East Hampton Town Board Meeting - 02/03/26

001East Hampton Town Board, we are live. >> Thank you, LTV. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the East Hampton Town Board work session of Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026. Michael, if you could please read the roll call. >> Council member Flight, >> present. >> Deputy Supervisor Lease, >> present. >> Council Member Rogers, >> present. Council member Calder Pedmont >> present. >> Supervisor Burke >> present. If we could all please stand for the pledge. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> So this morning we're going to start with public portion. We ask you to kindly keep your comments to three minutes and then we have four agenda topics. First is bids

002with Jeannie Corrosa. Then Becky Hansen will take us through another pass at the draft 2026 capital plan. That'll be followed by a discussion of the East Hampton Town Airport with Jim Brundage, Katie Vanhovven, and Nick Reggano. will talk about future improvement requests, recommendation for fee increases, and the readoption of former chapter 75 pursuant to an order of the Supreme Court. And lastly, we will uh have a discussion of the Osborne Homestead draft management plan with Scott Wilson. That'll be followed by liaison reports and then resolutions. So, let's start with public portion. Michael, is anyone signed up? Jason, is there anyone on the line? >> Yes, we currently have three callers on the line. I will unmute the first. >> Okay, great. >> Hello caller ending 1641. You're on the air. >> Hello, my name is

003Mark Fron. Good morning everyone. I live with my wife Mary at 7 Cobra Lane in Wayne Scott about a mile from the airport. Uh I'm speaking today to urge the board to tie any airport improvements, in particular a permanent air traffic control tower, to binding commitments on curfews and volume limits, whether voluntary or mandatory. The seasonal tower has served this airport adequately for years. A permanent tower without accompanying operational limits signals that the town expects or accepts year-round high volume operations indefinitely. That is inconsistent with this community's longstanding concerns about noise, safety, and environmental impact. I would also urge the town to invest in a public data dashboard that tracks flight operations and voluntary curfew compliance by operator. Voluntary programs only work if compliance is visible. A dashboard transforms an honor system into a reputational

004incentive and costs a fraction of what we're proposing to spend on a tower. If aviation interests are about to receive significant public investment, the community deserves to know what we're getting in return. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mark. Jason, if you could please put the next caller through. doing that right now. Caller ending 0673, you are on the air. >> Good morning, supervisor and members of the town board. This is Aaron Sweeney with the East Hampton Community Alliance. I would like to thank the board for prioritizing the routine maintenance of the airport. Um, and I would also like to express our support for um, no increases in landing fees for local pilots. Um, they're members of our community. They support the airport and that's really important to us. Um we look forward to a lo

005a continued open dialogue um with the board, the community and um good luck and we will be listening um closely to what the airport um director presents today. Thank you. >> Thank you Aaron. Jason, if you could please put the next caller through. >> Absolutely. Caller ending 421. You're on the air. >> Thank you. Good morning, town board. This is Jane Miring. Um I'm calling in to make some comments in advance of um your discussion later in the meeting about the next draft of the management plan for 66 Winskott Main Street. I also want to identify myself today as speaking as a member of the Wayne Scott Heritage Project Board and an individual resident of East Hampton and I'm not at all commenting as a member of any appointed town board. Um, so first I

006want to say thank you to the board again um and for the property management committee and uh Scott Wilson um for during the prior um wing um work session in November about the first draft of the management plan. You all agreed to consider um the Wings Heritage Project submission of some comments and recommendations for modification of the draft. Um, and that accompanied your decision to hold off uh on a public hearing. And I imagine now with the second draft, you are going to want to go to public's hearing uh quickly. So, I'm just going to touch on a few um critical comments today and then we'll hold everything back for that public hearing. Um so, first a few points. So just in terms of the second draft um of 0.1 um anytime that the doc

007talks about um public use we think it should be qualified with the terms passive low inensity um public enjoyment and public access. Point two, um the doc the document the draft says that any and all alterations Oh, sorry. The the draft still fails to say which was a recommendation um that it should say that any and all alterations, renovations, restoration or any other changes must align at a minimum with the historical landmark guidelines and be evaluated and guided using the secretary of interior standards for treatment of historic properties. um that is the standard for CPF and should be stated explicitly in the document. 3 um where it talks about respect to lences. Um the the doc says the town may seek um not forprofit lences, but I think we believe that it should say that

008all lenses should represent not forprofit um uh organizations that relate to um the various reasons for which this was um acquired. And fourth, um the the the the there are gaps in the document um that really really relate the bulk of the gaps in the document relate to primarily to the section quote remainder land beyond the structure which you see on page six and seven and the four points that are laid out there. this notion of a buffer to the pond. Um that's not sufficient uh to the standard or protection uh for potential agricultural uses. Um point two, the multi-use path. We've had much discussion about how a mode path and potentially just an in and out rather than it now continuing to state only about multiuse and a loop. Um point three, um the

009striking of the no deer fence is really problematic. Um there really should be a discussion about no deer fence, no additional structures significant to develop. Um and point four, you know, this preference for me um you know field hopefully could be emphasized more as an appropriate um use. Finally, the biggest gap um in this document related to the management plan um is the failure still, sorry to use that word, failure to put the town historic landmark designation over the entirety of the parcel as was originally part of the draft resolution for the CPF acquisition. um and and that doing so is necessary um and would be fully consistent with what the CPF and the town board has done with respect to other recent CPF acquisitions, the Fiser House, the Dodge property, Brooks Park. So getting

010that resolution drafted to public hearing and adopted for a full landmark designation hopefully should be the priority before even getting this management draft to uh public hearing and of course we look forward to hearing your with us discussion later today and always thank you for considering our comments. >> Thank you Jane Jason. Is there anyone else on the line? Yes, we had two callers join during that time. So, I shall unmute the our newer caller. Hello, caller ending 3448. You're on the air. >> Good morning, town board. This is Hershey Egon. I'm calling in uh to uh make some observations about the improvements uh proposed uh to the airport. My wife Quincy and I reside at 15 Hedges Lane, a private road in Waynecott, several hundred yards from the airport property and directly under one

011of the primary approaches to the airport runway. The reason I'm calling uh and I'm sorry I'm not there in person, but I'm uh suffering from a bit of a head cold. Uh I'm calling in to urge the town board uh to use the proposed safety improvements to the main runway, specifically repaving and repainting to gain concessions from the airport litigants on volume and scheduling of landings and takeoffs. In addition, I recommend that realtime noise monitoring equipment be utilized in locations around the airport to supplement neighborhood uh complaint data. I know that these suggestions are in line with a primary goal for the airport operations, which is, and I quote, maximized protection for the environment and a community compatible airport, especially for airport neighbors. End quote. Thank you, town board, for your consideration. >> Thank you,

012Hersy. And feel better. >> And we have one more call. Great >> caller ending 0299. >> Thank you. Yes. Good morning, town board. This is Carolyn Logan Gluck calling and I wanted to echo some of the comments that were made by my colleague on the board of the Wayne Scott Heritage Project, Jane Miring, um, regarding the revised draft management plan for the Osborne Homestead. Thank you for bringing this back to a work session and thank you for some of the changes that you made to the first draft. The most important one in my view um is the expansion of the mission statement to include preservation of the historic scenic viewshed um as a key guiding factor uh in the management of the property moving forward. Um in that regard there is some inconsistency within the

013document per namely uh as to how the land could or would be used. Um agricultural use of course is a historic use of the land. Um however agriculture farming is practiced in somewhat different ways now than it was historically and that might come into conflict with preservation of the viewshed. Um, and I know particularly the elimination of point number three, which uh initially stated that there would be no deer fencing, has been eliminated, and I strongly urge you to reconsider that. Um, and even members of the community um have said there are crops that can be grown that don't need deer fencing. Um, certainly deer fencing of any kind um would be most intrusive. Um I also um hope that you will revisit the uh idea of having allowing a multi-use path um which also

014is not consistent with the um historic use of the land um and encourage a moan or a natural stone path rather than a multi-use path as a means for um visitors to the property to gain access to the pond. Um, and finally, I do um ask you to consider historic designation for all the land beyond the structures. I hope you've received um the letter of interest from Wayne Scott Heritage Project regarding a lease of the uh Osborne House and uh we would look forward to engaging with you further um regarding details of um what we see for that. So, thank you very much for taking the time to hear my comments today and I look forward to hearing your discussion. We're just thrilled that this property is being preserved. Thank you. >> Thank you, Carolyn.

015>> Jason, is there anyone else on the line? >> We have no callers. No new callers >> here that want to make a comment to the town board. Okay. So, we are now going to move on to our topics. Jeanie, you're up for bids. Good morning, Genie. Good morning. All righty. Uh, the first bid um to accept is for the replacement of reels at East Hampton Airport. The reels are the runway and identifier lights. Baseline King is the apparent low bidder. The dollar amount for the bid is $54,600. Um, the next bid to accept is the second house road raising. Keith Bimes is the apparent low bidder for that one in the amount of $928,52587. Next, we did bids for the human services department for dairy products, frozen food, and groceries. So, three separate bids.

016Um, the apparent low bidder for that one is Mavilla Foods of New York. Next, we have an extension of the agreement for the Hampton Hopper, which is the East Hampton Commuter Connection um shuttle. And um the new PDM costs for the CPI um this year or going forward on the new contract is $2,2119 per day, up from $2,1431. Um the extension of the contract for traffic signal maintenance, Hank Electric um has agreed to extend. The next extension is for the supply and delivery of HEO Truck Parts. Gabrieli Truck Sales has agreed to extend. And finally, um, we'll do a notice for an RFP for next week, which is for the, uh, technology solution for managing compliance with short-term rental regulations. And that's all for today. >> Great questions. >> No, just a comment to madam

017supervisor. Uh, the second house road raising is a long time coming. Uh, been on board nine years. It started before that. That is in partnership with PSCG or the Long Island Power Service Company right now. and it would be funded by them. Uh so as part of the betterment process that was out there for some of their infrastructure needs. Um and I appreciate Jeanie at all for working on that including Rebecca Hansen who really assisted uh with it too. >> Jeannie, could sorry, could you just repeat the daily contract amount for the hopper? I didn't quite catch that. >> Oh, sure. Uh let's see here. Um $2,211.79 and that will be effective April 1st. >> Thank you. And I just want to add that I'll be speaking about the bid going out for a technology

018for a short-term rental uh in my liazison report. >> Okay, great. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. All right. So, now we're going to move on to the draft 2026 capital plan. Welcome, Becky. >> Good morning. Uh Becky Hansen, town administrator. Uh good morning, supervisor, members of the town board. Um, I was here on January 20th and presented the first draft of the 2026 capital plan. Uh, since that presentation, I've received some additional requests and revisions from you as board members and um, other departments as well. So, just for a quick recap, the adopted 2025 plan totaled 13,73,400 and compromised 121 projects. The first draft of the 2026 plan total $15,924,980. Subsequently, the revised plan that I'm going to review today has um totaled $17,355,980 and it's 98 projects so far. Um it might

019seem like a really big jump from the prior year, but bear in mind that there are two very large projects on this year's list that alone total um $4.5 million. One is the um replacement of the Sammy Beach bulkhead and upgrades to the Lieutenant Lee Hayes Youth Park which again we we spoke about on the 20th that the town has requested state funding for those projects. So I will just briefly go through changes um received from uh January 20th. So in uh buildings and grounds uh there in even though this is not 2026 but in 2027 $200,000 was added for um Amigans for the Amigans and public parking lot lighting upgrades um that will be uh work in tangent with the project to expand the municipal parking lot and park. Also the Springs Library window

020replacement project. We also um added on that it will be a maintenance project as well for the Springs Library parking lot improvements. The entire project is now proposed to take place in 2026 which will be engineering and construction. Previously just the engineering was proposed for 2026. Um so the entire project has been moved to 2026. Um on the uh highway department, we did uh reallocate a project for truck refurbishment of $150,000 to 2027. The highway department does have unspent proceeds from prior cap capital year plans. In addition, um in in uh year 2028, funding was added for the annual projects for drainage and sidewalks for a total of $395,000. um for natural resources department um the fast charging station installations was moved to 2027 but that that is likely that that will be fully funded

021by a state grant and if that is the case that's certainly something that can be moved to 26 um again if as long as the town is going to be receiving the funds back um let's see in the police department uh the uh annual fleet vehicle replacements the town that is now highlighted yellow the town received word that um federal funding that was requested by the town last year will be coming through. So we are going to be using um that that funding source to offset the purchases for 2026. >> So that was a request that uh we made to Congressman Loa because uh after meeting with him I guess a year ago. He had we had talked about how the federal government could help us with grants for police fleet vehicles. And so it

022sounds like um it passed both the Congress and the Senate or the uh and we were waiting for the president's signature, >> right? And and the funding will be funneled to Suffach County. Then SuffK County will be allocating the funds to the local governments. >> And Becky, if I could just jump in here because there's there's a new item on here uh on the second line, land acquisition for Montalk Police substation. We're looking at this as a new multi-EP department public safety center in Montalk. It's something that we've discussed here for years. It's a proposal to establish um you know a multi-ep department public safety center that would house the town's police department, marine patrol, town lifeguards, East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue, and code enforcement operations in a single centralized location. Uh this would be

023located at 68 South Elmwood Avenue in Montalk. It wasn't brought up on the 20th because we were in negotiations with the Dagustinino family and it was premature because the contracts hadn't been signed. But this was something that that we've been working on as a board and we feel that there's a real need for a a shared modern facility uh that will function for today's operations staffing and equipment in operation and uh and needs co coordination needs in Montalk and I know David you've been running point on this as um and been working diligently on getting this done >> correct you know um yes this has been a need we believe uh we this has been discussed in the beach advisor group for multiple years uh to have coordinated facility uh for storage but also for

024uh uh that's modern to the needs of the Hamlet Malkque which is one of our uh greatest visitor visited hamlets in all of the Hamptons we want to say uh this facility would blend in to the community design will come later but overall targeting the piece of property right now working with the Dagustinino family. Um, under your leadership, we're finally there. Uh, I did mention this to the Montalk CAC last night and there was a lot of almost uh a joy and relief knowing that the current facility of the current Malk precinct uh has passed it useful life right now. There's no plans for that facility right now, but this is the first step is to acquire land. So, I thank the town board members. I know Tom has a Montalk resident on there and

025to a facility in Montalk that betters the public safety of the residents and visitors of Montalk is sorely needed right now >> and and Chief Sarlo is here. I don't know Chief if you wanted to say a few words too. >> Welcome. >> Thank you. Yeah, just very briefly. Um this is a tremendous opportunity to continue to move forward and modernize our services that we provide to the community. Obviously, our current building was donated to the town somewhere in the early 80s and um it was basically a prefab building that we've continued to try to piece meal together and make function for our our uses over the years. It's sort of reached a point um where there's not a whole lot left we can do other than tear it down and rebuild it to modernize

026it as to how it would be needed. This project and opportunity gives us a clean slate and a fresh start and the ability to as as David has mentioned really use our public safety committee focus to put everyone kind of in the same place and modernize and streamline our services that we provide to the community. Monttok obviously sees um an extreme increase in volume of work for all the public safety agencies during the summer season and it's the highest volume of calls for service that we receive and obviously between the lifeguards um marine patrol um code enforcement there's a lot of efforts that need to be focused in the Montalk Hamlet in the summer and having a facility like this along with improved and increased storage is just phenomenal increase in efficiency for the community

027for us. So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right, Becky. >> Uh, so continuing to other departments, there was an update made within the sanitation department for the um license plate reader purchase. Um, and will be additional site security at the location. Um, also added, sorry, just above that, the um payloader. The town will apply for a a state grant for that. It is eligible up to 50% of the cost. Unfortunately, those grants with New York State um are years years behind schedule. Believe it or not, we are actually just get getting funding on some projects from 2017 from New York State. So, uh the good news is that means debt service has already been paid on that. So, it just goes into fund balance for that particular fund. But anyway, uh so again,

028so um so to fund the changes that have been uh added to this current proposal, again, the um $300,000 was added as a grant for the police vehicles. An additional $50,000 was proposed to be allocated from the A fund or whole town fund balance, um which has been updated on the spreadsheet as well, um in addition to the uh 50% for the um the sanitation purchase. So that will still bring us down to um the town under this plan is proposing to issue $387,000 less in debt than you are retiring for 2026. So the um the schedule going forward would be as long as you agreed to a plan today whether it's this version or any other agreed upon changes um you can adopt the plan on Thursday and then the um the plan will

029be sent to bond council to start drafting bond authorization resolutions that you can adopt at the March 5th meeting in addition to a resolution appropriating fund balance. And I will note that that is a full month ahead of of where the town board last year you actually adopted your capital plan in 2025 on March 6 last year. So you are a month ahead of schedule which allows departments to start projects and um put things out to bid you know earlier than than in prior years. >> Questions for Becky? >> Um questions for Becky and for the board generally. Um thank you for including the Amigans municipal lot in there. My only question would be could we move I think it's about 37 to 40,000 into 26's budget that would just allow the engineering team to

030get working on this project for 27. That would be my only request. >> Sorry Tom, what was the amount? >> About 40,000. I think it's 375 but it might change. >> Thanks. >> Okay, that sounds reasonable to me. Is everybody supportive? >> Yeah, it's pretty it's very similar to what we we're doing engineering one year construction. Yes. Any any other questions or comments for >> just just two if you don't mind. Um under uh we we we're have cap left over for license plate readers in the police department line. We put in for 9,000. They need to make that 20,000 cuz that would bring us up to the amount where we'll be able to get another four uh four camera license plate reader for one of our districts right now. Uh so that would be

031the change that allows for the the cameras but also the systems that have to go into another vehicle and we would be able to put three on the road and give us redundancy or also into another district too. Um and the only there's the just the two other ones I know um in parks the applying for the grant for the hybrid car truck. I think that's through NIPA. That'd be great to look into that. There's an opportunity, >> right? The reason I didn't highlight it just because I wasn't 100% on the funding source yet, but obviously anything in here that is subject to a grant, we will absolutely sure. >> Uh and you'll also see just long-term I've had uh conversations with the Army Corp of Engineers a little bit forward to my lays on

032report. They're going to be uh the notice to proceed has been uh authorized for the removal of three of the >> uh broken crossover crossovers, not the one at Surfside Place. Uh and I know years ago we put in the cap line. I think it's about 240,000. So very shortly we might not need that. I know that might play into room for next calendar year, >> but uh uh that's something also that that's coming forward into there be space for the calendar year 27. >> Right. again and that's part of our um up uh our annual process. So we the town holds its annual debt sale in August which is again is when you issue new debt or and you roll old old debt um by June that is our deadline to come up with

033our firm number is you know especially when it comes to the old debt what old debt are we going to continue and that's where we take a closer look and work with all of the departments um and say you know they get they get a nice email asking them to take a look at their current projects and old money and that if if a purchase order is not going to be issued within 6 months that we are going to close the project out because the town, you know, it doesn't make sense for the town to continue to hold on to old money, especially if it was a larger amount that a bond was issued and you're you're paying down you're paying down debt service on that. So, you're losing money. So, the last few years,

034the finance department has really scrutinized um the old debt that has been out there. So, we've been able to retire a number of projects. I know the supervisor has mentioned it numerous times um during our budget process or just this process in general. So, um, retiring that debt in the case that, uh, council member Lee is saying, um, in the case of the crossovers, if we're not going to use that money come June, we will close the project out so we're not incurring additional payments on it. >> Thank you for the explanation. >> Great. So, everyone good with increasing um the license plate readers for the police department from 9,000 to 20,000. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> So, those two changes, >> I think this is ready. >> I just have just a couple

035comments. I want to thank thank the board and Becky for moving the Springs library parking to um 2026. I think that that's an important project not just for the library but for the whole heart of springs which hosts a lot of events in the summer with inadequate parking. And I also want to clarify uh the Springs Library windows that the maintenance and from your introduction it sounds like this is the case but maintenance refers to maintenance of the facility in general not just the windows. >> Um just the way that's phrased I want to make sure we all understanding that I expect it to be used for windows but in case something else comes up. And by maintenance, we really mean um not repairs because um debt service cannot be used for repairs of items.

036So these would really be replacements of things to to m maintain the building as a whole. Yep. >> Great. Thank you. >> All right. I think we have a plan to adopt. >> Thank you, Becky. And I know I it's not on the agenda, but the chief is here and I was hoping chief you could just make uh a few comments and give us an update on on dispatch services. >> Sure. >> Thank you. >> Um real be briefly um obviously as most people know um the town has entered into into an agreement to take over as the primary uh answering point for incoming 911 calls within the town of East Hampton. Uh, additionally, we have also contracted with um, Sag Harbor Fire and EMS as well as Springs Fire and EMS to become their

037primary dispatch center as well. Um, there was uh, some stories floating around about a delay in this process which was handled by Verizon and Motorola and the county which caused this to be pushed back a few weeks. Um, originally slated for January 5th, it went into effect on Monday, January 26th for the 911. And then the fire and EMS dispatching went into effect u midnight um February 1st. Just a quick recap from our dispatch supervisors um and my senior staff. On Monday, the county and Verizon began the actual technical process around 9:15 and completed that by 12:30 p.m. Um, during that time, there were numerous test 911 calls that were put through and they were all successfully routed. This is all routed through the main Verizon hubs and the county in western Suffach County before

038being pushed out here through their process. The county and Motorola have been in touch with dispatch supervisors during the past week and we have no issues to report. Uh Mike Postelle, who is the county 911 coordinator from the county, has been a tremendous help to us throughout this entire process. Chief dispatcher Blanchard has been working with our CAD, which is our computer, uh aided dispatch software vendor, um CSI, daily and putting an immense amount of work into ensure the updated CAD system was up and running prior to this takeover. Steve and Eddie Schnell, our communications technician, have been in continual contact with Springs and SAG Harbor Fire Chiefs to ensure a smooth transition. Additionally, Chief Blanchard has been in touch with the head dispatcher at uh East Hampton Village, PJ Canwell, on a almost daily

039basis to cover all of the necessary transitionary points and keep in touch through this process. All of our dispatchers have been trained in what's called ProQA, which is the automated um question and answer process that is part of their training for receiving medical emergency calls through 911. Um we have actually been utilizing an AI simulator so they're fully prepare prepared when this full transition occurs. Um, ProQA is not fully up and running online right now in our system because of some integration issues with the um, vendor, but we're using what's called the card system, which is the exact same thing just in a flip card for the uh, number of questions that need to be answered. Um, fortunately this time of year it's not too busy. we don't have a high volume of calls and

040it's giving them some hands-on experience in being able to use the flip cards until such time it drops down in the menus and they can use it on the screen in the next two three weeks. We anticipate that being done. Um, deputy chief dispatchers Graham and Dodge have been completing the uh, EMDQ and AQUA software training this past week which enable them to properly evaluate each public safety dispatcher on their use of the EMD card sets and proqa. So there's a layer of oversight and supervision that our chief and deputy chief supervisors will continuously and ongoing evaluate the performance and development of our dispatchers as they continue to use the system. Um, as of noon yesterday, we had several EMS calls for Springs, a fire chief investigation, and two EMS calls for Sag Harbor. Um,

041both Sag Harbor EMS calls came in via a transfer from Southampton Town PD because of the nature of how Southampton Village is, um, delineated. There are portions of Southampton Town that filter in in Sag Harbor Village. Those calls get routed into Sag Harbor V, Southampton Village, and transferred to us. That's the way it's always been with routing. And um you know these directed transfers between municipalities have been ongoing for many years and it was fully seamless. There were no issues at all. Um we've had several more calls in the meantime since yesterday. There's been no issues. Everything has gone smoothly. Um all EMS calls that were given to us have been vetted um through the proqa process and we've had several more calls that we've been able to dispatch for that incident. Um, we've had

042a total of uh 90 911 calls, as I said, with two transfers from Southampton Town and about 29 from East Hampton Village that have come through. All the dispatchers are doing very well with the transition. They are embracing the changes that are occurring and asking a lot of questions of the supervisory staff and we will be there for whatever is needed for them through this time and period. We offer a lot of support and assistance for all of our staff through any kind of change like this. Obviously, there was always a little bit of hesitancy with the initial changeover. It's gone very smoothly. Everyone's settling in and is very comfortable with what they're doing. An interesting note to that is um of our 17 current members, nine are either current or former fire and EMS

043volunteers and two others have worked on the fire and EMS dispatch side previously before joining us. So, there's a tremendous amount of institutional knowledge with how fire and EMS calls get dispatched, what the 911 cadence is, and what the expectations are of the fire and EMS um workers who are out on the on the radio during these calls. Um, additionally, our radio room renovation project is just a couple weeks behind schedule. It's nearing completion. They are uh putting in they've already done drywall. They're already um all everything's been wired. Uh we're getting down towards those finishing touches, which can always take a little while. There's there's um finishing touches always take the le, you know, the longest to get everything done, but we're we're anticipating towards the end of the month that being completed, us

044being pushed in there. And we have full plan in place to set up that transfer from our current temporary room back into there where we leave two stations up and running while the transfer goes through and then push the transfer through on the technical side with the phone lines and then not decommission but let the other two stations be monitored and used for a while until such time at the full transition is complete. And uh we appreciate the board's support. Um, you know, we've had a lot of really positive conversations with members of the fire departments and um, you know, our people are embracing the change and the new challenges and things are going well. >> So, >> great. Any questions for the chief? >> Just chief, just to clarify, are all the open positions

045now filled for dispatches? >> Uh, we have one position we're looking to fill right now. It's not vacant. It's an additional post for this year. >> Right. Well, we also just had one retirement. >> Yes. So, we will be hiring two. We all we called for the uh list civil service list from the county which just came out in late December. We're going through the vetting and screening process right now. The testing we hope to have some candidates to interview in the next few weeks. Right. >> Hopefully that'll all tie in together at the same time. We can get their training out of the way before the summer season. Be great. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. >> All right. >> I just want to say thank thank you and your team for the professionalism and

046the way that you've handled this transition. Um, it's it's I I I there are no words to say how important this is for the community. So, I won't try to articulate the importance of a 911 system. Uh, but I just want to thank you and if you would telegraph that to your team for the professionalism through this whole transition. >> Thank you. And and they know how much support we have from the town and the board at this point. I appreciate that. And just so everyone else knows too, we have um our senior staff members of four lieutenants, the captain, myself. We're making regular visits to sit in and dispatch, observe operations, listening to the radio. We meet with at least one of the dispatch supervisors daily to go over everything and there's a constant

047um holistic review of how everything's going and how this whole process plays out by the whole department staff. So, >> thank you. >> Okay, chief. >> Thanks, guys. Okay, so now we are going to move on to the discussion of the East Hampton Town Airport. And I just wanted to make a few comments before we got into the presentation. So the town is proprietor and operator of the airport is committed to op operating a safe and properly maintained facility without cost to taxpayers. That means we need to ensure that we conduct ongoing maintenance and invested improvements to keep our airports safe. It also means we need to ensure that our revenues are sufficient to pay for those projects. At the same time, the town is equally invested in making the airport environmentally sustainable and compatible

048with our community. That means exploring and investing in new technologies. It also means better understanding of the current impacts on our community. I've asked our airport director, Jim Brundage, our outside counsel Katie Vanhovven from Kaplan Kersh, and Nick Reggano from Reggano LLC to present today on some next steps for the airport. As you will hear in the presentation, there are a series of needed improvement projects here at East Hampton Town Airport. The town will need to issue bonds to cover those costs. In order to cover the cost of the increased debt service, I am recommending that the town increase landing fees by 15% and fuel flowage fees by 2 cents per gallon. As you will hear in the presentation, the proposed increases are designed to provide the airport with necessary revenue to implement the immediate

049improvement needs. I also recommend that the town revisit the airport financials in a year to assess whether additional adjustments are necessary to keep the airport self- sustaining. Our presenters will also talk about future steps to ensure that the airport remains environmentally sustainable and compatible with our community. And I look forward to a robust discussion either after or during the presentation whatever makes the most sense. So Patrick, if you could please pull up the PowerPoint. And Katie, I think you're going to lead us off, correct? Welcome, Katie. Thank you. Good morning, Madam Supervisor, members of the town council. My name is Katie Van Huben. I'm outside uh council for the town from Kaplan Kersh. And joining me today in this presentation will be Jim Brundage, your airport director, and also Nick Regano from Reggano LLC. Uh

050next slide, please. I wanted to start by reiterating the points that the supervisor just made about the town's goals for the airport because I think they set the stage for this presentation. So, first and foremost, if you are going to own and operate an airport, it's critical that you invest in making sure that that airport is operated in a safe and efficient manner. And that means expending uh costs to keep the airport up to date. So that brings us to the second point which is ensuring that the airport remains financially self- sustaining and that's critical to make sure that the airport can consistently pay for itself so that it does not become a burden on your taxpaying citizens. Right now the airport operates as part of a an financial unit in and of itself. The

051revenues that are earned on the airport are expended on the airport and the general fund does not contribute or support financially to keep the airport operating. And last, and it's been quoted already today by some of the commenters, is the critical interest in maintaining and maximizing opportunities to make the airport environmentally sustainable and compatible with neighboring opportunities. And we'll end our presentation with some opportunities in that front. So, next slide. Um, I wanted to start off with the concept of what it takes to operate a safe and efficient airport. And I wanted to start by looking backwards for what's been happening over the last 10 years just to set the stage. So, if you look in the last 10 years, and I've listed the projects here, which I won't bother rereading to you, but the

052town's airport fund has spent about $6 million in the last 10 years to reconstruct and replace and repair existing technology and also to invest in new technology in the airport. But of course, as anybody who owns a house knows, these costs aren't static. There's sort of always something new, and you always need to be paying attention to what's going on. So, I want to turn it over to airport director Jim Bundage at this point and go ahead to the next slide to talk to you about the needs that he's identified for calendar year 2026 and beyond. Welcome, Jim. >> Thank you. >> So, my comments are meant to provide some background for these proposed >> You could talk into the microphone so that LTV can pick it up. >> Sure. My comments are are are

053meant to provide some background for these proposed uh improvements and capital um expenditures. So, the first one is airport emergency generator. Uh power outages at the airport can disrupt safe operations. Providing backup power can allow the airport to continue functioning safely during those outages. If the power outages long-term as we know we just heard about Tennessee where half the residents are still without power could have happened here. Uh if it is longterm the airport generator can also provide emergency relief to local residents. >> So you want to do it one project at a time? I think that might make the most sense. So, this is a project that we've actually already um funded for the engineering. We we did that uh we did a resolution back in May of 2025. And I just want to

054the the generator would connect to the fuel farm and it would connect to the main terminal. Correct. >> Well, not not exactly. Okay. uh main terminal, all the runway lights, uh signs, the uh w um uh weather station, um radios, all that. Uh but part of this uh improvement involves putting a u a connector up on the fuel farm that can accept a portable generator. I've been uh uh confirmed that uh we have plenty of port portable generators for that use, >> right? And this is a natural gas. the the reason that this got, you know, authorized for engineering back in May of 2025, there's been a lot of back and forth with National Grid, as I understand it, and we've I think we're finally getting close to getting in a estimate. They've given us

055a verbal estimate. They just haven't put it in writing what the the cost is going to be. >> Correct. >> To to connect to natural gas. >> Yeah. I mean, if we're talking through these like, look, for me, this is such a high priority. This is part of our critical infrastructure. Um, I look at this through the emergency preparedness lens. I look at it through my my role in EMS, you know, doing medevac from here. You can't have the lights out on the runway. You know, this has to be a functional center for the town at all times. Uh, and so having this emergency generator is critical for me. >> Okay. >> Yeah, I'm on board. I I think that in in just the uh the idea of what types of uh improvements that you're

056looking to make, Jim, from the first line all the way down to the last line, all of these improvements are specifically for one reason, and that's safety. And I don't think we can compromise safety for any reason. Um I think it it it I couldn't certainly make compromises in safety in any of our properties. uh and we as we fund the police department for safety and all the other things we're talking about in capital improvements. This specific list for me is all about safety. >> I agree with the previous comments and I'm fully supportive of the generator. >> Okay, great. So, next is painting of airport equipment. Um there are four pieces of equipment that this refers to. First is a rotating beacon. It's uh an alternating green and white uh light beam that is

057at top a 30 foot high tower and is lit up during periods of low ceilings and nighttime operations. And it actually uh tells pilots that are flying anywhere through the area where airports are if they need to divert or have an emergency landing. They they can spot those rotating beacons. If the beacon is uh green and white uh alternating green and white light, it's a municipal airport. If it's green and two whites, it's a military airport. So, actually, besides that, because I love that one, >> it's like lighouses. Lighouses. Lighouses are Yeah. You either have a fog horn, you have the light that goes every 17 seconds or the color on it. Yeah. >> What What is that again? What is that nuance? >> Oh, green and white are municipal airports and green and two

058white is a military airport. >> Yeah. There's good trivia. >> Good. >> So, um yeah, and and it so besides telling the pilot where it is and what type of airport it is, it also indicates to the pilot um weather conditions. If it's if the weather's below 1,000 ft and uh three miles visibility, the light comes on during the day. So, uh that's the rotating beacon. Um uh another piece of equipment that needs painting and repair is a segmented circle which is a metal um circle on the ground um that are painted in white and yellow uh FAA colors that um shows the pilot where the wind sock and the wind tea are. Um, so the wind sock provides visual indication of wind direction and the wind t is a triangular shaped device that always

059points in the direction of the runway in use. So we don't have a tower year round. So these are devices that the pilot uses to indicate wind direction and and and landing direction or takeoff direction. All of these devices are required to be painted in FAA approved orange and white colors and they've all faded over time and the paint is also necessary for corrosion protection. So they're they're important devices. Um next is uh fuel fuel farm control panel. >> Yeah. Yep. That's on there on there. >> Um the aviation fuel tanks were installed in 2017. A few weeks ago, we were unable to start the pumps. Uh the source of the problem was inside the main control panel. Water had been seeping in, causing corrosion on some wires and connectors, and the electricians were able

060to get the pumps running, but the corrosion is such that the entire panel needs replacing. So, we're engineering for that right now. Uh repave and repaint uh two runway. Can I just say with that one, we're also looking to put some kind of structure over so that that >> issue with the water getting in won't won't occur again, >> right? It's a keep it out of the >> and that that is estimated um at a $200,000 uh expense. >> Uh repave uh repaint runways 1634 and 1028. So the main runway is labeled 1028. And for those you don't know, runway labels are um compass headings. So 280 28 is 280 west westbound and one 10 is 100, which is 180 degrees out. So that's eastbound. Uh the main runway is >> I've been here nine

061years, man. And this this stuff's sort of fun to me. I apologize. You know, I mean just it just makes sense, Jim. And same thing with the presentation about public safety as council member Roger says on this. A lot of this just just makes sense. Well, when a pilot is lined up with runway 28, he should see 280 on his compass. >> That just makes sense. >> Yeah. >> So, that runway is in satisfac It's the main runway. It's in satisfactory condition, having undergone a major crack repair in 2011. Those repairs consisted of saw cutting wide stripes of failed pavement. Those saw cuts were three or four feet wide. Um, and then filling them in with new pavement. Those repairs have settled over time which have resulted in an uneven surface. The improvement calls for

062smoothing out the old repairs and repainting the runway with required FAA markings. So, uh the runway is in basically decent shape, but except for these repairs, old repairs. >> So, that's a $534,000. That's the estimated cost to to maintain and do the crack repair and paint the main runway 1028. >> So the secondary runway 1634 uh crosses over the main runway and is meant for lighter aircraft to be able to utilize it for uh um if the main runway has a strong crosswind. Uh it's primarily used for lighter single engine aircraft that are more greatly affected by crosswinds and need to take off and land more aligned with the wind. This runway has undergone crack repairs several times over the years, but now needs to be completely milled out and repaved. So that's a much

063greater expense >> and that's estimated at 2.7 million. >> Lastly, it's the sighting and engineering of an upgraded air traffic control tower. Seasonal control tower at East Hampton Airport is a necessity because of not only the volume of traffic during the season, but also the diverse type of aircraft that operate here. Jets, helicopters, sea planes, light single engine and twin engine aircraft, all of which have incompatible performance characteristics. So, um I I recognized the need for a control tower early on when I got here in 2011. Uh the town authorized a trial run with a temporary tower. The trial run proved to be successful and added a large measure of safety. That temporary tower is still in place and although effective has some drawbacks. It is very old and difficult to maintain. Also, it is

064not high enough for the controllers to see over the trees to the south. They have to rely on radar and pilot reporting to see traffic south of the airport. Also, the temporary tower lease cost the town over $50,000 a year. So, we have, you know, besides the cost of maintaining it, we have to pay to lease it. >> The town engineers are proposing a sighting an engineering study for an improved control tower that the town would own. >> And that this is a multi-year process, right? because there's a lot of study that goes in that the FAA requires which is why it's we're asking for sighting >> FAA and the state >> and okay >> New York state >> so this is the the the the cost for sighting and engineering in 2026 is roughly

065$650,000 but all told we were looking at an estimate about 6.5 million for a new tower >> or reconstructed uh tower Okay. Do board members have questions for Jim? Um, >> no. Look, I I I understand everything I believe that you're looking to do. I've I've been on site for two plane crashes and EMS and like crosswinds have been the cause. So, I I fully appreciate the need to upgrade this runway. I think it's it's critical um to to give that safety option to the small of the vehicles out there as well. Um, and you know, with with the tower itself, um, you know, I I think that's good long-term planning bluntly. Um, >> so I I I completely agree with council member Flight. Um, a lot of this is an ounce of prevention uh

066before you have to put in large capital investments into it. Uh, you're seeing that as you're saying in the painting though, how much is the light tower replacement right now? Hundreds of thousands of dollars. So corrosion as you're talking about and we're in a very salt weather dependent, you know, location out here, it makes sense on there. Uh again, with public safety on there, uh we know from the capital discussion what Steve Lynch said with what it cost of p paint striping on just our high highways, it's even more specific when it comes to uh landing strips also, and you have to mill that out. Those costs are reasonable, I think, then too. As far as when it comes to repaving and painting of the runway, uh that's been a long-term discussion that the town

067board has discussed and I've supported it then, I'll support it now also. Great. >> Yeah. As I said before, I actually think this list uh that you're presenting for capital projects, even though the numbers are large um in in the world, I think it's a conservative list of safety improvements and there is not one amenity improvement in this list whatsoever, which is very important for me. So, we're we're not building, you know, VIP rooms or expanding us uh any type of amenity at the airport. Everything that's on this list is is is critical for airport safety. >> And I and I don't think those are negotiable actually uh in terms of any, you know, something that one of the callers said today, I don't think this uh uh safety improvements and maintenance of safe facilities

068can is something that should be negotiated. Yeah, I agree with the previous comments. Um, Jim, you were nice enough to show me around the airport over a year ago now, and I think all these things, except for the fuel farm, were on your mind, on your radar then. Um, and as Kate and everybody else has said, these are safety improvements, and I think while we have an airport that's in use, it's paramount that we take safety seriously. So, I'm fully supportive. >> Can I just ask two questions on there? Uh, security is always one, and that comes down to the fencing. You know, there was large fencing that was installed, perver fencing. Is that you know, uh, is there any need repairs of that fencing from deer intrusion, sign, pine beetle trees? Is that something?

069>> That's an ongoing um process and I did budget for that. Um, probably not enough because of the number of trees that are that are involved, but some some of it is being repaired in house with our with our people. >> Okay. Um, but while you're on the subject of uh fencing and security, we actually have a project that's been uh funded already. It's not a large amount to change the codes on the on the gates because we we did have a um airport and crew and you call them cruis. Sure. >> Yeah. >> Um somebody was unauthorized got on to the airport. So, we're changing all the codes and then we're also going to um uh talk about uh ways to improve security >> if and I'm fully supportive of that also then too.

070Uh >> that's in a discussion uh tomorrow actually with um Steve Tuma from sound and um Ed Michaels. >> Thank you very much for addressing that. I appreciate it. Just following up with that, I might have the land management team reach out to you just so we're doing looking at other projects in the town using external contractors to manage, you know, some of these trees that do prevent hazards. So, you know, if we're doing one, it might be worth including that in the scope we're looking at. So, >> okay, we'll talk. >> All right, >> that's it. >> Thank you. >> All right, Katie, if you want to pick it up on slide five. Sure. So Jim's given you an overview of the projects that have been identified as necessary projects for the airport, necessary

071safety projects as Councilwoman um Rogers stated. And I wanted to put that in a little bit of context. So this slide is a backwards looking snapshot at the airport finances over the last 10 years. And I think it's not important in terms of a line by line analysis of this year this happened and that year that happened. But it's important to look at it as sort of a set of trends because airports are fluid environments. Some years you may have terrific revenues. Maybe you sold a property and so the the balance on your revenue sheet goes up and other years you have significant expenses and that's just the nature of operating an airport. But the really important part of this column is watching the health of the airport fund. balance and airports across the country

072need to keep healthy reserves in order to be able to respond in the immediate to unknown circumstances. And so you'll see that most airports across the country keep a reserve of at least sort of you know one year's worth of total operating expenses just for emergency conditions. But airports are can plan going forward when they know that expenses are coming up. Um and so let's go ahead and move to the next slide. So you just heard from Jim um about the improvement costs that he's identified for 2026 alone and they total over $4.5 million. If we looked at the previous slide, your annual expenditures are around 7 million. your uh revenue fund balance is around 7 million right now. Obviously, the airport's not going to use the cash in your fund to immediately pay for

073those and the town's going to need to bond to cover the costs of these safetybased improvements. But that's a significant amount of debt service uh you know on the order of probably more than a4 million a year. And that debt service for new bonds for these projects would be added to existing debt service that the airport is already paying for previous bonds, previous uh improvement expenditures. So let's go ahead to the next slide to be a reasonable operator to prepare for these costs to ensure that the airport continues to be self- sustaining. The two sort of logical places to look for for increasing revenue to cover those costs are looking at landing fees and fuel flowage fees. And so I wanted to quickly talk about each of those two types of fees. So landing fees,

074the town's current landing fees are assessed based on weight categories. They're graduated. The lighter the aircraft, the lower the fee. And I think there are about six or possibly seven different categories of weight. um and aircraft are assessed based on those uh weight categories. And I think it's really important to pay attention to the fact that the current fee structure that you uh are applying has been in place for 10 years. It was last adopted in June of 2016. And in that time, in that decade that has passed since the town last uh addressed landing fees, the CPI for this region has increased by 32 almost 33%. The other thing that I think is really noticeable is that prior to the most recent increase a decade ago, the town regularly reviewed landing fees and readressed

075them to tackle ongoing financing issues for the airport. So the town increased landing fees in 2006, 2008, 2013, 2014, and then most recently in 2016. And those two facts to me say it is entirely reasonable to revisit the landing fee structure at this point given the increases in CPI, given the expenses that are coming for this airport that are documented to be needed for safety reasons, and given that they haven't been revisited in a decade. And fuel flowage fees are sort of another logical place to look to for revenue increases. And in fact, this one has been in place for a little bit longer. The last time the town increased fuel flowage fees for the airport was in July 2014. At that point, the town raised the fuel flowage fee from 15 cents a gallon

076to 30 cents a gallon. And that's a little bit longer period than the landing fee increase. So the CPI uh in the time between the last fuel flow free increase to now is 34.29%. So again reasonable to start considering increases to these two categories of fees at this point in 2026. So the other thing that I wanted to look at was to say are these reasonable? How do we assess whether uh your prior landing fees were reasonable and whether proposing increases remain reasonable? And I think it's really interesting to look at um the review that FAA did of the town's previous increases. And at the time there was an administrative legal challenge to the reasonleness of the town's increasing fees, both landing fees and fuel flowage fees. And I think it's really important for the

077town board to understand that in that litigation, FAA reviewed the structure of the town's current landing fees, that weightbased graduated system, and FAA reiterated that this is a widely accepted metric. It's an incredibly reasonable way of assessing landing fees. But more importantly, when the FAA reviewed the previous structures that were adopted in 2014 and in 2016, at that time FAA very clearly concluded that those were reasonable. They were not excessive, not unjustly discriminatory, and that those fees did not result in an excessive surplus relative to projected expenditures. And if you fast forward, I think that logic still applies today. We've seen the CPI increase. We've seen costs increase. And the town is facing the similar question now about whether it's reasonable to increase fees. And I think the analysis is the same. So if we

078can go to the next slide, the supervisor uh asked for our assistance in looking at what different types of increases would look like. And again, this is sort of flexible. It's hard to predict in the future because obviously these fees depend on how many landings um occur at the airport, how many gallons of fuel are sold and you know we can all look into a crystal ball and try and guess what's going to happen next year. But the best indicator is really what's happened over the last couple of years. So I have the data from 21 to 2025 here. And just a quick note, the caveat on the data says yearto date. Um, as Becky has told you, the numbers aren't totally final. Now, she has assured me that the 2025 numbers are near final.

079So, these are close, but I want to just reiterate, >> we haven't done the audit yet. >> They're not perfect yet. Um, but you can make some guesses about the value of a 15% increase for landing fees versus a 20% increase versus a 25% increase. And the same thing for what it would mean to add everything between a cent increase for the fuel flowage fee all the way up to a nickel increase per gallon. Um, and as you'll hear, and let's go ahead and move to the next slide, the action that the supervisor is recommending is a combination of the two. an increase of the fuel flowage fe uh excuse me, an increase of the landing fee by 15%. And an increase of the fuel flowage fee by 2 cents a gallon. And if you

080run the math, that should generate an estimated $350,000 in additional revenue for um a year's worth of operations. Um the uh my understanding madam supervisor is that the intent would be that the vote on this increase would occur in mid-Marchch. I think there is a meeting on the 17th of March. >> Yeah. So we have a work session on the 17th and we have we could vote on it on the the 19th. So just so folks know I've reached out to the FBO to Steve Tum sound and let him know what our plans were. I also spoke to uh Jeff Smith at Eastern Region Helicopter Council, Alex Gerston at uh NBAA, which is one of the um trade organizations for airports, spoke to the East Hampton Community Alliance, and the and representative from the East

081Hampton Aviation Association to let everyone know um that this presentation was happening today, what we were proposing. Um I think we just you know Aaron Sweeney from EHCA mentioned it. We are um we have always exempted locally based uh aircraft from the landing fee schedule that would continue with this uh recommendation and I I just because I was the liazison back in 2014 and 2016 to the airport. Uh there could be feedback coming. we could get letters from the different organizations and users of the airport. So, I wanted some time to elapse to be able to give folks if they want to reach out to us if they've got um questions, concerns, folks in the, you know, the noiseaffected communities want to reach out. Um, this gives us time to, you know, let people participate,

082let us know what their their thoughts are on it, and then we could, if we need to bring it back for a work session on March 17th, or we could go straight to a vote on March 19th. >> Uh, and again, the intent, Madam Supervisor, I think, is that the rates would go into effect at the beginning of this sort of summer season on May one. Correct. Okay. >> Right. So, everyone has plenty of notice that the uh that this would rate change would go into effect. >> And again, just to sum up, this is sort of titrated to make sure that the types of increases that um these fee increases would generate are really tied to the proposed expenditures that we just heard the airport director talk about. >> So, moving to the next

083slide. So I I just have absolutely >> if I can also say I also met with the um members of the Wayne Scott CAC airport subcommittee too and and took them through this proposal. >> Yeah. I just uh have a question on how we landed on 15% and and 2% uh for the fuel with two cents with all the numbers that you have in relation to what the costs are going to be. So this will at 15% and at 2 cents will generate about 350,000 in increased revenue. >> However, we're looking at uh improvements that are much higher than that. So I was so we looked at what so obviously the different projects are going to have different ppus, you know, periods of probable usefulness, but what we were looking at what what's the debt

084service that $4.6 million would trigger. And then we wanted to have, you know, adjust the levers to get to the sweet spot where um we're not looking to build a surplus. We're looking to cover the debt service on 4.6 and felt that, you know, 15% increase in landing fees and a 2 cent increase, which is about 7% increase in fuel flowage fee at $350,000 should cover the um the debt service. And that's why we also and and as Katie demonstrated in past years uh we had you know we looked at the um the the fees more regularly. Mhm. >> Um and we will because if we do move forward with the uh you know upgrading the air traffic control tower at a $6.5 million um cost, but I think that believe in includes 650,000 for

085engineering. That's going to be another spike. And um so we are going to have to come back possibly you know this time next year and be doing the same analysis and seeing if we need to do another increase to landing piece. >> Thank you. I think one additional point to your question, councilwoman, is, you know, why look at both as opposed to just tweaking one or the other? And I I think one of the things that the supervisor considered was and as she just mentioned, locally based aircraft are currently exempt from landing fees altogether. And that that's a reasonable setup because they pay into the airport system in different ways through leases and so on and so forth. And so a landing fee increase has zero effect on a locally based um aircraft. Um and

086there's a point at which you know if everyone is benefiting from this it's important to make sure that you know all the beneficiaries are paying in. And so the the additional smaller but increase on fuel flowage fees um brings the locally based aircraft into sort of the the solution for keeping a safe aircraft and has them contributing some amount as well. Thank you. Mhm. So our next slide, sorry, is tiny and has a lot of numbers, but what I wanted to do was make sure that anyone who wanted to understand what is the actual impact of these uh landing fee increase, the fuel flow fee increase is sort of logical. Every time you buy a gallon of gas, it's going to be 2 cents more. It's a little bit harder to comprehend what the meaning

087of the 15% increase is. So very briefly at the top row we have the weight categories all from the lightest category of 0 to 4500 lb to the highest category of over 50,000. And then the next row is the current landing fee that's assessed in each of those categories. And then in green is the dollar amount of the increase that this 15% increase would incur in each of those categories. So you see for the lightest aircraft, it's a $3 increase from a $20 fee to a $23 fee. And then all the way at the right hand, the aircraft that weigh more than 50,000 uh pounds maximum takeoff weight uh currently pay $700 per landing and their fee would increase to $85, which is a $15 increase. This chart is also broken out to show of

088the data from last year's landing. Again, our best sort of data set to look at. How many of the aircraft in each of these categories are exempt and don't pay fees at all? How many are being assessed different categories of increases? And what I've done in the next slide, if you can go ahead in advance, is try and distill some of what I think the key takeaway points are. So, first and foremost, if you look at your 2025 landing data, 24% almost a quarter of the landings at the East Hampton Town Airport are exempt from landing fees. That means almost a quarter of landings would not be affected at all from a landing fee increase >> Because they're based at the airport and they're local. Exactly. Uh and then if you start adding in okay

089who is the next group that's going to be impacted it would be the aircraft that are in that lowest weight category. So if you now look at uh um the category people who either pay nothing and wouldn't have an increase at all or the category of aircraft that are operating in that lowest weight category and would have a $3 increase. as 32% of operations at the airport would have a $3 or less increase. And the math goes up. 44% of operations would have a $15 or less increase and 61% of operations would have a $25 or less increase for landing fees. For me, that was the easiest way to distill sort of all the scary math of the of the preceding slide, but I wanted to stop and see if there are any additional questions

090on that. No. >> All right. >> It's not scary. Mrs. Walter, my math teacher, would be very happy. >> Um, and as council, uh, as excuse me, as supervisor uh, Gonzalez Burke Gonzalez uh, mentioned, this isn't static. >> Um, this is designed to address the immediate needs uh, that have been identified, but there are ongoing needs. The uh air traffic control tower project is one we've already talked about that is going to have continuing costs and it's sort of necessary and prudent to revisit the finances of the airport every year to see do these increases work? Will they work for 2027? Uh will they work for 2028? When is the time to revisit them? And so my understanding, madam supervisor, is that you intend to revisit this in the first quarter of 2027 to see

091if the financing is still working or if additional tweaks need to be made. So I want to switch to the next side, but before we move sort of off of landing fee and fuel flowage fee increases, are there any other questions about that before we move to sort of the third prong of the town goals? Great. Um, so as was mentioned, Madam Supervisor, in your opening statement, one of the other really critical town goals here is to look for opportunities to maximize environmentally sustainable uh technologies that can be put into play at the airport and ways to keep the airport compatible with your neighbors, with your constituents. Two of the things uh that the supervisor has been thinking about that will also uh be interesting opportunities for this airport uh deal with new and emerging

092environmentally sustainable technologies. The first is um the role that sustainable aviation fuel or SAF can play at this town airport. Airports across the country are starting to deliver uh mixed blends that include staff. I think Teeterboro uh is delivering a a mixed blend that has 25% staff. As the town explores opportunities to add fuel tanks, um one of the things the town can do is look to make sure that biders have the capability of delivering staff fuels to the airport. And that is one way that the airport can take steps to move forward as an environmentally sustainable entity and reduce a carbon footprint. >> If I could just say, so in 2017, Jim had mentioned we installed the new fuel farm. We have three fuel tanks there. We have room for a fourth fuel tank

093where we could have just that tank be SAF, the sustainable aviation fuel. And that is something we would look at for 2027 because obviously we would need to engineer it and whatnot, but it's something that um the folks that I spoke to, everybody was on board with and I know Jim supports. >> Yeah. So when you say study, we're really talking about engineering because you're looking at the fourth tank. >> So Madam Supervisor, would the 200,000 we've got for the corrosion project, would that cover any engineering costs we might separate? >> Okay. >> Yeah. And just to clarify, there limits on the percentage of staff that you can have in a blend right now. I think the federal regulatory limit is 50%. I think most uh airports that are delivering SAF blends, the maximum that's

094happening at airports right now is around 25%. Obviously, as the industry and technology evolve and safety studies give regulators more comfort with different blends, um airports will be able to respond in kind. Um but right now the delivery is a blended mix that has SAF and traditional aviation fuels. Uh the second opportunity that the town has relates to uh infrastructure electric uh infrastructure to support emerging technologies for electric aircraft. Um this is not readily available on the market right now. Uh there are what we call EV tall electric vertical takeoff and landing. It's a helicopter that's electric, but of course it has an acronym. Um, there's at least one fixed wing aircraft that is now certified, but it's really not happening at a commercial level. A lot of that stuff is happening at at the

095test level right now. But the lead time to be able to support this new emerging technology is significant. Uh, I think the town of East Hampton, like many communities, you know, throughout the country, are facing incredible demands on their grid and the amount of time to figure out how to be able to support the type of uh transmitter uh capacity to support the incredible electric demand of being able to serve this fleet is going to take a lot of time and a lot of the equipment is going to take a lot of time and be backordered. So if there is interest among the town to be among the leaders in this sort of technology, the time is now to start having those conversations with PSE and GIA about how you would be able to support

096that load, how you'd be able to support it in the context of the additional load that you just have as a community. Um, and likely the two loads are going to hit at the same time in your summer peak hours at the aviation, you know, when your aviation activity is the strongest and probably your demands on the power grid are the strongest for this community, too. So starting those conversations early if that's of interest the time is now to start thinking about that. I wanted to switch there and say the other sort of key uh effort that is already underway is an analysis of aircraft operations and complaints. The town has already authorized a study by HMH to look back over the last 5 years to analyze operations and complaint data and to correlate the

097two. And my understanding is, Madam Supervisor, that you expect a report from HMH to the town in this the spring of >> I'm hoping it's the third work session in April. That's what we're targeting. Um, and this is really important because a lot of things have changed in the past couple years and it's really critical for the town if you're going to address noise concerns and you've heard from your constituents that they are worried about noise concerns, you need to understand where your pain points are. You need to understand what the problem is. And to do that, you need to look at your current data. And so, one of the things that the HMH analysis will do is give you the most current data for what's out there. And one of the things I think

098that will be the most interesting to understand is in the last 5 years um your airport director Jim Brundage was just telling me he switched the voluntary curfew hours that used to be from uh 11 to 7. They're now 10 to 7. And it will be really interesting to see what the compliance is. How effective were those voluntary measures? Um what did non-compliance look like? Can we distill any sort of explanations for what's going on there? And that's the kind of data that I think the town board will need to make decisions going forward on what opportunities are available because we we did this exercise, if you want to call it that, back in 2014, 2015 when we dove in and we defined the problem. Now we need to see, you know, that's a dozen

099years ago >> and where are we today? >> Yeah. Um, we'd be able to also then have a discussion on the suggestion from the uh Wayne Scott Citizens Advisory Committee subcommittee on the airport for noise monitoring devices. >> I think that will be really critical. I think you need to understand the scope of your problem to figure out >> this. Yeah. So this is step one. Step one is looking at who came, where were they, what complaints did they generate, and how can we sort of better distill your problem statement out of that. I think that would help you refine uh either looking at additional studies or taking steps forward rather than just having a scattershot approach of let's just put a bunch of noise monitors everywhere. This gives you a more targeted approach for

100understanding what your problem is. >> Thank you. >> I I support that. I I look I think I said at the start of the discussion with regards to generator this is critical infrastructure and what I mean by that is it it it has to serve the community and this report to me is critical because it as you point out it calls out the pain points. Yeah. And those areas we can improve on to ensure that net net we are still having a net positive impact on our community with this. So I I I think this is critical. >> Exactly. So, I'm now going to turn to uh Nick to give you a briefing on the updates to the town code chapter 75. But before I step off the just, you know, for at this juncture,

101is the board supportive of the recommendation to increase landing fees 15% and fuel flowage fee two sets. I do I think that they're both reasonable uh particularly based on the the time frame and it will cover the debt service and the costs for the capital improvements for public safety. Um if I could add one more into as far as the future measures on there knowing uh how long it takes projects to become from conception to actual installation on there. I wouldn't mind looking I think if Tom was trying to get to maybe about additional uh um fuel container for the SAF >> um I wouldn't mind potentially finding out what that cost of engineering would be to put out now also knowing that that might not be installed till 28 >> right >> you know

102looking I mean I look at the long on there I don't know if I'll be here in 28 but I would hope that saf yeah >> and the same thing going with you the EV uh infrastructure to have them immediately really start having that conversation with PSENG, finding out what they would need is their proprietary needs for developers or or the companies that would be using that and how we can collaborate and work together. Um because that emerges emerging technology is also an emerging at the same time of great need for electrical demand on these >> things and we've already had a couple of prototypes uh that were certified to come and give demonstrations at the airport. So while this isn't happening tomorrow, it is happening and I support planning uh in advance so that

103we're not waiting for the airplane to be uh brought into service uh on a commercial level or private level. We're there already. Um and I think that's going to be important. I think all airports actually are going to probably look in this direction as well. Um, as far as the fuel the the fees that we're talking about, um, since it's been 10 and 14 years, right, since we've looked at this, I think it it's beyond timely that we, uh, ensure that we have a a financial self-supporting airport, particularly now we have this list that we know is coming forth. And again, this isn't coming out of and is not meant to come out of the taxpayer base. It's meant to come out of uh the airport funding. So, it's been quite a while. I wish

104my fees uh for gas and for home heating oil and plugging in my electric car have not gone up in those 10 years, but they have. Um so, I think it's timely. I also support that number because we're going to be taking another look next year um across the range of numbers. So, knowing that this is for this season and then we take another look uh I think is appropriate as well. So I support >> yeah I support the landing fee increase as well. Um it sounds like a lot but I it's not actually when you give the comparison to >> um you know the overall cost of living increase CPI since then. Uh and I agree with Kate that we should look at this more frequently so it doesn't sound so shocking when in

105fact it's not even keeping up with the cost of things. Um it's also very important to me that the local pilots aren't affected because I've heard from >> you know all sorts of opinions about different different perspectives of the airport. um very few people whatever they think about the airport are complaining about the local pilots and so I think that um it's appropriate that they're not burdened by that increase. Um however the two two cent fuel flowing increase I think is appropriate for them to share some of the costs um again in recognition of the increased expense of things and it hasn't been increased in so long. So I'm fully supportive. >> I I I would echo that largely. I mean, I think the one thing that does stand out is that a two two

106cent increase is 7% versus the CPI of 32%. But our job is not to tax unnecessarily. Like look, we're raising fees to meet the increased capital funding costs by leaving room to increase that potentially in the future as we see future costs. That makes sense to me. >> Okay. All right. If there no more questions, I'm going to turn it over to Nick. >> Great. Thank you, Katie. You're welcome. Welcome, Nick. >> Oh, thank you, Katie. Hi, everybody. Um, madam supervisor, council members, um, I'm here today to speak about one bullet in Katie's presentation, so it'll be super super brief, I promise. But I, um, I do need to go down memory lane a little bit here. So, >> Patrick, you can take that down. In um January of 2022, um February of 2022, the

107town board passed resolutions to um convert effectively the airport to private use by closing and reopening. Um in April of 2022, the town board actually adopted a resolution um promagating new rules for this private use airport. Those rules are still on the books today. Um, in May of 2022, the airport in fact u became private use but was immediately enjoined by the Supreme Court. We now have rulings from the Supreme Court and the appellet division saying that those January and February resolutions that the town board passed converting and we're talking about 2022 converting effectively the airport to private use are enjoined. So since that time, the town has um filed form 7480-1 with FAA. The airport is now back to public use, but we have these private use this private use airport uh code right

108on on on the books. And so uh we would recommend don't think it's an extreme recommendation to go back to chapter 75 of the town code which is the airport portion of the town code in the manner of it would existed prior to um the adoption of the current chapter 75 which only applies to private use airport. That puts you back in the public use world. Um, in addition, um, while the prior chapter 75 had a actual landing fee schedule in it, that landing fee schedule as it existed in 2022 was old. Um, 20, as Katie mentioned, in 2026 was the last time landing fees were increased. Um, those increases were not actually put in the town code. They were adopted by resolution. So, um, what we would recommend that the board considers is going

109back to effectively the world as it existed in 2022 with those prior, um, landing fees and then board obviously consider the landing fee increases that you heard heard today. Um, in addition, because the town board, this is really just a clarification to the town code. um because the town town board in the past adopted landing fee increases by resolution that would just that language would be included in the um you know updated I'll call it updated but really you know renewed old chapter 75. That's it. So if there's any questions I'd be happy to take them but otherwise it's a pretty innocu innocuous recommendation >> and this requires us to go to public hearing because obviously we're we're amending the code even though we're going back to the old code. >> Yes, it does. So,

110I understand the need. I just have a question on uh 7534 penalties and offenses. It's not to exceed $250 for per offense on there. Can that be changed? So, that could be looked at after this readoption um as a subsequent amendment if that's something the town board wants to look that look at for sure. But I think at this juncture what the town board should consider is getting actual rules that make sense in the town code and then we could talk about um subsequently what rules need to be changed. >> I understand that process. Okay. Thank you. >> I look I think that's good. I think that is going to public hearing is good. You know it gives the public an opportunity to see how they would like it regulated in that chapter too. Good.

111>> So if it's basically by order of the state supreme court. >> That was my question. So, >> yes, >> we would put this on um Jake on Thursday to to notice for public hearing and hear it March 5th. >> Yes. And and to be clear, this would be adopted effectively pursuant to the court's order. So, >> that was my question. I just wanted to clarify, it's not like we decided ourselves to do this. This is part of the court order. >> Right. it it the court order didn't expressly say that you needed to do this but it's obvious as you know he enulled right the January and February resolutions and the April resolution adopting this new town code was an outgrowth of those two resolutions so it is necessary >> thank you Nick okay

112beautiful thank you all right so that's what we've got for East Hampton Town Airport and now I know Scott's here Um, we are going to discuss the Osborne Homestead draft management plan. I don't know Ian if there was anything you wanted to do an introduction or not. >> Um, you know, I'll let Scott go over it first and then if I can just speak after him. >> Sounds good. Thank you. Okay, I'm back. So, we talked about this um last November. So, um I'm basically going to um give you the updated version of that original draft. So, the town acquired this remarkable parcel at 66 Ways, Maine in December of 24. And the town board also dedicated this property as a John Osborne Homestead historic landmark in March of 2025. Um so again I'm here

113to present the modifications to the original draft. Um at our review uh let's see we also um reviewed written comments that were after that meeting we received written comments from the public. We received some from Sarah Davidson as well as the um ways heritage project. um always grateful to receive public comments because you know how do you know what you're missing unless somebody is bringing it to your attention. Um so we after review of those two documents um and after hearing the town board's comments uh with regard to some changes that they wanted to see, we then um went back to the drawing board and uh made some modifications. And I and I'll go through those one by one. You'll note they're brightly highlighted. You can't you can't miss them. Um, so with uh with

114the exception of uh typographical error errors mostly pointed out by our supervisor. Thank you. Um the changes are all in bright yellow. I'm just going to go through them one by one. I'll actually read them to you so you could see what what the changes actually were. So um on page three for example, we clarified the mission as per Wayne's got heritage project. Um, we basically, you know, they basically did some revisions to our original document. This was the mission that they actually provided and um, and I liked it better than our original one. So, we incorporated it. The John Osborne Homestead celebrates the legacy of the Osborne family through the preservation and interpretation of their historic Waynecott farmhouse garage and residence playhouse and the homestead grounds which represents the 19th century rural farming character

115Waynecott. In addition to protection and stewardship of the historic structures, this acquisition recognizes the exceptional historic and ongoing scenic value of this site and the perpetual protection of the scenic viewshed across the parcel is paramount. Um let's see the next one also on page three. We modified the scope of the management plan. Primarily these are all clarity or um adding additional information. Um they're not large changes, they just make what we already had a little bit more robust. Um so with regard to scope of management plan, this plan covers the 1904 Louisa Edwards Oddsour house and garage and residence, the playhouse and the remainder beyond structures to Wayne Scapan. This plan and goals have been informed and influenced by the history of the Osbornes on Wayne Scapan. According to Hillary Osborne Mallei found in the

116appendix C and the historic and architectural assessment of the Osborne farm property by steward preservation services appendix D. Um the next modification on page four um the board asked and we also felt um it required a little bit more robust description of the site and so we went on to make those modifications that read the Osborne homestead located on Wup Main Street is made up of 28 acres of flat topography with a bucolic viewshed to Wayne Pond. There is defined landscape around the main house and garage residents, but the balance of the lands are currently in a natural meadow state with a combination of low woody vegetation and grasslands. The property contains native, non-native, and evasive plants. Full list on the attached appendix E. As described in the history of the Osbbors on Waynecott Pond,

117according to Hillary Osborne Mallei, the Osborne family has been farming the Wayne farming in Wayne Scott since 1675. In the 1930s through the 1980s, the crop was potatoes followed by strawberries up until 1994. In recent decades, the land has remained with intermittent mowing to keep the land clear of successional growth. For more information, see the attached arch architectural assessment of the Osborne farm. Let's see on page six. Sorry. Uh the town reserving the right to uh have farm limit on this property. It was important to the town board to point out specifically that if we do decide that it would be in conjunction with the planning department and specific approvals by the town board and on page seven uh also at the discussion at work session um not having any farmers approach the board with

118regard to their ideas of what might be done there. the board was uncomfortable with um limiting what what might be proposed and so remove that sentence number three right there. And then just below that uh the board also asked for a more robust um uh description of what water quality improvement and public access might be. And so this is uh what we came up with here and proposing. This plan shall allow for various types of water quality improvement projects on a defined area of the property and or the W's edge as necessary and as part of a project approved by the East Hampton Town Board by resolution with the priority purpose of or resulting in a water quality improvement to Wayne Pond. Approved projects may be implemented by the town through the water quality improvement

119program or by an outside entity granted funding through the uh request for applications program. As the only public land with access to Wayne Scapan, the town board may grant access across its property to organizations or other government agencies, including the town trustees on a case-byase basis. The level of review and approvals by the board or other regulatory agencies including any necessary permitting will be predicated on the plan and the goals of the applicant. And I think I think that was the last modification. So So again, we were seeking clarity um obviously correction of typos um and making the language a little bit more robust, but as you can see as I scrolled through that there weren't a lot of changes. We highlighted the ones we had. We provided it to the town board. We reviewed

120this again at our January 21st meeting of our property management committee who was the group who actually formally proposed the original um management draft management plan. And so they they had no further changes to to this as presented. So unless the board has additional changes or corrections, um I think it's time to schedule this. >> Yeah. Well, thank you, Scott. Uh, you know, thanks for all your work on this and and thanks to the property management committee who helped, you know, craft the original version and then also reviewed um this um revision last week and and we're supportive. I also want to thank the Wayne Scott Heritage Project um and other members of Wayne Scott who have been involved in this process very early on. I think that that was important to make sure that

121that their comments were considered and and often incorporated. And I think most recently the Wayne Scott Heritage Project um improved the introduction to this in in the history and I think Scott agrees um it makes it more robust and there was an emphasis added to the viewshed which was always the intention. Um but I know that's where some of the friction comes from on the nuances of of of other places where we didn't choose to use their language. But I think it's important to note that that's been added the viewshed as as one of the primary um aspects of of this property. Um just to go through a few details. I know that there's been a talk about designating this property historic. I believe that this management plan is consistent with doing that as opposed

122to just individual structures, but the whole property. I don't think there's anything in here that prohibits that. Um, and just just wanted to point that out. I also do want to note that deer fence was a was a common um part of the conversation both from the committee and the members of the public that I've I've spoken to. Um, I I I believe and just to to speak frankly about that, I think most people don't support a deer fence being put up and I I personally don't disagree with that. Um, but I want to say that as long as we're going to be open to active agriculture, I think we have to be consistent and and leave important tools for agriculture on the table. Um, all of that said, there's going to be an eventual

123license in all likelihood to parter all of this property and there's going to be a lot more details worked out. Um the intention we would never turn this property over to somebody and say do it whatever you want within the confines of this plan. I believe the management plan should be a broad range of things that prohibit things that certainly shouldn't be allowed and allow for other things. But the the specificity and the details of of those things will all be worked out in an eventual license. So I don't want the public or anybody to think that this is the final restriction that would be put in place for an eventual end user. Um, that's pretty much Oh, the only other thing I wanna I want to say about designating a historical property, um, I

124don't want to stir the pot here too much, but I do want to, you know, from a common sense, uh, point of view recognize this is a historic farm. And so, there is some friction between saying we want to designate the property historic, but then prohibit agriculture. Uh, and and for me, I think that that's just an important consideration. Uh though again I think you know it's paramount the viewshed here that's been added to the plan. I think anybody in the future who reads this plan would know that's a high priority. Uh and I'm fully supportive of this going to public hearing. >> Thank you um Councilman. I I agree with you wholeheartedly on that. Look I I I think that the acquisition of this property um and the preservation of that view shed is

125is critical. But I I think as the town functions and operates, you know, this was purchased with agricultural and historical kind of um uh viewings underlying that. And I I think we have to be critically important within this document that should there be a need to farm this land in the future, um that is not taken away or inhibited in a way. Um, with that said, I do think we have sufficient language in here to ensure that whatever agriculture activity may take place does not impact that wershed adjacent to this because we understand that to be um a damaged water body at this point. And, you know, I I wouldn't want to see anything that in increases that um uh going on in that water body. But I do think it's critical that should we

126need we we do still have the ability to have that land um in production agriculturally. >> So this is a guidance document. Uh it's it's it's very similar and I think it's uh um not precedent setting to any of the other guidance documents and management plans that we had right now. Uh I do appreciate all the concerns and some of the changes that we made in there. I think they're appropriate. Uh the one question I have on here is that we received uh an email from uh one of Eastampton Town Trustees and it just be about scheduling of the public hearing. Um I knowing that we don't have a second public hearing meeting in February, I would maybe prefer if we were to schedule it on the 5th to hear on the 19th of March

127potentially. >> I would prefer we have a au on the 5th. We have a number of other um public hearings on the 5th. there's going to be robust public comment for this. I would like to see us hear it on the 19th. >> That's what I mean. Schedule it's >> so we could so we could I mean we could schedule it >> Thursday for the 19th, you know, I mean just to get it and this gives people plenty of notice. Um so yeah, >> I think we're getting to the same thing. Exactly. Exactly right. So to actually have the public hearing on March 19th on there. Uh but overall I do I do agree with Ian and I've said this in the past. There's many different forms of agriculture. Uh we don't know what that's

128going to be. Uh this allows the guidance document to do that, but also uh that the town board is the final arbitrator of what will be on that property uh and work with all the residents and uh the residents groups then too. >> So you're ready for this to go to public hearing? >> I am. >> Yeah. Mhm. >> Um, so I'm probably I'm going to be the dissenting voice here on the agriculture on the property and that is primarily because of on page seven, one of the most important reasons for purchasing this property besides the viewshed which is extremely important um to the community character to the entire character of Wayne Scott. um the historic value of this property and and I believe the whole property had historic value, but the water quality improvement

129um ability when we have a pond adjacent directly adjacent a shoreline attached that is uh one of the most polluted ponds uh on Long Island that has blue green algae that is toxic to everybody and we'll take uh one of the reasons why I thought this purchase was valuable and so important was the water quality. quality improvement that is now able to be made in this pond. The folks uh had great success with what they did uh on Georgia pond um with water quality projects remediating and changing the value of that pond from toxic to uh you know looking at ways to do shellfish there now. And I was and and that's a really big important part of why we're doing this. I understand the importance of agriculture. I understand the historic nature of agriculture,

130but there's I don't see how we could possibly buffer an adjacent shoreline with a flow rate of probably immediate anything that's put on that land, whether it be organic or non organic. You still need nitrogen. And that's my problem with allowing agriculture uh on on this property because I don't I don't believe that there is a buffer that would be adequate to protect that pond unless it was quite dramatic and quite man-made. Um, so, um, I cons I think it's good to go to public hearing, but I just want to, uh, state my feelings on trying to have two different goals at the on the same property with the same proximity to a water body that's greatly impaired. So, uh, I'm I could go to public hearing. I'd love to hear from the public. Uh,

131but that's my concern. >> Okay. All right. So, I think, you know, I I concur. We should take this to public hearing. And um the other thing that you know I just want to mention is that many times when we have draft management plans and we adopt them then we get a lency we come back and refine the management plan. So the management plan isn't you know that's it in you know for the rest of time. I mean management plans are a living document and can be you know amended from time to time as circumstances change. So >> yeah Kathy I think that's exactly right. Just to comment on on Dave's comment and Kate's, I think that the pond is incredibly important and I think that was likely that the trustes primary concern. Um, look,

132I think it's important that this board and future boards work with the trustee. That's their pond, their land, and this property is the access. I fully expect that the town is going to partner with them on important water quality improvement projects. Um, and again, I think that this plan allows for that. So, I think it's ready for public hearing on the 19th. >> Great. All right. So you I would prefer it to go on Thursday night for notice so that people have >> plenty of notice. Yep. That would be great. Thank you, Scott. All right. So we're up to liaison reports. Tom, >> Madam Supervisor, I'll start with the Amigans and Citizens Advisory Committee. We're meeting next Monday, February the 9th, 6:30 p.m. at the Amagance School Library. Um just kind of one other announcement.

133Um just a reminder that the MTA bids for the Cranberry uh Hall Road uh bridge are due back later this month. So I will update that um as we hear more it um the IT department has been working on the configurations of the IBOS kiosks uh for the um resident interface at town um uh open gov stations. Um they've also been working specifically with open gov and the fire marshals on their inspections and optimizing their inspections workflow. And then lastly uh for it there's an update coming uh to deliver version 2.0 of the building department uh open gov interface. This is to work on flow edits for building partner operations. The key criteria being to separate out the more complex applications say for an entirely new building against allowing fast tracking of smaller simpler applications,

134decks, pools, etc. Uh again, that's that's looking to roll out at the end of this month. >> So we're kind of calling that open gov 2.0 for for residential applications. Correct. Right. So can I jump in? Yes. >> Right now with another uh building department update. >> Sure. Absolutely. >> If you don't mind, Tom, I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah, just it seems timely. Um, and and also I just want to point out that to support further reviews and efficiency in the uh in the process, I just want to point out, I don't know if it was picked up, that the town retained H2M architects and engineers and spaces architecture architects to assist with building permits review during the period of transition and improvement. I just want to add that on to what's happened what's happening with

135open gov. And so I'll add one also if you don't mind just in discussion what Tom's saying there is that um in the last month the town of East Hampton actually has gone to lease uh a new suite in 300 Panico also the town has most of our entities over there. It's the second one we've done in a couple years. Code enforcement had one and we rented a lease at suite 110. Uh the decision of the town board is we're going to be moving the building department into this new suite. Uh which we believe will be for more efficient for the building department, more privacy for the building department and allow for the public to have even better interface with the building department. It's going to take a transition period of a couple of months

136here. But at the same time then that also uh sets off a domino effect for a couple other departments to be adjusting their locations and also the size of their workspaces then too which we also put into the capital budget for last year. Uh I'll be working with the building department and also uh Steve O'Brien the head of uh buildings and grounds our buildings maintenance supervisor to make that transition um appropriate swiftly and also with the principal building inspector Ricker Norm oil. but is one that I think is welld deserved for the building department based on their staff size and also their importance to the town in general. Yeah, because we've increased their staff their staffing with under Rich. He has made recommendations that we needed additional staff in that department and it's the current

137space is just too tight for them and this will give them the ability to have more modern facilities >> and add on to that we haven't just increased the current staffing but this will also allow for scalability for even more staffing if determined or need or or potentially requested. So overall, uh, uh, it's a very good move and I think the general public will also, uh, uh, uh, that interface is only going to get better. >> Yeah. And just while we're there, Jason, I sent over to you. I don't know if you can bring it up or not, but the open gov report for the building department for January, it's >> Thank you. Thank you so much, man. Um so so for those who can't read it is very small but just you know there

138were 313 new records created in the building department in in the month of January alone and 558 permits issued. There is a lot going through that department. I appreciate members of the public um you know have been challenged that it's not in the timeliness that they're hoping for with staffing up to meet these needs. We're making the changes we need to. It's going to take a little bit of time, but you know, having spent a good morning in there going through what's in open gov at the moment, I am confident that I'm seeing like, you know, a lot of those new housing applications that we saw that rush with in June. Um, we're coming to the end of that that and that's going to be a significant part of breaking the back of of that

139backlog we have going on. So, um, thank you to the building department for the work they have been doing on this. >> Yeah. And and this week I know that they're all in code class, correct? So, they're in training. So, I know there's folks working the counters, but the building inspectors themselves are in training and they are not out doing inspections. >> Um, human services, there's a health fair this Friday, February 6th, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at St. Luke's Church, uh, meeting Meeting Hall, um, 18 James Lane, East Hampton. Uh, it's a free health fair offering flu shots. Please get one if you haven't. That's just my personal opinion. uh glucose exams, blood pressure screening, screen screening, health insurance representation uh offering information, food stamp, SNAP information, mental health resources, nutrition educator. There'll

140also be representatives from the retreat, Ola, Sun River Health, Meals on Wheels, and the town of East Hampton. Uh the congregate meal program for the week of January 26th through January 30th, we saw 61 seniors served. The graband-go meal program for that same week, we saw 75 seniors served. The human services case manager will be attending the retreat's first full day abuse and later life interactive community conversation professionals which will be taking place Wednesday, February 4th at the Riverhead Free Library from 9:15 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Uh this abuse later in life project is a national initiative funded by the department of justice office of violence against women the OBVW and represents an important opportunity for Suffach County to strengthen our collective response to imu abuse impacting adults ages 50 and older. This is a

141very real issue. Um if you are someone who does experience this abuse, please do reach out. We have a fantastic team in our human services department and we can get you help. Yeah, I I attended the first round of work sessions and it was Diane and myself and also uh Lieutenant Dan Toya representing the police department was there. It was folks from all levels of government and not forprofits that are working together on that initiative. >> Thank you. Um and lastly, just to wish Dan Patricio, our department head, hope she's feeling better. She's out sick today. Um moving down to uh yeah, fire commissioners and fire safety. Um there's a meeting um Monttok Downs on February 10th at 6:00 p.m. to update the community on the state's initiative to address the fireload risk from the

142pine beetle um situation in Nep. Um myself and my colleagues attended a presentation last week. I have to say that the work that the state's done there um through through the town supervisor and the governor has been phenomenal. I I truly encourage people to attend that to see some of the visuals. It's been it's been a real work in actually getting that situation addressed. So, thank you, Madam Supervisor. >> And I can keep interrupting you, Tom. We for those that can't make it to the Montalk downs on February 10th, they LTV is filming it, so we'll they'll be able to watch it on YouTube. >> Thank you. Um the wildlife committee uh we we met last week. We had two guest speakers in uh Bo Payne who is the marine patrol officer for Shelter Island

143who also oversees their deer management program and John Rochetta who is a private contractor who who works across the island uh in addressing deer management properties. Um very interesting conversation you know still very much in the early stages. Uh we we have the presentation from the tick advisory committee scheduled for the 10th of March out in Montalk. Um I would like to have the wildlife committee do a presentation um possibly follow early the next month. Okay. Um just to update on what their recommendations might be in terms of management of deer. Um then lastly um the emergency preparedness committee met last week. Two twopart meeting. One was to kind of kind of get feedback from committee members. um on our response to the state of emergency that was declared. Um the two pieces of feedback

144came back there were one they thought the communication to the town public was excellent. It was timely and effective. So uh there were there was that and and also the snow removal. Um, you know, look, it it's been a challenge, but we had reports from EMS groups across the town of, you know, when there were situations that people had to be dug out or plowed out. The highway department was there forth with and very effective in helping get people to emergency care, final destination. So, thank you to our department for that. I'm sure David, you're going to speak to that a little bit more as well. And that's it for me. I'll speak to it now. >> Thank Yeah. So I heard the same combination at the M talk CAC last night about the snow

145removal efforts. There was tremendous amount of snow. I want to thank Steve Lynch and all his crews and also Steve O'Brien and his crews and independent contractors. Even more specifically, it was to the action uh that the supervisor uh had the leadership to actually have the snow removed from our central business districts of North Main Street and began and also Montalk then too with contractors not knowing if we were going to get another foot of snow or not. We just missed that one. My family's down in North Carolina, the Outer Banks. It is a mess down there right now. They they they didn't have school last week and they haven't had school this week because they just don't have the equipment. So the foresight to actually have that snow removed just in case if there

146was another storm is one thing but also to continue to have commerce also which is so important in the offseason because it was there one day of missing commerce for some of the stores down there in the offse that could have a huge trickle down effect. Uh there's a there were a lot of kudos to you, madam supervisor, for that yesterday. >> There was tremendous coordination. I mean, we met that Thursday morning before we put together, you know, a text thread of 17 of us that kept each other in the loop of what was going on. Uh our emergency coordinator, Bruce Bates, was invaluable. The communication with Steve Lynch, our highway superintendent, David, I reached out to you numerous times. Patrick, you know, a public information officer. Like for some of us, you know, people

147had a day off and a weekend that they got to, you know, kind of hunker down, but we were busy all day fielding phone calls, putting out social media messages, but I think it was really helpful. And again, Steve and his team um on the back end, you know, after the the roads were cleared, um the folks calling our office saying, "I can't get to my mailbox," or, you know, they they needed, you know, somehow my road got missed. It's urban renewal. Can you help me out? Uh it was just it was really well orchestrated and u it was a great team effort. >> I'd be very interest Sorry, Tom. I'd be very interested with the cold snap here to see if it did anything to the tick population or also to the southern pine

148beetle also, you know, uh into the deer population because I don't remember a co cold snap like this in 10 years. >> Yeah. Yeah. That came up in my CAC last night. >> Yeah. I I see the last thing I'd say on this is like look I mean this is when we as a community come together that there's so much we have resources as town your fire districts but if you know neighbors who are snowed in or whose mailboxes are there or if you see your fire hydrant on your street is covered up by snow please get out there with your shovel and start digging. I mean I'm doing that this weekend with some volunteers in Montalk just to ensure all the fire hydrants are accessible and I encourage you as community members to get

149involved and do that. That's what makes this place special. Uh Steve Lynch said there's nearly 5,000 uh tons of snow removed from central business districts. We were trying to calculate potentially based on the contract contractors, the payloaders. Uh that that's just that's a that's a lot of weight, a lot of snow. Uh but it needed to be done. Uh also moving forward to the Malk CAC from last night, two main things we had for discussion. Uh we discussed uh Edgemeir Road in Montalk about potential new parking uh uh changes. They're asking the county to go from no parking to no stopping, but also to include that on some of the areas around the train station. There were a couple property owners that were there last night that were supportive of it. I would like to

150see if we can put that on for a town board discussion next week. Sure. Also in M talk then too, but it was met with some questions, but mostly a lot of mostly all support. Um, also we discussed is the Gossman's parking lot uh just north of Gossman's the town parking lot north of Gossman's on inlet uh about changing of parking timely restrictions there. Currently there's 1 hour parking. We are looking to uh potentially change that to two-hour parking and sign it because that rolls right into the Montalk dredge update then too. There was nearly 90 98,000 cubic yards of sand placed on that beach. It's a big beach there right now. How long does it last? I don't know. Um I'm not even going to bet you a beer on it, but um trust

151me, I would bet and I would bet a beer all day, but not on that one. Um don't know why I said that. Either way, it's going to be used as a beach. Uh but it's also the only commercial parking lot that we have uh in that commercial area. Uh so that was uh met with actually uh primarily with all um all um uh sorry uh compliments to do so. A lot of people did not know there was RA parking restrictions in there. So maybe we can even discuss them next next week quickly. The reason why I bring these up is to get these enacted and uh brought back approved by the state, we sort of have to work on it now to have it ready for for May. Um you talk so just David

152on that one just do we need to do anything to improve access to that beach? because as it stands we have that kind of one crossover from the parking lot but if we're going to have significant sand there you know I see people often kind of stepping over the rocks which is a little treacherous with that guardrail is there consideration to do that perhaps so uh that those areas of the rocks have been mostly covered over I actually saw someone driving on it the other day I never I've never seen someone drive on that beach before. Yeah, you know that's how big of a beach it is. >> Yeah. Um, we're planning once they finish uh the installation of the sand, uh, the TA will probably be putting sand fencing in there to give dedicated

153spaces to be able to actually make, uh, protect the dune, trap the sand, but also to go over uh, uh, go over from some of the parking lots. I wouldn't mind even looking at repaving the parking lot there, putting the handicap parking spots in place and designating access, but that's another layer on onto it. Okay. >> Also, um, but yes, Tom, we're looking at that also. We made sure requesting for the Army Corp of Engineers to bolster the dune area by the guardrails. They are also so safe, but also if that is that that technically is sacrificial sand to go into the Toral drift area, but it would bolster our our infrastructure by putting more sand there. So, we did that a little bit, still continue to work. That project still is uh work they're

154working on. They have about 1,000 cubic yards of hard digging they call it right now to go between the tips and that project will last until at least next week. So maybe we come back to discuss this in March. Okay. >> On there. >> Uh but it's moving ahead. Um let's see here. M beach crossovers. I already discussed that a little bit earlier. Uh the only other thing two other things I have is uh about the Lowenstein pipe. There are pipes. There were intrusions to the Lowenstein pipe. Those have been actually rectified and re-sleed. We're going to be looking at that water course coming up shortly, working with a highway and also uh uh Melissa McCarron for natural resources. That might be something we'll bring back to the board upcoming. Uh and lastly, I want

155to uh I went to the meeting of the East Hampton East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue in Montalk. I want to thank all the members of the East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue. We'll have a uh resolution on to reappoint them all the swimmers for this calendar year. That will be on Thursday. but also let everyone know that they uh they they elected and awarded the member of the year. That member of the year is Charlie Goldsmith. Uh Charlie is also a member of the Amagansa Fire Department and also a lieutenant uh for the lifeguarding corps in the MA talk district then too. So congrats to Charlie Goldmith. Uh he's uh so Charlie I've had a history with Charlie. Charlie actually when he was growing up he did a senior project. This had to be 201 10

156or maybe nine. and uh he was in still in school at the time when he was doing drone when drones just became new and we needed some photos for the amiganza life saving station and we used his photos within our submission for um to go into national historical register which we got that building. So, his photos are actually in the National Archives uh in Washington also. Pretty neat, right? So, anyway, sorry, Charlie. Uh you see him, say thank you to him. >> Great member. Um lastly, I want to I want to say my deep uh my condolences to my family and I think I speak on behalf of the board to you, Tom, and your family for the loss of your uh uh your family member. Uh I had a chance to meet him uh

157one time a couple times, but the one time I remember it was at a birthday party for the kids and it was just hyster he was hysterical. Uh he was kind to me always and my condolences. I wish you prayers of strength uh and remembers at this time to you and your family. >> Thank you very appreciate >> you're here Tom >> Kate. Okay. Um I have uh I just want to alert folks that I have two resolutions on for Thursday. Uh, one is an amendment to a previously adopted resolution authorizing the contract with James Lima and development uh for the sustainable planning and coastal communities risk reduction revitalization and restoration grant. Um that's a long name and uh this is a update on costs uh and consultant rates as per our um our updated

158schedule for what we'd like to see uh the contractor and the grant um maintain. So this is an update um and a little bit of a breakdown on uh will be mentioned in the uh in the reso on the costs and this signifies uh a moment where we'll be sending the uh completed signed contracts to the state for approval and then starting to work on the project advisory committee and moving the uh grant project forward. Uh also I have a resolution on Jean Corrosa mentioned it regarding an RFP for technology for our short-term rentals. Um I had given a presentation to the town board last year on short-term rentals and an analysis of the impacts on the town uh in terms of how the number of them etc. and the board had decided that we

159should look into um a techn a technological solution uh as other towns have done for monitoring um rentals. Um and we had approved $30,000 in the budget uh for that purpose and now the RFP will be going out uh I have it on for Thursday and just want to give some details about uh what it is. So, uh, the town of East Hampton is seeking proposals from qualified vendors to provide a comprehensive technology solution to manage and ensure compliance with local regulations regarding the town's rental registry governed by town code chapter 199. This solution will help streamline the enforcement of the regulations, enhance monitoring monitoring capabilities, and facilitate easier management of residential rental properties within the municipality. I'll just skip down a little bit here. um to uh the rental registry requires property owners to

160provide local contact information, have a registration number in all ads, comply with occupancy limits, complete safety inspections, and adhere to established neighborhood standards. The rental registry also supports enforcement efforts and transparency, helping the town monitor rental activity, respond to complaints, and better understand the cumulative impacts of short-term rentals on housing supply and community character. Per data from AirDNA, the town of East Hampton in August of 2025 had 1,838 active short-term rental listings. The town is comprised of two submarkets according to AirDNA. One submarket being East Hampton and an additional separate submarket being MTO. High daily rates during peak seasons contribute to substantial annual revenues, highlighting the seasonal and tourist driven nature of rentals. According to the US Census data 2020, the town of East Hampton has approximately 19,81 total housing units. Therefore, 8 1,838 housing

161units represent about 9.3% of the total residential housing units in East Hampton. Effective regulation of uh short-term rentals poses challenges uh particularly concerning enforcement and compliance. Advanced technology could assist in mitigating non-compliance risks, reducing the enforcement burden, and minimizing the need for additional staffing. The town board is committed to leveraging technology to enhance compliance and streamline local regulations. The objectives are as follows. Uh, automated compliance monitoring to track short-term rental properties, ensure they hear local res regulations, facilitate reporting, providing tools for residents and staff to report non-compliance issues easily. and enhanced data management offering uh a robust system for managing storing and analyzing data related to short-term rentals. And as we look at everything else uh analyzing uh recording and analyzing the data is the first step uh to uh to either actions or no

162actions. So I just wanted to alert everybody to that what was the essence of that resolution both of those on Thursday. And that's all I have. Thank you Kate. Ian, >> uh, Community Housing Advisory Board met last week. Um, and I just want to thank Katie Casey who was a guest there. Um, she was speaking about the 114 middle income project that's upcoming. Um, specifically or mostly about two grants that they've received from New York State. Uh, thank you Kathy for for working on that. One of those was a wastewater um drainage and water basically an infrastructure project. That's a matching grant that that Chab was supportive of and that'll come back to this the board later. The other was a market feasibility study um which I anticipate that that was I think just a

163straight grant from the state and I anticipate that will not only benefit this particular project but also give us some more color about the the you know existing conditions of the affordable housing need. So um we're very grateful for both of those grants. Um lastly on a on a sadder note I want to say that Ray Harden who's been a really really great member of that committee um is stepping down. he's contributed a lot. Um, you know, grateful for all of his help and I, you know, he's a guy around town and I'm sure he will continue to help but won't be a member of that committee. And with that in mind, I just want to tell the public that we'll be looking for a new member from the building industry. Um, that committee has

164particular members that have to fill a slot, so to speak. Um, and to replace Ry, we'll need to find somebody from the building industry. So, fellow board members, public, anybody who might be interested um, in that, please let me know. Uh, last month, the property management committee met. the the topic of main topic of of conversation was the Osborne homestead which we already discussed the management plan uh but we also went over our priorities for 2026 and there are some exciting things ahead the Dodge property um is currently under or the Parson's Dodge property rather is currently undergoing engineering um I'm I'm hoping to get um through the engineering and perhaps even to the construction phase of the main house and then perhaps even more excitedly excitingly is the Henry Mitchell house. There was a

165small house on that property that was thought to be Henry Mitchell's house who was an agricultural laborer from the mid to late 1800s. Um we commissioned Bob Hefner to look into that to remove some more modern um walls to expose the original and he came back with a great report that we'll post online. Anybody interested in Eastampton history uh Hugh King looking at you Dave Catalano. Uh >> Dave Lee it's uh he already commented on the report. It's it's it's it's it's great. Um and you know that came out of the property management committee. We thought there was an original report that said maybe this was what that house was. And um through one of those meetings uh members of the committee and the public said well why don't we just look at it now.

166We did that and I think all the everything we discovered was um you know important and and good. Um lastly with the Dodge property I'm hoping to get an RFP to get a license in there as soon as we have a path forward with the physical improvements. And I'm also hoping that process will start or even conclude in 2026. Other upcoming projects and and just thanks again to Bob Hefner. Uh the report the quality of that work was uh incredible. >> It's one of the best I've seen from Yeah, it was great. >> It's a small structure but historically really really important for a segment our community that um there just isn't much you know physical. >> It's a work session agenda item. Yeah, for sure. >> It is. >> Sure. Absolutely. But I'm thanking

167him now anyway and we'll do that again whenever we talk about it. Um other upcoming projects, the Edwards House at Duck Creek is undergoing engineering. Um and hopefully that can can also commence in 2026. And lastly, uh or not lastly, but the next one is the Osborne House and uh which has some physical issues. Uh we've discussed this already, but we're trying to make the the house watertight. Uh just the exterior and as we go through, you know, finalizing the management plan and finding a Lency, uh we'll talk about the interior, but that again, I think is on for 2026. And uh last but certainly not least is the Fiser House which um we've already committed funding to. Dave Lease presented this um and that work I think is going to commence shortly. So there's

168some real I think some real progress with the maintenance of historical structures on CPF land and that's a good thing because we have you know all of these gems but it's now our job to take care of them and I think we're making real strides to do that. Um, another meeting I had actually just yesterday uh was a meeting about accessory staff housing. This came up as part of the affordable housing issue that we have in town and through previous conversations the board was um, you know, preliminarily supportive of the idea of businesses that can host staff workers on their current state site as an accessory use is something we'll look into. uh met with members from the planning department, uh Tina Lagaran and Eric Shance, uh Mark Morgan Perez from housing, and Ed Real,

169the attorney who's focused on housing. It was a very productive meeting. It's still preliminary stages. Um but I'm I'm optimistic that we'll have something to bring back to this board for another discussion. Uh and just full disclosure, when that happens, I don't anticipate it being fully baked. Um but I want to get it out there so that we hear from the public. you know, there's always this conversation about how much public involvement and to me I want to involve the whole public as and as opposed to just cherrypicking a few people. Um, and I'm hoping that'll, you know, can be as soon as March or April. Um, I also just want to piggyback a little bit on what Tom said about the New York State Parks meeting about the fire concern in Napig um and

170in Montalk. Uh, look, I met LA we met last year with members of the fire departments and there was some real concern about what the town was going to the town and the state were going to do with with dead trees. Um, and at that meeting we had last week, it was all positive. They were really supportive of the of the track that the state was on. Um, and that was just really really good to hear. You know, again, we took a little bit of a little bit of heat. There was some pressure, I think, in terms of what we were doing. I know there was already work being done by Kathy and Tom on this, but it was just nice to see that the culmination of the work that's been happening and will be

171ongoing. Um, you know, perfectly aligned with what the fire department needed and and frankly I wasn't sure it was going to be, you know, that smooth and and well accepted, but it was um and that's all I have. >> Great. Thank you, Ian. Um, so I was going to talk about dispatch, but when the chief was here, I let him do my liaison report there. um, Citizen Police Academy. So, we're going to be we've sent out a press release. We're going to be posting on social media. We're now accepting applications for the 2026 Citizen Police Academy. The the goal is to foster transparency, trust, and understanding by providing residents with an insider's view of law enforcement operations and decision-making. This is a free 10 session program. It meets one evening a week from 6:00 to

1729:00 p.m. running from March 4th through May 13th, 2026. And participation is um for town residents who are 17 years of age or older and possess a valid driver's license. And the application deadline is Wednesday, February 25th. I also just want to let my colleagues know, you'll be getting an email if you haven't already from Aen that I have uh forwarded a letter to Governor Hokll this morning in support of her uh initiative uh for the local cops, local crimes act. Our local law enforcement should be focused on protecting public safety in our neighborhoods, not acting as agents of federal immigration enforcement. This legislation preserves that focus while still allowing appropriate cooperation with federal authorities in legitimate criminal investigations. Um, we did have the East Hampton CAC met last night, but I'm going to bring

173those their comments to the meeting on um next week on Tuesday. And while I'm talking about the meeting next week on Tuesday, just want to remind folks there are only three town board meetings in February. We meet again on the 5th, Thursday the 5th at 6. Um and then we have a work session on February 10th um in Montalk, but we have no meetings um the week of the 16th. So there's no work session on the 17th or a night meeting on the 19th because um we would not have had a um a quorum at the meeting because several of us are going on vacation during the school break. Um, and then the the last thing I wanted to mention was Saturday night I attended a u fundraiser at the talk house um put on

174by pitch your peers um and it was a fundraiser for um four of our local uh food pantries Monttok Eastampton Springs and Sag Harbor and it was it was a comedy night and it was sold out and the talk house donated all everything to for the event. Um, but we learned there that last week 3,000 of our neighbors availed themselves of groceries at our one of our four local food pantries. Half of those, 1,500 were at the Springs Food Pantry alone. So, there is a great need out there. and to to the community at large. If you can afford to to make a donation, you know, big or small, please consider supporting our local food pantries because your neighbors would otherwise go hungry. Um, so that's what I've got for my liaison report. Um, and

175do I have a motion to go into exeutions first? >> Oh, yes. Resolutions. Okay. Uh so it's my privilege to offer resolution resolution 2026 266 is authorize a payment of prior year invoice to east and lines incorporated in the amount of $100. >> Second. All in favor. >> 267 is authorized payment of prior year invoice to best climate control corp uh in the amount of $833.98. >> Second. All in favor? I 268 is authorized payment to PSANG from 2024 in the matter of $1,532.84. >> Second. All in favor? >> I. >> 269 is amend resolution 2026-223. Uh this is 2025 budget modification where we're decreasing budget lines subcontractor for 21,000 road surfacing material for 22,000 New York State retirement 8,000. We're increasing the lines for subcontracting costs for snow removal in the amount of $51,000.

176>> Second. All in favor? >> I. >> 270 is authorized payment for prior year invoice for the aquaculture department in the amount of $2,189.90. >> Second. All in favor? >> I. >> 271 is a secret determination to classify the action and assume assume role and relief agency and adopt a negative declaration pursuant to secret for the proposed project of the honorable fit the recreation facility. This project is to relocate uh volleyball courts, expand parking, and also to centralize parking. >> Second. All in favor? >> I have resolution 2026 272. This is to accept a grant of scenic and conservation easement. Public hearing was held by the town board on January 22nd on a proposed grant of scenic and conservation easement. Result that the town hereby accepts the easement. The grantor is Hampton's LN LLC. Uh

177it's uh located at 31 Hampton Lane Amaganza and the reviewing agency is the zoning board of appeals. >> Second. >> All in favor? I. >> Resolution uh 273 is also accepted grant of a scenic and conservation easement. A public hearing was held by the town board on January 22nd on the proposed grant of a scenic and conservation easement. Resolved that the town hereby accepts the easement. The grtor is Joseph Machri and Kim St. This is at 20 Bendigo Road, Amaganzit. The reviewing agency is the zoning board of appeals. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Resolution 274 off authorizes payment of priory year invoice to EV connect. Uh and this is in an amount not to exceed $1,147.38. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. Resolution 20 26 275 is to retain AKRF for

178professional services related to Wayne Scott commercial center. Whereas the town of East Hampton Planning Department and Planning Board have been working with AKRF for professional environmental planning services and technical review relating to the Wayne Scott commercial center subdivision application supplemental draft environmental impact statement where the project review is not complete and the professional environmental planning services technical and subsurface environmental consulting services are still required to support the planning department whereas AKRF has provided a proposal to the town dated January 14th. um for an amount not to exceed $100,000. Resolve that all invoices relating to the services be paid from the appropriate budget line and the resolution is effective extending retroactively from January 1st, 2026 through December 31st, 2026. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I resolution 276 is planning department retain consulting services for

1792026. Uh this is whereas Vincent Guardino Gordadello and the Reno Group have submitted a proposal dated January uh 7th, 2026 and a rate sheet dated January 2nd. resolved that Vincent Gordell from Reno Group is hereby engaged to provide engineering services on an on call and as needed basis with cost to be paid from the appropriate budget account total not to exceed $45,000 again retroactive from January 1st 2026 through December 31st 2026 >> second >> all in favor I resolution 277 is planning department retaining professional services from fine arts and science LLC for 2026 six. Whereas the planning department continues to review a large volume of initiatives uh including both critical long-term planning projects and development applications before the planning board and the zoning board of appeals. Whereas the planning department has determined outside professional services

180are necessary. Resolved that finance and services LLC will be retained and compensated an hourly rate of $225 per hour and an amount not to exceed $35,000 retroactive from January 1st through December 31st, 2026. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. Resolution 278. This is to authorize the installation of a concrete slab at Steven Hans path. office for ADA accessible chess table at the Fredfield Theel Junior Recreational facilities and this was funded by 2023 CDBG funding. Uh the award was to Stacey. The quote was from Stacey Industries and the amount is $7,800. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I resolution 279. This is the update resolutions 2025 1637 2025 1638 and 2025 1639. Uh we authorized interior cleaning services and gutter cleaning at various homes in the town's home ownership program and this is

181to update that for 2026. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> resolution 280. This to authorize testing and remediation services uh for Eastern Environmental for 54 tub orsman. Um and the amount is $5,980. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I resolution 281. This is to recain consultant Justin Horning. Uh this is for the town's affordable housing home ownership program, first-time home buyer down payment assistance program, and the home improvement program. Um he will review applications at a rate of $50 per application and a total sum not to exceed $10,000. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> I resolution 282. This is to authorize past year invoice uh for Justin Horning. Again, this is through the Office of Housing and Community Development and the total amount is $150. Second. >> All in favor?

182>> I. >> Resolution 283. This is a 2025 budget modification for house office of housing and community development. Uh this will increase the revenue budget line for appropriated fund balance in the amount of $5,121. We'll increase the expenditure budget line for subcontractor costs in the same amount. We'll decrease repairs general in the amount of $1,200 and increase the subcontra contractor cost in the same amount. >> Second. >> All in favor? I I have resolution 2026 284. That's to increase the cap for Dellet Spellelman Barrett LLP Ellis versus Town of East Hampton 2025 constituting a total of $29,900 for the 25 calendar year. Second. All in favor. 285 is a 2025 budget modification for the finance department for year-end retiree health insurance costs with decreasing contingency $35,000 and increasing health insurance retiree in the same amount.

183Second, all in favor. 286 is to amend resolution 2026 160 and the 2026 budget modification for the supervisor's office and we're looking to decrease office expense in the amount of $731 and increase travel conferences and dues in the same amount. Second. All in favor? I >> I have an additional resolution and this is resolution 2026 287 and it's to authorize an employee suspension. Second. All in favor? I >> okay like to make a motion to go into the executive session to discuss CPF litigation real estate pending more pending litigation and personnel. >> Second. All in favor? >> I. >> Thank you Jason. Thank you.