East Hampton Town Board Work Session - 10/21/25

001East Hampton Town Board. We are live. >> Thank you, LTV. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the East Hampton Town Board work session of Tuesday, October 21st, 2025. Carol, if you could please read the roll call. >> Present. Present. >> Council member Cald >> present. >> Supervisor Gonzalez >> present. If we could all please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. So today we start our meeting with public portion. We ask you to please kindly keep your comments to three minutes. That's followed by seven topics we have today. It's a jam-packed agenda. The first is the change town hall campus update with Gail Pellet

002and Steven Vanam. Then we have the building department update by Richard Normmoil. The 2025 beach update with David Lee, Chief Sarlo, and Johnny Ryan. We have an uh agriculture update by John Barley Dunn. Mark Morgan Perez will giving us an overview of the New York State homes and community resource homes HCR manufactured homes program. Uh David and I will lead a discussion about a recreational facilities proposal and then I have a recommendation for proposed stop signs in Hans Creek Farm. That'll be followed by liaison reports and resolutions. So, uh, I believe Bill Crane, you've signed up for a public portion. So, welcome. And thanks for joining us today. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. I'm Bill Crane, uh, president of the East Hampton Group for Wildlife. I want to talk about the, uh, crossbow

003hunting. The DEC has allowed deer hunting with crossbows wherever bow hunting is allowed. This would mean that um crossbows are allowed in October, November, December, and even during the traditional firearms season because we now have bow hunting during that season in January. The crossbow is a powerful weapon. That's why the requirement is for to to shoot it, you have to be 500 feet, not 100 feet, but 500 feet from a in a residential structure. It's um it has a trigger like a gun. And it uh actually some hunters on the social media have said, well, why a crossbow? Why not just allow rifle hunting all throughout all the months, all the hunting seasons? Um I think that the crossbow will it will be allowed with kids 15 and 14 years old. They'll have to be

004a parent in charge. But, you know, that's pretty young for a a weapon of this magnitude. And I when people want to go out and hike in in the woods and during the regular bow hunting season and these powerful weapons are are there, there's a I think there's a real public safety issue. I also feel for the deer. Uh the deer is you know deer grow up playing together. Uh they are very social. They warn each other in times of of danger. They snort to warn each other that somebody's out the predators out there. Usually a human. Um they are the most caring mothers one could imagine. The way they care for their young. They each have individual personalities. And each one wants to live. They all want to live as much as we want

005to live. It's it's just u to me it's heartbreaking. We need more respect for the deer. And um instead of increasing the power of our weapons used to kill them. Um the DEC allows it, but does East Hampton want to participate in this uh this adding this powerful weapon? I I believe there should be a public discussion. The I I I know it's part of a wider conversation about tickborne illnesses and vegetation and the deer's role in this. The literature and the peer-reviewed lit literature and that is the journals where they uh systematically review it. The the lit literature is sort of ambiguous on a lot of these issues. Uh people look to the DEEC for guidance, but the DEEC has been trying to expand has been expanding hunting every year. They're looking for a

006way to add to hunting. They get >> am I am I out of time? >> Oh, okay. Let me >> You can wrap it up. >> I'll wrap it up. It's just I want to just mention that they get funding from the sale of of hunting equipment. Uh, and I I just think we should think about the um the consequences for public safety and and the well-being of of the lives of deer before we move into adding this powerful weapon. Thank you. >> Thank you, Bill. Would anyone else like to address the board? >> Gloria. Welcome, Gloria. Good morning, Gloria Frzy. I haven't seen many of you since like last night. Um, and I'm dressed fancy because I've just come from the gym because it's important. It was important for me to be here today.

007Um, last night there was a debate for folks running for the the the the town board and I was outside acting as a greeter on behalf of uh of Kate because it's important to I really feel it's important to talk to people and understand what they're thinking, how they're feeling, what they like, what they don't like about the town, which is what everyone here on the board does. And um one of the most interesting conversations I had was with someone who said, "I've been here for 38 years and there's no community left in East Hampton." And it was really I felt so sad for them. They stopped coming to town board meetings about 25 years ago and they're not involved in any of the fabulous community organizations that are here that are available. I know

008each board member is a liaison to various neighborhoods to various committees where everyone is involved the the the commi the community has the chance to be involved. We've got Steven Vanam and Gail Pellet here who've been spearheading the beautiful community uh pollinator gardens here and the brand new meadow that they're going to talk about. There's um Barley Dunn who is with the uh South uh East Hampton Shellfish Hatchery. I always get that mixed up, but he welcomes community members to come volunteer and help and understand what's going on in our waters. With Rew this summer, we had Oh, the this couple also said, "You can't get kids involved. Kids aren't doing anything." This summer with Rewild, we had 30 high school kids who put who donated almost 2,000 hours of community service from Share the

009Harvest. And uh farmer Regina is here and she farms at at that same plot right there. So they're also with Barley. They're also they worked here with Change Hampton in one of Rew Wild's six uh pollinator gardens here. and in the food pantries. So, and Ian was delivering to uh to the food pantry as was Share the Harvest. And it's so exciting to see the food that we're harvesting being put to the important use of feeding our neighbors. And there is community here. There's a massive heart of community here. And I'm looking forward to working together with Change Hampton and Perfect Earth Project. and Kate's been spearheading this uh with us to really bring the various organizations together to see how we can create uh more of a bring more people from the community in

010for example with the kids we've got basically environmental community-based summer camp. Why don't we do that for adults? So they have a possibility to see, okay, they can see this, they can see that the the we wild gardens, they can come to um share the harvest. They can understand what's going on in our community and where the heart of this community really lives. So I'm looking forward to working with everyone on that. Thank you. >> Thank you, Gloria. Would anyone else like to address the board? >> Hey, Jason, is there anyone on the line? Yes, we have two callers on the line. Let me unmute the first. Give me a moment. And all right, in three, two. All right. Hello, caller ending 8186. You're on the air. >> Oh, thank you. Hi, this is uh

011Martin Drew Springs. Yeah, I just wanted to speak to uh the ongoing problems in our area with regard to Maidstone Park. uh the restaurant problems and all the uh issues surrounding that. So, uh I just wanted to be fair and alert you officials that uh seems to be a retribution agenda against my family. So, I had to report my perceived uh political corruption in our town to the district attorney. So, uh I'm just letting you folks know that uh we're no longer to be fooled with and uh if any one of you council people want to speak to any of my facts, you all know how to get in touch with me. So the reality is uh I want to thank everyone that has engaged me that being Mr. Cderer Pedmont and Mr. Tom Flight.

012Um thank you gentlemen for always engaging me in very difficult dialogue and I I think you understand the passion I have for my community. So if you guys would like to speak to any pre-existing non-conforming uses, my family's been a homeowner in that area since 1957. We owned two homes and we were former owners of the place across the street at Harbor Boulevard. So, I'm trying to address public safety issues, not unlike Mr. Bill Crane. So, I hope you folks take them seriously. And in the meanwhile, since I can't get any uh law enforcement cooperation, I had to alert the New York State troopers because I feel our town officials are not adhering to New York State vehicle and traffic law. So, thank you, gentlemen. your colleagues could learn a lot from you for engaging

013your constituency and uh I look forward to uh watching you guys uh do good work for our community and in the meanwhile uh Miss Burke Tim I know you don't like to make comments so I'm hoping you're receipt of my very strongly worded letter to you personally about my concerns ongoing so uh please don't uh take this personally but uh I have to protect my family and I have to protect my neighborhoods So that's what I'm doing. So, uh, just wanted to let you folks know in a fair manner, problems are serious. The public safety issues are real, and you guys need to start adhering to the language in the deed, uh, the expectations of uh, our town codes and the uh, New York State vehicle and traffic laws. And I hope our county attorney,

014Jake Turner, is uh, speaking to the totality of circumstances that I would speak to. So, there are solutions. I've put many forward. And it's time for you folks. Please do your job. Thank you very much. Thank you always for the opportunity to speak. Take care. >> Thank Thank you, Martin. Jason, if you could put the next caller through, please. >> Doing that right now. Okay. Caller ending. This is what I'm seeing over here in 9999. You're on the air. >> Is this me again? >> I guess it is. I don't know how your number appeared twice. Sometimes that happens. All right, but either way, have a great day. >> No, I called from uh two separate phones. I was having difficulties getting through. But while I'm involved today in government and politics, I would like

015to speak to the recreation agenda you guys are speaking to. Uh all those folks sitting on that town board, maybe uh minus the two gentlemen I was mentioning previously. Uh I have 42 years in the topic of recreation trying to get a dedicated site for our children in our community where uh 300 miles of trails uh we have zero access to any of them to enjoy our lives and our hobbies. So I'm hoping you guys will speak to the facts uh about recreation, the participation by the Long Island Sports Committee where I was chairman while I participated in all our uh committees and documents and all that sort of thing. So find some land for the kids. they deserve it. I would tell you down in other areas where I live, uh they do this

016around the airport and they uh support people's activities. So, we're finally looking for some support for our children in our community and the adults alike who enjoy motorsports and have had those opportunities overtaken by uh uh the political agendas that took 300 miles of trails and access away from us. So, New York state law allows a dedicated site and you can even charge a fee. So, these folks deserve their recreation. Uh, you know, however many times a month you can allow that to happen. So, be fair to your community. We need our slice of the pizza, too. Take care. Now, those are my comments for the day. Be well. >> Thank you, Martin. >> And we have no other callers on the line. >> Okay. So, we're going to move on to topics. So, the

017first up is the Change Hampton Town Hall campus update. and we invite Gail Pellet and Stefan Vanam to the podium so that we can hear what you folks have been working on. Welcome. >> Thank you. Thank you for giving time to us today. Um, we're going to set up some easels here. I don't know what the best position is for LTV, but >> the one next to you would be best. So, if you just make it so it's next to you over on your right hand side. So, where your right hand is right there. Perfect. Thank you. And I'm going to zoom out. I'm making sure that we can go and see this. And in three, you've got the >> So that's your slideshow that's going out that you'll see in the room. And out

018on broadcast, we'll see a combination of your if you at the podium, your slides, and everything good to go. >> Okay. So, I think the only uh slide here is the map. I didn't realize it was here. We also have it on an easel. I'm Gail Pellet from Change Hampton and Ste um one of the co-founders and Stephan Vanam is also a co-founder, president of the board and design our website and all of our signage which is also in the garden. These we brought these today primarily for the LTV audience and people here to see. Um >> can this be seen? >> Is that >> No, it has to be on on the easel. Perfect. Thank you. So maybe we put that up first or whatever. >> Start from the beginning and then I'll I'll

019add them. >> Okay. Um, in 2022, we established a private public partnership with the town of East Hampton to create an ecological model uh to educate our community about why turf lawns are dead ecological zones and uh planting natives and pollinator pollinator friendly plants is much healthier for us non-toxic biodiverse landscapes. And so the town, we actually want to thank the town who had great confidence in us that we came along with this proposal and they trusted us to do it on town property. And so we transformed this 4,000 square foot piece of turf lawn, which was turf lawn out here, and created this magnificent pollinator garden, which is now in its third year of gloriousness. Um today we want to just review a few things about the pollinator garden and the what we did

020with creating the beginning the creation and installation of the 14,000 square ft of of grass native grassland pollinator meadows and to talk about briefly the plan for 2026 to complete that project. and we're going to then introduce u an educational physical educational project um at the end of all that. So first the pollinator garden with the third year we've all witnessed the hundreds and thousands of native bees and moths and butterflies and the birds that are starting to come in from this garden. And you know that we uh as change Hampton we organized the proono professional talent and expertise to create the garden. Abby Lawless our designer and organized community volunteers to maintain and come and help clean up the garden at the end of the year and all of that and also to get

021donations locally from nurseries like Whitmore who donated eight native trees to this garden. Everybody should know there was not a native tree on the town campus when we started these projects. Um and uh we want to acknowledge also that every week in spring, summer and early fall, two wonderful women come. They are master gardeners. They are Barbara Burnside and Lori Petroski. They come and weed this garden. This garden is maintained really quite to a pristine level by those two women. We also have and are very fortunate in having Paul Munoz and his eco-harmony team come and do the professional landscape part of it which is keeping the uh the beds edge to trim the trees in and to uh wrap the trunks for winter against the deer. We do have a deer herd here and

022we have designed the garden in such a way um to try to put off deer as much as possible although we know how hard that is and we do spray a little wolf piss on the garden occasionally and Paul does that as well as regulating the irrigation because we're tamping down the irrigation all the time. Native plants survive on their own. Um, we also want to acknowledge um that uh Steve O'Brien who heads the building and grounds department has been very cooperative and helpful at any moments when we needed that kind of help from from the town and uh it keeps the the lawn that we preserved mowed to our specifications. and we will continue to add new plants to it every year because some do not make it and others become bullies and we

023have to cut those back. There's one issue today that we need the board approval for in terms of future plan for the pollinator garden and that is we want to put a a blue stone patio underneath the picnic table and benches which means we will be picking out a permanent spot for that table and benches. And we're looking and following the growth of the wonderful sweet gum tree in the middle and the shade that it cast because we're trying to pick the spot that creates that has the most shade. And we can talk about that. We have donation of both the blue stone uh itself, the materials and the labor to do it. So uh we can discuss that afterwards. We hope to also install bird baths and bee baths this year cuz Derell Godfrey

024promises she won't do any more photographs for us in the garden until we get a bird bath in. So, um there was one other issue is that when we we established the private public partnership with the town, the town offered to pay for the insurance of the uh garden liability insurance that covers both us and the town. and they specified $3,000 a year. That insurance has gone up every year. So this year it has come to 3,480 and maybe we can have a discussion with it. >> It's in the 2026 budget. >> Yeah. So that we can talk about that. Um okay, transferring to the meadows. Um we I think there's a a a poster here about why grassland meadows are important. We put those signs up in the meadow areas. Um, we started in

025the March of this year. Abby Lawless came with Jason Lagaren and his team and in that cold bitter March they uh uh laid out the design for all the beds. Where is the map? AB >> beds A, B, C, and D are the four beds closest to the buildings here. Then we have E, F, and G which are the big meadow plots across the uh entrance way to it. And the whole idea of course >> can you see where I'm pointing? >> Yeah, we it's here for us and and we all have copies of it. Okay, great. Terrific. So, um the idea then, uh after, um Jason's team took off the the turf for all that those meadows, uh mechanically was a different method than we used in the pollinator garden where we used the

026lasagna method as we call it, putting down cardboard, mulch, and compost. They uh removed it because of the size and scale of that project mechanically, but Munoz's team had to keep all through the spring and early summer keep weeding and removing grasses that were coming up. It's part of a process. And um by June, early June, we uh put in 5,000 plugs of grasses, a range of native grasses, short, long, long island natives, New York natives, and pollinators, and you've seen the result. We put mostly a a very high mix of the perennials in these four uh beds right outside the buildings. And across the other way, we have one bed where we have put in a fair number of perennials to because they're the beauty ones. Immediately the grasses will be gorgeous as these

027meadows evolve, but immediately the flowering plants came up and promise with two of those beds. Um it's F and G. G has some uh has been seated. We are doing a mix of seeding and perennials. And then uh E is it? No, F is the big one out there that has not been planted yet. And people may be curious what happened to that. Did we forget? No, we just had to take a longer time to cut back the weeding and stuff in that. Um and we are going to be doing something called dormant seeding. It'll be seated in December. It's an overwinter kind of seeding that will produce hardy plants by spring and and a mix again of of grasses and perennials. Um, just to repeat, we don't do these gardens just because they're beautiful

028and gorgeous, of course, which they are. We are doing them because we are using primarily native plants and native plants have deep roots which help to clean the toxins out of our soil and our water systems, groundwater and eventually that has an impact on our drinking water and our marine our bays etc. but also because native plants have evolved over millions of years with specific insects and birds that are critical to our pollinator process and the survival of our ecosystems. When the insects are gone, we're gone. And there are other uh you know, lots of things that uh are operating to to destroy insect life. We've lost almost 40% of them since 1970. We've lost three billion birds in this country. We've lost something like 2/3 of our wildlife. Not part of that cause is

029the removal of habitat. We've removed so much habitat and that's why lawns reducing lawns helps in that process of restoring habitat but also pesticides of course and climate change now itself is having a huge impact on the survival of species. So um I'm getting off I know we've got to move along here. We place signage um out in the the grassland meadows to explain why grassland meadows are so important. They were once a major uh ecological landscape of Long Island and they've been paved over, removed, turned into golf courses, buildings, highways, parking lots, whatever. So why are grasslands so important? because they are drought resistant. Their deep roots do what I talked about before the the whole cleaning of soils and water. They support something like 250 species of insects and birds and and other

030kind of wildlife. And um we are doing this for another reason as well that the uh you know working towards a new land ethic here trying to convince our community that it's healthier for us and the ecosystem to restore native landscape and um also to and we realize that part of that challenge is to create a new aesthetic and convince people it's even more beautiful than a 5 acre lawn with pruned non-native shrubs on it. So, we have an formidable task we realize. So, one other request we have from the board in terms of a board decision is we would uh uh Paul Munoz and Abby have said that it would be helpful if we could put 2x4 planks inside the edging of all the the uh garden beds and meadow beds. It helps in

031preventing crab grass and stuff from leaping over from the paths into the bed, but it also helps uh reduce the amount of time spent on edging. And you realize people are donating this labor to us. So we uh anything that can reduce that that uh that demand is helpful. Now going towards 2026, we when we originally um presented the proposal for the uh Grassland Meadows to the town, we talked about a couple of more uh beds uh just to the what is it the north of the existing EF and G beds that are already created on the other side of the mediocre color. Um, and they would be called H and I, I believe, on the map. Um, we would like to, we're going to go back to the cardboard uh system of removing the

032lawn. Would like to start that process this winter with some compost and mulch on top of those beds. We will then plant them next spring and uh summer. Um and Abby is preparing a list of the kind of grasses for the open sunbed of of bed H. And uh we also are planning to plant a number of oak trees there again in the mission to try to uh install more native trees on the town campus. And we have a a wide variety of oaks here. They are our most precious tree on the east end in our landscape, our environment. I many people see them as messy, creating too many leaves. It's the first thing that contractors want to remove and clear from a lot when they're building is get rid of all those oaks. Well,

033it turns out that the oak trees are the most keystone species we have. They support over 500 species of insects and birds and we need to keep embracing our oaks and uh and protecting them as best we can. And so we wanted to plan plant a cluster of oaks in that area out there too. Maybe we have scarlet oaks here, red oaks, black oaks, white oaks, green oaks. And we don't know yet the mix because we'll probably get them donated uh from one of the nurseries. And we also plan to have a little area just close to that where we especially helpful for working with children and educating about this process. And this is to have an acorn sapling area where we're growing oaks from acorns. Um after as well as doing the mature trees

034in there, um Abby has put forth ideas for a bunch of different plants under the already existing big native trees. They're lynen trees down closer to the highway. They will be shady underneath. So we will put in a a variety of native ferns under there. The whole idea Kate has said this herself at some point. This is school. We don't do it just because it's gorgeous. It's school. It's an educational model to show what uh native plants and it can create in term in the process of working towards healthier ecosystems and for human health. So, um, let's see. I think now, um, so we see the enormous educational opportunities with all of this. And as Gloria mentioned, we've had the rew summer student interns here in the summertime, weeding, both in the pollinator garden and

035in the new meadows. And, uh, we welcome all of that. We've had families with children to get come in together to help us plant and many more folks uh involved. So Stefan has a concept he'd like to >> Oh, sure. Step up to the podium. Stefan, >> you want to hand out some? >> Hi, my name is Stefan Vonam. I'm the president of Change Hampton. And people uh keep on asking us to explain various ecological systems and how they work in their yards. And so we started to making these little thought cards um to talk about these issues. Uh real estate uh um real estate uh PE folks in real estate architects and builders have asked for a handy pocketable guide to explain the environmental registrations their clients are confronted with when buying or renovating

036in the town. So to explain these natural processes in context, we developed what we call our action fans to make eight complex processes clear. Now um uh Kate and Kathy already have this but I don't think gentlemen you have not received this yet. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> Hang on a second. >> Yeah. >> True. We need three. We only got two. >> I hope you don't mind. So, we wanted to share these, but we only have two more left. >> No, no, no. That's these are great. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Okay. So, um eight issues. Why did we choose these eight? And why do we start with a new land ethic? We feel that um uh a new land ethic uh is required that preserves life, biodiversity and sustainability and to plant the

037idea that we can't really be healthy in a toxic environment. Second one, let me show you. Actually, I should be number two. Water. Water in all its forms is our most precious resource. Without clean water, there's no business, there's no tourism, there's no economy, there is no life. Three. Why natives? Given their pervasive spraying and runoff resultant runoff, natives are our natural way to clean the water as it drops down into the aquifer before we drink it. Four keynote species. Gail alluded to this. Don't cut the oaks. They're a keynote species supporting more than 500 different insects. We need them. We're going to plant them in the campus. There seems to be this urge by a lot of people. They come out here and the first thing they do is cut down all the oaks.

038That is not smart and wise for our future. If we want to have a functioning food chains, we need those trees that host these insects. Next, soil is not dirt. We see this on every construction site. The overclearing the huge mounds of of earth that are essentially uh considered to be dirt. Next one. Oh, that's a tricky one. Loving the leaves. Um uh it it will require a new way of thinking for us to realize that leaves are natural fertilizer and they do not express the moral character of uh the person's lawn. So there's a rethink that we need to help and we hope that uh this action fan can contribute to this effort. Well, huge one tick. Um, I'm told that some people brag about the kind of spraying that they do as a

039status symbol in our town. I haven't heard it. It's hearsay, so I hope it's not true, but um there is healthy ways to deal with ticks, a legitimate concern, but it doesn't include killing all the other insects in the yards. Um there is scientific data that uh is clear that human and tick encounters are not less if you spray your yard rather than spraying yourself. Um so uh in general or in total I'd say more life less killing. Um, and we uh think that this uh action fan can go a long way in starting the conversation in uh and and we actually would like to partner with the town to put one of these into the hands of every person that lives in our town. We think there is three key benefits to doing this.

040One, we all want to live in a town where people are well informed about the e ecological consequences of their actions. Two, this is an essential tool for professionals in architecture, construction, and real estate um to um field the questions that their clients are asking them and for which they're not trained. An architect is not trained to explain why native plants are good for our for clean water. So, here's a way to help the professional classes to answer those urgent questions. And it's a keeper and an opportunity for the town to communicate with the town in a meaningful way and in a sustained way. Nobody's going to throw this away. This will stimulate conversation and will raise these issues and provide actionable solutions. Now, um we can uh produce these uh in quantity uh for

041350 uh based on a run of 2500 copies. Um dropping down to 250 if we do 5,000 or $1.99 if we partner on a run of 10,000 of these. These could be distributed through town offices. They can be sent out with a newsletter. Uh they can be handed out at events. Um I think it it makes the board look forwardinking and uh um aware of what our challenges are and how to address the ignorance that unfortunately reigns in so many ways. I'm I have an example. When I ask eight of my most educated friends of where their water comes from, eight don't know. Here's a way to help mitigate this, to communicate effectively, to start the conversation, and to take that classroom that we built out there and put it into people's pockets. Um, do

042you have questions? >> no comments. >> I I I do do have one. Um, which is I mean the the key word here for me is biodiversity, right? Biod diversity. Yes, that is what we're aiming for with this project. That is why we want people to pursue this over say lawns and kind of more homogeneous types of vegetation. biodiversity is the key identified for our species long-term survival both in terms of resources etc. So, in that concept, I I I totally get this. Um, you know, I did think it was interesting hearing Gail's earlier comment with regards to even with this project, you have threats to this from deer and it's kind of a topic that's come up before. It's a topic that's coming up elsewhere and we we've talked about this in our own

043wildlife the town wildlife committee with regards to that we have as a town potentially reached our ecological biodiversity threshold with regards to deer. you know, the impact they're having on this town. We're seeing across the town. We have the town explosure that's, you know, shut off from deer. And when you go into that explosure and you see the diversity of species versus the surrounding area, it is significant. So, hearing that you've had that problem here as well is really interesting for me to hear that. Um, you know, in terms of the tick pieces, obviously that that is huge and how we manage that. I agree. like you know the use of pesticides is very problematic both in terms of our you know impact on our water bodies here but also with regards to human interactions

044I mean we have microbes on our skin those pesticides can have massive impacts on our own biome as well so >> if I can comment to this these are bioides they don't just kill critters there is a reason why cancer rates are through the roof on Long Island and especially on the east end and it was interesting we had a conversation with the chairman of the suffoc County Water Authority who uh um alerted us to the fact that they were way ahead of the EPA standard and that they were testing for 450 different chemicals. Well, a concurrent DEC report stated that over 1,700 chemicals are used in Suffach County. 6 million pounds a year. Uh and you know that has an effect on biodiversity clearly. uh we have neighbors who up the hill who spray

045and you know all that stuff runs down into the bay where I'd like to swim. So um there is a conversation that we all need to have to figure out how do we channel this into the right way and I think education and and is a critical part of this and as Kate has uh so aptly described our school outside. Let's put that school into the into the pockets of everybody who resides in this town. Um change requires understanding and you know these are complex issues that in school none of us learned these these complex uh scenarios. So we feel this is a way to make complex things clear and to um educate in in a playful way that is g will gain more adherence to exactly the concerns that you're raising. So thank you

046very much. So, what I'd like to do here, I mean, we have a robust agenda, so I want to keep things moving, but so you you've asked for board decisions on on a couple of different things. So, with phase one and two, the question was, is the board comfortable with uh a blue stone patio underneath the picnic table that's outside uh in the pollinator garden? >> Will there be a weed barrier underneath the blue stone? >> Will there be a weed barrier underneath? I'm don't know, Gail. Will there be a weed barrier? >> A weed >> barrier? >> Yeah. I just just in terms of like managing employee town employees workload like having blue stone if they're going to have to continually go in and kind of weed it that creates workload. >> I don't

047think so, but we will check and we'll get back to you on this. I think there can be um crushed cement underneath in order to insulate it from the weeds. But we will talk to the people >> and right now the the the change Hampton folks have been doing the weeding but at some point that's going to get turned over to us. Second was the insurance. I've already said that that's already accounted for in the 2026 budget. So we're good there. The last thing that impacts phase one and phase two is you asked for 2x4 edging uh along the garden beds in order to for easier maintenance. Is everybody good? Probably >> just as long as it's not CCA wood. Um I'd want an untreated word being used for that. would think that that's a

048standard >> rod and become part. >> So everybody good with that? >> Yes. >> Okay. So phase three, you've you introduced or reintroduced what you're looking to do in beds H and I and uh J and K and you've also asked for an oaklo cluster and the action fans. We're going to discuss that and get back to you, but I wanted to give you answers for phase one and two because those are more immediate. >> Great. >> Sound fair? I'm concerned about the untreated wood is how long it's going to last. You know, it seems like it would rot very very quickly. So, I don't know if that's the best edging material. I defer to you as the experts. You've done a great job. But >> you mean the wood planks to the edge? >>

049Yeah. If it's untreated in the soil, it you know, within a couple of years, it's probably deteriorating. So, I just don't know if there's other edging material to accomplish the same goal. But >> Abby will be non-toxic. >> Yeah, that's important. >> Yeah. So I mean but you know as we all witness sitting here we watch people come up get their phones out there this is an incredible um educational what did you call it uh model that you have created and uh you've actually moved the market right we've seen you know folks like Whittenales and Whitmore's you know add more native plants and Whit Whitmore actually has now a division for native plants. So you're driving the market from a customer >> calls a daily weekly how do we make the change in our yard?

050How do we make the change? And so we are encouraging more and more land care professionals to move in this direction and they are eager to do so. It's also convincing property owners that this >> you know it's actually to turn landscapers into land care experts which is a whole new burgeoning industry. um we don't have enough staff to really meet all the demand but uh the the action fan is part of this whole rethinking of uh that the domination of nature has really brought us to this and we need to work with nature naturally uh not through chemicals uh that kill us ultimately. Sorry to be so so drastic and and concrete but cancer is all around us. Well, I certainly support beauty with benefits. Um, and that's what I think the these initiatives

051do. Um, Tom spoke about the biodiversity. We need to support our biodiversity. So, this is visual beauty, but also has intense ecological benefits and I think that's the goal. So, thank you so much. >> Thank you very much, >> Stephan. And Gail, sorry, just one quick question. in terms of, you know, operational management. Um, how long is change Hampton's commitment to the weeding program and at what point is the town scheduled to take that over? >> I think that originally in the original licensing agreement it was 2027. Uh, it was renewed. So, we haven't actually discussed this internally. Um we hope for the for definitely for the foreseeable future and as the expansion of the program is is proceeding that that is part of our mission and I think maintenance is the critical component to

052work with something that's alive >> and the the maintenance uh issues also are an organizing principle for us to involve more community volunteers in the garden. We organize a group to come and clean up in the spring. You know, we're about to put up our sign here again. We're not lazy, >> which means we don't do anything with this pollinator garden or the meadows until next spring. We don't cut it down in the fall because the birds and insects and animals use it intensely all the time. >> And it's just as beautiful during the winter as it is, you know, it has all season interest. and it beats uh folks running around with blowers polluting the air. I >> I I will say I may be alone in this, but I'm not a huge fan

053of the we're not lazy sign. If there's a different catchphrase you could use, I just think when people walk up to town hall and they see that sign doesn't always portray the best message of the town operation. So, if there's a different message you could consider, I would personally appreciate it. >> No, we appreciate this. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Great. Thank you for all you do. having confidence in us >> and for working with us to make a better place. Thank you. >> Absolutely. Thank you. Okay, so now let's moving right along. We have a presentation by Richard Normmoil and he's for our building department update. Welcome Rich. Thank you for joining us today. >> Good morning everyone. Uh firstly, I'd like to thank uh Supervisor Kathy Burke Gonzalez, all the board members,

054and uh our town attorney Jake Turner for your confidence in my abilities to lead the restructure of your building department, bringing the board as your principal. Uh I prepared a statement that outlines the uh function, the immediate future, and the long-term planning of the town of East East Hampton's restructure of your building department. Uh certainly exciting things coming. Uh the building department is responsible for reviewing and approving all construction in the town of East Hampton. The office issues building permits, certificates occupancy, rental registry permits, title search reports, property research reports, performs property inspections, provides public information and assistance, and collects all related fees. Uh it's a sizable job description. Uh the reconstruction plan for our building department includes one new and one additional building inspector, two new plans examiners, and a new front office assistant

055will be added to the staff. The new plans examiners will serve two essential purposes. to determine code compliance for proposed construction and relieve the building inspectors of plan review duties. Until recently, building inspe inspectors performed not only building inspections but additional but in addition performed plan reviews for building permit applications that combined duties while allowable are not a common practice. By assigning that function to dedicated plans examiners, we anticipate through plan reviews while allowing for more in will allow for more inspections by the inspectors. The front office assistant will provide direct answers to residents and applicants questions again while allowing other staff to perform their assigned duties. [Applause] In addition to the new staff, a longer greater focus on technology and training within the department workforce will create better efficiency in the ability for staff

056members to perform their respective duties. Also, internal categorizing of applications will reduce the application review time. The open gov system streamlined the application process from the original paper to an electronicbased system. Open gov provides ease of access to both the applicants and the staff. However, with the transition of certain processes must be further refined. We are working with the uh applicable departments to modify the electronic submission components to better categorize the categorize the information. Further staff is currently training with open gov and plan review system to be fully prepared for this application process. A central email address openvuildings east eampny.gov has also been created to allow for feedback and suggestions from the community regarding how to optimize open gov. Further training will also be conducted for the new staff and both code certification and field

057inspections. Code certification will be provided through the state certification process while I lead the hands-on field training for our new employees. Review time of applications overall will be greatly reduced by implementing the changes discussed before. In addition, by classifying permits into different categories, wait time for certain permit applications can be reduced. Simple permit applications would be for pools, solar panels, decks, sheds, and the like would be expedited. The goal being to allow those simple permit applications to be processed at a greater speed. We have identified a path forward for the building department to reduce application time through staffing, training, utiliz utilization of technology, and internal organization. I'd like to introduce some of our new inspectors. We have two new plans examiners with us today, Joe Birdie and Jacob Sutherland. We have a new building inspector

058with us today, Aaron Arkinson. And we also have Paul Kleti who could not be here. His start time will be next week. >> Great. >> I thank you for your time and I look forward to the exciting changes coming to the building department. Thank you all. >> We may may have questions. Welcome, gentlemen. excited to see you all and that you're ready to start. As of yesterday, I Well, Joey, you've been Joe, I >> you've been here about a month, so you know, you can show these guys around. Aaron, you've were in code enforcement for a number of years and now you've made the transition over to the building department. And Jake, everybody may recognize Jake because Jake was uh working at the security greeter desk in the evening. So, uh you're familiar and live

059here in the town as well. So, all three of these young men live here in East Hampton, and we're really excited to have you working with Rich on the on the restructuring of the department. So, you guys can sit down and and thank you for being here today. I don't know if town board members have comments or questions for >> Yeah, Rich, I would just say I I I really appreciate the way you've come into this position and kind of taken an overview of what needs addressing and how to go about addressing it. I think you're absolutely on the right path. Um, you know, as I said to you before, there's support we can give you as a board. Please kind of be vocal about reaching out to us to get that support because we

060we understand that there's things we need to improve on in there. Um, you know, I I have from the business committee some recommendations. I'll be mentioning my leers and report um as to you know, just just possibilities that we could explore to, you know, help improve our public relations as much as anything else, but also our operational focus. Um, but yeah, thank you and keep up the good work. >> Thank you. Thank you. So, I've been fortunate to have a couple meetings with you, uh, particularly about trying to help the residents with applications, loopholes, nuances that we're trying to make a little bit smoother. Uh, as a town takes on more either for water quality funding or other applications that go through your office, there's ways that we can do some certain things administratively for

061the easier applications, but making sure that the language that's within the code is appropriate and defensible or others don't find their way around it is extremely important. Uh I really do appreciate the 25 certifications that you have in the nearly 30 years that you have the building industry and government and I look forward to assisting you and your staff all of them moving ahead and specifically Alison McDougall also into I think she's been a bedrock there as we transitioned also. >> Yes, >> Alison Bennett I would say I would >> Alison Bennett McDougall >> I would also thank the existing staff in the building department for making my transition to this position seamless. They work very hard for this town. Great. >> So, yeah, I I wouldn't add any more than what uh my fellow

062board members said. I I've spoken to you as well and I look forward to uh to what changes you bring to the department in terms of efficiency, modernization, and uh also appreciate all the new staff members um and look forward to working with all of you. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, I would just reiterate what everybody's already said. You know, thank you for being here. We've we've had some conversations as well. I think you're very thoughtful. your experience that you're bringing to the town is fantastic. I think you're on exactly the right track and and as Tom said, I think as I've told you personally, anything we can do to help support you, anything you need, um would like to do that. >> Thank you all. We're listening to everyone's suggestions and we're

063doing everything we can to improve. >> Sure you will. >> Right. And we had talked about we're setting up an email address uh open gov building at eampny.gov gov for folks in the community. Tom's got some folks in the business committee that have some recommendations, but folks that are using open gov, you know, have some us have the user experience and we want to hear from them as well. So that is getting set up by it as we speak. So >> thanks for joining us today. >> Thank you. Well, thank you gentlemen for coming in. >> Okay, next up we have is the 2025 beach update. David's going to introduce and I see Chief Sarlo, uh, Johnny John Rooney, I didn't see you earlier. Welcome. And, uh, Chief Johnny Ryan Jr., uh, you want I

064guess Chelsea, you're going to pull up the presentation for us, please. >> Thank you, Chelsea Winslow, for helping us. Uh, uh, we have Chief Sorlo here. We also have our uh, Superintendent of Recreation, John Rooney, and also our chief lifeguard, John Ryan, Jr. uh probably about a hundred years combined of experience with each of your expertises right now leading the residents to a great public safety uh year. Um we started the beach advisor group in response to COVID making sure that we could have our beaches open during co and a successful year with the board's support under madam supervisor Kathy Buronales. continue that in having a premeating season uh preseason meetings and also having uh showing to the residents and the town board um uh an exit of uh exit programming for the summer of

0652025 in the past summers. This helps us prepare for next year, find out what we're seeing on the beaches and what we need to do more. Um our town, our next slide is our town beach and parks department and recreation advisory group includes myself as lays on council member chief Michael Sarlo uh John Ryan the superintendent of recreation Steve O'Brien who's our uh super our town's building and grounds department head Timwell who is our from the marine patrol John Ryan Jr. Chief Lifeguard, Francis Bach, who's our clerk of our town trustees, and others here that are in an advisory capacity. This 2025 beach season report will include a summary of preseason hiring and certification activity, summary of our beach operations, which are numerous, seasonal uh protected versus unprotected beach responses, Eastampton Town Police Department recap,

066marine patrol recap, buildings of ground recap, recreation recap, and also recommendations for action plans as we start to enter the 2026 season, which is around the corner. Um, I'm going to let John Ryan Jr., Chief John Ryan Jr. Please go through the next couple slides if you don't mind. Thank you, Johnny. >> Sure. Every March uh East Hampton Town Lifeguards uh offer a still water certification and uh and then following in May we after Memorial Day weekend we start our ocean certification. Uh this year we qualified 31 lifeguards still water certified and 35 ocean certified. um an additional every every 3 years lifeguards have to reertify um those those uh skills and three three still water reertifications took place and 48 ocean lifeguard reertifications took place as well. Um I will say that summer started

067uh with the first training ocean training the test conditions were uh horrendous I think would be a good word for it. It was uh rain, heavy rain and uh cold and the water was cold and um but yet 23 took it took the test and 19 were successfully uh able to pass that test. Um but uh in addition our junior lifeguard enroll en enrollment uh has increased this year u this past summer and mostly in amagansit uh small increase in mtok uh also the nipper program and John will go over the numbers for those uh later on but um the nipper program in amigansit and mtok also increase uh the east town lifeguards employed 150 lifeguards in the 2025 season. 119 lifeguards were were lifeguards and 31 were officers. Uh under also included in that

068150 are in um lifeguard instructors, junior lifeguard instructors, lifeguard instructors and cadet instructors. Uh those individuals don't work full-time on the beaches, but they sure do come in in very good uh in they do come in handy at the end of the season when we lose our our college kids to uh to heading back to school. uh we rely on them to see if they can give us a day out of their worked week uh to come down and work the stance so we don't have to close beaches. Um I I will say uh the recruiting has been very successful over the past three or four years and I will say that um out of the 45 years of lifeguarding that I've been uh employed by the town. I think this is the only year

069I can ever remember all of our beaches staying open. And I'm not talking about um closing one beach or two beaches. Most of most of the years it's all three bays are shut down. maybe one bay is kept open. Uh we just don't have the numbers. This year we did and we were able to keep every one of our lifeguarded beaches open. Um and uh it it certainly did come in handy uh those those those instructors and as well as the new recruits that are high school kids. We we rely heavily on them to uh cover the the positions that are uh left vacant from kids going back to college. Uh the QR stickers were added to beach signage links. Um linking for our beach wheelchairs. Um that uh people can certainly click on that

070link brings them to the town website allows them to understand how they can access the beach wheelchairs at our beaches. I always say everybody is is uh has a right to the beach uh and should definitely not be held up because they have difficulty getting onto the beach. So we provide those beach wheelchairs at our lifeguarded beaches. Um uh also uh beaches were man from May 22 uh 24th through September 14th with uh two postseason weekends uh after Labor Day. Uh in 2025 there was a we had a moderate surf season. Um 65 days were green flag, 19 were yellow flag, two were red flag, and then we have four no flag days. that was during hurricane uh Aaron um which was a challenge but I think your your core really stepped up with the

071work of the police department also marine patrol for safety on the beach because that was during a time where we actually closed the beaches so it was well done and coordinated uh by the group >> and uh a lot of people don't realize that we took a lot of take a lot of flack for that you know you close the beaches you keep people from going on the beaches they don't realize the danger of that surf as a surge of water comes in knocking individuals. We had a number of rescues during and before and after uh Aaron arrived here. Uh and you know it's you're lucky those people are alive today. We certainly didn't want to lose anybody because they felt they they had the right to go down on the beach and and and

072test test mother nature. Um, so and and the county understand this that you know they they look at the people standing on at the top of the beach and blame them but and I even had conversations with friends and whatever. U but the county makes those decisions and county gives us the the ability to open our beaches and uh provide them the safety on our beaches. We get that permit every year from the county and the county makes made a decision to shut those beaches down. We are following directions from the county. We don't certainly didn't need to lose our permit to operate those beaches because of an individual feeling they had the rights to going down and attempting their own fate. Um, in any case, the uh town beaches hosted approximately 171,335 beach patrons

073this season. Numbers numbers up from last season, 33,000 about approximately 33,000 from last year. Um with uh the beach operations suspended end of the season's over, we are presently uh inventorying supplies and equipment and preparing for 20 season of 2026. >> I understand there's going to be more weekends this year. I was talking to someone who's has a seasonal business whereas this was like one of the short 2025 was one of the shortest summers because Memorial Day was late and Labor Day was early. But next year, Memorial Day is early and Labor Day is late. >> Yeah, it was >> optimism. I love it. >> Chief, oh, we're gonna have a longer summer. >> Yeah. Yeah. There we go. Hallelujah. >> Um, lifeguard units uh recorded 44 aided injuries and these will be shown in

074the graphs at the end, but uh 44 aided injury uh injuries uh responses in 2025. Of these 13s require 13 required EMS, 10 resulted in hospitalization or transport to get uh um evaluated by a medical physician. Um uh no fatalities, thank God, occurred in the east town of East Hampton beaches during two the during operational hours. Um, mobile units logged 40 emergency responses, which is up 25% across both districts, uh, including seven jet ski responses, uh, eight at uh, ATV responses, and 25 truck responses. Uh this season all all chief vehicles were equipped with AED Narcan kits and uh thanks to the training of the Marine Patrol um officer um Matt Sukowski, he came down and trained all of our guards and stopped the bleed. Uh we had tourniquets in every truck as well as

075every uh at every beach um in the event we needed them, which we didn't, thank God. All right. Um but um each uh we did receive two uh three three AEDs um that were donated by a gentleman named Dave Plot. And if you don't remember who he is, he's the individual that had a heart attack at India Wells and was brought back after 20 minutes of unresponsiveness, uh, no heartbeat and came back and he's to this day he calls me on on his the day he he died and came back to life um during the summer of 2022 2023. Uh, lifeguards performed 98 rescues this year at protected beaches. An additional 53 rescues were made at various unprotected locations on the ocean. Unprotected rescues again doubled from n uh last year from last year. 93%

076of all rescues were a result of of rip current rescues. Um uh obviously this highlights the importance of uh of people swimming in protected areas and we understand with the amount of parking there is and then maybe not be able to go there or maybe it's a little more convenient to to be in an unprotected area. Um it is important for us to make sure that we we advise the public um of of these dangerous currents that uh dangerous currents, dangerous surf conditions. um uh which is uh one of the things that we've been recording this year as well. And that's the um they're called prevents. Prevents letting people know that uh preventative >> uh rescues, preventative injuries. Uh um but um it it was a quite a successful summer. >> Thank you, Johnny. And

077we'll bring you back up a little bit. >> I I did I have a question. Maybe I'm jumping ahead. The Beach Guardian program which TJ Calibri rolled out. I you know understand we're bringing it back in 2026 and could you just touch on that too? >> Sure. It's um so we teach uh individuals the junior lifeguards and nipper program uh we teach in those programs to build uh these individuals make them uh water safe uh ocean awareness open water awareness of uh and we teach confidence or first of all comfort. comfort. When somebody's comfortable in the water, they float better, they're relaxed, they float. The lungs are their flotation device. Anxious, they sink, they drown, they they they panic. Um well, the same thing goes for adults. We've been asked for many many years for

078when can you start a an adult junior lifeguard program? Well, we did. We did at one point and it just didn't work. But that happens all the time. you start something, it doesn't work, you go back to drawing boards, you figure it out. Uh well, this year we did a pilot program and that pilot program uh beach guardian water safety program for parents and the first day of uh people came they signed their waiverss and they there were 53 parents involved in the program. We are teaching comfort, confidence, making sure they're how to read the ocean like a lifeguard does every day they walk down the beach. Uh we teach them that that buoy out there is our marker and there's ways in which we can get to it. We teach them about water uh

079rip currents and the way way waves break and um and how to get uh get through the break. There's two safe spots. I always say it's on the beach or it's out beyond the break. All right. When you're out beyond the break, once we got everybody out beyond the break, they asked, "What do we do swimming?" I said, "No, we talk. We talk about how we got out here and we and at a in about 10 minutes time they hadn't even realized it. They were treading water for 20 10 minutes comfortable as they would be if they were standing on the beach asking questions. All right. Uh and then we came in we we teach them how to come in looking back side stroke so you could see the waves breaking. And if it's too

080much for you, you go back underneath it. You wait for the lull and you move in with the lull. And uh every day uh every day started with a um a talk about what they read the reading the ocean and uh ended with high fives and a and a round of applause for everything they've accomplished. It's going to be very exciting next year. We're looking so much forward to to having it on a beach guardian program in Amigansit and in Montalk just as well as the as the junior program. John, just you mentioned a little about the permit from Suffach County to operate the beaches. Could you just tell the public a little bit more about, you know, what that entails in terms of sanry codes, water quality testing, and the beach safety plan as

081well? Because I think that's that's kind of the part of the undercurrent that no one really understands that you put a lot of work into. So, it' be interesting for us to hear that as well. >> Sure. So, in every in in the spring of every year, thanks to my boss John Rooney, he fills it out uh the same every year. Yeah. there. You know, people say, "Why can't you put a stand in the middle of Beach Hampton?" Why not, right? Put a stand there. No. No. Well, you can't do it because there's no there's no bathing or there's no um comfort station. Has to be within 1,000 ft of a stand. Must be at 1,000 ft of a comfort station. Um so that uh that's a that's a requirement. They they need to know

082the maximum capacity of individuals that are permitted on the beach in the protected area. You have to there are rules and guidelines from signage to flags to how how wide your swim area is to uh the number of people that you're allow maximum capacity of people in the allowed in the water um which we never exceed but uh it's kind of a crazy number but um and uh and they come down and they inspect the beaches and when there is water quality concerns they send a notice out to the to the we're all a neat email and it gets sent out to us saying, "Look, there's concerns about this beach or that beach and and that and that may result in shutting it down." Um, and um and then obviously when when we have hurricanes

083uh and uh severe storms, they too will reach out and and to municipalities and ask for advisement. Um during Hurricane Aaron, they had shut the beach. they they had called out a uh beaches are closed. Uh and by saying that they they when I reached out to um Nancy Pearson, she said, "Well, Smith Points, for example, their whole pier is beach is gone. They can't allow anybody off the top of deck of theirs. Their beach is shut down. So, we're not having that." This is prior to Erin's arrival. um they already were seeing difficult beach er beach erosion that caused difficulty for a lot of people. We we didn't have that issue. So she said, "Well, it really meant beaches are closed to bathing." Okay. Um if we have beaches, B beaches are passable. And

084this is where it really came in handy. We met, we had a discussion. Um we pulled everybody together. We we made sure we knew what was going to happen. and how to deal with it. So the county advises us on these things and then and when Aaron came it it it advises that the beaches will be closed. >> One thing that >> Yeah. Just um and you mentioned the beach safety plan. So every two years we have to submit a a full comprehensive beach safety plan and that's part of the permitting process and this year happens to be one of those years coming up. So >> and and how how frequent is the water quality testing by Suffach County? I could not answer that. They they come Yeah. >> randomly. They they come I don't

085know if they have a set schedule. I don't know that answer. >> Right. You see the truck coming coming and going. They they don't walk up to the lifeguards and say anything. They go out there and they're >> Yeah. >> Off they go. Usually if there's a problem, then they contact us. >> They do they do an inspection every year at the beach where they come down, they check certifications uh CPR um CPR first aid and uh and lifeguard certification ocean or supervision level one or supervision level 2B uh which is level 2B is still water. So you have to have everything and then they check your equipment. So it has to be certain amount of equipment and then they check the comfort station. make sure this compensations are are properly uh outfitted for >>

086and what's showing there is a big collaboration through multiple departments to be able to make sure that our beaches are open because each department actually has a little bit of a separate role in it then too. So it's important for that collaboration to going to get to that certification. Chief Sarah, if you don't mind going through the next two slides. Sure. >> Thank you. Um, yes, just to piggyback on David's introduction, this committee was formed during COVID and it's been an essential piece of ensuring that we continue to maintain and operate our summer season um ocean and and bay beaches in a spirit of cooperation and collaboration amongst all town departments. Um, I'd say our roadways and our beaches and waterways are the most heavily populated, heavily traveled. Uh, where most of our calls originate

087and having everyone who's involved in either the parking, the safety, the planning, everyone involved in being on the same page is is tremendous for how everything ends up running for the season. Um it's been one of the most positive things to come out of CO and we all appreciate the support that the town board gives the committee in accomplishing the tasks we need to to keep the b beaches safe. Um one of the major improvements we made a few years back is a program where uh most of our beach parking and some of the times parking in downtown Malkque is now monitored by license plate readers and we also have an app where people can pay to park. So, we've seen a tremendous increase in compliance with beach parking in our parking lots and along

088the roadways that adjoin the beaches. Um, it's been a tremendous improvement in efficiency for our traffic control officers who can now be redeployed to go to other areas and and do other tasks instead of just having to continuously check those permits non-stop. It's also allowed us to trim back some of the hours of the staff um seated um through the parks department at some of the beach heads and uh just a real boost to improvement, a modernization and it helps ensure that spaces stay open for residents who have permits or people with non-resident permits and it allows us to to maintain a better control of the use of those those access points and those uh essential parking spots which are very valuable during the summer season. Um we continue to move forward towards uh hopefully

089in the near future working towards a unified command post headquarters somewhere in the Montalk hamlet. Um we've discussed this group meeting and the needs that we have on a regular basis and how Montalk is our busiest hamlet and where we have the most remote operations. our town police precinct is uh a little too small, a little too outdated to host the lifeguards, ocean rescue, either either fire, EMS, and or um other members of the town public safety committees to be able to have some home base out there in Montalk for the Montalk citizens and for the volume of work we have to do out there in the summer. So, we continue to explore that as a possibility moving forward. There's increased demands on storage for the amount of equipment we all have and just the

090need to have a place be able to sit down and have a meeting or have a community member walk in. We feel that that's going to be an important piece of continuing to improve the efficiency moving forward for the community. Um between May 15th and September 15th we wrote a total of 4200 parking tickets. Um 1,040 of which were issued for no beach permit uh in the parking areas. just to represent Tim Treadwell's um staff from the Marine Patrol. Um they provide law enforcement on our beaches with a focus on public safety, education, and the protection of our valuable natural resources. Um they have seasonal patrols 7 days a week until 2 a.m. or 4 a.m. depending on the staffing ability and the day of the week. Uh marine patrol responded to over 600 calls

091for service on the beaches alone. Um they work closely with the lifeguards, volunteer ocean rescue, parks and wreck and code enforcement to provide safety and share public information. They issued over 300 citations for violations of the town code pertaining strictly to the beaches. Approximately 46% of those pertain to beach driving violations, 21% for non-compliant beach fires, 8% for dogs on the beach, and 6% for camping. Other violations included littering, pedalling, fireworks, and lack of other proper permits. They also do a lot of work in patrolling the uh permitted um special events that are hosted on the beach to ensure compliance with the terms that the caterers or private um members of the community um are permitted and allowed to have on the beach at night during the summer after hours. they're key in in patrolling

092those and making sure that they're following the guidelines that they're allowed to uh to have when we give them those permits. Um again, I just want to thank all the town board members, David in particular, for your um heavily invested interest in making sure our bathrooms, our access points, our signage, our cooperation and coordination between all of the town departments, that's parks, fixing fixing the restrooms when they get damaged, making sure they're open for the public. that's making sure everyone has the resources they need to allow the public to enjoy uh our beaches as safely and efficiently as they can. We really appreciate everyone's support. >> Thank you. And I also think it shows this uh to the supervisor's budget this year and we've heard this out of the M talk CAC and others over

093the most recent years about trying to put the proper staff and the public safety into the departments to be able to make sure everyone can enjoy themselves. too that goes either to the budget for uh uh lifeguards, increased salaries, increased personnel and PD also marine patrol and that's why the supervisor's budget this year shows that public safety is at most paramount and we're starting to see that and it's being recognized by the residents also. So >> yeah, we all really appreciate that. I mean you you all know that not only the volume of calls we respond to but the level of patrol that's needed because of how many people are utilizing our beaches. We have 70 miles of shoreland. We have dozens and dozens of unmanned access points to the sand on the ocean and

094bayside which are not the responsibility of the lifeguards or specifically for marine patrol during the beach lifeguard protected hours but they're still heavily traversed. There's a lot of people using them and it's it's our responsibility to ensure they're used safely. They're not littered upon and that you know we have a presence in those areas as best we possibly can and we really appreciate the support that you guys provide for us in that. Well, I was talking last night and when you really think about um the uniqueness of of what your jobs are in East Hampton, uh protecting the public where you're not just dealing with a small increase in summer visitors, but a dramatic change in the town, um particularly in the areas that you're talking about, our roads, our beaches. Um, and it's it's

095really um needed needs to be noted the fine work you all do when you're talking about increasing 100,000 when you look at the numbers that you're presenting on the bathing beaches. Um, and also shout out to David uh that that also coordinates all of this. It it really is phenomenal when you think about how we transform for that short season, but the the volume increases so dramatically and how everything operates smoothly. So, I just wanted to note that out. Um your statistics and what you're talking about really really show that. Um and uh it it is unusual here um compared to other towns where you don't have this kind of influx and you handle it so well. So, I just want to thank all of you for that as well. >> Yeah. And and not

096specifically only related to the beaches, but I always like to use this opportunity as well just to thank our entire staff. >> Yeah. >> Who just are, you know, from basically the week before Memorial Day until mid-occtober are non-stop on the run, call to call, uh overtime, uh reduced leave time, increased overtime, staffing changes, increased supervision, and it it's, you know, it's on for that portion of the summer. And they do a really great job. And I I just want to take this opportunity to thank all of our people in all the divisions that work underneath us for all the work they do in the summer as well. >> Not even to mention large scale events that happen that always need police help that are thrown in at you. >> Whole constantly. >> Thank you,

097Chief. >> Moving on. And uh for Steve O'Brien, who's our uh town building m supervisor, um buildings and grounds department has a lot to do with our town beaches. parks department swept town beaches by hand and also with tractors in the season to keep them safe and beautiful. Uh department was adequately staffed and scheduled and increased the number of beaches that they were raked. They added six this year uh as far as hand cleaning right now up to 17 beaches which is uh which is nearly miles of beach that they were cleaning uh for the residents on there. Uh there was a decreased level of vandalism at the restrooms this year and we knock wood. Uh we and we believe that was because of the increased security measures that we had uh with the increasing

098cameras through our capital budget plans but also the collaboration working with buildings and grounds departments uh particularly our custodial departments and PD and marine patrol to shut some of those bathrooms off at the hours of vandalism which is nothing good happens after midnight as we hear. Um right just so um >> sometimes it does >> well those of us with kids and nothing good happens after midnight. >> Uh the current beach wreck apparatus is nearing. It's uh uh it's useful and so we're going to be looking to that uh in our capital planning and making sure that that doesn't break down. So we'll be looking for that as we go into capital for 2026 as it's very important. And I want to thank Doug Salazar also for manning that that he comes in. Johnny, what

099time? John Rooney, 4:00 or 5 in the morning. >> Yeah, you see our >> Yeah. So to Doug, well done this summer. Uh it's been great and the staff that's out there then too. Uh building grounds department repair and maintain 11 comfort stations uh for bthers providing amenities such as the showers, bathrooms, water fountains throughout the season and they're continuously be maintained and upgraded as we need we go forward. that's in the capital budget from last year. I want to thank our custodial staff which actually works tremendously long hours and too and the crews that go out there and also our trash crews that picked up uh hundreds of t over 100 tons of trash off our beaches this year. So I want to thank them very much too and I thank uh Steve O'Brien

100for his uh his work there. Sean, do you want to come forward and actually sorry if you go back Chelsea. Neat picture on here everyone. If you don't notice this is downtown Muk this summer which I was happy to see councilman flight on a couple times this year you enjoying himself for a little rest bit which is always needed. Uh this is actually of the f uh uh sand sand nourishment that we had. Uh we flew these drones over pre-torm and also posttorm as part of our operational maintenance that we have to do of them. The beaches were big and wide which you'll see in the numbers that we'll have at the end why there was such a large increase of people pro probably at Kirk Park Beach and then also downtown Malk beaches then

101too because the beaches there were beautiful this summer and the weather was also uh thank you very much John and Chelsea if we can go forward one and also just in defense of buildings and grounds we're all constantly contacting them with things that need attention as well so and that's random so um we just want to give just an idea of the scope of the particip participants we have in our different programs that we run during the summertime uh on the sand. Um we have our junior lifeguard program and we also have a lot of swim programs. So, as Johnny uh Ryan had mentioned, we had 23 cadetses this year. That's 15 year olds on a training program. And having another 23 like we did last summer, that gives us a lot of good reason

102to think that we're going to be having a lot of strong, younger um guards uh coming in uh into our program next summer. And that's a good thing for employment going forward and keeping our beaches safe. Um our juniors um we have a large number. We have 321 um juniors and that's ages 9 to like 14. And our nippers that Johnny had also mentioned we have 130 of those and they're from ages six to eight young kids and we have to train like we're surrounded by water. We can't pull from like other towns. So we got to kind of train within and um and then the obviously Johnny was telling us about the beach guardians. The adults have wanted to get involved with having a similar type program. And you can see on your left

103that's a picture of the guardian program this summer. And um as Johnny said, we anticipate that growing uh tremendously. We also offer free swimming uh lessons during the summer. Um they run uh for basically ages four and up. So um we run them for two weeks at a time at different bay beaches and they rotate. They start out at Havens Beach, then they go to Maidstone, they go out to Jin Beach and also Big Alberts during the summer. So we 123 kids through the summer doing that. Um, Chief Sarlo had mentioned Timmy Treadwell. Timmy Treadwell not only handles marine patrol, but he also uh runs our town open water swim training program. This is for adults. This is for more advanced swimmers over at Big Alberts and sometimes folks who are like training for like

104triathlons, things like that. And um it stands for TAS and we like to say if you're not toast, you're toast. So um but Timmy runs that. He does a great job and we run two sessions and we've you know we've had about 27 in both uh sessions this year and then we're always upgrading equipment obviously each year and this year we had to uh replace our ATV uh over at Indian Wells to get a new one which we did through capital funding and we will be putting it for more stuff for next year. So um and that's just basically a quick rundown of recreation. Thank you, John. And I also thank your department for staffing the booths that are needed some of our town beaches specifically in uh in Amiganzit, but also noting what Chief

105Sarah mentioned by us going and modernizing the LPR and paid parking systems were able to remove some of those personnel and uh and put them into other locations, which is actually a budgetary savings in the budget that we had this calendar year. So, thank you for working with that. Uh next slide. Uh this this comment came from the East Hampton Town Trustees. they participate. Uh, clerk Francis Francis Bach, Francis Bach wanted to make sure that the town the town trustees wish to thank the department employees of the beach advisory committee. Their consistent focus on safety and sanitary conditions of our public beaches provide world-class conditions to be enjoyed by our local users as well as the thousands of tourists that visit each year. Our beaches are gems of East Hampton and it wouldn't be possible

106without these hardworking teams. I want to thank the town uh town trustees and the town uh uh Francis Bach for their collaboration with the town not just this committee multiple other ones including the special events committee then too as we know we have a special thing here the town trustees uh since the dongan pattern was formed um we have a couple recommendations for us to uh not necess have to discuss now but we'll we'll talk about it as we move towards 2026 from our committee lifeguards uh wound packing and tourniquet kits were received late 24 and 25 season these kits are uh deployed. Uh and what we're looking for is to receive additional annual uh first aid training in their use. Uh so again more more training how to use these to our town lifeguards

107again makes our beaches safer if emergencies do happen. Dogs pen owners again continue to fail to pick up their doggy bags which were consistently washing up on the high tide line. Dogs have often been uh have have often not been prevented from urinating in the area post and lifeguard stands and uh conf uh there's a conflict between lifeguards, lifeguard equipment and lifeguards personal property. Dog control and regulations for bathing beach has been discussed, let's be honest, for years uh and will be uh will be needed to look at for potential updating in the 2026 season. Parking. The growing population of bthers are at a lifeguard public beaches and the lack of available parking. uh locations uh parking at these locations will have to be reanalyzed where we can maybe add targeted parking. We've done that

108in downtown Monk in some areas. U we'll continue to look at that and specifically a lot as chief mentioned with the signage on there then too. John Ryan, John Rooney, do you want to go through these appendix slides, which I know they're pretty on here pretty quickly uh with some of these numbers, what they say. And again, this is on the town's website for others to see, but it just I think what it does, it shows just the large amount of individuals that uh we serve at our beaches during the summer season. You could see from that uh photo that David pointed out um with the uh the mount of beach in Montalk General District that's Town Beach and and also Kirk Park and you can see where the numbers totally increased. Um there are

109five walkovers uh South Edison Kirk and then there's uh three more in between those two um that people generally walk walk over onto the beach and they find themselves a nice spot. Um so we have two stands within that area and we're looking to put a third stand for the other walk the last walk over which is right in the middle of Kirk and uh and and South Edison. So, uh, and that should be able to be done with the same number of guards that we had this year. Uh, just spacing them out a little bit better. Uh but um if you look at the next uh and then the other beaches, you know, you can look at it say Indian Wells, which is a family beach in Amigans, it's not a lot of maybe

110that compared to South Edison and and Atlantic and and Kirk Park. Um it looks like almost half of some of those, but you got to also remember the parking area is a lot smaller. You can compare Indian Wells with Ditch Plains because Ditch Plains has a smaller uh parking lot about the same size as a little bit smaller than Indian Wells, but they have two parking areas. They have East Deck and they have New Wells and then some people venture over to dirt lot and then walk down. Uh so you know that's part basically approximate number of bases going to come from the parking areas that we have at these protected beaches. You look at the next slide the uh you know the you could see again in comparison to the size of the beach

111the beach grew in Montalk you could see that um the one that is clearly shown in green is town beach all right that's south Edison um Kirk Park area also uh inc is is an increase uh and it all depends on the certainly the weather of the summer but seems to be a good one little bit little drop in in um Atlantic Avenue. Yeah, Atlantic Avenue's uh attendance bther attendance. Um this is as I mentioned before in in the presentation a number of uh resp um rescues or responses that we went on um and versus protected and unprotected um uh with injury. We got injuries as well as injuries on top and then rescues on the bottom. You can see almost half of our um or half 50 50 rescues compared to 100 in the

112protected area um was uh 50 of them were in unprotected area as mentioned before. Um protected beaches a injuries and rescues. This is basically by beach. Um I you know one one thing that comes uh you look at um like uh Atlantic Avenue compared to Town Beach and Ditch Plains very few uh very few I contribute that to uh the success of our junior lifeguard program. These kids are being educated and uh when you when you look at Indian Wells, Atlantic Avenue, those are those are local area local kids that come to those beaches and not that we only rescue kids, but um they're they're coming up through the program and uh and they're generally the ones that we are rescuing. Um but fewer rescues at India Wells and Atlantic Avenue is a is as

113far as I'm concerned is um is an indication that our success of our junior program education when you look at Montalk they have a smaller junior lifeguard program uh and nipper program and uh and again uh when you look at Malkque it's more of um people coming from out of town you look at hotel uh the whole Montalk district those people pulling into Montalk they're parking there going to jump right onto the beach. They don't have a clue as to what they're looking at in the water and and they get themselves into trouble. Um uh uh injuries uh can't control do our best to control injuries. Um uh but just uh shows by year uh you ditch planes had a had a a large number of injuries this year in 2025 in comparison to all

114other beaches. Uh surfing rocks, jetties, those things can uh contribute to that. Um and then uh rescues at uh again at protected another way of looking at it uh at the protected beaches. Um Indian wells you can't even see it one or two rescues um and I want to thank uh Lieutenant Jeff Thompson also. Lieutenant Thompson does very well with collaborating with Chief Ryan putting together all these stats. So we know on an annual basis where we have to deploy the assets of of lifeguards, marine patrol and such and to Lieutenant Thompson teacher not here necessary right now, but he he he's always out there and about and answers these questions just like you do. So I thank you for putting the stats forward then. >> Yes, Chief Thompson is worth his weight and gold.

115He, you know, um, spent a lot of time he developed our web page. Uh, years ago, I remember getting a call from, uh, I think it was from John asking for a report that happened two years earlier, uh, for an injury at a protect debate, protective bait, ditch happened to be ditch planes. Uh this was when Chief McGee was um the Montto chief and he was splitting shift with Andrew Fogler who was his assistant out there um because John would be off certain days. So I reached out to them said hey I need this information like ah it's probably in the log book. I said why didn't I know about this and it was a little bit of a concern. I said I should know about any kind of a injury rescue or on a

116daily basis I should know this almost immediately that this has happened. Um, so I went searching and I found all the information that was written up uh in a book in a stored in a in a box on top and I said, "This can't be." And so I mentioned it to Chief Thompson and Chief Johnson says, "Well, I got it." I like, "What do you mean you got it?" He's like, "I'll fix that. We'll have instant information because we can put this, we get rid of the paper pencil stuff." Not that we don't use paper pencils still. We still do. But once we get back from taking that report of any rescue or or uh EMS call, the guards come back, they go sit down at the table, they pull out their phone, they enter

117it on our town lifeguard website immediately into that uh into our database of of rescues and responses. And that stuff shows up as data, information that comes right up. And he could take that data and turn it into a graph like this. Um, there's a science to life saving, right? >> I want to say use the data, follow the data points on there. So, I want to thank all your staff, the ABCs. Always swim near your lifeguards. Let's be respectful of others and let's clean up your litter on there. Very simple. I think it was a very nice a very successful season. Chelsea, you could take that down again from 2025. I already look forward to season 2026 right now. uh to the town board members. We'll have our meetings in uh in advance of

1182020 uh6 season. We'll come to the town board uh make sure that everyone's comfortable with what our beach operating plans are. We'll re reapply for our permits this year. But again, to all everyone uh to department heads here, Chief Sorrow, thank you very much for all your assistance with this. Uh I I enjoyed the beaches this summer. I hope everyone else did. Madam Supervisor, thank you very much for your time and allowing us to present. Thanks everyone so much. >> Okay, moving right along. So Mark, we're going to have you up next to talk about the New York State Housing and Community Renewal Manufactured Home Homeowners Program. >> Hello. Can everyone hear me? >> Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. So, I'm Mark Morgan Perez here on behalf of OCD to present uh New York State's

119HCR movein program, which is a brand new program uh for crossmods. Uh, cross mods basically are modular built homes, but they have features of stickuilt homes and are basically sort of a blend between traditional manufactured homes uh and sight built homes with permanent foundations, pitched roofs, attached garages, porches, drywall interiors, energy efficient materials. So basically they don't look necessarily like trailer homes. They look more like real single family stick built homes. Um and also what's important with this program is that they will uh the goal is to have them appraise uh finance and be insured in the same way as traditional homes so that people will qualify for standard mortgages rather than uh mobile home loans. Go to the next slide. N there we are. Okay. No, that's fine. I just kind of went over

120that. Um yeah, so just hang on just a second. Could you go to Yes. Could you go to the next slide? Yes. So basically, um East Hampton would apply, the municipality would apply as an applicant, and that would require board approval and formal authorization. Uh next slide, please. Um the subdivisions road and clearing were completed prior to the move in New York application period. Um you know there's there's a potential issue here because they don't want site clearing to happen beforehand before they become involved. But actually the caveat is before the application is submitted. So on the one hand that makes it sound like we're in a good position. On the other hand, some of you may be familiar with this bat window issue that we have, which could create >> potential timing issues with

121this process. So, that's something that we're going to speak to HCR about because on the one hand, our application could score better if the sites were cleared. On the other hand, their program requirements kind of specify that you don't do anything to the site after you apply. But we would kind of need to clear after application because of the bat >> otherwise we lose a year. >> Yeah. Otherwise we lose a year. So that's something we want to speak to H uh HCR about. Okay. >> So we can go to the next slide. >> Yeah. So again there would have to be a formal municipal resolution affirming that the town permits these HUD code cross mods without special use permits. So, this is something that we could review with the town attorney and get into

122the details. Again, this is a very new program. It hasn't been rolled out before, so we're digging into how it could potentially work here, but there are issues that need to be addressed. Uh, next slide, please. Um, yeah, so again, uh, we seem to be in a good place from program readiness. Um, oops. I'm sorry. Next slide. Could you go back one? Sorry. Back one. Sorry, my slides are off. Okay. Well, anyway, um, we seem to be in a good position readinesswise, but again, there is this potential issue um, with the bat window. I mean, the subdivision has been done. The program wants us to have at least 10 sites ready and we have 16. So that works and we also have the CHF program in place and we have we're able to demonstrate need

123and capacity to do this. Um let me see here. Did you go one forward municipal resolution? I somehow got my slides off. [Music] Okay. Yes. Go. One past this, please. One past this, please. Okay. So, so um Oh, this is important. So, HCR is going to have a prequalified vendor list. Um, we have to confirm that this will comply with the town's procurement policy and East Hampton staff, that means me or Joanne, someone else in the OCD office, uh, need to obtain a New York State manufactured home retailer license, which is basically an 8h hour online course. So, that's not really a heavy lift. Uh, let's see. Purchase and sell of Cross Mods. Um, this is pretty straightforward. Um, you know, we would work with HCR. We'd be an awardee and we would sell the

124home to prospective home buyers who meet the income and eligibility standards. Uh, next slide, please. Uh, this is the financing structure. These are very these are deeply affordable and that's one of the major benefits or potential benefits of this program. I mean, when with the first Canwell Court RFP, we were getting costs of I think the lowest cost we received from Habitat for Humanity was just shy of $600,000 per unit. So, now we're down at the $250,000 level. And that also includes site work. So, um there's a lot there's a lot of potential benefits here. Uh next slide, please. Uh, and again, HCR, if we could accept it, would potentially pay the town a 6% developer fee. Um, it really, again, from a financial perspective, seems like a win, but again, there are these caveats

125as to whether or not it's a good fit with town code and some other issues. Um, next slide, please. And this so this is again this is another piece which again on the surface looks great. The idea of they want an average AMI across the 16 units of 100%. Which I think is wonderful. I like targeting deeper affordability. On the other hand we have our HOP list. And so how do we handle PE people on the list who to achieve that income mix? you know there you know the people on the list who come up first may be at different income bounds and may not end up creating a 100% AMI average across the portfolio. So again that's something that we can discuss with HCR and hopefully could work out. Um next slide please. So

126again their program only has a 10-year affordability restriction. Again, I think we could negotiate with them and have it be much longer. That would be ideal. 10 years doesn't to me, you know, you know, doesn't seem nearly long enough. Um, again, applications are accepted on a rolling basis. So, again, we would need to get a resolution going if we wanted to move forward with this program. Again, OCD is going to have some conversations with HCR and with planning to sort out some of these other issues to make sure that the program is a good is is a fit before moving forward. Um, [Music] let's see. And I think yeah, that's pretty much the overview of the program. I wish I had more details. I mean, I would need a little more time to dig in

127to the particulars to make sure that it's a good fit, but definitely from an affordability perspective and from an implementation perspective, I mean, to be able to turn around these um these homes in 6 months, again, assuming the manufacturer has the capacity to produce 16 homes in 6 months. I mean, it would be a real win because most development projects, as you know, can take years. But this is one option. You know, it's not the only option, but it's definitely one that we want to look into deeper and look into quickly. Right. So, so basically what happened was David and I went to a meeting of the East End Supervisors and Mayors Association back in August and a representative from New York State Housing and Community Renewal were there and started talking about this project

128because they had done some pilots in uh upstate New York and we just learned when we went to the signing of the um in Greenport from Sarah Lansdale uh that this RFA had gone online. It's, you know, the the target date is November 15th. We wanted to bring this to the to the board to see if, you know, we would have to put together an application uh in order to see if we would qualify and be able to receive the 16 homes that we, you know, for Canwell Court, if that's a way we want to move forward. Um, I happen to follow HCR on Instagram and there was um the governor recently took a tour. I mean they attractive looking homes. They were doing threebedroom, two bath about 1500 square feet. And on the Canwell

129Court property, we were talking about having modest homes, you know, 10% of the um of the of you know each lot and they are also doing all electric from what I'm understanding and this which is something that we had all that the board had specified on the Kwwell Court project. So, uh, I guess what we're looking for, this is something that we would recommend that we pursue at least, you know, throw our hat in the ring with and answer the RFA and see if it's something that we could move forward with because, you know, a home for in the $250,000 range is obviously something the folks on our um on our list that are next up for a single family home could afford to get a mortgage on. And the beauty we have with the

130community housing fund is that we would have the ability if we were selected, we could lay out using the CHF funding to purchase those homes and then resell them to the u the folks who qualified and were were on the next in line for a single family home. And just to add on to madam supervisor here at that meeting uh the Suffach County's commissioner of economic development Sarah Lansdale we it's a big thank you to bring her there. This might just be an opportunity for the town if we decide to move forward on this to try to bring affordability to our affordable housing with Campwell Court which is 16 units right now. Utilities are in, road work is complete right now, but we did find out that going out an RFP for builders was more

131expensive than we anticipated or might be able to place individuals that they could afford. This option here would be able for us to develop a community there with great vernacular within an affordable price for everyone to use. They al could still go forward and uh add add uh garages onto their accessory structure on there, but it's an option for the town board to look at here, but also there's a couple other outlayer lots that we might be able to use this for too, right? >> Um you you this meeting was on I believe the 15th. Yes, >> there is an application rolling application that starts one of the things we were told be in the beginning of that rolling application and you might have a better opportunity uh uh to be successful in the application.

132We do I believe have a strong application if we want to uh I would recommend discussing this with Mark more often now uh to go see what the availability of cross mods might be do your homework online also some of them are quite beautiful and then individuals you know in the town can work together because the inside of them are quite beautiful a manufactured home right now has uh could have economic of scale uh try to decrease that pricing on there uh and also can be very attractive. Still, we're still going to work in parallel with another RFP for requests for builders, decreasing some of the insurance uh uh uh needs that we saw uh was maybe limiting on the first RFP for builders. We're going to still move forward on that. So, I think

133we're going to try to move on a couple options to make sure that we get individuals placed as affordable as possible. So that's that's where we're and that's why this came up at this time for timing on there. So >> yeah, I' I'd say look, conceptually I I think this is a great uh opportunity for the town to pursue. Um one thing I would ask, are there any actual buildings out there of this type that the state has produced that we could go and inspect? Um >> skity. >> Yes, skity. But the thing is, I actually may be up in that region uh in early November and might be able to >> I'm actually going to be up there next weekend. So, if you could provide me the address, I might swing by if we

134can. And I I just like to see the quality of the build to be really honest with you because sometimes price comes with quality. Um the second piece is actually more for the town attorney's office. Um regarding the back clearing window, um look, I I' I've had people reach out to me as I've done some research on this. I I I do think there's some nuances to this that we could potentially explore as to whether we can clear in that window through habitat assessment and other aspects working with the DC. My understanding is there there is a possibility that we can if we work with those partners. So that's something if we could actually have um some research done and a presentation done as to you know is that that possibility or not and if

135there is that possibility what is the mechanism by which we could do that I think would be helpful because this is something we're running into with numerous projects. Um but overall, yeah, I think this is a very exciting opportunity. >> Right. >> Yeah. And just a small note, I mean, in keeping with change Hampton's um presentation today, again, this is also an opportunity to maybe implement >> some of the things that they're doing. >> Yeah. With men. Yeah. >> Sure. >> Yeah. Thanks, Mark. I I'm uh I'm interested in this as well. I think that the as Dave said, you know, that the cost of these houses has appeared to be prohibitively expensive, frankly, to be to be affordable. Um so, the the price is appealing. And I think Tom brings up a good point.

136The quality to build is also very important because we're doing this not for, you know, 10 years. We're doing this for, you know, a long time. Um, so we want to make sure the homes that go in. Uh, but I'm very interested. I think I'd ask your office to to make sure to work with the attorney's office and, uh, planning or building, whoever is necessary to make sure that we qualify. Um, and then I have one question for you. If we did apply, is there any is it binding in any way or can we apply and then decide if we wanted to accept if we were awarded? >> That's a good question. I don't know, but we'll find out. >> Oh, sorry. >> No, the plan is to have a discussion with HCR ASAP to

137sort out these issues. >> Wasn't there a a webinar that they had? >> Yes, we attend we attended the webinar. >> Great. >> And and one of the women who ran the webinar, uh, Crystal Laughler, uh, is someone I knew from years ago upstate. So hopefully she'll be easy to reach out to. >> Great. So knowing our meeting schedule's a little bit changed in November right now. We have meetings on the 6th and I believe on the 12th now also. So town board members can discuss this internally and then also work with Mark and have more questions or even do site visits on there to hit that window if it's something that there's board support for. Uh let's just move this ahead in the next couple weeks as it is a potential option for us

138and we'll continue to work in other options in parallel too. >> Yeah. And would would these offer basements? Do you know be another >> foundation cross? So that's good to know. >> Okay. Yeah, I'm supportive. I mean, I think Dave's idea and Dave, this is your project. I'm I'm, you know, enthusiastic about uh moving it forward. I think doing a few options in parallel so we know all of the choices. Um, it actually seems like the bat clearing window is going to work out for us in this case as long as it doesn't, you know, violate any um requirements of this, you know, cuz the timing of construction that bat window falls sort of in when all of this would be happening. Um, so yeah, would love to do our due diligence, make sure we

139would we would qualify for this program and then look at all of our options and move forward with the best one. And and I also, if you are upstate, I would very much, as Tom said, you know, I you know, you have great experience in in housing. You've seen a lot of a lot of affordable housing. The quality is important. So if you're up there, I'd love to have your feedback about um what they look like in, you know, in person. >> Yeah. And be clear that this option uh for this cross mob was brought on because Kathy had that meeting with Sarah Lansdale then too. So the supervisor brought this forward as great options for this and this might be something we see on this one project but it could be used for for

140years to come even past us on there then too. So well done. >> And on a related note my understanding is that these are what are referred to as two section homes. I asked on the webinar if these could potentially be used as ADUs in the future and they said they were potentially considering one section models which again could end up being very lowcost ADUs but not just yet. >> Thank you Mark. >> Great. >> Yeah know I know from meeting with the governor back in August her and I had a one-on-one and we talked a lot about housing. We talked about this program specifically and ADUs. So, I wouldn't be surprised if they came forward with an edu plan >> and I look forward to more information. I support moving forward on digging into

141this and any other type of uh program that you come across that can help us with housing affordability. >> Great. Thank you, Mark. >> Thank you so much. >> Okay, next up is John Barley Dunn for an agriculture update. >> Barley clams on the half shell. Little cocktail sauce there. Oh, I didn't know we were having that. >> What do you think about that? It's lunch time. >> Yeah, if I known it was >> samples would be good. Barley adult beverage. >> There you go. >> Now we're talking. >> Hot coffee. I mean, >> there you go, too. [Applause] Are you not finding the presentations up there? >> Yeah, it looks like the wrong. Okay, we're going to have to skip the presentation. Sorry. >> Well, wait. I'm sorry. I >> What do you The

142all of the slides aren't up there. >> It's the wrong one. >> This is the only thing that was uploaded is the right one. >> Can you look up? I'm sorry. The only thing uploaded was what? >> It's not the right one. Apparently, this is what was on the computer. It's not the right. >> It's not this. >> That's what was uploaded. >> Yeah. Well, that's what we >> That's what we have. >> Right one. >> Sweet. >> I must have saved it incorrectly yesterday. >> So, we have to skip that. That's That'll take eons to get through. >> Okay. >> Well, Barley, how about we do this? >> And then we'll we'll also have you back then, too. >> Yeah. Yeah. Do that. >> It's really just uh photos, backdrop. Um All right. So,

143thanks for having me. Good afternoon. First of all, a quick background for those that aren't aware. The town has a aquaculture shellfish hatchery program. There are still some folks in town that aren't aware of that. We've been established in the late 80s um in Montalk in a response to the brown tide that really wiped everything out back in the mid 80s. Um I had a really cool historic f anybody who's I'm not a history buff, but the history of Montalk is amazing as we all know. Have some great pictures of the Fort Pond area. You know, there was a quarantine camp there. Christopher Walsh wrote wrote a article recently and had this amazing picture of the Carl Fischer building sticking up out of the soil of Montalk with nothing around it. Really amazing history. And

144thankfully that guy lost all his money because if you could just imagine what Monttok would be like if it was the Miami of the north. But anyway, I digress. Uh we have multiple growing sites. We have a hatchery in Montalk. We have nurseries in ThreeMile Harbor. We have a field growout site in Napig Harbor. We have overwintering sites in Northwest Creek and Pond of Pines which is right next door to Napig. The why why do we grow shellfish? They are filter feeders. They help filter the water. They sequester excess nitrogen, excess nutrients. They provide habitat. They provide food for us. Um it's a sustainable practice. We're trying to help maintain the commerce and culture in in uh East Hampton. Um, so what we grow is clam, hard clams, eastern oyster, and bay scolop. Every year

145we grow millions of these things to restock our harbors. Um, and the idea is to start early. We start spawning in February. We get finish up our spawning in in around June, grow them as large as possible, as quickly as possible, and then seed them out onto the bottom this time of year. So the idea is to get them as large as possible so that when we do seed them they actually survive. But there's going to be a caveat to that unfortunately. Uh we produce seed maps every year that are available online. So anybody with a shell fishing permit can go out and harvest these things up. It takes about a year for oysters to reach harvest size, 3 to 5 years to for clams and only one year for scallops if they survive. And

146I'll talk a little bit more about that in a minute. So this year clam and oyster production was solid as usual. They of the of the three they are the easiest. We have about 2 million oysters that we're seating now and those average about 2 in. So that's well past the well the typical predator refuge size. Again, I'll I'll talk about that in a second. Uh we sold we do we do a good problem to have is we have excess oysters sometimes in the spring and we sell those to Long Island farmers. sold about 2 million of those. So, any of you that follow, >> there's an increase in that revenue line in the budget this year. >> Yeah, that was about $80,000 worth of seed sales. Good little chunk of change. >> Um, so

147any of you that follow our local drone photographers might have seen pictures of the cows ray. This is an animal that a fish that showed up back in 2019 and it's been showing up annually ever since. And 2019 coincidentally was also the year that the base scallop die off the recent bay scallop die off started. So im immediately we blame this cow nose ray because they're a 40 50 lb fish that swims around and just sucks stuff up off the bottom. They eat 10% of their body weight a day. So we immediately we were like well it's the cowos ray. Turns out it was actually a parasite, which I can talk about in a second, but the count's ray is now wreaking havoc on our oyster seed. >> So, a few weeks ago, I went

148out and looked at some of our seeding areas, will off Will Curl and Three-Mile Harbor, the Dolphin area, and Three-Mile Harbor, and the seed that we had just dropped was nowhere to be found. It was like a It was like a crumb trail, literally chips of shell. Originally, I thought, well, crabs just came in and wiped everything out. But it turns out that it's more likely cowos rays. So this is going to be a new issue for us. They're here because of warm water. They're generally reside down south. Showed up in 2019 following those warm waters and that food up. So they're probably going to be an annual occurrence. But generally they leave this time of year. So, but basically what we're going to have to do is delay our seeding until they skip town,

149till they snowbird and head back south where they belong. Um, so that's that's a that's a new a new issue. Uh, it's very disheartening obviously because a lot of oysters were wiped out. Uh, on the clam front, we have about 6 million clams that we're seating and we're starting that now. again, waiting as long as possible so that most of the predators, as the water cools off, predators slow down, they bed into the bottom. Um, as you probably know, we overwinter about a million clams every year. And as you probably remember, last winter was like a proper winter where we had a pretty good amount of ice and we lost a lot of those overwintered clams because that ice dragged the clam bags around. So hopefully we have a we uh are back to a

150no ice winter and we'll have much better clam survival. So bay scolops on the other hand are continuing to be an issue. We had great hatchery production. We moved several hundred,000 scallops to our nursery this uh summer and but they but they subsequently just slowly and slowly but surely died off throughout the summer. So, we had only about 40,000 left, which is a embarrassing number. Um, we recently received a donation from Cornell Cooperative. They had a mixed stock of Piconic, Mariches Bay, and Martha's Vineyard scallops. And those Mariches Bay, and Martha's Vineyard scallops seem to be resistant to the parasite that's wiping out our scallops. So, hopefully we'll what we'll do is we'll spawn them next year and hopefully bring this thing back. I'm I'm confident that the scolops will make a comeback because there

151are survivors every year from the parasite and those will produce their own resistance strain. Like I said, the Mitch's scolops and the and the Martha's Bay scolops seem to be resistant to this new coxidian parasite that's wiping out our conic scallops. So that said, the harvest season for this year is looking pretty bleak. There are potentially pockets of scallops in town like there usually are. Let's let's let the folks find those other um let me give you a hint though. Look for habitat because that's that's that's the the crux of the issue and the the change Hampton presentation was a good lead into this. They're planting these beautiful gardens out there adding a third dimension to our other otherwise barren landscape and that's basically what's happening in our harbors. There's really no habitat, but there

152is kodium. This that's that new kind of noodly looking seaweed. It's not new. It's been around from the since the 50s, but that's an invasive. And that's a second second best habitat to the eelrass, which is virtually non-existent out here. Uh let's see what else. The oyster gardening program is going going strong with over 100 gardeners at our five garden sites. We have about a dozen folks that are growing oysters off their own dock. So, if anybody has a dock or a bulkhead or those in the lake that have underwater land, you have the opportunity to grow oysters. Um, we had our annual oyster tasting contest. Saw many of you there. That was at the Amigansit American Legion a few weeks ago. So, basically what we do is we we taste and rate the oysters

153from all of our gardens because oysters taste different based on where they're grown. It's called Marijua as opposed to the the the the the wine industry's terowa. And Nap Peak took the overall trophy for for taste and salinity, while Hog Creek had the sweetest oyster. So, those of you that eat oysters, come to us next year for a tasting or obviously go out and harvest up oysters and enjoy them on your own. Shell recycling. We have a shell recycling program going. partnered with our our our arm South Fork Sea Farmers. Whole bunch of volunteers are involved. Basically, we have about a dozen restaurants on the east end that we collect shell from. And we use that shell to grow oyster reefs uh or to establish oyster reefs. And we've established four reefs in town over

154the last four years. There's three in Aabonic. Uh one in Three-Mile Harbor. Three-mile Harbor one was just uh established back in June. And it looks great. It's right off It's right at the end of Boatyard Lane, right where right next to Paddle Diva, one of our other partners. Go to the end of that little road, take a look to the left, you'll see the reef at the low tide. Uh let's see. As usual, we host many tours, school groups, uh Sofo Marine Camp comes, Re Gloria. That's that's that was started last year with Gloria's Rew group. Got great group of volunteers that come by. Hopefully we'll set them up with their own oyster cage uh next year and they'll grow some oysters on the side too. We do seating events. We partner with Surf Rider,

155Paddle Diva, David Catalto's group. Um really trying to ramp up surveys which involves getting in the water and that's one of the things that Rewild helped us with. So there's really two types of surveys. There's dropping a a square onto the bottom and digging it up to survey for clams because clams burrow or there's just visual surveys where we swim along a transact, count all the scallops and oysters and then tabulate those. We're trying to do more and more of those uh to really get some numbers behind our seedings and the effectiveness of the seedings and also to assess you know the scallop survival and the potential harvest. And we're going to partner with the Piconic Estuary Program and Stonybrook Southampton and really next year ramp up those surveys even more with their technical assistance,

156diver assistance, and some funding. Um staffing is great. We have Lucia, Ava, Venicia, Jeremy, Sam, and Adam out there. Uh Lucia or Ava and Venicia are part- timerrs. They're going to they're going to finish up in October. And this summer we had Leila, Max, Euan, and Christian. Hopefully they'll be they'll excuse me, they'll be back next summer. And I'm currently working with a high schooler from East Hampton named Matthew Cheuya, and he's he's working on some seaweed projects that we're we're partnering with up at the nursery. Um, that's pretty much it for me. Well, Barley, I've always said to the town board over the years is that you're the only department out of our 25 departments that actually grows something and grows living living organisms and by the millions on there is pretty impressive for

157what you do specifically in the aging infrastructure that you're doing it in right now. So, we'll continue that form of momentum. I remember from the fisheries advisory committee a couple years back, one of the former members I think Charlie Niggles who family actually scallopers in Northwest Creek mostly in that area. uh they always stated that one of the major issues was uh pre-emergence uh in the areas around the shorelines getting in and killing off ill grass. So that is something as was already mentioned now twice in this meeting is maybe something the town board might want to look at on there because as we look at how can we protect our water quality and layers one of them might be trying to re reduce or stop using pre-emergence with a certain travel time to it

158and maybe that would help some of the rebounding but it's great to see that you're partnering with Cornell and others to find other variants of scallops uh that might not be so effective to the parasite that also might be able to bring back that traditional bounty and harvest that we have out had out here for years. So I know like myself and others scallops are >> Casey of anything but it's always a harbinger to uh climate change global warming out there when we see some of these we've heard it before these keystone industries out here right now changing on there then too. So thank you Barley for that then. Thank you. Yeah, I am confident. I think they'll be back. And you know, back in 2014 was one of our last great harvests and that

159was in Napig where there's really no habitat, but they were just so dense that they made it to harvest season. So, I think I think I think we'll see that again. I am confident. >> So, Barley, the clown nose ray and the emergence here. So, you said you are looking for it to go back to its habitat down south. So obviously that's another impact of the climate crisis where we're seeing these invasive species come up and impact our ecosystems up here. Um so that's that's all interesting as we put together all the impacts that the town is facing right now. Um it's interesting information. On another note, I just want to say uh attending the um oyster tasting and chucking at at uh the Legion uh was so interesting to um see not only the

160benefits of the oysters as food and again multiple benefits as as they help filter our waters. Um but also to see a community arise uh from all the sea farmers that we now have and the camaraderie and the competition. I must say everyone guessing, you know, which A, B, C, or D. Oh, that's ours. That's ours, or or what bay it came from. But that that uh expansion of community is such a great benefit of that program, too. >> People who never were uh oyster farmed in their lives or or never even thought about it really enjoying the whole aspect uh all the aspects of it was really enjoyable to see. So, it's like benefit plus benefit plus benefit uh of this program. It's really wouldn't >> great group of people a lot of fun.

161>> Yeah, really great. >> Fair amount of kids. Be great to see more kids involved. But >> there were kids though that were >> Cooper was there >> that were shucking even. So, we were talking to one of the oyster farmers and she's like I my got my son off the couch off his screen and you know he's helping with their >> um you know their garden. >> Yeah. What table was Akamabonic? So our table was Napig. >> A was Napig. >> A. Yeah. The one Peter big Peter was at. We put him there. We put him there specifically because the Napig oysters were so big. >> Yeah, they were good. >> Yeah, >> he was great at check. >> Bley, I I I appreciate kind of the concept of finding new species that are

162able to cope with the warmer waters because, you know, as much as we do, that element is coming. But just kind of looking back a little bit, you know, I wasn't aware of the brown tide incident in the 80s. Um, if you could just talk to like what was the driver of that? um you know and and and and how do you see the aquaculture program really address that issue um at that time? >> Yeah. So um you know everything was pretty pretty well robust into the 80s. You know there were 400 bayon in East Hampton making a living on the water and then in the mid 80s this brown tide a toxic brown tide called oracus anapagins swept really the whole east coast. It was a east coastwide phenomena and it was a toxic

163algae that none of the shellfish ate. It reached such a density that the water instead of looking green like it does now, it was brown like coffee. So, it shaded all shaded out all the eel grass. A lot of the shellfish starved, especially the base scolops that are much more prone to water quality issues. And so, the harvest plummeted to 20% of what it was before this brown tide. So a lot of the hatcheries that exist now, US, Icelip, you know, hatcheries along the whole east coast were established to start to repopulate shellfish populations in in in their subsequent harbors with the idea that, you know, they're going to filter the water, uh, sequester these excess nutrients. So the idea behind harmful algae blooms like the brown tide is that they feed on excess nutrients

164that are being washed into the waters from our fertilizers. predominantly our fertilizers and our septics. So they're they're utilizing these nutrients to to grow their shells and their meats, hence sequestering them. And actually by removing the shellfish and eating them, then we're actually actively removing those nutrients from the water. So that's why growing shellfish was so important. >> So it was driven by degrading water quality from fertilizers and septic. >> Right. Interesting. >> And luckily brown tide, it really hasn't occurred out here really since then. >> But we have the red tide. We have the rust. Yeah. >> We have the warming of our waters from climate change as well and the acidification which impacts uh our shellfish production as well >> and the warming that brings in the cow's rays. But one benefit, one

165slight anecdote, I'm on I'm on Pconic Bay all summer and I didn't see rust tide in Ponic Bay at all this summer. >> Partially because of the drought. So it kind of partial to droughts to a certain extent because the drought, you know, the rain when it rains, it washes all that stuff into the water and that's what prompts these algae blooms. So there was I saw maybe I missed it, but I saw no rust tide and all the pecanics this summer. >> Yeah, I didn't hear of any this summer. Um, but also uh I'm sure that the reefs you're creating and the oysters and the shellfish that you're seating is having an impact. >> Sure. Yeah, that's that's the that's the notion. And plus in and in the PCON there's oyster farms. Yeah. In

166our town waters, you know, I always like to equate the trees and the and the bushes and the the the flora that we grow. We know that they provide habitat and they help clean the air, but we don't necessarily go out there and measure it, right? >> Yeah. >> We just know that it's a fact. You can see it. You can see the habitat production with your with your own eyes. And we know for a fact that a a group of trees is going to help clean the air. Like I said, we're not out there necessarily measuring it, but we know that it's >> it's having a benefit. >> Ty Hampton is lucky to have you, Barley. >> Thank you. >> And I'm lucky to be here. >> I didn't you didn't answer. Were those

167scallop sets? >> So, can we just say, you know, funny story. We have monthly department head meetings and we do like a warm-up kind of icebreaker question to start and the question to the department heads a few months back is like, which department head would you want to want? would would you want to change places with and Barley by far was the department head that other people >> want to be on a boat >> wanted to change places with. >> Yeah. >> So, thank you for all you do. >> Have a good rest of the meeting. >> Okay. So, next up we are going to uh be talking about our recreational facilities. We have a number of recreational facilities. We've been expanding on the Honorable Fred Theel uh facility over in Steven Hans's path. We've

168also got projects in the pipeline for the Terry King ball field. So, I think what we wanted to do was just kind of go through we're getting be getting ready for um the 2026 capital plan. We have started engineering on some projects and we wanted to bring this to the board and have you know uh a discussion on how we move forward here. So, thank you for queuing this up, Chelsea. So, you want to >> Yeah. >> take it from here, David? >> So, uh, working with the supervisor, we very much successfully co-parented and brought forward, uh, changes to, uh, generational changes to the town's recreational facilities and specifically working with the Lily Ballfield Relocation Committee at Steven Hans Path that also worked with the supervisor and when she assisted with bringing forward the Maltto

169skate park changes there. Then too, recreation is on the forefront of a lot of individuals out here because as much as we like to work, we like to play. Also, uh what I wanted to do was uh brought Kathy and I have been discussing this about two historical contexts of two of our larger major recreational facilities. One being at Abraham's path and then the other being at the Honorable Fred Theo facility. Uh as you see on the screen here, this is actually the Abraham's path facility. you'll see the not named at that moment but very shortly after in 1970 the Terry King ballfield that was there uh this area here and what you don't see in right field there's a square box and that would actually be where the comfort station is but you'll see

170that next so as a historical context we're looking at the evolution of recreation at these facilities this is a 1970 next please as we draw down by 1978 you're starting to see the town install the comfort station there which means the current conference station there which is which we're looking to update has been there nearly 50 has been there 50 years. Uh you'll also start to see the basketball court, tennis courts and also parking that was add added in that location in 1978. When we move forward one more, uh, what you're starting to see in 1984, and the only reason I did this is that you'll see in the other recreational, uh, major recreational facilities were shore privately done sport, currently sport time now to the left, but if you look at the road to

171the bottom left there, that's called Thomas Avenue, that's where I learned how to ride my bike. So, why it's important to me when my dad cut that street and built that street, and I don't know why it's called Thomas Avenue, not David Lane or Diana's Way or whatever it is, a little jealousy. Um, I walked with my dad and he taught me how to play tennis over there. And lo and behold, there is actually a banner on the East Hampton High School wall that my tennis team I participated in one in 1994. I want to thank John, coach John Goodman, who should be in the East High School Hall of Fame. Also, next, as we move forward into 2004, what you start to see is the ice a skating rink that was going there in

172there into the facility. There was an external skating rink that was added. And as we move forward into 2007, that was then uh um um turned into an indoor facility which is very very popularly used right now for multiple sports also then too from 2000 and you see the parking was expanded also uh from 2007. This goes to 2016 which I thought was a wonderful uh uh look at how to look at the four tennis courts in which they became uh more active for the user groups in which they turned into two volleyball courts and then two tennis courts in 2016. Next, what that brings us to is the conversation in 2024 where we're at. That's how our current recreational facility looks uh at this current at the current time right now which we have

173two volleyball, two tennis, a basketball court. Uh we have a a wonderful um uh baseball facility, softball facility, Terry King Field and our indoor um sports multi-use rink. Next, why do I mention this? It's because pickle ball. Sorry, all that to Kathy till we finally get to pickle ball. Town of Empton has multiple pickleball courts. We have the three in the top right at the Montalk Playhouse. We have restriped the tennis courts over the by Springs SYA building. And also will uh I want to thank the supervisor for and the town board for supporting adding two brand new outdoor t uh pickleball course in the top left that the only two dedicated ones at South Erie in M talk Hlet town over there by the >> um so we have capital uh uh we then

174went to engineering and and the capital budget for two things at this facility uh next if you don't mind would be for adding three brand new pickleball courts in the location uh and uh that that's set here. Uh this engineering has already been completed and we're looking to go out to construction on that. The area is tight with septic systems. Uh they do line up so they're not directly east west on there. We would like to put some shade shelters on there also, but it would be three outdoor dedicated pickleball courts in the Hamlet and Ambiganza at one of our major recreational facilities. Another one, please. What this shows here is in combination with that, and yes, we did reject an RFP recently as the town board is aware to expand the aging and nonADA

175uh um uh uh design compliant. Thank you. Uh restroom facility, the comfort station. So, we're going to be doing that. also adding a pad for a storage building so we can have uh recreational gear and builds and grounds equipment stored there as this area continues to progress and move forward to in our major recreational facilities. So, I wanted to bring that to the town board that this is what the scope of it is. I've sent this to some uh and I've gotten comments from some of the uh the pickleball u clan uh I remember what the what did the governor call say when she came and visited us? Uh she said that's a pretty intense group of pickleball players out there in Montalk, but they're all around and individuals travel far far and wide. So

176this is one that's ready to go out to construction and it'd be nice to see if we can get this up and going in the next couple of months as we get the RFP together. But again, it's one of those needs that have been requested by a large amount of people and one of those offerings that the town of East to now can offer our residents for recreation by adding these three pickle ball courts ADA compliant and new restrooms because hence I think we've got our our use and our useful life of that restroom for being 50 years old now. Um I thank you for that and we'll go on Kathy. I know you're going to present next, >> but we wanted to talk about this the uh the the honorable Fred the recreational facility

177over on Steven Hans's path. What you see here up in the upper right corner is the CDCH building and then below we had two um two soccer fields and we had two I guess volleyball courts that were there. uh and that was the configuration when we were approached in in 2017 or 2016 2017 by the uh Southampton hospital uh to to be able to they wanted to site the freestanding emergency department. We had looked at moving the two they preferred the site here on Panango Place uh was centrally located and but we had our two little league ball lit little league ball fields there. So we had an arrangement with with the hospital where we moved the the little league ball fields to the Steven Hanss path location and one of the I remember and

178former supervisor Larry Canwell's here in the audience when we first went to meet with the little league board back in you know uh at the spring school library you know the they were completely on board with reciting these fields but they wanted to make a deal with us that They wanted those fields upgraded. They wanted to have, you know, the the artificial turf, ensure that the lights were going to be there, batting cages. So, that was a real improvement. And we see a lot of play over there um because of it. So, Chelsea, like terrific, you get to the next slide where you see the two little league ball fields that have been configured and how we expanded parking. We upgraded the um to an AI system there, you know, because had such a a

179busy busy uh facility. And Chelsea, if you get to the next slide where we can see where uh we've put in the multi-purpose field, I know uh I had an opportunity to go to homecoming there. It was a tremendous community event where hundreds of families and kids showed up, marching bands, the whole nine yards. Um, and it's a a ball field, multi-purpose ball field that gets a lot of play. Um, but now we had also gone out for engineering in this year's capital plan for uh to expand again the pickle ball. And what you see here is eight pickle ball courts that are cited in between the grass soccer field. >> Just go back one. >> You see here cited here the we have the grass field and then we have the eight pickle ball

180courts and then the multi-purpose field and that is right kind of you can see uh in gray where we have a walkway to the comfort station. So just adding what the supervisor is uh in discussions also with uh John Rooney superintendent of recreation and also our what I always like to say the deputy superintendent of recreation being Tim Garnau who's spectacular. What's the conceptual plan here and what's the next steps? One of the things that we saw was that there was a request for greater amount of parking and then also for uh potentially basketball. So, as a supervisor mentioned, we are already into engineering and I look forward to getting into construction very shortly on these pickle ball courts that are here. Uh maybe a a shade pavilion. Uh and also working with uh a

181pathway that would go down to the uh the playground in this area which is up for needing an upgrade uh serviceable now need for upgrade and again we can make that an ADA accessible sensory playground as discussed by other committees. So what do we do? Let's play a little bit of pretend. Let's play a little bit what's needed. One thing that uh the supervisor and discussed if we go one more forward is a need for centralized parking. The centralized parking and additional parking is potentially getting another 40 spots where the current volleyball courts are. Those volleyball courts get well used. One of the options is then to put more parking and volleyball to the western edge of of the current multi-purpose location. So, we can potentially look at adding another 80 parking spots, two brand

182new volleyball courts. If we wanted to, we could get a basketball court into the location. Remember, basketball out of all these all these sports that are there, it's the only sport that one person is needed to play. So, if you have a child playing pickle ball, sorry, you have a child playing baseball, but the other child wants to go shoot hoops, go for it, son or daughter. And then you also have the playgrounds. So, what we're trying to think is what would the town board potentially like us to see as we move forward into potential engineering uh and answer the questions that when we go up to the these sporting facilities, what's next? Pickle ball parking is there, but if we do more parking, we're going to have to uh uh address where we're going

183to do the new volleyball courts, which are widely used by portions >> and need to be resurfaced anyway. There there's cracks that are showing and I I do you will we walked through there last week. Do you remember the last time that they were serviced, >> John? I'm going to say I think they're original from 200. >> They were original. They have not been redone. >> Yeah. So, >> we did the basketball court at uh and tennis courts at the SYA building and the basketball and mall talk at the skate park most recently, but this is on the near list to do so. So the timing of it might be great to be able to uh completely redo them but at the same time look for parking because as many of us have now gone

184up to the little league ball fields which sometimes you might get 300 people up there multi-generations uh they there's more parking that's needed there into the multi-purpose field. So these are a couple conceptual plans that Kathleen and I have been working through. We just wanted to present it to the board to see any thoughts here of what's next and if we're tending to this the a right direction for uh locations on there to the board and that's what Kathy and I wanted to discuss with you. >> Um yeah, look, I I I'm supportive of this and parking is key here and I think we've discussed that conceptually. Um you know, adding 40 parking spots is great. Um we do as we did at the um Friday night homecoming game. If it's dry enough, we have

185the ability to park on that grass soccer pitch, but you know, potentially we could see larger crowds. My first question would be, is 40 spaces enough to add to this. Um, so that that would be kind of one piece. Uh, in terms of the pickleball courts, look, it's a no-brainer. We've had holdups elsewhere um with regards to delivering pickle ball courts to the community. So, I think this would be great to to see these added here. Um, volleyball's fantastic. So, I I think this is great how this is evolving. Um, you know, it's a bit bit of a red herring, but you know, I think as we're looking at this site, the one thing that does keep getting mentioned to me by the public is what are we doing with the CDCH building? And that's

186something I would love us to kind of really have a round table and put something in there soon as >> agreed and and we and we can now that we've done the updates on that also by a little bit of the design here is there's there's a lot of municipal land there which Kate had mentioned before last night. Town doesn't have a lot of municipal land. So what this does, it keeps everything tight. So there could be future expansion as generational needs are are brought up also then too. >> Yeah, I'm fully supportive of uh additional um recreational facilities and the parking needed at this location. As this evolves, it really becomes a hub for recreation. And what I like about it, and that's something we're looking at Abraham's path as well, you can have

187generational family members doing different things, but everybody enjoying each other in the same place. So, uh, I support going forward on this. >> Yeah, I do as well. And I think the pickle ball courts, I'm going to hear about pickle ball needs a lot. So, I think that's a great addition. I think the basketball court is great. Um, obviously, we need more parking there. My only question would be um I don't know if there's been a cost analysis of what it would cost to do the um the valuable courts in place versus moving them. I'm sure that you've looked into that and this I think from a planning standpoint makes more sense, but um if if it would save a lot of money, I think you could shift parking perhaps behind the field. It wouldn't

188make as much sense for Little League. So, it's probably a bad idea. I'm just voicing it because it's a consideration. Part of it is just separating the different user groups because we're hearing, you know, I've gotten some calls that we need more parking for the the little league golf balls. I think we'd also probably put in more handicap spots because some of uh the folks, as David mentioned, are multigenerational that are coming to see their their grandkids play. Um, I think that we we needed to it's kind of like it's like a master plan is what we're looking at for recreation >> at at this facility and it it probably makes more sense to um have different sections and you know create additional parking closer to the to the two fields that are getting the

189most use the little and bringing the you know the biggest audience fans and that's the the two little league ball fields and the multi purpose field. >> I think there's an audience for a pickle ball, too. So, >> yeah. Yeah, I think that's that's less you, you know, those are the folks that are playing as opposed to >> I think, you know, you you raised something that kind of is a knock-on effect here, which we might also want to consider, which is that, you know, with the growing popularity of events here. Do we have enough public bathrooms? Um, I I know the condition of that public bathroom has sometimes been a concern of the public because it gets a lot of use. Um, and so is there scope as we do this to potentially add

190more public bathrooms as well? >> We can definitely look into that. Yeah, this this I want this is a little bit of an alakart thing if you want to say what have we heard since we've added these pieces together on there and all of us could look into because there's not just going to be that there's power infrastructure that goes to inciting on that. We'll look into that too, Tom. Again, this is none of this is engineered. this is all just conceptual and that if the board is seeming like in almost support of wanting to maybe go this way, right, madam supervisor, uh we'll put some more time and effort and energy into it. >> Yeah. And the other question it raises, right? So the little league ball fields and the multi multi-purpose field are

191lit. Mhm. >> Do we also want to look at lighting the pickleball courts andor the volleyball courts in order to, you know, because, you know, we've had some mild winters where, you know, you could be playing pickle ball in in December, but, you know, it it's dark at 4:30, 5:00. So, you would be able to expand, you know, opportunities for folks to, you know, to recreate here if we added lighting to the as we expanded the park. >> I think that would be smart. I agree. >> Yeah. Particularly when you're you're losing other recreational outdoor opportunities as it gets darker, so you become limited. Um, I think that makes sense and since it's lit and since the infrastructure exists also, um, it makes sense. Well, I'll continue. I I'll I'll check with the engineers on

192that one then, too, because there might be hurdles to that, but again, it's only a hurdle. It's not a it's not a stop. Um, this is a good conversation on to the future of recreation. I think one of the greatest things that, you know, you've done as supervisor Kathy is you've supported this and in increasing recreation throughout the whole entire township since you've been on the board. I know the whole town board has done that also, but we wanted to make sure this got in front of everyone. And um now that we're sort of there, Kathy and I myself will go to work. John Rooney, do you have anything to say here as far as superintendent? Any comments? >> Excited for it? Um >> John, John, you want to come to the >> Well, again,

193um just really excited for it. Obviously, I just love when there's more recreational opportunities for every aspect of the public. Um also, as David had mentioned the basketball, like someone who's by themselves can now do something. And the other thing that wasn't mentioned, it's also another plus is this has been expanding the ADA accessible walking paths and people go to this facility every day just walking around the ball fields, walking around, you know, just it just keeps to expanding that as well as we've been doing that throughout the town. So that's another user group. So >> well thank you. So uh with that there'll be more to come on this but I wanted to make sure it was on everyone's radar as we progress forward then too. Thank you for your time. Chelsea, would you

194mind staying to put up the map for the ne for our last um topic, which is the proposed stop signs in H Creek Farm or anything? >> It should be. It It should be It's not on the desktop. >> Can she open the town? Can >> Does it Does it work if you go on to work session materials? So, let me just start. So, uh, I I was outreached by, um, folks from the Hans Creek Farm neighborhood asking for the installation of stop signs, uh, in there and, uh, they had, you know, a proposal. And when I drove around that neighborhood, I came back and we looked at the three proposed stop signs. The first is uh at the intersection of Timberline Road and Cordy Cordy Court. The second is at where Cordy Circle intersects

195with Cordy Court and in two locations that some folks felt like that was like a racetrack in there. The way that the um the subdivision was laid out and that it would be safer and made more sense to have those three proposed stop signs. um forwarded the request to Steve Lynch and Kevin Cobb in the highway department. They were both supportive and forwarded it to Chief Sarlo who also agreed that um it would be wise to include these three stop signs. So, what I'd like to do is at the next public hearing at the next meeting, which I believe is November 6, notice for public hearing these three proposed stop sign. There it goes. Oh, thank you, Chelsea. There we have it. So you can see, so Timberline Road comes off of um Hans Creek

196Road. It's a subdivision with about 75 homes and uh just add to public safety if we had those three stop signs. So if everybody is supportive of taking this to public hearing, I'd like to to notice it on November 6th and then hear it on November 20th. It does look like a Formula One track. Um I'm supportive. I'm supportive as well. >> All right. Beautiful. So, we'll do that. All right. So, that wraps up our seven work session topics today. Um, and now we can go on to liaison reports. I just want to let if if board members, you know, if we could do um maybe more abbreviated uh liaison reports today. We have a very robust exec session too and I know we're almost three hours into this work session. >> Yeah. I'll go

197as fast as I can here. Um, the Amigans advisory committee. Um, firstly I I just want to mention um the the passing in September of Elaine Jones of Amagancit who is the founder of uh the Amigansit's uh concerned citizens that later became the CAC uh and thank her and her family for their incredible commitment to this town. Um the discussion last night um focused on about seven different topics. Um the first and kind of the most vocal of which was the um the blocking visa on Further Lane. Um the the residents really wanted a stronger understanding of why the town is not enforcing the easements on that property. Um I I've told them I will be reaching out to the relevant departments of natural resources uh and planning to understand that better. Um but that

198is something that's causing significant concern. >> Do we want to hear to Jake? Did you want to >> is there any comment you wanted to make? No, not at this time. I've spoken with um Councilman Flight about this issue and um I think it's best if we go back to the planning department and natural resources and look at exactly what it is they are seeing. >> Okay, thank you. Go ahead, Tom. Sorry. >> Thank you. Um next up was um discussion around the proposed changes to the agricultural site plan process. um you know really that focused on just kind of you know informing people as to look this is a very early stage recommendations that have come through to the planning board uh and there will be absolutely open forum for public discussion on that

199um but there was some good explanation of why they want those changes to come um from the agricultural committee members so I I think that's something that people are looking forward to having the one request from the uh CAC was when we have that discussion can we please have that at town hall as opposed to Montalk because it's more centrally located to a lot of the farmers and residents who are out here. Um the other piece that came up in that discussion was um the request from committee members um for the the town to kind of have a list of all town owned agricultural parcels and a listing on each of those what the easements are and potentially violations that are occurring. Um third topic of discussion was around the field property. Um they want

200to form a subcommittee about putting a playground into that facility up there just off the long-term parking lot by the municipal property. Um so that will be forthcoming. We'll be forming that committee and I'll be working closely with John Rooney and David um to what we could potentially put in there. Um there was an update given to people with regards to some of the proposed changes for short-term rentals. um feedback there was generally positive but again some caution I mentioned just because so many families in the town do kind of see income from that but I think you know explanation of what we're looking to do there in terms of gauging what's going on in the short-term rental market was key uh we also discussion with regards to the um certificate of occupancy uh discussion

201we had last week um with regards to possibly allowing licensed professionals to to kind of do that certification um just feedback is generally that that legislation we passed is is seen as problematic um from those community members. Um gave a lighting update um with regards to the main street lighting. Um you know the the residents also wanted to kind of get some update as to what we're looking to do in the municipal parking lot there as that's still seen as a safety issue. And lastly we had discussions around the um recent um press release with regards to the senior center as well uh and what what we're looking to do there. Generally there was um some support there but there there is um some concern you know like we want to ensure that whatever path

202we do take forward with this um you know seniors are not being forgotten um we want to make sure that their concerns and their needs are fully addressed as we move forward with this um human services a reminder that we have Halloween taking place on the 31st um at 11:15 a.m. Um be great to see everyone there. Um just also want to mention that open open enrollment period for Medicare supplement medigap is now uh available uh which means you can enroll in the metagap plan for the first time switch between metagap plans and change from Medicare advantage plan to a metagap plan. Open enrollment ends December 7th. Uh if you need support in doing this please feel free to call Liliana Rodriguez the case manager. Her number is 631-3296939. Um fire marshall's office. Uh, and

203this is just generally goes across um different areas of town employees. Um, we've had instances of people calling in and being incredibly abusive to town staff. It is something we will not tolerate. Um, it's the old adage, you catch more bees with honey than vinegar. And so I just encourage anyone interacting with town staff to to be, you know, be your best self. Um, trustees, um, there's work going on at the Lamb Building, um, which has been a little bit disruptive to trustees and housing department employees. Uh I I know the town administrator is kind of working to provide space in the 111A suite with regards to that. Um but just um that that's ongoing as an issue. Um just a reminder on November 20th we have a public hearing for the ADU implementation code

204changes. Um just encourage all residents to comment on that uh in all aspects. Um Brooks Park um site um I've circulated to my colleagues the proposed license agreement from the Brooks Park group. um if we could just get feedback on people's opinions on that by the end of next week. Uh I've also discussed with the fire marshall with regards to what driveway access requirements are for that property. Um you know, obviously given the history and the nature of that property, we want to preserve as much of the natural environment there as possible. And so, you know, what the driveway might look like is something I'm working with the fire marshall on. um public safety. Um we have um next week we're expecting a letter from one of the town contractors to get a quote for

205the removal of trees in the Bucksill preserve on the fire road. Um we should I know we'll update the colleagues on that accordingly. Um Eastampton youth task force uh related but um there's been a lot of press around the the boys uh football team. I just wanted to call out the ladies varsity soccer team. Uh they had an unbeaten season. Coach Nelson did a phenomenal job there and congratulations to all those ladies. Um arts council committee um tentatively we they are looking to do a t networking event in town hall on November 21st at 6:00 p.m. I have checked uh the the facility is available that time. uh if my board members are supportive, I would like to pursue um holding that event in town hall. Um additionally came up in discussion with that committee

206last night. Historically, there used to be um art installations in town hall that kind of rotated across time. Something that the committee would like to bring back and just kind of, you know, more um more kind of emphasis on representing local artists in town hall um across time. And additionally, there was discussion around whether um town would be open to the arts council working to organize painting of community benches. Something's been done in some other towns and we just, you know, um add some color to Main Street as possible. So, that's something we'll be discussing. Um business committee, I I mentioned this a little bit earlier, but we've been working with the business committee to, you know, um identify ways that they would like to see us improve operations in the building department. Um, you

207know, the the first kind of piece of feedback came around stop work orders. Um, that, you know, could the town look at, you know, more accommodations in areas where it's not a public safety issue, specifically prior to a stop work order being issued, notification being given to homeowners to amend any issues that might been going on, such as getting a permit. Um also discussion in that committee around some of the complexities of revitation plans that go on uh when site work is being undertaken and you know are there ways to find compromise in that area. Uh specifically mentioned you know as we had the discussion here earlier today was you know the concept of you know pollinator gardens going in um keeping soil on site um as site clearing is done because that obviously has

208a huge habitat within it. Um so that that discussion is ongoing. Um then there was discussion around uh revisiting what work might require a permit. Um obviously you know some we we hear feedback from people saying they they kind of getting ticketed where they're replacing a plank in their deck. Um you know you know do we want to kind of revisit um what work is required getting a permit. Um with regards to that uh the discussion is is there capability for code enforcement or building department to work in some of these kind of smaller areas? um to do an on-site application for a building permit if they do visit a site and they find someone is doing something. Um could that actually be done on time as opposed to stopping the the the development? Um

209uh we talked about first track applications. We've mentioned here a bit today. Um you know just the concept of uh pools, decks, sheds um etc. We are working with open gov to actually have that fasttracking ability there. So that is ongoing. Um, also came up was discussions around some of the insurance challenges homeowners in the town are facing with regards to fire risk uh and what the town could potentially do to address that. Um, lastly, you know, there was discussion around the short-term rental um, uh, proposed uh, investment. Um, one thing that came up there I thought was of interest and they wanted me to share with you was, you know, obviously we have um, during we we have within the code, you know, the restrictions on people not being able to end uh, to

210rent for um, less than two weeks. um whether the town would be open to the concept in the off season of reducing that restriction to have oneweek rentals in the offseason just to kind of enhance the the shoulder season for homeowners and business owners. Um you know the concept of uh that exists elsewhere of a concept called no cold beds uh which basically means that if a property is unoccupied uh it should be um made available for rent. Um, you know, lastly with discussion to year round increasing the the year- round business opportunities was the concept of tennis bubbles. It was interesting seeing that work at Abraham's path. You know, started as an open air facility and later had that bubble put over it to allow year round use. Um, you know, is that something

211that the town would kind of work with um operators to to increase as well? Um and lastly for the tick uh advisory committee uh we would like to do a work session in December um with regards to uh updating on tickborn diseases and some of the options we're looking to explore for uh managing the tick populations. >> Thank you Tom. >> Three quick things. Uh there's continued paving happening within the highway department and many roads and million paving. I want to thank the supervisor for adding $200,000 to the 2025 capital budget because without that we wouldn't be able to do as many roads. So, uh, Supervisor Buron Gonzalez, thank you very much for adding that money and, uh, uh, to the Superintendent Highway Steve Lynch for, uh, making sure our roads are safe and newly

212paved. Uh, on North Main Street currently today, it's happening in this week. Uh, please be note that the town is upliving some of the trees there to make sure we have safety uh, for the lights to come down, light wash. I know that was something that the East Hampton Citizens Advisory Committee was looking for. I want to thank Steve O'Brien for uh prioritizing his staff to go do that. So, there might be some parking that might be coned off, but again, it's another another way in which the town board is looking to be beautify some of our uh business areas then too. Lastly, uh we had a pre-construction meeting yesterday for the Montalk inlet Harbor dredging project with the contractors, the federal government, the state, uh not the county and myself and other town employees.

213That uh that dredging project is imminent right now. Uh and more specifically is that the parking lot at north of Gmans, which is a town owned parking lot, which is part of this project, will be shut down very shortly as they start the sta start the stage there. We will uh uh make sure property owners nearby will know that. Vendor will also know that and also have signage put up. But again, that's a project that is honestly only moving forward because what the supervisor was able to accomplish by finding funding sources to cover that and it's impending and it should start work within the next couple weeks. And that's all I have. Thank you. >> Thank you, David Kate. >> Yes. Uh I also would like to say that the ditch plains dune reconstruction project

214is also imminent, will be happening in the next uh few weeks. Um the uh I've been outreached by uh some of the groups uh that were here today. um Rew Wild uh uh Change Hampton and Perfect Earth Project to and asked to put together a forum for how these organizations can help us update our um native planting um page that's provided by natural resources and make some of our um uh web pages on that more user friendly uh with pretty pictures etc. So I'll be meeting with them in November. Um, I just want to mention uh the No Kings Rally was held uh this h past Saturday and um I just want to pass along from the organizers great appreciation to our town police department for keeping them safe and for um putting up with

215the honking. That was pretty uh consistent. My one recommendation would be for earplugs in the future. Um want to give a quick quick update. Folks can see that there's new EV chargers on town hall property. Uh these are there are they are 10 level two chargers with two ports each for a total of 20 ports, 60 amps per uh unit, 14 kilowatts per hour. We received a grant for this project and that grant was from NYSTEC ZEV grant zero emission vehicles for in the amount of $250,000. They should be electrified either this weekend or next according to PSEG. Lastly, uh quickly just state that the David because you brought it up in beach in your beach report about um uh dog poop bags being left on the beach. the litter action committee um and uh

216town staff met uh and myself uh there were uh with Patrick our new information officer or not new so some more helping out and we will be launching the citizen Sam program which is uh citizen Sam is a wonderful dog who carries his own poop bag and puts it in a receptacle and his friends who will be starting a new litter action campaign also just reminding folks that when you throw litter are out on the street that can impact dogs health as they will be attracted to it and try to try to maybe eat some of whatever is there or drink some of whatever's there. And I've seen beer bottles. So that would be very very disturbing to uh to dogs and as it is to humans in our environment. So please do not trash

217East Hampton. And I'll end right there. If I could just say I'm sorry >> just very quickly um just one thing with the EV charging stations just public to know that even if you don't have an electric vehicle you are permitted to park there. Um ideally you know park in a space that's you know free and open that's not but if all the other parking spaces are taken and you need to park there you are not prohibited for parking in that space if you don't have an EV. >> Yeah we'll get that message out when we uh notify every folks that they're online. Uh, and if I could just say, uh, Kate, I'd be interested in attending the forum with Change Hampton, Perfect, and Re. As you folks know, we put $30,000 in the 2026

218budget, uh, to help educate folks on native landscaping and also take a look at uh, the plants that we recommend for reveation. So, that's something I'd be interested in. And to your point about the protest that took place here this past weekend, um PD had to put up a quarter mile of barricades because, you know, tw the estimated 2500 uh community members showed up for that. And like you said, I mean, we're so grateful for PD for keeping us safe. we are going to have to revisit because um there were just so many folks arrived in in cars that uh impacted local businesses around here. So, we're going to have to take a look at that uh if they're looking to do an event here um in the future. >> Yeah, the organizers also brought

219that up out of consideration to the business owners. >> For sure. Ian, >> uh Spring CAC will meet tonight at Ashwag Hall at 6:30. Uh thank you for moving that back a little bit later. Although looking at the time, it still might be tight. >> Yeah. >> Um, property management committee met last week. Uh, I believe we have a final version of the Osborne Homestead Management Plan. I'd like to bring this board hopefully in November. Uh, looking forward for the property and management committee. Uh, the 11 the November 12th meeting actually has a conflict with the town board based on a a strange schedule. So, just to put it out there, we're going to have to reschedule that. Uh, looking way ahead. A advisory met on November 9th. Um, as Tom mentioned, he addressed some

220of these with the amigance citizens advisory committee. Uh, but there were recommendations or requests from the a committee. There's also a very thoughtful planning board memo with their original thoughts. I think it's time for the town board to to look at it, give some guidance, and then, you know, if there's um consensus to move forward on on, you know, some parts, no parts, or whatever we think. Hopefully, that can be in November as well. To Tom's point, that should definitely be at town hall. I believe both meetings in November are at town hall. um in November. Uh but certainly makes sense not to do it in Montalk. And that's all I have. >> Okay, great. I just want to remind folks that Saturday, October 25th is drug takeback day, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. here

221at Town Hall. The following Saturday, Saturday, November 1st, we're doing an a reprieve of drug takeback day. And we're also doing our second annual free community shredding day. Again, the hours are 10:00 a.m. to 2 pm. We'll be posting on the town website and social media. It was also on the front page of the uh community connection, our quarterly newsletter that went out earlier this month. Uh we also have uh this is, you know, we have a couple of weeks where we don't have town board meetings. uh the the way the November fell both Tuesday, November 4th being election day, town offices are closed and Tuesday, November 11th being Veterans Day. Again, offices here are closed. So, what we did early in um the organizational meeting is we set Wednesday, November 12th here in the

222main meeting room for a town board work session. So, it's going to be three weeks before we meet. This is why today's meeting was so jam-packed with seven topics because we're going to be going three weeks without a work session. Um, and then we'll have the following Tuesday, November 18th, will be another town board work session. So, both work sessions for November are here at town hall. We will not be making the trip out to Montalk in November. Uh, and because there's such a three-week lull, um, we do did decide that we are going to have to schedule a special exec session, and I have a resolution. It's a walk-on, um, for Thursday, October 30th at 11:00 a.m. because we need to discuss CPF and personnel. We can't go three weeks without exact because we

223already anticipate some issues coming up. So, that's what I have for my liaison report. If we could go now to our resolutions, Tom. >> Yes. Thank you, madam supervisor. I will start with resolution 20253091. Uh this is of the wellness 60 plus floor yoga program. Be the result of the town board hereby approves the 60 plus wellness yoga floor uh classes to be provided by Stacy Hler at a town not at the cost of the town not to exceed $875. >> Second. >> All in favor? I. >> 1392. This is to authorize attendance at the Suffach County Food Manage Training course for Rudolph Santi at a cost not to exceed $75. >> Second. >> All in favor? I uh it's my pleasure to offer resolution 20251393. This is accept the donation of a memorial bench

224a gift from Patricia D. Rosa. Whereas Patricia D. Rosa would like to donate a memorial bench as a gift to the town of East Hampton in memory of her father Mr. Pat A. D. Rosa to be placed at the Mto Playhouse resolve the town board gratefully accept donation by Patricia D. Roa to the town of East Hampton. >> Second. All in favor? >> I. I have resolution uh 1394 and this is a post-hering adoption for a stop sign in uh on Westgate Road and Crossways in Wayne Scott. The public hearing was held on October 16th uh 2025 and this resolution is to adopt uh the installation of a new stop sign at Westgate Road and Crossways. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. Resolution 1395 is approval of various special events for November and

225December. Uh the first is the turkey trot um for the amigans at Union Free School District on uh Wednesday 11:18 at 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Next is the Spring School uh uh annual turkey trot at Spring School onto Old Stone Highway. Uh that will take place Monday uh November 24th 8 am to 12 pm. Next we have the Mtok Historic Society 16th annual lighting of the Montalk Lighthouse that takes place on uh November 29th 5 to 7. And the Chamber of Commerce 4th annual Magic of Muk Holiday Fair that takes place on uh Saturday and Sunday, December 12th and 14 I'm sorry, December 13th and 14th 1 to 6 p.m. >> Second. All in favor? I. >> Resolution 1396 is to appoint provisional building plans examiner Jason Sutherland. Resolve that Jason is hereby appointed

226to the full-time position of buildings plans examiner in the building department uh which is uh at uh $58,4967 annually for 40hour work week effective retroactive to October 20th, 2025. >> Second. >> All in favor? I. Resolution 1397 is a resolution to amend resolution 2025 1331 to correct uh the um to correct the uh reimbursement um recipient of a cleanup deposit for a special event. >> Second. >> All in favor? Hi, >> I have resolution 20251398 is to amend resolution 2025279 East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue and this is to add an additional participant as auxiliary squad Clint Bennett. Second. All in favor? >> I have resolution 1399. Uh this is to increase improvement facilities at the East Hampton Garbage and Refuge District in the town of East Hampton and in Suffach County. Uh this is to

227hold a public hearing on November 20th. Uh this is regards to funding for the grinder to do this by bond uh as opposed to um intermunicipal funds. Second >> all in favor. >> 20251400 is a notice of biders for EH25-051. This the purchase and delivery of jet skis for 2025. The bid is available October 30th 2025 and due back November 13, 2025. Please contact the town's purchasing department with further questions. Second. All in favor? I. And this is the uh the walk- on resolution I mentioned. This is resolution ID 33572. It's to schedule a special meeting Thursday, October 30th, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. for the purpose of holding an executive session to discuss CPF and personnel. >> Second. All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. So, that's everything we have for today, unless there's anything

228else that needs to be brought up. Do I have a motion to go into exact session? >> Yes. I'd like to make a motion to go into executive session for CPF, personnel, real estate, public safety, and advice of council. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Thank you everyone, and thank you LTV. >> Thank you, Tom. And you