East Hampton Town Board Meeting - 02/10/26

001East 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, February 10th, 2026. Michael, if you could 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 please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. So, today we have we open with public comment. We ask you to please uh kindly keep your comments to three minutes and then we have six

002agenda topics. The proposed parking restrictions on Edgemeir Street and that'll be presented by David Lee and Captain Greg Martin. Second topic is the discrepancy in the town code def definition of lot area. That Jake is that Charlie or are you going to be handling that? >> Charlie is on his way. Perfect. Okay. Um, >> hey, there he is. >> Third topic is windmill one, community housing fund requests with Mark Morgan Perez. Uh, then Dave Brown, our chief fire marshall, is going to give us an update on carbon monoxide. Then Bob Mason is going to do a presentation on our public GIS resources. And then lastly, um, Council Member Flight and Jay Sharon are going to give us an update on 163 Mulford Lane. That'll be followed by liaison reports and resolutions. So, let's first start

003with public portion. Michael, is anyone signed up? No. Is there anyone in the room that would like to make a public comment? Okay, Jason, is there anyone on the line? >> Uh, yes. We have a few people on the line. Uh, just one quick note. Uh, the YouTube stream is fine. Everyone can hear on the phone correctly, but uh, for some reason our television's having a little bit of like a static or a breakup on it. I have to go double check and verify that it's not on our end and maybe it's on Altis's, but everything else should be ready to go. So, I'm going to unmute our first caller. Okay. >> Thank you. >> Okay. 867 8764, you are on the air. >> Good morning, town supervisor and town council members. This is David

004Buddha. First, I want to let you know that the um feed, the uh LTV feed through YouTube was not available until just a moment ago. uh but it is now available. Um I'm calling in to discuss the work session topic that is described as concerning a quote unquote discrepancy in the town code's definition of lot area. In my opinion, it is not an inadvertent discrepancy, but rather a significant distinction with an essential purpose that should be preserved and not eliminated willy-nilly. Yes, I have been aware for a very long time that the town code has two somewhat similar but yet distinctly different definitions of lot area. One definition of lot area for purposes of the town zoning code um zoning chapter of the town code and a different one for the town uh subdivision chapter

005of the town code. It's it's not unusual for legal terms to have different definitions in different contexts, such as for purposes of different chapters of a town code. While while zoning is generally a matter of local prerogative, the subdivision of property to create new tax map land parcels is also governed by state subdivision law. Lot area is the net, not gross, area of a parcel. Lot area represents the net parcel size that is used for determining development capacity such as floor area such as gross floor area in our code in other codes floor area ratio lot coverage and building coverage. Lot area may is and should be defined to properly exclude a variety of land within the four corners of a tax map parcel. For example, for purposes of both zoning implementation by the building

006department and determination of subdivision applications by the planning board, the following gross land area is excluded. Portions of a lot that are underwater. Portions of a lot seawward of the base of the bluff line or primary dunrest or which is beach land, wetlands or a water course. and portions of a lot in or under any street right ofway, common driveway easements, and flagpole accessways. The only point of distinction is with regard to the scope of what type of easements should be excluded from lot area. I submit that the town board, town planning department, town attorney, and town planning uh board, that's both the planning department and the town planning board should all make a comprehensive review of this issue. For my money, the town was better off with a situation that existed in 1992 when

007the addition when the definition of lot area was the same in both the zoning and subdivision chapters but excluded all easements that prohibited the erection of structures. Why should the area that is within a lot that is subject to any easement that prohibits the erection of structures be included in calculating a parcel's development capacity? When a when a parcel is being subdivided, shouldn't the area of any scenic easement along certain roadway frontages that is required by the town old filed map study plan be excluded from the calculation of developable lot area. For me, this is a complex and important question that should be handled carefully, slowly, and with the benefit of all of the participation of all interested parties. Thank you. >> Thank you, David. Oh, and hey Dave, I just want to let you

008know we started a few minutes behind. We were just joining with a few different uh things in in Mont Talk. So, but all is good. You can check the meeting. Everything's in its entirety. Thank you though. >> Thank you. >> Okay, moving on to our next caller 4221 and you are on the air. >> Thank you. Good morning, Tom Board. It's Jane Muring and I'm a Gansit. I'm speaking this morning as an individual citizen of East Hampton Town and not in any capacity as a member of an appointed board or town committee. I am addressing a couple items that have just been presented at ACAK of which I am a member. But again, I'm addressing these comments to you solely as an individual resident and not representing or in my capacity as an ACAC member.

009So, first I want to comment um comment uh about a some overall thoughts that I have regarding a proposed multi-million dollar new lighting plan prospect for the allimportant and precious amigans historic district. The issue of identifying and filling in a few lighting gaps has been percolating for years within a act, but somehow it has morphed into a much bigger broader project. most recently last year. It has been discussed preliminarily um at town board work sessions. It is my well I want to reiterate today it is my well-considered opinion that this project proposed project is problematic very problematic for two main reasons. First, even though the new lighting is potential new lighting is filled as being quote historical lighting fixtures, the project will likely be inconsistent with and inauthentic to the standards of the quote rural

010setting of the Amagansa historical district as described in depth in chapter 255 appendix A, adding somewhere between 45 or 55 or 65 additional metal poles holding quote faux historical fixtures. ers all the way from Miss Amilia's Cottage downtown past Amber Waves Farm to the train station will a likely um overlight the historic district where rural character is a foundational standard and b create very problematic visual clutter um adding multi-dozens of new structures every few feet between existing poles. Second, perhaps most importantly, the issue that was originally to be addressed and that everyone cares about in the center of Amigansit was quote safety, partly in response to some accidents that have happened over the past decades. And as development and short-term transient seasonal vis visitor pressure continues to explode and potentially overwhelm this hamlet, as well

011as the lack of other safety control measures. But if safety is the impetus, there is a problem as I see it because there has been no formal safety engineering study and we have been told now that it is unlikely that there will be one. Safety is a complex system of many inputs including speed limits, amount of traffic, increasing population intensity of use, seasonal patterns, roadside parking patterns, crosswalk numbers, and locations. All of which need to be addressed and potentially altered before any decisions go forward. Second, I don't have time in these three minutes to comment in depth, but last night we also learned a bit about something called a amigance beautifification project, which I guess in short would result in more a lot more concrete and brick and less grass in a stretch on the

012southside portion of Amigans historic district along Main Street. Um, the terms concrete and brick seem to be inconsistent with a concept of beautifification, but I don't know enough yet, but I do I'm here to say I hope this will be brought up at a public work session before any approval or movement is cemented. Forgive the pun. Also, I want to say uh because some of this was coming out of ACA, I respect and admire uh Councilman Tom Flight as a liaison to ACAK. It's not always an easy tour of duty, but I seriously appreciate how he always keeps us informed and takes in our views. So, thank you. That's it for now. >> Thank you, Jane. Uh Jason, if you could put the next caller through, please. >> We have no other callers on the

013line. >> Okay. So, we are going to move on to our topic. So, the first up is the proposed parking restrictions on Edge Street. >> Thank you very much, Madam Supervisor. Uh I'm here I'm going to be joined by uh Captain Greg Martin. Uh we're here to discuss in Montalk uh specifically uh a layered approach to public safety in heavily traffic traffic area of one of a town's transit hubs by the Montalk train station and also on Edgemere uh street. Um over the past few years, uh there has been greater amount of concerns and calls from uh local emergency departments and also for town board members and residents to try to uh look at and address and scope out problems in this stretch of the road uh as it's become more and more popular either

014by individuals that are taking multimmodal approaches to travel to town, hence being the train station, or also areas to go to some of the businesses that are in the local area. all those and putting into an area that was probably first surveyed and built out over 100 years ago leads to the town's public safety initiative to look at options that might give uh uh areas of relief uh in a very strict location. Uh there are multiple different ways in which we're looking at this and it's a layered approach. Uh what happens right now is that uh under Kathy Burke Gonzalez's leadership with I believe it was Bridget Fleming, legislator Bridget Fleming at the time, uh we the town received a $400,000 grant from Steve Balone, the county exec came out and uh gave that grant

015to the town of East Hampton to look at public safety initiatives in the corridor of Edgeir. Long time coming. We're starting to scope out that project now then too. and it's still going to take a couple more years until we find something more concrete. Anyway, as we move ahead now, what we're also seeing is that there's options that we can take in the public safety initiative, working with the county uh and also with stakeholders to be able to uh increase public safety in the area and different lay approaches. One of the approaches that we went and reviewed with the east of the town police department superintendent highway Steve Lynch numerous property owners is looking at the area and how it's regulated as far as parking restrictions doing a deep dive into the code looking all

016the parking restrictions. We mapped them out and we also then looked at what the signage was in some of these areas and we also just reviewed it in real time. How are these pe places being used as the train ends up letting off uh or after the train arrives and also at night time? A lot of driveounds, a lot of time spent. What we found out is that some of the areas are incorrectly signed or maybe not signed. Uh and then also some areas in the code we might want to look for parking restrictions that give greater enforcement techniques to the town of East Hampton. As you will see on the current map right now, what we did on the areas of Edgeir uh which goes all the way up to um uh by the

017Montalk Playhouse and it turns into Flamingo. And if you go do a deeper dive, the reason why it's sort of a rounded area up there is because once Monttok was uh designated by Carl Benson in the 1920s, they only went to the train station and Flamingo came in after uh and that's why it's concrete all the way up there and it circled around. We did that by pulling all of the surveys. I want to thank Tina Logaren from the planning department for pulling some of these surveys and then we started to map them to what the current codes are of no parking or no no parking restrictions meaning a no parking restriction and then also where there are no restrictions there. Working with uh PD we came up with and we also discussed this at

018the Malk CAC last week. We came up with the recommendation to change the areas of no parking on Edgemeir from no parking to no stopping. This will then take it from where the red areas are, which are no parking, to where the blue areas are, which should be turned into no stopping. No stopping is a greater regulation within the town code in which you cannot load or unload passengers. uh where no parking is less restrictive and it will allow us for greater enforcement for public safety to keep people moving moving on so they don't inhibit the rightways for potential emergency vehicles and even more importantly for pedestrian uh pedestrian or bicycle use. But we then looked if you can uh zoom in a little bit more up towards the train station. Uh this area gets

019higher uh a little higher and to the top left if you don't mind sir. Yeah, excellent Jason. In these areas down here, uh the town of East Hampton worked with Ruff Riders to uh to develop a taxing district down there for a road improvement taxing district in which we put in some bio swelailes uh that raised the road and try to alleviate flooding down there. And by alleviate meaning trying to wick the road and get it back to prevent it from icing up. I can only imagine if we didn't do that this year with all the ice that we've had out there. Looking at that, there's multiple businesses down in that area. There's actually an affordable housing unit down in the area and there's a uh there's a public utility down there being the train

020station. What we looked at doing was to put no stopping on the area that fronts Ruff Riders and also the area that fronts u the former Bamante uh gas station we found out which is also now owned uh and it's a plumbing store and offices there. We also would put no parking, so no stopping around the triangle area that's in the in the um in the the bio swell, but we would leave uh no restrictions around the business down there of of the restaurant there as that's a pre-existing condition down there. Uh we we presented this at the Montalk CAC this past week. uh there are representatives from all the property owners are there including uh where the the offices are that were supportive of it and also for uh rough riders then too. These

021recommendations in this area would be on town roads that we can do that through a town public hearing. But the other ones on Edge Mir since it's a county road, uh we would have to work in conjunction with the county uh with our county legislator and welker to be able to see if they would support that and then we would go to public hearing because we would be the enforcing agent on it then too. leading that there. We're at a point where this is something that could be give some meaningful traffic uh safety in this area by this calendar summer 2026. With that uh comments and working with Captain Martin, I want to thank you for your participation and Chief Sarlo on this. Do you have comments about the process and what the recommendations were?

022>> Uh yeah, I mean look, we've been working through this myself and David the board and done with the county. It's a busy county road and when you look at the interview we've had in the past and how M helps evolve congestion which is in essence always going to be there but there's ways to at least we're viewing this as ways to possibly alleviate some of that uh those issues there. So the actual parking restrictions, I don't know if people are even aware, but the parking signs that are posted could be labeled in different fashions where it could be no parking andor no stopping and or no standing. So we are looking at this is what is right now labeled as a no parking area as that sign as that uh presentation there just just

023posted in in the specific uh blue areas. Um, no parking is a regulation that authorizes vehicles to stop and unload, whether it's people or merchandise or anything of the sort. Now, this specific area that we're discussing obviously is a curved roadway. There's limited lines of sight. There's multiple commercial businesses. There's intersecting streets. And the way in which Montalk devolved with the train station hub there, it's become a popular destination where a majority of these people that are visiting the area utilizing the train and the mass transit and traveling by foot. So, this is now creating a situation that we want to try to address for uh the betterment of public safety where people have hopefully within the next few years a very clear line of uh travel where they could utilize some form of marked

024area for pedestrians. Um, but with the parking restrictions where we could uh address that with a no stopping area, then we would simply be able to address violators for merely stopping there for any purpose outside of obviously being told by an authority or some emergency situation as to uh having to move their vehicle or be summoned. So, that's really the extent of the project at this point. It's it's a long-term thing that we're looking at and evolving and we will continue to work on it. Thank you, Captain Martin. So, mo moving to other actions that the county might be looking at. They're surveying the road. They're looking for encroachments. They're looking for drainage areas there. And they'll come back to the town. I don't anticipate any time prior to summer with some potential options to

025look at if they wanted to make dedicated bike lanes or or sidewalks there. We don't know what that is what would be, but we do know in the end it would be another expensive approach to public safety that we would look at and hopefully collaborate with the county on there. Again, this is changing of signs. Um, there is one area that is a little bit of a uh quagmire, I'll say. And that's the area that says no parking on the grass. There's a triangled area there in the town code. The parking on the grass means inside the grassy area where people were parking on on Edgeir Drive, I believe it might have been called. That actually area currently is no parking, but you can't park on the grass. It's just signed incorrectly. Don't know how

026it got there, but we will be fixing that. And specifically, we will going to uh no stopping if the county or the town board first of all and if the county would like also um we will be monitoring this through the current season. Uh I've reached out to other property own uh other agents of property owners. I look forward to hearing back from them. Uh but again, how the timing goes to hear back from the county, public notice it, um authorize the public notice, and then hear back from the state, it will take time. and even while we're in February, this might be uh this is a tight time frame and schedule to keep if we wanted to do this for Memorial Day on there. So, this is the discussion we have for here. Again,

027it's one layer of a of a layered approach that we'll continue to look forward to. Um I know there's also discussions I wouldn't mind, you know, about speed limits in the in the in this area then too knowing it's a county road on there. And again, as we move forward and this discussion becomes more broad, I've already heard from a couple individuals living on industrial road or also some comments that we can give to the county for any of future designs they might look look for such as crosswalks. But for right now, we're going to be uh targeting uh changes potentially and adding of parking regulations and that's the discussion for the board today. >> Great. Thank you. >> I could go off. Um well, thank you coun supervisor for bringing this. Um, look, I

028I both from being on the public safety committee, um, hearing residents report and and being an active first responder in this district, um, I'm very grateful to see this, um, coming forward to the board for consideration. Um, you know, there's I think most residents of this hamlet or those who visiting will have experienced a situation when you're driving at dusk or or or later busy time for some of these businesses where you have significant numbers of vehicles parked in the the the uh right of way and the pedestrians are forced out into the main through fair which is incredibly dangerous. So, you know, by beginning to change this law to allow PD to manage this area more effectively, we mitigate that risk which is huge. I know we've heard I've heard personally from uh the

029fire department, you know, that this is an area of major concern to them. Um there's been instances when their vehicles have not been able to get through because it's become, you know, so congested. So, you know, allaying that risk is is additionally a great thing. I I think the other piece here um well, two other pieces. Firstly, yeah, I we we've discussed potential of, you know, reducing the speed limit here. That's something I think additionally would be would be a good um thing to do just in the sense that as you mentioned we have so many visitors coming out to this hamlet via train now you see them walking into the town um you know it's just well-known physics the lower people are going in their vehicles the the less damaging the accident is uh

030to people so you know I think that would be a wise thing to do too I think the other thing I would say here too is just the importance of industrial road you did bring that up but you know when you're considering montalk and you know possible future implications the importance of industrial road is really emphasized. Um I know it's in the um waterfront you know um uh documents you know about the possibility building a levy along there to protect that road because you know as mtok does change that is one of the main arteries that people can access this part of mtok from you know should there be a major accident on on flamingo or edge you know the importance of that road becomes key as well. So I think this change is something

031I support. Um we will have to be very considerate about how we monitor what does happen on industrial because I can easily see people beginning to try creative parking options there as well. Um but I I think this is excellent as a project to bring forward. Thank you. >> Yes. Um I completely agree with the proposed changes uh for all the reasons that uh both uh uh David and Tom have cited. Uh again I just point out that there is the uh fire department is located on Edgewood. All emergency response comes from that area. Um we've seen the number of uh traffic increase the number of visitors increase coming to the train station and I think the idea of uh no stopping um prohibits and takes away the idea of if you're sitting in your

032car and your engine's running, you're not parked. um in my I thought that you know and we take that away of people just sitting there waiting also maybe commercial Uber drivers uh stacking up there and waiting and it's such a difficult sighteline and um I think that this is very important to have these changes and you're also leaving alone the parking that's in the commercial district all the way down at the end. Yes, we're only going to change regulations on request for changes on the county road where there are already parking regulations. In the areas where there is no parking restrictions, we're not we're going to leave that for now. Again, it's a layered approach. We can we could always come back and tighten it up later. >> Yeah, I agree with the previous comments.

033I don't have much to add. I'm familiar with the issues in the area and I think that this is an improvement. Um, frankly, I don't think it's going to solve all of the problems because I think there are going to be, you know, cars and and people going to businesses there and people getting dropped off, but I I totally understand the need for this and pedestrian safety and thank Dave and Lieutenant Martin and all the rest who worked on it. >> I agree with my colleagues. I do have just a question on process. So, we've reached out to Ann Welker or we're waiting until we had the board's approval or agreement to move forward. >> Correct. So, uh, I wanted to wait to have this discussion with the public. I didn't really want to, uh,

034take up the bandwidth of the county legislator unless we knew we wanted to move forward with this. So, that's the next step, the reach out to Ann Welker, uh, and also Captain Mark Martin will be making his outreaches to counterparts in DPW and through that process. >> Okay. So, it may be optimistic, right? you had said you're not sure about the the Memorial Day time frame because >> uh the county I think they only have like one meeting a month. This probably has to go to subcommittee and um >> their process takes longer than our process. >> Yeah. >> Multiple that work here that are outside our control. So there is a plan in place. We're going to continue to work with them. >> And I'll just quickly touch on what Tom and Ian said.

035We're not uh blind to the fact that, you know, this could potentially push issues elsewhere, you know. So, we're limiting or looking at restrictions to limit parking. People are still coming to the area. M talks a very popular destination. So we're looking at this and and dissecting this as resolving it to the best of our ability understanding so that we have to simply look at all the areas in the in the general area that we're attacking here to uh hope we don't push any issues or create any additional issues. So it's a process but very layered >> right >> and so yes it is optimistic uh but with that we will go to work if if the board is supportive which seems like it we will outreach to the county uh try to make strides

036on this report back to the to the town board uh uh as we hear back from the county and let them know that yes we will want to try to target the summer season and see if they can ask get a response uh in a timely way. >> So are we going to make two requests at the same time? will this no parking or no standing but also tack on the speed limit reduction too. >> I would or you want to do one step at a time. >> I think one step at a time right now. Uh I'd like to review that. Uh next thing Tom and I have discussed the global approach here for parking I did not do for speed limits. So I can't I want to come back if we want to

037do that where the maps are where the speed limit zones are on there in the separate areas. Uh again it's at that layered effect. I just know the timing wise we have a chance. We always have a chance, you know. Uh but >> maybe not Memorial Day, but Fourth of July. >> Exactly. Uh and we'll work through we'll work through the processes. So that's what we're doing. And I will continue to do so and I'll report back to the town board and continue to work with Captain Martin, Chief Sarlo, and others. >> Terrific. Thank you, David. And I know we outreach to the fire department, too, and let them know you are making a presentation today and at the Montalk Cac. And Tom, I would imagine you're having conversations so that they're in the loop

038on uh what we're proposing here. That's great. All right. Well, thank you, Greg. >> No problem. >> And um we can move on uh to uh our uh senior town attorney, Charlie Collins, if you could talk to us about the memo you put forth on discrepancy in the town code, definition of lot area. Welcome, Charlie. >> How you doing? Um, yes. So, this I don't remember exactly when I realized that this was a there's a slight discrepancy in the definitions between or 55 zoning definition of lot area and then the 220 subdivision of land definition. So, when I saw it, I was curious. So, I started looking into it and I found in 1992 the town board redid uh enacted a local law 15 uh that changed the definition. At that time it was chapter

039153 but which became 255 and 131 which is 220. But they changed the lot area definitions to be pretty much the same and it excluded um any easement area from the lot area. And then so that was 92. And then in 1996 there was a pretty large suite of code changes that were enacted in local law 19. And in that section they changed the definition to exclude only private easements and not seated ements running to the town. And they specifically called out uh basically it was there was concerns that if lot if scenic easements were removed from lot area that it would really people would be reluctant and it would be a real tough cell to get people to give scenic easements to the town which as the members that have been on the zoning

040boards un they're pretty common. Uh there's a lot of scenic ements that get filed. Um, so I think at that time they decided other easements, if there's a private easement, which would be like a driveway easement or some other type of easement between neighbors or some kind, those would still be deducted from your lot area, but a scenic easement running to the town would not be. And they made that code change. And then there's actually some legislative history discuss and uh which is in the memo. And I also attached the the actual the full local law uh if you want to review it. But uh they talk about uh it is felt that this exclusion is unfair to the property owner and is counterproductive and that is discouraged agencies from acquiring. So that was the

041idea they really wanted to make cityments more appealing at that time. For some reason, I don't know. I'm guessing, and it's not the first time, only time there was a mistake in that people didn't realize that there was also listed lot area somewhere else in the code. So, when they made one change, they didn't make it to the other section. Um, and it creates potentially kind of a weird situation because if you go, for instance, if I went to the planning board to do a subdivision and you're taking out my scenic easement area, then I would need to get a variance potentially to get two small, >> but then if I go to the 255, I don't need a variance because it doesn't it just creates an issue. So, I know we got you got

042a caller previously. I don't think he really the points made I understand what he was saying but really what he was I I think it would he wanted to go back in time to where all easements count. I that if the town board wants to do that we could do that too but I was just trying to make they they need to agree with each other. I don't really I'm not advocating for one way or the other just that they should agree. >> That's my >> So I I have some questions. >> Sure. Um Charlie in terms of when we have an easement like an a an a reserve area which is how much of the lot area it's significant. >> Yeah. >> In a subdivision. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Right. So then we would

043put we would be allowing that large percentage of of reserve area to be then counted in the ability of what you could build on the other 40 to 50%. on the uh so he had a a property that has a easement over >> For a subdivision. Um assuming it's all in one lot. >> Yeah. >> Um yeah. Well, it doesn't it doesn't specifically it just says a easements are also slightly different because aments you can build structures on and it says private prohibiting the erection of buildings and you can build buildings on. >> Yeah. So that's why it would be under those circumstances. I could see keeping it. >> Yeah, but that's >> not including because you're already allowed to build certain buildings. >> Yeah, but they Yes, they So, I don't think that would

044apply here. >> That would be like a carve out if you were to do this. >> Yeah, but as a scenic easement, you can't build anything, >> right? >> Conservation is you can't you can't have anything. >> So, uh in terms of subdivisions, >> if we have a subdivision of a property that's let's say 10 acres. >> Yeah. And the set aside for scenic easements um to protect the rural character etc of the town is four acres. We would be putting that ability of those what would be able to be built in the lot area of those four acres back into the rest of the sub. I think there's a difference there because that is someone's coming there is no scenic easements filed >> right >> and then they're coming to get a subdivision and

045then there's a requirement to get the subdivision you have to file an easement this is more if I had a property that has an easement on it already and I wanted to subdivide it my lot area would go down >> right >> so say for instance if I had a 40,000 foot lot no easements on it I could split it in two if it was in Bzone fine two 20,000 foot lots But if there was a situation where there was a 40,000 foot lot that had a 20 foot wide scenic easement along the property line under that area would come out of per 220 that area comes out. So then you actually only have depending on how big say it was 1,000 ft. You'd only have you would be under the you'd only have 39,000

046ft of lot area which you then couldn't have two 20,000 foot lots because the lot area. But if but then it's weird because in two in 255 that doesn't your lot areas would be fine cuz it wouldn't count towards your lot area, >> right? >> So it would still so it just creates a weird >> dynamic between the two definitions >> and and I do think importantly um through subdivisions my understanding is typically an egg reserve or a an open space subdivision a set aside that would be a separate lot. >> Yeah. usually. >> So, it's not it's not typically the very large, you know, >> pieces aren't part of another lot. So, I understand the concern because you wouldn't want somebody with a halfacre lot or an acre lot to be able to build

047as if they had five. But, I think typically through the subdivision process, that's actually a separate tax. You can correct me if I'm wrong. Yeah, more. Yeah, more it it it should be then if we're going to do this, you know, I think that should be included in the code as well that that those types of easements are you don't get the lot area from a lot that is separated from your lot. >> Yeah. Well, if you had a lot that I would subdivided and became a and a section of the lot became a separate tax bed with an a easement over it, that would that lot area would not count towards the other property. Be a se. But if there was a situation where you had a big lot and you put an a

048easement, I'm thinking of like further lane lots, those do have the big old farms do have a easements over some of them. um those lot areas I think would gen uh I don't I'd have to check I don't know how >> so Charlie I I mean I'd say like look you there's two pieces of direction here one is is like do we want the definitions to align yes we do the question is do we go back to 96 or 92 right in terms of how they align >> basically >> yeah I mean for me I I I'm definitely in favor of definitions aligning I think revisiting the decision as to whether scenic easements are included in that lot area is not something I would like to do at this time. Um but I'm definitely open

049to the definitions aligning. >> Okay. Anybody else? >> Yeah, I I agree. I mean I think that that you know agreeing that makes sense so there's not confusion caused and I understand that there has been. Um, and as you presented, I understand we don't want to discourage people from offering a scenic easement. Um, I think the important part is, as Kate has pointed out, is just making sure in very large areas that that doesn't count where we have, >> you know, what can be perceived as overdevelopment. But I think in the, you know, where there's a scenic easement granted on a roadway or something like that and otherwise, a larger lot, it would make sense to not penalize the homeowner for that. M >> um but I think making sure that they agree in both

050sections of the code makes sense for sure. >> Okay. >> So myself, I'm so sorry. I I think I've ris I've raised a couple more questions in my head more than answers right now. >> Okay. >> Uh so my request would be to maybe discuss this again. Yeah. Yeah. And if I can if I can >> some discussion points with you, Charlie, either based on what caller said or how my mind is flowing in situations I've either seen from the zoning board or other things, too, if you don't mind, Charlie. >> No, no, it's fine. Yeah. I just this was something that it came up a while ago. >> Either way, is it a it's a code change that would be have to be noticed and public public? >> Uh yeah. Yes. Yeah. And it

051would kind of depend on then if it's if you depending on what section you change because 220 is not zoning. So there's different criteria that you Yes. Exactly. So, but yes, >> thank you for bringing this to us, darling. >> Yeah, no problem. >> That's a good catch, Charlie. >> Yeah. Yeah, there was I forget came up with the when I my brief stint in the planning board. So, I kind of I've had this memo and I was like, I should probably look into this when I get a chance. >> No, you've actually have a couple of those memos that you've done and I think that's great work on you, Charlie. Thank you. >> You know, you don't just you don't let it slide. You actually bring it back and keep moving things forward. I

052appreciate that. >> No, I try to. Thank you. So, just whenever if anybody has any comments, you can always just reach me. We'll discuss. Okay. Thank you. >> You'll hear from me tomorrow. >> Okay. Next up is Windmill One Community Housing Fund Request. Mark Morgan Perez. Welcome, Mark. >> Hi. Uh I'm Mark. >> Actually, it might be Windmill 2. Is it >> windmill 2? Yes. is going to say um this item is a request from windmill 2 housing for $29,000 uh community housing fund grant to install basement insulation which is a 47 unit senior housing development. The work is limited to basic capital maintenance specifically improving energy efficiency, weather proofing and overall no construction, no additional units and no change to affordability profits. It's simply intended to help preserve the long-term position of the building,

053keep it safe and comfortable with the community housing, excuse me, the community housing advisory board reviewed the request on January 28th and unanimously recommended approval. Um, they felt that given the modest amount and the importance of maintaining senior housing that this was an appropriate use of CHF funds. Uh for context, windmill previously windmill previously received CHF assistance for planning related to the windmill one expansion, but that was separate. Uh this request is much smaller in scale and proposed as a grant. If the board is supportive, my understanding is the next step would be to schedule the required public hearing and then return for formal authorization. Happy to answer any questions. >> Yeah, thank thank you Mark. Um, I'm supportive of this request and and as as you mentioned, the community housing advisory board was unanimously

054supportive. But, um, just to offer a little bit of of color and context there. Um, the feeling I get from that board is that they they don't really generally want to give money for maintenance. They want that to be wrapped into sort of the overall business model, but everybody understands these things happen. I think it's been a very cold winter and um, you know, the apartments aren't holding heat. So, I think everybody agrees that um it would be improvement in the conditions and they were supportive as am I. Um but just putting it out there that as requests come into the community housing advisory board. Um I do think that there's a sense that um they would prefer sort of maintenance type issues to be wrapped up into the overall project as opposed to one-off

055requests. Um again, not discouraging anybody to request something that they need. Um and I'm supportive of this. >> Great. Thank you, Ian. I think Ian said it very well and I support as well. >> Yeah, I mean I'd echo that. I I I I really do share your concern that like this is an operational use of those funds which I I think this has to be a one-off. Um I just think as we're looking at the operations there for us to have an understanding of how they are operating um is is helpful and why they've kind run into this. is this going to be a continuing issue with this facility that they don't have an operating model that meets their maintenance costs. Um so you know having that oversight of that facility if that's going

056to become a consistent thing is something I need think we need to take into consideration. It was raised by a community member in the past that you know will have um these housing locations that we do support either by grants or other means you know is there some form of oversight the town should have um you know that the residents can actually go to and kind of voice their concerns if they feed through to us as a town. So um yes I I I'm open to approving this but in the longer term this does raise some red flags for me. I'm comfortable as allowed in the general obligation law. I think we will evaluate them on individual basis on there. Uh we don't want to see aging infrastructure and our affordable housing stock get to

057a point where is you know we we miss on the opportunity to invest in it now for maintenance and it becomes a major capital project later again uh as we go forward with building buildings getting better. These units are now approaching 40 years old. So I'm comfortable. Thank you. >> Thank you. Um I agree with my colleagues. I I'm supportive of the installation of uh basement insulation. Uh I do have a question mark. The the last I recall we were had the community housing fund had brought in somewhere around $21 million. Do you have an updated number as to where we are right now? >> I think we're at 19. I think the total is 19. That was the last um actual budget figures that I received for I think month ending January 31st from

058Niji. >> Okay. >> I believe that's in the account and and some it's it's confusing because some of >> my understanding we had already we had already brought in at least 21 million and changed. >> Yeah. Know I think the 19 million was what was in the account recently but again some of that is committed. It's a little bit of a complex thing to get an exact number but I think you're right that we brought in more than that. >> Yeah. And if you could at at some point when you have time, if you could just give us have your team get us an update of you know how much money has been collected, what's been encumbered for the projects just so we kind of have a running total of like what is available in

059that fund. >> Sure. I can get that to you this afternoon and I'm happy to bring that to my next leazison report. Okay, great. March. And one thing I want to say is just not to be too hard on the applicant here. I I did want to sort of say what I said to make sure people understand the type of requests that the community housing advisory board would like. This isn't actually like um something that's you know degrading they have to replace. I think the insulation wasn't there to begin with >> and I think some I know other individuals who realize oh I should have had insulation here where I didn't. So you know it's not this isn't I don't think negligence where they can't take care of their own buildings. It's realizing the design

060originally maybe isn't up to what they need today. So again, I just don't want to be too hard on them, even though I do think the general point stands. >> And I I think one of the points that, you know, might be a little bit missed here is without the referendum that Kathy helped move forward a couple years back on the extra, you know, 0.5% uh transfer tax. We wouldn't be talking about projects like this and that we wouldn't be able to move forward affordable housing projects either for maintenance, purchase of land, or construction or home loans without that. And that's what Kathy was able to assist the town board a couple years back. So kudos to the entire community voting on that referendum. It's going to start paying off. >> Yeah. And when you

061think about it, you know, they're probably, you know, spending a lot of money right now if based on if their heat is from fuel or whatever because of this you Arctic blast we've had. And with that energy efficiency done, the weather proofing, they're going to have our seniors who are living here and who've given so much to our community are going to be comfortable in their own homes. >> Definitely, it should bring down costs and make people much more comfortable. >> Yes, it it it improves the sustainability overall >> in their everyday lives. So, thank you for bringing this forward, Mark. >> Thank you. >> Okay, we're moving right along. Maybe I just jinxed it. Um, >> Chief Fire Marshall, uh, David Buzzy Brown, if you could give us your presentation on, um, and update

062us on carbon monoxide. >> Welcome, Buzzy. >> The PowerPoint. >> And that calls for a public hearing, doesn't it? >> Mhm. Yeah, we should just point out that the um community housing fund request for windmill 2 does call for a public hearing. So, we'll have to notice that on the 5th and hopefully hear it on the 19th of March. >> Can you see that on the screen? >> No. seconds. Here we go. here. Tom, I'll run it. You can >> Okay. Uh, good morning, boys and girls. My name is Fire Marshall Buzz. I'm here to talk to you guys about fire safety. Uh today's theme is carbon monoxide, the silent killer. Um carbon monoxide, what is it? It's a it's a gas. It's a deadly gas. It's uh it's a dangerous gas that it's produced

063by incomplete burning of fossil fuels, um things like fireplaces, uh fuel oil that we use to heat our homes, gas, natural gas, LP gas that we use in our stoves or even to heat our water or heat our homes. And during that burning of those fossil fuels, the incomplete combustion creates a gas that's called carbon monoxide. Um, other sources or sources or examples, um, an attached garage. If I have an attached garage in my house, leaving a car running, the carbon monoxide can sometimes build up and get into the home. Um, running a generator, running a generator, always run them outside, never inside. Don't think you're going to put them in a garage and just run them inside the garage because again, the carbon monoxide will build up. Uh leaky heaters, my my hot water

064heater, um space heaters, things like that can cause carbon monoxide to build up in the house. Um again, my fuel burning furnaces, boilers, um I need to maintain them. I need to maintain my chimneys, my fireplaces. Um make sure you get your chimneys checked out annually swept. Um, make sure your appliances, my ovens, that they are all maintained and burning properly. Excellent. Okay. What does carbon monoxide smell like? Does anybody know? Can anybody give me examples? No. Anybody know? What does it look like? Oh, what did I hear? >> No smell. Oh, I can't smell it. Does it look like anything? What's it look like? >> Nothing. Does it have a taste? No taste. So, how do I know it's there? I can't tell it's there unless I have carbon monoxide detectors. Okay, it's so

065important that we have these in our homes. That is now mandatory and it's a retroactive law, retroactive code. Um, if my house is brand new, I have to have them. Or if George Washington slept in my house, I have to have a carbon monoxide detector. Um, the only reason I don't have one is if I have completely electric appliances. No fuel burning sources, no fireplaces, no gas stoves, no fuel, nothing. Okay. Um, they're very important to have. And what the examples I have up there, one is a standalone, which is just carbon monoxide, and that has a 10-year battery in it. Um, it can't be tampered with. Once the battery is dead, the carbon monoxide detector is thrown out. Okay. The one on the left also is a combination smoke and carbon monoxide. Um, they

066work just as well. Um, and again, those will have a 10-year lifespan on them also. Okay. Excellent. And uh carbon monoxide poisoning. Let's let's talk about how does it affect me and how does it make me feel? Um right now, you know, it's cold out, everybody's got their doors closed, windows closed, and everything. And we're turning on the heat. Now, if we didn't maintain our heat properly, if there's a leak somewhere or some kind of carbon monoxide source, even if it's a small one, it can build up over time. It can cause headaches, nausea, um tiredness, achiness. Um what does that sound like this time of year? It sounds kind of like the flu or the cold symptoms, right? >> Every afternoon the day. But um that's why again, if I don't have these carbon

067monoxide detectors in my home, >> do I have the flu or is it carbon monoxide detector or carbon monoxide in the home? Um, and a lot of times it can affect you the same as the flu or the cold. Whereas the person who is staying who is living or room is closest to that leak, they're going to feel it first and then it's going to spread to the rest of the family just like a flu or car or the cold. So, real important, make sure we have these carbon monoxide detectors in our homes. Um, and again what it does is as you inhale or that carbon monoxide gets into your system, it affixes itself to your red blood cells and it doesn't allow the oxygen to affix itself to the red blood cells to give

068us our oxygen that we need to live and it also lets carbon dioxide back out of the body. So it can slowly suffocate ways us to sickness or death. So again it's carbon monoxide in your home. got to have an end and end business. It's good to always have them wherever the source. Um what do you do if you're exposed to carbon monoxide? Um you want to get out of the get out of the area right away. Get out of the house, get out of the home, the room. Um get to fresh air immediately. If you can turn that source off as you're leaving, all means go ahead and do it. Call 911 right away. Um, again, try and get out of the home or get out of the building where the source is so

069you're not still exposed to it. Um, listen to what the 911 dispatcher tells you. They will give you directions on everything on what to do, where to go, how to give assistance to anyone who may be affected by the carbon monoxide. And, uh, any questions? Hopefully short and sweet, to the point. I have a couple of uh Buzzy. Um, one, where should you put the carbon monoxide detector? Should you put it if if my oil burner is in the basement, should it be on the first floor, second floor, or the basement or one of each? >> One on every level of the home. Um, also if there is a carbon monoxide source in a sleeping area, you should like if you have a a fireplace that's inside your sleeping area, there should be one inside

070the sleeping area and one outside of every sleeping area within 15 ft. Like if it's a hallway that serves your bedrooms, there should be one in that hallway within 15 ft of any sleeping area. >> Thank you. >> Other questions? David, if the only thing I'd just add just symptomatically, um, I mean, altered mental status is one of the other ones people have to consider. As your brain is starved of oxygen, people might just start behaving erratically. So, you might think they're drunk, but it could be a CO issue. You just don't know. That reiterates the point. You really need to have these alarms in your in your >> Absolutely. >> If you're if you have a pet, will the pet um act weird first or >> Oh, good question. Um my pet's acting weird

071all the time but no I'm not really sure but um smaller animal it may affect them you know sooner smaller lungs smaller hearts they may become more become lethargic or you know again nauseous such that and um people who have um you know immune diseases or or anything that that is susceptible um respiratory dis anything anything like that can also exacerbate the symptoms and the intake of it also. So get the get the alarms as Tom said. Get the monitor. Safest thing to do. >> Yes. And the other thing is where they do have batteries, a great trick is when the clocks go forward or back, change the batteries in your smoke. >> This is March 8. >> Optimism. >> All right. Thank you, David. Appreciate it. Thank you. >> Thanks, Buzzy. All right. Uh,

072next up we have Bob Mason from our IT department to give us a presentation on the public GIS resources. Welcome Bob. >> Thank you. >> I can't remember the last time you came in before us to present. >> It's uh yeah, it's been some time. Maybe the trails maps maybe. >> Okay. >> Well, it's good to see you. >> You too. >> Yeah, I got you just shared the screen. It's PDF. text. Not yet. was Uh, good morning. My name is Bob Mason. I'm the GIS manager in the IT department for the town of East Hampton. I just want to thank the board for the opportunity to present this today uh to the public. Uh we're very excited about uh some of the GIS GIS resources developed over the past year that are now available

073to the public. I'm going to highlight some of those today. Excuse >> I know I know we practiced it back at town hall >> that it worked. >> Yeah, no problem. Let's get used to the clicker here a little bit. Um, so the main resource available to the public uh that we'll be discussing is a web map web mapping application. This application highlights uh basic property information and an intuitive easy to navigate map. This is the property search web mapping application. We developed and deployed a public web mapping application focused on basic property information. It has many town GIS layers such as school district and zoning among others. Uh it can be used as a reference tool alongside open gov when entering permits to help find property information like tax map number, zoning, water recharge

074overlay, um etc. And uh we're going to be spending some time on that and I'm hoping to do a quick demo at the end of the presentation on that as well as long as the internet connection and everything holds up. Okay. Um go back here. Um so that's one thing we'll be discussing. Another thing that we're going to touch on is uh the GS landing page uh on the town website. So um we created a GS landing page on the town website uh that provides links to GIS resources and consolidates GIS resources and published maps into one location. I'm really just trying to streamline the process of uh getting to these resources instead of having them scattered in different areas. Uh you can go to one location uh uh on the website and and get

075to get to these and uh we'll take a look at that as well. Um so, uh this is a screenshot of the property search map application. Uh this is currently live and available on the town website. Uh went live last year. Um, we'll look at how to find it on the website uh in a little while. Um, first I want to talk a little bit about some of the work that was done uh to make the town's GIS data uh more usable to the public in this app. Um, and also go through some of the layers and data that's available on this resource. So, some updates and customizations made to the town GIS data. Uh these changes make the data more understandable and consumable for the public. Town's GIS zoning layer. Um this took some

076time. Uh the original zoning layers for the town were from a print source. Uh essentially they were created uh for the sole purpose of printing on the zoning map sheets put into the zoning map books. So uh they were never built to be used in a digital environment in a dynamic mapping environment. Um so therefore when they were viewed in this kind of uh resource uh where you could zoom in zoom out try and access uh the data behind the layers they didn't work well at all. They were extremely confusing. Um you would have overlapping leader lines. you would have uh uh um as you can see there, you can see that the zone labels PCA A2, they might show up in different areas because the layers themselves were built to be viewed at a

077specific scale for a specific map. >> So, they really >> Bob, they weren't that easy to read in the book either. You had to jump all over the place. >> Yep. And those do still exist. they still exist in the book uh in the published resource but and we do have them in some you know internal resources still that need to be changed out because if the public were to access it that way I it could cause a lot of confusion and they would think they're looking at different zone than they are and you couldn't pull any information out of the zones either. So if you were to click on what you thought was a polygon it wasn't really a polygon so you couldn't even get the attribute information from it so it would have

078just been frustrating. So we didn't want to put anything out there like that. So we spent a lot of time um re basically creating a brand new layer um uh or layers really um but for this uh uh uh really important uh resource that the town used by resource I mean the zoning resource right that's what everybody >> how long did it take you >> um this goes back to actually we started building that uh back in uh 2004 it had been back burnered a little bit before that and then um you know we put it as more of a priority to get it out there so we could get this mapping resource out and uh uh we spent some time some time doing that. The original conversion wasn't too bad, but there was a

079lot of manual cleanup that had to happen because they really had to match the line work exactly because it's it's you the published books reference the code, right? So, the lines have to reference the code. They have to be exact. So, um I don't want to get into too much of the nuts and bolts of it, but we we basically had to convert over using the the parcel boundaries, uh convert that over into polygons matched against uh the zoning line work and then cleaning up like the road segments and things like that until we we got it to match perfectly. So, it was a bit laborious, but it was well worth it. Um something I'd wanted to do for a while and uh functions really well in this resource. Um, so, uh, now they're polygon

080features. You can click on them in this map along with any other, you know, map that they're in. You can get the the zoning for them. And they you zoom in, zoom out. They could be symbolized a lot of different ways. So, it's it's was really a a benefit to uh be able to uh produce it for this, but also just to have it beyond the the line work that we had before. Um, another customization we made uh was to code out values for our data. What do I mean by? Well, a lot of the raw GIS tabular data um wouldn't mean much to the public. Um, a lot of our our layers, some of our special zones like H pod water recharge and even things like school district fire district are coded out um

081that numerically but they don't have a descriptor in the data. So some things might be like 1 to 14 and that 1 to 14 code might mean a certain school district, might mean a fire district or something like that but it's not laid out that way unless you alter that. Um, we also have a lot of uh ones, zeros, nulls that indicate a yes or no value for whether something is in a special zone. And if we were to put that out to the public, it doesn't mean a whole lot. So, um, what we did was we took those and we coded those values out um, so that those 1 to 14 codes uh, mean that district that they're in. The ones zeros, nos mean yes or no. It's a little hard to see on

082here, but um when when you go and you click on a property, you'll see the supp tax map number. Um you'll see the address, um the zone, the zone map book, and then you'll see things like school district, fire district, and I think I think you have the uh presentation up there. Hopefully, you can see it. It might be a little small, but you could see uh for school district, it'll say spring school district for fire district will say the fire district it's in. And for those special zones, you'll see a yes or no value that indicates whether that property is in or is not in that zone. So that it makes a lot more sense to people because if we were to put ones and zeros and numerical, you know, uh codes out, nobody

083would know what that means and it would just be more confusing and less usable. Uh so we wanted to make sure that those things were in place to make this as usable as possible. Uh so let's talk about some of the layers you can find in the GS web mapping application. Um environmental layers. Uh here uh you'll see got the group expanded there. We've got things like H pod water recharge um coastal erosion areas. Um, these are the same layers we use in town, same layers the employees use and providing access uh to the public to them to be able to see them as polygons overlaying uh their property or areas they may be interested in. Uh again the zoning like we talked about we've got that zoning layer but in addition to just the

084base zoning the A2 BC um you know it's also got the other layers that make up the comprehensive zoning that you would see in this you would see in the zone map folks. So you've got, you know, AHO, LBO, A districts, all of that in there. Uh, so that you can toggle those things on and off in the map and you can see those things. Uh, what else? Um, school districts, fire districts, historic districts, those basic districts we have. You can toggle those on and off. And as you can see in the screenshot up there, you can see uh, you know, when they're on, they overlay, uh, the areas they're relevant for, and the labels come up so you can clearly see what they are. These a lot of these districts are also identified in

085um the attribute uh information uh in the parcel layer. So if you were to click on a property, you'd see that information in there as well. This is the visual for that. So you can see the overlays and where they are. Uh so let's uh discuss how to easily access this app and other GIS resources. So to streamline this a little bit more uh for the public, we created a JS landing page on the town website uh has a link to the web app we've been discussing as well as other resources. So on the town web page, ehamptonny.gov, if you just scroll down to the popular link section, there's now a GIS button on there. Um you can see in the screenshot there, it's just highlighted say GIS. uh you click on this button uh

086it'll take you to the GS landing page uh where uh you'll have a link to the web app as long as uh other various published maps um and some other uh uh GS resources as well links to uh um county uh web resources and FEMA and things like that. Um you can also uh go to the departments page uh go to the IT department and get to uh the GIS landing page that way. But this is really this is right from the home page. So this is a lot easier. >> Um so if you get to the uh you click on the GIS link, get to the landing page. You'll see up here uh that's what the landing page looks like. Uh we've got uh right there there's the property search uh link to the

087property search app highlighted there. Um, we also have a town maps link on there and uh what that actually does is there's a town maps page and this has been on the website for a while but we provided a link to it from here so everything's a little more centralized and streamlined and these are a lot of published maps for the town. Um, and we did we we did clean this up a little bit. We um we went through the list here and we updated some of the maps need to be updated. We took out some that were not as uh relevant anymore. And you'll find things like you'll find the zoning map book on here. Um our town trails map, the uh uh land use map people like to look at. So those published

088PDF maps that you can access and are downloadable. And like I said, they they've been on the website uh for some time, but um we just kind of like one one page you can go to go to mapping GIS resources and and have it there. And then you'll see at the bottom of the page here, we have some external links. Um, Suffach County's map viewer, FEMA. Um, couple couple more on there that we have. Um, so, uh, if you give me a second, I'm going to actually jump into a quick demo of this. I'm going to try and grab the grab the laptop and bring it over here. >> Or if you want to sit there, we'll just bring the microphone to you. >> Oh, yeah. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. problem solving. >> All right. Thanks,

089Tom. All >> you hear me? Okay. >> Yeah. Yes. >> All right. So, what I'm going to do here is I'm actually going to go into this uh right from the website. So, and hopefully our connection's okay, the web. We're going to go right to main homepage and uh just as I described, I'm going to scroll right down. GIS link just as you would do at home. And here's our GIS uh landing page we were just discussing. property search app along with town maps, some other resources. I'm going to click on the property search link and we're going to go out to our web mapping application. So, this is just how you would get to it from the website. I've got my disclaimer. Just going to click on here and this is it. This is

090uh the web mapping application you can currently go to from town websites live. It's been live uh since last year. This is what it looks like when you first go into it. As I zoom in, you'll see there. Okay, I was gonna say there might be a little lag because of the Zoom meeting, but it seems okay. Um, you'll see the parcels will start to uh pop up. They have a scale dependency set. Um, and you'll see uh tax map. >> I think you see my house. >> Is that yours? Right on the side. >> Don't zoom in there too much, man. >> Very nice. So, uh, you'll see, uh, tax map number pops up and the, uh, address pops up for quick visual for what you're looking at. If I click on a property,

091I don't know if that's your property or not. So, uh, here is the, uh, let's see, here is the, um, uh, information behind, uh, the parcel area that you'll see here with some of these coded values. You see the address, suffocan tax map, zoning, zone, map sheets. And then I scroll down see school district, springs, fire district, springs, land use has a one and then that would be the coded value for land use. But I've got the descriptor for low density residential. So you can see what all that means and it will tell you uh these various environmental zones. No means they're out. Yes means they're in. So it's very easy and intuitive for somebody to navigate through this and see uh see what's here. Um, let's see. >> We call that South Central Springs

092right there. >> Is that what you call that? >> Yeah, that's what my brother-in-law does. >> So, um, that was just to show some of the attribute the coded attribute information. If I go over to my layers here, I'll just expand my layers, and you'll see these different groups. I've got I've got my uh uh my districts here. I can toggle these on. This is fire district. It's great. >> You know, this will show your fire district here. Turn this off. Look at the school districts. So, you know, I've got all that kind of stuff on there. Let's take a look at here's some environmental zones I can look at. Let's take a look at H pod. Toggle that on. As I zoom out, you'll see my H pod region start to show up. If

093I were to zoom into one of these, let's say I click on this property, what I'll get here, and minimize my window. Sorry about that. Um, uh, you'll see I'll get information for that, uh, property. Oh, you know what? That wasn't a good example. I was going to say you'd see that I get, uh, the HP pod, uh, uh, um, information as well, but that doesn't actually have any information. If I were to do that, let's try that with um school districts. Let me turn the school districts on. So, uh if I click on say this property here, you'll see now you have a one of two up here >> because what this gives me is this. This will give me information for the school districts and information for the property itself. So, if I

094go school district, you'll see oh school district, that's in case, you know, I didn't see the label. And if I go back and I go to the property value and now here's the information with the property. You see it highlights there. So, if there's information for the layers that you have on, it will give you that listing of them, and you can toggle through them. Uh, let's see. Um, let's turn this code on. Uh, let's take a look at our zoning. So, let me turn my zoning on. And you'll see here, so this is some of the zoning work that we did. You'll see these are all polygons. the uh labels for them comes up in the area. So there really is no confusion as to you know what zone you're dealing with. >> Um

095so that's that's nice there. If I go let me find there there is a scale dependency on this. So if I zoom out too much it might disappear but you'll see here. So we also have uh with our zoning boundaries we've got our a district holbo. If I go to my legend it will show you what these things are. So it shows you zoning boundary. shows you what the various colors on the map mean um for what you're looking at there. And that's when I touched on having the comprehensive zoning layer. So, you've got them together there. Not just the zoning boundaries, but you've got um the other components of that that go along that would make up the zoning mapbook. Um so, let's see. Let's do a couple more things here. Um so, we've

096got a couple backgrounds. you can swap out really easily. This is a standard EZRI background. EZRI is the GIS software GIS platform that we use at the pound. It's the world leader in GIS that majority of everybody uses. Um this is hosted on ARJS online Ezre's platform. This is some of their base maps you can swap out. This is the main one. Um got imagery hybrid map that comes up really quickly and really nicely. This is one of EDR's uh background imageries. This is another one of their background imageries. I do have the New York State ortho imagery, the latest one they provide through a mapping service on here, which I'm bringing up right now. I think that's 2023. I think that was the last time our area was flown for for the ortho program.

097So that we're consuming from them. And you can see we swapped that out as well. So these are some quick swappable backgrounds. You can see imagery. We can go back here, which is nice. You can toggle it back and forth. We also have a lot of these other EZRI, you know, base maps that you can put on here, too, which is their kind of canned basemap product. Um, one thing I should show you, we've got some searches here. Uh, let's see. Let me grab what I've got. So, so this is a tax map search. Can put the tax map number in, and I can go zoom to that. Here's our town hall property. I can click on that and get information for it like I did before. One thing that's nice is uh we've got

098an address search up here. It's actually an address or place because we're pulling this from Ezre's geocoder. Um so and I didn't even know it would do this but so for example if I put M talk library in let's see if it comes up. So there you go. I didn't even need the address. See if it brings me to the right place. that address and place is really helpful for folks. Yeah, >> you don't have to go find out what the tax map power is to get information, >> right? So, some things may come up there, some things may not um depending on whether Ezreed has it in their geocode geocoder as as a place, right? Like uh they had M library, which is great. I put the M point Lighthouse in that came up.

099So, various landmarks and things like that you can put in there and it'll come up which is nice. Um >> um let's see. I think That's probably uh what I was looking to highlight on here. Do you guys have any questions or anything you wanted to look at on here while I've got it open? I'm >> I'm going to jump on just say like when first of all I'm a map geek so when I join the town board I can confirm you are. Yeah. When I knew we had a JS team I was like this is a win. Um, but it's been a delight to to to work with with Bob and Barnaby in that department because they really care about this. And you know, look, the history of maps is that, you know, they're

100a source of power. The first maps were always designed militarily for like how to control land. But what we're doing here is we're putting the power back to you, the people. Like, this is for you to be able to go online, research your lot, research your neighborhood, because you know, this is how we invest in you as a community. It's important for you to know what zoning are you in, what school district you in, who's your fire district. You know, this is information that's it's now easy for you to access. It's taken a lot of work, a lot of data integrity to which I'm hugely thankful to you guys for. Drawing those polygon maps is insane. And thank you for your support and thank you board for your support and being able to uh push

101this stuff forward as a priority. Um, well, I'm not sure if I if I emphasized it uh before as well, but you know, one of the things that that pushed this to the priority because it was kind of like back burner and kept getting, you know, leaped over by other things was uh to have something um to work with open gov when open gov got launched. So, you can use this resource uh with open gov the public when they're uh putting permits in for their properties to look and see, hey, what's my zoning? What's what's my tax map number? What what am I in? So, and I believe planning has this linked on their open gov landing page um as a resource there. Hey, as you're filling your forms out, go here and and navigate

102your property, see some of these things you may you may need to know. So, we wanted to make sure that we had that coupled with open gov when it launched last last year and around April or May. Um, and that's really kind of when this went live, so that people had that ability to, uh, look things up a little more easily because they'd be doing it from home wherever because everything was going online. So, um, uh, just wanted to, you know, uh, make that known that that helped, you know, push this forward to get it out there and put it on the front burner. >> Yeah. No, I I it's been great. And I I think um you know the the digitization of like the polygons is one thing like we're doing that with other

103data points too right now. So you've got certain data points in here. Now I guess the question is is like the process for adding more data points to this is something I think is going to kind of come up and like what we include in here um going forward you know those data points I think. >> Yeah. Yeah. And I know you wanted to do a little bit about going forward. going forward, you know, we're looking at this year uh um uh working to create a GS application um that pulls in the other data resources, govern, um uh we'll be working with our professional services uh group on building that out to create um something that really would be like a one-stop shop with the the map being the jumping off off point to get

104to um uh the other uh um information for for the town, assessment information, um, permits, that kind of thing for viewing, not necessarily for entering, but for accessing. So, that's where that's where we're going with that to create that product and then be able to determine whether that's something that's that that you guys would want to put out to the public once we get that set up and tested and um, and working well uh, uh, inhouse and really try and bring together the GIS resources with all the other information. You're not going to you're not going to GIS and then going to open Gov and then going to govern and then going to near mapap and then going here and there and everywhere else having that central point that at least brings you these different

105places brings the data in and brings uh you know uh that data in in forms that's consumable >> and it respects people's time when they're filling out these applications and it's our way of you know modernizing town government to make this you know more approachable. I mean it's great and I see the the use for when we finally launch the um open gov for special event applications for folks. I mean again the link should be there for that as well so that when people are filling out their applications or they need to provide a sketch to show they can pull it off of our own GIS system. Yeah. that that makes it much easier for uh our community to be able to submit um applications uh without having to dig through layers of where you

106know try to find your tax bill that has my tax map on it. I've done it in the past myself and to be able to just go right to it, it cuts down quite a bit of time. I I'm glad that you're presenting today because I don't you the work that your team does um is so important for the community, but you don't really have a lot of facetime with the community. >> No, no, we don't. It's a lot of behind the scenes. >> Nice to have you here to be able to to highlight what you what Barnaby what your department does. >> Well, we appreciate we appreciate uh we appreciate that comment and all the support. It's been wonderful. So for myself, besides like surf cams and traffic cams, you know, the the GIS

107is what's open on my desktop the most often. That's great. You know, T and I use it all the time, uh, but I never used it when I wasn't working within government. What I think I want to mention here, if I was a a prospective property owner, >> uh permitate looking at their property, you don't have to spend the money to find uh let's say a professional just to ask what your your tax number is. You your environmental aspects of your property, your zoning aspects, the town is putting it forward for you to gather it in a very concise way. And that application can be used for so many different aspects of everyone's life, you know. Uh first year ever, I paid my taxes online. I paid all my family's taxes online and I did

108it all in about 45 seconds. It was so quick and easy on there. Uh that we're use the town's website for your everyday life and it just will make it things a little bit easier. Uh, and I think we're going to continue to modernize that the clerk's office and other stuff as the supervisor was saying, but there's so many elements there that this can be used for for for even for kids, you know, in school and stuff that's online here. You're mentioned the trail maps. Those are always great, too. >> I love I I love maps, too, Tom. Totally. You know, I really I won. They used to call me the navigator >> because we used to have to go to the gas station to get the map when you traveled and it was about,

109you know, this big. >> Yeah. I mean, I remember as a younger generation, I mean, at night time, I wasn't staring at my phone. I was reading an atlas. I loved it. I'm like, where in the world is that >> requirement to be on the sport, >> you got to be a map nerd, >> you know, and the Ray Mc bringing the Ray McN. But there I mean if you're if you're watching this or or listening to this this or maybe even read it is that there's so many ways that this pro program might affect your life and make it easier for you and actually save you a lot of money in some in some ways. uh if you want to go honestly if I was looking to buy a house I would like to

110know everything about the house gather that information because it's my biggest investment as a new as a new property owner and you can gather so much of that through this program now that is out there also then too which which I I just think is is great to have >> yeah David I think it also helps some of the uh the businesses out here the real estate industry the construction industry they can find all this stuff out at the they don't have to hire somebody too to go dig in or come into town hall and look for and save that time just to have somebody look it up. So really is a really broad use of the these maps. >> I see videos in your future for social media, Bob. So that we >> trying

111to stay away from social media. >> There was tutorials tutorials. >> Hold on. My New Year's resolution. Yeah, >> there was there was uh I know there's a a survey group that's always been interested in and I don't know if this this discussion or a later discussion about getting another base station out here for GIS uh >> for surveying on there then too and I you know that's something I think Tom we might talk later on about that uh which just improves the accuracy again for that industry also Kate as Kate mentioned then too which it's a little bit of a tangent of >> yeah that's a bit of a tangent I mean and also one thing we've been working on recently is up upgrading our our GPS um equipment which we we we just

112got a a new system and we got one for planning that we're integrating but some some of those um uh corrections you can get through there now even at the survey grade level uh I think you may be able to do without even having some of those base stations with the way that the technology's gone but um that would certainly be interesting >> appreciate it thank you something just just to the public I would just say like don't be afraid to try this out it's really intuitive. It's kind of fun. You know, you get to learn a lot about the area in different ways. So, um, give it a go. >> And, uh, David here, there the trails are on here, too, if you wanted to look at them. >> It's not the trails map.

113It doesn't have all the nice bells and whistles that the trails map has because it's not geared towards that, but you can bring the layer up and you can look at them. So, I show you that. >> I agree with the previous comments. I think that this is great. You know, this is all public information and and now what we're doing is making it accessible to the individual. Um, and what seems like a very complex set of of data and things to find, it just simplifies it. And I think it's it's wholly appropriate to empower individuals to have access, as Tom said, at their fingertips to information that's already should be public. And I think this frees up, you know, town staff who is still willing to help with these types of things, but to

114have, you know, everybody able to access this with the internet, I think is a huge step forward. So, thanks for all your work on this. >> Thank you, Bob. Okay. So, now we've got our last uh work session topic is 163 Mulford Lane update and that is with council member flight and uh Jay Sharon from Marine Patrol. Welcome Jay. >> Good afternoon. Tom s I'm supposed to grab something. >> Yeah. I'm standing upstairs. Okay. So, you guys are aware of the situation at 163 Molford in Amigansit. The the house on stilts collapsed last weekend. >> At that time, you know, the town started to to mobilize a plan to to remove it. um just to help mitigate the uh the risk to public safety um including uh you know uh hazards and navigation. Um so

115we uh we contacted um several area um marine salvage companies. Um, everybody kind of had the same uh issue with the ice at the time. The the uh structure was um trapped in the ice. So, uh so was some of their equipment. Um and now that situation's the same. It's still it's still in the ice that the uh the the structure has collapsed completely. um Chesterfield uh and Associates from the North Fork. They're they're they've been contracted to remove it and at the at right now they're waiting for the ice to recede so they can come and assess. So with the rising temperatures, we're hoping by tomorrow they can come out and give us a better idea of um you know the removal process. Yeah, I'll jump in J as well. Um, no, just to

116say I mean like look, I think this occurred during the first storm, we saw this building starting to deteriorate and the one thing I want to incredibly grateful to how quickly the team departments work to do this because despite being something that's kind of seemingly simple, just removing a falling down structure, it's a surprisingly complex process. You know, it's it's state water land. So, we had to really actively get involved with the DEC to get that emergency authorization. The supervisor was fantastic in that realm, helping through Albany to kind of get us the attention we needed to get this issue done. Um, Jay from Marine Patrol and Kim from natural resources worked expediently to identify contractors who could come in and address this. The contact was made. Uh, Jeannie Corrosa from our purchasing department was

117on the ball. We immediately got that contract put together. The building department you saw was out there very quickly to you know ensure that this building was correctly posted as as you know a structural hazard um which was required for that emergency authorization form. Um PD ensure that you know public safety issues were kind of taken care of. Uh and we got the messaging out there through our public information office as well. And this was kind of a very fast turnaround. I think you know within 24 hours we had this plan put together. Um the weather's now doing what it does. you know, access to the site is determined by the ice conditions and safety. Um, as soon as those are bait, the contractor is going to get out there and, you know, present the

118plan to remove it and, you know, communicate accordingly with all our relevant partners at the DC. But I just want to say great job to all the team in kind of getting us to where we are on this. It was really kind of a great show of how our departments coordinate to get things done. So, thank you. >> Any questions? JD, do you just want to talk about how they're going to Chesterfield is going to access the site when the time comes to to remove the structure? >> Yeah. So, they're going to bring in barges from the North Fork. Uh I think the plan is to have two barges, one with rolloff containers, the other with the heavy equipment to to dismantle it and load the containers. And they'll be putting a a boom around

119it to contain the debris. Um, we just have to see what the conditions are going to be when this ice recedes, you know, like how how big the debris field is. >> My only question to you is is that it would be nice to see make sure we can get the pilings out too, >> right? >> You know, not just the super >> Yeah, they understand that. Yeah. Yeah. >> Thank you. >> I just want to thank you for how fast you um brought this to everyone's attention and how fast you moved on getting a solution together. uh you Marine Patrol and all the agencies that Tom mentioned. >> I think this is probably the most photographed house in East Hampton and there's a little bit of sadness to see it go. Um, it withstood

120a lot of a lot of the impacts of uh rising seas and erosion in our times. And I think everyone felt a little sad to see it go, but it's now become a hazard to navigation and to public safety. And and I I really appreciate how fast how fast the DEC responded to your request, which I think is probably a first in terms of speed. Certainly has the speed record. And then all of this uh Tom for coordinating this and all of all of your crew for getting this to the point where we have a solution so rapidly uh to something that is very dangerous when you think about where it is right now. >> Yeah. Um I just other departments I didn't mention because it's always hard but like Jake your department attorney's office

121Charlie Collins was fantastic with this uh and Tina and Brian Frank too in helping getting that emergency authorization form in and filled out correctly. So, just a great team effort. So, thank you all. >> Yeah. Well, I think we learned about it on Sunday and Tom, I gave you a call on Monday and said, "Would you run point on it and you had the Zoom set up before our work session on Tuesday and got everybody aligned and it was, you know, was it's a great effort and now we just need the weather to cooperate with us so we can get that removed." >> Thank you, J. Okay. So, those are all of our work session topics and I'm going to ask so um if we could kind of do a quick liaison report. Uh just

122so folks know I was going to cover this but I might as well do it now. There's a meeting tonight out here in Montalk. It's the New York State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation is teaming up with the DEC for a public meeting. It's a project update regarding the tree work to address the damage from the southern pine beetle at Nap Peak State Park. It's tonight 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Montalk Downs. Uh many of the board members have already seen a preview of the presentation but because the presentation starts at 6 and our exec sessions typically go to six we have to you know really uh get through uh today's meeting and through exec sessions so that we can um be at my club downs tonight. >> Thank you. Um I I will be

123very quick with my report. I'll just do the amigans advisory committee because that was mentioned earlier. Uh we had a range of topics discussed last night. There was some follow-up discussion around further lane. There's requests made that could the town attorney attend the next meeting just to kind of give clearer direction on the town's position on that which I've spoken to him about and he will be doing. Um, additionally, we discussed as was mentioned the lighting project. You know, a lot of back and forth on this. Um, you know, I I I think the key thing here is to emphasize, you know, where the public input is. And, you know, this is a slightly atypical project because it's in a specific TAC district. So this has kind of had a lot of uh frontage to

124the amigante community early on to ensure that you know those views have been heard. Um you know in terms of the actual plan itself um I met with LKMA last week. You know we're hoping to have that more concrete plan to present to the board um early next month um as to what this project might look like and kind of get everybody's feedback on that. Um once that's done um you know obviously this plan will have to go before the relevant boards uh the ARB certainly because this is a historic district uh a and obviously you know funding of this project will mean that you know relative um financing there'll be public work sessions for the public to come in and bring that feedback back to the town. I mean I think look one one

125comment that was made to me last night that I think is very fair is that as this plan evolves and we present it to the plan and the engineers come back to us with the final cost you know I think it's really cognizant of people understand like look this is the cost of this new lighting project is this something we strongly feel that the public safety need is there um some back and forth discussion you know should the town uh for this specific area conduct a a public safety survey as I explained in the meeting that that's fairly atypical for the way we operate with these kinds of projects. If that's something the board is supportive of, I'm open to that consideration. But um for me, I I think LKMA has done a good job

126engineering these projects elsewhere. Um you know, the safety guidelines that they have to follow in this case are very predetermined by the DOT in terms of the lighting standards, the fixtures themselves. Um but you know yes I do acknowledge I think there's some public sentiment out there that you know overall safety in this area is something that's under concern. Um you know just with the recent spate of actions we've had there. Uh a future work session I would just like to bring forward it's a very small thing. Um a reduced speed sign has been asked for coming into Amigans it. Um I I've spoken with the chief of police and the supervisor of highways. They're both supportive of that sign. um you know I can demonstrate exactly the board will be in the next work

127session but subject to that kind of confirmation I'd like to reach out to the DOT to get that sign put in um on the state road um but yes look I think you know if there's suggestions for safety improvements we're always open to hearing them um you know it's it's you know that there's obviously a riskreward element there you know we we cannot do everything all at once um lighting has been identified by the community as the number one concern they have with this um it has multiple facets to it as well. It's not just safety, it's also dark sky compliance. Our existing fixtures do shoot up a lot of light into the air and by replacing the fixtures, you know, we we can mitigate that environmental effect as well. Um, but that feedback from

128the public is important. It is your town, your hamlet, and you know, we you have every right to bring that feedback to us and we will move forward accordingly. That's it. >> Thanks, Tom. David, >> uh, two things. As we know, the snow is not just an ice is having issues all around. also having issues at our aquaculture facilities right now uh where we're dealing with spawning and some of the water that comes in into our our 100-year-old facility right now the water's frozen up so we're having some issues with spawning uh I'll have some more information back in March uh in back coming in March for you on there uh recreation you can sign up for the winter uh programming and recreation for the winter break which is next week and then also you

129can sign up all all for town's lifeguarding and junior uh junior lifeguarding and nipper guard programs if you want to think about anything warm. >> Absolutely. Sorry. I know you told me to keep it short. I'll keep it short, but this is might be my last chance to do this. >> There's a gentleman named Paul Nichols. He was a Brit actually. Uh really nice friend of mine. He raised money for uh cancer research on there. Uh his wife uh his widow Diana Walker uh presented me with the Olympic torch. This is a 200 2004 Olympic torch. And what Diana said to me is carry this torch on behalf of all the youth in the town of East Hampton when we were at that meeting. Kathy and I were there. And what I want to say

130is let the Olympics unite everyone right now for these two weeks in sport. Let them let this let the athletes play. Let the athletes compete and politicians just shut up and be quiet about things. allow us to come together as the greatest sporting event in the world, which I love that I love the Olympics and let them compete and play and have fun with each other, meet each other, and do it through sport. The supervisor has always support me. We we care uh we uh co-parent the little league ball fields together. We're adding more recreational values to the town of East Hampton, but it was with this when I was present at this and I don't know if I have another time when there's a Olympics to do this again to at the town board

131meeting. Let everyone enjoy the Olympics. Uh, and let everyone go out there and have fun and let them the kids be kids. Let them say what they want to say and let's at the end of the day we'll all just cheer them on. Thank you very much. >> You're here. >> Thank you, David. >> And second, >> that was great, David, and so true and and and uh so timely. Um, I'll be brief. The Wayne Scott met on Saturday via Zoom. They were intrepid even in that horrible uh temperature. We stayed in our homes so it was okay. Uh two issues that are always important to the Winskott CAC is the historic preservation of local land there, the appreciation for the Osborne farm uh purchase and uh consideration of the management plan. Um so the

132folks are looking forward to public commenting at the next work session. They did have some concerns about agriculture on that land and it proximity to the uh uh impeded pond. Um also they uh spoke about the airport presentation. There was support for the work of the Wade Scott CAC airport subcommittee led by Mark Fron and others and for the initiative uh that uh the town will be um studying the operations and uh complaints for the last 5 years with a look towards um uh being a able to identify the the problem in current times. They were supportive of that as well. Um and they will be coming forth with uh ideas and uh comments in the future on anything to do with the airport. >> Great. Thank you, Kate. Ian, >> uh yes, there'll be

133no ad committee meeting this week and as I think I reported lastly in the report. Um that's in large part because they recently presented some recommendations. Um I have met with the town attorney and the planning director uh for them to start taking what I think was general support for those recommendations and figuring out what we can make progress on and what we can't. There's nothing um yet complete, but I just want to reiterate as I have previously that that'll be a public conversation. There's nothing that's I'm going to present and ask anybody to pass. There's going to be plenty of public input as that uh goes on. There's just nothing ready to present yet. Uh the spring CAC will meet next Tuesday at 6:30 at Ashwag Hall. Uh and lastly, I just want to

134say I have a resolution on today to uh update the home ownership administrative administrative plan. And just so there's no confusion about that, that doesn't affect anybody who's currently on the list. Um things are going to run as they they have been running. It just was due for an update after many years. There's some clarifications and as we hopefully I know this board is very committed to affordable housing opportunities. As more uh homes come online, we're trying to get ready for uh the future there. So no major change. It's just an update and I don't want any confusion about that. the current list remains intact and and the process is is generally the same >> and the plan is posted under work session materials. >> The plan has been was has been posted since uh

135you know as as all materials are since before the weekend and will be up on the website under today's meeting. Um if there's any questions feel free to reach out to my office. >> Great. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Uh I have two quick things. East Hampton Cooper CIC met February 2nd. Jerry Butler was reelected chair. Katie Casey vice chair. Uh some of the discussions were included uh kudos to the highway department and Steve Lynch for the clearing of our roads. Uh they also commended the human services department for the senior services they provide. An inquiry was made into when the MTA Long Island Railroad opens up the train station in East Hampton Village. So we're looking to get a contact and reach out to see if we can get it open more frequently,

136particularly in this cold weather. and we also had a lengthy discussion about the 2026 operating budget. Then this Saturday, the Latino Advisory Committee met for the first time. We were supposed to meet in person, but because of the snow, uh, we met via Zoom. Um, we've decided that moving forward, the meetings are going to be the first Saturday of the month at 8:00 a.m. and they're going to be at the senior center in the activities room. Uh, kind of went around the horn. folks had an opportunity to introduce themselves, say a little bit about themselves. The discussion evolved around what do our Latino neighbors need right now and there was a lot of uh input there. Folks want to feel more protected. There was a great deal of questioning about how our local police police

137would interact with ICE agents should they show up here in Eastampton to detain people. And uh ideally we will have someone represented from the police department at these meetings. it was just the timing um didn't work for this particular Saturday. So, we will have a representative from the department at the March meeting. Um lastly, I just want to remind folks this is our last meeting for February. Yeah, we're we will have our next meeting on March 3rd, which is a work session, and we'll be back in East Hampton. So, we do have a couple of resolutions because this is the last opportunity uh this month to do the some of the business of the board. So, Tom, I believe you're up first. >> Yes. Thank you, Madam Supervisor. Start resolution 2026 353. This is a

138budget modification for the sanitation department. We're decreasing health insurance in the amount of $455.91 and increasing workers compensation in the same amount. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. It's my pleasure to offer resolution 2026 354. This is authorized employee Steo O'Brien for reimbursement in the amount of $762 for needed parts for snowblowers. >> Second. All in favor? >> I 355 is approved professional service for graphic designs with multiple creation of multiple projects to graphic image group uh not to exceed $6,000. >> Second. All in favor? 356 is to approve supplemental grant funding for the Springs Peran Church where they awarded uh through the RFA uh water quality program around 223 installation of water abatement retrofits uh where costs for IA system has increased significantly. Uh the additional funding of $7,525 is to be

139awarded and taken from the community preservation water quality budget line. >> Second all in favor. >> 357 has accepted a donation of a memorial bench. This is for a gift from Conrad Con Costanzo. Whereas Conrad Castanzo would like to donate a memorial bench as a gift to the town of East Hampton in memory of Patricia Gilchrist, a wonderful Montalk resident. Uh to that's not in there, but I said it. I'll say I'll say a lot. I'll say it loud and proud. Uh to be placed at the Beham Memorial Park at 569 Westlake Drive, Montalk. Now therefore be it resolved that the town board here uh hereby gratefully accepts the donation from Conrad to Costanza to the town of East Hampton. >> Second. All in favor. >> 358 is retain historical preservation consultant Robert Hefner for

140the Carl Fischer uh and house and annex. Uh this is to not to exceed the amount of uh $12,000. >> Second. All in favor? I >> 359 is authorized employment reimbursement for the aquaculture department uh for uh John Dunn and this would be in the amount of $65.62 and this is for personal expenses for electrical charging. >> Second. All in favor? >> I 360 is a set bid EH3 uh EH26-007007 uh disposal site for ground leaves for Calton materials. And I believe that uh this was $25 a cubic yard. >> Second. All in favor? >> I have resolution 361 which is the accept of a acceptance of a grant of scenic and conservation easement at 43 marine boulevard. The grtor is George and Anastasia Gavales. Um the reviewing agency is the zoning board of appeals.

141>> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. Resolution 362 is to retain LK McClean for professional services related to the Wayne Scott commercial center. Um technical and engineering analysis relating to the review of the Wayne Scott commercial center application and supplemental draft EIS statement. The uh project review remains ongoing. Um, MLAN uh provided a 2026 propos proposal dated February 2nd outlining estimated cost and rates with an amount not to exceed 30,000 $35,000. Resolve that all work related to services by LK McClean be paid accordingly and is extended retroactively from January 1st, 2026 through December 31st, 2026. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. Resolution 363 authorizes conference attendance to the Long Island Natural History Conference, which will take place February 27th at Stonybrook University Wang Center. Resolved that employees Brian Frank and Jake Kushner

142have been invited to present at the conference and are authorized to attend the conference as presenters. their attendance fees are waved and resolved that employees Morgan Slater, Will Edwards, Sarah Lewis, and Tyler Borsac authorized to attend the conference. Uh, and the amount not to exceed uh the financial impact is $240. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Resolution 364 is to amend resolution 2026, which was about a payment to EV connect, and this is to adjust the uh uh funding line. Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Resolution 365 is to approve a refund for a 2024 lot inspection payment. Uh Peter Moore paid 300 on March 1st, 2024 for lot inspection at uh 327 Fairview Avenue. In Montalk resolve that the town board hereby authorize the issuance of a refund check uh payable

143to Peter Moore in the same amount. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I resolution 366. This is to retain DB Bennett Engineering for Canwell Court. This is for engineering the individual sites and providing foundation designs for each home. An amount not to exceed $24,180. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Resolution 367. This is to adopt a home ownership program administrative administrative plan uh for the 2026 homeowner administrative plan. >> Second. >> All in favor? I. >> Resolution 368. This is to adopt a local law to amend chapter 255 zoning of the East Hampton Town Code section 255-1-20 definitions and section 255-5-50 specific standards and safeguards to provide for the new affordable multiple residence use. >> Second. All in favor? >> I. I have resolution 2026 369 authorizing employee attendance at the

144American Heart Association meeting and this is for Lieutenant Kenneth Alvera and administrative assistant Amanda Bennett and the financial impact is $200. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> 370 is to authorize payment for employee training in the police department. This is for Sergeant Ryan Frink, Sergeant Patrick Royal, and Sergeant Bradley Rosie to attend an armorer's course sponsored by Glock Professionals. and the financial impact is not to exceed $900. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> 371 is for remote monitoring and maintenance agreement for 2026 with for the East Hampton Town Police Department. Source Pass has submitted a proposal to provide its essential support plan to the town police department at an annual cost of $47,000. Second. All in favor? >> I have resolution 2026 372. This is for snowplow contractor for the 2026

145season to add zebinas. >> Second. All in favor? >> I 373 is a 2026 budget modification for the highway department. Uh and this is for the high volume of snowfall that we experienced in 2026 so far where we're increasing budget line for an unappropriate surplus in the amount of 2,100 2 thou two $210,000 and increasing expenditure lines subcontractor costs in the amount of $150,000 and snow removal supplies in the amount of $60,000. >> Second. All in favor? I >> I have resolution 374. This is to accept security and undertaking at 2415th Street LLC care of the Cruz Brothers uh urban renewal parcel 79D in SP2-2. This is in the amount of $16,000 for uh timely construction of roads and drainage and the location is 2415 Street Eastampton. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I.

146Resolution 375. This is to list appointment and promotion to real property recorder 1 for Kelly Rivera at an hourly rate of $32.13 which is $58,477.70 annually for 35 hour work week. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I like like to make a motion to go into executive session for CPF real estate personnel council and contracts. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Thank you everyone for joining us today and thank you LTV. Thank you. And you