East Hampton Town Board Work Session 3/3/26

001to East Hampton Town Board. We are live. >> Great. Thank you, LTV. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the East Hampton Town Board work session of Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026. Michael, if you please read the roll call. >> Council member Flight, >> present. >> Deputy Supervisor Lee, >> present. Council member Rogers, >> present. >> Council member Calder Pedmont, >> present. >> Supervisor Burke Gonzalez, >> present. If we could all stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> I alian 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. So this morning we start with a public comment and we ask you to kindly keep your comments to three minutes. That's followed by we have um five work session

002topics today. Uh Jeannie Corrosa will talk to us about bids. Uh Jeannie Nielsen will lead a discussion of six new state real property tax laws that were passed u by the state and the town has an option of um moving forward with those. Scott Wilson will be presenting the draft 2026 CPF management and stewardship plan. Uh Ian Calder Pedmont has three proposals for Springs Park and David Lee will be leading a discussion on the Amagancet Streetscape project that'll be followed by liaison reports and resolutions. Um, but before we start, we have some folks here uh joining us today that I I want to acknowledge and that is Chief Sarlo, Bruce Bates, Steve O'Brien, Diane Patricio, Patrick Duren, and Steve Lynch. And on behalf of Steve, we've got Kevin Cobb here. Um, so, uh, if you'll

003indulge me, in the quiet hours of this past storm, while snow and wind covered our town, something else happened across East Hampton. Long before most of us woke up, town employees were already out on the streets, in their trucks, at dispatch consoles, and checking in on neighbors who needed help. Storms have a way of reminding us who we are as a community. At its heart, East Hampton is a place where people look out for one another. Over these last days, that spirit was everywhere. Residents were checking on neighbors, helping clear driveways and hydrants, and offering patience as crews worked to restore normaly. And it was on clear display when our town employees stepped forward to care for this community they serve. Our highway crews, under the steady leadership of Superintendent Steve Lynch, worked through the

004night in difficult and dangerous conditions, clearing roads so emergency vehicles and residents could travel safely. Sanitation staff stepped up into new roles to support snow removal and keep our streets moving. Chief Sarlo made sure that police officers and dispatchers stood ready for every call. Steve O'Brien coordinated his parks and building maintenance teams to ensure critical facilities remained operational. Human services staff, led by Diane Patricio, checked in with seniors and vulnerable residents, making sure no one felt alone during this challenging time. Our public information officer, Patrick Dur, kept residents and local media informed with timely updates. and our emergency preparedness coordinator, Bruce Bates, helped guide the response with steady leadership and coordination. These are not easy hours. They mean missed sleep, missed time with family, and long stretches spent working in freezing temperatures. Yet again and

005again, our employees show up without hesitation because they understand what public service truly means. Local government is often experienced in the everyday moments that people may not always see. A road cleared before morning. A welfare check placed at the right time. A calm voice answering the phone when conditions feel uncertain. During this storm, our workforce reminded us that government at its best is simply neighbors helping neighbors. I have the privilege of working alongside these dedicated public servants, and I want our community to know how proud we are of them. Their professionalism and care helped keep East Hampton safe during a historic blizzard. On behalf of the town board and our entire community, thank you to every town and village employee as well as every local contractor who worked through the storm and its aftermath. Your

006commitment does not go unnoticed and it makes a real difference in people's lives. East Tampa is stronger because of the people who step forward when others need the most. And I just want to thank you all and please thank your your teams for for the care that they gave to our community. board members have anything to add? >> Yeah, I mean look, I I would say that, you know, we all have our liaison departments and every department was involved in some way or another and I was just incredibly impressed with my departments, you know, the the speed with which they kind of reached out with any response, um the forethought to encourage, you know, people to contact um to reach out to our vulnerable residents. um and contact them with their needs, ensure their safety,

007but then beyond that, getting the centers up and um running again as quickly as possible. People stepping outside the realms of their typical jobs. It was truly, you know, fantastic to see. So, thank you to all our departments for that. Um you know, I will additionally say is like look, we we always have room to improve. If if there's any feedback that people wish to share that like, you know, why did we do this or could we do this? We're always open to listen to that because that is our goal to always be better. But overall, I just want to thank every department for all the incredible work you all did. >> For myself, I want to thank all the departments, but I also want to thank the residents for patience out there and understanding

008uh knowing the storms and that uh that we had were historic in nature, but also came in uh in an intensity, but also in a repetitious aspect of it. then too. Uh your concerns, your fears were heard and hopefully the town responded to alleviate those and we will continue as Tom mentioned to re-evaluate post storms. Uh some of the leadership that actually uh Kathy just mentioned even during our storm probably went through some of the darkest storms in their family's times also and for that without mentioning mentioning that there's prayers of strength to that family also. Overall, what I want to mention is that the coordination that the supervisor had with the town staff allowed the town to get back as soon as possible. And again, there's always places for improvement, but overall right now,

009u I've dealt with COVID and now I've dealt with the historical blizzard on there and I feel like the town is in a good good uh a good sense with this the staff and leadership that we have. Thank you. >> Thank you, David. >> I just want to relate personal experiences. one, I I just think it's a testament to to the preparedness uh that you all uh make sure ensure the gears are going to happen. You're all prepared for this. Um and as someone whose family got stuck out of town and I was in the blizzard alone with neighbors who were quite elderly on both sides and be able to access your cars and be able to continue as quickly as you did was as we were all able to was phenomenal. Um, we had

01060 mph winds on top of that uh falling snow and that's probably was the most dangerous threat to you all. Trees down, wires coming down and but on the hamptons.com cameras that still were operating, I just saw the trucks going back and forth and back and forth all overnight every constantly. So, I just want to thank you and thank the entire community. I think uh it this is when we really see who East Hampton is and we all work together. We instituted travel bans. Everybody was on board with that. Everyone cooperated to help us get through this and get back up and running quickly. So, thank you all. >> I don't have much to add except for I just want to reiterate the gratitude for everybody that the supervisor mentioned and all town staff. It's

011certainly not lost in any of us that you know when we have a snow day and are stuck at home that that everybody's out there working and overtime and extra hours. So, uh incredibly grateful for all the work you've done. All right, beautiful. And to Tom and David's comments, we are going to be having a meeting on Thursday internally to go over uh storm response and you know what we did well and what we could improve upon. So uh we're always learning. So I just again thank you everyone. All right, we're going to get now to public portion and we've got Dan Mongan signed up. Welcome Dan. >> Thank you Kevin. Hi, I'm uh Dan Mongan. I live and work in Amigansit. Um if I could take 10 seconds of my aotted time and reserve

012it and just say that I traveled here today on safe and clean roads and I noticed how great the snow response was and I'm personally grateful, but I think I'm not alone in that. Um but now to why I came. Um there are a couple of different things happening uh in relation to or at least under discussion in relation to Amigos at Main Street. Um and one of them is subject of your work session today. It's the uh streetscape I think it's called. Mhm. >> But in any event, uh I did have a quick look at what has been published about that and I have had some conversations with friends and neighbors and I wanted to share uh some personal thoughts. Uh I'm a trustee of the historical association, trustee of the library. I belong

013to various different organizations, but I'm just speaking for myself. Um the uh proposal to change the streetscape on the south side between Indian Wells Highway and Hedges Lane um is in part welcome. Uh that stretch of footpath needs attention. It has unevennesses. It has edge drop offs and various different issues that uh present either safety or comfort or aesthetic or maybe all of those concerns. Um and I'm delighted by the idea that the town would uh take interest in the footpaths in Amigans which are uh quite significantly ready for attention throughout the hamlet. So along Bluff Road, there are a number of uh deficiencies and defects in the paving. All along the north side of Main Street, you can find a variety of different issues. And all along the south side, all the way over,

014you know, to uh Atlantic Avenue, I'm less familiar with the footpath past that, but but some of it is newer, so I hope there are fewer concerns. Anyway, footpath repairs, yay, great. What's not great for me is taking grass out and putting in hard paving. I think you have options. I think you have less expensive and more beautiful options. So, in particular, uh the idea of bringing the design philosophy of the north side of the street at that section to the south side I think is undesirable from my opinion. The uh hamlet has a variety of different uh architectural mini environments. And those two sides of the street are quite different. The north side is more densely developed. It's more commercial. It's more heavily used. Everything about it is busier. Um and it currently has

015100% paving from the the private property. Am I out of time? >> Yeah. Go ahead. you wrap it up. You took a few minutes for the storm, so that's fine. >> Um, don't pay the grass. >> Thanks, Dan. Would anyone else like to address the board, >> please? >> Good morning, Regina. >> Morning. I was here few weeks ago. >> If you could just say your name for the record for the clerk. >> My name is Regina Whitney. I live in Eastampton uh on the corner of few highway and um uh middle highway which I want to talk about and for me it's a very important piece of property and uh it's I know it's a south of it's not south of the highway so the town may be not so interesting but a lot

016of you see a lot of people live here and uh uh we worry about our situation uh this is about the web property and distant property. This picture was taken I don't remember exactly but you and Phil were out I I couldn't find out it but when the web get wasn't allowed to put this uh apartments and his property was subdivided for eight properties. So that's what he's supposed to do it but he didn't do it anything in the last two years he he using this property for his commercial commercial use it's like he's a builder all the supplies everything is there the pile 70 I talk earlier 70 huge trucks pile on the property uh our property surrounding w for the both sides and the both sides have the piles one is almost high

017like our house on the from the middle highway side but on the back is lower with the yellow and is another closer to the vistrian which was created when the um I forgot his last name but his first name was the director of the enortment he was only the one person who took seriously and he stopped this this person but I don't know his story I would like to I what I read it's hard to leave why he left but this is different story but law is a law so if this is a property for for presidential so I don't think so web can used for the uh commercial and talking about the web even now when we talking he's using his tracks I have you know my house is facing each room to the

018street and I took the time I make a notes and mark when his truck was coming. I give you quick only the day for example February 19 there was uh started 7:15 his big huge white yellow back goes to the Bian property and uh I noticed there was 8:15 the first track with the Biston size which I the red ones and they were every few minutes and they first start was 8:15 fill up the with the soil the Last one was uh 3:22 fill up with the soil and there was two tracks this day and uh make this notes. Oh shoot there was so end of the day there was 30 trucks 30 trucks going one way and 29 I probably missed it the other way and all those trucks they they taking soil good

019soil we know that it's in East Hampton is the water on East Hampton on a few highway for whole town and the the his property is not very far and I know from I I cannot touch with this person but I know that she did it already some noise about it and he apparently was stopped uh digging from there because of the water from is for East Hampton but he keeps doing on this picture see two years ago there was this much see how dense this area between web and visa I can now from my house for my bedroom I can see the houses on little highway on the back which used I couldn't all this all right off what somebody was talking months ago are gone a few years ago but all this here

020to make the big driveway and I know the previous director who was on the that he's supposed to uh replace he vegetation put back nothing happened he's supposed to move the the big things boxes nothing happened just more and more stuff is coming to his job Regina, I I will have Kate will will the liaison to code enforcement reach out with you because I I recorded a lot of stuff. I asked for 10 minutes, but I see you are very busy. So that's why I'm here and I look for some other way to make a little movie or something to uh I know somebody who who does this and make a little history of this property because it's unbelievable. Regina, would you would you please leave your contact? Oh, we have your content. >> I'll

021be reaching out to you. >> I think you can do everything, but it's for everybody. Doesn't matter who >> I'll be reaching out to you, Regina. Thank you. because I noticed last time you were on the computer looking >> Thank you. Would anyone else like to address the board? Larry. >> Welcome, Larry. >> Uh, you have to excuse me. I'm not as organ I'm sorry. I'm Larry Zimmerman. Larry Zimmerman. I'm an East Hampton Town resident. >> Larry Zimmerman. >> Uh, I wasn't prepared. I didn't know you were having a board meeting. I actually came to see you Kathy but uh my um I'm here because of the building department. Uh 6 weeks ago I was approached by Allison McDougall uh practically accosting me asking me if I wanted to be a building inspector and I

022said yes and she told me to send in my applications which I did and uh I didn't hear anything back so I followed up with Emily uh two weeks later she got back to me and said that I had to be or the inspector had to be fluent in Spanish. Um, I followed up with that. I think I finally got a phone call from uh Rebecca Hansen. You were away. You didn't call me back. >> I didn't I didn't get a message from you, Larry. >> I left one. That's fine. So, anyway, um the point I'm trying to make is the building department is as much as nine months behind on certificates of occupancy and and uh um building permits. Why? Now, I was a builder out here for 30 plus years, and I'm still

023doing it part-time. In those 30 years, there was never a subcontractor, a an inspector, a material supplier, a carpenter, a laborer, anybody that I couldn't communicate with because I'm not fluent in Spanish. And now with the building department so far behind, you're you're specifying that it has to be a Spanish-speaking person to be a building inspector. That is so I'm not going to say what it is, but it's ridiculous. It's just ridiculous because they're buried. I was when when I went in for my interview with Allison and and Richard, uh there were two young kids there. So even coming in with my experience, I would have to take a a course and take an exam required by the state. The two kids in there are learning about construction from this course that they're taking. I

024have I have almost 50 years experience and you're telling me I have to speak Spanish to work there. You know, listen, I want the job, but you guys are buried. The town is buried in in in building department paperwork. Even if I went in part-time and helped help get the certificates of occupancy that are now required to sell a house, I mean, people are losing commitments. They're they're they're losing deals. I I'm offering myself to you and you're turning me away cuz I don't speak Spanish. How ridiculous is that? >> That's all I have to say. >> Thank you, Larry. Would anyone else like to address the board? Jason, is there anyone on the line? >> Yes, we've got people. We got two people on the line. Let me go get them through. >> Thank

025you. >> Sorry about that. I had to let that go through. And >> no worries. >> All right. And in three, two, hello. Caller ending in 2777. You're on the air. >> Good morning, town board. This is Michael Chinquay calling. I want to thank the town at board and all the departments again for their handling of the snow. I must say that uh I am the senior. I'm I've been on Main Street for 45 years as a shop owner and I've never seen such a pile of snow in our parking lot. We're have a pool in town to see if it's going to be there until April or the end of May. But great job from all departments and thank you very much uh being on Main Street for uh over 45 years. I am

026here uh calling to support uh the beautifification and also the safety of the south side of Main Street. It's uh just absolutely going to make it beautiful. Right now, most of the year it's either mud or dirt. It's also I'm the safety officer of the fire department for the last 39 years. And I must say that there's many trip items there between unlevelled dirt and uh the drop off from the concrete to the dirt. So, that'll level that out. And I think that's going to be just terrific. Also, slightly widening it. she really almost can't walk to across currently. So, all for that. I'm also on the board of Amaganza Village Improvement Society. We've met on it and we really support it. We're excited to put our flower boxes there and our flags uh through

027the holidays. So, we're really in support of it. We really love the idea of cleaning up uh the south side of Main Street. So, uh, we thank you guys very, very much, uh, for making our town beautiful and not only on Main Street, but the whole town. I believe also we found the funding for this. Job well done for that. So, it's really not going to cost uh, the citizens uh, much. So, we appreciate that. So, job well done. Anything I could do on any of my capacities in the town, I'd love to help you guys. You're just doing a great job. And thank you very, very much. Thank you, Michael. Jason, if you could put the next caller through. >> Absolutely. >> Caller ending 4221. You're on the air. >> Thank you so much.

028Good morning, town board. It's Jane Nering. Excuse me. I'm speaking today as only an amagancet resident, not as a member of any town appointed board or committee. Um so about a month ago I did come to public portion and I uh had heard about this beautifification amit and I made some comments and one of the things I did ask for was to ask the board to do a uh work session on it and you are doing that today. So I just wanted to note that and say thank you so much for bringing this you know more fully in front of the board and the public. I did have one question obviously I listen to what you had to say on uh slide two. I just want to make sure later you um are clear because

029there's a little bit of what seems like a contradiction. So um it says the project area hedges lane to um you know up going west I guess to the um entrance at the mobile station. But the slide also says to create a harmonious and cohesive character for all of Main Street Amagancet. So the first thing I want to make clear is this really just for that hedges lane west portion. Um I hope it is to see this extend any further over time more eastward on the south side would um I think really really change the character. Um so if you could just clarify that later. Also, um I know that the the sidewalks are not discussed directly in the historic um code, but I do just really ask the board that when you think about

030the width of the sidewalk, how much bricks could some grass areas be saved? Just I know you will, but always keep in mind what that district says, right? Retain their rural and informal character. um you know to retain the connection to Amigans's agrarian past um and again stressing the rural setting. So I'm not going to jump ahead of your uh your discussion. And then lastly on the issue of so if you can really minimize as much as possible the concrete. I also would love to hear some discussion from the arborist because I know this will require a whole bunch of I think stabilization root cutting. So we'd love to hear some more about that. And finally on the issue of safety, I agree safety needs to be enhanced there. One thing I do want to

031raise more for future thought is it might be really important for safety to consider another crosswalk um along that part of the 27 really somewhere in the vicinity of the library. Sorry, not the library of the uh talk house or the hardware store. I think that would go a lot for for safety. So that's um that's so much for that. I also do want to say I'm wrapping up again, thank you so much to the town board, to everyone who worked in not just this blizzard, but the three storms put together. I I don't think anyone should underestimate 390 square miles of town uh um what is it the 300 miles of roads, how complex it is to manage and run this town. Well, I think there are some people who might think they're less

032experienced and and uh you know don't don't understand the complexity of it. So, thank you for everything that was done. >> Thank you, Jane. Jason, has anyone else joined the >> No other callers have joined? >> Okay, so we are going to move on to topics now. And the first up is bids with Jeannie Corrosa. Morning Jeie. Welcome. All right. So, I have first bid is for mobile food concessions for select beaches. Can't wait for the warm weather. But anyway, um first one is the apparent um high bidder for Ditch Plains Beach and Otis Road is Ditch Witch um for three seasons a total of $46,236. The next is for Indian Wells. Exotic Bowls is the apparent high bidder for that. Three-year total was 43,000. And um Exotic Bowls also um was the apparent high

033bidder for Kirk Park in Malkque. A three-year total for 25,000. We also had a um bid for the supply and delivery of Jed A with additive and 100 lowled fuel for the airport. The apparent low bidder for that is Ascent Aviation Group. Um they are the same bidder that the same uh contract we had there over the past um I believe their contract ran five years and we had a total of three biders for that. Um and then finally I have several notices coming up. First is for the on call window repair and replacement for various buildings. Steven Hans path recreational facility mobile concession. Glock Glock handguns and associated items for the East Hampton Town Police Department and a sidewalk plan for the highway. And following next week, um food service and kitchen wear items

034for human services. And that's it. Beautiful questions for Jeanie. All right. Thank you, Jeannie. Hey, thank you. Okay. Next up, we have Jeannie Nielsen to going to discuss six new state real property tax laws that went into warning board. Jeannie Nielsen, assessor's office. Um, yeah, busy legislative season for the state. These are all exemptions, proposed exemptions. They, um, I'll just go through them very, very briefly. The first one I want to talk about is chapter 4 581 and it's a change to um the senior citizen with limited income 467 of the real property tax law. It adds new criteria for um percentages of eligibility. I uh it goes down now as as low as less than $47,000. you can get a 65% where the limit used to be 50. So it's it's an increase. There's

035steps that have been added to the sliding scale. >> Jeannie, what's the age for senior citizen? >> 65. >> Thanks. >> So that one's out there and it's based on that sliding scale that we already have in place in the town. Um and this isn't you do you would have to opt into this. The next one is chapter 672 and it's a um creates a new section of 458A which is allowing 100% exemption for veterans who meet certain criteria of disability. Um the criteria is massive. uh on this exemption. There's a along with being 100% uh handicapped. Um there's like five or six other things that you have to meet and you have to meet all the criteria, not part of it to get it. So that's something to look at. Um but this is

036not an opt-in anymore. They just recently amended it. It's now the law. So it's something for you to look at. at some point. >> This one is is the law. So, we don't need to do a local law and have >> No, you don't you don't you don't um but it's it's it's an interesting exemption. Um anyway, so it's something to look at. You really should look at the criteria. Uh >> well, you want to take us through it right now? You've got it. >> Well, let me just see. I I actually they didn't really give all the criteria. assessors had to scramble to get their own criteria together for this uh 458 672. Let me just look at this. Yeah. So, this is um culmination of a number of assessors in Suffach County putting

037this together. The veteran must have served during wartime, must have a qualifying condition under New York State Veteran Service Law defined as post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, military sexual trauma, be a discharged LGBT veteran with an other than dishonorable or bad contact discharge. Next, you would have to be a 100% service connected disability uh with a permanent and total designation by the VA. You would have to have a total disability based on individual unemployability um TTI TDIU designation from the VA. And you must qualify for the VA's special adapted housing grant. Let me see if there's anything else on here. No, this assessor just states that, you know, you would have to file uh additional forms if you already have a uh veterans exemption, alternative vets exemption, and this would be added to it.

038>> Okay. So, this is already law. Is this going into effect in the next tax? >> Um, I believe it's already it it already went in. Okay. >> It's it's I believe it's March 1st, 2026. >> Okay. Genie, did you did you mention sorry that the veterans have to have served during a period of war? Because that's one thing I just kind of saw. Is that one of the criteria? >> Hang on. >> She did mention that in her list. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Yes. Yep. Serve during wartime. Okay. So, that's those two. The next one, um, chapter 592, uh, provides for a surviving spouse of a volunteer, um, firefighter with 2 to 5 years of service killed in the line of duty to receive an exemption up to 50% of the assessed

039value pursuant to 466A. And I don't believe we have any of that yet. We have not lost anyone >> to service, but it's there for the surviving. >> Actually, I I recently met I don't mean to interrupt, but I recently spoke with somebody who does qualify for this, and this is a timely discussion because they they would qualify. So, >> is that because it doesn't have to be that they lost their spouse in this jurisdiction? Like could it be a city firefighter that >> whose spouse lives here now? >> Unless that doesn't qualify. My understanding is that that would >> Well, what I believe does not qualify are paid firefighters. >> Oh, this is volunteer firefighters. >> Key word is volunteer. Um >> hopefully I have something else. Okay. >> So, the next one is

040uh chapter 677 change to that law creates a new section of >> Can I just go back? So yeah, >> for for 592. So this would be for of a volunteer. And then would we if because it says here 2 to 5 years, that's a big difference. So then if we were to want to pass a local law, we would have as a board would decide whether this term of service was 2 years, 3 years, four years, 5 years. Is that how I >> I really don't know. That's >> I think that's what we do with the existing um tax discount for firefighters. um that you know it used to >> it says two to five years but but it changed from a minimum of five years and we adopted I think a few years

041ago down to the two-year >> correct correct >> and all everybody's on board with that every fire department >> so we currently have the two-year on the books >> yes >> yeah we do um so so the next one is chapter 677 it's a new section of real property tax law 458D and it allows um up to a 25% % exemption for active military service members serving in a combat zone. Whereas, you know, veterans exemptions are for people that are out of the service, which so these are people that are actually serving right now and that might be something to look at. Um the the next one is a chapter 670 and it creates a new section of the real property tax law 471 allowing for up to a 50% exemption for surviving spouses of

042police officers killed in the line of duty. Um they don't have the criteria set for this yet. Although towns west of us have already opted into a lot of these exemptions. They're scrambling for applications, scrambling for the criteria, what defines killed in the line of duty, etc., etc. We're waiting for that. They recently amended it to say they're they're going to make an application, but they haven't done that yet. So, towns that are doing this now have scrambled to do their own interum application process. >> Otherwise, the state is going to be coming down with what that definition has come. >> Hopefully, we hope that. But so far the the only thing they amended was the application. So we need more criteria as to what defines this exemption. >> Okay? >> You know, like is

043it for unremarried? >> If you if you do remarry, do you retain this exemption if you've been eligible for it? So, who knows? We we're waiting for that. And the last one is um um chapter 432. It adds a new section 457A to provide an exemption for certain real property transferred to a lowincome household. Now, I don't really understand all of this one, so you would probably have to look at this. Um, it says that it's a partial exemption from taxation of certain residential real property transferred by a governmental entity, nonprofit housing organization, land bank or community land trust to lowincome household. And what it says is that um the real property tax exemption authorized pursuant to the p this paragraph of the subdivision shall be an amount that is not less than 25% and

044not more than 75% of the assessed value. And then it gives a definition of each one of these, what a land bank is, what a community. And I think I sent that to all of you and you should be able to go over that and read it and see. I don't know how this differs from the ADU thing, but I'm sure it does. >> So Jeie with So there's five laws here potential. Um, one of them is already in effect. So there's six um this is would have to be code if we want to pursue it has to be drafted by the town attorney's office right reviewed at a work session gone to public hearing is and I just want to find out is March 1st 2027 >> that would be the date >> yeah

045it would have one of them where if we wanted to pursue the one that um gives a 50% exemption for surviving having spouses where we're still waiting for the state to come forward with criteria. We could have some time and to to see if the state actually comes through with that criteria or if that doesn't happen, if we wanted to pursue it, we would then have to create our own. But but the but the local law would need to be adopted. >> Adopted or would have to be in place. >> Yeah. So that actually would have to be in place by maybe February 1st in order to go to the Department of State. Okay. Yes. It would have to be we would we're just, you know, doing it a little bit differently than other towns.

046They scrambled and did it. And I'm sort of glad we didn't. >> Well, part of it was because of the way our our meeting schedule worked. There wasn't time to get, >> you know, legislation drafted. >> Well, it's fine to take your time and look. Yeah. >> Yeah. Because I mean, when they don't have an application for a couple of these things yet, but they passed they passed it, signed it into law, what do they expect the town assessor's offices to do? >> Mhm. >> Well, they, you know, created their own. And everybody's pretty much the ones that opted in and I don't know everybody that did but Babylon did and and their assessor came up with a criteria and that the criteria that I read for that veterans one is came up from there

047because there's no criteria all the way through for that either. >> So waiting might be it probably is the wisest thing for now. Now it gives >> for some of them maybe not. >> Yeah. Now it gives you time to review. >> Yeah. >> So >> Okay. >> All right. Ian, do you want to start? Yeah, >> yeah, thank you Kathy. Uh, first of all, I just want to thank you, Jeannie. I know this is a very busy time for you and your office. Um, thank you for this presentation. We've discussed this a little bit already. Um, and I know these were passed late in 2025 without, as you explained, >> during Christmas week, >> right? And and that doesn't leave a lot of time. I mean, it sounds like a lot of time generally,

048but based on the meeting schedule and to clar, you know, some of the clarifications needed, I understand that that, >> you know, it's been a little bit of a scramble to put this all together. So, I appreciate your your presentation. >> Um, I'm in favor of of all of these. I I do think that there is some work to do and some clarification. I think we'll lean on the attorney's office a little bit to help if we have to um, you know, describe criteria. Uh, but we have, you know, we have now almost a year to get these in place so they'd be active for next year. I don't want to wait, however. I'd like to sort of start to do that work because I do think all of these are important. Um, and I

049misspoke. the the the person that I spoke to would qualify for the police officer killed in a line of duty. So even though we don't think of that as something that we have, you know, we don't may not think of a lot of residents here, it applies to some people and I think that that that matters. So I'm in favor of all of these and I'm I'm certainly willing to help work to get criteria in place. Obviously, we have to have a more in-depth discussion about each of them, but as you say, we now have the whole year. Hopefully over the summer and by fall, we'll have some more details in place and decide um on each one of them. So, thanks again. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. Conceptually, uh um also I agree with

050Ian. I'm in favor of all these. I think they're a long time coming uh for folks that have made tremendous sacrifices uh first responders, uh veterans, uh people with low income, and um I think that uh we'll iron out the details, but it does say here that, you know, um that these laws require the action of local governments and school districts to be in in effect. So, um, as far as it that means to me it also can be the school districts can do the same >> correct >> thing. So, that's that would be significant for folks. >> Yes, they should be brought in on this early. >> Yeah. Thank you, Genie. >> And see which ones they want to do and which they might not want to do. I >> think we can iron

051out the details, but I'm in favorable these and getting them done. >> Yes. If the board wants to have a conversation with the six school districts, that would be good. >> Yeah. I don't mean to interrupt, but actually, Gina, you and I spoke about that, too. the these are all good in in in theory for sure. I know it's a lot of extra work for your office especially if you know certain tax you know if schools opt out it's very very complicated in terms of all the different you know permutations of of how these would apply. So I'll certainly help reach out so that hopefully we have a clean optin for all you know districts by the time we adopt it. >> Usually the schools do follow what the town does. Um, I'm not sure

052about this one, but >> I'll make sure to help help coordinate that. >> Okay. >> So, from my perspective on there, uh, excuse me, >> I'm sorry. >> No worries. I appreciate this discussion knowing that it came down end of the end of the year and that we've been in a rush to get into for this tax season, but I am definitely prepared and will want the town to take the effort to start drafting this code changes where we need be. Um there's a lot of safeguards built into this uh any of these uh uh for the efforts these individuals either for the seniors that have lived in our town, the officers uh fire uh military or our fire departments um the amount that would be offset here is dimminimist what the town's budget is

053compared to what the value they've have now given to uh our our society on there and I think that's something we should high hold the highest guard and also uh to to help wherever we can in these situations on there. Then too, it seems like there's enough safeguards and some of the general obligation law for us to start drafting uh with your office. Also, uh I would like to see us match the fire department years. I know we decreased that recently if you're on the board at the time down to two years. So, that's where I would personally rather go instead of five years. But uh I wholeheartly support moving this forward of the ones that we do need to opt in to make sure we're prepared for the next next calendar tax season. Also

054making sure you have enough uh uh bandwidth within the department not to be anything to be rushed to Genie. So thank you very much for bringing this forward into the town and giving us ample time to uh uh review and respond. >> Thank you. Um, look, I I think conceptually and philosophically I'm in support of all of these. You know, my my only slight concern and red flag that's just getting raised in the back of my mind is like, look, tax avoidance is is a big business and there are many people who have very low reported incomes, but they found ways to kind of get income elsewhere through loans on assets, etc. So, I just I have slight concerns that this could potentially be abused by someone. um you know and do we want to

055consider caps on property value for what we're going to kind of allow for this reduction to be or do we have to adopt this across the board um because I could see the situation where you know someone who declares a very low income but you know borrows against their resources which which happens quite frequently today with high net income people um you would potentially be eligible for this discount and is that right or fair so I just want to see if there's any safeguards we could put around that >> and and that's for 432 432. Okay. >> Well, I I'm supportive as well as my colleagues. I think what you know, Ian as liaison maybe pick off one at a time and so that you know the uh town attorney's office because obviously the devil's

056in the details when this gets translated into actual code for us to review and maybe um Genie started with 581. I personally that's where I would start. I think you have everything's in place for that one to be able to >> Yeah, this this is the one that I did the most work on because I thought it was the only one and then January >> third comes around and here's >> five more and the assessors are all over Sappa County, all over the state of New York scrambling. >> So 53 581's for seniors. That's the one we're talking about. >> Yeah, it's it's actually just an extension of >> what we have over 65 senior exemption that we have in place now. I'm happy to coordinate with the assessor's office, with the attorney's office, and

057I mean, look, if some of these prove very, very complicated, I think we'll take the lower hanging fruit first, but I think it's nice that we have this long runway so as complications arrive, we can deal with them. But I'll um I'll definitely take a lead. >> Great. Sure. Thank you. >> Thanks, Genie. >> Okay, moving on. Uh Scott Wilson, we're going to discuss the draft 2026 CPF management and stewardship plan. Welcome, Scott. So, >> I've done this speech for you before. >> What number? What number is this? >> 18. >> Nice picture. >> Some of you what, eight and nine times. Um, so this might sound a little bit repetitive to you. Sorry about that. So >> on a year-to-year basis, revising this plan is a good opportunity to revisit our projects, both proposed

058and in process, uh, to properly account for future and ongoing stewardship expenditures. All properties need some form of stewardship, be it posting of signs, cleaning up debris, or reconciling encroachments. However, the majority of the 10% aotment of stewardship funding is attributable to historic restoration projects, which I'll outline in a moment. We have acquired interest and rights from real property of 548 parcels with seven more in contract representing over 2,45.73 acres. And just a note, we had a contract signed yesterday. So, between my telling right now, we have other outstanding contracts that are likely to come in. So we'll make slight modifications to this plan by the time we get to public hearing just so that we reflect those properties that come in. So we accomplish the vast majority of our stewardship work in house. We

059create a baseline document which documents the parcel as it exists at the time of acquisition. We create management plans for those properties with some proposed human use. And we regularly monitor all our CPF properties corner to corner every year uh for encroachments, dumping or other issues. Um the baseline documents and the management plans are available on the website right now. We actually included the links on page six and seven of this document uh for ease of access by the public. And beyond into house management, the proposed management and stewardship plan discusses any known projects along with associated expenses. So just a quick cap uh recap of what's in this plan uh pages 12 through 14 with regards to some of those historic restorations I mentioned. So Carl Fischer House and Annex 44 Foxboro Road. The

060town acquired this property for historic and open space and recreation on 1210 2021. The Montalk Historical Society has a license agreement to manage this property. The town has hired DB Bennett to do an engineering and create biblical documents for historic restoration. The town uh hired Robert Hefner as our historic preservation consultant for this property. We went out to request for proposal. We received those bids. Um award of the bid will be imminently forthcoming. Just waiting on the paperwork and Jeanie will be presenting that to you. It's just shy of $3.7 million what we're setting aside for that restoration project. Um the Dodge property 803 and 807 Fireplace Road and Springs. Uh the town acquired this property for historic and open space and agricultural purposes on 1025 2023. The property received a local historic landmark designation,

061the Julius D. Parsons Homestead uh via resolution 2023-851. The town hired DB Bennett as our engineer to generate restoration plans uh for which plans, bids, estimates for any associated restoration costs will be created. The town hired Robert Hefner as our historic preservation consultant and that plan is in process as we speak. Hopefully in the next two weeks I'll be be able to send you a copy of that. uh the Edwards House which is part of the Duck Creek historic landmark uh designation on the Duck Creek property uh 127 squar road. The town acquired this property in February of 2005 with a landmark designation in June of 2009 uh resolution 2009-658. The town is working with LK McClean Associates for a structure assessment of the Edwards House um from which plans, bids, estimates for any association

062uh any associated restoration costs will be created. Currently, this work is not complete. The town hired Robert Hefner as our historic preservation consultant. Um, the plans actually should be released later in spring, early summer. Uh, after which we'll hopefully then go out for RFP. That structure needs uh help as soon as possible. 66 Ways Gut Maine. Uh the town acquired this property for historic open space, agriculture, and water quality purposes and designated the structures on that property the John Osborne Homestead historic landmark. This property contains a 1904 uh Louisa Edwards Osborne Osborne Main House and the 17th century Osborne Barn. For 2026, the town has hired Steuart Preservation Services LLC as our historic preservation consultant and DB Bennett to generate plans for phase one exterior restoration of the uh Louisa Edwards house. Uh the plans

063are almost finalized. Um I received a final copy which we're sending over to the property management committee which will come over to the town board as well. you know, once we actually get those plans, we get reviewed by by yourselves, property management committee, then they'll be reviewed by planning, they'll be reviewed by fire marshall, um arb, you know, we've got a lot of process to go through. So, u once received in plans, that doesn't mean we're ready for the next step. We still have some work to do, but that um will hopefully happen also in 2026. There is several uh leaks in that roof, and so exterior restoration is is is a necessary task. Um, the town recently acquired farmland property at 20 springs fireplace upon which there is a barn and associated structures. The

064town hired an engineer to do an assessment. Based upon that report, it was determined that refurbishment while possible was cost prohibitive and so we went out for bid to u remove those structures and that uh was awarded and those structures will be removed this spring. So those are the primary um projects that are um likely to occur all within 2026. Um there also may be other projects throughout the year that we are not yet aware of. So once adopted, we may revisit this plan. Um as we get more figures, facts and figures from um the engineers and go out for RFP, we can update this uh uh management stewardship plan as well. the stewardship budget being just over 4.1 million which is the allowable 10% of available stewardship funding based upon our last auditable year

065um and 2024 which was 41 million in change. With regard to this plan the responsibility of our department was to create a document that will guide us in our efforts towards appropriate manage stewardship goals and objectives assist in prioritizing projects and control related expenses. Um, from our perspective, that lends transparency to the plan, giving the general public an opportunity to participate in the discussions surrounding proposed expenditures. And again, this is the seventh or eth or ninth time you've had an opportunity to review this. Year over year, the body of the document is pretty similar. You know, the meat is really just with regard to the projects. And so, if the town board has any questions regarding those projects, I'm here to answer them. >> Okay. We're going to start with David since you're the liaison

066to CPF. >> Sure. Uh uh Scott, yes, I've heard this one from you in the past. Uh I also believe what you hear from me is the same in the past. This is one of the most interesting documents the town of East Hampton does, and it's a living document that does change uh based on properties that we acquire, but overall it does give the gate stated philosophy of the town board's use of the community preservation fund in a very educated, well-versed historical way. Um yeah, cut and paste is fine. That's good. and I appreciate that. But overall, if anyone wants to read something that's very interesting and uh it it's this document. I' I've actually enjoy it much. I don't have much to add. I talked to Scott about a couple minor changes that we

067have there just to make designations about the municipal uh properties on there, but overall I I I support moving this forward to uh to the next steps. Uh and also I support the way that we're used in the community preservation fund in a conservative way but also in a very effective way in the township over the last year. I thank the supervisor for guiding that. >> That's all I have. >> Yeah, I'll jump on next to this. Okay. I mean, look, I I think we've done a phenomenal job with preservation of land in this town. Um you know, something we've discussed and Kathy, you've brought this up in other discussions we've had is, you know, the prioritization matrix. you know like what is the overall strategy behind this um risk mitigation, ecological urgency, cost efficiency,

068climate resiliency, public benefit, you know, how are we prioritizing those goals as a town? I mean, for me that to some degree goes back to the comprehensive plan goals um you know, are we kind of managing to those with our CPF acquisitions? But I think some guidance of the prioritization with the M&S plan, I think would be very very helpful. Um, you know, the the other piece that just look I I I I see it from what's happened in the pig, I see it out there in much of our public lands is just slightly more depth on our ecological management and risk management within our public lands, be they for invasive species or other elements. um you know what is the kind of the clear-cut strategy for that or or is or is it kind

069of more of a lassay fair approach that like look as invasive species come in we we we allow them to come in because I think that's something that's going to be a growing issue for us as a town and you know for this document or a future version of this document to have guidance on that I think will help boards >> one of the things I didn't note I apologize is that the CPF law actually sorry Tom I agree with you Tom the CPL CPF law changed this year uh or Actually last year it changed. So this is one of the first full documents that we have had to review some of those some of the small changes that might actually affect the management of stewardship plan as far as uh tending to properties with

070licenses also then too. >> That's all I have. Sorry. >> Yes. I mean the community uh overwhelmingly supported the community preservation um laws, the funding for sources for it and and recently recent history included water quality. Um and for me, you know, along with housing affordability and preserving the community, preserving our history, um which uh I think is detrimental to lose um as as a people and as a community. if we forget where we came from, I think we make mistakes on where we're going. Um, I also think the ability to um have community um access to these structures that were once private structures and uh um were were for the enjoyment of a few to the enjoyment of all of our community um is essential. Um also um and also of course the water

071quality and ecological benefits are uh are are a funding source for that as we because of as Tom said the impacts of the climate crisis and on water quality uh in our community overdevelopment uh to be able to have public access which then ties into our ability to um have water quality projects to improve these water bodies um is essential for for our future as well. So as we save the past, we are also protecting our future with these uh with these management plans and that that's why I think this is so important and I I also again thank the community for supporting CPF funding which is a percentage of the tax. So um overwhelming support from the community so I support as well. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, I support all these changes as

072well. Um, you know, Scott, I know you've worked very very hard on on some of the historic restorations that we've talked about in the property management committee. Um, it's very exciting. There's some some real gems of historic structures that we've purchased through CPF over the years, and I think it's great to have a real plan to make sure that we restore those and preserve them uh going forward. So, I'm fully supportive. I know Dave has worked very hard in the Carl Fischer House that that is, you know, imminently um going to be restored. Um, and as he said, it's a very very interesting document. I think the CPF uh has been a a real benefit to the town and now that there's restoration and water quality funds. It's it's a delicate balance as to how

073we spend that money and I think you've done a a wonderful job. So So thank you. >> Thank you. Uh thank you, Ian. I just found one typo. >> Oh, I thought you might. >> You know me. Page 12. >> I'm coming to you this morning. >> Robert Hefner. We're missing the T and Hefner at the bottom of the page. But uh I'm supportive of of sending this to public hearing and and uh you know the conversations that we have about you know as Tom brought up prioritization you know farmland over historic preservation over you know purchasing properties along our shoreline. Part of this though is also comes down to a willing seller. So we can have the bestlaid plans like okay this is going to be our effort but then if those properties are

074unavailable you know and something else pops up that we never expected would come to the market and you know with this program we've been very um fortunate that many people now come to us and they would prefer to see their property preserved by the town with the CPF than to go to the open market. So um you know we've got a great legacy there. So but thank you. I think this is, you know, with the tea and Robert, I think this is ready to go notice for public hearing. Would we be ready to do that on Thursday night for a public hearing on March 19th? Is that a >> Sure. Michael doesn't mind me slipping it in there. >> Is that Yeah, there's time, right, Michael? >> There's time. >> All right. Beautiful. And one

075one other thing I want to say, I know there's occasionally criticism of of the CPF law and in the town in that we are raising, you know, housing values because we're purchasing land. And I think everybody should understand that the the properties we target are um not just any parcel of land. They're environmentally, you know, at risk or endangered or there's there's some reason why um we this is a very pro-ousing affordable housing board. We are not trying to reduce the housing stock. So, I just want to make that clarification because I hear often that, oh, if you weren't buying all of this land, you know, home values would be, you know, more affordable. And while there may be a small amount of truth to that, the properties that we target with CPF are very,

076very specific and and not ideal for housing. So, I just wanted to make that point. >> Yeah. And we're also fortunate now to have a funding source for housing purchases uh that we can evaluate as well. >> All right. Thank you, Scott. Okay, moving right along. We've got proposals, three proposals for Springs Park. So, I guess Ian, you're up. >> Yeah. So, I I've been, you know, last year we did um a uh invasive species removal project at Springs Park. Um this there's a three three parts here. Uh I'm proposing a restoration of the area that we removed. We did a test plot of about an acre um which was mostly automales but other invasive species. Um there's also a a mugw wart issue in the park where there's a lot of mugw wart and

077there's a second proposal which is a donation for mugw wart removal. Uh and the third part of of this package here is just modifying a modern modification to the management plan to allow for those other two to make sure they're consistent. Um so when I propose the invasive species removal that's been part of the management plan for a long time. This is a historic nursery um not you know pristine untouched land and the nursery was when the town bought it was sort of let to go and autumn olives are very aggressive species. There's also black locust and other um invasives there really really took over um and I think everybody agrees that those that's not ideal habitat or an ideal um you know situation. However, when I proposed that we, you know, remove those invasive

078species, the hope was that there would be, you know, some natives still standing so it wasn't as stark as as in fact it was, um, I always said that the this was a test and the invasive removal was the first step and then I would coordinate with town staff about if there was another step and I I believe it's appropriate now um to to take further action. Um I the plan here is a is a reveation plan with native species. And I think there's an important point here that this because it was a nursery is totally fenced in. So as we all know there's a lot of deer pressure in the area and it's often hard to establish native plantings. Um we actually have I spoke with Dave Lee about this exlosures in places that

079show the difference of how plants can be established when they're protected and when they're not. This is a protected area. Um, so I think it's a unique opportunity to establish uh native forest and frankly um there's not agreement with all park users on what this park should be, but in my in my conversations with the former Springs Park Committee and just park users in general, most people want it to be a natural feeling park and appreciate sort of the combination of forested areas and meadow areas. Uh so I think this is a a really good opportunity to establish native forests. Um the plan also shows sort of paths across that because people enjoy being able to traverse, you know, the native areas and and enjoy it from sort of all sides. Um this is just

080a concept. I want to thank Mark um Abramson from natural resources for all of his help. Um Andy Gates uh and Scott. I also spoke with with other people about their their concepts here. Um but you know, I I like I said, I'm fully supportive of this. I wasn't initially convinced that we needed to do a revitation, but after seeing um the result, I think it's appropriate and I think that this is a good plan. The plan also, as you'll notice, has differentized trees. Many of them are are going to be smaller because this we're taking a long view here, but there's also some larger trees put in because I I know one of the the pieces of feedback I've heard from park users is that they want shade. Um, and so trying to put

081some taller trees, but also some smaller um, plants that will establish over time. So I'm curious what the rest of the board thinks, but um, I'm I'm fully supportive. And this would be a, you know, restoration project with CPF funds that would, um, I think the I we don't have an estimate for this, but it would be an RFP situation. So depending on um, what the board thinks, I hope we can move to that soon. planting season would be, you know, now when the snow I guess not right now, but when the snow clears, you want to get in before the ground's not frozen. >> Yeah. The summer heat. So, that that's the biggest part of this proposal, I think, is the revitation of that area where we did the invasive species removal. Um, through

082conversations about the park generally, we also received a very generous um donation from the Long Island Conservancy. Uh Devin Jordano is actually here in the audience, the executive director. Um, and my understanding is that there I don't know there's a there was an anonymous donor, but somebody who's particularly interested in in East Hampton um and and the park in particular um wanted to contribute something. Um so there was a $10,000 donation to the conservancy who then in turn offered it to us um for a project. That amount of money wouldn't cover sort of this larger reveation. Um and so we talked about what else might be able to be done in the park. And the other major issue that again has come up over all the Springs Park conversation since I've been on the board

083is the mugwart. Mugwart's an incredibly invasive species, very hard to remove. Um but there's an offer of a donation for a small section. Scott, if you could point out the area um that is proposed, you know, it's it's it's small um but it's it's a sort of a proof of concept. My understanding is the proposal is to um remove the mugwart and really really densely pat plant native species that will hopefully you know smother out any sort of reoccurrence of that mug wart. Uh they're willing to do it anywhere and Scott and I have spoken about this. I think we would want to move the test plot up towards the front behind those benches because it would be a you know beautiful a beautiful spot and we want to make it as prominent as possible

084and hopefully it would be effective and then we could talk about whether we would expand um that effort. But uh I'm I'm fully supportive of that and greatly appreciative to Devon and Long Island Conservancy for for thinking of us with with that donation. The last part of it, this is just the um the management plan and basically the original management plan was to remove invasives and establish meadow. But again, in my conversations with people who use this park, I think both the forested areas and the meadow are valued and area that's currently mugwart I think is appropriate for meadow. That's what it's supposed to be. But it's we mow it once a year and by the end of the year the mugwart really comes back. And so uh I think we still want to allow

085for meadow but we want to make the change in the in the plan to also allow for reveation of forest or other other plant materials that wasn't a part of it. So it's a the management plan is a very minor change based on these other two um projects. So that's all I have. Mark Abramson who developed the uh the plan is here and Scott is here. They've both worked uh and Andy Gates as well I want to give credit to. So if you have questions feel free to ask them. They're the experts. But I'm I'm very supportive and and hope the board will be too. Thanks. Um I'll I'll jump in. Um I'm supportive of this plan. I I think um the this Springs Park is a place where uh uh dogs we uh you

086can take your dogs off leash, you can walk your dogs. It's totally fenced in. It's one of the few places in town that folks with dogs can have that ability to socialize and walk their dogs in that environment. I know the mugwart uh takes over even the trails. So the sight lines and the ability to even have distance between dogs going one way and another way or folks becomes more and more difficult. I think it was essential to get rid of those invasive species in the first part of this and now obviously the replanting with native species will only enhance everyone's experiences and provide better ecological benefit for wildlife uh in that as well. Mark I have a question about this will have temporary irrigation to be able to get things going. >> Uh since

087there's not really any water in the area, what we were thinking was I we have in in the proposed contract for maintenance twice a year. So, uh so at that those points, they will definitely be bringing in some water and they'll they'll be whoever we hire as a contractor be handling if there's some sort of drought that they will be able to get there to uh to make sure that the the plants are are going to thrive. And but a benefit of native native species is they don't need perpetual irrigation and fertilization to exist. >> Yeah. And that's that's exact one of the things that we're thinking of. Um I mean I would think that the best time would probably be the fall so that they can get established and then through through the next

088summer they should be able to handle that once they're established. >> If they don't get buried under snow like my new plantings are like >> you know squish. I also want to thank the conservancy um Long Island Conservancy for the very generous gift. Uh thank you. Um but that's was my main concern. I think uh canopy is important as all well to the users. Um being out in the stark sunlight is not great for anybody. Uh so it makes it just more comfortable to have a natural tree canopy over you as you traverse some of these paths and sit in the uh benches. So >> yeah, it was Ian's suggestion to do that and we were able to to specify areas along the path that would have the the more mature trees to uh to

089help with shades while they're walking through the path. >> So could we pull the plan up again? And Mark, could you just take us through the plan for those folks that are at home because you know it's challenging to just >> see a graphic go up. >> Beautiful. Thank you. >> You want the narrative up or do you want the map up? >> You can leave the map up. >> Okay. Uh so basically those uh those circles are going to be clumps of of 10 either trees or shrubs. Um again we're having mixture of uh smaller smaller trees and shrubs. Uh the the uh the green ones are going to be uh five gallon uh trees um 10 foot on center. And then the the other the blue circles are going to be or sorry

090mine's blue and green the uh the lighter green would be uh the actual u shrubs three gallon shrubs. uh they're going to be more closer spaced at five foot on center. Then the obviously the the circled trees are going to be the larger specimen trees will be uh 12 to uh to 14 ft which will be bagged and bald and more more more significant trees so that they can actually provide some shade in in in the uh the trail area. And the uh you know the brittle star shaped path uh would then end in a like an area that can possibly put in a bench that we can dedicate to somebody or you know whatever you guys would decide upon. Um >> are all the plantings native? >> All the plantings would be native and

091we did have a list of of what we were suggesting. Um some plants that are native but not rarely found because they get browsed by deer. So, this is going to be something of of an experiment so that we can see some of these uh less like more rare shrubs and trees that that would we can see uh be able to survive when they're not getting eaten by deer. >> And then what the the the path what is the what's the >> just be a a a grass path. So, or whatever native whatever is in there that just be a mode path. >> Okay. And then how does the maintenance work? You had said twice a year. So what would we expect when they came in to maintain it? >> So for the contractor that

092that we would go to RFP would then on an semiannual basis make sure the survivability of the plants again if some some died off we probably would go for like a 75% survivability. If some died off they would have to replace them. Um, and then to make sure that they're actually keeping on top of any invasive that might come in on those the again the spring and the fall. >> So like I know for this garden, you know, every week we had volunteers here pulling out the mug wart. So I don't know if we're going to be able to keep mugwart at bay in here. So are we expecting the contractor to be weeding >> in those two two semianual cases? I mean, the start of the the project would uh actually have as much

093material removed that is invasive uh dug like all the the roots dug out and all the the stumps ground to make sure that there's the the most as much as they can to make it not come back. But we'll, you know, again, we we will see how it works. Again, this is going to be an experiment to see if if they can survive within the so close proximity to other uh invasives. >> Yeah. One of one of the problems with um with with invasives is that they're invasive. They're very they're very very aggressive. And so um even though we took them out before, there's signs of them starting to come back. >> The name fits. Right. >> Right. Yeah. And and and so with without any management, I think that the autumn olives just come

094back. You know, there's been talk of potentially just mowing the site. Um but then there's some concern about mugwart moving in. There is not a lot of mugwart in this area right now. Uh mugwart thrives off of disturbed. I mean, again, I'm not the expert here, but of disturbed um areas and I think would would like this. So, the idea of getting a planting established is to out compete that mud wart before it becomes a problem. As far as the path maintenance um we may need to mow it, but honestly, most of the the well-used paths in this park, it's so well used just the foot traffic alone. Yeah, it it keeps I think Scott, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think those other paths are really mo the main trails there are.

095>> They're all dirt path. Yeah. And they're dirt because they're they're heavily. And after 5 years, if these if 80% of these trees are, you know, have survived. >> 75%. But I can move to 80 if you'd like. >> 75. Sorry. Um >> that's just what we usually use for revitation. So I just make it consistent. >> Yeah. I'm just I'm just not as knowledgeable as you. Um but if we if we do 75% survival and the invasives aren't there after 5 years, I I think that that would be a you know, give us a very good chance of success. there is a little bit of an experiment, but again, we're in uh we're in an area where there's not an ideal situation to start with. So, um I think this is the best path

096forward, >> but this is a test for enclosed areas because this this test doesn't translate to any other property. >> Yeah. I mean, that's that's why Ian suggested that that we do bring in some stuff that that hasn't survived out in the rest of of East Hampton that or survives very rarely. So, we can actually see what these these uh these plants would look like in in a habitat that doesn't have as many deer. >> Well, in an area where they're where they're likely to survive because of the fence and also in an area where there's so many people to enjoy them. So, to me, it's it's kind of taking a a bad situation and creating a win-win. >> And and I'm going to get into the weeds, no pun intended, a little bit, but

097um the other idea is this is is a significant piece of property. And when you have invasive species growing and birds feeding on them, you're you're increasing the rate of spread of these invasives while homeowners are trying to fight them. They're having a field day uh over here. So, I think working on this uh is essential for just good management um of of invasive species and control. >> So, I listen I I like a lot of things about this. I like the um the range of plants that you're looking to put it put in um in the sense that that offers different biodiversity opportunities for the for the flora and fauna in there. So I think that's a really smart move. I I I do have concerns about the mug wart to the north kind

098of trying to colonize because that's what it's going to do. And so like how how we manage that I think is critical. Um the other thing that like just I mean from my last walk through that I don't know if they've been repaired or not. that was a while back. But there are some holes in the fences here and there and you know that deer will get in like invasives. Deer will come in and they will destroy this. So in terms of protecting the shrubs and the trees we put in. Will they have sle I assume they'll have sleeves around. Will those be biodegradable? Um or will this just be planting and kind of you know what's the approach there to prevent that? I mean not just deer too. Squirrel will also destroy a lot

099of these young shrubs as well. So >> turkey too. again and that's that's something that we can discuss moving forward on. Again, this was just a something put together uh so that we can present it to you. Again, we can always narrow down the scope of uh of whether we're going to protect the trees or or the shrubs or or some sort of temporary fence for the first year or so. >> Yeah, that that's yeah, that's an interesting thought. >> So, so for myself on on here then too, uh this poses a lot of challenges here. I'm a little bit more skeptical on this one specifically about um um the effectiveness of of it. Um Ian is exactly correct in the wildlife advisory committee. Uh we petitioned the town for funding for our deer explosure.

100We added that up into the Grassy Hollow Preserve. And if you go there now, very similar to what you'll see on Shelter Island when they did that into the Machamic Preserve with a couple hectares areas, it's green. >> Deer brows is here. And we might agree to disagree on that, but deer do are penetrating our forest. So to try to come in and show a controlled setting such as what we did up there in the Grassy Hall preserve, there's only one other option besides here. That's a the town has a fenced an area of size and magnitude and that's the airport and even at the airport there is there is a herd. Um that's a whole different discussion on there. Um I guess my question here is I'm you hear this a lot from me

101and I've discussed is I'm a long-term maintenance guy. Is long-term maintenance is planned into this. It's it's something that I can start to get behind. I guess what I'm trying to say is maybe I'm hoping for more here in a way. Uh, and just I I support what you're you're going at. I have skepticism on there, but the worst effort is no effort, Ian. So, by putting an effort in here, I support that. I know the challenges that this specific property has had over the years. There were support when we did the the bamboo removal at the Maloney property. Successfully done. No one ever did it. No one ever did on the east coast on there. Um and niche conservancy came in or yes niche conservancy we worked with and that's been successful on there

102because the maintenance on there was easy this is going to be a little bit more challenging and difficult and I guess what I'm saying is maybe I want more is why can't we do this in also in another location keep this keep this space for grasses and then uh and then move on to another space where there's mugwart also I I think this is the perfect op perfect location to try to uh do more test of how do we try to uh reforest uh n renationalize our locations. Uh I'm not going to stop that from my support, but I would like to have more of a discussion on there knowing that there this is the this is the location to try that. I don't know if you ever been into that nursery >> wasn't the

103best. A lot of those trees are just left in left in place over there. But now what has come has become a community gathering area. So to put those eyes on it is why I would be supportive of the funding that go into it. When Ian and I have discussed this, I'm I'm coming around. I'm challenged to it. Um but I guess I I like to see more. And a lot of times what happens is when you change something, uh it brings a lot of different individuals opinions and that's on anything we do. Uh a lot of things in town here. I think the uniqueness of the site right now being the fenced in location could allow for some future change that will end up having a lot more greater reward in the township. I

104remember when Zach Cohen was around, he was on the member of the Nation preserve committee. He talked about meadows and there's many meadows that we have lost to uh no maintenance to them. We're trying and your land stewards Scott do a great job of that trying to have a grassland meadows which a lot of all M talk was and a lot of a lot of springs. So um maybe I'm trying to say can we be a little bit more actively active on trying to use this site for maybe not just a woodlands which I think you're almost trying to bring back but potentially also for grass a grasslands which working with the uh you know the conservancy might be that maybe we can even expand that more. So, uh, I'm, uh, skeptically supportive of that.

105I wish you luck on it. Also, the other two portions of it, yes, thank you very much for your support of the township on there and moving that forward. I look to see how that is. I think bringing that into the front, the forefront is appropriate. And then also the change to uh, what um, the change to the management plan is is appropriate on there. um when we take that since this is a February installation probably by now they're stating or get prepared for it. I know we got a lot coming on on the 19th. Maybe we can hear this in the mansion plan in April is the only thing I think we're going to have six or seven public hearings. >> So with with skepticism but also uh uh optimism, I support it. >>

106Yeah, the skepticism is warranted and Mark and Scott are being kind here, but they they've been skeptical too. There was a lot of work that went into this. I think that the long-term maintenance is an important part, but again, we're not starting with an ideal situation. To your point about the potential to do more later, I think that that's important, but I, you know, based on the way that I propose the invasive removal, I felt it was important to follow through on that test and sort of show a proof of concept before we do more. And I think the addition of the mugwart removal was frankly a pleasant surprise that that might be a possibility because that is a really good opportunity to establish the grass meadow areas in places where there already are, you

107know, no trees. So, um, the skepticism is warranted, but again, we're not starting from an ideal position, and I think that this is a risk well worth taking. No, >> I I agree with that. And look, I I think I mentioned it in the M&S plan, too, like invasives are a massive problem out here. and actually having a test project where we go in and try to reintroduce more native species is an excellent concept. >> Yeah, I think we have to take advantage of that opportunity. >> And oh, sorry. The last thing I want to say is that you know I I'm bringing this to the spring CAC spoke about this and I think not this plan specifically but generally revitating this. Um otherwise this is the first public meeting of this and and that's

108intentional because um this has been a controversial park and I want to make sure that everybody hears about this at the same time. Um certainly welcome any public input before we move forward. This the idea here is to sort of float this out there so that everybody knows what the concept. Um but I really welcome all public input. Uh this is the the point of this meeting is to get the board's you know feedback but also public input about what they think about this plan. I think that it's going to have support based on what I've heard, but I just want to acknowledge that that, you know, this isn't this isn't 100% packaged where we we don't want to hear any feedback. >> So, when you're supportive, Ian, we can come back and do more

109in there. >> Yeah. Sorry. When you're successful. Yes, exactly. >> So, working backwards, um the the management plan, it sounds like the revision the board is supportive of. I don't know if that was something this could be on for Thursday night for a public hearing on the second as Ian commented that, you know, I'm actually surprised that we didn't have some folks from Spring that use utilize Springs Park here today because normally anytime Springs Park is on the agenda, um we have a packed house. So, it'd be nice to let folks know that there was um a long lead time, you know, leading up to the >> Yeah. No, I agree. We should probably SPH it for the 19th for an April public hearing >> or SBH it for the 5th for an April public

110hearing. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> So that people have a month's notice that we're having a public hearing. I mean I think well I'll reserve comment till the public speaks but I think the the change is minor to the management plan. Thank you to the Long Island Conservancy for your generous donation to the town and now we'll we'll we'll we'll have a test if we can remediate mug wart. Um, and then lastly on the um the the restoration plan, just I heard a couple things. Ian, I thought you had said that this could be something we did in the spring and Mark said we might be more successful doing it in the fall. So, do we have a plan as to when we would want to >> Well, I think it would depend. I

111think it would depend. I mean, Mark is the expert, so if he says the fall is best, I'm I'm happy to wait. I think it depends on I would like to get, you know, situated. So we, you know, go out for RFP and and whoever responds that RFP will also hope, you know, that's going to be an important RFP. They have to have experience in this area. What do they think is best? >> You're not going to get an RFP for the spring. >> Yeah. No, maybe not. >> Yeah. And so so we might it might be fall, but >> again, I think fall will probably be the best. And and again, we we did put in some uh some actual uh qualifications for >> Yep. >> for the uh for whoever's applying to to

112the RFP. >> Yeah. My my goal is just to sort of take the next step forward and if and again Mark is way more expert than me on this. If it falls best that's fine. I still just want to keep it moving forward because things take time. At least it gives us a little bit of runway. >> Okay. All right. >> And and the mugward I think may maybe since it's a donation maybe that's you know we'll have to talk more about that. That might be appropriate for the spring. I really don't know. >> Accepting a donation >> that's I mean for that part I think that would be I would be fine. Okay. Again if we can get that >> that done that quickly. >> Great. >> All right. Beautiful. Thank you everybody. >>

113Thanks Scott. Thanks Mark. >> Okay. And now we have our last topic today is the Amigans Streetscape project. You're up. David. >> Yes. Thank you madam uh supervisor. Uh just going to wait for uh uh Chelsea Winslow to assist us here. Uh and we'll describe. >> Great. Uh so overall uh working with Tom and as myself being a former liaison to uh uh the ambigans at CAC and also um uh an individual that frequents ambigans on there. Uh we're looking at an option to uh to to change some of the streetscape on there for safety beautifification and other means. And once we have this loaded we'll we'll start up. Thank you. So again, this is amigga streetscape project that I'm presenting to the board. It's proposed safety beautifification and safety and beautiful beautifification improvements for

114Main Street uh New York State Route 27. Uh the project overview, yes, it's a collaborative streetscape and beautifification project to promote a harmonious and cohesive character for the area within the scope of Main Street Amiganit, which be from Hedges Lane to the western entrance only of the Amiganit um uh Amiganit Square by all. It's more of a global look at it, but the specific project scope is limited. It's a focus on safety, ADA access. Uh if we can go forward one, Chelsea, if you don't mind. Uh commerce and infrastructure upgrades. Um it would maintain and enhance the historical character of Amiganzit. The project area again scope area is the south side of New York State Route 27 from Hedges Lane to the Amiganzit Square vehicle entrance. It actually will go one potentially one panel further.

115one panel, meaning it's a 4x4 section of sidewalk further than that because we would have to connect to a light pole that's on there. So, yes, that's that's the scope there, but nothing nothing greater than what that scope is right there. Why is this a a potential project is needed. Sidewalk width, as we see in some of the photos here and also testimonials, is in insufficient for current pedestrian volumes. Let's be honest, amiganza is happening right now. It is one of uh it is a wonderful hamlet, historical hamlet, great stores, great activity and the sidewalk there right now uh is not the width of to for the use of it if people want to walk side by side and you can see the trip hazards that have worn out. >> Well, you can also see

116how they're creating their own path adjacent to it because there's not enough room. >> Correct. Uh worn grass areas indicate pedestrian overflow and safety concerns including trip hazards as you see in these photos. Cracked concrete drop offs and tree route damage create trip hazards uh uh trip hazards in the area. Then too uh limited ADA accessibility and diff difficult to m u to maintain some of these conditions primarily uh from some of our maintenance mechanics when they try to cut the patches of grass that are there. Uh there's there's a lot of damage to cars and also other windows because it is not a true grass. You have to string trim it. Overall, let's go to the scope of the project next. The scope of the project is would be to remove the and replace

117the existing sidewalk which is approximately 4T wide with a five foot wide. It's a wider five foot wide concrete where feasible. And where we why we say this is feasible is mostly because of um uh the current historic trees that are in the area. >> Is this right on your screen? It's not working on mine. >> Yeah. No, it is. It's >> Oh, no. We need >> We need to be one more forward if you don't mind. >> Hold on. Let me restart it. I'm sorry. It's on my screen. And why we say go to five feet, it's it mimics what we see in some of our other central business districts, but also will allow for two individuals to walk side by side. We would install ADA compliance sensory warning mats at the sidewalks terminate.

118This means uh where the crosswalks are, which there actually is one there uh within where it crosses hedges and then where uh uh where it would cross over to the entrance to the ambigance square. We would add uh tree protection boxes using 6x6 wood ties which would match to the north side. These areas would have uh help with um uh damage to some of the root structures and to the trees. We saw some damage recently of some of the snow removal unfortunately to these trees, but it also would match to what we see on the on the north side. we would replace unused driveway. There's an unused driveway curb apron with a New York state uh standard uh curb uh in one of the locations. I don't know why or the history of that curb,

119but that would be removed. We would install then brick on concrete between the sidewalk and the curb uh and planter boxes. This would be uh very similar to what's on the north side, not just in Amiganzit, but also what we see in our other uh commercial business districts of Amiganit and also Monttok. Stay with me. I'll try to show some pictures. I try my best with some of my uh schematics here. And uh we had some sent over to us. This is the current condition. One area that would be in front of Jack's uh homebrew uh or stir brew, whatever we call it. I'm a tea guy, not a coffee guy. Uh in this area specifically where the planter is, there was multiple trip hazards uh being worn out for the trees and actually highway

120uh in put down 3/4 crush gravel a couple years back. Overall, the proposed update would be to put uh between the sidewalk uh sidewalk and then where there's actually a curb there uh brick on concrete. And the reason why we put it on concrete is uh it's a longerl lasting construction methodology on there then too. The brick won't heave up create then more trip hazards longterm. It's a long-term better investment on there. Switch to the next one if you don't mind please. These are some of the areas where where jacks uh stirru at the bottom here. You see how we've had to put down uh uh people just get out of their cars and they just walk straight over the grass, wear it down, wear the trees down, wear the root systems down, and we

121put down 3/4 crushed concrete there. Uh sorry, 3/4 crushed quartz. Um at the top there, what you're going to see is a former apron. Looks like it's a curbcut apron that's not used. It hasn't been used in decades. that would be rem that would be removed. The curb would be replaced there and actually it might actually we might be able to increase the amount of parking spots in that location now also due to sight lines. Next slide please if you don't mind. Again this just moves down in front of one of the historical houses that are there on the property there and shows how we would then end up putting the uh the brick in between the trees. They would also then be uh boxed in. Now the trees uh uh discussion with arborist trees

122have different type of root systems. They have tap root systems and stabilizing root systems. The stabilizing root systems are the root systems that are at the top of the ground. They will be disturbed but trees are resilient and they will regrow deeper and stronger also in those conversations. So we know that some of the top root systems will be disturbed. Uh next would be infrastructure and and future proofing. Excuse me. Uh we're going to install conduiting for wiring for seasonal uh uh Christmas tree lighting and future needs. Uh in this area, what we end up doing is we end up having uh Christmas tree lights being strung from the uh from wires to come off the telephone poles through the trees. We would put conduiting under the ground there for these Christmas tree lights. and

123the future needs if there is movement forward with the lighting district. We would already have this area set up for that if that came to fruition in the near future or or for the far future that this area would not have to be dug up. It would be in place. We've installed bases for seasonal and holiday uh uh street flags as needed or desired. Uh this design will minimize future disruption to any new streetscape. Next, these are some of the pictures of currently they're on the north side of the road there. What you see here in front of the wine and spirit shop and also in front of the nail on a rowdy hall. Uh wasn't Rowdy Hall at that time, that was Main Street Tavern. It's how there is a 5 foot wide sidewalk

124that fronts the uh fronts all the businesses, goes to brick on concrete, then goes to about a two-ft concrete little pathway. So when people get out of their cars and then you see the planter boxes around some of the very uh uh uh uh uh the mature trees again similar to what we're looking on the on the south side to do on the south side again here again to that little bit of the proof of concept uh this is one of the largest trees one of the more historic trees in front of Steven talk house one that the AV uh the AVIS uh works with PSNG about pruning them and two how that's boxed in and then what we can do some of similar ways in in front of uh the Amigans square where uh

125it will protect their root systems, allow them for water but also uh uh be a harmonious design to the north. Next slide. What are the community benefits here? Uh improve pedestrian safety and ADA accessibility. Enhance streetscape continue uh uh continue from the north side of the main street area. It will improve access to the businesses and increase foot traffic. It's also easier for snow uh removal and long-term maintenance, hence uh uh cutting the grass. The next page here, again, these are uh are on the north side here. This is again areas in front of Lacarubas and then also in front of the area of inner sleeve records. Notice how I want to keep different lockarubas um >> alive. >> Well, you know, life saving station. Yeah. Uh but there's there's plenty of plenty of vibrant

126businesses on there. What this will then do in this type of design would match what we do in the project scope area on the south side. Um shout out to the locker room for keeping the history of that building alive. I do have to say potential timeline on here. Construction would be antip anticipated in spring of spring of 2026. Weather dependent target completion date would be before Memorial Day. the contractor uh has has looked at it, estimated it out, would be prepared to go uh uh and uh and knows about our target deadlines. Uh this has been discussed with uh the AVIS uh the amigan village improvement society is supportive of this. Tommy probably mentioned this was discussed in the amigans at CAC. Uh I have been in contact with the property manager for the

127Amigans at Square also uh sent this sent this to that individual. They have some dates in there for some Easter roles and knowing some of the time frames of the construction methodology going through that. So we've done some outreach there. Uh next page on there again slide will just show some of the open areas. That grass there doesn't grow so well during the summertime because it gets walked over. So again, you see from the north side to on the left side to the south side on the right. These are some renderings. The next slides that were sent to me, they're not perfect and they were up for change, but again, uh the boxes on on the trees will be uh uh with the wooden boxes to the left, not anything that would be masonary. Uh

128uh don't get me wrong, those are not the um they're not the benches have, but it will just give a little bit of a a graphic how the area would be that would look down from the sidewalk, a new straighter sidewalk down to the curb. Again, uh if we go to the next slide from there, you'll see some of the places that would look like in front of potentially Jack's uh cold brew on there. Uh the person did this put a little extra um beautifification there with planter with their own plants. Those aren't included in there and subject to change. And then last slide is just for questions and showing some of the areas that we are trying to rectify where people are crossing over. Uh as one of the callers in uh stated uh

129this area gets heavily traffic during the summertime where people get out of their cars, walk over. We understand the discussions for crosswalks in the area as are further discussions with PD CAC's have debated this way before I've been on here also uh but again it's an opportunity uh that I know the supervisor has been working with uh the state for looking at funding for a project that would be harmonious in in a smaller se in in a in a stated section of the village there. Now, one of also uh public uh commenters stated about the other locations in Mtok other sidewalks. There's a lot of sidewalks in Montalk and throughout the township. Uh we have already commissioned uh the company that did downtown MTalk sidewalks uh where they did ADA trip hazards and and used

130the proprietary uh uh um methodologies to shave off uh trip hazards at Montalk and they are coming to Amigans at also North Main Street and some of our other locations uh to give us uh estimates and an analyzation of that uh in the business districts and then also other areas, but they haven't been able to get here because of the weather right now. So, in a continued effort for public safety, there's multiple layers to this. I very much appreciate people wanting to say, can we do more? And yes, the town board wants to constantly keep doing more, but it'll be a phased in approach to that as we go. Also, uh this is what's proposed. I'm looking for um any comments, questions. Maybe Tom, I know that you discussed the name against your thoughts too.

131>> Yeah. No, look, I mean, firstly, thank you for bringing this forward. Um I I think you know the images in in the presentation kind of demonstrate like look yes it would be lovely to have grass there but with the increasing foot traffic we're seeing there. Plus with the kind of the ecological setup there with you know in summer when the trees are in full bloom there's not that much light to help the grass thrive. It's not a great environment for grass to grow. Um so you're always going to have these problems. Then you come on to the maintenance issues as well which yes we have had complaints of cars being damaged, windows being broken as we going to go in to do that strimming. So it's a problematic area. Um you know with the

132primary issue here for me really being the trip hazard. I mean one trip one person tripping injuring themsel here could could have serious impacts for the town financially or the insurance. So I I think this is a great project to bring forward in that sense. um when it was brought to the CAC um largely supportive um Dan and Jane who kind of spoke today did raise those similar concerns and you know and and I appreciate what Dan's saying like look where where and how we can preserve grass it's a great thing I just don't think this is the right area I don't think grass is going to thrive here both for ecological and foot traffic reasons um you know so I think having a project where we can kind of have better safety um increase

133kind of scope for foot traffic in what is really the primary commercial part of the town you on both sides of the street. I mean the southside with the Amigansit Square um you know having undergone some changes is is more and more popular. We have the farmers market there now. So we're really seeing people use this Southside far more than they potentially did in the past. And so having something that is more resilient, easier to manage I think is a great move. Um as Mr. Sinway called out as well like look the fact that this is not a direct tax um impact to residents in the town is huge. Um you know as we can do beautifification projects that achieve that I think it's great. Um so for for me I think this is a

134great project and thank you for bringing forth. >> Thank you Tom. >> Uh so for uh me I just want to say that you know safety is always a primary issue. trip hazards have to be taken away. But I don't think there's I don't think preserving a historic district and making it safe are mutually exclusive and you have to give up on one to be able to have the other. That being said, that's just a general comment on things that we do and we have to fix this, but we we can fix more than one thing and preserve one more than one thing uh at once. Um, having said that though, I think it's clear from just being in Amiganzit, um, quite a bit. Um, and also looking at the pictures and just for practical

135reasons, you're not going to be able to maintain grass uh, in these areas. It's it's it's obvious that they're just going people park. Wherever they park, they're not going down to find a space where there's no grass. They're just crossing right over. and and I don't think it's uh I don't think we're able to keep grass there. Um and I think that's shown in the picture. So for practical reasons, I think putting brick in is much better than con enabled to preserving the historic district which is also important. I think brick is uh something that fits in with historic nature. Um and I would hate to see concrete all the way to the curb as a replacement. I think that would impact the historic nature and really to take that small town feeling away that

136that we all love so much. Um and and is why we live here. Um, I think that uh the wider sidewalks as we see for the pictures and just practically speaking, obviously we're impacting even vegetation that's that's on the other side that that could fill in like in this picture that you have with the, you know, unrealistic probably hydrangeas and stuff with the deer, but we're seeing that this is also getting impact uh this area uh by people trampling what's there. So, so we're creating actually less vegetation opportunities uh than we would if we took care of here and really had a definitive border here to protect this uh the vegetation that's in front of the stores um um along this whole area. So, um I always wonder how the trees do with these boxes.

137Um obviously on the north side the trees have had boxes for quite some time. I have seen migration where the bricks get picked up. So, I guess we'll be looking at maintenance when that happens. Um, and in order to preserve those trees, but their roots are getting trampled right now by folks walking on them. I think it'll be an ecological benefit. And I think the key factor here is matching the brick as much as possible and having a little bit wider sidewalk uh for folks and also for ADA compliance. Um, you know, put people pushing in. Obviously, I mean, they're pushing already. As you could see from the pictures that were up, they're already pushing into the planting areas. So, in order to stop that, uh, that would be great. Um, garbage pals. Anything about

138those garbage pels? They're they're never attractive anywhere. >> Yeah. So, the garbage pales are, uh, they were donated by the Amiganza Village Improvement Society. >> I love these garbage pals. >> They're they're Victor Stanley ones. uh we would reset them on top of uh any of the streetscape that we would put down. And I've uh we've been in contact potentially how we can actually even uh work with AVIS to see how we can maybe even uh clean them through some type of power washing. You know, that's been that's been discussed in the past. >> That would be great. But overall, I understand uh I see this as an improvement. >> Yeah, I'm supportive as well. Um, you know, I do understand the the concerns of two people who spoke about this this project. I I

139think Dave's done a lot of research on this and um I think everybody on this board, if you ask us, you know, in a vacuum, do we prefer grass or brick? We would all say grass. But that just I don't think is the reality for a busy, you know, downtown Hamlet area right now. Um Tom, thank you for bringing it to the CAC. It sounds like the CAC and the Village Improvement Society um or the Amigans Improvement Society have both weighed in on this. Um so it's not without controversy. I think the fact that it matches what's already on the other side of the street is very very important. I think it's tastefully done and necessary and I'm fully supportive. >> Thank you. >> Well, I agree with my colleagues and David, I appreciate, you

140know, when uh we were approached that there may be grant funding available from the state and we you know what project would we like to take on? this was the project that you had suggested and I think it's it's it's a worthy one and um >> I think you're being a little humble when the when the state assemblyman reached out to the town supervisor stating that there was some funding for an infrastructure project there was some that potentially were out there and we wouldn't have funding for some type of project without your connection to the state uh to the state. So, Madam Supervisor, you're being a little humble there to your connections and the way that you are uh uh interweaving with other jurisdictions or it's another example of if it was this project or

141another one that you're bringing funds from afar back to East Hampton and that's kudos to you. >> Thank you, David. >> All right, so that's that's a wrap on our topics. So, we're up to liaison reports. Tom, >> thank you madam supervisor. Um I'm against it. will serve with the citizens advisory committee. Uh next meeting is March 9th, next Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the Amagance School Library. Uh human services. Uh this is a very important update and there's a lot of people out there who don't have unfortunately access to healthcare and um the town is partnering to uh do a health fair and this is the last one until October. Uh there will be a health fair on Friday, March 6th from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at St. Luke Church Hoy Meeting Hall

142on 18 James Lane in East Hampton. The health fair is free to the community. You can get your flu shots, glucose examination, blood crisis screening, uh, and speak to health insurance representatives and obtain, um, East Hampton Town human services information as well as nutritional education. Um, there'll also be representative Ola, Meals on Wheels, and the retreat there. U, it's an event that's sponsored by the East Hampton Healthcare Foundation. And for anyone who'd like more information on that fair, the number to call is 631-329-2425. I also want to give note that um for the month of March, Wednesday classes will still be the Ashwog Hall. Um however, in April, the classes will be moving back to the senior center. They will be at the same time uh 1 p.m. Quigong and 2 p.m. osteoporosis prevention. Uh

143ADU uh projects. Uh just a reminder that there is a public hearing on for this Thursday evening for the proposed code changes for ADUs. Um East End Fire Chiefs, there's a meeting this evening 7:00 p.m. in Montalk. It will be taking place at the Shagwan restaurant as the Monttok Fire Department kitchen is currently undergoing renovations. Uh the arts council committee um we are proud again this year to sponsor a March Madness event uh where students from each grade will be competing uh with artwork pieces produced and judging will be taking place on Thursday the 5th by the arts council committee. I highly encourage um residents to kind of look into that and I'll provide images. Some of the creation there is really truly fantastic. Um wildlife management advisory committee um I wanted to give an

144update here. Um the town is aware of reports of de deceased waterfoul in multiple locations and is coordinating with New York State DC and public health officials. Uh highly pathogenic aven influenza commonly known as bird flu is currently present in wild bird populations across New York state and is considered a possible cause. The virus affects waterfell and other wild birds and can also impact mammals that scavenge infected birds. According to the US CDC and um the risk to the general public currently remains low. Most human cases in the US have been associated with direct contact with infected poultry or livestock. Out of abundance of caution, residents are advised to avoid contact with sick or dead birds and wildlife. Keep children and pets away from affected shoreline and pond areas. Prevent domestic animals from interacting with

145wildlife. Residents who observe multiple dead or distressed birds, particularly ducks, geese, gulls, raptors, crows, loons, or herand should report them to the New York DEC region 1. The phone number for that is 631 444310. You can also report online on the New York CDC website. Um, and then lastly for the YMCA, uh, there is a board meeting this Wednesday, 5:00 pm at the YMCA. >> Great. Thanks, Tom. David. >> Yes, the Montalk uh citizens advisory committee met last night. I want to thank everyone that attended. I also want to thank Captain Gregory Martin for joining us for a conversation on public safety in Montalk specifically related to uh ebikes. There were uh uh recently changes that the county made on ebikes. Also the state is looking and made some changes and we are just uh

146updating the committee uh about how the town of East Hampton is uh you reviewing those changes from the county and state actively going to be enforcing ebike regulations always moving forward on there for safe active uh uh use of them. Then two uh we also were discussing then that brought into some issues not issues uh we brought back some um uh review some comments of uh prior to when was the hamlet studies prior to myself being on the board Tom you were member there we were discussing um traffic patterns in in the hamlet of uh uh Montalk and we're going to be discussing some more uh instead of broad uh uh broad initiatives more more focused initiatives If the committee wants to make a recommendations to the town board, the town board wants to move

147those and so that'll be upcoming. So, thank you to all that were there. I want to let everyone know that the uh the Westlake uh boat ramp construction, which is a water quality project, is fully underway. Green Velvet contractors have been mobilized working on their uh putting in their bio swala, but also some of the perable pavers. It is a construction site. I want to thank uh uh harbor m senior harbor master Tim uh Tim Treadwell for coordinating with some of our bay men that still are using that boat ramp. Um I want to remind everyone that there is a public hearing on Friday for a public safety uh the uh potential purchase of property in Monttok for a new town uh public safety building that is this Thursday at 6 pm. the town uh

148slips and uh slips and harbors committee. We met uh this past week. I want to thank the members for joining us. We had a discussion on many upcoming policies that we we have there that will I will bring to the town board um in in in a follow-up email. But primarily one of the uh conversations that we had with them were one of the changes that Tim Treadwell brought to the town board a couple weeks ago uh and that was about chapter 246-5 warfish fees at certain public docks where the harbor master is looking for uh the uh the authority to actually uh give violations to individuals that that are transient uh that that bring transient vessels without authority and do uh and dock up some of our slips. uh that violation would be uh

149able to be given uh in in the real time instead of when the boat actually leaves. They were supportive of that and with that we can bring that back and that has to do a change to a public hearing. Bringing that forward then to there there's going to be from that discussion if we remember when Tim Treel came in there were multiple uh amendments to the town code that he wanted to do and get those ready for the summer season. I'd like to put notice of public hearings out for them. They were supported by us, but I wanted just to reconfirm. One of them was a change to the selfish uh selfish selfish as me sometimes. Uh shellfish uh town code chapter uh and that was uh going to the hinge point of of an

150oyster of a scalp I believe. Sorry, that's a scallop. Another one was uh to amend chapter 91 beaches and parks to the town code to make uh beach driving in the area of Jin Beach during lifeguarded hours not allowed. Uh and then also uh the next one would be about the warfish fees there that I just mentioned in 2465A. Uh maybe what I'll do is I'll have I'll resend to the to the town board what those changes were of that presentation that Tim had just to reconfirm. But if we put them on for Thursday, notice of public hearing for March 19th, I believe, uh they'd be prepared ready for this for the summer season on there. Um and with that, that's all I have. >> That's great. D that was done, I think, at the

151the Mar the January meeting in Montalk. >> That's correct. And I wanted to make sure we uh we got the uh uh we brought the slips and harbors committee into that discussion. Uh but now I think that suite of changes are effectively ready to move ahead. Right. >> Uh and I'll send that around too. >> Beautiful. Thank you, Kate. >> Yes. I'm going to report on uh two grants uh and the formation of two committees for those grants. One is the um $600,000 grant that we received from the state for Malkque. They're both from MTalk MTalk uh resilience and recovery uh efforts. The uh pack is currently being formed. That's the project advisory committee and we'll be announcing the first meetings on that. Um, also concurrently, um, Kathy, you secured a, uh, $200,000 grant. Am

152I correct in the amount? Three for the wastewater, um, for a wastewater study and project for also downtown Mtok. Um, I'm going to be the leazison in that project, working with um, with my fellow colleagues on that. and uh we're going to be announcing the formation of that committee and first meeting uh for stakeholders as well. So these the two of these grants I think we've secured close to a million dollars uh for uh work to be done for downtown Muk business district and further from that as well uh that will help the entire community with um resilience and um recovery uh for in the future. Um and uh the next one is the Wayne Scott CAC. We'll be meeting this Saturday um March 7th at 9:30 9:00 at the chapel down in Wayne Scott.

153All are invited. I had a number of committees that were impacted by the town hall closures due to the storm. Uh so uh I'll end my report there. >> Great. Thank you, Kate. Ian, >> uh Spring CAC met two weeks ago. Uh the primary topic of conversation was clearing and concern about people who overclear and um you know what are the repercussions and how do we sort of get a handle on that. I know Kate has been speaking with natural resources about clarification uh of that language and they look forward to hearing back about that. I know it's >> that was one of my meetings that were cancelled. >> No, I know >> with the attorney's office on that one, but we're also working on uh how to denote that on surveys uh and a

154better way to do that. So, I'll have a report for them next for the next meeting. >> Great. And and I've heard from all sides of people on this issue for clarification of that um of of the clearing rules. Uh CHAB Community Housing Advisory Board met last week. Um I want to want to thank uh Andrew Garvey, the chairman, and everybody in that committee. That's been a very, I think, productive committee. they've been bringing um some outside affordable housing specialists and just to talk about the world of affordable housing which I think has been very um enlightening even if it doesn't relate necessarily to a specific project. Um again those meetings are public if anybody ever wants to attend. It is the fourth Wednesday of every month. Um the property management committee will meet tomorrow,

155Wednesday at 4:30 in this room. Uh the main topics on the agenda are the Osborne House exterior renovation. We recently received engineering plans that Scott has in hand and wants to go over that with the committee. Hopefully bring that to this board very very soon. Uh that's one of the projects that we've talked about in the CPF um management plan that hopefully is on deck uh like the Fiser House for for this year. Uh similarly, the Edwards House at Duck Creek, um it does not have final engineering plans, but that's another project uh another structure that's badly in need of repair and is hopefully on on schedule for, you know, commencement this year or or or shortly thereafter. And the last item on the agenda is Brooks Park management plan. At the last property management

156comm meeting, somebody from the public brought that up. There is a management plan on the books, but I think it's a little bit um it's a little bit dated and like all management plans, they're sort of living documents and I think it's time to to revisit that and just talk about what if any changes we may want to make. >> Just one fact and just to let the public know that building did actually collapse largely in the recent storm. >> Yep. Not not surprised. Um so that something to talk about. Uh egg advisory committee is scheduled to meet next Thursday on the 12th. um that I've still have to talk to the committee, but I think that meeting likely won't happen. And that's because they they had a whole suite of suggestions to us about

157how to change code with respect to agriculture and site plan. I've been work it's it's fairly complicated in the number of places that will touch. Um the attorney's office, Britney Toadano, and Tina Lagaran have both been working on that, but there's nothing to present. And so, uh I think that meeting will likely be cancelled, but I'll confirm next Tuesday for anybody who wishes to attend. And that's all I have. >> Thank you, Ian. David, you want to bring something else up? >> I forgot one thing. Um, while I waited for the Army Corps of Engineers meeting about the Montto dredging project start this morning, no one showed up because that project is now uh pretty much complete. They're demobilizing. But what that brings to the fact is that the next portion the final portion of

158the downtown fint project is about to mobilize uh this week uh where they're going to bring bringing equipment to remove the three wooden overpasses that are now defective and broken up. So there is going to be movement on that starting this week. Uh I don't have a construction schedule in uh in plan, but I'll let them some of them property owners, nearby property owners know that there'll be construction and that's what the uh equipment down at the at the location at Kirk Park will be upcoming uh which is allowed within the FIMP easements that we have then too. So that portion of that project's also moving ahead. So >> we probably want to put that on social media. >> Uh yeah. Yeah, let's work on that. Sure. Sounds good. >> Okay. >> Thank you for

159letting me bring that. It's just another Army Corps project. So, yeah. So, the East Hampton Sag Harbor CAC met last night. I'm going to have a report next week. Um, I do want to say that the Latino Advisory Committee is going to meet this Saturday, March 7th, at 8:00 a.m. at the Senior Center on Springs Fireplace Road. So, for the press, you've got an 8 a.m. at the Senior Center and a 9:00 a.m. at the chapel for Wayne Scott. >> Bring coffee. >> Yeah. You know, you'll need your rollerblades on. Um, at Thursday's meeting, I'm going to have a resolution to add five more members to the uh, Latino Advisory Committee. David, when we first introduced this at a work session, you talked about getting more youth involved. We do have on that committee John

160Lopez, who was one of the founders of the Latino Young Professionals for the East End, which is a group that's affiliated with OLA. uh he is recommending um three other three young women that are also in leadership in the um in the young Latin Latino young professionals. One is Nicole Valz who's an undergraduate at Yale, Daniela Chavez, who's an undergraduate at John Hopkins, and Valeria Marin who is a bilingual family educator for Suffach County Cornell Cooperative Extension. They're all East Hampton High School graduates and uh have deep ties uh to the um to the community and works with work with Spanish speaking teens and families. So I think that's going to help ground out. >> I thank you for following up with that. >> Sure. Sure. >> I think that's extremely important. >> Absolutely. And

161hopefully they're you know there are young leaders and you know as you know as we move forward in our community. Uh the last thing I wanted to just note is uh the town board, you know, had a agreed for 2026 that we were going to go from two stop days a year to four stop days a year. So um the first stop day is in Montalk on Saturday, March 14th from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. And this way folks can safely dispose of hazardous household waste. I know the sanitation department puts an ad in the paper every year, so they're doing that. and we're going to be promoting this on social media reminding folks of what they can drop off. So, uh, always, you know, that was actually a recommendation that came to us from

162Kyle Lynch when I went out to the last stop day. He's like, you know, we should be doing this more often as a town and I'm just grateful that everybody agreed. Um, so that's what we've got. That's a wrap on the liaison report. So, now we have a handful of resolutions for today. It's my pleasure to offer resolution 2026 376 is authorize the payment of a prior year invoice to Best Climate Control Corporation. Uh and this is the amount of $416.99. >> Second. All in favor? I >> 377 is a temporary advance of fund for the whole town a fund of $120,000 for procurement of vehicles for the summer beach season. >> Second all in favor. 378 is a higher Barry Lockam DBA Al Green Air LLC. Uh this is for moisture mapping of affected

163areas uh at the East Hampton Marine Museum at a cost not to ex exceed $1,500. >> Second. All in favor? >> I have resolution 379 which is to amend resolutions uh 2025-39 and 2026-44. This agreement is with outside agencies and actually this is to correct the name of the uh of the of uh related to Southampton Hospital. So whereas the town has been informed that the correct name of the program is Southampton Hospital Ed and Phyllis Davis Wellness Initiative now be it therefore resolved that the town approves the amended uh name on the contracts for this program for 2025 and 2026. >> Second. >> All in favor? Resolution 380 is to amend resolution 2024 1277 for the clean energy communities award which was a $100,000 grant for eligible energy projects and uh therefore we're going

164to resolve where where uh the town uh I'm sorry whereas the town finds that replacement of the charging station at the Amaganza municipal parking lot is an eligible energy project under NAERTA clean energy's community program consistent with the town's sustainability goals. Therefore, be it resolved that resolution 2024 1277 is hereby amended to include the replacement of electric vehicle charging station in the Amaganza municipal parking lot. Further, be it resolved that the town board authorizes the acceptance of the $100,000 grant from Nerta and authorizes the use of such funds for the vehicle purchase uh for EV vehicle purchase. the MTO charging station installation and the replacement at the M Amaganza municipal lot. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Congratulations. >> Yes. More grants. >> I love it. 381 is the reimbursement of a cleanup deposit

165for the Amaganzit parade for 2026. >> Second >> discussion. We're the the parade isn't until two Saturdays from now. We're reimbursing their cleanup deposit because because we'll be waiting to see if everything I think we're a little ahead of the gun this month might have gotten in a little early because they've never made a mess before. I must say that there we always were always refunding it, but I think I'll withdraw this one until after the parade. >> Okay, so uh motion to withdraw uh 2026 381. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> Okay, thanks. Uh resolution 2026 382 is to retain LK McClean Associates and AKRF for professional services. This is uh in order to maintain effective technical and timely review of applications pending before the planning board and the zoning board of

166appeals. RF RKF will be retained and compensated at the hourly rate set forth in their schedule proposed February 13, 2026 not to exceed $5,000. further resolved that LK McClean Associates DPC will be retained and compensated at the hourly rates set forth in the schedule contained in their proposal dated February 8th at an amount not to exceed $10,000. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I resolution 383. This is to authorize Eastern Environmental Solutions for 54 tub or this is for testing and remediation in the amount of $25,84. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Resolution 384. this to authorize past year invoice for quack and bush cesspools. This is for annual pumpout services at Camp Hero in the amount of $7,92720. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Resolution 385. This

167is to authorize a boiler replacement. Um the company will be Best Climate. This is for 20 Dorset Road, another home, another home in the town's home ownership program. And the amount is not to exceed $28,944. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> I resolution 386. This is to amend resolution 2026 278. Uh the original quote for the project did not reflect the contract price and a revised quote has been submitted in the amount of $2,100. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Resolution 387. This is to authorize acquisition of full interest in the property at 327 Aabonic Road and a 2026 budget modification. Um, sorry. The amount of the acquisition is $598,490. Um, to achie to acquire full interest. The budget modification is to increase sales of property by $600,000 and to

168increase purchase of real property also by $600,000. The total financial impact after the resale of the home in the home ownership program will be $399,000. >> Second. All in favor? >> I. >> Resolution 2026 388 is to authorize a maintenance agreement for the airport's AWAS system for contract year 2026. Awas is the automated weather observation system and this is at an annual cost of $8,13. Second. All in favor? >> I. >> 389 is to authorize training for the police department. This is for Sergeant Bradley Razie for tactical team leadership forum. The financial impact is $500. Second. All in favor? I. >> 390 is to authorize payment of previous year's invoices. This is for marine patrol from Gauls and this is in the amount of $1,8466. Second. All in favor? >> I. >> 391 is to

169retain San Ward uh PLLC for to represent the town in Jonathan Tarbett versus the town of East Hampton in the appellet division. Uh I do have to make a uh change to the the last resolve. The resolve should say resolved that said legal fees shall be paid out of the budget account code that's listed in an amount not to exceed $30,000. So that's the change adding the not to exceed number. >> Second is amended. >> All in favor. >> 392 is to authorize employee training for the police department. This is for Captain Gregory Martin to attend the executive resource workshop and this is has a financial impact of $350. Second. All in favor? >> I. 393 is to authorize requests for fiscal year 20 2027 congressionally directed spending and community project funding and this authorizes

170the grants division to submit an application which is due I believe this Friday second. All in favor. >> So that is all the resolutions that we have. Do I have a motion to go into exec session? >> You will in one moment. Sorry apologize. Thank you very much. That's the best. I will make a motion to go into executive session for CPF, contracts, personnel, public safety, and advice of counsel. >> Second. All in favor? I. >> Thank you everyone and thank you LTV.