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Good afternoon, everybody. Today is October 6th, 2026. It's 2 p.m. We're here for a regular town board meeting. And before we go any further, if we could stand. And Councilman Woski, would you lead us in the pledge, please? Yes, Mr. Vice President. Thank you. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you so much. Thank you. Councilman, do we have someone for the invocation today? I am looking. I don't see. Is Lieutenant Togara here? from the South. You are. Lieutenant, welcome. If you would come forward. You're from the Riverhead Community Center and the Salvation Army. We thank you once again for joining us today. So thank you, Lieutenant. Thank you. Good afternoon, folks. Could you please stand and join me in prayer?

Father, we thank you we come before your throne this afternoon. We bless your name, Lord, for this day that we'll never see again. Lord, we thank you for administration. We thank you for each and every member here, Lord, our leadership. Father, we thank you for our community. Continue to guide and lead us, Lord. We bless your name for this day. Even as we start this meeting, Lord, we invite your presence. We invite your presence so that you just give us wisdom and discernment, Lord. We just want to hear from you in unity and love. We continue to ask you, Lord, to guide us, Lord, and lead us, Holy Spirit. Continue to guide and be with us in each and every time that we are sharing. We bless your name. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you very much. And so with our announcements today, we'll start off before we do any community announcements. We have one of the always pleasures and great announcements that we have some police department promotions. And so I'd ask my fellow council people if you would pull resolution 889 and 890 or number 12 and 13 from your packet for us. And then we'll read those. We'll have an open moment for comments, and then we'll move forward with them. 12 and 13.

So once everyone's ready, if you could let me know. Mm-hmm.

Don't we have to do comments on the resolution? We do, yeah. So before we read these, I'd like to ask if you, and 12 and 13 will be pulling those out of sequence. I'm just going to have the council person, Ms. Waske, if you would read, if you wouldn't mind, could you read both those for us? And then we'll have a comment so people, in case they don't have the packet in front of them. Yes, so Resolution 889 authorizes the promotion of a police officer to the position of Detective Grade 3, and Resolution 890 promotes a police officer to the rank of sergeant. Thank you very much. So at this moment, we'll just pause if anyone in the room has a comment or anyone online. Just wanted to see our line. No one online. No one in the room. Okay. And so what we'll do is we'll, please, if we could read those. We'll start with Resolution 889. Authorizes the promotion of a police officer to the position of Detective Grade 3. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waski. Congratulations. I know that you are going to be a great addition to the detective division, and yes. Maryfield. Yes, congratulations. Kern. Yes, congratulations. Rothwell. Absolutely. Phenomenal officer. Best wishes to you in the future. Absolutely vote yes. And Halpin. Absolutely yes. That resolution is adopted. Resolution number 890. promotes a police officer to the rank of sergeant. So moved. Second. Vote, please. Waski. Absolutely, yes. Congratulations. Merrifield. Yes, congratulations. Hearn. Yes, congratulations. Rothwell. Congratulations, Tim. Yes. And Halpin. Yes, sir. Congratulations. That resolution is adopted. With that said, I'd like to invite our police chief forward, and he'll be doing the promotions. So thankful for Chief Frost and his crew. Do you want to join us, Tim? Join them.

I'm sorry. Where are you trying to dance? There's no formal swearing in process for a detective. It's an internal promotion. I just would like to thank Ray. I want to go over a little bit of his history. He started with the department in October of 2028. He was obviously in the patrol division. 2008, I'm sorry. 2008. Sorry. Thanks for pointing it out. He was an FTO, which is a field training officer. He was in our COPE division. He was assigned to the East End Drug Task Force, which is an undercover narcotics unit based out of the district attorney's office. He was in crime control. and his last assignment, which is current and will remain, is the detective division. He was put there in April of 2025. He's also part of our drone team and our critical incident response team, which is like our ES team. So I want to thank Ray for all his years of service and congratulate him very much. Thank you.

If I may just take a moment to thank the Chief. This is the first time in over 20 years that a promotion to detective has been recognized by the town of Riverhead and the police department. So thank you very much for bringing that back. Absolutely. Thank you.

You solemnly swear that you uphold the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of New York, and that you faithfully perform the duty of the rank of sergeant for the Riverhead Police Department to the best of your ability, so help you God. Yes, I do. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you.

Tim Shieldon.

I vote to be honors. Don't you worry.

There you go.

176 to 50, very impressive.

Thank you so much.

It's all right here. Please.

Absolutely. Yeah. Thank you.

Our chief and lead officer's continuation of the growth of that department and continued to maturing is just absolutely awesome. And so we're so happy to have Riverhead's finest right here every day protecting them. They live here. They serve here. Thank you, each of you in this room that represent it. And thank you for being part of it. And, Joanne, thank you for pointing that out over 20 years. What a great start to our meeting today. And with that, we'll ask if we have any announcements from our council people today. Do you want to let them leave first? Oh, yeah, if they want to leave. I'm not in charge of them. Yay. They usually just make their way. I'm not giving out. Keegan usually gives out the orders, not me. So while they're making their way out, We just want to make sure that everybody has their information for today's meetings and kind of walk you through. If you have any questions, you are welcome to come. When you come to the podium, we ask you to say your name and your hamlet and say to those things. We have the recreation fall brochure is out. You can register for all of our events online through our recreation department, and we're excited about that. Don't forget also next Monday on October 12th, town hall will be closed in observation of Columbus Day. And does anyone else have any other announcements that they would like to make? I don't today. I do. Okay. I'll keep it real simple. BIDMA has put together a haunted walking tour, which is on Saturdays throughout October. The good and bad news is that it's already sold out. So I'm very, very excited about that and sad that I missed my opportunity to get a ticket. we also have November what is it where is the date November 7th sorry is the town wide clean up day fall clean up for the anti litter committee that will be here at town hall from 9 to 11 they will provide the pickers bags gloves safety vest everything that you need for a safe clean up and they are also introducing this year flogging which is picking up litter while jogging. So you get exercise into the mix as well. And then BIDMA is also putting together the East End Merry Market, which will be on Saturday, the 5th of December from 3 to 8. It was a huge success last year. They already have many, many vendors signed up, and Santa Claus will be here. It's going to be wonderful, so I'll keep updating up until December. I don't want to jump the gun too fast. That's all I have. I have two announcements. One is that on October 18th, that is on Sunday, the Wading River Fall Festival will occur. This was a rain date. That's going to start at 11 a.m. over the Eastwind Shops in Wading River. It's a terrific festival. Also, following with Councilwoman Waski's Litter Committee on November 7th after you finish clogging. After that, you can go to the Pumpkin Smash, which is going to happen at the Young's Avenue Yard facility, where the kids and adults, after Halloween, can take their jack-o'-lanterns down there, and we're going to have a Pumpkin Smash. First one, and we hope it becomes an annual event, and it's also something for our climate smart points with regard to the environment. So everyone, come on down with your old jack-o'-lantern and smash it at the Young's Avenue facility. That's it. I do have two announcements. One, first and foremost, I wear pink today because it is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I am very blessed that my wife is a breast cancer survivor, a true fighter. I love her every day. She's the most important person in my life. But early detection is key. So, ladies, please get yourself checked out. Think about that. It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month. There are a lot of events, some that we've just recently held, some that are more coming up over the next month. But please participate, raise money for all the different organizations that assist breast cancer survivors, and that someday that we will have a cure for breast cancer. So I wear pink and proud of my wife. Second announcement I just want to talk about briefly is Riverhead Volunteer Ambulance Corps, so that the public is aware. They have officially moved out of their building, and they have moved across the street to the armory, which is at 1405 Old Country Road. And that's where they'll be responding out of over the next year. They do have offices in a separate location over at the old Walmart shopping center. The Chase Bank is where they'll have some of their administrative work being done. And so they are responding now officially after this weekend out of the armory. And so we give them support. In short time, we will be knocking down the building. And for those that ever thought or doubted it, we are knocking it down, and we are building a wonderful brand-new facility there. So we're very excited and that we hope this time next year we'll be moving them into their brand new building. So thank you. Okay, Bob. So the Chamber is having a country music festival on October 12th at Granville Park, and it starts at 1 o'clock. So they're promoting line dancing. Oh, boy. Good deal. Also, don't forget our trunk or treat at Stotsky on October 16th at 6.30 p.m. through our rec department. And our rec is also doing a drive-in movie. Same place, Minions and Monsters, on October 17th at 7 p.m. So lots of great stuff. Get out there. Enjoy this fall-like weather. It's a great time to be alive in Riverhead. So with that thought, we'll move right into our very first – oh, I'm sorry. We'll have our correspondents and reports with our good friend, Clerk. All right. Thank you. Absolutely. Well, under correspondence, the letters are published at the end of the agenda. We received a letter from RELI, a reference to the battery energy storage system, the BESS. We received several letters from Warren McKnight about public safety, donor services, and a committee on public safety. Allison Matway about rules of order and 4-H camp. They're all listed on the back of your agenda if you see them. Colin Tooker on immigrants, and John McCullough on correspondence and wanting to keep that happening, which it will happen, and also Kevin Shea on ethics. So there's several letters that came in. They're all published. They're all on the back of the agenda to be seen in red verbatim. That concludes the correspondence. under reports, we received the building department monthly report for August of 2026 at $84,199. Received the tax receiver utility payment report for September of 2026 at $876,951.25. We received the town clerk's monthly report for September at $11,259.50. and we received the Rivet Police Department monthly reports for July and August. And that concludes our report. Thank you, Mr. Wooten. Really appreciate you and your hard work. We're going to open up to our first public hearing, which is scheduled for 2 p.m. It is 2.18, the Community Development Block Grant, which will be led by our CDA Director, Don Thomas. And I will note that every letter that came in, some came in today as late as 2 o'clock, All of those I put in front of you that were circulated, but you also have a hard copy. Thank you. Thank you, Jim. Good afternoon, everyone. So today we are once again introducing our public hearing requesting for individuals requesting funding for our Community Development Block Grant Program. As you know, we participate as a part of a consortium through the County of Suffolk. The funds come from HUD, federal funds, and we then receive them from the county, and then we distribute them through to our town public service groups and for other projects within the town for parks and pedestrian and parking improvements. And so I'm just starting this public hearing. We're going to hear from many of our applicants today for this fund, and then the board will consider those applications and then ultimately decide. So I think we can – I mean, maybe they should line up. Yeah, that would be great. Over here, anybody who's looking for a community development block grant funds to make a presentation, and then we can take it from there. Yep. So what Ms. Thomas said is if you're here to present the community block grant, if you could please line up along the wall. So we know we have in the queue and then we can be ready for that. So that would be outstanding

Felicia you want to kick us off there Good afternoon I'm Felicia Skokoza executive director of Riverhead community awareness program I'd like to thank supervisor Halpin and members of the town board for your support of CAP and Your support through this funding and through your actions as well in the past Riverhead CAP is requesting Community Development Block Grant funds for 2026-27 to support our social worker in Roanoke Avenue Elementary School. Town residency is confirmed by school records of all the students that she works with at Roanoke Avenue School. It's for counseling and prevention services. Roanoke is the most impoverished school in the town of Riverhead. New York State Department of Education data identified 71% of Roanoke Avenue students and their families as economically disadvantaged, meaning they participate in at least one economic assistance program. Roanoke students served by the CAP social worker have experienced stress, trauma, and adverse childhood experiences, also known as ACEs, which are linked to chronic health problem, mental illness, and substance use issues that begin in adolescence and across the lifespan, according to the CDC. ACEs can also negatively impact education, job opportunities, and earning potential. However, this is preventable, as I've said many times in the past. The connection of these children and families to community resources is vital for their emotional and academic success, and the success of these Riverhead children will have a direct impact on the economic future of this town. Allocating these funds to support prevention programs and services is entirely appropriate and an investment in our town's youth, families and future. Thank you. Thank you, Felicia. Good afternoon. I'm Judy Barth and I'm here today seeking a portion of the community block grant that the town awards every year to different organizations that help better to help better the community. We have been fortunate in the last number of years to benefit from this grant and we are truly grateful. The monies truly make a difference in what we are able to accomplish and continue to service and to the service we provide. For those that are unfamiliar with what we do, we serve hot nutritious meals three evenings a week from the First Congregational Church in downtown Riverhead. All that come are welcome to a meal, no matter what their needs may be. Some are homeless, some are down on their luck, and many now are just struggling to make ends meet. Being able to provide healthy meals help to alleviate the burdens that we all feel of rising costs for both the young and the old alike. We see young people and many seniors that are struggling just to eat, and knowing that we are there brings those guests a level of comfort with one less worry. What are they going to eat? We see all races. We offer a safe place for those that feel threatened. We find that our guests are grateful and helpful to each other. We are a totally volunteer-based organization, so all funds collected go directly to the mission of Bread and More. We currently are serving 80 to 90 meals per night, so that's over 250 meals per week right here in downtown Riverhead. With rising costs in food and paper goods, we too struggle to make ends meet. So once again, we are asking you to have us be a recipient of these funds allotted to the town from the county. Thank you again for your support over the years. We invite you to come and see what we do and what we're about. We serve Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday starting at 5 30. We welcome all. Thank you. Judy, I have one question. How many weeks do you do this for? Excuse me? How many weeks do you do this for? How many weeks? Yeah. We do it 52 weeks a year. We are open even on the holidays, like Labor Day or anything, whatever holiday falls on a Monday, we're there. The only day we're closed is Thanksgiving because so many other organizations take over for Thanksgiving meals, and we're closed on Christmas if it happens to fall on a day that we're open. Thank you. So other than that, we're open all the time. Bread and More Kitchen. Yes, it's not in any longer. The inn was part of the Interfaith Nutrition Network. Okay. That's no longer there. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Judy. Thank you.

Hi, everybody. My name is Anton DiGruccio. I am the Program Manager and Mental Health Professional at Warrior Ranch Foundation. We are here today also requesting for the Community Development Block Grant funding. Warrior Ranch Foundation provides services for veterans and first responders and their family members. What we do there is we assist with building skills such as relationship skills, communication skills, and other life skills by using equine-assisted services. We have a two-fold mission where we rescue horses, and then we also work with our veterans and first responders who help to train those horses to allow them to be adoptable to new homes. So it's a way of giving our veterans and first responders another purpose after maybe they have come out of active duty or possibly retired, or some of them are still active military or active in their first responder roles. Our programming is offered at no cost to any of our participants. This is our way of giving back to those who have given and are still giving so much to our community and our country. So all of the programming is funded by generous donations, funding through towns and grant writing and things of that nature. So the funds that are provided to us will go directly to programming and assisting those veterans and first responders, so we are here to ask for that support as it is very much needed and that will help to continue our ability to service our veterans and first responders as they deserve a million things, but at least this is the least that we can give them. So I want to thank you for that. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Good afternoon, everybody. Supervisor Halpin, the whole board. So most of you know me. My name is Mariana. I'm the director for the Riverhead Chamber of Commerce. Every year I found out that this board decides how to stretch, like, a modest amount of money into our local communities. So today I'm asking you to invest $7,000 of it in the young people who will be running, staffing, and starting businesses on Main Street 10 years from now. So Riverhead is a hardworking community, and many of our families are stretched. Approximately 48% of students at Riverhead High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That's 932 students. The data was provided by the National Center for Education Statistics. Those students have the same drive and ideas as anyone else. What many of them don't have is a parent with a business, a mentor in a corner office, or someone who has ever shown them how to write a budget, price a product, or stand up and pitch an idea. So what can I do? What can the chamber do? The program is called Chamber Tank. Chamber Tank closes that gap. Over eight weeks, high school students will learn the real mechanics of business from people who do it every day in this town. That's business planning, budgeting, financial literacy, marketing, sales, public speaking, professional communication, presentation skills, problem solving, critical thinking, decision making, and so much more. Each student is paired with a mentor, either through the high school or from the chamber. The program ends with students presenting their business plans to a panel of local business owners, Riverhead's own version of Shark Tank. And I mention the high school because I had the pleasure of sitting with our superintendent, Dr. Hagan, last week, and I'm happy to report that he's fully on board. He sees Chamber Tank as a partnership with the chamber that aligns with his own goals for Riverhead students. So while Riverhead is in the middle of the biggest, one of the biggest downtown revitalization movements, over the next several years that work is going to bring a town square, a Riverhead hotel, an adaptive playground, streetscape improvements, parking garage, and so much more. But bricks and mortars are only half of the revitalization. A downtown thrives when there are people ready to work in it, shop in it, and open businesses in it. Chamber Tank invests in that human side of the plant. A ready workforce, the next generation of business owners, keeping our talent local, young people investing in downtown. We plan to hold an awards ceremony in our local Riverhead community, bringing students, families, and business owners together. There will be awards for the students as well. the state federal and local the state federal the state federal government and this board have invested tens of millions of dollars in downtown buildings and public spaces for seven thousand dollars a chamber tank invests in the people who will bring them to life for seven thousand dollars a town gets students with real financial literacy a professional mentor a finished business plan and the confidence to present it in public it gets a program that keeps local talent collected connected to local businesses and it gets a partner in the chamber that will report back to this board on every student served and every dollar spent thank you Don, do we have anyone else?

Warren McKnight, Riverhead. I don't understand. I'm a little bit ambiguous, and maybe if you speak to Congressman Lillota, he could explain it in many letters he sends to everybody, but many newspaper reports have reported that he threatened to stop community development funds. I'm not looking, but that disturbed me, and maybe he could clarify what happened. It was reported in the newspapers. So that's something that should be cleared up and something should be addressed. To address it, I believe we're fully funded right now, and I believe we anticipate next year being fully funded. So it's a great question. But he threatened them. Didn't he? I don't know. Don't forget, he's federal. Well, the funds go to community development down here. And, you know, this is a question, and it just sticks in my head. And I could be wrong and right, but I would feel much better if he addressed that, and he addressed it through the newspapers and everything else. if you see him in your travels. I know I go to his office in VFW in Rocky Point once in a while there, and he has his aides up to the level. This is one of the few places we could comment directly with people, which I thank you. Thank you very much, and whatever it is, it is. Okay. Well, I think that we had some great presentations today. Absolutely. What wonderful additions. I just didn't know if there was anybody else that needed to present. I don't think there's anybody else that's going to present. Okay. Could you just maybe read off those other applicants that applied? I have them here if you want. Yes, if you would mind. I don't have a way to see through them. So there are other applications, just so the public is aware. We received an application for Open Arms Care Center. Church of Harvest. We received an application for the Church of Harvest as well. So they will be part of consideration as well. And the comment period stays open until October 24th. October 24th. And every one of these, I think our public should know, all of these nonprofits, what they do and this money is so vital to them, but the services they provide, we don't have to hire staff for that. Every nonprofit across the world, working in nonprofit work for 30 years, so thank you to Don and your team for making sure this money gets in the proper place. Thank you for everybody being here and listening. And thank you to each nonprofit for what you do. As Joanne said, these are great presentations. Great. Thank you very much. All right. So let's hope October 24th, it has to be 30 days from when the notice went out, and it went out on the 24th. So our next public hearing today is to amend Chapter 289, Vehicles, Traffic, and Parking, Article 2. And I believe Councilor Victoria is coming to lead us in that. Good afternoon members of the board So this proposed local laws to amend 289 dash 2 as just stated. It's the stop and yield intersections the Suffolk County Department of Public Works Asked us to formally include this stop intersection that has existed as far back as 2018 It's the flashing light stop sign by the old Halleck fabricating warehouse building. So So department of public works just noticed it wasn't reflected in our code. It's basically a housekeeping just for us to codify what's already been existing. Nearly identical to what we did in July of 2024 with the no right-hand turn on to when we did that on to Cromer. So it's just certain things that aren't in the code that need to be reflected in the code. So if anyone has any questions. No, I think it's a great place for that light. Okay. All right, that's all I have. All right, so we'll give it a second, see if we have any comments online or in the room for this public hearing. Great, thanks. Nothing? All right, so we'll leave that public hearing open for 10 days, which will be the 16th. If you have a written comment, you're welcome to send that in then. I'd be happy for you to participate in that way. with that said we will move on to we'll close this portion of the public hearing we'll move on to comments on resolutions during this time period again we ask that you state your name where you're from and what part of town you're from and then we ask that you adhere to your three minutes for that so if there's any and also please state the resolution number so that myself and the town board can follow along that would be excellent good afternoon talk with urchin greater calverton civic association president i'm commenting on resolution 30 2026-907 it's the appraisal authorization for 1458 middle road in calverton um

if everybody in the room who's from calverton and here for this resolution just raise your hand so we know so we tend to fill the room when we come and uh we've been in front of the planning board pretty often since last November so in this for about 12 months so far I don't think I thought then that we would see an appraisal for this property for the purposes of preserving it as open space we were just really concerned about the project at hand and and the precedence that it would set in our APZ and being at the epicenter of 500 homes today we would like you to support five zero for for the appraisal for this property a lot of work has been done I know behind the scenes our residents have traveled to Smithtown to speak in front of the legislature and we're told hey go back to your boards at home and speak up and that's exactly what we've done again we really want to thank you and very quickly I have four paragraphs here from Jen Hartnagle from the group for the East End in support she writes on behalf of the group for the East End i write to lend support to the town board resolution on the town board october 6 2026 agenda authorizing the appraisal of 1458 middle road callerton the subject 5.3 acre parcel contains prime agricultural soils and is located within the town's agricultural protection zone the parcel is adjacent to over 40 acres of wooded town of riverhead preserved land that contains freshwater wetlands preservation of this property would help meet the goals of the town's agricultural open space land preservation targets help protect community character as well as the natural integrity of adjacent protected lands thank you for taking the time to review our comments please contact me should you have any questions with your contact information she submitted it so it should be on the record for you to be able to read We as residents each have thoughts about how we'd like to see that property proceed if indeed we'll go into preservation. So please keep the conversation open. Calvert & Civic is ready. Thank you. Thanks, Dr. Lee. I can just speak on that before you run away. I'm very proud. So Councilwoman Merrifield and I did go to Suffolk County Legislature. We spoke at length specifically about that parcel. we voiced our concerns with it. We had asked initially, we had reached out to the attorney there, and at that particular time, the attorney was not a willing seller representing his client at the time. And then at a later date after their applications went before, the Suffolk County Legislature, which held on and didn't proceed on their application. I'll also thank Councilman Kern, who then also reached out to the town attorney. AND YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO HAVE A WILLING SELLER. I APPEARED BEFORE THE OPEN SPACE COMMITTEE BECAUSE IT IS A PHENOMENAL PIECE OF PROPERTY WITH THE HISTORY OF KETTLE HOLES THAT ARE ON THAT PROPERTY. AND, YOU KNOW, MY VISION OF THAT IS THAT WE'RE A FARMING AGRICULTURAL TOWN AND I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT ORIGINAL FARM HOUSE PRESERVED BECAUSE I THINK IT REALLY REPRESENTS WHAT OUR HERITAGE IS AS AN AGRICULTURAL TOWN. SO WE ARE VERY GRATEFUL THAT THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY HAS NOW AGREED TO AT THIS POINT CONSIDER A PROPOSAL BY THE TOWN. SO BY US NOW MOVING FORTH WITH GETTING AN APPRAISAL DONE ON THE PROPERTY, IT WILL ALLOW US TO GIVE HIM A FAIR MARKET VALUE FOR THE PROPERTY. BUT I WOULD ABSOLUTELY LOVE TO SEE IT. THE HISTORY OF THE KETTLEHOLES AND A LOT OF PEOPLE IF THEY'RE NOT FAMILIAR AT HOME OR WE'RE WATCHING, WE OWN THE PROPERTY BEHIND IT, WE OWN ADJACENT TO IT, WE'RE A FARMING COMMUNITY, THAT'S ONE OF THE ORIGINAL FARM HOUSES. THAT WASN'T PART OF THE INITIAL LAND PRESERVATION BECAUSE THE OWNER STILL LIVED IN THAT HOUSE AT THE TIME. SO NOW IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO MOVE FORWARD AND WE'RE REALLY HELPED THAT IT COMES TO FORWITION. SO WE HOPE WE GET A REALLY GOOD FAIR MARKET APPRAISAL ON THE PROPERTY AND WE REALLY HOPE THAT THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY WILL CONSIDER FOR PRESERVING IT. And so we're excited about it because I think this is a great path to preserve a great piece of land. And this is the beginning. Thank you. I'm glad that you pointed out that it's exciting because it is. It is. I know that when Councilman Rothwell first came to me and said, what do you think about preserving this land for open space and being a prior liaison to open space, I was aware that the property next to it is preserved through open space. And my eyes just lit up like what a great idea. This is what the residents deserve. This is our way out of a disaster happening here in our town. So I fully support preserving this for open space. So thank you for including me in that conversation, Kevin. Thank you.

If my three minutes aren't up, I'm in constant contact with Karen Guancione, who is one of the three siblings of the Kobolinski family who administer the trust, and they are in the midst of Suffolk County Preservation open space on the acreage of 12 acres south across the street that border Foxwood Village. I'll let you know now that she let me in on a thought. She said that her mom, sorry, it gets a little emotional, her mom wanted to see all of that property preserved. Wow. And this is the beginning of a real step forward, not just a promise. If you vote 5-0, we pay for that appraisal. At least we have an instrument that we can work with. Thank you very much. I'm going to just talk because now I'm the current liaison of open space and that committee is also looking at the parcel you're talking about to preserve. So to compete with the Suffolk County Preservation. The one outside of Foxwood? Yeah. It's about 11 months in on that Suffolk County process. Good. Okay. So our open space, I did speak with Janice Leone, who is the chairperson of that open space committee, and she had mentioned her interest in it, along with George Bartnik, who's also a member. And I said, hey, but it's going through Suffolk County, but it's nice to have a backup. Yeah, that's fine. Thanks, Aquee. Thank you. I hope to see nice historical tractors outside that, and that Riverhead will have its own little farmhouse on that property. So I'm excited. Calverton has ideas. Thank you very much.

You are welcome to speak. Yep, and just let us know what resolution... This topic is a similar topic. I wish to point out that in Wedding River, Irving and Barbara Hulse's farmhouse is preserved by the state park. This would be on a specific resolution. Yeah, well, I'm pointing, it relates to preserving our agriculture heritage. So everybody should be aware, when you walk, you can see their beautiful house, where they had to have, go back, you know, it's a big house, small house all the way through, where they had to get the wood in the winter and everything else, and how they had across the street, their farm workers, and how they treated them like family. And it's just a wonderful thing, the Hulses. And Barbara Hulse, this is a wonderful thing about Barbara Hulse, and everybody should know this. Ron, I'm going to ask you to come back up and comment. Thanks. Come back up in a little bit. Barbara Hulse, she was a doctor, a medical doctor. I hear you, but we're doing resolutions right now. Yeah, okay. But was this in reference to that resolution? Well, I don't know who Barbara Hulse is, but. She married Irving Hulse, and because she was in that phase, she stopped practicing medicine. And that farm is preserved today. Everybody should look at it. It's related to the same thing. Okay. All right? Thanks, Warren. You're the best. All righty. Any others on specific resolutions would be helpful in that way? Good stuff? Great stuff happening? I feel like you're all in suspense. We should go right to that resolution. Then they would leave. They don't save the ice cream for the middle of the show, right? All right. So do we have anyone in line for resolution? Okay. All right. So with that said, Mr. Wooten? Okay. We'll start with resolution number one, which is actually resolution number 878. Ratifies budget adjustment for the improvements at Two Bears Park Capital Project number 72515. So moved. Second. Vote, please. Waski? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Alpen? Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 879. Ratifies Highway Department budget transfer for emergency storm repair. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waski? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. And I'd like to say thank you very much to the head of Highway. He's done a wonderful job, Mike Zaleski. Thank you for everything. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. absolutely Mike your entire staff so I know you're always a team yes and helping yes sir that resolution is adopted resolution number 8 8 0 modifies use of existing budget for street lighting equipment so moved seconded vote please waski yes very few yes Kern yes Rothwell yes helping sir resolutions adopted resolution 8 8 1 accepts donation of resurfacing for South Jamesport basketball court so moved seconded vote please Bosque yes and thank you very field yes turn yes and thank you very much for your donation both well yes thank you and happen Tommy thank you yes sir that resolution is adopted resolution 882 accepts donation from the Riverhead moose lodge for our PAL program. So moved. Second. Vote please. Waskey? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Halpin? Thank you. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 883. Accepts anonymous donation for the Recreation Department. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waskey? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Thank you. Anonymous. Whoever you are. Rothwell? Yes. Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 884. Ratifies acceptance of donations from various local businesses for annual Snapper Tournament 2026. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waskey. Yes. Murrayfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. It was a great day watching the kids out there. Absolutely. Yes. Halpin. Thank you, everyone that donated. Yes. Yes, sir. Resolution was adopted. Resolution 885. Removes fixed assets. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waske? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 886. Sets fees for the Riverhead Sewer District, Cowleton Sewer District, and Scavenger Waste. So moved. Second. Vote, please. Waske? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hoppin? Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution number 887. Amends fire prevention fees. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waske. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Hearn. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Halpin. Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 888. Authorizes the attendance of one police department employee to attend a conference. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waske. Yes. Murrayfield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Huffman? Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 889. I don't have that one in my packet. Appoints an accountant. Oh, we did that already. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah. Oh, we took this. I'm sorry. We're going to skip ahead. Oh, well, well. We're going to go to 14. 889 and 890 have already been approved. Yep. Sorry about that. So we're going to go to resolution number? 891. Appoints an accountant. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waske? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Yes sir. The resolution is adopted. Resolution eight nine two. Appoints an automotive equipment operator to the highway. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waske? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Alvin? Yes sir. Resolution adopted. Resolution eight nine three. appoints a fire marshal one so moved seconded vote please waski yes very few yes turn yes well congratulations Williams yes and helping welcome to the team yes sir resolution is adopted resolution 894 appoints a detention attendant to the police department so moved second vote please waski yes Maryfield yes turn yes Rothwell yes helping again welcome to the team yes sir resolution is adopted resolution 895 ratifies the appointment of a maintenance mechanic to to the engineering department so moved second vote please waski yes very few yes turn yes rothwell yes helping sir resolution is adopted resolution 896 points a call in recreation aid to the recreation department so moved second vote please Waski? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Halpin? Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 897. Appoints a call-in park attendant to the Recreation Department. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waski? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Halpin? Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 898. Points part-time code enforcement officers. So moved. Second. Vote, please. Waski? Yes. Yes. Maryfield? Yes. Hearn? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Halpin? Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 899. Ratifies the appointment of a part-time employee so moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waski? Yes. Maryfield? Yes. Hearn? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Halpin? Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution number 900. Amends terms and conditions for recreation superintendent so moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waske? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Halpin? Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 9-0-1. Ratifies the appointment of part-time police officers and places them on a leave of absence so moved. Vote please. Waske? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Halpin? Yes sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 9-0-2. ratifies the resignation of an automotive equipment operator. So moved. Second. Vote, please. Waskey? Yes. Murrayfield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Alpin? Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 903. Establish a standard work day for elected and appointed officials. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waskey? Yes. Murrayfield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Alpin? Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 904. Ratifies the authorization for the police department to apply for a grant. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waske? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Halpin? Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 905. Ratifies the application of Community Development Division for capital grant funding through the New York State Assembly, Assemblywoman Giglio, for a brush fire staging area at Veterans Park at EpCal Somot. Seconded. Vote please. Waski. Yes, thank you, Assemblywoman Giglio. Merrifield. Yes, thank you, Assemblywoman Giglio. Kern. Yes, thank you, Assemblywoman Giglio. Bratwell. Of course, thank you very much, Assemblywoman Giglio. I also thank the Suffolk County officers emergency management who came out to the site visited the site and there's generally concerns all around about the Asian beetle that is eating a lot of the trees and we have a substantial amount of dead forestry that's out in the woods and so you and I myself fighting brush fires last year trying to line up on Sound Avenue we had some over by the 4-h and some by the golf course there's really not a safe place and it's very dangerous when firefighters are getting on off the truck and though especially in the middle of the night. So what we decided to do is create a nice staging event area to utilize Veterans Memorial Park. Financing was always difficult, so we're very grateful for Assemblywoman Jody Giglio for getting us $100,000 towards this project, towards getting it completion. And I thank Suffolk County as well for joining the board and kind of validating everything we're doing, along with the surrounding fire departments as well. So I vote yes. Albin? Well, I wish I would have known Suffolk County was going to come out and see the site. I did ask for a map last week at our work session and was told the map was produced by Suffolk County. The map was actually on behalf of our water district from H2M. And I am pro, absolutely, the ice rink. I am pro fire mitigation. And I'm thankful for our state partners and Jody Giglio stepping up and bringing this financing. And so because of those things that I'm pro, I know this fire hydrant will be going in front of the bathrooms, which will allow the ice rink also to have its CO, which would solidify a problem that's needed to be fixed for a while. So all of those things being addressed, I'm happy to be able to move this along, so I will be voting yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution number 906. Approves rain date change for Chapter 255 special event application for Wading River Shoreham Chamber of Commerce Fall Festival. So moved. Second. Vote, please. Waski? Yes. Merrifield? Yes, and the date is October 18th Sunday everyone welcome to come Kern yes Well, yes, how can yes sir resolution is adopted resolution? 907 Authorize authorization for an appraisal of 1458 Bill Road Calverton New York so moved seconded vote please wasky 1000% yes, very few. Yes, I'm very happy to vote yes for them Yes Rothwell in a beat council on wasky and go a thousand and one percent. Yes. This is a great project We've got to get this done. So please yes Hopping Thank you to each of you showing up and making this a matter important for over a year year you have addressed your voices your voices are continually heard by everyone in this county absolutely yes resolution is adopted resolution number 908

authorizes professional services agreement between the town of Riverhead and interest shift for automated vehicle location and monitoring so moved second Vote, please. Waske? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Mothwell? Yes. Halpin? Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 909. Authorize the supervisor to sign a professional services agreement with GovPilot LLC DBA Spatial Data Logic LLC. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waske? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Alpin? This is so exciting, yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 910. Authorize the supervisor to execute an extension of license agreement with Resideo LLC, formerly known as Ademco. So moved. Second. Vote, please. Waskey? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Alpin? Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 911. Yeah, Dawn, can you just come up and speak about this resolution? I just want to know exactly which part of the town square they're going to be working on. Did you maybe just read the title, Bob? Yeah, Town Square and Streetscapes Improvement. Authorizes, right? Well, so when Bob's talking- You know what? I mean, so never mind. No, no, it's- You know, because we just need, you know, I mean- You've got to bring up the street- He just asked if you could read the- The streetscapes- I didn't get it. I don't have the resolution. It authorizes the supervisor to execute an addendum to an agreement with LVF Landscape Architects, PLLC, Town Square, and Streetscapes Improvement. Number 911. Sorry, Dawn. I got it. You got it? Yeah, yeah. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Authorizes the supervisor to execute an addendum to an agreement with LVF Landscape Architects, PLLC, Town Square, and Streetscapes Improvement. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Yes. Waskie? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Halpin? Yes, sir. That resolution is adopted. Resolution 912. Amends Town Board Resolution 2026-277, LVF Landscape Architects. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waskie? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Halpin? authorizations for the supervisor to sign a memorandum of agreement for Eastern Suffolk BOCES interns so moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waske? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Halpin? Yes sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 914. Extends agreement non-protonc for Young's Avenue landfill maintenance and monitoring. So moved. Second. Vote please. Waskey? Yes. Murrayfield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Alton? Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 915. Awards bid for one new Alltech model AT40G telescopic articulating aerial device with ISO boom on a 2028 Ford F-550 chassis or equal. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waskey. Yes. Merrifield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rockwell. Yes. Yes sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 916. Extends bid 2025-08 non-proton for street light and traffic signal maintenance repair parts. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waske? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Alpin? Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 917. Extends bid 2025-28 replacement of large meters for Riverhead Water District. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waske? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Alpin? Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 918. Extends bid for 2025-31 for Dalflake Extra, 83 to 87 percent calcium chloride or equal. So moved. Second. Vote please. Waskey? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Halpin? Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 919. Extends bid 2025-34 for removal of household hazardous waste so moved seconded vote please wasky yes maryfield yes kern yes rothwell yes palpatine yes sir resolution is adopted resolution 920 extends bid 2025-39 for general hardware items so moved seconded vote please wasky yes maryfield yes kern yes Rothwell? Yes. Halpin? Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 921. Authorizes the supervisor to execute easements for Suffolk County Tax Map number 0600-68-2-8.2. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waske? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Halpin? This is a subdivision that is still being dealt with in our legal department from the things that went on there that were written tickets and a stop worker was given, so no.

Resolution is adopted. Resolution 922. This is an exciting resolution. here authorizes the Town Clerk to publish and post requests for proposals for redevelopment and operation of a destination attraction at 111 East Main Street, downtown Riverhead, New York. So moved. Second. Vote, please. Waske? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Halpin? Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution number 923 authorizes Town Clerk to publish and post notice of public hearing to consider the adoption of the 2027 preliminary annual budget for the town of Riverhead So move second vote, please Waski, yes Very few. Yes turn Yes Rothwell, yes up in sir resolution is adopted. Resolution 924. Resolution calling public hearing regarding a capital improvement for the proposed lateral water main extension at 1001 Scotts Avenue District 0600 section 135.10 block 01 lot 001 Calverton, New York. So moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waske. Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Halpin? Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 925. Adopts a local law to amend Chapter 115 of the Riverhead Town Code titled Procurement Policy. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waske? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Halpin? Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 926. Adopts a local law to amend Chapter 231 of the Riverhead Town Code titled Fire Prevention. Article 13, Fireworks and Pyrotechnics Display. So moved. Second. Vote, please. Waskey? Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Hoppin? Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 927. Adopts a local law to amend Chapter 255 of the Riverhead Town Code titled Parades, Assemblies, and Block Parties. Article 2, special events. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waskey? Yes. Murrayfield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Alvin? Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution number 928.

It's you again, Bob. Again? Two in a row. Pays bills. Second. I didn't want to pay any bills. I think you got to say so moved. So moved. Seconded. Thank you. Thank you both. Yes. Merrifield? Yes. Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Alpen? Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 929. Determines as host community that upon consideration and application of the Monroe balancing test, the Suffolk County Water Authority project known and referred to as the North Fork Transmission Line, NFT L draft environmental impact statement described preferred alternative route via main street main road shall not be immune from Riverhead town zoning and land use laws codes and or regulations some of seconded vote please wash key yes Maryfield yes Kern definite yes Rockwell thank you very much for our town attorney for really working hard on this yes Yeah, everyone. Jeff Seaman, everybody. Great job. Thank you, and yes, sir. All right, that resolution is adopted. That concludes the resolutions for this packet. So at this time, we will ask that for open comments from the public, again, we ask you to come stay in the area of town you're from, and we ask that you hold to your three minutes and speak into the mic really clearly so we can hear you. But we will start. Hi, Dr. Turchin, Greater Calvary Pacific Association President. Again, an obvious thank you for your 5-0 vote for the appraisal. We look forward to all good things for the five-acre property on Middle Road. I just want to draw attention to that last resolution, 2026-929 on the Monroe balancing test. I'm not sure if everybody in the room recognizes how important that is to Riverhead, and we must protect our home rule. Thank you for being our town board and our town attorney. protecting our home rule against Suffolk County Water Authority. It's a shame to have to say it that way, but thank you very much. So I have two more things to let you know. We want to, Calvarton Civic and Wade and River Civic, want to announce our candidates' night. Thank you to the two candidates for supervisor who have agreed to come. It'll be next Thursday, October 15th at 5 p.m. at the Riley Avenue School, just nine short shopping days away. We ask that you arrive by 445. It's a little earlier than we are used to, but we want to make sure that everybody had a chance. We know Calvary and we like to meet on that day, and we know that that's the only day we can get the school to do that. So thank you very much to the two candidates for coming. It is at 5 o'clock on Thursday, next Thursday, October 15th at Riley Avenue Elementary School. Come to the front doors where the flagpole is. pizza if you bring it and a second my second announcement is a very large thank you to supervisor happen and come and council person current almost called you council congressman for the Calverton rab who met on the 22nd and the 23rd this year, just a week or so more ago, for coming out to the site visit at the former Grumman property to see in person the work that they're getting done there. It's important to constantly keep the pressure on the Navy, and that's exactly what you've been doing. It's nice that the scientists are out there right now doing a great job are there, but the tough questions have to be asked, and I know that each of you are doing that. I thank all of our Calvert and Rab for their participation in what they've been doing so far, but also because they were able to get Senator Schumer out for one of the two press conferences you've just held recently, and thank you to the entire board for attending those. If I had known about them, I would have been over there, but I'm still just glad that the attention is being drawn, and we know Senator Schumer is a heavy hitter, so if he's there, hopefully he's hitting home runs for us. the threat to our national estuary is around the corner and that's Peconic Bay. It's already in our river. It's a shame to have to say that but keep the pressure up. We appreciate it. Last is any assistance that could happen the woman I mentioned before, Karen Guancione, who's one of the siblings administering the trust for their mom for the 12 acre property on the south side of Middle Road that abuts Foxwood in the Suffolk County preservation process they've run into a hiccup with the survey and I sent out communication and I just hopefully get a response on it that anything you can help with that would be appreciated. We foiled for a site plan for an encroachment of a fence so any kind of help you can offer please contact me. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Oh. Hi, Linda Nemeth, Calverton, immediately next door to the properties being discussed. I wanted to ask, and I don't know if you know this, when was the last appraisal done on that piece of property before this company, Brother Bear, purchased it? And also, who is the appraiser going to be? Is it going to be their appraiser or ours? Ours. It's our appraiser. It's ours. Absolutely. Eric, do you know when the last one was done? I don't remember. Yeah. We didn't do one. Yeah, we didn't do one. The purchaser did it. I think there was one done, but yeah, our appraiser. Thank you.

Anyone online? Yes, ma'am. No, no. Yeah, go on. So we'll cue that up in a second. Some of you know me, but some of you don't. I'm Mary Beth Andresen. I live on Church Lane in Ackerbock, and I've lived there for 54 years. And I'm here, and I spoke to Traffic and Safety. I went to their last meeting and presented to them. We're having a real problem with the speeding on Church Lane. It's a 35-mile-an-hour zone, but nobody does 35. Let's be real. We all do 10 miles over. That's a normal. And it's gotten to be so hysterical now that Waze and Google Maps uses Church Lane as the get through. Oh, it's unbelievable. What's happened is, you know, this was originally, when I first moved there, it was a little. John Haskell, Jr.: Ma'am, ma'am, we just asked you to address us only. Oh, I'm sorry. John Haskell, Jr.: That's okay. Didn't mean, sorry. It was a colonial era agricultural and church access years and years ago, and it evolved as a connecting rural farm lane between the main road and Sound Avenue. No colonial era or historic houses were built on that road, however, but municipal records show residential housing started in the 1930s. It's a very unusual road compared to the road pre it, West Lane, and the road post it, Manor Lane, because as you go down Church Lane, you see that the road is very torturous, and it has banks. So it's a very narrow, winding road with hillsides. So the problem is, we have no sidewalks, no easements, no white lines on the perimeter of the road, which is very dangerous. And what happens is, If somebody's coming around those curves going too fast or in flooding, which we have, because it's a high water table area, there's no way of getting off that road. If you're walking, walking your dog, pushing your baby carriage, which happens now. You know, seven developments have gone in there in the last four years. And seven developments have many, many houses. So not only do we have traffic from the north-south corridor, we have all these other people using this road. And this has got to be addressed. So they promised me, I said, just put up a blinker like we have on Edwards Avenue that just tells you your speed. Maybe that'll help to correct some of this. but when they come around my bend which is the worst one I have a mirror so I can get out of my driveway now so I don't get killed what happens is well I had two accidents in front of my house in the last year and it's because everybody's going too fast and if we had some way of slowing them down I would appreciate it that's all I have to say thank you very much Thank you.

I'm just going to add one thing to what you're saying. What? I take that road all the time. And on the weekends, you get the tourists that are coming through, and then they want to make a left turn. Oh, you can't. You cannot make a left turn, and they'll sit there and wait and wait and wait. You cannot make a left turn. Yeah. I know. Good afternoon. Although I am a member of the Calverton Civic and do appreciate the legislation to look into the appraisal of that property, it's very well intended. I love the idea and we need to take care of our property and keep an industrial pot farm from moving in because that's industry. It's not farming. On a different topic, I'm a little disappointed that the four board members approved number 921 authorizing to execute the easements on the tax map for the Summer Wind project in Aqueboc. I know that it's a project that's going to move forward, but these are some of the same developers that continually break the law, do what they wish without permits or permission, and then you're just approving the behavior. It's going to happen. We know that. But there's a process and they need to follow the process. And you're just rewarding bad behavior. They shouldn't have done what they did the way they did it. You shouldn't have approved it. Neither should have the planning board. of us have attended that meeting and the planning board went ahead and approved it as well i know that's their job i know this is your job but you're rewarding bad behavior and sending the wrong signal to developers out there thank you this is not approving the project i know it's i understand but nothing i'm sorry nothing should be able to charge of the water district as well And so the the owner has has property rights to do that But we're not we didn't approve the project that went through the Planning Board I know so this is an appropriate action that takes place on any normal extension of the water district in addition they have worked diligently and the town attorney is assured us that they are coming up with a amicable Commitment in terms of paying fines and so forth and making restitution to the town we're all standing by that and and they're required i know and i appreciate that because they're getting that they should be held that's when their ceo only until the restitution is made with the town can they be granted a ceo so this really it's not we're not approving any part of the project okay you are members of the the thank you for the clarification and thank you to the town attorney's office because they've been very diligent in and the uh code enforcement officers as well but we need to really put the hammer down they cannot get a ceo i'm sorry i'm not you know they cannot get a building permit until they complete full restitution to the town which they will do so i still wouldn't have given them one inch until the adjudication has taken place

until they get a building permit sorry for counseling that's okay the stop work order is still in place and the stop work order is going to remain in place until such time as there is an agreement that addresses the violations and sets forth conditions that uh the developer will have to comply with in order to have the stop work order lifted and additionally the uh the map that was approved by the planning board hasn't been fi hasn't been filed yet and the stop work order won't be lifted until after that map is filed okay so they are put on hold to a degree yeah they can't do anything until they get a building from it okay they get a building for it until they make restitution and I know that there's a limit in how much the fines can be too but those really should be increased because a thousand dollars to a developer of a multi-million dollar project is lunch it's not enough to deter anything it needs to deter future behavior and send a signal to other developers that's not tolerated in this town thank you all Hi, Talke Church and Greater Calvary-Tin Civic again. I'd like to tag team onto the last speaker. My question is the restitution as far as dollars are concerned. Is there also a revegetation plan to replace the trees that they decimated? No, and there won't be because those are all trees that were supposed to be cleared as part of the subdivision. So what they will have to do is they'll have to get all the permits that they would have otherwise needed to get post-filing of the subdivision map in order to have the stop work order lifted. So from my understanding based on consultation with planning and code enforcement who is on site, none of the clearing that occurred was clearing that would not have occurred once the subdivision was approved. So there won't be any revegetation. CHAIR BAILET. Okay. Thanks very much for the clarification. CHAIR BAILET. A FINE GENTLEMAN WILL TAKE THE PERSON ONLINE. HI, MY NAME IS BILL FULLERTON. I LIVE IN WINCHESTER EAST IN CALVERTON. I HADN'T PLANNED ON ADDRESSING THE BOARD TODAY, BUT AS LONG AS I'M HERE AND YOU'RE HERE, IN DECEMBER OF 2021, A VERY DEAR FRIEND OF MANY OF US WHO ARE HERE TODAY WAS KILLED ON REEVES AVENUE AT THE INTERSECTION WITH HORTON AVENUE. In February of 2022, I appeared before the board, some of you may have been on the board at that time, asking for a traffic control device to be installed on Horton Avenue. There were two very large stop signs on Reeves in an eastbound direction and also in the westbound direction. My friend was traveling westbound. He attempted to cross the intersection, was hit by a loaded dump truck, 10-wheeler. It was loaded with soil, and he was killed pretty much instantly. I did speak to the police chief. I don't know if it was the current chief. It wasn't Hager Miller, but someone who was the chief after that, and he was going to try to do something about it, maybe install a flashing light or something to slow people down on Horton Avenue. There's no speed signs on Horton Avenue. Once you leave the circle on Middle Road, there are a couple of signs reading 30 miles an hour, and then the last one says end 30-mile limit. But who knows what the limit is at that point? And I don't know if it's a state road, a town road. So, again, I'm asking— Horton is ours. Pardon? Horton Avenue is ours. It's a town road. well I'm asking again if you could consider doing a study perhaps and maybe installing some kind of traffic control device will it be a flashing light or yield sign or four ways make it a four-way stop perhaps I'll put it on our next traffic safety you know we're on the agenda this month and next coming meeting it's been the chief sits in on that as well as well as the highway superintendent right you have some new members so let's see if we come up with any new ideas or ways to address it for you. Perfect. It's been four years. Yeah, definitely sorry for your loss. I don't know how many accidents, if any, have occurred since then, but let's try to prevent another one. Thank you. Thanks for bringing that back around. That's great. Thank you. We have one online.

If you're in the room and you'd like to speak, if you could make your way to the wall and please form a line so we know. Okay. Okay. Desmond Wong, Reeves Park. So my October 2nd letter is on pages 323 through 325 of the agenda packet. The civilian procedure question, however, was already in my July 30th letter. More than two months later, it remains unanswered. Chief Frost replied to my email earlier today. He confirms that the judicial warrant requirement applies to holding someone or transferring them to ICE when they would otherwise be released. He also explains that officers must review and electronically acknowledge policies and updates. Those are substantive answers alongside his earlier answers about covered police arrangements. The remaining civilian question is for Mr. Howard and the board. General Municipal Law Section 996A requires policies or procedures for covered employees when judicial warrants or court orders are presented for access to non-public town areas, including a verification protocol and a designated contact. That obligation exists regardless of the board's position on the OLA safety proposal. I have pursued this through letters, public comments, record requests, and appeals. The targeted records requests were closed as already satisfied, yet the supplied record still does not identify the civilian procedure or contact. After repeated requests, that is a serious failure of public accountability. I find that unacceptable. My September 10th letter already raised independent review. I will now be submitting the complete record, including today's police answer to the Attorney General's Office of Immigrant Trust to assess the town's civilian safeguards and determine whether corrective action is warranted. The town should answer the remaining questions in my October 2nd letter by October 9th and identify any unfinished work and its completion date and publish the response with the correspondence. OLA and residents have sought public discussion since February. My own written review requests date to July. The board should state whether it will conduct that review and announce the schedule by October 20th. If it declines, it should say so publicly, and please explain its reasons. Families worried about sending children to school or entering town buildings need to know what safeguards the town and its police provide during federal immigration operations. They should not have to spend months pursuing those answers. Thanks. Thank you for your comments, Mr. Wong. whoever's next in light sure warren warren mcknight riverhead okay i'm here to express an important thing why so many people are here in order to have democracy you have to have passion and in our town only about one-third of the people vote in elections and i said to mr kern one time how about we can have the community the action of South O-Town. And he said, well, we tried that. And then a passionate councilwoman, Mrs. Watsky, said to Warren, why don't you do something? I said, wow, how dare she say that to me? And I thought, yeah, why don't I do something? And sure enough, yeah, I want something meaningful done in my life. I want to change that statistic from one-third to two-thirds. So I started this week for Vote Hat and the next time I come I'm going to have this in Spanish. So you know we're going to get everybody moving here and I want to thank you for expressing your passion even though I don't agree with you at times. I care about you and I want you to sign my friendship book. Thank you, Warren. A quick finish up. We're not done yet. Hopefully, this election, I think, Riverhead's going to lose something. I don't think it's going to approve, you know, more than one-third of voters, but I hope the next elections it's going to prove, and everybody get out to vote, and I hope everybody gets everybody involved in our government, and a person like you really, I would just say, pokes people in the belly and says, wake up, pay attention. Thank you.

Kevin Che, Beating Hollow. Good afternoon, Supervisor, members of the Town Board, and town officials. I stand before you this afternoon not to harbor anger, but to seek a resolution rooted in truth and basic human decency. As you know, I recently received a response from Ethics Board Chairperson Donna Bernard regarding my complaint. The board noted that under Chapter 113 of our local town code, their scope is strictly limited and they cannot consider the New York State conduct guidelines for official actions outside of formal meetings. While I am evaluating next steps regarding state level oversight, the Ethics Board's narrow procedural findings do not change the core human reality of what happened. I want to speak directly and compassionately to Councilwoman Waski. I understand that her emotions can run high in public life and I can respect the genuine emotional response, but the facts and the context matter. My work as an FDNY firefighter and thereafter was dedicated to public safety and emergency response. Beyond my service in 9-11, I spent years training fellow first responders in terrorism response, specifically in radiological operations, explosives, and chemical weapons attacks. I spent my career fully aware of the motives, tactics, and evil intent of terrorist organizations. I brought my certificates here today. If someone tends to want to verify the authenticity of my record, to suggest on a public platform that I was attempting to rewrite history, deny a terrorist attack was not just factually wrong, it cut to the core of my FDNY firefighter service and my identity as a 9-11 survivor. Furthermore, I would demand that you acknowledge that I did not give consent for my name and reputation to be blemished to advance a partisan political agenda. I have now given this town another opportunity to resolve this internally, yet as of today I've received no public apology, no official correction of the false narrative, and no gesture from this board to set the record straight. I am not looking to destroy anyone's character. I'm asking for what is right. I ask Councilwoman Mosky and this board to offer simple public corrections stating that I was not denying terrorism or rewriting history and you will not defame me for your political gain. Let's fix this here as neighbors and public servants before it requires outside intervention or other tactics that have been supposed to be implemented before the election. Please do not do the right thing. Set the record straight and let our community and my supporting first responders that are waiting to move forward together. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Shea. Excuse me. Mr. Shea. Mr. Shea. She's trying to address you. Hi. Thank you for coming here today. I would like you to know that I sincerely did not know what you went through on 9-11. I never really looked that much into your history. I know when you ran for election for a town council seat last election, you came out as a Democrat socialist. so I really didn't feel like we had a connection in that way and really didn't do a deep dive into your background. When I learned of what happened to you on 9-11, I was horrified. I'm apologetic for what I said about you, But I will not apologize for remembering what 9-11 was about and for being angry, as I said at the last meeting, that you would not acknowledge at that time that 9-11 was, you called it an accident, you further called it an incident. And I was angry about that. And we always say to each other in the public, never forget, never forget. Well, I don't forget. And obviously, you will never forget either, my goodness. So you do have an apology from me. I do believe that if I knew exactly what happened to you on 9-11, that I would not have posted about you. I'm a caring person. I care about you. I really think that you are a very nice person from how I've seen you come up to the podium and how you act. I didn't realize that you suffer from memory loss and that you suffer from not being able to remember words is what I'm being told. So I sincerely feel bad. That's okay. Thank you very much for that. I just want to clarify for you. According to the NOR, you were not in the field, although you do have responders in the field. The reason why I use the word incident, accident came out as a faux pas, it was an error. The reason why I use incident is because I didn't want to dramatize what I was trying to go across. Remember, this was about ICE and the OLA safety provisions that I was going for. I don't think anyone denies that it was a terrorist attack. Anyone. I've never heard anyone in a school that would say, oh, I didn't know that. But I also didn't want to dramatize it. every time you have an incident anything a motor vehicle accident or a building going into a plane according to the new york fire incident report system it's always contacted as an incident in fact they never had anything like this before in a sense except for the 1993 bombing and even that was considered as an incident called a multi-structural fire now i could easily say what the intent was. Just like in a motor vehicle accident, I can say it was someone that stated that they intended to do it, what their motive was, but that's not what the context was. I just wanted to avoid another incident occurring. That was simply it. So now that you understand and you're getting to know me better, I would feel a lot better moving on. And also my fellow firefighters that have been waiting for this would appreciate to hear that. Thank you so much. One more thing to note is in the future, please try not to use my name or anyone else's name for any sort of partisan political gender, including calling me a democratic socialist. Technically, I actually don't find that as an insult, but I am a person. I'm just a human person. And when I was running on the campaign, I was on the Democrat ticket. I do believe in socialist values. I also believe in a lot of other things. So thank you very much. It doesn't need to be focused. and I have nothing else to say any other comment from you? No. Thank you.

And then after you we have one on line and then we will end our public comment. Bring the mic down a little bit there you go, thank you. Dawn Zabrowski River Road Together Again for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Last October Brother Wathwell touchingly invoked his wife's breast cancer. I wondered at the time why I should have endured, as I have now endured twice, the fear, anxiety, and insomnia associated with mammogram, sonogram, and biopsy, made so much worse by the misconduct of Mike Zaleski's highway department thugs. Mrs. Rothwell would not, two years in a row, anxiously await sensitive diagnostic results, while also being stonewalled, obstructed, and gaslit by Riverhead Town. Why should she? Why should I? I have closely observed this body for a year. Unfortunately, the more I observe and the more I foil, the more I learn. Justifying multiple ethics complaints, the conduct of every member of this body, especially Sister Merrifield and Brother Wooten, has been disgraceful. I refuse to accept misconduct, negligence, incompetence, and ongoing abuse from municipal employees and elected public servants whose salaries are funded with my exorbitant property taxes. Unsurprisingly, the foil process has revealed that the original misconduct found at Mike Zaleski's highway department is accompanied by other forms of inept management. Zaleski's ill-considered equipment purchases are costing unnecessary tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars, costs that cannot be offset by Zaleski's prize-winning welding hobby. Also, as you know, because you are complicit, Zaleski's highway department is engaged in questionable personnel practices, some of which violate CSEA labor statute. Someone should bring this to the attention of the mysterious Neil DeMara, or better yet, an actual CSEA official. As with Mike Zaleski's highway department, if you shine a drop light on this shady town board, you will find a disturbing variety of deceptive, corrosive, bad practices. Tell me you are collaborating with DHS without actually telling me you are collaborating with DHS. To quote a mailer we recently received featuring Brother Wathwell and his handmaids, sisters Merrifield and Waski, what else aren't they telling us? Your rabid support for masked, homicidal federal agents rampaging this country and potentially our municipality tracks a continuum with your masking Mike Zaleski's CSEA thugs at the highway department. In a month when you march around pretending to care about women's health, let us not forget the utter horror of Renee Good's murder, punctuated by the misogynist obscenity uttered by her shooter as she bled out, the sort of profanity with which you have allowed Mike Selesky's highway department to assault me, like Renee Good's shooter, with masked impunity. See you next Tuesday. I believe we have one online. All right.

MR. MCCULLOUGH, CAN YOU HEAR US? OKAY. ALL RIGHT. I THINK I GOT ALL OF THE CONNECTIONS MADE. FIRST I WANT TO EXPRESS APPRECIATION FOR MS. WOSKEE AND MR. SHAE'S DIALOGUE. I THINK THAT'S HELPED A GREAT DEAL. is appreciated by everybody. And to the town attorney, I wonder, maybe you don't have it yet, but I hope in your dialogue with the Summer Wind people that you can give us a forensic analysis of trying to understand why an experienced developer would so blatantly violate the town's practices and codes and that that could be a lesson and maybe it's language that has to somehow be made more public. um the other thing i wanted to mention since we you won't be meeting again before then is that on saturday october 17th is the fourth no kings and it will be again with a rally and a march from the supreme court on griffin avenue the theme this time is vote early and protection of democracy Voting early starts one week later at Town Hall. And we're encouraging people, and it runs until the 1st of November. We're encouraging people to do it. It seems like a very distant issue for New York, though this is a flippable district. And it's very disturbing if you read the Time magazine interview with the president. And then there's a story today that he's been meeting privately several times with the woman who was in Arizona and imprisoned for her malfeasance on election machines. And she's not just a denier, but somebody who's advocating that the federal government should seize voting machines. So, as I say, it seems very distant and unlikely on us, but the whole purpose, the nonpartisan purpose of October 17th is to try to make clear that regardless of party and regardless of candidate, that we're really all of us committed to having a fair and honest election process. and which everybody who is entitled to vote votes and all of the, we have one part of the issue on mail voting, but there's still a Supreme Court did allow some things that might interfere with some people's votes. And I just think this is, we got to stay very appraised of this and say it's not partisan. It's not, it doesn't make any difference which candidate you support, but we really have to assure that in the process of the election, it is free and fair and the results are honored. Thank you very much. Thank you, John. I believe we don't have anyone else online, no one else in the room. So I will call for a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. Thank you, everyone. Have a great week.

Thank you. I would now like to call for its adjournment. Motion so moved. I'll second. All in favor? Aye. This meeting is adjourned. Thank you very much.

Thank you.