engineering department and they said, oh no, no, you know, whatever. And then I called the town attorney because I didn't know if that was like even legal that you could have a cemetery in a parking lot. But I never got a call back. So here I am. You know, then I went around. I got the petition. I got people to sign because I'm not the only one. Just for clarification, it's not a cemetery because nobody's buried there. It's just a memorial of somebody who maybe. No, but I'm saying there's nobody actually just for the public. You keep saying cemetery. There's nobody buried there. I'm sorry. That's what it looks like. Yeah, no, no problem. No problem. My apologies. Ma'am, when did you call the town attorney's office? Oh, it was when the gazebo, this is all when I was doing the running around and the calling. Everybody and seeing everybody. It was when the gazebo was still washed away. It hadn't been put together. Okay. Do you recall whom you spoke with? I got answering machine. I left the message and nobody called me back. Oh, you're the town attorney. Sorry. Okay. So just a quick follow up. I will discuss this at the beach committee meeting and Ray Coyne from recreation will also be there. Okay. And we'll see what we can do. Thanks. And I will do all the work. I like whatever it takes. I'm not sticking the town with something else. The town's done more than enough for Reese Park. I mean, it really looks great, but okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. We have anybody else in the audience who'd like to make a comment on any matter? We have one person online. Let's go ahead and take that person.

Good evening. Mike Foley, Reeves Park. Can you hear me okay? I can hear you, Mike. Thanks. I'd like to speak about the proposed rules changes for resident participation in town board meetings. From what I read on Riverhead Local and watched some of the work that was done, I think it's a good idea to have a board meeting. I think it's a good idea to have a session that was discussing the changes. It's really a few things that you're looking to change. The first thing I saw was signage, that you didn't really want signage in the room. I think it's kind of a minor issue, so I really don't have a problem with it. If people want to express their opinions for or against an issue, they can simply show it by standing up when the speaker in opposition or support of an issue. I didn't have an issue with that. I didn't have an issue with that. I didn't have an issue with that. [transcription gap] As far as reducing speaking time from five minutes to three minutes, you know, that could be dicey in a lot of cases, but Tim, you have showed the ability to use discretion and patience with people who are courteous and well-researched and non-repetitive. And I believe you'll continue that discretion. I think that's critical for giving maximum opportunity for any interested resident to comment who can't make it for any reason. They could be out of town, they could be sick, or they want to limit their exposure to the public for health reasons. Mark Haldner submitted a letter that is in Jim's packet. It's brief, but boy, is it on point on so many different issues. And as far as health is concerned, you know, you talk about comorbidities and the Zoom technology came into play during COVID, and there's really no reason to stop it if it is limited in scope the way we discussed with three minutes or so. I happen to be a guy with comorbidities. I'm old, I'm fat, I have COPD, and I've got prostate cancer. So there's a lot of reasons for me to try and limit the amount of time I spend in a public setting. There are people that just can't get in the car or don't have that transportation. I really don't think it's in the best interest of the town board or certainly the town residents to eliminate the ability to call in. And to speak like I'm speaking right now on Zoom. I know in the work session, there was one comment on cost savings, eliminating, I guess, overtime expenses for the people in the IT department that run the Zoom room. I think it was also mentioned that without having Zoom participants, there would only be a need for one person instead of two. You know, I don't know that that's accurate. It could be. But all I'll say is that there are 26 town board meetings a year, half or 13 are at 6 p.m. If we're talking about overtime for good employees, we're talking 40, 50 hours of overtime a year. Isn't that a nice way to pad the salary structure of people who we value in this town? And it's money well spent when you're allowing people the ability to participate in governance as convenience. So, I would certainly ask that you take a hard look at that and eliminate that portion of your changes. And then I think everything will be fine. I appreciate your time. Thank you. Thank you, Mike. We've had discussions. I've had discussions with each board member about this. We have received several requests for similar items. So, we are looking at it. We are going to tweak it rather than where we first. We've put it up and we should have it ready for the March 4th meeting. So, we are looking at it and making some considerations and changes. Well, I certainly hope that's the one that you put the most emphasis on. I don't see any reason other than the ones that I've stated for keeping it in there. And it's critical for continued participation for those people that take the time and want to do it. So, thanks for that, Tim. And I hope all five of you will support continuing Zoom, even at the reduced time. And I hope that's the frame to allow participation for people that want to participate. There's not a whole lot of it in this town. Let's try and keep the people that are participating able to. Thanks, Tim. Okay. Thank you. We have nobody else online. Anybody else in the audience? Okay. At this point in time, I would like to make a motion to close the town board meeting. And we're going to open up the CDA meeting. Motion to close the town board meeting. So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Okay. Dawn, if you would come up, we will open up the CDA meeting. I said that to her, but she said that she likes to stay for the meeting. Oh. Wow. Sorry. I just want to pull up our lengthy agenda. I know. We were told it's going to be about an hour, Dawn. Yes, at least. Okay. Don't blink. Let's take a half hour recess and then come back. Sorry about that. Okay. We'll head over to the next table. open the CDA meeting and so the only thing would be open comments on CDA matters only from the public make a motion to open the CDA meeting oh I'm sorry did we I thought you did that so make motion to close the town board meeting we closed that CDA meeting so we need a motion a second to open second it open please okay waski yes Merrifield yes current yes Rothwell yes covered yes okay the meetings open and again the only item on the agenda is open comments for CDA matters only okay do we have anybody in the audience that has a comment on a CDA matter seeing nobody we have nobody online okay we have nobody pop and again Eric okay we would then meet need a motion to close the CDA meeting you don't want to reopen the town board meeting no okay so we'll just close the CDA meeting we need a motion a second so moved second waski yes Merrifield yes current yes Rothwell I want the minutes taken down very carefully I got it hummer yes okay CDA meeting is closed until next month okay thank you well thank you everybody for tuning in that's the end of our town board meeting for today and have a safe weekend and I understand it's only 30 days till spring so let's hope they fly fast have a great weekend everybody we'll see you next time. see you next week Frank do you want to do a what