East Hampton Town Board Work Session - 08/05/25

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, August 5th, 2025. Carol, if you could please read the roll call. Present. A member called pres. Present. If we could all stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [Music] So today we start our meeting with a public portion. We ask you to kindly keep your comments to three minutes and then we're followed by our work session topics. We've got bids. We've got a discussion of East Hampton Town rightofways. We have a presentation and update from the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center

002and followed by a county request to lower the speed limit on a long lane. That will be followed by liaison reports and then resolutions. So before I we um start with public portion, I just wanted to read a brief statement. Last Monday, there was a federal law enforcement activity in Amagancet that left community members unsettled. As we later learned from police chief Michael Sarlo, this operation was part of a federal criminal investigation involving multiple agencies. It was not solely related to immigration. While details remain with federal authorities, we remain focused on maintaining a safe environment for everyone who lives here as public safety is always our top priority. And now we can begin the meeting with public portion. And I believe the first one signed up is Jane Merring. Welcome Jane. Madam supervisor, I might

003need an extra minuteish if you might indulge me. Thank you so much. Good morning, town board. I'm Jane Miring. I'm speaking as a full-time resident of Amagansit and a concerned citizen of East Hampton Town, but not representing any of the town committees or appointed board in which I sit. All five of you and many others are aware over the past four or five years I've engaged in various town issues focusing my attention and advocacy especially on matters of balanced land use and sustainability and resiliency of this place and of our local community. I'm here today to share with you that I will be focusing my efforts more intensively going forward on community housing issues. And to do that, I'm proud to announce the founding of the East Hampton Community Housing Trust or EHCHT for short.

004EHCH will be an independent not-for-profit organization with a singular mission to create, steward, and sustain in perpetuity stable, quality, economically attainable housing for the year-round residents of the town of East Hampton. EHCH will be grounded in the practices and principles of the established community land trust or CLT model that has been used over many decades in the US to address housing displacement and empower underresourced community members. When people hear the term land trust, they might just think about only open space conservation. However, the mandate of the classic CLT is to acquire parcels of land and upon that land create and sustain affordable housing. Beyond its notfor-profit status and deep commitment to stewardship, several key elements perpetuate affordability and differentiate a CLT from other types of affordable housing development. One, a CLT acquires land either raising

005funds or via donation of property and then creates one or more affordable dwellings on it. Affordability is also enhanced because the trust can take in donations of construction and other services and materials. Two, the trust then sells the house that sits on that land to an eligible resident at a price generally well below prevailing market rate. Three, the purchase price is more affordable because the homeowner is buying only is buying the house only. The trust remains the trust retains ownership of the underlying land in perpetuity. When it sells the house, it simultaneously leases the underlying land to the buyer for a nominal fee via what is known as the ground lease. Four, also sustaining affordability. At the time of the purchase, the homeowner enters into the resale formula agreement committing that if and when they

006sell um it must be sold to another eligible buyer on the trust waiting list at a price based on the seller's equity in the house plus a fixed annual um percent escalation. In addition to the core structure and ethos of the CLT model, EHCH will be shaped directly and creatively to meet specific local housing needs of and particular e economic challenges faced by many yearround residents in East Hampton. With respect to how this effort will fit and function relative to the other affordable housing related entities in town, it will stand as a distinct independent organization and will not be direct part of the town government or municipal infrastructure. However, my intent is that it will be a key part and stand alongside all other elements of the town's affordable housing ecosystem, to use the schmancy

007word, and we will work in coordination and collaboration with others to alleviate the affordable housing crisis we face. EHCH hopes to fill gaps and add value in a way that complements um the work of others. Over the next three to six months, via an initial organizing committee, EHCH will work to establish fully its notfor-profit status, its corporate organization infrastructure, and get to the point of being able to take in donations, seek grants and other appropriate funding, and to purchase property. In addition to announcing this launch, generally I am here to make two specific requests. first to you town board. If you see fit, would you grant me a spot on a work session agenda perhaps in early September for an opportunity to present more in depth um the goals, the work, and maybe get your

008input and answer any questions. And then secondly, to the public at large, I am putting out a call for individuals with passion about the need for affordable housing and with relevant expertise to work as a part of the initial organizing committee. In conclusion, I am not going to sugarcoat it. Standing up this organization is going to be a heavy lift and creating critical mass of housing units will be slow, but hopefully a steady build. But I've spent the last few years researching these issues and housing land trust. And I know there is a distinct need and a path forward for this effort in East Hampton. In the town's overall call for all h all hands-on housing, the East Hampton Community Housing Trust is sure to be another pair of strong and steady hands on deck.

009Thank you. Thank you, Jane. It's exciting news. Yes. Congratulations. Okay, now I think that's all we had signed up and now we'll take a show. David David, would you just mind pulling the podium a little bit more so I don't think Ian could see you behind the There we go. Also, I can't see the clock, so I'm going to run over. Yeah, you can look over there, dude. You'll hear the bell. My pleasure. Good morning. I said we haven't had a meeting for two weeks, so we're a little feisty today. Thank you. Thank you. A public meeting. We've had plenty of meetings here. Good morning, David Buddha from the Springs. I was very heartened to see that you have put on the agenda uh the topic of dealing with the protection and m maintenance of

010public street right ofways and eliminating unlawful obstructions dangerous to pedestrians. uh activities of private owners that inhibit the use of the p of the public street right ofway road verge sides the portion of the roadway that is between the edge of the pavement and the beginning of the private property owners that is an area that is within the town's jurisdiction clearly uh although I have to say that the existing town ordinances are poultry few and far between in fact in the handout that I've given you. I've done a couple things for you. As of this weekend, I had not seen your PowerPoint be posted. It is posted now. As of yesterday, so I do know what you're going to be covering today, but I put my own uh materials together to give you some examples

011of things that should concern you and things that should motivate you. one um the boulders that are placed along the edge of the pavement which is the cart way um by even when the town ordinance enforcement in causes them to be removed. Some uh land owners immediately place a row of sticks picket like a picket fence to prevent people from using their what they think is their property but is really the public's property and a place for the public to park. uh whether they be a guest or whether they be a service vehicle that is uh servicing nearby properties so as to avoid conflicts with the actual traffic right of way where people traverse. Two, another issue with regard to the public street right ofways and this is one perhaps you haven't even even considered

012but it's an example shown in the two pictures in the middle of the first page. Some builders somehow have been allowed to totally denude the entire street road verge and to leave it bare, not even to pl required to plant uh tree trees, new trees or any plantings in the road verge. That's an example uh that occurred on Dogwood Drive. The first one I mentioned was on Cedar Ridge Drive, someplace that David knows well. Uh Kingspoint Road is an example. Those pictures are of long-term violations that even when reported do not get resolved. The reality is, and this is what I'm hoping to highlight, is that your structure of the highway maintenance highway department enforcing these rules with the existing laws that you have has been ineffective for a long period of time and needs

013to be strengthened with better procedures, better laws, better enforcement by better uh by people that are dedicated to improving the public's use of the public street right of way and the road verge areas. The other pictures I provided are pictures of boulders and plantings that come right to the edge of the cartway and uh sticks and stones. It's not for some people it's not enough to have stones. They have to have sticks and stones blocking the road verge. And then you can see obviously if those impediments or obstructions uh as the code calls them are placed at the edge of the cartway then vehicles must park there and therefore blocking the road from its usage. If you take a look at the second page of the handout I gave you, you'll have the only part

014of the code and it's totally insufficient that deals with obstructions in the town road public roadways and that is uh part of which in one sentence says no plantings or obstructions shall be placed within any town highway right ofway. Number one, you have to deal with the fact that roadways that are not within the town highway system and may never be in added into the town highway system, those many roadways in the urban renewal map areas are open to the public, controlled by the town, regulated by the town police, and even though the highway department may not have a legal role, you must find a way have the town be able to assert jurisdiction and prevent public dangers from occurring in those places and being able to eliminate such obstructions. One thing that you should

015consider doing in your next newsletter or perhaps in the public media as the village did uh in March of 2023, they post they published a public notice and clearly informing people what the rules are in the village. You should do the same. Um, if you look at the last page of the hand that I gave you, you have a very nice notice of violation that is very specific and very clear and very effective if it were to be enforced on a regular basis by the highway department. My experience is that it's been hit and miss. They don't either have the manpower, the time, the energy, or the inclination to uniformly, regularly enforce the rules that they know that are part of the code that are written in their notice. This, by the way, came out

016of the town published documents on the town website. This is the notice of violation that the highway department uses. It's quite clear. It says why this is an issue. Why it's a concern for people, why it needs to be uh why the private land owners need to be respectful of the other users of the street, public street right of way, especially the road verge area. And I've said enough and I look forward to today's discussion. Thank you. Thank you, David. Would anyone else like to address the board? Gloria. Welcome Gloria. Good morning. It's a few weeks since I've been here, too. So, I'm feeling feisty also. I'm passing out some examples. Thank you. You can each look at one of those pass. Gloria Frzy from East Hampton. And uh I'm here to talk about one

017guess. Compost. Composting. Yes. But I'm here to talk about two things that go together. composting and community and okay, first off, composting uh with the town of East Hampton, Rew Wild Long Island has formed East Hampton Compost and this is our third summer offering an array of composting options. So, we've got a full menu. We've got uh the kitchen uh recycler. We've got drop off tables andformational tables at a number of the farmers markets. We've got a couple of unstaffed drop off locations at people's homes and now we've also added at a couple of farms. So people are dropping off directly. The farmers are are taking it and putting it directly into their compost pile. So how can we decentralize this and make it more accessible to everyone? Um, it also puts fewer miles on

018your compost, on your, uh, food scraps. Uh, which also reduces the amount of trash we're we're putting out. Whether it's the town paying for it, whether we're paying uh, haulers to take it. So, we've got less diesel, less noise, less fumes, less roadware, all of which, okay, it took me a long time to get here this morning. It was it's it's nuts. And then the way we've got it, trucks coming up and down our streets how many times a day? So let's let's decrease that. Um the other thing that we're really doing ties back into community. What is our community and how can we connect into the cycle in which we all participate as individuals as a community. So as individuals we see our vegetables are growing in the soil. They pull their nutrients and

019minerals from the soil. We get the benefit of them and then by composting we can then complete the cycle and put them back into the soil for another round. So it's so important for our health as individuals and as a community. Um we just had our first backyard composting sale and pickup and it rocked. Um, even if I so busy, I didn't do a great job on marketing this one, but we had really good takeup and I'd like to do it again. Who picked up? We had puppies. We had children. We had teens. We had a couple in a Mercedes two-seater. Yes, the composter fit along with the dog. They took the dog with them. Um, we also had Jess who picked up in a truck. She'd already had a couple of rain barrels at

020home. She needed more. She got more rain barrels. could pick them up right here in East Hampton with everything she needed. Marie and Amigansit came with a tiny hatchback. We fit it in and I'm actually going to meet her after this to see her and uh give her some more instructions. Um what we really are looking at at the end of the day is the connection to each other and to our well-being. And it's this connection that is the beating heart of East Hampton. How can we foster that? How can we continue bringing people together? The next step I'd like to do with the backyard composting program is get more people involved and also bring a program to the schools where we can get donors, where we can get fabulous people to help. We're going

021to set up a school program and give a couple of composters to a couple of schools as a pilot to see how we can integrate it and spread the word even further for our community. Thank you. Thank you, Gloria. So, I normally don't speak during public portion because it is the public's time to talk, but I just want to note that the uh the bin sale and the rain barrel sale were at discounted prices. So, people also say that the bins are at discount prices. Yep. That's it. Plug. I will know. Need those wheels back. Would anyone else like to address the board? Katie. Oh, I didn't throw in a block. Good morning, Katie. Uh, thank you, Katie Casey from the East Hampton Housing Authority. I wanted to uh briefly address the board and for

022the public's benefit to um let everyone know that the housing authority did close on the cottages with uh generous support from the community housing fund. That's the 2022 half of 1% Pconic Bay for specifically for housing. And then uh one week after we closed on the cottages, the Sag Harbor Community Housing Trust very generously cost shared with the town of East Hampton again community housing fund uh to purchase four more units in Sag Harbor. So one for um the cottages is just south of the village of Sag Harbor but for all practical and it's in East Hampton Town obviously but for all practical purposes it contributes to affordable housing not only in East Hampton but in Sag Harbor. So, those two um total 13 units that are preserved in perpetuity, that'll be uh operated by

023the housing authority. And I just wanted to thank you for your trust in us to get that done. And I also would like to speak in favor of um land banking with the cost of property out here and the uh dwind you know we don't have that many opportunities left. I would um encourage the town board to look for every opportunity to pick up properties both vacant and improved that can be used as affordable housing when those opportunities arise to use the community housing fund that is a renewable resource. Every year more funds will come into that and the more diverse opportunities we find small and large parcels to do small and large projects to take those properties off the market and then if if they're appropriate for affordable housing and then assess what exactly

024should go there. um one, two, or threebedroom single family homes, whether it's developed by the housing authority or private nonprofit or private developer, a for-profit developer if it is for affordable housing. So, thank you again for your your uh confidence in the housing authority and um please do keep your eye out. We all will keep our eye out for opportunities for the future to put those uh community housing funds to good use. Thank you. Thank you, Katie. Okay. Would anyone else like to address the board? Sir, good morning and welcome. I'm sorry. Just a note of clarification. Could you just state your name for the record for the clerk? Yes. Um Dr. Barry Leez. I don't know if I'm like the clarification is I'm here for long lane. Do I wait? No, you could speak

025right now. Speak right now. Absolutely. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Um, first of all, I want to thank you very much uh for the circle, traffic circle at the end of long lane Steven Hans path. Uh you certainly have saved a lot of injury and as pro people have gotten accustomed to it. Uh as a former person that worked in emergency rooms, I want to thank you very much. I'm here to ask that the speed limit, which is quite variable on our lowly long lane, be lowered to a 35 mile per hour in the entire long lane except the school where it goes down to 20. Long lane is a very beautiful, unique and longest straight road that we have. And so there are many, many people that use it for walking, for

026running, for bicycling, etc. There are cars that really uh speed a long long lane. And also the signs are very variable. they'll go from 20 to 30 to 35 and suddenly you're at 45. So we would like to see if it is at all possible that we bring this down to 35. Interesting medically that if you're hit by a car at 30 miles an hour, you will live. If you're hit by a car at 45 miles an hour, you will die. Just to Well, I used to be a professor, so this is you're my audience right now. So anyway, students, the appeal is let's unify the rate except for the school stays at 20 and bring it around 30 to 35. And that's that's the ask for the day and thank you very much. Well,

027thank you for joining us this morning. Okay. Would any Steve Hello, welcome Steve. Hello. I'm Stephen Mahoney. Um I live on Long Lane. Um I'm here to talk about Long Lane, but first uh I want to compliment the gardens. I want to compliment the roundabout, the composting, and the attention to right ofways, which are a pet peeve of mine. Um, the uh speed limit on long lane is variable and in places too high. Uh, for all the obvious reasons that Dr. Barry um enumerated, um, there is a 30, a 45, and a 20. Um, I think the best in my opinion would be to have a consistent 30- which is uh what a majority of a portion of the road is so that we're not like up down up down in in and out and

028so on so forth. Um, people get out long lane and they see that speed limit sign and it's just an invitation to step on it. Um, and we'd uh I know the police try and do a a good job of enforcement and everything and it's usually pretty easy for them to get tickets and stuff when they're out there, but they're overburdened and really not out there enough. So, I appreciate you um uh focusing on this and uh I support the uh the county study uh that they recently did uh on Long Lane. Thank you very much. Thank you, Steve. Would anyone else like to address the board? Okay, we'll go to the phones. Jason, is there anyone on the line? Yes, we have one caller on the line. Let me unmute them now. Oh, wait.

029Hold up. Hello, caller. Ending 3244, you're on the air. Can you hear us? Yes, sir. Okay, go for it. Hi. Uh, yeah. Hi, this is uh Martin Drew Springs. Yes. Uh I'm calling uh well, first of all, God forbid me, but I'm going to agree with everything that David Buddha said for the record about uh the rightway. Everything except for the uh acknowledgement of the Springs. I I just can't wait for him to realize where he lives. Uh Springs is where we live. But anyway, yeah, I would second everything he said about the rightways. Uh, as you know, we're having a big problem with our Maidstone Park Road, which is the access to our Maidstone Park, where the uh commercial entity down that way has uh taken over the rightways most recently by violating a

030stop work order pouring cement on the Richardson Avenue side. Just wondering if that's going to become our public sidewalk since it all went down the way it did. And then the reality is on the uh Maidstone Park side uh we're going on four years now where it seems that you guys want to tell us that public safety is number one. But I'm having a hard time digesting that statement because of the simple fact that uh the right of way has been encumbered for the last years uh even decades now uh with a illegal parking lot that's been created in number in front of number 25 Maidstone Park Road which is a vacant residential lot. And if you guys remember, uh, you added the, uh, number 10 made stone park road vacant residential lot to the

031commercial footprint. And now everyone's acting like this is some pre-existing non-conforming condition where you brought outside dining outside. Uh, Councilman Piedmont would like to tell me that it's not an expansion of use, but it absolutely is. Uh, no matter how you want to shuffle the seats from inside to outside, we have a use going on on a vacant lot that was never commercial. happening now and as a result uh you've encouraged more uh dining to that location. And to be real about it, uh since everyone wants to talk about following the law, the law tells us that in a restaurant of that capacity and that size, you need 36 off streetet parking spots. So the four that they have that were given in the new site plan, they're not even being utilized by the residents

032of the apartment and the owners. Instead, they're using as an additional storage area for the uh problem of these other businesses that they're trying to bring there, which has you guys tied up in court. So, short of the court excuses that you can't do anything because there's some sort of stay, when do we get to clearing out the rightways that encumber uh the pedestrians and the cyclists and their safety from accessing the park? Because when I look at the deed of the park, it tells me it's the carriageway that's to be unobstructed to and from the park so people can access it by foot or vehicle. But the uh rightaways are to be unobstructed. They're not to be a convenient commercial parking lot that's parking people perpendicular adverse to a New York state vehicle traffic

033laws to boot. and uh you know the lack of signage down there needs to be addressed as well because now you're confusing everyone on what the expectations are. So uh that site plan is now operating without a uh permit for uh the outdoor dining. So we're wondering uh when do you guys going to take the law for real and act on that sort of thing? So I'll ask a direct question for Mr. Jake Turner since none of you folks like to speak on camera. Mr. Turner, sir, what are the legal updates on that situation and what are you going to do about getting the parking lot out of the rightway? And what will you do to bring uh law and order to our area that now has our quality of life at issue and the

034character of our neighborhood destroyed uh by greedy landlords here who want to uh ruin our neighborhood. And be reminded, you tore down apartments across the street uh four apartments in some nature preserve agenda. you tore down our Cox's fishing station. So perhaps it's time maybe you convince this owner to become a willing seller so the town can buy his property and tear it down because we're not going to live with this uh detriment to our quality of life and the character of our neighborhood just because politicians want to play politics with a crony. But anyway, that's my comments today and give my best to David. Thank you all. Thank you Martin. Where's David? Okay. Is there anyone else Jason on the line? We have no other callers. Okay, great. All right, so we're going to

035move into our topics and we are going to start with bids. Jeie, if you could take us through what we're going to have on for Thursday night. Good morning. Good morning. Okay, a few items today. First, starting with the Peach Farmhouse renovation. Leuka Associates is the apparent low bidder in the amount of 1,170,440. Next is the IIA system installation at 20 Dorset Road. Ken Rousell is the apparent low bidder for that one at $66,780. And um the last acceptance for bid is the highway department roof. Demi construction is the apparent low bidder for that one in the amount of $315,126. Then I have several notices coming up. Um first is sanitation drainage improvements and the sanitation garage um mold remediation, a car carrier for the town which is for the police garage. And then next

036week, um, the East Hampton Police dispatch room innovations and lastly, a grinder for sanitation. And that will do it. Terrific questions for Jeannie. Nope. All right. Thank you, Jeanie. Okay. Next up, we have a discussion of the town rightways, and we've got David Lee and Kevin Cobb here to lead that discussion. Thank you very much. As we just sort of uh prep and prepare. Um Kevin, you can just come to the podium with me and work we'll work off of our sheet. Thank you, Nancy. Good to see you, Jake. Uh thank you. Um my name is David Lee. I am actually the town's leazison to the highway department and today we shall have Kevin Cobb who is the town's highway project inspector. As we've already heard in public comment, there's a lot of uh uh

037pet peeves, opinions, comments, and work to be done in some of our town's public rightways. And then that's why this is a discussion. It is a discussion that I don't believe I've ever had at the town board in my eight years here. It's been a long time. And mostly we're not going to be able to touch on everything in the town rightaways, but we're going to start that discussion and specifically talk about residential properties, the rightaways, and so that the property owners might become more cognizant and knowledgeable to what a town rightaway is, what the actions that they can or cannot do at a town right away, who they contact in the town if they have concerns or questions. And it's a public outreach to individuals to make sure that they understand they don't own

038the town rightaways, but we want to make sure we manage it with you correctly for public safety and other needs. So that's our discussion points. And two, um this information in this presentation, we uh moved ahead with meetings with town highway department, code enforcement, town's building department, town's planning department, and the town's attorney office. I acknowledge that some would like to see greater enforcement, compliance, and other actions taken, but this is the first public discussion in a long time, and we'll continue to move forward on this. Uh Steve is correct. I have pet peeves in the rightaways also, and that might be one of the reasons why we're here, too. Next slide, please. For a simple discussion on the town's rightaways, and two, and a couple things that may potentially change there. Sorry. Um, as

039the town code, the town's public rightway is stated as any street, avenue, boulevard, road, highway, sidewalk, alley, or similar place that is owned or controlled by a governmental entity. Now, please note that there are different multiple jurisdictions within the town of East Hampton that has public rightaways. We're about to discuss a county road. Uh, that county road is Long Lane. Other county roads are Spring Fireplace Road, ThreeM Harbor, uh, Edgemir, Flamingo, and Montalk and Westlake Drive. We also have state roads. The most state roads are 114 and also 27. But we also have trusty roads, private roads and UR roads. Then also this is mostly a discussion about the town's rightways and the town uh town maintained rightaways. Many property owners also assume that the area from the edge of payment to their house belongs

040to them. And in some cases it might be, but in many most of them are not. In most reality the cases that a typical two-lane road might be paid as you might see on a very simple diagram here. Some of them uh might be 22 to 24 feet paved or cleared on there. But some of the town rightaways might be up to 50, 66, or even 100 ft wide. I believe Dolphin Drive might be 100 lane. That peak lane in my area of Tiffany Estates, it might be 66 feet wide where if you have a 24 foot rightway, which means it could be close to 12 feet on each side of the of the edge of payment is in the town right away. So on a typical rightway there's a lot lot of room and

041this is a discussion for us the alert property owners what might be happening knowing that in the last eight years or more there's been a lot of change over then too next if you don't mind. So why is a public rightaway important first straight public safety the areas the rightways are areas to pull over for avoidance when yielding to emergency responders. We just don't want to pull over a little bit, but we want to get out of their way because as we have first responders on on the town board here and others, we know that the clearer the pathways and move over law will get our individuals to those to the uh to the emergencies as fast as possible and within and safe means. There are also public safety issues as far as line of

042sight for drivers and there's sections of the code that discuss that. We'll come up with that also. Also, there are needed for areas for emergency response once the public first, sorry, once the first responders get to those sites. These are all reasons why they're important. There's multimodal aspects to it. Also, multimodal aspects and the public rightways are areas where they can be or even potentially used for public sidewalks for connectivity. The next one also has potential areas for pedestrian and bicyclists to use as we are trying to increase our uh greenways out here and our public uh bikeways. Another aspect of it is the character of our neighborhoods. Simply there are areas for habitat in our public rightways and when they're denuted of habitat they're denuted of environmental qualities and also aspects of vegetation that

043we have come so much to crave in our local areas. Kevin, if you don't mind, can you go over some locations in the public rightways for potential infrastructure and where your department might see on some of those here on the list? Um like where the well the cur curb cuts if we could discuss curb cuts, public utilities and areas for drainage. Curb cuts, we allow um asphalt, we allow stone, anything like that. Uh Belgian block requires a permit and specifications it has to be inspected. Um, it cannot interfere at all with town drainage, which uh some people didn't uh pick up on. And uh anything else in the rightway except a mailbox should not be placed there by a resident can only be placed there by the highway department or a utility with a permit

044from us with coordination. Correct. Thank you very much. Lastly, as I stated earlier, the last line on here, please confirm your abuing rightway ownership on there. And that is important then, too, and reach out to the appropriate municipality or governing authority. As you go into some of the common Eastampton town code and permits that are required, uh there's multiple ones if you search it right away. If you want to search sidewalks, if you want to search highway, uh, but some of the ones that you might see, and there's more, and please contact, uh, the town uh, either planning department, building department, or highway department with more information depending on your project. BMS, BMS are not allowed in the town right away actually, and that is one of the areas that was mentioned earlier by another

045public speaker. Uh Kevin, uh public utilities, public utilities, am I correct, as a very uh all public utilities that might be needing for electrical poles, they need to get a a road opening permit. And if you have a property to property owners and you see a utility pole, that utility pole, 99% of the chance of the time it's in the public rightway. So your property belongs behind that utility pole. And we can show you examples of of that up. The other term for right public rightway is utility rightaway. Very there we go. And even in the case of us permitting a Belgian block apron. If a utility had to go through that apron, they can. Also, what we have then is we have uh curb cups and driveway aprons as we have on here. All

046these need actually road opening permits from the town's highway department then too. And how does that process go, Kevin? You simply go to the highway department. It takes 10 minutes to fill out a form. You pay the fee, it gets signed, it's emailed to you. It's quite simple. And it's reviewed then also for making sure that the curb cut might be not within areas where there's already drainage. Uh fire hydrants is another one also other utilities and also within what potentially an approved site plan that you might have if you were a commercial property entity. And two feet back with asphalt uh at ground level for snow plows. And and the reason why you do that is that if you had a cur if you had a Belgian block apron and it was on the

047on the touch the cur touch the edge of pavement, our snow plows will go through there and would smack the snowplow, break your Belgian block, but also can potentially injure and damage the uh the town vehicle and its driver also then too. Yeah, absolutely. Is it simple to say if I said if you want to dig in your front yard in the rightway, stop and contact the highway department? You need a permit to plant a bush. Yes. So, contact the highway department. Yes. Thank you very much. So, in chapter uh we also have tree donations. There's many tree donations that we have. I want to thank all of our Hamlet Beautifification Societies. They coordinate with the town of East Tampa, and we would love to accept more tree donations, but if you're interested in a

048tree donation, please contact our uh uh uh Kevin Cobb uh who will have more information there who is our highway town's highway project inspector. in too. One of our beautiful things that we have here are some wonderful trees and we want to continue that. Pillars and gates are also another aspect of it. Distances uh from these pillars and gates are designed for emergency responders access. This is something I would like to discuss with the town board a little a little later as our emergency responder uh um vehicles are are getting let's say bigger, right? Wider Tom uh a little taller. And it's in the town code how wide your access has to be at these locations to get and based on the length of your high your length of your driveway to make sure that

049we can have access for first responders to fight any type of fire or potentially response that they need there then too. Those also need to have uh a town approvals then too. Correct. And no matter where your property line is, you need uh I think it's up to 30 feet sometimes to get the car off the road if you're pressing your buttons for your gate. Yeah, it's 20. is 20 feet from the edge of pavement minimally. And the reason why the 20 feet is is because typically it's 20 feet or 18 feet for the forh for a length of a car regular vehicle. Uh chapter 217 of the town code also has other aspects of consent required for excavation and super supervision and then two and also fees bonds and deposits. So you could check

050chapter 27 of the town code if you're a property owner that needs more information about the town's rightaways. Again, when it comes to commercial rightaways, typically they have site plans for commercial properties. There are many pre-existing uses of our rightaways for some of these commercial site plans, but each case is unique. Each case will be reviewed by the highway department, and we will always be looking for compliance. We understand there's a lot of ones that are out there that are not in compliance. We will look to strengthen our codes and our laws to be able to get compliance on there. Next one, please. how you can help. Continue improving. No placement of rocks, obstructions, or structures in the rightway. No excessive use of stakes or posts in the rightway. Refrain from planting in the rightway

051uh without coordinating with the town's highway department. Design border plantings for future growth in mind. For example, these two pictures. The top picture you'll see a ubiquitous green giants being put in the town right away. And below is another location in which those green giants 20 years later are now growing into the street. You can't plow that. You can't repave that. Can't get off the road with that then too. So be very careful with your design of your plantings on there. Even if you are planting on your property, what they might do because they will have to still be maintained. If not, the town will maintain them for you. Not in a way that you might like personally then too or protecting sight lines because we're protecting sight lines but particularly since we will go

052through and we will make sure we'll cut we'll cut them back for our specific needs of the sighting that not for maybe the beautifification aspect of pruning trees. No permanent parking designated for specific sites without appropriate approvals. So hence if you want to use the rightway and start putting uh asphalt in there or or some type of uh parking locations that has to be coordinated with the town approvals too. Practice makes perfect. Let's protect road drainage. Install effective silt fences fencing and scrub rock on your construction sites. No dragout. That was town law that we just put in I believe 2023 also. But what happens if you don't have a set uh uh sorry uh effective silt fencing that goes into the ground under the red line on the silt fence? Why have it? Because

053the water goes underneath of it. When the water has all the clay and the dirt, it then will end up into one of the town's drainage cylinders and then the capture rate is decreased x amount on there. In Southampton, I know that they have I believe you have to be uh have certified installers of silk fencing. Uh, that's something that we want might want to look into, Kevin. Yeah, I have cited properties for no silk fence and then they call and say, "Okay, we put up the silk fence. It's that high off the ground." I'm speechless. Yeah. What is it doing? On silk fencing, you'll see the black fencing. You'll see lines at the bottom that marks about six inches. They should be buried into ground six inches to keep your road off runoff on

054their property. And the reason why the town spends $300,000 annually on drainage every year, but drainage gets ruined by dragout and improper usage of silt fencing. A lot of times from construction sites also then too. So that something that we're watching for. Um we want to maintain plantings of vegetation from crossing what's called the street line. What the street line is in the town code is the line that's from a uh from a private property's front line to the to the road right away. It's called the street line. That's in the definitions of the town code. It's a dividing a lot and a street right away. We want to make sure we stay away from fire hydrants. We need to know where they are. I've seen fire hydrants, I'm sorry I didn't take a picture

055of it, that are covered by now vegetation from a private property owner. The town goes out and maintains this and many of the fire departments do also, but let's please be cognizant of that. Know your property boundaries. This is an important one. Review your survey. If on your survey you have stakes and property markers and then you have markouts on there and I'll show you a survey upcoming, review your surve get get surveyed if you don't know it, put some uh boundary markers in so you know where your property line ends and just become more knowledgeable of that. We can help you with that or you might want to talk to your land planner. Right away many times has various distances and it edges the payments. Hence last next one on here don't clear vegetation

056in the town right away without eastampton town coordination. I know Kate and the sustainability committee is going to be bringing forward the critical root zone protection like forward to get that moving forward. So that will be another level of code coordinated uh coordination with the highway department to make sure no one clearcuts the town right aways or protects very stately uh uh street trees also then too I look forward to that one coming back up. Maintain vegetation near town sidewalks. If your vegetation is going over a sidewalk, you're going over town property and that has to be maintained. So, next I would like to uh uh go forward to some examples of impediments in the town rightaways. Some people might call them impediments. I might call them pet peeves. I agree. Uh here are some

057examples of stakes and rightaways and rocks and rightaways. Typically, Kevin, what will happen if you see these? We have a flyer out that says, "Uh, these rocks in front of your property are on town property. They are hazard to pedestrians, bicycles, and town maintenance equipment. Please have them removed within 15 days or the town will remove them." That particular area in question is just violation after violation of right away and you need a bulldozer to uh clear it all up. So, we wouldn't necessarily do that without making sure we have an outreach there and we're looking for compliance, but if we don't get compliance, we will take the appropriate means and reserve our rights on there. And I put a lot of flyers on houses that say if you do not cut back that the

058highway department will do it. And some people say, "Oh, good. Let them do it. I don't do a nice job." Yeah. But you do do a nice job protecting the town right away. Right. Thank you. Let's go to the next one if you don't mind. These are other examples of impediments. The first one on the left is some ubiquous green stakes. The one on the right, what's interesting, that's a stop sign. That's a survey marker and that's someone planting a green giant tree 30 years ago that you can't see around that tree going onto a very busy way. You got to pull out into the traffic right now. But that is someone that is a property owner that that that installed that however many decades ago. But this is what happens. Please be respectful of

059your thoughts of your plantings on there. Next, these are an example of impediments over town sidewalks. The bushes grow over. We push individuals that might need that access for ADA with or children on their bikes into areas where it could be busier. Those will have to be always pulled back and maintained also on your own property or the town will take a sickle bar to it. Uh sickle bar is just the way we cut it. Next, this is an examples of a survey with a survey with encroachments. And just stay with me, follow me. The bottom right, what you'll do, you see behind this trash can on the same property, you'll see a survey stake there. But when you go to the survey itself, you'll see behind where it says line of planted cedars. You

060will see cast iron covers for town drainage that the town now cannot get to and maintain. You'll also see a water meter valve for a town utility which now the water authority can't maintain on there as as effectively. And in the bottom right you'll see under the FN fence 36 south. You'll also see 7.9 west. That's showing the fence is 7.9 ft west of the town of the property line and 7.9 ft onto the town's rightway. And if you want to go 7.9 ft and you try to mark it out that right away with that line of trees that's probably nearly 15 feet off their property line. These are the issues that we see out there on a common basis and at times we might have to take a stronger stance on and that's part

061of this discussion where the town goes and we can have more discussions on this but I wanted to bring this up to individuals. Next, if you don't mind, this is a new one I didn't put in there. I apologize. I found this one last night very late. This is a corner lot uh uh a corner lot light of sign light sign. Thank you very much. I appreciate that line of sight design. This is in the uh this is in the town code here. This specifically states that you're planting vegetation is got to be at an a certain degree of angle so the individuals coming up to a stop sign can see around your line of sight. This is in the town code. Uh please be knowledgeable. discusses with our uh with our highway department or

062your landscaper to make sure if you're on a corner lot, you have uh you have regulations that you have to abide by for sight lines also. That's also in the town code then too. Sorry, I added that one late last night. Good. Is it in there? It's a good one. Oh, no. Some of them maybe not all. Okay. Next. If you are contacted by the town, uh this is again always on a case by case basis. Kevin, you'll leave door hangers or you might get a a letter from a different town entity, either the planning department or the code enforcement department. And Kevin, on there, uh, what do you what are on those door hangers that you might leave? Uh, the door hangers we have to revise. We're now um giving them a letter that

063states your vegetation is obstructing and there's boxes to check for me. Sidewalk, rightway, roadway. Sometimes it's all three. And after that is is the town remains uh retains the right to cut or remove as necessary. Thank you. So that's a notice there. We are looking for compliance is what the town is. We have a coordination with county agencies that include as I said highway ordinance planning building town attorneys to assist residents on there. We know that our our building inspectors will be looking at new properties that if they are planting into the rightway they can't be doing that. And these agencies are going to be coordinating and assisting through ordinance, but specifically through Kevin and the highway department. My referrals now um state that invasive evergreens must be removed from town property because the green

064giants are invasive. I know a property where they were planted on or just behind the property line 20 or 30 years ago. They are now 11 ft to the edge of the road. Town also reserves reserves this right. The town reserves all rights to take corrective measures to protect and maintain its public rightaways. Again, last page if you don't mind. This is a coordination with the town's departments and we just want to let the town the public general public know about the importance of the town rightaways and if you have questions if you're unsure or have a concern with the East Hampton Town Managed Rightway, please contact the town's highway project inspector at the information there or concerns with code compliance to the Eastampton town managed rightways. Contact the town's ordinance enforcement on there. Again,

065each aspect and each situation is unique will be reviewed on there uh and worked on. Uh but mainly this discussion to the uh to potentially start other discussions moving forward, but also just the the general public and property owners, which we have tens of thousands of them out here, what the what their responsibilities are when it comes to their property lines and the importance to the town's rightway. I thank all those departments. Kevin, I thank you for your stewardship of the rightways. Also, we need to get out immediately. uh if it's a full page ad in the star, it has to stop because we're trying to deal with what's already there and we can't have more. So, agreed. Agreed. So, that's what we have. I know this is greater remarks. Please keep contacting us, but

066this is a start of discussion I wanted to bring to the town board and I appreciate that, Madam Supervisor. Thank you. Thank you, Kevin. Any questions from the board members? Questions? I have just a couple of comments, Kevin, before you you walk away. I I I just want to um publicly thank you for the uh for keeping the uh Hogland and the South Fork Wind um developers uh holding their feet to the fire to make sure Beach Lane uh any problems on Beach Lane and anywhere else were taken care of in the road right away. Uh you were instrumental in the repaving and correcting any of those divots or anything that happened. Also, as the liaison to Wayne Scott, I see your immediately response uh to folks with concerns and uh I hope the apology

067came on one of them, but uh I I really appreciate the commitment you have to your work and I just wanted to state that publicly, probably annoying you, but I um a I just have a couple of comments really. when uh on your first slide David when you talked about area to pull over to for avoidance uh yielding to emergency responders which is critical time for to save people's lives also it's a critical area to uh be able to veer uh safely in terms of uh avoiding a car a kid on a bicycle or pedestrians walking those areas are for primarily public safety and I hope that that message gets out to folks. Um, I just wanted to just say because we all talk about stuff all the time that survey stake what it does

068is when you see that that is the end of the person's property, the the legal end of your property. So, anything street towards the street of that uh is not your property. It's public property. Um, just because we always use terms as if everybody knows what they're for. Uh I live on a street that has underground wire uh cabling for all utilities and uh if any work needs to be done, it does need to happen underground. So this is something if you want to avoid um another reason if you want to save money and avoid damage to the structures that shouldn't be there to begin with. Uh this is this happens uh out in our town. We have many areas where the utilities are solely underground. any work needs to be done needs to be

069dug up. And um I uh really am happy that you brought this forward, David. It's it's necessary and I thank you. Um thank you. I Yeah, this is this is a topic I think that a lot of people, you know, have consensus on. Um you know, it's one of the the few actually I've had, you know, strong discussions with friends on the other way, too. So I kind of want to talk a little bit about those points and you know where I stand on this. You know I think in some areas and we even heard this today. Um where you have commercial establishments in the vicinity often these right of ways become parking lots for people. And you know that degrades you know the vegetation there as well. And you know that does become problematic

070for owners. You know they they want their properties and you know the front of their properties to look attractive. um you know and when the ground gets denuded continually by cars parking there they get frustrated. So I I do acknowledge that you know as I said to this this one friend like look if you put a rock there and god forbid you know someone hits that rock and has an accident that liability is on you not not just kind of legally but morally as well. So you you have to be you know consider about this. Um, you know, I I do appreciate that when you live close to these commercial areas, you know, and people do park and it does kind of damage that area, that is problematic and I think that's something we might

071need to look to find solutions for in different ways. But, you know, I'm I'm fully supportive of this. I I think it really is a public safety issue. I can speak from, as you said, firsthand when we have emergency vehicles and, you know, we need to park on the side of the road and you can't and that's putting your first responders at risk. Um, you know, and additionally, you know, trying to get into some of these locations. um you know if we can't get the emergency vehicles in that damages you know you a danger to you fundamentally so um do please try to adhere to this this again is one of these things where we look for compliance and I think you know how we go about this longer term the public messaging will be

072there we we'll put the letters out we we don't have to you know want to have to have code enforcement come to you we want you to do this you know of your own will um so please consider that thank Yeah, I'm fully supportive as well. Um, I think that, you know, this is a frequent complaint I hear or topic of conversation in uh the spring CAC meetings. Uh, as everybody's pointed out, uh, boulders in the rightway are just a safety hazard. And and and beyond that, it is it, you know, it's selfish. I think I I've seen cases where homeowners have their rightway obstructed or the rightway in front of their house and then their landscapers or their own personal vehicles, they park on their neighbors and um it it doesn't take much, you

073know, self-awareness to realize that that is inappropriate. So, I fully uh I fully support cleaning this up. I think it's an issue of fairness and safety and something we need to address. As it's been pointed out, there's a lot of existing issues. So, I think the first step is to make sure that we don't allow any further um impediments and that we start to address the most egregious ones that are that are currently out there. So, I think that um you know, Dave, thank you for bringing this. Kevin, thank you for for it. I think this this is sort of a public service announcement and um hopefully it's the beginning of of some enforcement and cleaning up the town rightways. Yeah. And I just want to say I agree with all my colleagues and and

074thank you Kevin. I mean, we do uh need to put the focus on this. You know, you said David, we haven't talked about this in eight years you've been on the board. I don't think we've talked about in the 12 years I've been on the board. So, I think it's an education and I'm going to take Mr. Buddha's suggestion and put it in the newsletter uh for the fall so that we can start having that conversation with our community members. Um, and I also would like to see if we could address the urban renewal areas because while the the the photos that are here are um in the towns right away, these same issues occur and you know, the same public safety uh concerns are there. I mean, I know it's been a while since

075it snowed, but you know, you have those boulders and we get a snowstorm and you have to veer off because a deer cut in front of you. You're you're hitting a rock. as as Tom said. Um so I I think that this is something I'm really glad you brought this forward and it is a public we'll start with it as a public safety announcement. Uh and then once we feel like we've got a real good uh education campaign going then it's time for uh if folks you know get put on notice and then you know we may have we'll follow through with um with our public safety division and and code enforcement looking into it. I see this, you know, in in my neighborhood, the issues by school bus stops, you know, where people's trees

076have overgrown and kids are practically standing in the street waiting for the school bus and it's it's dangerous. So, thank you for bringing this. I app I appreciate that and we'll continue to work on it. Thank you very much, everyone. And to Tom's to Tom's point, I I'm sorry I should have addressed this earlier. I think I think there are places where it may be inappropriate to to park in the rightway, but I think that the proper way to handle that is not to install a boulder or your own post, but for us to install no no parking signs. Obviously, the details of that are going to get tricky. Um, but you know, again, there's a proper way to do things and and putting a boulder in the towns right away is not the proper

077way. And Kevin, to that point, um, could you possibly speak that if people do want no parking signs, you know, they want to go through that process, how they go about doing that? Yeah. And Kevin, if you just come, it is a process with town board approval, I believe, state approval, highway approval. So, it takes a little while. I've been asked about it. Um, today there was someone who came in and said, "Can you move the no parking sign?" We said, "Sure." He goes, "Well, it's a a line of sight issue, but we also parked there." So, this is like you can't make this stuff up column. It is August. So, anyway, so we'll continue to look in those each I think each situation is unique and each situation should be coordinated with the town

078and that's why we're trying to get out to everyone, right? Thank you very much everyone and Kevin, thank you so very much for your time and effort and also please thank Steve Lynch for his time and effort too. Okay, I did want to add that the uh diagram with the survey um we can't clean those drains because they're behind those arborite and I picked up on it the minute they were planted. The guy said I'll sue the town because there's 30-year-old cedars next door in the same line and it was dropped. So the these are these are things that we're going to take our next step towards. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I appreciate everyone. All right. Now we welcome the folks Tim Frasier and Joan Overlock from Elanor Whitmore

079Early Childhood Center. These are our one of our not for-profit partners that work with our our young people. So thank you both for joining us today. Thank you for having us. Um, we're going to spend just a very few minutes talking because we have a video that I think really shows you more and gives you a sense of who we are and and what we do. So, first of all, um the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center for people who don't know, we're the only licensed nonprofit affordable child care option on the east end providing both all day child care and highquality early educa early childhood education. That's a differentiator between us and the Montalk school system. We're a 12-month a year program. Our families sign up for 12 months and the and the curriculum begins

080at uh for children 18 months and up. Um we teach and care for 100 children year round ages 18 months to four years and that's about to change in September and we'll talk a little bit about that. We're licensed by the New York State Office of Child and Family Services and we're associated with the National Association of Education for Young Children. Just very briefly, I'm just going to say we've been around for a long time. We were founded in 1969 as a Head Start organization um part of the Organization for Community Action. We then um we've been around we then became independent and were the East Hampton Daycare Center which many people today still refer to us as East Hampton Daycare. But in 2013, we renamed our uh center for Eleanor Whitmore, who was a

081key mentor in guiding us and making sure we remained focused on supporting working families and providing the educational component to child care. So, can I just share that I just learned yesterday that I I don't know when in the time frame after 1969, but the money to build the center was loaned to the center by the town and then the center paid us back. That's correct. That was news to me yesterday. And and again that um is is a great element in helping us keep costs down is because we don't have speaking to the microphone Tim. Sorry. That that was very helpful for us in keeping our cost down which we continually try to do because we are mortgage free as far as the facility and of course we leased um a property from the

082East Hampton School District. Yeah. Which I went to know. We know. Yeah. So today we serve a community that really needs us. Um more than half of our uh families uh reside in households that are considered low or extremely low income. Excuse me. And um and almost half of our families uh are uh Hispanic. 20% of them are headed up by single mother households. Uh so to accommodate this population, every single classroom in each of our eight classrooms, we have a native Spanish speaker. We have we provide special education services it at the center for the children in occupational therapy and physical therapy and language development that we do in conjunction with the East Hampton School District. We have a fully equipped ki kitchen that serves two meals and two snacks a day at no

083extra charge to the families. And talk to any working mother, they will tell you not having to pack a lunch is a big deal. Um, and we also, uh, two years ago, we started a free clothing exchange because children grow so quickly and so everybody can bring in their old clothes and and take new clothes, which has been a tremendous success. And we've opened it up to the community once a week. And um, it's just been a big it's been a big help. With all the retail and resale clothing places, there's no nothing for children and this is free. um you know affordable child care really matters and Elena Whitmore we are our child care provider we also have that educational element to it but uh affordable child care crisis is real we live in

084a child care de desert out here on the east end uh so the child care costs today are the second biggest expense after rent and mortgages for our families you think about that the second largest expense it's not feeding their families if they have children. It's not, you know, other things. It's actually the child care they need for their families. Tim, could you explain that because I I had just recently learned that that we're a federally designated child care desert. It means that as the state of New York is specifically under the office of child family and child care child services look at the state as far as what kind of facilities are available for child care throughout the state and in Suffach County they have divide us up into different elements and they actually

085designate different elements of uh locations where they have effective child care or they have child care deserts. There's there about three different categories and I can't remember all of them right now, but out here we're designated as a desert because there's the lack of child care facilities available to families in need of child care in this environment which is resort community, a lot of um businesses. A lot of our families are working uh families who work not only one job but more than one job in order to maintain their lifestyle in in our community as we all know. So housing is a big issue, child care is a big issue. And again, that's something you hear all the time, I'm sure, as a town board, and we're right in the middle of that. So, we're

086looking at ways to make it affordable, but also try to find ways to meet the needs in this community, which seems to be right now more for infant care and for toddler care than than it was in the past, which was more the prek uh than preschool, which a lot of our school districts have taken over in this process. So, we're really changing our mode of operation right now and looking at ways to to improve not only what we do, but also including what the needs in this community really are. We rely on the help from private individuals, foundations, and of course, governments. And we really are extremely thankful for the town board supporting Ellen Whitmer's Early Childhood Center in a variety of years in a variety of ways, but mainly to help support us

087in our payroll and keeping our costs down because you help us to pay our employees a decent salary and we give them decent benefits and that helps us keep those employees in a consistent manner which we really need in order to do a daily childare program that we have. The second part of what we're all about is that education part and again more than 85% of a child's brain is formed by age five. The first five years matter. Uh that's our mantra. And again uh Elanor Webmore was very keen on that knowing that if if children have this experience not only socially, emotionally uh but also physically and cognitively they're going to be better prepared for their wherever they go. where it's public education or private education. Um we have a designed curriculum called teaching

088strategies which is really focused on early childhood uh specialties of of stages of development creating habits and traits and to make children successful learners. So it's not just about learning words and vocabulary is so important to young children. It's about learning great habits. you know, how to work together as a group, how to sit down and eat together as a group, how to um play together in form formative and informal ways. Um research confirms that high quality early education narrows the achievement gap for all as at risk kids, reduces grade repetition, increases high school graduation rates, and decreases the need for special education. We have them at their youngest age. we can help look and see what things are going on and that helps identify if there's issues that are starting early, which is a

089critical part. And if you ask each Hampton School District or even Spring School District, when they receive our children, they're receiving them with a lot of great habits and traits and skills for their programs. With that, we're going to show a a video. Um is going to queue it up for us. Be great. [Music] I love it. O [Music] G [Music] [Applause] [Music] W S Y My name is Mariah Whitmore. I am the granddaughter of Eleanor Whitmore, one of the founding members of the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center. Investing in early childhood education does more than help individual families. It strengthens the fabric of entire communities. Supporting working families signals that a community values equity, opportunity, and the well-being of its residents. Big hug, baby kiss. I love you. How are you, daddy? I saw

090a big change in my kid for example because she was really shy never talking and then all of a sudden she's speaking in English and Spanish and having friends and talking to her. It was a big change. It was a big change and I was really happy because she was she was brought to a different level of confidence. [Music] Learning is not an unintended consequence. It's very purposeful. It might be disguised in play or napping or having lunch together or being on time, but the children here learn how to take turns. They learn how to wait. They learn how to be kind. It's amazing to see their growth in a short time. By the time they go to kindergarten, they know the routine. They are cultured in school behavior and they're able to learn and

091they thrive because of this program. I like your glasses. Very cool. Thank you. what is occurring in the classroom. I see that it's more than learning your ABCs. It's about creating a safe space where they can flourish. And I see my children are they're very engaged, compassionate little children. And it's it started because seven hours of their day was at Elellanar Whitmore. Jackson play. One of the the opportunities we have in being such a center in the center of East Hampton Village is that we're able to reach out to the community with a variety of different activities. One of the most successful ones has been our kites for kids. My name is Myra Romero and I'm one of the moms of the kids who assist to the center. We love it. They have so much

092fun. The experience for the first day we have noticed how much they have learned. So we're going to learn two, show me two, show me two, two special words today. Are you ready? Can you repeat after me? Yoga. [Music] Can you say namaste? [Music] Hold it. 10 seconds. One leg. This is our tree pose. And if you lose your balance, that's okay. Look down and then reach back up. I moved out here full-time at the beginning of co as many people did. And I realized that if I was going to be a full-fledged member of this community, I wanted to involve myself more deeply. And that's where I found the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center. I have to say my favorite part about the center is Friday mornings when we have book time. The children

093all know that we're going to give them books and they all rush up and hug me. Although they hug me around the knees because they're only three and a half years old and it's pretty much the best part of my week. So, it's going to be Valentine's Day. So, I brought some books to read about Valentine's. I've had a lot of fun doing very very simple projects to carry out the theme of the books that I'm reading. Do you want to keep it all red? As soon as a child can hold an art material, it's it's crucial that they start making their marks. I like to demonstrate so that they just see art being made. It's very important. And needless to say, every year and up to the rest of your life, people should be

094doing art. Ready? One love, one heart. Let's get together and feel all right. All right. Over here, there are some more. Look. Yellow. Yellow is my favorite color. It's a baby tomato. Over the last couple years, we've created an educational garden where we're exposing children to being outside, but also in the atmosphere of learning how plants grow and how they can be a really critical part of that. Okay, you have to be this color. big one. If I met somebody new to the community, the first thing I would do is bring them to the school. There's the most wonderful aura in that school. There's such kindness and such joy and the kids are so happy. getting to know the center and the people who work there, I felt that they have something different and it's

095this spirit, this environment that they create by teaching and enjoying what they do. So early education is the best thing we can do to kids. Bye. Thank you. We don't do this alone by any means and we have a lot of partners with local nonprofits and um other organizations to provide all kinds of enhanced programming. And we made this decision several years ago that we would push ourselves out and have to reach out into the community. And u our kids are so little that we can't actually transport them without car seats and 100 car seats. It's a lot of car seats. Um so we've been bringing the organizations uh to the center and it's been really really successful. um and all of the enhanced programming that we do, we never charge the families for these

096programs because we know we'd have too many families who couldn't participate and we don't want any child to feel that they they can't they can't participate in any of this. Um, but we do follow the needs of the community and that's why our partnership with East Hampton Town is so important for us because you enable us to do this. And Tim referenced it. Maybe you can pull up our our budget uh slide, but what the the funds that we receive from the town give us the opportunity and enable us to be able to remain agile for the needs of the community. You know, five years ago, the center had the at least half of the classrooms were filled with prek students because we provided the public prek for uh we provided uh pre-k for the

097public schools. That's no longer needed by the public schools, but the town needs care for younger children. The implication for us is great because it takes more people to take care of fewer children. So what happens is we get as we go younger and younger, we have to increase our staffing for fewer children. And so we do charge fees. Our fees are the lowest in Suffach County, but we still rely on those fees coming in to cover part of our operating costs. And so as our tuition base goes down because the number of children we can accommodate as we go younger decreases, our expenses aren't going anywhere. You know, our overhead remains the same. Our staffing expenses go up. And so the funds that we get from the town allow us to be able to

098do this without having to cut back on quality or any of the programming that that we do. So, we are so appreciative for this funding every year. And just so you know, it does allow us, we had 71 families on the wait list for toddlers. And a toddler is 36 months to four years old, right? Oh, no, sorry. Toddlers, sorry, 18 months to 37 months old. We had 71 families on the wait list for our preschool, which were three and a half and four year olds. we had no families on the wait list. So that's just the real shift in the population. This year, this September, we will have the first ever infant class. So we'll be accepting children, babies 12, 12 to 17 months old. We can only have eight in a classroom. So

099our largest classroom had to be turned over for infants because that's the guidelines that we have to follow. We will have eight children in that classroom. We're buying equipment we've never needed before. We're buying cribs. We're buying baby buggies. We're buying washer and dryer. All kinds of things. And um it's just this is why we fund raise and this is why these funds are so important. We had 51 families on the wait list for this program for eight spots. So, we're really looking at this as a pilot program this year and we'll see what happens and if we expand it depends on, you know, where the where the town population goes. Um, so thank you so much for your partnership and thank you for the time today in letting us share what happens at one

100gingerbread lane. Please come visit us at anytime. I know you sever of your been to see us, so really appreciate that, too. Well, the sun always shines in your building. Yeah, it does. We quote you on that, Kathy. I have a couple of articles here. One, we was uh we were just in the East Hampton Star a week ago announcing our infant program. And the other is a terrific article that appeared in Slate um and really speaks to how do you raise a child in this town? How can anybody afford to to live here and to raise a child? So I can leave them why don't you leave them with the clerk with Carol and she we'll distribute them after the meeting. Thank you. Um thank you. Yeah I listen you guys provide a wonderful

101service um as as does project most. I mean I think look it's it's part of a slightly broken infrastructure system. We we have prekare but you know nowadays you you know especially out here both parents are required to work in almost all households. So what is the plan um for for young kids? And thankfully organizations such as yours are there to help facilitate that. So I I truly do appreciate it and I think our partnership with you is a way for government to address that kind of growing need across the town and I I think you do an excellent job in doing that. Um I've visited the site with Tim. It really is a special place. Um you know and I I think you know it it's going to continue to grow. We need to

102continue to attract young families to this area to help operate the town. Be it the schools, the police force, etc. And you know, people want to move here and have children, we need these organizations. They are critical to our overall infrastructure. So, thank you very much. We're in the process right now of with our board looking at expanding in ways that we can given where we are and um the structures that we have. But we're in the process of of applying for a permit at the State Department because again we have to do that through the East Hampton School Board. But we're in the process of looking at putting an elevator in uh and open up our ba basement area and outside area for more activities and classroom space, which is the neatest basement I've

103ever seen. Yeah. I also well organized down there. You you raised that point twice and I think it's it's worth noting that I'm very grateful to the East Hampton School District for providing that land to you. I I know that they've discussed will we won't they and I think you know that they do is a is a critical part of the service and I think it's part of their recognition of of the need in the town. Absolutely. Thank you so much. So sorry Tim Joan I can't let you go. So I'm I'm an alum. But wait there's more. There's more. you know, so I'm the alumni of the East Hampton Daycare as you all know and many of the board members know also and my kids are at least two of my four are alumni

104of the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center. So what you provided for my family and my parents first of all even before a lot of us were here uh allows me to be here now and for my kids at that time our need and to allows me to do my constant job then too. So, we're all working families, but I've been there and I still see some of my teachers from back in the day. Uh, I don't know if they really, you know, they chide me where I'm at now, maybe in my job here, but, uh, it's it's it's a it's something that, Tom is correct, is valuable infrastructure to the town, what you are providing in those other services, and it's something that I will always say thank you to you both. Thank you to

105everyone in the f in the past and also to the future that will run this organization. Absolutely. I appreciate it. Not done yet. Um so I just want to thank you uh for for all that you do for our community and building our community, building the future of our community. Um, I I've been thinking a lot about the nonprofit organizations that help us uh be the community that we are and you're a very big part of that and the dedication to to our young children is is something that we all share. Um, also, you know, we say government, we say the town, but I just want to acknowledge that the the ability to to have funding for you. You know, the this money comes from our taxpayers. So, this is a total community effort. It's

106not just us, it's everyone. And you help everyone. So, it's a really good investment uh for our community. And I would like to assist you in any way on expanding uh the care cuz I do know working families uh single moms uh of all of all ethnic groups that you know now for the early care go to MTalk but their jobs are here. So that travel a day is out to Malk back to work out to Malk back to work and and god forbid the child needs to get picked up. So this western side of the desert um I really acknowledge that that this is where we need to help folks. So thank you so much for what you do. And I would just reiterate the comments of the previous uh council members. You know

107what you you provide you service you provide is is critical to to our community and um grateful that you do it and grateful to all the donors and people that that make it happen. As Kate said, it's a it's a full community effort. Um and child care is critically important. Thank you. Okay, so we have our last topic is the county request to lower the speed limit on Long Lane from 45 miles per hour to 30 miles hour. Nancy, I know you prepared a memo for us if you could take us. Good afternoon everybody. Nancy Marshall, assistant town attorney. So last month uh the town received correspondence from the Suffach County Department of Works uh about uh the speed limit on Long Lane, which is actually county road 59. They had done a it sounded

108like a fairly extensive traffic study the county and as a result of that it was recommended that any portions of Long Lane where it's currently posted to be 45 miles an hour that that be reduced to 30 miles per hour. partial part of Long Lane is actually now 30. That's will stay and of course the school uh zone will also stay at its current 20. That recommendation from the county went through pretty much all the departments in the town and um Chief Starlo definitely agreed to it was all in favor of it as was um Steve Lynch. Um the process for this since it is a county road is for the town to adopt a resolution agreeing that the speed limit should be uh reduced in those sections and also authorizing the town clerk to

109execute what's called a form TE9. And then once the resolution is adopted um Carol would execute that form. It would be returned to the county. the county commissioner would execute it and then the final step would be that it would be forwarded to the New York State DOT and then they would process the final part about getting the actual speed reduced and the the signage up. Um we do have a resolution prepared to be put on Thursday and once it's adopted we can just go through that procedure I just noted if there's any uh questions on it. Board members have questions comments? No, no, no questions. just solely a comment that um look I think this is a very smart move um by the county and I'm fully supportive. Yeah, I'm fully supportive also. I

110think it's another aspect of the public safety that we looking there by the use of the roundabout there, children's safety, uh bicycle safety, Dr. Katz's safety every morning he walks to work and back for the last 40 years. There's a lot of that that that is needed there. Uh it is a it is a straight long lane that at the time was on the outside of the township on there where places where I believe there used to be horse and carriage buggy races in those areas. This is a long time coming there and I think it will show relief to the residents of that area too. Yeah, I'm fully supportive um for all the reasons that my colleagues have stated and I think this is the part two for public safety of the roundabout um

111because I uh do anticipate more folks using that road now without the deadly left turn. So I think it's essential to get ahead of this. I support the 30 m an hour. Great. Yeah, I'm supportive as well. Well, I think as we all know, uh, speed limit and speeding comes up a lot in our CAC meetings and just general conversation with the public. I think importantly, there's been a traffic study done here. It's got support from the highway department, from the police chief. So, it's a it's a wellthoughtout plan and not just it seems like people are going too fast. And so, with with all of that in mind, I'm fully supportive. Okay, great. So, let's put this on for Thursday. Nancy, I I should also say we had a couple of folks here speak

112to this. The town board also received, I think, three letters from from residents on Long Lane also in support of us reducing the speed limits. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Nancy. Okay. So, that's our agenda for today. We can now move on to liaison reports. Tom, thank you, Madam Supervisor. Megan's advisory committee meets next Monday the 11th, 6:30 p.m. at the Megan School. Um, two topics to kind of be raised for discussion there. The first um was a request for the fire marshal to attend to discuss the situation on npig which that will be taking place. Uh just on that note there will also be a chief's meeting this evening in Amagance that myself and the supervisor will be attending to review that as well. The second issue um was is alluded to at

113the start of this meeting was the event took place on Bluff Road. A lot of concern obviously raised by residents with what took place there. Um you know those concerns were shared with PD. Um, and you know, I think the key here is that it's a it's a challenging situation whenever something like that does take place. Um, and public safety is the most critical element. These are federal agencies, so there's limited um, control the town has on that. Um, but anything that does involve local public safety, we will always take very, very seriously. It um, open Gov update. I just want to give some updated statistics here to what we've seen um, via the various departments. For the building department, we've had 23,000 records created since they've taken on Open Gov this year, collecting over

114970,000 in revenue and issuing close to 1,800 permits. So, um there's a huge amount of work being done through that in the building department. Fire marshall, we've had 3,285 records created, collecting 44,000 in revenue, 38 inspections done on there, and 154 permits. Marine Patrol, 147 records created, collecting 267,000 in revenue. Natural resources, 15 records created, collecting a,000 revenue. Ordinance enforcement, 681 records created, uh, issuing 38 permits. And planning, 294 records created, collecting $125,000 in revenue. So, obviously being used incredibly successfully by the department um, and helping to increase their efficiency. Could you send those numbers around? Absolutely. We'll do. Sure. Sure. Um the the other piece to uh discuss here briefly is with regards to um security compliance. Um just a reminder to all departments as we kind of uh send out those reminders to

115take those classes, please do so. Um we've right now I think got about 88% compliance which is good. Um we'd like to get that up to a very good level um to ensure our continued insurance status there. um human services um congregate um unduplicated count which is the number of people we've served at the senior center um between uh 728 and 91 has been 104. Grab and go for this week has been 86. Um the month's drawing and painting classes is scheduled for Tuesdays uh on the 12th, 26th at 2 p.m. Um we have one of our yoga instructors on vacation um at the end of the month. So chair yoga is cancelled on the 19th, 21st and 26th. Uh, and then, um, the other thing to note here is that the, uh, benches have

116all been rebuilt around the walking track. Um, thank you very much to Isaac and the maintenance department for getting that done. Um, last, not quite lastly, um, Wednesday's osteoporosis prevention class is also cancelled. Um, and then lastly, um, Dian Patricio, the director, is um, away for vacation um, this week. uh in her absence, please contact either Nicole O'Donnell or Liliana Rodriguez for any support. Um fire marshall last weekend um I joined the fire marshall to do a tour of various establishments across the town. Um it was a fascinating process to um review. We kind of walked through check the crowding situation. Advice was given to areas that where we felt there was overcrowding going on. Um, one thing I will speak to was I I was very impressed by the professionalism of many of the

117establishments we did visit. Um, they were very quick to adhere to the fire marshall's guidance. Um, you know, some of the other issues that we did see across there, just a reminder to businesses, please do ensure, as we stated earlier, emergency vehicle access to your properties is critical. Um, you know, it's in your own interest to ensure that those vehicles can get into your properties. Um the piece that really did stand out in terms of public safety for the fire marshall and I was the um the ride share vehicles. Again, we've discussed this across many formats. Um I I have reached out to legislator Wela um Suffach County to discuss the situation on Flamingo Road because that's one area where we have seen accidents in the past and there continues to be major concerns there.

118Um sanitation. Um, just to note, I I've been receiving concerns from some residents regarding the condition and maintenance of that area. Um, I I think as you heard from uh Jean Corrosa's kind of bids, we are spending a lot of money there upgrading that site. Um, I appreciate that, you know, it's it's not where some residents wish it to be. It is a sanitation center, so there's always going to be a huge element of garbage there. But, um, I I will be doing a tour of the site with some residents next week just to hear their concerns and, you know, see what we can improve um to meet what they would like to see. Um, digitization, we had an internal meeting last week um to discuss how we're going to move forward with some of

119the digitization aspects. One thing that's come out of this and from the IT department, which has been mentioned somewhat before, but it's the ownership within the town of key attributes. So, which department is the go-to department for certain data points? Um, one example being the square footage uh of a building, you know, which department owns that number. Is it the building department? Is it the tax assessor's office? So, we're going to be working with all the department heads to kind of put together that list and, you know, identify and assign that ownership as we create records going forward. Um, moving on. Um, yes, public safety. This is just one I noticed it coming back into town today. We're in August, the first week of August. Um, obviously, everyone has been, you know, working hard to

120ensure their businesses succeed. The strains of summer, I do think, are beginning to show, be it litter in the streets, um, or just general operations, general safety. Please continue to operate at your best. Um, you know, it's it's in everybody's interest to do so. I know it's challenging this time of year. People begin to get frustrated with the the endless kind of frenzy. Um, but, you know, we have to ensure we're doing that. Um, wildlife management. Um, just in we're seeing turtles crossing. Please um if you do see a turtle crossing, you know, if you do wish to help, pull over safely, um identify the direction the turtle isn't moving and, you know, help it move in that direction. Don't move it back. Additionally, um as we're going to start to move into the kind

121of the fall season, we're going to start to see more deer traffic on the roads. Obviously, that's been a major issue across the years. Um ple please be careful um as they begin to migrate um through town. Um we continue to um do operate for the tabletop exercise in emergency preparedness. We meeting with uh some of the committee members and the emergency coordinator later this week uh to review that. Uh and then lastly the YMCA. We'd received some public feedback with regards to handrails in the pool area. Uh I've spoken with the YMCA and identified, you know, that's something they will be uh looking to install in the coming months. That's everything for me. Thank you, Tom. Uh briefly, uh I want to let everyone know updates with the Canwell Court. Uh we have uh

122utility installations been happening the last couple weeks. They should be hopefully complete within the next two weeks. Uh that was one of the timeliness of delays that we've had on that project then too, but that's moving forward uh moving forward steadily right now as such a critical pathway there. too. Um, I want to let everyone know that in Montalk we were fortunate to receive a grant from the of $100,000 from Suffach County. This goes towards the Westlake boat ramp sto water abatement project that we discussed here. We're still trying to target an installation of potentially early winter 2026. Want to thank the town board for the support on that also with Kim Shaw and also Sam Klein for uh putting that application in and again hence the county for uh the grant of $100,000 towards

123that project then too. That's all good news. I want to thank the town board everyone for coming out to the rim cutting for the Steven Hans Path multi-use field. Uh the field is being used uh by the general public and I look forward to the next steps looking at parking and also into pickle ball installation. It is uh truly becoming a wonderful facility at the uh Fred Theo Recreational Facility then too. But I want to thank the town board for your time of your day and coming there. It's greatly appreciated then too. Uh you stop in there sometime. You'll you'll see people playing soccer on one side and then baseball on the other side is just pretty neat for me. David, thank you to you for getting that done. It's really amazing. It's as I

124said that there's no eye in team complete teamwork if you want to use the metaphor here and we all did it. So I appreciate that man. It's just it's just it's fun to see. Uh okay. So um moving on to two other things here. We had the M talk uh citizens advisory committee met last night. Um uh we were have a uh a presentation by CCOM but they cancelled last minute there. I believe they might be coming in in September. Some of the discussions uh were about water authority. Uh I know the stuff county water authority has requested for uh to use less water uh on irrigation and such. Please please try to conserve your water this time of year. Again, there's a public safety element to that also. Then too, uh there were discussions

125and and comments about um music, music permits and specifically about how they're read and for compliance and also about bass. Um it seemed like the discussion was all about the bass. You're welcome. Thank you everyone listening. Um, and that it was it was it was about how a bass might be lower in thumping instead of high treble and how that affects noise readings. So that might be a discussion point we can have later on. into uh I want to let everyone know as we continue to move forward to the playhouse to the ceremonial ribbon cutting for next week which is great news that some of the other key components are actually coming into uh completion out there including the uh uh um Sally Richardson assisting with the installation artwork on there, the epoxy floor decking,

126other options that uh u Bryant and his staff are doing in the old section older section I want to say uh to make it look spark sparkling for everyone upcoming then too. I heard furniture was getting delivered today. You are right. We're going to have chairs to sit on. Oh, it's the ribbon cutting. Yeah, there they're a lot of it's uh you could be a shepherd of things, but it's tough to be a closer on certain things. This one is this one is a this one's a big project for the town and the close. Uh we're getting super close to it. I look forward to showing everyone everyone seeing it. Uh again, that is next Friday from 2 to 4 o'clock at the Playhouse. Uh let's see here. Also, I'm on talk. I want to

127thank the county. Um and maybe a pat on the back to legislator Annne Welker and also to us as a town board. There's a new bus shelter out there uh showed up and it's in place. The old bus shelter that was out there had some um it was past his prime. Let's just say that, right? Saw better days. Yeah. Saw a lot of you some better days. This one is brand new out there. So, I want to thank the county again for working with the township there. Uh tonight uh this is what I want to leave everyone with. Uh I also want to thank legislator Annne Welker, legislator Stark and others. Tonight uh there's a public hearing on tonight at 6:30 for the working waterfront legislation which is something that the town board has been

128supporting moving forward trying to protect our fisheries industry. It is resolution IR, introductory resolution IR1520. Anyone want to make a public comment on that can call the phone number at 631-853685 at any time before midnight tonight or sorry the end of closing of the of the public hearing tonight which is probably about 8:00 again 631853 3685. Please uh tell if you're in favor or not in favor of protecting water working waterfront and our fisheries and then please note that uh we state that it's IR520. I will go up there uh on behalf of the town board to show the talent board support for our fishing industry. With that, that's all I have. Great. Thank you, David. Kate, yes. Um I was unable to attend the Wayne Scott CAC meeting this Saturday, but they are continued

129like all of our hamlets, to be um impacted by speeding along the residential streets. Uh for Wayne Scott, the particular issue is that uh every navigation system etc. brings them into small community streets to uh avoid uh traffic on the highway which uh impacts everyone's safety and quality of life. Uh those uh discussions continue. Um there was a mention of an open gate at the gun club that brought up some um uh rumors about the gun club and I uh sent I had sent uh my liaison report to Hersy uh Egggington who is the chair of that group to read out to folks and let them know that there they were asking about has there been a change in status of the gun club and there has not been a change in status. Um, so

130I wanted to put that out there as well. And and of course um uh uh the airport continues to um be an issue for the the Wayne Scott folks as they are the uh primary uh impacts. They they absorb the primary impacts of the noise. Um also they are interested um in um they will be very interested in the roadway right ofways because that is also I think it's probably across the this entire board CAC's and neighbors and ourselves as what we see happening in there and and I think over time this idea of planting in there has actually developed uh so I think we're responding to current conditions today rather than what we saw in the past. Um the sustainability committee will be bringing forth as David mentioned tree protection tree protection recommendations tree

131protection recommendations and I think I'd like to to uh see them uh come in um as soon as possible on that. So I'll be submitting some dates to them for a work session that perhaps they can uh come to and and open that up with the little action committee and action certainly is appropriate for them. Um they are working on uh PSAs again for some local radio stations that that we do and also information for September 20th which is n national cleanup day. they are getting their um collateral, their literature materials, their educa educational materials out on that day. Uh East Hampton has declared um uh uh cooperation with the national and actually I believe it's international cleanup day where we've declared um the third Saturday in September as the cleanup day. This year that

132will take place on September 20th. Uh everyone is invited to sign up and participate. They'll be sending out we'll be sending out social media um blasts and also they have an email going out to all organizations, neighborhoods, folks. Uh anyone can join up to participate on the September 20th National Cleanup Day. Um also the um we the when they presented in front of the board, they had asked about permission for signage about securing your load at uh at the recycling center. They've uh just delivered that those sign to me and I'm going to ask uh I'll send David you an email as long as as well with parks uh to be able to put those on board. You just copy Tom and I and I'll I'll copy Tom as well uh for sanitation and um

133I believe uh the the grant committee for the New York State uh resiliency grant uh for the down the MTalk study area. uh we were to have our meeting um the selection committee reviewing the RFPs. Unfortunately, one of our members had a business uh emergency um and again this just reminds everybody who's on these committees and was unable to attend. So, we adjourned uh because we want that valuable input. And so with other members having some vacation time at the end of August, we'll be reconvening in the first week of September to finalize selection and bring recommendation to the town board. And also I'm thrilled to um to to note that we have received our uh New York State uh Department of Environmental Conservation permit for the uh ditch dune reconstruction and that project will

134be moving forward and where we're we're finalizing the easements with private property owners and we will be then uh going out to RFP. David will be then taking over construction as he has so generously uh volunteered to do. I missed that meeting. I'll send it back to you to recall it. I think you're being very humble here right now, Kate. What you were able just to accomplish now to be able to uh go through a a large scale design of a nourishment project out there, but also get the permitting and everyone on board with this then too is herculean effort. So, congrats to you and the team also on that. Yeah, team. That's the key point. Uh, and we still have that big $2.5 million check in our office from from the governor to help

135fund that effort. Yes. So, I Yes. Bring it to the bank, the big and that just emphasizes how it really does take a big team to get things done. Uh, and and coordination. Thank you. And uh just lastly, I would just uh thank uh community member Jane Miring for uh starting a housing trust. Uh I think that's a a daunting um uh uh project to take on, but also to help uh with uh community housing needs uh is critical in these times. Any any and every effort is appreciated. And again, I just constantly want to remind everyone and ourselves how important it is to have these types of community uh organizations in East Hampton. And if we want to talk about what makes East Hampton special and great, these are the organizations that do it.

136So, just a big shout out to everybody and that's all I have. Great. Thank you, Kate. Ian. Yeah. Well, I'll start where where Kate left off. I was very happy to see Jane Marian's uh public comments today. have spoken with her about the East Hampton Community Housing Trust in the past. Didn't realize she was going to speak on it today, but I think that this is a wonderful thing. Um, affordable housing is one of the biggest um needs that our town has and I think in as the future we go into the future, it'll become only more important and and frankly more difficult. So, we need all hands on deck. I think I'm very pleased to serve on this board where all five members are are passionate and thoughtful about this and and work hard

137to do what we can. um it's a big problem. We we can't do it all ourselves. So the fact that there is a um you know private um you know initiative to to to also contribute is is just fantastic. I think we have to look at the the need the the cause we're all trying to get behind and not be um sort of what we can do but what we can do as a community not just as a board. So so basically all hands on deck is is is absolutely great. And it also gives people an opportunity. I I speak with people in the public all the time who are recognize this as a problem and and ask how they can help. And this might be a a vehicle for, you know, private donations, private

138funding to go beyond what we have through, you know, the funding we we provide as a town. Um, proud of some of the programs we do ourselves. The first-time home buyers have been great. I think we are have have talked recently about moving forward with with funding financing ADUs. I'd like to bring that to a work session perhaps later this month or or or soon. We did speak about that at CHAB um a community housing advisory board meeting last time and they they are fully supportive. I also want to recognize, you know, Katie Casey's her comments from the Eastampton Housing Authority. Um closing the cottages is great. That's an example of preserving existing affordable housing. So, um we're not doing more development, but we're preserving existing housing and and contributing to that cause. Uh on

139the other hand, the 114 project that I know is moving forward, you know, with with help from the town, but also the housing authority initiative um is a great project that I'm very very excited about and can't wait to see that uh progress. So, uh just wanted to to highlight that. I think that this is one of the biggest the biggest things our town faces and um you know, I think we all have to acknowledge that the problem frankly is probably bigger than we can solve this year or next year or this decade. But all of these little things make a difference. And um I don't want anybody to be dejected. I I I just really appreciate that there were two sort of positive, constructive um speakers in the public comment wanting to help solve

140this issue and and that excites me very much. Um another thing that excites me is the history of our town. I was able to attend the Miss Ameilia's Cottage 300th birthday party a week ago last Saturday and I want to thank the Amigans Historical Society for putting that on. It was What's that? Association, I'm sorry. Um, thank you. It was a lovely event. I'd actually never been inside of that cottage, which was was a super cool place. They had the carriage house, one of the carriage houses open, and I think it just goes to show how much history we have in town. Again, 300 years, that's older than our country. Um, and and so it was it was a very nice night and and thank all involved for making that happen. Uh along those same

141lines, the Springs Historical Society, I've mentioned this before, they're celebrating their 50th anniversary and have all sorts of programming um and exhibitions going on. Uh they also do things such as Ma Jang on Wednesday nights uh or Wednesday afternoons from 1:00 to 3:30 at the Springs Library. Um check out their website for upcoming events. There's there's many throughout the uh the summer and fall. Um, and yeah, uh, the Blacksmith shop will be open later this month. I believe that the date is August 23rd. I'll remind you as that comes closer. That's another building that the the Springs Historical Society has spent a lot of time cleaning up and getting in in good shape. And I encourage anybody who hasn't been there to check it out. They're open on uh, one Saturday a month. Um, that

142coincides with the farmers market. So, it's a it's a great day to get out there and visit um, and see all that our town has to offer. Thank you, Ian. Okay, so let me start first with the East Hampton Town Police Department weekend activity. This is from Friday through Monday morning at 6:00 a.m. There were 271 calls for service. There were six total arrests, two for DWI, two for harassment in a domestic incidents, one for assault in the third degree, and one for reckless endangerment. There were 20 residential noise complaints. We didn't get any commercial noise complaints complaints this past weekend. two accidents and 19 aided cases and the Montalk Lighthouse concert went off without any incident which was a a big event. Uh we did uh last week put in two grant applications. One

143uh was discussed at a work session in Montalk that was the natural resources inventory. Uh we submitted a grant application um to the climate smart communities program for $200,000 to hire a team of experts to develop a townwide natural resources inventory. We also put in an application with the town as the sponsor, but we worked with the uh East Hampton Housing Authority for the Route 114 new housing development. This application was for $4.1 million. And this is to fund critical infrastructure improvements necessary for the development of 50 new housing units at uh the 776 and 780 Route 114. Uh we're we're grateful for in both applications for the letters of report we received and we expect uh the expected award notifications are in November of this year. Um, we've invited uh Samantha Klene, our grants

144coordinator, to come to our third meeting in August, the one when we're back here in the main meeting room to give us a second quarter grants update and uh she'll get into more detail. Um, last night we had our East Hampton Sag Harbor CAC and the CAC unanimously supports the speed reduction on Long Lane. They also decided to make the meeting a good news meeting and discuss topics that they're grateful for, what's working right in our area, local initiatives they want to support, and positive changes happening in East Hampton Town. So, they kind of went around the table and um I just wanted to share with you I felt like it was a mini focus group of what folks in East Hampton Sag Harbor CAC are grateful for. It includes the new roundabout, although Yeah.

145No, the the new East Hampton emergency room here. Uh, one of our members has spent her career in um affordable housing in putting financing deals together for affordable housing. And she went on about the town's commitment to affordable housing. And she said she has never seen a town with the commitment that we do. Um, we also had one of our members talk about uh he wanted to thank the East Hampton CAC, the town and Suffach County for their support of our immigrant community and our our uh folks that are documented. Uh these are tough times that our community members are are are living through. and he especially noted the meeting we had in early February when Chief Sarlo was here and uh wanted to let us know how it was actually got quite emotional how

146supported uh he feels. Um then we had one of our members talk about the town's outstanding senior programs, the nutrition program, inhome services, senior transportation and wellness classes. And one of the members uh said, you know, and her new body by Zumba because she goes to Zumba three days a week. And then uh one of our members talked about the Ryan family and their mission to waterproof our community. Um and uh this past weekend was the junior lifeguard tournament and on Sunday both Ann Welker and I went down. Uh the county gave a proclamation to um Mr. and Mrs. Brian uh for their their contributions to our community, including I guess John had um 2500 calls as an EMT and his wife had 5,000. Wow. And they wanted to they wanted to recognize that. Um

147tomorrow, uh the East End Supervisors and Mayors Association are meeting in in Riverhead. David. Um, Councilman Lease is joining me as Colonel Young from the Army Corps of Engineers will be speaking. He's on the agenda for tomorrow. So, we figured better to just we've got a great working relationship with the Colonel and his team and uh it'll be nice to have break bread with him. Uh, I also wanted to mention uh on Saturday night there was an event the Amigans Village Improvement Society honored Joan Tulp. Um those of us that know Joan, she has been a member of Avis for 55 years and most of those years she was the co-president. She is um some call her the honorary ma uh mayor of Amigansit. It was a packed house uh at the event uh celebrating

148her her achievements and all of her efforts uh to keep Amigans um vibrant but also all of the other organizations that she's been involved with. And then lastly, I just wanted to say this is kind of breaking news. We today we the town had its debt sale. We were looking to finance new debt and refinance existing debt totaling $25 million. Um, as you know, uh, Moody's has just recently reaffirmed our AAA credit rating. It's the, I guess it was the ninth year in a row. And in the words of capital markets, these are fabulous results. Bonds uh, the rate is 3.09% and bands, which are um, bond anticipation notes are at 2.68%. Capital Market states that they have not recently had a ban percentage lower than 2.7 for a one-year issuance. The town received 15

149goodfaith deposits and 11 actual bids. This is excellent news in that there is a lot of interest in the town's debt, which is a good thing. And the town is fortunate to continue to yield positive results at at its annual debt sale. I I guess what our folks at Capital Market said is people like to own a piece of East Hampton. So, it was great that there was so much interest and um we got such solid rates. Well, I think you're being humble also because a lot of that comes through your conservative budgeting and also the finance department then too moving that moving that ahead. Even in the tough times, we're still seeing when we need to go out for capital expenses like this to get the best possible rate for the residents possible. So,

150kudos to you. Thank you. No, it's it's it's great for all of us and it's great for our taxpayers. Okay, so now we are on to resolutions. Tom, you're first. Yes, thank you. I'll start with resolution 20251033. Uh this is for the wellness 60 plus drawing and painting instruction. Be it resolved the town boy here town board hereby approves 11 afternoon drawing and painting instruction classes uh at a total cost of $1,100. Second in favor. I have the offer resolution 20251034. This is to terminate seasonal lifeguards in the recreation department effective retroactive to May 18th, 2025. Second. All in favor? I. 1035 is authorized payment for a prior year invoice to environmental services incorporated for the amount of $436. Yes. $436 for pumpouts. Second. All in favor? I. 1036 is authorized payment to national grid

151for 2023 and 2024 invoices in the total amount of $47012. Second. All in favor? I. 1037 is a se a supplemental proposal for LK LK MLAN for the Edwards house in which the uh uh needs additional plans. The town has requested a broader scope which will include septic and HVAC. The additional cost is not to exceed 23,300. Second. All in favor. 1038 is amend chapter 182 town of East Hampton Niche preserve where the town board held the public hearing on July 17th 2025 to consider the law the town of East Hampton now would like to move forward on accepting this law and codifying second all in favor I page 19 you okay uh we are moving forward here to 1039 this is the water grant uh hello water quality grant extensions where the town is

152authorized izing the grant extensions for the first project would be the New York State uh center of clean water technology. This was for our wastewater treatment improvement. The second would be for the Springs Presbyterian Church also for a wastewater treatment improvement. And the third was uh the project sponsor was Malttox Shores Condominians also for a wastewater treatment improvement. Second. All in favor? I 1040 is for Sag Harbor Christ Church was the town previously authorized modification of the contract. uh but the uh the cost associated with the sewer pipe connection to the treatment plant without altering the the total grant allowance of 143,860 dollar. Whereas unforeseen circumstances have prevented the grant recipient from completing the project the original contractor. The additional time is necessary to finalize the church's connection to the sewer treatment plant. Second. All

153in favor? Resolution 1041 is the approval of various special events for July and August 2025. The full list is contained within the resolution. I will be recusing myself from this uh this vote. Okay. Second. We have Oh, sorry. Can we get a roll call? But we needed a second. I recused. I I resolution 1042 is to amend resolution uh 2025 and this is uh to a correction on the location and streets mentioned in this uh resolution which was to move the driveway access to the parcel from Fort Pine Boulevard to Corbin Avenue which said driveway being no closer than 50 ft from the intersection of Oaklair Street and Corbin Avenue. Except as amended, the requirements of urban renewal map SP1-1 will remain in full force and effect. Second. All in favor? I. Resolution 1043 is

154to extend extend resolution 2025 uh 795 and a budget modification and uh this is regarding to the hiring of Richard Vakio in the building department. It is it is extend that resolution is extended to December 31st uh 2025 and on an adne need basis at the same weekly rate set forth in the resolution retroactive to July 24 2025. So that would be a decrease from full-time salaries in the amount of 15,000 and an increase in subcontractor costs in the same amount. Second discussion if you don't mind. I I I I I think this is very important to note that the town board and yourself, K, are doing everything possible to make sure that we staff up uh the building department with qualified individuals. Rick Fakio is one of those qualified individuals. I thank you for

155bringing this constantly forward to the town for then too. Thank you, David. All in favor? I. Resolution 1044, this is a refund for various permits to Peter Salson in the amount of $105 for recycling duplicate permit. Second. All in favor? I resolution 20251045 is a bond. We're amending the acquisition of 66 East Lake Drive. And this we are amending the bond resolution adopted November 1st, 2022 relating to the acquisition of vacant land located on 66 East Lake Drive Malk for the purpose of the preservation of open space and water quality. What we wanted to do here is extend the period of probable use, the PPU from 5 years to 30 years. Second. Can I get a roll call? Carol. I I resolution 20251046 is to authorize payment of a prior year invoice for the town

156attorney's office and this is to Robert J. Ponzi uh per two resolutions we had done earlier and this is in an amount not to exceed $4,68.90. Second all in favor. Resolution 1047 is electronic measuring device forensic mapping training course and this is for officers in the East Hampton Town Police Department. Detective Sergeant Frank Sakalowski and Sergeant Patrick Royal will be authorized to t to to attend the uh these events and conference with the financial impact of $1800. Second. All in favor? I back to David. I am so sorry. I don't. Okay. So, I have resolution 2025 1048. This is appoint student ear intern 2 in the aquaculture department Christian Sigua by the retroactive uh to August 5th 2025 at hourly rate of $20. Second all in favor. 1049 is appoint seasonal lifeguard to the recreational

157department Lily Mongan and an hourly rate of $26 retroactive to August 2nd 2025 as a senior lifeguard. Second. All in favor? I I 1050 is appoint seasonal employee in the recreational department Brandon Kennedy as a recreational aid and the hourly rate is $17.85 retroactive to August 5th, 2025. Second. All in favor? I resolution 1051. This is a permissive referendum to revise resolution 2025661 for affordable housing sale of 50 Thomas A. This is because the resolution omitted a small tax back number that's part of this transaction. It was depicted as on the survey as the premises. Um but the revision just to to note that in the resolution. Second. All in favor? I. Resolution 20251052 is to appoint part-time security guard James Frasier. James Frasier is appointed to the part-time position of security guard and will

158report to the town supervisor at the hourly rate of $27.50 effective retroactive to August 5th. I just want to welcome Jim. He's out here today. He recently retired and served in the town's police garage for almost 40 years. Second. All in favor? I. 1053 is to amend 2025 the 2025 CSCA schedule A to add senior citizens transportation coordinator. The CSCA schedule A is hereby amended to reflect the addition of senior citizens transportation coordinator as a grade 22 with a schedule of 40 hours per week effective August 6, 2025. Second. All in favor? I. Resolution 1054 is to authorize transfer for the YMCA reserve and budget modification. So, this is per the recommendation by town maintenance supervisor Steven O'Brien that an air conditioning compressor is needed. So, we're going to increase appropriation of reserves from the

159YMCA fund in the amount of $28,18 and increase building improvements for the rec center in the same amount. Second. All in favor? I. Okay. So that's all we have for today. Do I have a resolution or a motion to go into exec session? Yes, I make a a motion to go into executive session for personnel, CPF, contracts, and public safety. Second. All in favor? I. Thank you everyone for joining us and thank