001We're live. >> Morning everyone. Welcome to East Hampton. Good morning everyone. Welcome to East Hampton Village Board Meeting. Today is August 22nd, 2025. It's 11:00 a.m. Could I ask everyone to stand for a pledgece to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands nationisible and justice for all. >> Thank you. >> I have a few announcements. I'm going to start off um with uh our beach report from uh our deputy mayor. >> Uh hi, good morning. Um as you know that hurricane is past us but the ocean still very rough and dangerous. Uh our village beaches are open. However, um the pedestrian traffic will be subject to the lifeguard's um authority and I think as we last spoke with the chief lifeguard as soon as the tide changes
002this afternoon, they're going to let the beaches be wide open. But right now, it's very very dangerous. The ocean is still huge and uh there's no swimming all day. So, please be careful the beach. Uh, but they are allowing limited access on on the beach and then when the beach gets a little bit safer, they will immediately open it up. But parking is open. I believe the concession stand at Main Beach is open. We're fully staffed and the beaches are safe, but please just don't go swimming today. >> Great. Thank you. Uh Dave, would you mind stepping up say say a few things about your retiring worker Jeff Miller who's in the audience. I asked him to stop in today because Jeff has been part of the village family for 36 years. Jeff >> and
003I just wanted to acknowledge today is his last day. So I thought you might have something more to add. >> Um I do. Um Jeff has been with us 36 years, which is very impressive. Um just goes to show that the village hires good people and retains good people. And uh we've been it's been a pleasure to have Jeff work with us. Uh my dad hired Jeff. Um, and uh, anybody that knows Jeff, he's he's extremely entertaining and fun to be fun to be fun to be around and uh, always brings light to to any situation. Um, Jeff is Jeff has covered a lot of ground for us. He's uh, um, he's the the amount of work that we do. any anybody knows Marco sees sees the work that that DPW he's with me quite
004a bit and he sees the work that we we do and every day is something different and Jeff is one of these people that we've always been able to count on to pick up whatever job needs to be done and uh you know from you know Jeff's officially a heavy equipment operator but from from you know hand tools to heavy equipment and any job that we need need done. Paint machines, layouts. It's, you know, he's well-rounded person. It's going to be hard to, you know, fill his shoes. We're, you know, we're always trying to train the new guys and we've been sending the new guys with with Jeff to to get a uh, you know, a feel for what goes on and how things are done in the future. But, you know, anytime we lose
005lose somebody that's got that much experience, um it's it's tough on the department and uh Jeff is going to be missed. Uh and uh you know, I wish him well. Um he's uh he's got some future plans and and uh we hope we see uh him succeed in that. And uh um it's Jeff, it's been a pleasure to have you with us. >> Thank you. And >> thanks Dave. >> You're welcome. >> Jeff, from me personally from the village board, we just wanted to thank you for 36 years. It's just incredible. And uh give you a round of applause. Thank you. [Applause] >> I don't want to put you on the spot, but if you'd like to say anything, you certainly can. But if you Oh boy. Time for this. >> No. >> Um I
006I made this long- winded Facebook post last night. Um, but in all honesty, um, I came here at 18 years of age thinking, "Oh, a part-timer, you know, just wiping my nose coming in here and thinking this is not the, uh, the path for the rest of my life." But, um, it ended up being a, lack of better words, a life-changing experience. I forged friendships that I will have my entire life. Um, I have met more people than a lot of people. Although I must I'll give you a quick story. The first summer I worked here, I had an older gentleman looked at me and goes, "I met 2,000 new people this summer, and Jeff knew 1995 of them already." Um, and as David stated, I hope to take that into my next endeavor, which
007everyone is fully aware of, and we'll uh hopefully move on in a good direction. But, uh, it's been a fun 36 years. I've had good days, bad days, couple angry days, but we're all human and, uh, it's been a great experience, and I can't thank the village enough for allowing me to work for them for the last 36 years. So, I I walk out the door with a smile thinking I'm a better person leaving than when I came here. Thank you. Thanks, Jeff. Uh, next I just want to mention last night was the grand opening of the new Rolex store on New Town Lane. And the building that it's now in was Oddfellow's Hall back in I think the building was built in 1897. Hugh will probably correct me, but 1897. So it's it's very
008interesting to see uh you know the past meet the future in such a way that uh it's it's kind of unique. And funny story, I was there last night with the deputy mayor and his wife was there and he mentioned that her mother went to kindergarten in that building. So, I thought that was pretty interesting, too. So, uh we thank the UDES. They're uh they own London Jewelers. They bought this building. They restored it. The rumor is, and I don't have any facts to this, but that they spent, let's just say, a lot of money to restore the building, and it really looks uh terrific. So we wish them a lot of luck and success and it was just a a fabulous night. So thank them and good luck to them. Uh the next thing
009I wanted to talk about was the artist writers game. Uh this past Saturday they celebrated their 77th annual uh game at Heric Park and it was a terrific game. And what I wanted to mention there was an injury that occurred on the game. There was a spectator sitting in the stand who was hit by a foul ball and it was a serious injury and I spoke or I text with the family yesterday or mistreated uh voicemails. She is home and she is recovering and we're glad to hear that. Uh but at the same time there was a letter written to the editor of the Star about how callous the village was at the game and I wanted to assure everyone that that person is either misinformed or outright lying about what happened that day. The
010lady was in fact hit by a foul ball. She was immediately um attended to by the police who were stationed at the game. An ambulance was called. A paramedic arrived on scene in 4 minutes and started treating uh the victim. The ambulance arrived in arrived in 12 minutes, which is good. It's a volunteer ambulance. They arrived in 12 minutes. The most important thing that we always strive for is to get the paramedic on scene. The paramedic is the person who will save your life. The ambulance is merely to transport you to the facility. So for this person to write the letter and accuse the village and our hardworking volunteers of not doing their job was really upsetting to me when I read the letter. And I will be writing a letter back to the to
011the editor of the star to let him know that this person is uh absolutely wrong in what they said. And I'm sure other people will write letters that were at the game and will attest to uh the care that was given to the victim. So just wanted to clear that up. It's very annoying to read that stuff because people can write whatever they want and don't base it on facts and uh just go off on tangents like I'm doing right now. So, we're going to move on. So, I just wanted to try to clear that up as much as I could. All right. Last year, the village hosted a block party on New Town Lane, which was wellreceived. And every time I'm out, I receive more. When are you going to do another one? When
012are you going to do another one? So, we have uh worked with the foundation and we're going to do another one and we're going to do it on September 20th. It's a Friday night. We'll have entertainment, music. Uh the restaurants will be able to serve their food on the on the streets and we're going to close that down probably make it really early, probably 4:00 and have it an early and we'll call we're calling it a family family night block party. So, you bring your kids out. Very family fun event. So hopefully it'll be wellreceived like it was for the Yankee game. And that is all I have for announcements. Now I'd like to do roll call. >> Mayor Jerry Larson >> here. >> Deputy Mayor Chris Manardi >> here. >> Trustee Sandra Melendez >>
013here. >> Trustee Carrie Doyle >> here. >> Trustee Sarah Ammedan >> here. >> Administrator Marcos Balladron >> here. >> Village Attorney Lisa Pillo >> here. >> All right. Great. Uh Hugh, would you like to say a few things? >> Uh Mr. Mayor, if you're going to have the block party, do not show Yankee or Met games on the screen. They're terrible right now. All right. Mike Tracy. Mike Tracy joined the um police department in 1983. He said there was one cop on the road in the village at the time and a dispatcher and that's it. You were alone and had to make decisions. He was made provisional chief in 2017. He won't always be in uh he he won't always be in the farm field though. Remember he's now Dr. Peppers. He's trying to grow
014peppers there on in down at Panagal. He plans to stay on the town's antibbias task force and will continue to the villages to be the vill's representative in the East Son volunteer ocean rescue. Now, this article didn't go through all of Mike Tracy's accomp accomplishments as a chief, but it talks about the way he was a chief, and I think that's what I'd like to read. After decades of work, there wasn't one single rewarding moment that stood out to Chief Tracy, but rather a patchwork of seemingly small moments that together created great meaning for him in the job that can be stressful and uniquely impactful on those you've called to help. Maybe you're there to perform CPR and you can save someone. That's wonderful. If you're fortunate enough to be there, but overall that's not
015what sticks. It's when someone's having a bad day, it comes out of nowhere. Someone's in their wits end. Maybe something insurmountable is in their path and you're able to move it. It's the little things. Maybe you should pull someone over and they're scared to death. Their hands are shaking and you you can put them at ease. You have to be willing and awake and paying attention to see the opportunity to make a difference. And I think addition to his sense of humor, of course, that's what made him a great chief. Okay. Now, I'm glad you mentioned London Jewelers over there at the Ro Rolex Boutique because if you read News Day today, they said that the building was a two-story house. No, it wasn't. It was built in 1897 as the mayor said for a
016fraternal group called Odd the Oddfellows. But do you know the first village election was held in Oddfellows Hall. The vote to purchase Home Sweet Home Museum in 1927 was held at Oddfellow's Hall. Oddfellows Hall was a voting precinct for many years and as you said um it was also used as a school. Okay, that's it. >> Thanks you. That was terrific as usual. >> Do I get a raise? >> Sure. >> No. >> All right. Next up is a board discussion. I wanted That's what's nice about small village, small town. When you you're out shopping, you're having dinner, people always just come up to you and give you ideas, and it's always very much appreciated. So, but I I did come back with a few things that I wanted to bring up and see if
017the board had any interest in doing. So, the one comment was that people spend a lot of money to buy our beach permits as we all know and then they want to go and use it at 5:00 p.m. and they go to one of our smaller beaches and there's no parking because at 5:00 we stop enforcing and then people can park wherever they want from wherever they want. So, the suggestion was that we keep the parking enforcement in effect till 8:00 p.m. at the smaller beaches to allow people who have the permits to get there and and use the beaches. So, that was the first item. Anybody I know I'm hitting you cold, but >> I just have a question on that. Would that affect the dog law? >> No, no, no. You could still
018It's just for parking. So the the beach driving and the beach the dog walking would still be the six o'clock. It's just what they were saying is they get down there and there's no place to park because it's already filled by people who don't have permits. So I guess they could walk their dogs if they didn't come by car. >> They could still go on the beach, but it was more about the parking where they they want to come down and set up something for the evening and they can't even get close because there's no parking. And it was really Egypt Beach was the one they were they were talking about. I mean there's only like six parking spots down there, >> right? >> And you know, Wyborgs, I guess, would be the other one,
019but it's just a thought. I don't know. I kind of like the idea. >> I kind of agree with it. Have you heard about it from more than one person? >> No, just one person that I ran into the other night, but it it hit me as like it makes sense. >> Yeah, I think it does. >> At least at the smaller beaches. >> Yeah. >> What do you think? Um, you know, I I seem to sometimes have a problem earlier rather than later. Um, again, I haven't had much time to think about this. Um, I think any village resident would be happy with this because it's more parking for them. Uh, you know, I I think people negatively affected would be non-village residents. So, I don't know any village residents that are going to
020not like this, >> right? or people >> or have a problem >> or purchase a permit, >> they'd be happy to. >> I would say is that >> um I don't know how many problems we have at 8 o'clock at night. Um I seem I go to the beach a lot. uh the parking uh congestion that I've witnessed it would be between 8 and 9 and five and six because that's kind of on the edges of where our ticketing and our our permits and and you know there's sometimes a lot of things going on at the beach whether it be junior lifeguards or events or just a busy morning. Um, but I mean I I I I think we can I I I I think I support the idea of expanding the time slightly. I
021mean, it gives people that pay and residents a little bit more peace of mind. I mean, our our beaches are beautiful. We put a lot of energy into them. And I think it's working because they're they're busier. And so maybe we have to address the parking because it's not fun to go to the beach and not be able to park when, you know, we I'm I'm a village resident as as many of us are and it sometimes gets annoying to be honest with you. So um yeah, I mean I would I would we could try it for next summer. Just do it at the the two small beaches. I mean I don't think we have a problem at Georgia. Definitely not Two-M Hollow and and certainly not Main Beach. which is plenty of parking. It's
022just really those small beaches. So, if we tried it at the two beaches next summer and see how it goes. >> Yeah, I agree. >> And it wouldn't really We don't really We don't allow any parties permitted parties at Egypt because it's too small and we limit what we do at Wyborgs. So, I think it might work. >> Yeah, I think that's a good idea. >> I I agree with that. I I wouldn't be opposed to entertaining Maine and Georgia because again, like I said, those are the beaches that I normally go to and I do believe that there's parking issues in the morning and in the immediate evening. But >> are you talking extending it at night and the morning or just the night? >> Just just the night? >> Just night. Yeah. >>
023Yeah. >> Just the night. Anything's a start and if if people like it, then they'll let us know. And if they don't like it, I'm sure they'll let us know. >> All right. All right. That's good. So, we'll move on that for next. We'll do this this fall would be good. All right. The next um thing that came up was lot one. Right now, we let resident beach holders who don't have a lot one sticker. We let them in at 1:00 each day. And the recommendation that I received was to move it to noon because it's they didn't think it was fair that we wait till 1 holding those spots. If people aren't there by noon, you could pretty much it used to be at two. We moved it back to the last board moved
024it back to 1 and now we have an idea to move it to 12. I'm going to defer to you Chris on this because you are up there a lot more than I am. Do we have the room at noon? I would say is that there probably is room at noon. I I'd like to just have it be locker hold doors only. However, that might not be the most popular decision, but I don't think there's a difference between 1:00 and 12:00. >> Okay. So, that's not We could do that then. Okay, great. We could try that for next summer, too, Lisa, and see if that how that goes. And the last request I had was for one of the blue ADA mats at Two-M Hollow. >> Great. You think we can do that for next
025summer? >> I'd love to. I I would love to put them everywhere. They're not cheap and they require maintenance because the the sand migrates and they have to be picked up and put down and raped. However, I am 100% 150% in favor of more ADA blue mats. >> All right, great. So, if our village administrator can find some cash. >> Sure. >> Be great. >> Um Tom Prio was in charge of that. I don't know if Joe or do we have a liazison for the ADA world? >> It'll be Joe. Did you take that over? >> I can. >> Joe, good answer, Joe. >> I don't think it's official yet. >> So, it's Joe. >> It's not official yet, but it >> Yeah. Yeah. All right. We'll we'll make sure that that happens. Yeah. >>
026And then maybe Joe can let us know his recommendations on how much, where, how long, uh so on and so forth because there are um rules, regulations, committees. H Tom did it. Thank you. Yeah. So, uh, but I know that the beach tries to get more ADA compliant every year. So, I think this would be amazing for next year. >> Yeah, I do have to. I mean, they put up the water fountains and it's been Yeah, you guys have done a great job. All right. So, can we go to Does anybody else have anything? All right. Public comment. Anyone? >> Yes, sir. >> Uh, >> you have to stand up at the podium, though. >> State your name and your address. Richard Pollock and I live at 45 Cheryl Road. Um, uh, on the suggestion
027of the walkway, I don't think it's necessary to do because of the cost of it. I don't think it's necessary to do it on every entrance to the two-mile hollow beach. The one I spoke to you about was to the left side where the restrooms are, which is the largest walkway down and the most used one. I think you start with that, see how it goes, and then in the future, if there is money available, you want to do another one to the right side of the beach. That's fine, too. >> That's perfect. I >> I would just try the the left side first. Okay. >> As you drive it, I'm talking the most left entrance in, which is the one that goes down and people can go to the left or the right. >>
028Great. And your other suggestion was well received as well, sir. >> Yeah. Glad. >> That's great. >> Which was which was your other >> uh the 12:00? Well, I said 11 or 12. >> I don't know the access you're referencing, but I do know that they try to keep the mass away from where the cars drive because the cars will destroy it. >> Right. This is not where the car, you know, this, you know, where the um uh handicap parking is at 2 mile. This is after that. That's the walkway that's most used. >> I love the idea. I put them all over the place. And so, let's see what uh Joe >> Well, I don't know what the cost is, so that I'll leave that to your discretion. But thank you everybody. Thank you
029very much. >> That's the right walkway to do. >> Anyone else for public comment? >> Yes, sir. >> Uh good morning, Mayor Larson, Deputy Mayor Minardi, and village board members. Uh thank you for the opportunity to speak today. My name is Ken Lustader, and I'm a resident of 68 Milh Hill Lane. I live there with my husband, Jay Kidd, um, who can't be here today. I'm speaking on behalf of nearly half of the 42 households on the street, reflecting a significant percentage of homeowners. As you know, Milh Hill Lane is busy year round with pedestrians, children at play, babies in carriages, dog walkers, runners, and cyclists, all drawn in part because of the tree, this beautiful mature trees on the street. In fact, one friend of mine said it looked like a pharmaceutical commercial in
030the morning. Um, for several years, residents have expressed growing concern about the excessive speeding on reckless driving on the street in both directions despite the now posted 25 mph speed limit. The signs appear to have been recently changed from 20 m to 25 mph. Yet, drivers seem to be unaware of the change or indifferent to it. In recent years, we've also seen much more aggressive behavior, including tailgating and hunking. Just yesterday, I witnessed a driver doing both. Equally troubling, uh, residents have reported numerous numerous instances of cars dangerously passing others on the street. I experienced this myself about a month ago when a driver overtook us as we were heading towards our home. Compounding the problem, Milh Hill Lane is listed on ways as a shortcut to avoid Main Street Woods Lane traffic light. further
031increasing volume and the very trees that give the street its character also create blind driveways by the time a car backs out. You may be confronted with a speeding vehicle that was not visible beforehand. Um, we appreciate the village's past efforts to address these concerns. However, speeding remains a chronic year-round problem. Police presence is effective when they're on site and stationed on the street. the temporary monitoring device that was there for speeding uh similar to the one on Mil Hill and toilsim did not re produce any lasting results and we respectfully suggest that the village undertake a traffic analysis as a first step understanding the scope of these safety concerns. Such a study could point to the most effective permanent solutions, whether that's increasing the visibility of some of the existing speed limit signs, an
032extended use of speed monitoring devices, or even speed bumps, even though we understand that would be a last option due to many concerns that have been put forward over the years. I'm concerned that the village officials appear to have responded to our previous calls about excessive speeding by raising the speed limit prior to this meeting. This issue isn't about going a few miles over the speed limit. It's really about aggressive excessive speeding and bad behavior on the part of drivers. So, our shared goal is to ensure the safety of everyone driving on the street and most importantly to prevent future accidents. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm going to just make a few comments. Um, I 110% agree with you. The uh the road is my favorite road in the village. The new pavement
033that the highway department put down has certainly made it easier to speed, but that's just a >> Sorry about my living. >> Cookies are done. So, the um the speed limit signs were not correct. The lowest the speed limit the village can put on a road is 25. And that takes special effort for us to do which prior administration had done. That sign was um wrong. The 20 miles per hour. So what happened was I received a complaint from people who live on Dayton Lane. And that complaint was why can't our speed limit be 20? Milh Hill's 20. So I'm like well we have to correct Milh Hill because the lowest we're allowed to post is 25. So that's why the speed limit sign changed. But the speed limit never changed. Uh >> just a
034point of curiosity because the code if you go on the village website to look at speed limits, it carves out 20 m an hour and lists the streets and Mil Hill is on the last page of that amongst along with others. So >> that's definitely a a typo. Um, I can we can double check it, but >> as far as I know, Lisa, correct me if you know something different, >> but the vehicle and traffic law, the state of New York only allows us to lower to 25. And that's with actually that that just recently changed where you can go to 25 without any uh special legislation. But when the village did it back um 10 years ago or whatever it was, they had to get special permission from the state to go below uh
035to go to 25. And since then, the state has changed it where the villages can change to 25 without any special legislation. So, we'll double check it, but I'm almost 99% sure that 25 is the lowest we can go. So, that sign was improperly posted. And if the village code is improper, that has to be fixed, too. So that being said, how are we going to fix this problem? >> We could look at putting up those speed signs like we have on toilsome, the digital ones, which do actually capture the data for us so we can see exactly what the speeds are. >> So we can try that. >> They're effective. >> Yeah, they're very effective. >> Yeah. >> Um we have put speed bumps on roads in the past. We don't >> really encourage
036that, but you know, maybe that is a candidate for that. I I think Dayton Lane is certainly a candidate for that. So, um that's >> what's been crazy is the aggressive driving like >> Yeah. Well, it's it's definitely the bypass because the traffic gets all backed up and then they shoot up Milh Hill and now toil them on back onto 27. So, >> but like cars I I was passed. I witnessed other cars being passed. Two neighbors said the same thing and it's just, you know, just bad behavior on the part of a driver. And I don't >> absolutely and and it's even if the police set up radar on there, they're very visible >> and then people behave obviously when they see a police car. So, >> um we'll definitely try to get some
037speed signs up there and and hopefully the police department can do a little more enforcement and uh we have the same problem all over the village though because the all the side roads are being used as bypasses. All every town, every village has that problem. In fact, myself and um the mayor of Southampton Village went up to Albany and we've been asking our legislators to give us permission to use photo enforcement so we can install cameras and try to and we finally have that legislation moving a little bit. So, we'll see where it goes. >> And I think another one of the issues is that like if you have a popup in your car to tell it says 30 miles an hour versus now the 25 or 20, right? Um, so that's like a separate
038issue for whoever has that programming. So, >> right, they should change the sign. Correct. >> Yeah. >> Well, I appreciate listening to this. It's a chronic issue. >> Thank you for taking Thank you for taking the time to come out and >> 20 people immediately in two days wanted to sign on to this because it's a constant issue of, you know, I'm out there walking my dog. >> Almost every street in the village has the same problem. We have Egypt, Lane, Dune, Further. They're all being used as bypasses. >> Right. It's really hard. >> Can I just ask a question? Um, do you have I asked your neighbor, but she didn't said there was. Is there do you notice if it's more workers vehicles or resident? I mean, like >> everyone. It's really everyone. And
039then, you know, I don't want to become the crazy like curb your enthusiasm person like, you know, I take out my phone and I pretend I'm tracking them. When they passed me in the car, I followed them to the roundabout and took a picture of their license plate and reported it to the police. But, you know, what are they going to do? The person was already on 114, but it's a mix of everyone. I just don't think people are aware that they're going that fast, >> you know, and you could like I could be in the driveway and I could hear the like, oh, that person's going 35. I know the speed, the sound of the car speed. So, but appreciate anything that could be done that's, you know, >> Yeah, we'll definitely step up
040the enforcement. We'll try to get some signs installed. >> You know, there's digital signs and then we'll see if that helps. >> Right. roads are being looked at with our traffic analysis right now for the comprehensive plan. We are looking at those roads in a sense overall with a bunch of other roads at the moment. But another thing that the mayor's legislation that we're the reason we're pushing forward is because it needs to be effective on ways as well in order to stop this and those photo enforcement will pop up on ways and that's how we're going to kill this little by little street by street. >> That's great. That would be a really helpful way to the traffic. >> These driving apps, >> right, work terrible, >> right? >> Well, thanks again. I appreciate
041it. >> Thank you. Thank you for your comment. >> Um I I don't know if this is possible on our streets, but in Greenwich, Connecticut. I used to live there and they had fences scattered on each side of the street, which might be less expensive than speed bumps. So it automatically slowed you down because you had to meander through the fences. >> Yeah, >> it worked there. Yeah, I don't know if that's legal in New York because >> we could look into it, but forcing somebody to go into the other traffic lane was probably not >> right. It slowed people down. >> Yeah, that would parked some big trucks. >> You didn't like that. That was a That was a funny comment. Yes. >> Yeah. Yeah, I got it. >> Yes. Yes, please. >> Yes.
042Comment about anything right now. It's public comment. Hi, I'm Kathy Lynch and I live at 80 Milh Hill Lane and um and I appreciate your comment so much, but there is a difference with Mil Hill and it's the trees. They're messy. I don't expect you to fix that, but they're in the way. We cannot see. And we're not passive about it. I can't tell you how many times I've gone out in the street and try to get people to slow down. But when I have guests or family over, I have to go into the street for them to get out because I have to look to see. I roll down the windows every time I leave my driveway to try to hear if there's a car coming because I have a sycamore here and a
043sycamore here. I'm not asking you to get rid of the sycamores obviously, but it makes it but but the point is it isn't the same as Dayton. And um and another thing, and this is an aside, is that Mil Hill um there's a lot of privet. And I have called the town many times about it, and it's not kept up. And so it puts a lot more people in the street than might otherwise be necessary. I walk all around there and I walk down Bule. There's one person that doesn't keep up with this privet, but pretty much you can walk down the sidewalk and you can't. And the other thing about the sidewalks, if you almost every sycamore in Mil Hill has taken over part of the sidewalk. So you have a choice of going
044like this or walking in the street. You can't walk with a grandchild down that street without going into the street. >> We have the same problem on Dayton where the trees have basically consumed the sidewalk, >> right? So >> So there's more than just the issue of um the speeding. You know, the speeding is a huge factor. If I wasn't worried about somebody going, you know, 40 miles an hour down the street, I wouldn't be quite as cautious about going out. Then you add all the landscaping trucks and I've asked them, I have to go out and ask them, could you please help me out of my driveway because of the way they block? So, I think that Milh Hill is a little bit more different. If you go and and look, those trees, they're
045gorgeous. So, nobody wants to get rid of them. But, it does make that street a little bit different. And I think it's a little bit more urgent uh right now because again we deal with this on an absolute daily basis. This is isn't just a oh every once in a while when there's speeder coming by. We deal with it every single time we pull out of our driveways. And again it's difficult and we'd love to have something done. No, we don't know if we want a speed bump and we'll you know the experts come up with something different. I love that gate idea but I've seen that on private drives not on >> not on real streets. You know, I I think if we can get these cameras installed, they give us the data, then
046we'll know the times when the traffic is the heaviest, and that's when the police can actually focus on that. >> Or we can even during those times, maybe we can institute no through traffic on those streets so that that'll stop the bypassing. Again, it would require the police to view a car, turn off, drive all the way through, and then stop them and issue a summon. It'd be nice to have something come up with. It's just it's it's constant, I guess, is my message. I mean, we've been here 25 years. And the last couple years has been unbelievable as far as trying to safely navigate the street as a pedestrian, as a resident. >> Um, it's just a much bigger issue. And so, I want to enforce that that that really really is. It's different.
047Something's happened and it's not pleasant. Well, >> thank you for coming out. I appreciate that. >> Yes. Good morning. My name is Mary Bush. I live at 50 Mil Hill and I'm My question is just uh is there any way that we as neighbors and residents of the street can promote um passage of this legislation that you're talking about? That would be a camera Yeah, that's that's a great idea. We could write letters to Assemblyman uh Tommy John and Senator Palumbo, Anthony Palumbo. They represent our district here. >> Okay, >> that would be very helpful. >> Can you send me those addresses? >> Absolutely. We will. >> Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, actually we should probably put it on our website as well. >> Yeah, that would be helpful because the sooner we can get something done.
048I mean, there was an accident this morning when I was coming here. There was a woman on a bicycle and she sitting on the ground. So, police cars and an ambulance. So, yeah, >> I don't know exactly what occurred, but >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Well, thank you very much. >> Is there anyone else who would like to be heard? We did hear, you know, we did receive a letter of complaint on Dayton Lane as well and about speeding cars and and unfortunately that that road has become a bypass as well because you can't really make a safe left turn out of 114 at the uh at the flag pole at 27 there. So people are then using Dayton as a bypass. So then they can make a right and then go around
049the uh by the flag pole. And what caused that also is you have people who live on Bu Lane who can't make the don't want to they can't make they used to make a right out of Bu Lane onto Main Street and then make the left to go down to James and then make the left to come back into Main Street. But when we change that to a one-way street, the opposite way, we that doesn't work anymore. Now they have to go all the way to the traffic light and come around James. So we understand that problem. But what people should know is what we were facing is Main Street is a state highway. So we were having a lot of accidents at that intersection where James Lane, where we made the one-way street, it
050was two-way, and we were having a lot of rear end accidents there. people would stop. There's no turning lane and then they would get struck in the back. So that the state has a threshold state highway that if you get over a certain amount of accidents, they are then required to take action. So their plan was to put eight traffic signals at that intersection to control the traffic, which I did not agree with because that's our historic area. It's the entrance to our village and there's no way we want eight traffic lights there. So, the other option they came up with was a roundabout which would have required them ripping up part of our village green and the flag pole would have been like on an island in the middle of this traffic circle. So,
051that was not an option. So the village board decided and we asked the state, give us 6 months, 7 months, let's re-evaluate the data and we changed the configuration to stop the rear end accidents. And now they're they've left us alone. So I know we've caused an issue in another street, but I can't imagine if they did what they wanted to do, it would have changed the entire look of our village. So, we need to address Dayton Lane as well as Milh Hill is my point here. So, but I thank you all for coming out. It's very important to hear what the problems are. Yes, ma'am. >> Yes. Yeah. Thank you. It's just because we're on LTV, we can all hear you, but at home they uh >> you could state your name and your
052address. >> I'm Virginia Coleman, 69 Milh Hill Lane. Is there a way that we could notify people by signage when they enter the village that we are going to prosecute aggressive driving? There is so much aggressive driving in this village, especially in the summer >> from people in big SUVs, very fancy Jeeps that are oversized and high. >> Yeah, >> you know exactly what I'm talking about. It's funny you bring that up because I actually was thinking about this of you go to other communities where they're allowed to use the they have signs that say, you know, they have a traffic light, picture of a traffic light and it says photo enforced. So, we have these um digital displays which actually capture the data of the cars going. So I was thinking we could put
053up something like you know a little enforcement captured by you know or data captured by >> yes >> photograph or sim similar to what you're saying just to be a little bit >> you know people are used to seeing that and all of a sudden they see that they might think that they're that we're photo enforcing without really doing it. And it's funny because I got the idea from a story I heard years ago when I was in the police department that there was a small sheriff's department down south that was right along I 10. And I 10, if you don't know, is a major drug transportation area for um um east and west of the United States. So they had a small road adjacent to I 10 and it was just a twoman sheriff's
054department and they put up a sign that said drug checkpoint ahead and then they waited by the sign concealed and then anybody that turned around they pulled that car over. So so that's what gave me the idea if we put up a little, you know, a little sign that >> frightens people maybe it'll calm people down. >> A big sign. >> Yeah, maybe we'll try that as a as a pilot program on Milh Hill. aggressive driving at first. >> Not aggressive. The photo, if >> there was a way to get it on ways even because you know when you're driving and you see it pops up like speed camera head, you kind of slow down. >> I mean, we can have somebody sit there and keep going police, police, police. >> So, >> I could
055give that job to my husband. >> Well, thank you very much. All right. So, we've got a couple of ideas. So, we'll we'll give it a shot. I'm asking the star in the press not to print my idea because I don't want that to uh I don't want them to be tipped off. All right. Anybody else would like to comment before we get into the board meeting? If you're not staying for the board minute meeting and you just were here to make your comments, if you want to leave, please, this is a good time to go before we start into all of this just so there's no noise. But, uh, it's up to you. If you want to stay, you're welcome to stay. >> All right. Can we go back to the public hearing? Introductory
056number 20 of 2025, a proposed local law amending village vamp code chapter 35 officers and employees section 351 new employees exception B, C, and D. >> Is there anyone who would like to be heard? All right. Can I get a motion to close the hearing? >> I make a motion to close the hearing. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> All right. Hearing is closed and now we'll jump into motions. Resolution number 354 of 2025, approve claim vouchers for the month of August. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> passed and carried. >> Resolution number 355 approved warrants as listed. Number 56 and number one general fund. Number two, general fund warrant and number four capital fund. >> So moved. >> Second. All in favor? >> I. >> Pass
057and carried. Resolution number 356, approve budget transfer schedule number 10 and 11, reference number 11 and 12, dated July of 2025 to close out the fiscal year. >> So moved. >> Second. All in favor? >> Passed and carried. >> Resolution number 357, approve minutes from the board of trustees meeting held on July 2nd, 2025. >> So moved. >> Second. All in favor? I. >> Passed and carried. >> Resolution number 358, approve departmental reports. >> So moved. >> Second. All in favor? >> I. Pass and carry. >> Number 359. Resolve. The fiscal year 2025 village budget is hereby amended to increase estimated revenue and appropriations in the amount of $26,948.39 for expenditures funded by the employee benefit leave reserve fund. >> So moved. >> Second. All in favor? >> I. >> Pass and carry. >> Resolution
058number 360 approve the Eastampton Village Foundation's police, fire, and EMS council donation for $15,367.81 81 cents for Honeywell mask mate particulate blocking hoods, a brimstone EV suppressor XL blanket kit and suppressor mist kit. >> So moved. >> Second. All in favor? >> Pass and carried. >> Number 361 accept the East Hampton Village Foundation donation of $21,000 for the antique police car and as a condition of the transfer if the village decides to sell, transfer or dispose of the vehicle, the title revert back to the Eastampton Village Foundation. >> So moved. >> Second. All in favor? pass and carry. If I could just ask uh Brad, who's the president of the foundation, just if you could just speak to those last two resolutions, I know that the fire department had requested these from the foundation. So,
059if you could just explain what that is to the board. >> Sure. So, the particulate uh blocking hoods is a hood that's um protects them from being burned. Um we've bought 70 of them at the request of the fire chiefs. Uh these are the absolute best out there so that our firefighters can actually be protected in the best way possible and it goes over their heads and protects their head and and uh from both particulate and being burned. The second is the brimstone EV suppressor blanket and mister kit and essentially it's something that no other fire department has. U it is a blanket that goes over um when there's an EV fire of a vehicle. So it could be either an ebike, a fire, a um a Tesla or some other vehicle or even the
060new Amazon delivery trucks that are EV. They put it over the top of that and there is a mister kit that in fact goes underneath the vehicles to cool the batteries because when you have an electric vehicle on fire, you can't just have water on it. That doesn't work. It will run away the battery. And so this will contain it and extinguish it. Um this is in addition to what the village was very very smart in doing before. Um there is an EV disabling kit which the fire department had where you plug it into the actual charger and it disables the vehicle which can be used in conjunction with these other devices for um any type of motor vehicle accident or fire um in an EV vehicle. So those are the two things and uh
061the uh police car is self-explanatory. >> Yes. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Resolution number 362 of 2025 accept the donation of two 1907 stencil art depictions, one of Home Sweet Home and another of the Moller House, both by Gustav Buke to the village of East Hampton, donated by the Luckart family. >> So moved. >> Second. All in favor? >> Passed and carried. I was hoping Hugh would have stayed to fill us in, but he was gone. >> Resolution number 363 of 2025 approved the 2025 2026 tuition aid payments of $750 for the following six dependent children of village employees Jax Canwell, Lexi Canwell, Julia Ericson, Grace Tursza, Mackenzie Wilson, and Sophia Yarley. >> So moved. >> Second. All in favor? >> Pass and carried. So, just so everybody knows, is this still
062Tom Lee >> Yeah. >> money? >> Yeah. >> So, Tom Lee, who was a resident for a long, long time, and he's since passed, he donated uh this to village children many, many years ago. My kids are in their 30s and they took advantage of it. So, this has been a fund that he started for us years and years ago, and it's still active. So, we thank him and his family for this. Very nice of them. Resolution number 364 of 2025, approve East Hampton Fire Department 2025 bylaws dated March 17th, 2025 and amended on August 11th, 2025. >> So moved. >> Second. All in favor? >> Passed and carried. >> Number 365, deem surplus and dispose of three angle portable refrigerators, Ean Village ID number 3048. >> So moved. >> Second. All in favor? >>
063Passed and carried. Number 366, approve $91,200 quote from South Fork Asphalt for paving projects at select locations. >> So moved. >> Second. All in favor? >> I. >> Past and carried. >> Number 367 approved $66,155 quote from Rosemar Contracting Incorporated for New Town Lane Long Island Railroad North to Cooper Lane paving project. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> pass and carry. >> Number 368. Approve $89,69.50 50 cent quote from South Fork Asphalt for paving projects at select locations. >> So moved. >> Second. All in favor? >> I passed and carried. >> Resolution number 369 approves $17,636.50 quote from South Fork asphalt for permanent pavement patch and casting adjustments at various locations. >> So moved. >> Second. All in favor? Pass and carried. Number 370 approved the $100,000 quote from LSGIS
064Incorporated for the 5-year support plan for the current GISbased CADM mapper and mobile mapper for the police department. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Passed and carried. >> Resolution number 371, approve annual maintenance agreement for the police department for software with Laramore Associates Incorporated. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I passed and carried. Number 372, approve the SQL server monitoring service with GeForce data for the contract period of September 1st, 2025 to August 31st, 2026 at the cost of $6,985. So moved. >> Second. All in favor? >> Passed and carried. >> Number 373, approve the $9,850 quote change order quote from Bulk Storage Incorporated for the salt barn to complete replacement. So move. >> Second. All in favor? I passed and carried. >> Number 374, approve listed
065paramedics and ET EMTBs to work during the off season September through of 2025 through May of 2026. >> So move. >> Second. All in favor? Pass and carry. >> Number 375. Approve employment of 2025 seasonal beach lifeguards Cecil S Cecile Siner at $20 an hour and Annabelle case at $20 an hour effect effective retroactively to August 5th of 2025. and Scott Smith at $20 an hour effective retroactively to August 6th of 2025. >> So moved. >> Second. All in favor? >> Past and carry. >> Resolution number 376 approve amendment to resolution number 2448 of 2025 for Hookmill tour guide Piper Borsack at $15 an hour to work during the summer months effective retroactively to July 1st of 2025. >> So moved. >> Second. All in favor? Pass and carry. Number 377, approve employment of Trisha
066Ocheski to the full-time position of secretary to the chief building inspector effective September 1st of 2025 at an annual salary of $60,000. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Past and carried. Number 378, notice to biders for operation of village owned property known as ChatterBowl snack bar at Main Beach, Ocean Avenue, East Hampton with bid specs available August 22nd, 2025 and bid opening to be held September 23rd of 2025 at 200 p.m. at Village Hall. So moved. >> Second. All in favor? >> Pass and carry. Resolution number 379 of 2025, notice to biders for the sale of village owned property fronting Panago Road, SU uh Suffach County Tax Map 301-4-7-33 with bid specs available August 22nd, 2025 and bid opening to be held September 23rd, 2025 at 2 p.m. at Village Hall.
067>> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? Passed and carried. Resolution number 380, amend resolution number 347 of 2025 to accept Lisa Larson's resignation from the planning board effective retroactively to July 31st, 2025. >> So moved. >> Second. >> I'm going to recuse. All in favor? >> Passed and carried. Resolution number 381, amend resolution number 348 of 2025 to appoint Lisa Larson as member of the design review board effective upon filing with the secretary of state a local law for introductory number 14 of 2025. >> Second. I'm going to recuse. All in favor? >> I passed and carried. Resolution number 382, amend resolution number 327 of 2025 to approve trustee Sarah Amadan as a liaison to the East Hampton Village Foundation Heric Park Playground Subcommittee effective retroactively to July 30th, 2025. >> So moved.
068>> Second. >> All in favor? >> I passed and carry. Sarah recus herself. And >> those resolutions were read at the last meeting, but we didn't have a quorum. So the last three resolutions we did again today. >> Thank you. >> Resolution number 383 of 2025. Notice to biders for the lease of villageowned agricultural parcel located at 36 James Lane for the sole purpose of crop growing with bid specs available August 22nd, 2025 and bid opening to be held September 23rd of 2025 at 2 p.m. at Village Hall. >> So moved. >> Second. All in favor? >> Passed and carried. Resolution number 384 of 2025, notice to biders for the replacement in kind of the sheepfold fence with bids available August 22nd of 2025 and bid opening to be September 23rd of 2025 at 2
069p.m. at Village Hall. >> Second. All in favor? I passed and carried. >> Resolution number 385, notice to biders for the replacement in kind of the village hall fence with bid specs available August 22nd, 2025. bid opening to be held September 23rd, 2025 at 2 p.m. at Village Hall. >> So moved. >> Second. All in favor? >> Pass and carry. >> Resolution number 386, approve amendment to resolution number 325 of 2025 to approve up to $416,728 in proposals from LNV Bonia Construction Corp for sidewalk repair at various listed locations to be paid from the assigned unappropriated fund balance. And I just want to advise the board that you've already approved this up to $413,000, but the new total brought it up to $3,000 more dollars. So I just want to be exact and the total
070price. >> Motion to accept. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Pass and carry. >> Resolution number 387 of 2025. Approve the $8,884 quote from LMB Bonia for Cooper Lane sidewalk repair. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Passed and carried. That concludes our board board meeting today. We're going to go to executive session to discuss uh legal personnel and real estate. And uh can I get a motion to close? >> Make a motion to close the meeting. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> The meeting's closed. Thank you everybody for attending. >> Thank you guys. You were off there.