East Hampton Town Board Work Session MTK 1/13/26

001East Hampton Town Board. We are live. >> Good morning all. Uh my name is David Lee and I want to welcome everyone to the East Hampton Town Council meeting of January 13, 2026 at the wonderful Malks Library uh Suzanne Cosman community meeting room. Prior to the calling of the roll call, uh before we begin, I want to note that Supervisor Burke Gonzalez is not able to make it today to today's work session because she is in Albany for the state of the state address as an invited guest of Governor Hokll. I also want to recognize the work this uh that the supervisor has done to keep East Hampton on New York State's radar. That consistent advocacy and relationship building is one of the reasons that we have been more successful than ever in becoming uh

002to to securing state support for projects that matter here at home in East Hampton and in Montalk. Just last month, the town was awarded about $3.3 million from New York State to advance affordable housing and to complete the natural resources inventory that will help us better protect our environment. And as we will later discuss on today's agenda agenda, under the leadership of Supervisor Burke Gonzalez, the town secured the $2.5 million in state funding for the dish plane June project. Supervisor Burke Gonzalez is in Albany today. I'm a little jealous to be honest. Uh we all like to be there, continue to press Eastampton's priorities forward, and we appreciate her leadership and the results it continues to deliver for East Hampton's residents. With that noted, Mr. Hansen, please call the role. Council member Flight, >> present.

003>> Deputy Supervisor Lee, >> present. >> Council member Rogers, >> present. >> Council member Calder Piedmont, >> present. >> Supervisor Burke Gonzalez, >> please all stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Again, I want to welcome all uh to today's town council uh meeting and the town board has a broad agenda. First, we will have the South Fork Sea Farmers interns presentation. We have Henry Cooper here, uh Zoe McDonald, Hudson Tansman, Carly Stuckert, and Wally Stern. I want to thank Bob Thyman uh also for your tutelage, and also uh John Dunn, Barley Dunn, who is our director, Department of Aquaculture. Thank you very much

004for all being here and your outstanding stewardship to these young individuals. Um we have also be discussing amending chapter 246 uh waterways and boats. These are various amendments uh that be led by Jacob Turner, town attorney, and Tim Treadwell. Also uh third we'll amend uh be discussing amendments of chapter 255 in zoning. This will be construction of tier 2 and tier three personal wireless service facilities. Jake Turner will lead that discussion. We'll also have an after hearing discussion about 213 through M Harbor and Eastampton. This is the Martinez UR map discussion. Uh Charlie Collins will help discuss that along with our town attorneys. And then lastly, we'll be having a Dish Planes Dune uh reconstruction update. myself, uh, Council Member Rogers, and also Brian Frank will zoom in for that. Uh, but before we get

005to our agenda, let's proceed to public portion of the meeting. I respectfully ask for all to keep their comments to 3 minutes or less. Is there anyone in the room that has any public comments? Anything at all they'd like to discuss with the board. Andy Harris, please come to the podium. >> Welcome, Andy. >> Thank you. Uh, good morning. My name is Andy Harris, a resident of Montalk, uh, Deputy Supervisor David Lees. Uh, thank you for the opportunity uh to briefly uh offer my commendation to Supervisor Bert Gonzalez for a very comprehensive state of the town address. You just referenced uh where she is today at the state of the state address with Kathy Hokll. Kathy's own state of the town address delivered to the town board and to the community was exemplary in terms

006of its coverage highlighting all the great work that this town board has been doing over the past 12 months but also forward-looking and much of the good work that will evolve in 2026. I particularly like to uh draw reference to the work in Malkque uh again from historic preservation to coastal resiliency uh the $184 million secured from federal funding for the downtown beaches which I know deputy supervisor uh David Lees helped orchestrate the $2.5 million secured from New York State that council member um Kate Rogers helped secure and ancillary funding from from the town itself. uh thank you for that uh focus uh on Montalk and David thank you for your continued uh uh liaison work as as the liaison to the town from the Montalk CAC it's much appreciated thank you anyone else LTV

007do we have anyone on the phone >> one moment please >> hey everybody this is Jason from LTV just wanted to let you know the Phone lines have been up and active, but we have no callers on the line. Thank you very much. >> Thank you very much, Jason. Uh, let's move forward. Mr. Cooper, would you like to come to the podium here? >> Jason, you'll be running the slide deck for us. >> Absolutely. Give me a second and I'll make sure this is up and running. One moment everybody. We'll get this going. Okay. So, [clears throat] hello everyone. Uh, my name is Henry Cooper. I'm in 12th grade. We have Carly Stucker. she's in 11th grade. Zoe McDonald, she's in 10th. Hudson Tansman, he's in 10th. And Wy Stern, he's in 10th. Uh we're

008all East Hampton High School students except for Zoe, who goes to uh Ross. And um in this presentation, we're just going to be talking about um all of the work that we've been doing, uh as well as just what the South Fork Sea Farmers have been doing over the last few months. And before we start, we just love to give a huge thanks to the board for um the grant. Um, with that we were able to get a tumbler and that will clean the shells which allows the spat to stick to them more efficiently. We'd also like to thank them for the truck donation because that will allow us to efficiently transport uh shells from restaurants which will be really beneficial for us. Uh the next slide please. Yeah. So this is just about the

009internships and about the interns. So in order to become an intern, one you just have to express your desire to improve the environment uh and just environmental uh restoration. And each of us is working on or will be working on a personal project which we'll get into uh later in the presentation. But the present uh the projects usually start in 11th grade and continue on in 12th grade. So the 10th graders are figuring out what they want to do right now. And also we like to just inform the public about what we do. For example, like at the best tasting oyster competition, uh Bob and his daughter made a slideshow or just like a a poster board, and we just got to talk about what we do there, and we just like to do that

010to inform people on what's going on. Next slide, please. And these are just the current projects we're working on. So, obviously, we have the oyster reefs, which we've been doing for the last few years, and the picture on the left is what Jocelyn Garcia is has been working on, and she graduated last year and now's at George Washington, and that's going well. And the picture on the right is what uh the project I'm working on currently is supposed to look like if all goes well. Like that's just shows a developed flourishing eelgrass reef through the Bessie sheets, which I'll get into later. I'll just pass it to Zoe's. >> Next slide. >> Oysters are a keystone species, meaning they are very important to keeping our ecosystems healthy. Even though oysters are small, they have a

011big effect on their environment. Each adult oyster can 50 up can filter up to 50 gallons of water each day. Next slide. This is an example. This is a 10 gallon tank and it only took 10 minutes for the oysters to clean it. And that's very significant. Then go back a slide, please. Oysters create safe habitats for many marine species by giving them shelter and protection from predators. They also reduce erosion by absorbing wave energy. Oysters are an important part of the food chain because many animals rely on them for food. They also help clean the water by filtering it and removing excess nutrients and particles. This improves the water quality and keeps coastal ecosystems healthy. Next slide. Alol blooms occur when algae grows very quickly, often forming surface scums and causing the water to

012change color. Not all algolooms are dangerous, but harmful algolooms or habs are a serious concern. They often happen in warm water with lots of excess nutrients and can release toxins that are harmful to fish, other wildlife, and even people. We have all seen the results of red and brown tides in our waters. These blooms disrupt fisheries create and create both economic and environmental issues. Oysters act as a natural filter, consuming excess algae and other contaminants. Next slide. So currently we have three different oyster reefs in Akabana Carper. These three oyster populations are expected to spawn at around the same time which is important because synchronized spawning increases the chances of fertilization which is the fusion of male and female gameamtes or sex cells to create a zygote. Each adult oyster can release between 50,000 and

013100,000 gameamtes during a spawning event. But 99% of these gameamtes will not make it and get eaten by other organisms. Furthermore, this massive release of gametes with 99% of all getting eaten leaves not that many to survive in the water. The likelihood of natural set or when larae attaches to a surface and grows into an oyster is greatly enhanced with more oyster reefs in a given area. The addition the addition of reefs five and six to reef four in three mile harbor will increase the chances of natural set in these reefs ultimately improving the oyster populations. Next slide. Our fifth and sixth reefs got approved. So the building of them is going to begin this spring. In order to start building them throughout the winter, we're going to go around to restaurants and collect oyster

014shelves um and begin creating the bags that this reef will be built from. Next slide, please. Here's an aerial shot of the skiff bringing oyster bags to reef number three, which is located in Akabonic Harbor. This is a rectang rectangular reef, but others are more linear in their shape. Each reef is 50 square yards which is the maximum uh size allowed by the state. Next slide please. Our two collection sites are at East Hampton Town Dock and Sofo in Bridgeampton. Along with these sites, we have restaurants that donate their shells to us which are picked up and brought to us by volunteers. Oyster larae need to set onto a hard surface in order to develop into adult oysters. So recycled oyster and clamshells are used in the creation of the reefs. Next slide, please. At

015the Eastampton Shellfish Hatchery, the developing spat are sat onto the recycled shells to grow. First, oysters are shoveled into biodegradable bags made from potato starch, which uh over time dissolve into nothing. Um these are this is usually done with the help of volunteers. Blank bags or shells with no spat are used for the bottom layer of the oyster and bags with spat on shelf are used for the top layer of the oyster. with 700 bags of oysters in them. 360 are just shell and 340 of them have spat on them. Uh, next slide, please. Uh so oftent times we'll go out to the shellfish hatchery here in Montalk where they have that huge pile of shells and what we do with them is we wrap the biodegradable bags around those concrete cylinders and then we

016just shovel in a couple scoops of shells and then tie off the bags. In a couple hours we can uh maybe make a couple hundred of these bags and then we use them to make the reefs. Next slide. Uh we work very closely with the East Hampton Town Shellfish Hatchery, specifically Barley and his crew. Uh they do a lot of the real work that makes what we do possible. One of the things that they do is trick mature oysters into spawning by placing them into a tank with water and then gradually increasing the temperature. Um and then the resulting larvae from that are transferred to tanks where they can grow until they're ready to set. And as you can see that uh oyster shell on the right has tons of little oyster l all those

017little dots. Next slide please. And then when we're actually building the reef, it normally takes us three days. The first day we just go and stake everything out. Um and then the second day we come back and we place the uh bottom layer of the reef which is just the bags with no no live oysters or anything. And then third day we come and we place the top layer which is bags. Same type of bag pretty much but these ones have the live oyster larae on them. >> Uh next slide please. Oh shoot. Never mind. >> A year after we placed down our first reef we checked on it at low tide and this is what we saw. Every spring we check the bags of blank shell to see if any natural set has grown.

018If you remember the spat-on shell from last slide, the little those little dots have turned into these 3-in oysters, filtering our water and cleaning our ecosystem. Next slide, please. Our most recent reef in Three-Mile Harbor has been placed in shallower waters than the others. So, we will be able to see how that affects the growth. But because they are out of the water during low tide, the oysters will have less time to feed, meaning they will most likely grow slower. >> All right, now it should be my turn. Next slide, please. Yeah. So, I'm just going to be talking about uh the project that I personally have been working on, and it's with uh eelgrass restoration. So, I started off by just reading peer-reviewed articles where I realized that eelgrass were kind of running into

019the same issue that oysters were running into that they've been rapidly disappearing over the last few decades due to just climate change and pollution. And this is an issue because eelgrass are super important in preventing erosion and especially in the environment I live in. Like there's so many coastal homes out here. So, that's a huge issue. They also provide habitat to numerous number of just marine animals and promote biodiversity by just pro providing food and shelter to those animals. Uh next slide please. And this is just the materials and sort of the process I went through when going uh through my project. So I used biodegradable 3D bessie sheets that so me and uh uh Dr. Teeman we went on a zoom call with these uh scientists from Europe and we just talked about the

020product and about what it was used for. And basically we're just using the Bessie sheets for stabilization for the eelgrass where we'd put the eelgrass runners through the sheets because the current if we just planted them in the ground they would most likely just blow away and the project would have failed. Um and then we also used 4ft bamboo stakes where we cut them to make the crosses with the string and the horizontal part in the cross. Uh so we'd stick we'd stick it down through the sheets because they have little holes in them and the cross would kind of just stop at the top of the sheet and we use that so that the current wouldn't really blow the sheets away. So, we just use it for additional stabilization. And then we also use

021the eelgrass, which is a picture of the second in the bag. I'll get into that in a second. And then we use a hammer to hammer down the stakes or the bamboo stakes, uh, snorkels so we could see like see clearly cuz we had to look underwater to see what we were doing cuz sometimes the tide was too high. So, we couldn't just like do it like standing up. Uh, and we also used a boogie board because we had to kind of go out and we didn't want to just be going like walking from shore like back and forth just carrying like three sheets at a time. So, we did that. And we also needed permission from the board to do this. Uh, and first we had to find meadow locations where we could get

022like uh transplants. So we got that off of Hicks Island and that's what you see in the bag. So we just took um existing eelgrass and we put it in a cooler with water and we transported it to the sites. And the sites are the pictures on the right with the red lines. Uh we chose those locations because it was shore side of the oyster reefs, meaning that it would give protection from just like natural like things like wind and like storms and stuff like that. Um and we had to efficiently utilize our resources cuz we only had a certain amount of sheets. So we ended up going with uh two layers of 25 sheets per location and we also had a control site where we just put it like not next to oyster reef

023or anything and we just predicted that that wouldn't go as well because there's no protection from environmental factors. Um we just recorded an initial data like uh how many sheets we put down like how many eelgrass runners we put like I think we took no know we did take around like 50 eel grass runners immediately and we're going to see like new shoot growth and stuff like that. Uh next slide please. And this is just future data collection that we'll be getting. Obviously new shoots. So that's just like new eel grass like new eel grass like not existing eel grass growth just new ones that we're seeing. But we'll also be measuring ill grass growth like uh how many inches they've grown in a certain amount of time. Uh the mortality rate which is just

024the survival rate how many in each location survive the percentage. Uh fauna activity which is just uh animal activity because we predicted that it'll promote biodiversity meaning that there'll be more organisms in the area which just benefits everything. And we also improved uh we also predicted that the water quality will improve in the area. Next slide please. And this is Carly. >> Our local community depends on clean water and healthy shellfish beds. Shellfish like oysters are important for both the local ecosystem and economy. One type of bacteria found in our waters that I will be studying throughout my high school career is vibrio bacteria specifically vibriopaholyicus which can lead to food born illness. As we know global warming is on the rise which is leading to increased water temperatures. The goal of my project is

025to see how these warming water temperatures affect the growth and levels of vibriopera ticus in aonic harbor. Next slide. So vibrio bacteria is the leading cause of foodborne illness in the US. It is mainly contracted through eating or consuming raw or undercooked shellfish. But it can also occur when um it's exposed to open wounds in water. Next slide please. So I haven't started my project um like physically but I be I'm planning to begin it in February. And for my project I'm going to take about four bags each filled with 120 oysters and place them in the four different locations pictured in Aabonic Harbor on the slides. And with these bags um in these different areas, the different areas have different levels of circulation and turbidity. Um as you can see, they're different distances from

026the mouth of the harbor. Um so throughout my studies, I'm going to place these bags of just plain old oysters in February. And in May, I'm going to begin data collecting. And when I collect, I'm going to take one oyster out of each bag, measure the water temperature, salinity, and turbidity in the area before removing the oyster from the bag and I'm going to take this oyster back to the lab and extract some of the inside and test the levels of vibrio perahe molly ticus and I'm going to do this bi-weekly from May to about October and November and see how clearly the water temperature is going to change from May to November it's going to warm so I'm going to see how the levels uh vary between these different months with different water temperatures

027Next slide. >> Next slide, please. >> Uh, so I think the most important thing that this internship has done for me is that it's helped me uh come up with a few potential ideas for my science research project that I'm going to be doing next year. Um, and along with that, it's also helped me like develop the skills that I'll need in order to be able to actually perform this experiment when the time comes. Yeah. So, for me, this internship has uh provided me with lots of hands-on uh learning that I normally wouldn't get in a classroom and uh also we get to get out of school today. So that's also what >> this internship has been great and it's helped me make a connection with mentors that are in the field that I want

028to work in when I'm older and build great relationships with these people behind me and Bob and everyone else that's been involved. >> Yep. >> Thank you very much. Uh let me go ahead. Uh >> the next slide is just says questions on it. So >> one more slide. So questions. Well, thank you so very much for your wonderful presentation then too. Uh it's been great to hear this then too and also you mentioned some of the individuals in this room that are great uh stewards of this knowledge. I want to thank you both the bottom of our heart from the town board for helping our students and our youth in East Hampton do so. Town board, do we have any questions? Um, I don't have a question. I I I do have one question.

029Is there a way for uh either visually or or by smell that you could tell if a oyster has verbiosis? >> Vibrio? No. >> No. So, >> you test the level. >> You just step to the podium. Sorry, Carly. Thank you. >> Um, no, that it doesn't have a smell, but I'm going to take it and do a qPCR test and um test the levels using >> Yeah. So specifically, this is a very important work for the health and safety of our community. >> Yeah. Especially with global warming. Um the studies have shown that the levels are usually higher with warmer water temperatures. So it's something to keep in mind when you're choosing to eat raw undercooked shellfish in the summer months. >> Yeah, thank you. And uh also I think you all bring to

030light the importance of uh dealing with the impacts of the climate crisis as well. So, I thank you for your work and for signing up to do this for our community and um we're going to learn a lot from you and I hope you come back in May uh or come all of you come back and give us another update on this is a seriously important topic and thank you so much for your leadership on this. >> Thank you. >> I have um one follow-up question. So, about the eelgrass um just I like to be out there snorkeling and and I've seen it decline out there. I've also seen a huge amount of litter out there in the water. Is that something you guys are seeing when you're out there doing your projects? Is it

031a concern to you? And do you see it impacting, you know, your grass? >> I mean, honestly, when I'm in Aabonic Harbor, I don't see as much litter, but obviously like I know that's a major issue. Like it's like everywhere in the world. There's like litter everywhere in the ocean. And I don't know like 100% that it's doing something, but it probably definitely is. It's either probably lowering the water quality and obviously it's contributing to pollution and stuff like that which is handinand kind of just like lowering the quality of like everything that goes on in the marine marine ecosystem around us. So yeah, is an issue. It's definitely probably having a negative impact on it. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, I just want to say thank you. Uh thank you for this really professional

032presentation and and the work that you do. I think that our our water quality, groundwater and our waterways is, you know, some of the most important things here. Um, I'm learning a lot from you now and I I I look forward to continue to learn as your projects progress. Um, but yeah, I just can't thank you enough for for both your presentation and the work you're doing. >> When it comes to aquaculture, Americans have also done internship. We're now seeing this for multiple years and potentially if this continues into generations which I think is something that's spectacular out here that you are on the front doorstep of that then too. How else can the town board assist this internship uh move forward to get better for the South Fork Sea Farmers or yourselves? >> Well,

033although my time's coming to an end, obviously we have a bunch of like 10th graders and >> How old are you, man? >> Uh almost eight. Almost 18. You are just about to start off, my friend. >> You know, it's not coming to the end. You're you're prime, man. >> I'm saying my time in East Hampton. But we have So, we have all these 10th graders and I'm assuming we're just we're going to get more intern or Bob's going to get more interns like up and cominging interns and they're going to have their own projects whereas I had to go in front of the board and present on my project and why I like kind of like needed these resources in order to do X, Y, and Z. They're going to run into the same

034exact issues. So, I guess the best way to help them out is just to like I guess at least like hear them out and hear what they have to say and then make your decision from there and just try to support them in all the ways you can so that they can do their work. That's about it. >> Well done. So, uh I want to put a cap on this by thanking Bob and thanking Barley. I think what this shows is that the health of our waters still need help right now. South Fork Sea Farmers does that. I know we have internships at other NOS's such as CSUM who are represented here today, too. What we need to do as a whole right now is continue to protect our planet, but we also need to

035continue to support and educate our students. And I think that's what we're doing here in this room and everything you're doing is now helping us as we want to protect your hometown uh here in East Hampton. Then too, it's very special. I also think it shows and it actually re-energizes myself to the need to consolidate our town's aquaculture facilities as they're doing in other areas of the state then too. With that, we will keep continue to clean our waters as one sliver and one option and layer that we need to move forward on there. I continue to look forward to thank you uh for my fellow board members. I know the supervisor says the same then too. I look forward to when the governor comes out here again then too. Maybe she can get this

036presentation at some point then too. Um if you are the vision of what East Hampton is going to look in 20 years, our vision is bright. So please continue on. We look forward to having you in again. Thank you very much all. >> Thank you so much. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> Barley, I have some paddle boards that haven't seen the light of day in quite some time. Maybe they'd be good use to you guys. So, let's do that. >> Okay. Thank you so very much everyone. And thank you for the parents also for their support then too. I think that's one of the portions I didn't mention for any student internship for students. It takes rides to get individuals there. it takes support and I also want to thank the parents

037also then too for your participation in this internship because I know how important that is also for ones here and ones of one's a far. Uh next onto our agenda I'm going to move forward into uh potential amendments to chapter 246 waterways and boats. There's various amendments. I welcome to the podium uh uh harbor master Tim Treadwell and then also uh Jacob Turner. Please >> good morning. try to follow that one up, Tim. >> Yeah. Um, I gotta say as a one of many stewards of our waterways in the town, that's really really excellent. I I I hope that we can all be stewards of our waterways and you guys are really taking a lead on that and it's a wonderful thing. I'm glad I was here to see that. Absolutely. >> Thank you. >>

038Fact to follow. >> We're not going to be able to >> That's right. [laughter] Go. >> Great. So Tib has some recommendations from the Marine Patrol. He's been working on that uh some clarity to the code or or to try to uh make the code equal to what we're seeing in the DEC. So moving ahead, I know timeliness is always a situation that we're trying to look to get some of these potentially implemented, reviewed in advance of summer 2026. To do that, we start now in January. So Tim, please take advance to the board on some of your discussion points. Is this going to be >> Sure. Um >> sorry, do we have this on the screen by chance, Jason? Um I don't have that present I don't have that presentation. >> No problem. Then

039we'll just go off the memo and we'll go off to direct things and you could just be as elaborate as possible. >> Sure. Sure. Uh so the first uh change is in 24 uh 246-5 warfage fees at certain public docks. Uh there was a sentence in the code that's existed during my career um where it says that uh no vessel shall tie up or remain birthed at public own dock or bulkhead in three-mile harbor or lake Montalk unless such vessel has paid a slip rental or warfage fees for such space. That's all good. But then the next sentence, the failure to move such vessel when ordered by the town harbor master or the town police shall be a violation of that section. We're looking to delete that sentence so that so that so that you

040don't because the problem we have is people tie up unlawfully to our bulkheads and in our slips and then and then there's no violation until I tell them they have to leave where they've really already committed the violation in my opinion. So this makes our enforcement of that um uh much easier. So that's what that's why we're looking to I'm not sure why that line is in there. It would the each day's continued violation shall constitute a separate additional violation that would remain. >> Tim is the first 24 I mean is there a time period that or or circumstance where a vessel may be permitted you know it's under stress. Oh, absolutely. If they contact us, absolutely we'll accommodate it. You know, I mean, the biggest problem we have is say for instance on the

041Gan Road Bulkhead or, you know, people tie up and they put their boats there to go to dinner at Boswix and then we come out there and their boats there, you know, uh, and then and then and then somebody the the commercial fisherman who has rented that slip from the town, he can't get into his slip because there's another vessel tied up there. But but because of that sentence in the code, we can't issue a violation to that boat owner um because we have to tell him he has to leave first. >> So and then in Montalk, we do have an emergency slip in M talk that there's because I think we are a port of Safe Harbor. >> Absolutely. And we accommodate people all the time and and and we tell them where to

042go and and and we always make those accommodations. >> Yeah, Tim, I'm good with that change. Um the only question I have is is the the policy will be posted so that voters coming in could realize that this isn't >> Yes. >> free space for them. >> Yes. So we actually have it posted already. Yes. Um particularly on that GAN road bulkhead and problem spots that we have where people tie up unlawfully. >> So as lays onto the slips committee harbors and docs I know we're going to be meeting in the next couple weeks. I wouldn't mind just presenting this to them knowing it's not going to be a minor a major change. uh I think we'll still uh we'll present to that uh that committee for the review comments uh and we can still

043notice appropriately to be ready for advance of summer season. I know for myself personally the the Gan Road dock is actually there's historical knowledge there that that dock was donated by Gardener's Island and can only be used as a commercial fishing dock. I think there's a even a reverter clause there. So recreational birthage there is not even allowed anyway within the deed of ownership also. >> Absolutely correct. >> Yeah. Um and we we are we okay if I bring that to the slips committee and then we'll come back to the town board and we'll move that ahead. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Uh next please. >> Okay. Next we're moving back to shellfish uh and we're going to talk about scallops. So now we're actually in um section 21312. So uh in our code it says

044only base scalps having an annual growth line may be taken. Um in the department of environmental conservation's regulations it says they also have to be 2 and a/4 in. So what I'm looking to do is align our regulation with the DEEC's. So that cuz sometimes people um don't understand really what a growth line is and sometimes on a on a on an immature scallop it'll look like it has a growth line but it's not really a true growth line. So this should help clarify that and um and and and make it more clear to the general public um what is a legal size scallop >> and this I'm fully supportive of this. I mean, our scallop population is in peril. Um, and we we need to do everything we can to help stabilize that, support

045it. So, I I support this change. Thank you. Um, then we're back to uh >> Tim, any other com I support uh is is that the smallest we can do because that's pretty small. >> Um, well, I I I guess we you know, we would we could make it um stricter than than New York State. Uh but you know we you know but most of those you know most if it's two and a quarter it probably has the growth line. >> Okay. >> You know so um or should have the growth line. Absolutely. So I mean we could discuss that. I think though that that might not sell to the public necessarily as well. >> It might be easier to regulate if we're we're you know in parallel with the the DEC code al >>

046yeah I agree. Thanks. Yep. I I'm good with that one. >> Um, jumping back to waterways and boats, 24610, water skiing, surfboarding, and water scooters. Um, currently the code, uh, section A says no person shall ride on water skis, a surfboard or similar device or use or operate a boat to tow a person thereon in any marked channel in the town of East Hampton or within 200 feet of any shoreline or within 100 ft of any bather or swimmer. Um, so, uh, what we would like to do is we would I would like to add I I believe a foil board really would qualify as a similar device, but the clearer the code is, the better for all of us. So, I'd actually like to add the word foil board to the code there. So,

047it would it would state no person shall ride on water skis a surfboard foil board or similar device, etc. Um, and are you familiar with what a foil board is? It's a of course you are. and um you know so they you know if somebody gets hit by that foil um it's it could be serious injury. So I think it's good that we you know uh you know clarify the code uh to um have regulations pertaining to that. And we've also included the definition of a foil board in the code in case someone's not clear on what defines a foil board. >> And that's the next one that be 2462 definition. >> Correct. Yeah. I I'm I support that. My my only question is do you want to look at other areas as well? Um

048you know you're you're seeing now those um I don't know what they're called even but the people who have the jet things underneath them to get up in the air. Do we want to include that in [clears throat] this um as well kite surfing? >> Yes. So in the definition it would include a powered >> foil board. So so that would be excluded as well. And that is um honestly one of the bigger problems we've had is because those foil boards the the the the powered foil boards in the channel um you know are are operating um at a higher speed than is allowed. They're operating at um more than 5 miles per hour and that's also you know we've gotten a lot of complaints about that from boats um talk. >> Yeah. Swimmer. >>

049It's a public safety issue. >> Yes. Yes. >> Yeah. For me it's common sense. Um and uh I hope folks, you know, realize this type of legislation is serious issues that can happen when all kinds of users are in this in the channels. >> Yes. And there's plenty of safe areas in our waterways that they can >> swimmers even just in three mile harbor outside the channel. Yeah. >> Also, you can't the visibility of a swimmer is is >> very little. >> Agreed. >> Any comments? >> No, I'm supportive of that. >> Okay. Thank you, Tim. Next one. >> Okay. Next uh next we are on uh vehicles on the beach. So over the years, believe it or not, we've had a lifeguard at Jin Beach at the end of East Lake Drive for a

050long time. I believe when that lifeguard when that beach first became a lifeguarded beach, um it the code doesn't prohibit beach driving on that beach. And I think it was an oversight. Over the years, I believe the general public believed there was a beach driving restriction there. So really nobody ever drove on that beach. Last summer, I guess the word got out that it really wasn't restricted. So there were a lot of vehicles operating on that beach and a lot of people, you know, were concerned with the volume of people on the beach and and families and children um you know, that the vehicles were it was dangerous to have the vehicles in that small section of beach. And the map on the screen there is really what we're looking at. It's a very small

051little area of beach and and and currently our code doesn't prohibit beach driving from 10 to 6. So it would be a seasonal it would only be a seasonal restricted um time frame from 10 to six really you know just like all the other restricted beach driving areas and um I think that would be a good change for safety to actually have that restricted. >> Uh when you I the time piece I I support is there also a seasonal piece to that as well? I mean, I know in the offse when there's no one really using the beach, a lot of people like to go out there in their vehicles and inclement weather and watch the boats coming in and out. Would that be permissible with this code chain? >> Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. This

052would pattern um like the Montalk Ocean Beach uh where it's only restricted from uh you know May 15th to September 15th. Yeah. Yeah. Between 10 and six. >> So, traditionally, I'm an advocate of uh safe and effective beach driving on there. uh but where there's an area of zone of conflict like this which would be uh for bathing beaches and for the public safety I can understand the restrictions that would go in this location. I think that would be justified uh for that personally. >> Yeah, I I think it's consistent with how we handle the other lifeguarded areas during the seasons and I'm supportive. Thanks for the catch. >> I'm supportive of this change as well. >> 26 2464. >> Yeah. So, the last one, I think it's the last one, is it? Um, so

053the last one, this is back to waterways and boats, uh, 2464, removal of disabled boats and beached vessels. So, um, currently in the code in 246-4B, it it references beach vessels and it says, "No vessel shall be left upon any town or trustee beach after November 1st of any year. Any vessel which is found in violation of this procision shall be subject to empoundment. We impound a lot of vessels at the end of the season for the trustees uh on their beaches as well as on ours. Um and the owner thereof shall be subject to penalties etc etc. Um such uh so what I would like to do is add to the code that all beach vessels shall prominently bear legible contact information for the owner of the vessel including the owner's name and phone

054number. So we would give these out for free. These are given out by the state of New York for free. The state of New York recommends, as does the Coast Guard, that every small craft, every vessel like that has an identifying tag on it. So that, you know, not only for enforcement of of of if they're on the beach when they're or or they're not supposed to be on the beach, but also if we find that vessel washed up somewhere, we don't know if the operator of that vessel is in the water or they at home and their and their kayak floated somewhere else. So, this saves everybody a lot of time and energy. Um, if uh it was required that all vessels have this, it's not going to be perfect. I mean, these will

055probably last about a season. Um, you know, but but it but it's a step in the right direction, I think, and it would help for both safety and enforcement. >> I'm I'm supportive of that. I think it's good change. >> Supportive. Yes. Absolutely. Makes sense. >> Me, too. >> So, I have a story on that one. So, in one of my past lives, I did a lot of kayaking and paddle boarding, and I was paddle kayaking over at Gardener's Island in that area. And all of a sudden, a kayak comes by, bow up, got washed off in a storm. You didn't know who it was. And what that does, it just triggers, you know, a search and rescue operation than to where you're taking away assets maybe from a a true emergency, but something that

056we can promote that's out there then, too. And happens happens after storms. Now, while we're here and I have you on there, uh the date that on Trusty Beaches that all vessels must be off the beach is what date every year? >> Uh >> November 1st, I believe >> it is November 1st. >> So, that's just public little announcement out there also then too. So, what I would like to do, by the way, is uh upon approval um and when we get it in the code, we'd like to do a press release, you know, to the public um explaining, you know, not just, you know, how this is prudent for safety sake, but also um you know, just about safety, safety in the water, you know, water safety in general. So, I plan on putting

057something together with Patrick uh for that um you know, to to launch that. Yes, >> I think that'd be a great potential topic for us to come back with and discuss getting closer to the summer season, April, May also than Tim. >> Great. >> Um, board members, any other questions? >> Not for me. >> Look forward to the next presentation. >> What I will do is I'll uh we'll when the supervisor gets back, we'll reconfirm on this, but I think what and also I'll discuss it with the slips committee, but I would say it to the attorney's office, let's start drafting what the code changes would be. So when we're prepared to notice for public hearing, we'll have the the draft code changes in front of us. now that you've seen that there's board support

058to move forward in that direction and use your time and energy wisely. >> Thank you very much. >> Sir, I do have one follow-up question. I mean, I I assume the locations where you find the disregarded vessels is pretty consistent. My question there would be, do you feel there's adequate signage up there advising people of these, you know, rules and regulations? >> Yes. Okay. I mean, I mean, we do our best to maintain that signage. Sometimes that signage disappears and then we notice that it's missing and we replace that signage. But in general, all the areas where it's very common, um, you know, there is there is appropriate signage in those areas. >> And what I'll even ask Tim on this one, just add up, um, as we are a little quieter potentially now, uh,

059to have your staff just review that signage to make sure all our put in spots traditionally have that up and we'll prepare for the summer season. Thank you, Tom. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you all for your time. Appreciate it, >> Jake. That was a spectacular presentation you just did. >> Thank you so much. >> Okay, everyone. Thank you, Jake. >> Thanks for the backup. I always like to have my lawyer next to me. [laughter] >> Thank you so very much. Uh let's move on to our third agenda item here. This is amend chapter 255 zoning. This is for construction of tier 2 and tier three personal wireless service facilities. Uh town attorney Jake Turner, please lead it off. >> Thank you. Um this is a recommended code change to our zoning code

060specifically under the wireless facilities definition. What we are talking about here is something very simple and this is coming from our planning department. They're requesting in conjunction with the building department explicitly stating that for a tier 2 and tier three facility that a building permit has to be issued. As of right now, it does not explicitly say that in the code. It was picked up by the building department in conjunction with the planning department. One is not needed for tier one. We already have mechanisms in place to deal with such um including but not limited to highway approval. So this is just for tiers two and tier three. >> And so for the general public, tier one is the small cell technology that we'll see on maybe on top of uh telephone polls recently. Tier

061two and tier three are more of the macro sites. >> Exactly. They are the larger um towers and or um materials that are placed on top of buildings >> and they also have associated equipment such as generators and and uh other other associated structures that have to go along with those installations. >> Exactly. And we have to ensure that they are getting the appropriate building permits for such installation. >> Yeah. And inspections for safety as well. >> Exactly. >> Any other questions to board members? I support. >> So it it makes sense to me also. So can you uh the supervisor will review this also. Can you please just start drafting the language again? So we we'll see the draft code changes prior to notice of public hearing and then submit it to the board

062for our review also. >> I shall. Thank you very much. >> Thank you so very much. >> Okay. Uh moving right along. Um we are going to have an after hearing discussion. Uh Mr. Charlie Colin, senior uh uh uh tent attorney uh for the 213 through Mah Harbor Eastampton Martinez. This is a UR map modification that we had a second public hearing most recently. Charlie, just want to come up give a brief quick overview and the board will have the discussion on it. >> Welcome Charlie. >> Yeah, so this you guys just had the public hearing last week uh the second public hearing. The first one I believe was in like October 16th. Uh but at that time the uh neighbor was I think out of the country and they were so to give everyone

063the platform we had another hearing. Um the re the the request is to allow for the abandonment of a half of a paper road uh Winslow Avenue and currently the other half of the road is allowed to be abandoned but this half adjacent to that property is not. So there this the neighbors at two the owner of 213 through M Harbor is asking for the ability to abandon that which would incorporate it into their lot because right now it's just kind of in limbo. It's a nothing. >> Okay. Thank you. Yeah, I think we heard it twice. I think it was also appropriate as the supervisor mentioned to reopen it uh public hearing uh which just doesn't happen all the time to be able to make sure all voices are heard on this then to

064the town board discussion. And I just want to mention that at the hearing an uh concerned neighbor did come forward as a speaker. I think that was the only speaker we had on this topic at the public hearing. >> Yes. The first public hearing there was Mr. Buddha was there and then the second public hearing it was the neighbor at 217 spoke and then and 213's agent spoke as well. >> Thank you. >> Uh as a leazison of planning K you want to start off? >> Well, I think uh looking I realize the neighbor's concerns. Uh however, it was noted that the neighbor also received that abandonment as well. Um and I am going to rely on the uh and the planning board reviewed this and finds the proposed changes consistent with urban renewal planning

065and that it is practical based on comments of the town engineer which we also have and the planning department. So the planning board recommended that the town board approve the desired map modification. The town engineer uh also supported that and the planning department. So for me um I uh would be in support of this modification. >> Yeah, I am as well. I'm in support. >> Likewise. >> I'm also I think uh everyone's allowed to have this in the situation. It's been reviewed on there. Uh they will have to hold themselves to clearing calculations obviously for the property that's on the property. I don't think we can hold them also to a covenant of putting a 10ft fence on there a property excuse me 10 ft off their property line. But if they want to hold

066themselves to that morally because they did offer that that'd be great. Uh but again I think this is very traditionally in this area and how that's happened. So uh thank you very much Charlie coming forward for adoption. >> Thank you so very much. Yes. >> Thank you. Great. Uh LTV I believe we will have Brian Frank in the in the meeting room there too on Zoom if you let him in. Yes, he's already here. And let me go make sure that he's on screen for you. >> You don't have to put me on screen. >> All right, brother. Okay, don't worry about it. >> Right on screen. >> Brian, you're there. >> Uh, so thank you very much, too. Um uh this agenda topic I limit is just uh over it's overview and almost a

067conclusionary statement about the dish planes dune restoration effort that has been undergoing recently through construction but it's been actually undergoing for well over a year then too. So with that uh uh council member Rogers is going to start off the presentation here. We have some photos u videos and then some shoutouts and some conclusionary statements for the board and the general public. Kate, back to you. Thank you, Deputy Supervisor Lee. I am uh going to take uh the first couple of slides. So, next slide, please. >> So, uh the first few photos just give the history of what uh what triggered this action um by the town. Uh this is a photo uh taken July uh January 13th uh at um >> uh uh 5 a.m. Thank you, Tom. Council member Flight. and it shows

068the extensive flooding that we saw uh throughout the ditch neighborhood. This is Otis Drive uh looking up. Is that what we're looking at? Um so this uh in during this time period there were three unnamed storms uh December of 2023, January of 2024 which significantly damaged Ditch Plains Beach flooding into the neighborhood as you can see. Next slide please. And as you could see, this is the aftermath as well of of that January storm that the beach uh eroded to the hard pan, meaning there's no sand whatsoever uh on the beach and any remains of the primary dunes and they were not robust in any in any way, shape or form, is [clears throat] now gone. So after uh surveying the damage, uh the supervisor uh supervisor Burke Gonzalez uh put some plans into action.

069Uh first uh also sending an immediate request for state funding under article 54 and 58 of the state environmental conservation law a request for uh funding from the state. Also we put into the capital plan immed immediately um $5 million for um for this project as well. Um by uh January 242 24 we had a plan. Next slide please. And uh what you're seeing is a result of the initiation of that plan. And I'll I'll I'll go through it. Uh we uh the the town actively uh s sought a morphologist uh coastal engineer consult with the town to provide the most effective short-term and long-term solutions to help ditch plane residents mitigate water inundation during storms. Coastal E expert will also create a restoration plan for the 2024 beach season. Next slide please. And these

070are just some of the things we immediately took a profile of the beach uh as it existed at the time. And uh we hired the town hired Dr. Henry Bokeanvich who is an internationally recognized expert on beach erosion dredging coastal groundwater issues and pollution in the coastal ocean. He is involved with monitoring programs for ocean beaches to investigate shoreline changes, beach dynamics and response to storms. he is at Stonyie Brook University. Um Dr. Bukanevich gave us some uh immediate recommendations. One was to uh get this immediate survey of the beach profile and after we uh accepted his recommendations for the uh uh creation of a new primary dune down by ditch, the town then sent out an RFP for a coastal engineering firm and a coastal science and engineering uh Inc. was uh the winning

071bidder and was awarded the bid and they designed uh the the mapping and the uh dune for for the uh town. Uh that information all of this information was then sent to the um DEEC uh in Janu uh 2024 through 2025. Um before that, next slide please. I'll I'll go to the next one. Um, well, David, that's you, right? Well, I'll I'll leave it here for a second, but uh what happened was uh in that interim time, Cath Governor Kathy Hokll visited the eastern end of Long Island and announced a $2.5 million project to protect Ditch Plains Beach from coastal erosion caused by storms. That was in August of 2024. We developed the plans and we received the DEC permit in July of 2025. After that, Bistrian Materials was awarded the contract for the reconstruction

072in October of 2025. Uh, I'll immediately hand it over to you, David. But before that, I just want to um to extend my thanks to support staff. Um, Brian Frank is a project manager, Kim Shaw, Mark Abramson from natural resources, Matt Jeda, uh, our engineer, Steve O'Brien, building and grounds department, and Tim Treadwell and Marine Patrol for all of their help, and also to Governor Hokll to the DEC eastern head Kathy Hos at the time who were who came out uh, immediately also to with her staff to look at the damage so they could help best assist us. um and and their shephering of of meeting with us prior to the official uh DEEC permit application so that we were really ready to go by the time uh by by the time we put the

073application in and then it moved pretty quickly through that process. those prior meetings really helped us um um with that planning and uh uh I don't know if I mentioned Kathy but I'll mention her again because she immediately supervisor Kathy Burkenzalees immediately in January reached out for funding sources invited the DEEC out and members of the governor's staff um to uh visually walk the beach with us uh immediately so they could see the damage and with that I'll turn it over to David who shephered the construction from that point on. Yes, I want to thank you very much. As you see on the slide here, this is a slide from 2018 and you can see how the morphology of this area is anything from a rip wrap jetty uh to a full full on revetment.

074And if we go to the next slide from 2018, what I wanted us to notice on the top left there where we look into um the Dish Plains Conference station parking lot in front of the three or four small cottages there, you might see an actually a dune that was placed in that area and that was placed in there after Superstorm Sandy and you see how completely vegetated after with the beach plugs that were there. That is going to be very similar to what we hope happens uh in this location here as you'll see in the future slides. Again, another one into 2018. You see how one of the areas where the former East deck property mall talk many of us are aware of. But again, what you're seeing behind that to the north is

075the community that this action and this plan was there to protect. This is a community that became vulnerable at this time when the dunes washed away uh from flooding as when the pictures from council member flight and we showed but also how it is a very small uh short distance to where you see possible other breach points that would come from the north end too. Next slide please. Again, this is actually a video slide that I showed earlier that was taken from the beach from from the you know dating tide storm surge that was coming in that was damaging the property then too. Again, I do not recommend uh uh being individual that chases after storms uh for danger. But you could see this is what happens in 10 seconds. Imagine what happens after 10

076hours. Uh next slide please. in in uh October, November of this uh calendar year, October, uh you'll see here we started surveying the uh the beach properties again in advance of the uh the dune being set in place. What you'll see here is how uh this is actually one of the town's preserve areas that's just west of the Otis uh road beach parking area. And you'll see how the dune blew back into this area there and all the sand. Uh but also grew back over time if you give mother nature an opportunity to do so and to be resilient. Uh next slide please. Again this is another slide just looking towards the north on the same day as we start surveying the prop properties. Next slide please. Continuing to have our drone photos down the

077beach line. And this came to part of what we were doing during every course of this project from first evaluation as as council member Rogers mentioned working with engineer pre uh pre uh determination of placement of sand. So we knew what the levels and elevations were to how much sand quantities were going to be there in placement uh and then also as we move forward into placement of the sand. And Chelsea we can roll uh whoever's on there roll forward again to the next one. Thank you. And on to the next slide also full uh full work started here just before uh Thanksgiving of this calendar year. Placement of beach compatible sand was placed by the contractor uh Brian materials. I do want to thank Patrick Bisti and specifically Jason Keys and their operators for

078their oversight of this pro their project there. They worked in a very coordinated effort here. Uh and actually let me thank mother nature too. uh she allowed for them to get the beach on site without losing any beach with then would be at a cost to the taxpayer. Next slide please. Another look just looking north there as we started to reach all the way down. Next slide please. Again the contractor shaping mobilizing moving the the dune to you get to the elevation of 16 ft. Next slide please. from the top of the dune looking east on there down towards the area. Uh what you'll notice is that we had to receive easements in these properties. Uh the areas that are in front of the old ED40 area which between Otis, east of Otis and west

079of the dirt lot uh dirt lot area, we did not receive the easements. So that's why the town could not place sand in those areas if there are public questions on that. Next slide, please. Again, you'll see the topography that's there. Now again we have to stay off the dunes as we'll mention shortly. Next you'll see how the toe of the dune there is is already starting to morph through aolon processes which is uh a moving of the air and also little slumpage. We do recognize that this area will interact with the water uh and it's meant and designed to interact with the water eventually. Uh next slide please. One more and we'll keep going and we'll get to some of the final slides that are on there. Again, uh last year I want to

080thank the town board for moving forward with changings of the town code. We change town code 91-4R. No person shall walk through or cross over any of Dune unless it's a location authorized by the town trustees or town board included but not limited elevated walkway, stairways, other specifically designated dune crossing structures or designated footpaths. What this does, it destroys the dune uh and doesn't allow for the dune to renourish itself properly. And these are the signages signage signages. This is the signs that we have that we'll be installing along this dune area, but also other areas in the dune to make sure the general public's aware of that then too. And the reason why then too, um I'm going to bring in Brian Frank. Brian Frank, do you uh who is uh uh assistant planning

081director uh and the project manager for this project. Can you go through the next couple slides that will just show some of the effectiveness of of it, please? >> Um sure. Well, as um thank [clears throat] you uh deputy supervisor Liss and uh town board members. Um this is a a drone footage of uh the nearly completed doom work as um was evident in some of the earlier slides. The uh dune construction followed a specific template. Uh another uh partner that's worth uh thanking is Wallbridge Surveyors and Dan Weaver who was very uh responsive to a request to stake uh the footprint of the dune and the uh benchmarks used for elevation to make sure that we were following uh the design criteria that uh that uh Coastal Science and Engineering designed the dune to

082and the DEEC permitted the the Dune to. Um I' I'd like to um compliment our partners uh that we had while this was under construction. Uh, obvious obviously things are are moving and anytime we required um uh an answer, our partners were all very responsive and that includes uh Matt Jeda and his uh uh crew at uh MLAN um Patrick and his uh staff at at CSSE and uh Jason Keys who uh um David uh just mentioned in addition to uh the the town personnel which I'll I'll circle back to, but if want to advance from from here, uh, we could do so. >> Thank you. And Brian, before we start on this specific one, this is where the comfort station is in and ditch. I want to make everyone aware of the pile of

083sand to the left there. There were three piles of stock pile of sand that we had the town had already paid for within the contract that we left in the three parking lots that will eventually be used if needed to replenish any of this D. if there's any coastal storms that upcoming uh in prior to the beach season. So, it's only temporary in nature. It will be removed in advance of the summer season. Still, uh we might need more. I hope not. We might not need it at all. Either way, we'll make use it for a recreational beach. But that stockpile of sand, which you'll see in the next couple photos, is only temporary. And we request the general public to stay off of it. And this is at the dirt lot area. See, uh,

084here's approximately two 300 cubic yards of sand then, too. >> Thank you, Brian. You can just continue. >> Um, well, another uh another thing worth pointing out is um I wasn't out there um on on a regular basis, but anytime I was, I noticed the uh public being uh respectful of the work area, too. um uh a avoiding where the um um where the contractors and and the machinery were were working, respecting the signage that uh limited access to the beach when construction was in progress. And and hopefully that was uh uh not more than a minor inconvenience for uh the members of the public. >> And as you see on the screen through this drone photography and video that we're using, the beach is already changing over. you know, uh we're starting to see

085different morphologies, but again, one coastal storm can change all of that. Uh overall, for myself and this project, I want to thank all town staff for their assistance and engineers, but I we we also have to thank uh our other partners in the community. We have to thank the membership and of CCOM who was a tremendous advocate for this project on all levels and at all times consistently collaborating with the town board and also with our partners at the state to move this ahead and put this on their radar. I want to thank the Dish Planes Association and also their membership and residents there for being vocal for their needs then too. It was heard. was heard at the state and was heard at the town and we actually effectively put together a project that

086will protect from a very uh from a storm but it's not the solution >> in the end. Uh this is a little bit of a hurdle if a big storm comes and it buys some more time for all of us as community become more resilient and try to make those decisions then too. But in in the end, I want to thank everyone because without the teamwork here of all the town board members and others in the community and at the state level, it wouldn't have been accomplished uh in the time frame and at all then too. Brian, I don't think uh any of us had said thank you. So, we want to immediately say thank you to you for your leadership on this project and moving this ahead too. Uh and with that, that's the

087presentation to the board members if you have any questions. >> Yeah, I just want to add a a couple of of quick remarks and and uh David, you're absolutely right. uh in anything that you said that the community was so helpful. I want to thank the Bruces for recognizing the importance of granting the easements to us for not just their property but also for the protection of the entire neighborhood which is part of their concern and always has been is the entire neighborhood out at Ditch Plains. Um, and I I do just want to add that the reason why this uh one of the reasons why this dune configuration was selected at this height was to hopefully uh was to give us eligibility in the event of a declared disaster for funding for repair from

088the federal government um through a FEMA program that hopefully still exists. Um, and uh uh just thank you as well, David, for uh for putting on your uh building hat. And I know David, you've been an advocate and has have been advocating for a uh ditch planes, the importance of it as a community resource uh an economic engine in the town to be included in as a betterment in the FIMP uh uh project. And I know that there's has been some initial headway in that direction. Um but we can't wait for these types of decisions to be made before we can at least uh put a emergency structure in there which is really what this is uh in in the long run. >> Agreed. I think even when Tom was on before the board on

089uh with the citizens advisor committee advocated to make sure there was at least a recreational beach there sometimes which is extremely important to the iconic spot uh that Dishblains is the economic engine but also this is a protection of the neighborhood in general then too. Um, Brian, can you just go over sort of the next steps the town will be doing for this project over the course of the ne next couple weeks, months, potentially years? >> Uh, sure, David. So, we're in the uh monitoring phase now. I think we're the um construction is is pretty much complete and and now we're going to monitor it. your uh um your presentation highlighted at least some of the sand piles that are stockpiled right near the project site available for use. If um there is uh a

090depletion of the dune and it needs to be repaired, we have compatible material available there, we will continue to um monitor uh the the condition of the dune and repair it as uh necessary. And um you know with a with a little luck about 6 weeks from now you're going to see the uh the the beach grass starting >> [clears throat] >> uh to grow there. And um you're also going to see as uh as as David had mentioned every every dune every beach interacts with the shoreline. That's what makes them what they are. Um the quality of this uh sand is um really really high. And as this um material does get pulled into latoral processes, it's going to become part of that uh nearshore habitat as it works its way uh uh to

091the west as as the long shore current uh does out here. >> Thank you very much, Brian. Uh >> yeah, I I'll jump in. I mean, um look, I think it was right when I joined the board, we we had this emergency come in. And you know, one thing I want to remind the public who weren't out here to what happened is that this just wasn't just the beachfront properties. This went two or three blocks back uh towards Lake Malkque. So, this structure was desperately needed. I appreciate and I've heard from some community members that, you know, the frustration of spending taxpayer money on putting sand up there to to fight something that's, you know, it's coming and it will continue to come. But at the same time, I think, you know, it's it's our

092duty to help protect these neighborhoods and ensure that, you know, we do have something in place in the interim till we have a longer term plan for what we're going to do in this area. Um, you know, the the history of this area is critical. It's called ditch planes for a reason. Um, you know, I think one thing that I really want to see is, um, you know, I want us to be vocal with the county that ensuring that, you know, their vector control group does what's required of them to maintain the ditches in this area because it is known to flood and those ditches are in place to help mitigate that flooding and move the water quickly across over to Lake Montoque. That that's historically what they're there for. And so ensuring that that

093infrastructure is maintained is critical for this area as well. Overall, I want to thank my colleagues Kate and Ian with this. I think you did an exceptional job um bringing this forward. Um you did it the right way. Um you did the relevant engineering work. You did the profile work and the construction work. And I think long term, you know, ensuring that we have the beach grass on there to ensure the durability of this structure is critical. You know, we will face future storms. That's the nature of where we live. um beyond you know this infrastructure uh it's important that people in that area are aware of that and they're prepared for that as well. Um you know ensuring that your properties are designed in such a way that you know should a flood occur

094that the critical infrastructure of your house is not on the ground floor level where it could potentially be flooded. Um you know as you develop your properties you know moving important pieces upstairs and preparing yourself for that flood preparing to be knowing when to go and where to go uh and what resources are there for you. So, um I I think look, this is something we have to do. It's because of where we live. Um but overall, I think this has been an excellent project and one that I imagine will be looked at across the the coastal areas as to how to kind of provide uh midterm protection against these kind of events. >> Thank you, Tom. >> Anything? >> I have nothing to add. No, it's very exciting to see the project, you know,

095complete and I I I hope it um is successful. I can't wait for the spring to see that beach grass start to grow. >> Great. Well, thank you all. Thank you very much, Brian, for joining us. Uh, and everyone then, too. >> Uh, we're going to move on to town board liaison reports, please. Uh, council member Flight. >> Thank you, uh, Deputy Supervisor. Um, I will start off with the Amigans Citizens Advisory Committee. Uh, there's no meeting this month. Our next meeting will be February the 9th, 6:30 p.m. at the Amigans School Library. Uh, for the IT department, just want to update the public on some key developments we have going on there. Uh, as I'm sure you've heard, we've been working with the building department to change the interface uh for the public with

096regards to the building department. Um, one of the requests of the new uh chief building inspector is to kind of uh silo different applications to help fasttrack some of those smaller projects, your deck replacements, your window replacements, etc. Uh, we're in the testing phase of that right now. There's some architects who the town's working with who have been kind of given some initial insight into that infrastructure and the initial feedback for that is it's really positive. It's working very well and it's helping our department get visibility to those applications to help them kind of move forward at a faster rate. Um the the proposed roll out for that we're looking forward to the general public is February 14th of Valentine's present to all. Um but I will keep you updated onto that timeline as we

097move forward. Um, you know, once that project's completed within it, the next areas that we're looking to kind of, uh, address and improve our interface with the public, uh, is in the special events department and the clerk's office. Um, obviously the special events department has huge interaction with the public and takes up a significant amount of our legislative secretary's uh, time. I I want to say it's probably about 75% of their hours in the peak season is spent uh, doing that. So this is something we're hoping that as we introduce we'll significantly reduce um you know the need for that kind of personal interaction and just streamline applications as possible. Uh and then with the clerk's office uh with our new town clerk Mike Hansen who comes from an IT background. There's a lot of

098uh stuff we look to improve in that department that he wants to help improve the efficiency and the interface with the public there as well. So those are the three kind of key projects that it will be looking to address uh in the first two quarters of this year. um human services. If we could bring up um that graph, those graphics I sent over LTV. >> Absolutely. Let me just go pull that up right now. >> Thank you so much. Um so this is the 2025. This is just a demographic update um that I want to show the public as to who is using the facility from an age structure. Um you know, it's something that the the head of the human services department and I have been discussing. uh and I'll come into this

099a little bit more as we go forward but you know we've obviously have been discussing you know the concept of the new community center um and that's something I'm going to be leazison on too but as we do that I want to get have a really strong understanding of you know what facilities are being used by whom within the existing center so as you look at this uh the the first piece you're looking at here is uh the senior nutrition program so what you can see from this that it's roughly an even split between the three key age categories here with 38% of the nutrition program being used by those who are 60 to 74 um roughly 35% for those between 75 and 84 and then 27% thereabouts by 85 plus. So you know critically

100that's kind of a relatively even spread. If we could move down to the next slide um we get to our wellness programs. uh within our wellness programs, there's a slightly different split here. And I think what is really interesting here is that these programs are significantly you're seeing a skew towards our older populations. And and what's really important about that is this is health prevention, especially as as people age. You know, we have the programs Kong, Zumba, um osteoporosis classes, etc. You know, helping prevent people from having more serious events as they age, um you know, through the introduction of these programs. And you can see it's been well adopted by those groups as well. Um, and it's something that we're going to absolutely consider as we move forward. And the last slide I have

101on here is about transportation. So, you know, for those of you who don't know, we obviously have a transportation uh facility within our human services department to help people get to and from these uh senior center um and also to appointments to pick up pharmacy orders, etc. And so here again, similar to the wellness program, you're seeing the bulk of this being used by those 70 and above. Um, so again, that's something that we kind of want to ensure that we continue as we move forward. Um, but just taking that on board as we make any future decisions as to what the community center may provide. Thank you, LTV, for that. Um, moving back, um, the fire marshall's office. Um so uh those of you might notice towards the end of last year we had

102significant amount of work uh clearing work done on the Bucksil preserve access fire road um that has been completed and it it looks great. Um there's going to be some additional training work going on there um in February. Uh the fire academy out here is going to be practicing on doing some field tree removal sessions. This will be taking place on February 14th and 15th between 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Uh that access point will be closed to the public during that area as they will be taking down uh some of the dead pines adjacent to the fire road uh and along the trails in that area. um ADU implementation committee. Um just to kind of update the public, New York State has legislation in place that allows municipalities to offer a 5-year waiver of

103reassessment for capital improvements that add an ADU to a property. It's up to towns as to how and whether they adopt this. Uh the ADU committee has reviewed this. They're in favor of this. Um currently I'm working with the planning uh the tax assessor's office uh um and other departments to understand what that might look like for the town and introduce that to the town board and for a work session in February as to whether we want to consider that for adoption as a board. Um license review board just a reminder of contractors to renew their licenses for 2025. East End fire commissioners um if we could bring up that image I sent over. um few things seeing the removal of someone who could have potentially fallen through who could have potentially fallen through the

104ice. This is the time of year it happens and so I just want um to remind the public of some of the New York State guidelines as to what safety on ice looks like. Uh the general guidance here from the DEC is that 4 in of clear ice is required to support an average person's weight. Um strong ice is typically clear with a bluish tint. Weak ice appears milky and porous. Ice does not freeze uniformly. Be cautious. um where you have bubblers kind of adjacent to docks or other areas or outlets. They produce thin unsafe ice typically some distance away they can go out as well. Um be alert in areas near the shore and over moving bodies of water and where streams enter and exit lakes and ponds. Use the buddy system uh and

105across our water bodies. We do have uh buoyancy um aids available. Um be sure you know where they are before you go out on the ice. Um, I also want to update the public that on February 10th at 6 p.m. New York State Parks will be hosting anformational session at the MTOK Downs to update the broader community uh with regard to the work they've been doing at Nepig uh and Hither Hills State Parks to address the pitch pine forest devastation. For those of you who haven't had the opportunity, if you drive down Nepadows, uh you can see a huge amount of clearing has been done out there to remove the dead pine. Uh additionally I had a montalk towards the Carol Morrison property. They've done some regrading of the fire road there and in here

106the woods they've removed a huge amount of vegetation uh for some of the fire access roads there. Uh the work continues to kind of go on. There's grading opportunities that we've identified in some areas. Uh and we're continuing to look at some of our town properties as well with regards to improvements we're doing there. Um, as noted earlier, there is a going to be a new uh community center committee um that I will be the liazison to. For members of the public who may have interest in serving on that, please feel free to contact my office tflight at e-hamptonny.gov. Um, you know, the first part of what that committee will be doing is outreach to the public to understand, you know, what we see the needs today for that community center to be. Uh, and

107you know, more importantly or as importantly, what we don't think it should be. Uh it's a listening opportunity. Um so you know it's really that community outreach is key. I will be visiting all the CAC's over the next quarter to to hear viewpoints on that as well as uh uh PTA meetings um you know schoolboard meetings. Um if you have a community organization that you would like me to visit to hear your viewpoints again feel free to reach out to me. Um you know I do have an update from the business committee. It's really just an update on the housing market. Um, you know, there's there's been a report released recently about, you know, what's been happening with housing properties out here. Um, and it goes back to kind of looking from 2014 through to

1082000 2025. Um, and it was some interesting kind of facts that came out of that. Between 2014 and 2019, you know, medium home prices out here hovered around the high 900,000. Um, you know, at more recently after 2019, prices climbed rapidly, more than doubling, and and last year was the first year that we saw the median household price average in our town over 2 million. Um, at the same time, overall sales peak um sales activity peaked during our pandemic years and have since fallen by around 25% with three consecutive years of reduced transaction counts despite strong uh dollar volume. Um, this speaks to the housing crisis, the affordability issues we have out here. You know, if the median sale of a home out here is 2 million, there's not a lot of jobs out here

109that currently pay a salary that can afford that. So, you know, it's one of the things that we we have to continue to address um with through the delivery of new housing. I did see that the governor is actually proposing the removal of SRA for new housing developments. And I think that's something as a board we should have a discussion about. Um because I you know I I think you know environmentally out here we we have to be on the forefront of protecting our environment. Um but this challenge of providing affordable housing in the community is something I think we equally have to address. So finding the right balance of how we move that forward I think is something we should um consider as we move forward. Um that's everything for my layers reform. >>

110Thanks Ian. >> Yeah sure. I just just have a very brief >> you coming to me a second. I was already >> just a brief brief report. First of all, just to piggyback on what Tom said about the ADU tax break. That's something I've looked into too with the housing department and then Ed reality the housing attorney. I'm supportive of it. Um I I think that it's just and to be clear, it wouldn't reduce the amount that the town raised in taxes. It would just be a different distribution. And I think we need every tool possible to encourage people to develop affordable housing. I think ADU is a great way to do that. And I think the people who participate would would deserve that tax break. So, I look forward to a more in-depth conversation

111in February. Tom, um the egg advisory committee will meet this Thursday um at suite 111A at 300 Panagle Place. That's near the pan uh the planning department and building department, same building. Um those meetings are open to the public. Just to remind everybody, I know recently um the a committee presented some proposed code changes. There's no well there's no detailed changes but the idea of creating an agricultural classification uh I they have not released their agenda but I imagine that'll be a topic of conversation for anybody who wants to be there. Uh and then next week the property management committee will meet in the main meeting room at town hall on Wednesday the 21st. Again that agenda is not set but I anticipate that they'll be resetting uh their priorities for CPF properties with historic

112structures and and how we want to maintain them. That's all I have. >> Dave. >> Yes. Thank you, David. Um, so, uh, first I would like to start I I know, um, I know recently in the town there's been a number of folks who have passed, um, that we'd like to recognize. I I would like to recognize Barbara Burnside. Um, Barbara Burnside uh, was a uh, who passed uh, last week was a generous uh, volunteer, a master gardener, and a gardening angel. I'm taking these words from Gail Pellet at Change Hampton. Barbara showed up uh every uh week during spring, summer, and fall to care for our community pollinator garden at East Hampton Town Hall. Um just uh lately they exchanged emails with Barbara as in December, hoping uh beyond hope for her recovery. I

113met Barbara in the pollinator garden uh outside of town hall. Um, she was quiet, pleasant woman who uh always was available to answer my millions of questions on which plant was which and uh and was very generous with her community service to the time. To my surprise, Barbara came into my office uh at at one point and uh spoke of what was happening on a national level across our country. and this very quiet person who tended so carefully to plants asked to organize pro-democracy rallies, no kings rallies at the town hall. Uh I I didn't expect that uh from Barbara, but she did and she brought thousands of people together in our community to support our democracy. She became a leader in that movement. Um it was not a lifelong uh activism, but she saw

114what she saw and she felt the need to speak up. Um I am um Barbara became uh on the forefront in East Hampton of protecting our democracy and the right to peacefully uh gather in support. Uh I'm heartbroken at the news of Barbara passing. Um she was an inspiration to me. I will keep Barbara forever in my heart with love and admiration and deep gratitude uh for her uh standing up and I think she speaks to how ordinary people become extraordinary um in in times like this. There is a memorial for Barbara at Hy Hall on Saturday at 100 p.m. Uh her family asked that uh you either uh come share your thoughts and also it's a potluck so please bring something either sweet or savory in a true sense of community. Um as Gail

115Pellet says and I add this I hope that Barbara is traveling through magical gardens with her bullhorn forever. Um uh last Saturday the Wayne Scott uh CAC met. Um it was uh a wonderful meeting. Uh also again I'm going to acknowledge Sally Sunshine who has not passed but who has uh stepped back from the Wayne Scott CAC. She was the great organizer of the CAC and and I want to thank her for her commitment to our community. I also want to thank Jordi Marx who will I will have a resolution on to add Jordy to the Wayne Scott CAC. Uh topics that we discussed first was uh concern by members of the CAC for businesses and whether they know or aware of their rights uh if ICE comes to uh their businesses. And uh I

116was sent some uh posters uh that I'll distribute on what businesses rights are. Um also uh one of the major topics of the discussion was a discussion on an airport on the airport. Um Mark Fron who is now heading uh the airport subcommittee had met with myself and has a draft plan from for moving forward on the airport or uh just of interest of what we can do to monitor the airport. uh in his first tier. One of the suggestions was to hire a consultant to gather the data uh of the last 5 years uh uh for operations and complaints. Two parts. Um last Thursday we adopted a resolution doing just that uh for HMH to uh gather the data that's already existing so we can take a look at and make uh decisions on

117the airport. um nothing to do with restricting the airport or anything in um in opposition to the restraining order. We all uh understand that we are going to be fully compliant um with uh any the restrain the existing restraining order on the airport, but we never we we gather data on every other town property. Uh this gathering data uh has nothing to do with that whatsoever. Um also um the at the CAC um there uh was a uh reading of the letters that u uh uh and and reiterating what uh Franchesca Rian and over um over the speakers uh uh from Lena Tambbori about looking at um uh extending the leaf blower uh time period uh ban um looking at it from a scientific point of of when leaves actually fall. They're not falling on

118September 15th. And eventually looking at how we can have a transition to uh electric leaf blowers. Uh and in the future, I I think this goes along with another project that I'm working on which is uh bringing sustainability practices and landscaping etc. uh uh to the town through educational programs and further uh to be able to uh forward that. I'm meeting with a lot of the uh nonprofit organizations that have tremendous information on supporting sustainable landscaping that we can gather and put on a town website uh with visuals and examples. Uh and I look forward to that meeting. Um and the s speaking of the sustainability committee, they will be meeting on uh January 24th. um that's over Zoom and any members of the public is are invited to attend. Um we work on the

119composting um for 2026. Uh there's going to be an outreach to compost operators that we'll talk more about in the future uh through that uh committee and also uh looking at some tree protections uh also as well that was already presented to the town. And uh I believe that's all I have. David, >> thank you very much. uh in aquaculture, the aquaculture lease program through Suffach County was called the scout program, their lease uh acqu uh application cycle is open right now. Uh it started actually on Monday the 12th and and if you have any more questions or would like to participate in that program, please contact Thomas Rackley, the senior environmental analyst at the Suffach County at suffach countyny.gov/shellfish. in the department of recreation. Uh recreational programs that are available currently right now are

120biddy basketball. Uh that's at the John Marshall uh uh John Marshall. Uh grades three 3 through 4 in the mornings and grades 5 through six also in the morning. This starts this Saturday the 17th. Uh grades seven 8th starts January 24th. There are still some spots available. Registration is online the town's website at eamptonny.gov under the reg uh recreational page then too. Um, want to let everyone know uh, a couple updates here. Uh, at Stephenhand's path, uh, we are preparing for the ext expansion of the parking areas. As we discussed here some time ago, the anticipated start is to start at the months and into February to hopefully have that all complete by the advance of little league. Um, in Montalk here, uh, we completed a lot of the ADA sidewalk work in Montalk. It

121was a successful work for trip hazards. There's still other work to be implemented on there then too and we will continue to move forward on that particularly as we look into uh working with our contractors and also our highway department. Uh West Lake dock update. Uh again that construction project is moved forward to a uh portion where we are at a pause temporarily until we receive all the material which I believe is in transit uh from outside the country and it should be here uh shortly within this month and then that work will be uh starting in full earnest again and we are in constant contact with our slipholders there also but overall it's going going well. uh water quality. Please don't forget that the town's CPF water quality application process is open. Please contact

122the town's natural resources department about that application if you have any interest in that too. Extremely important. Um next the M talk inlet dredge uh update as of uh first thing this morning. Uh there's been nearly 90,000 cubic yards of material been removed. They are going through their mechanical hydraulic uh removal of rocks and debris into the channels again to bring it down to 17 ft on there. Uh they're running up against the FIPS the Nys window. Sorry, not fimps nymphs window. Uh and they're probably going to be extending the dredging uh time frame. That was what was being uh discussed in on on the update this morning. Unfortunately, I had to pop into this meeting, so I don't have more than that how that concluded. But I'll contact Brian Frank, who's been our con

123also working with me on that project from what happened there. Again, it's not going to be a long uh uh extension, and it's mostly going to be only an extension of the hydraulic means as the sorry of the hydraulic uh mechanical uh um digging, but the dredge is going to be complete probably within the next couple days. Uh let's see here. Lastly, um I had to take a family member on Friday uh to the ER to the freestanding emergency room. It's not the first time I taken a family member, but it's definitely the first time I took a family member of this generation, specific generation there. And that person and my family member was over the moon at the availability for the first time in her 65 years out here that East Hampton had an

124ER. Tom, I know you work on this and other members of the public see this facility all the time. I've been there with others. I've worked on it then, too. Again, the town board stood strong on this. Uh, and to have my family member be treated, uh, with respect, uh, to go through all the litany of diagnostic capacity that has in East Hampton. And then once we left hours later, we were able to go down and get one ton soup in her hometown without driving back. >> It was touching and that family member is feeling a lot better. It is one of the reasons why I do this job. Uh to help family and to help my town. So I want to thank all that was involved in that and also all the first responders

125that use it because I do know that it's helped as you mentioned. Uh lastly uh again as this is the first uh town board meeting of 2026 I want to wish everyone that is here. I want to wish town board members the general public a happy and healthy new year. Uh I wish everyone good health to the press to the members of the Montalk library. Uh let's make 2026 collaboratively successful for everyone. Let's move things ahead. I wish everyone health, prosperity, and joy uh and reach out to neighbors and this can continue to be one great township of East Hampton and I look forward to representing all you in 2026. With that, uh let's move on to resolutions. >> May I just one thing David about to mention? Sorry. I just wanted to um and

126on behalf of all the town board pass some condolences to the Ryan family on the passing of Pat Ryan last week. Um [clears throat] she was a matriarch not just to her family but to the town. She performed numerous roles serving for the East Hampton Village ambulance for many years. Um you know I I attended the wake last night. I think there's one degree of separation for all of us to to to the Ryan family. Uh it was a very it was a beautiful event. Um and my condolences to all the family. >> Agreed. Council member Flake resolutions. I will start with 2026 187. This is to retain LK MLAN associate professional engineering services for the sanitation department uh household um hazardous waste collection event registration at a cost of the town not to exceed

127$3,700. >> Second. All in favor? >> Pass and carried. >> 202618. This is notice to biders EH26001. This is for the supply and delivery of dairy products for 2026. The bid is available January 15th and is due back the town January 29th, 2026. For more details, feel free to contact the purchasing department at purchasing at eamny.gov beginning January 15th, 2026. >> Second. All in favor? I. >> Pass and carried. >> 2026189 is a notice to biders EH21, sorry, Eh26002. This is for plan delivery of frozen food. Uh the bid is available January 15, 2026 and due back January 29th, 2026. Details available from the purchasing department purchasing at eonny.gov. >> Second. All in favor? >> I pass and carried. >> 2026190 is additionally notice to biders for EH26003. This is for supply and delivery of

128growth 2026. Biders available January 15, 2026 and due back January 29th, 2026. >> Second. All in favor? I >> I pass carried. I'm happy to offer resolution 2026191. This is a 2025 budget modification for marine patrol. We're bringing the amount of uh we're decreasing the budget line for other equipment in the amount of $591 and also telephone in the amount of $358 and then increasing budget lines for uniforms in the amount of $140 and for telephone in the amount of $89. >> Second. >> All in favor? I passed and carried. 192 is a 2025 budget modification for the Ambiganit Street Light district. We're increasing revenue uh for uh appropriated unreserved surplus in the amount of 500, increasing expenditure for light and power in the amount of 500. We're decreasing uh light and maintenance supplies in

129the amount of 2,000 and increasing light and power in the amount of 2,000. >> Second. >> All in favor? I pass carried 193 is authorized payment of prior invoice from Marshall and Suns Service Station Incorporated. Uh this is for $4242. >> Second. >> All in favor? I passed and carried 194. It's authorized payment for prior years invoice the Suffach County and Water Authority in the amount of $288. >> Second. >> All in favor? I pass and carry. 195 is an authorized payment of 2025 invoices to AWS for sanitary operations and maintenance. Uh three invoices each in the amount of $375. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I pass carried. 196 is for Hamilton fuel expenses. This is a reimbursement the police officer William Hamilton who attended the child safety training uh in 2025 and

130reimbursements for $69. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> I passed and carried. 197 is a drone certification reimbursement for Joseph ISO in the amount of $175. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I passed and carried. >> I have resolution 2026 198 and this is to establish a fixed fee for EV charging. Whereas the town of East Hampton has installed electric vehicle charging stations at town hall for use by the public. And whereas the provision of the EV charging stations incurs costs to the town including electricity usage, equipment installation, maintenance and administrative oversight. Whereas the town board wishes to uh establish a reasonable and uniform fee. Whereas the town board finds the fixed fee of 30 cents per kilowatt hour for electric vehicle charging fair, reasonable, and consistent with prevailing market rates. Be

131it resolved that the town board of the town of East Hampton authorized the establishment of a fixed fee of 30 kilowatts per hour for the use of electric vehicle charging stations located at town hall. Uh resolve that said fee shall apply to all users unless otherwise exempt by law uh or by further resolution of the town board. Resolve that this resolution shall take effect immediately upon adoption. >> Second. >> Move for discussion. Um I just want to just confirm that we don't want to go lower on this and the reason I I kind of do this is twofold is you know one just from the perspective we we've incurred capital costs building out the number of stations we have and the goal there is to have as many people as possible using them you know

132market rates for EV charging range you know public uh grade 2 charges 20 to 40 cent so we're in the middle point of that range you know you charge at home you're between 10 and 20 cent um you know in order for people to use these if we are more competitive with our pricing then they get used more which is for me a twofold win you know one our capital investment is you know really being utilized and two more people are actually using electric vehicles to charge it so I want to see if there's consideration of actually lowering this to to 25 cents just to kind of encourage more people to use those charging structures >> so I would consider that but I think by if we put in the 30 right now and start

133with this and let's come back with more of the data and information. I can re reconsider that, but let's make sure at least we get something established first. >> Yeah. And I I I support that idea, David, because uh we did do the uh research and did some data on the 30 cents and that is what is uh a market standard for um second level EV charging. It's more for the supercharging. Um that is a present out. And I just want to note our capital expenditure. This was done through a grant. Uh so it didn't uh cost us any um money to do it. Um and as an EV user, I I think that uh we should start at 30 and we can take a look at usage and collect some data on it. >>

134But I agree with what Tom is saying is incentivize Yeah. to use it more. >> Ian, >> yeah, I don't I don't know enough about the market or the the regular rate. I'm open to discussing further for sure. I think thank Tom for bringing it up. I just don't have the information. So I'm supportive of setting it to 30 for now so we have something in place. All >> right. So we have a motion uh second. All in favor? >> I passed and carried. >> Uh resolution 199 is to pay a bill for petty cash. Uh this uh where has come to the attention of the town that 2023 and 2024 petty cash receipts from the ordinance department have not been paid. Therefore being resolved, the petty cash payment is hereby authorized in the amount

135of $1245. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I resolution 201. This is amen. >> I have one more. Oh, I'm sorry. >> That's okay. Um, it's a resolution 2026 200 and this is again to pay a petty bill for petty cash and uh this is uh for cash receipts from 2023 and 2024 from the animal control department resolve that petty cash payment is authorized for in the amount of $9.65. >> Second. All in favor? >> I carried. >> Resolution 2026201. This is to amend resolution number uh to correct a budget line for the annual maintenance for the town clerk licensing system. The total amount is $3,400.3. I'm sorry, $3,400 $4342. >> Second. All in favor? >> I pass and carry. >> You have an additional resolution? >> I do. Oh, I don't have it

136on my sheet. No problem. >> Okay. Thanks. Um resolution 26202 and this is to release security urban renewal parcel 17 and SP-12-1. Uh this is whereas a report has been received from the town's consulting engineer approving road work in an urban renewal area resolved that the following security by the town board is hereby released and the town clerk is directed to return the same to the principal party uh which is uh third street invesco LLC care of John Quinn for Dogwood Court uh old Brookquill New York um and this is uh for eight third street in East Hampton and this is in the amount of $16,000 500. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I pass and carry. >> Resolution 203. This is to retain professional services for Municipal Valuation Services, Inc. for 202526 small

137claim valuation and processing services um for 2026. The total amount is not to exceed $200,000. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I pass and carried. I have 2026 204. This retain Reano LLC as environmental council for 2026. Um, one moment. And this is the discussion with claim litigation uh issues uh in Wayne Scott against PFAS and other information. Uh council is not to exceed $100,000. >> Second. >> All in favor? Pass and carry. 2026 205 is retain LLC for airport litigation in 2026 for a list of airport litigation below and the compensation standard rates are also addressed below. Second. >> All in favor? I. Passed and carried. I believe that's all we have for today. Does anyone have any other comments or concerns? >> Not me. >> Good. Okay. Uh, can I have a

138motion to go into executive session? >> I'd like to make a motion to go into executive session for personnel. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Thank you very much. Thank you, LTV. Thank you all for participating