001to East Hampton Village Board. We are live. All right. Thanks everybody. Today is May 23rd, 2025. Welcome to East Hampton Village Board Meeting. If you could stand for a pledgece 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. All right. Thanks everybody. So, let's just we've got a bunch of things on for today. So, let's start with roll call first. Mayor Jerry Larson here. Deputy Mayor Chris Manardi here. Trustee Sandra Melendez has an excused absence. Trustee Carrie Doyle here. Trustee Sarah Ammedan here. Administrator Marcos Faladron present. Village attorney Lisa Pillo here. Great. Thank you. So I just want to make a couple of announcements. Got some exciting things happening in the village. So Main Beach again
002scored in the top 10 beaches in the United States. We're still trailing Cooper's Beach in Southampton. So, the mayor and I in Southampton Village have this ongoing uh battle, but so far he's winning. So, but uh so that's still a a big deal though to be top 10 in the United States. We're actually number five. I don't know if it's ranked that way, but it appears to be. Cooper's Beach was number one and we're number five out of the 10. So, we were six last year. Yeah, we're six. So, we're ining our injuring inching our way up. Two of them are not in the continental United States, right? Hawaii. I've been to those beaches in Hawaii. They're not that nice. No, they're not. One beach in Naples. We saw That's right. Naples. That was uh
003We do an annual trip to Naples. So, that was fun. You can write it off now. Yeah. Yeah. We're inspecting those beaches. That's right. So, uh travel and training. So, uh a couple more announcements. We are going to have a special board meeting on June 5th. Our next regular board meeting will be Wednesday, June 18th. So that's a change special meeting. We're really happy to announce um we are planning for a block party, our second block party on New Town Lane. It'll be Friday, June 13th if the New York Knicks get into the final playoffs. So, everybody should be watching this round of playoffs, which game two is tonight, and hope that the Knicks get in it. If they do, then we'll we'll we'll do the block party on New Town starting around 6 p.m.
004on Friday the 13th. Wanted to announce some grand openings. We had the Hedges in under new ownership with a great new restaurant. They opened. We also had a a really fun opening yesterday. It's called the Card Vault by Tom Brady. And Tom Brady, who's, you know, by far one of the greatest football quarterbacks ever, uh, came to the opening. We had probably 3 to 500 people in the park and in front of the store and he, uh, signed autographs, threw out footballs, and the kids were going crazy. So, uh, that was a lot of fun. Let's see. Uh the East End show which is sponsored by News or created by News12. They did their kickoff their second season was held at the Maidstone Hotel. It's a really good show. It's on um it really highlights
005all of the great businesses on the East End on both forks. So you should really um check that out. That's on um Saturdays and Sundays at 9:30 in the morning on channel 12. and you can really see some great places that are fun to go and uh explore. So, enjoy that. We have the Memorial Day parade Monday starts at 10:00 a.m. The following week, we have the our annual pride parade which will be Saturday, June 7th. That starts at noon. Uh we have the farmers market. The foundation, the village foundation sponsors a farmers market which is now every Friday from 9 to 2. They also have free exercise class on Friday in the park at 11:30. They also offer free yoga at Main Beach starting tomorrow and every Saturday for the summer at 8:30 a.m.
006And then finally, I wanted to announce the retirements of our very famous building inspector, Tom Prio. Congratulations, Tom. [Applause] and John Capazola, who's not here in the audience, but he just retired from our dispatch center after 20 years of service to the community. So, we thank him. Give him a round. All right, that wraps up all my uh advertising. So, now we're going to jump into a presentation from our historian, Hugh King. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, I hope some of you had got to see and smell the wisteria at Home Sweet Home Museum. And I want to thank Tony from the DPW. He takes care of that every year and it's spectacular. Also, the John Marshall's students have been coming to Home Sweet Home and to the Mulford House and to the windmills. So,
007I want to thank Stacy Meyers for her work there and the teachers at John Marshall who are sending their students to local historic places. Hello. We have so many and the the East Historical Society is working with all the area schools um teaching the history of our town. Okay. All right. Today it's Glenn Stmenz, village police chief. A member of the Eastampton Village Police Force for 23 years and its chief for 30 more. Glenn Stonemens oversaw the department during decades of a tremendous change in the village. During his watch, there were two presidential visits and three by vice presidents, not to mention those by prominent judges, foreign diplomats, senators, and outofstate governors protected by the United States Marshall and Secret Service agents. He handled arson cases, burglaries, drug busts, and one homicide, but never had
008to fire his gun in the line of duty except at an animal. Chief Stoman was born in Amagancet, the only child of Glenn Stance and the former Nancy Rener. He graduated from Amagancetic grade school and was a member of the East Stanton High School class of 1956 and at one time the town police chief and the village police chief uh were both graduates of Amigans grade school. Tommy Scott was the longtime town police chief. Dub Mr. S joined the staff at Lester Motors as a service manager in high school, maintaining police cars that the company leased to the village. He became friendly with a number of police officers and when the flu epidemic hit the department in 1969, he took a second job as dispatcher. Um, looking back on his career in 2000, he said
009the most interesting case was the investigation into a fire at the Gardener Brownhouse in which an elderly man and his dog were killed. There was an intense investigation, but we were never able to bring it to a successful conclusion. Another unsolved case in 1973 involved Mr. Stone himself. He was chased in an AR chasing he was cha closing in on an arrest in a drug investigation and just before he finished the shift at midnight, his car was firebombed in the Shrank parking lot off of New Town Lane. He convinced the mayor to buy computers for the bill police department and help write a program for to computerize the police logs. And I think Chief Ericson has a wonderful story about his first meeting with uh uh with Chief Stoments. Do you mind if he comes
010up and No, I I love the story. Yeah. [Music] Okay, let's hear it again. Well, Hugh, you're looking for a little competition. Are you getting ready to retire? So, for me, uh, I've been here 34 years, and my first experience in the village of East Hampton. I didn't grow up out here, and it was, I believe, my first time out here. It was the summer of 91. That's where my career started with a longstanding injury that I will get to shortly. So, I came out here uh as a candidate uh off the civil service list as we still still do. There were no local talent left, so they had to go to the county. And lo and behold, I was one of those that were chosen for an interview. At that time, actually, Mayor Larson
011did my background investigation and moved me through uh to be a to be a police officer. So the day I came out here in the summer of 91, uh I met with the chief at that time and uh his executive officer uh Lieutenant Randy Saris and um we had a nice meeting, went over my resume um and it was very pleasant. And then the chief told me, "Come on, kid. Let's let's take a ride. You've never been out here." and we went for a ride around the village, the jurisdiction to kind of show me what what the village was like. And we got in his car and we were going all over and we hit the summer colony. And it was at one point when we were coming up Baiting Hollow Road to the intersection
012of uh uh Woods Lane and 27 there at the Getty Station, as we know, Exxon station. Now, as I was looking around, all of a sudden, he goes through the intersection to go over to toilsome and we get t-boned, we get hit by a vehicle, and I didn't even see it coming and the rear driver's rear quarter panel uh got hit and he said, "Do you see the car?" I said, "I, Chief, I I didn't see it." And uh I didn't know whether the light was green or red. Uh, I think I think the uh I think the light was red at that time, but uh uh and then uh lo and behold, the troops started showing up. I think Kenny Brown, Lieutenant Brown was the first on scene and uh that was my first
013experience. The injury to uh C2 and C3 is longlasting. It is documented and it it I'm told it'll be a payout at the at the end. But that was my first experience here. I got into a 10. we call it an accident with a with the chief. So then I thought, right, I'm this is a good place to work, right? What what else could happen? So that was my uh God rest his soul. He was a he was a great man, a great chief, and that was my first uh first and of many probably stories I've I've had with him. But he was a he was a good he was a good man and brought this department uh ahead of ages from when I started. I was the last class to start with the 357
014revolver and then uh finally he was a big proponent of the revolver and he didn't want to go to these uh Glock automatics and then finally the county said we we're not doing two courses for you. So he forced forced us into the you know into the age where we should have been with the semi-automatic but he was a he brought computers as the mayor as as Hugh said he he brought us and he brought us into this building. He was the first chief in this building. So, God rest his soul. He was a good man. Thank you. Thanks, Chief. I'm going to jump away from the public hearings and the board discussion. I have a question for you. Oh, for you? Hugh, we have a question for you. You have a question for me?
015I do. Hugh? Um, I was um had a meeting with um with Marcos this week and we were discussing the main beach pavilion and some upgrades. As you many know, we're going to redo the roof and and we're doing some work at the Sea Spray and you know, there's a lot of old pictures circulating with a third story and other renovations. So, we were asking who would know how many times that pavilion was renovated and was it renovated where it was totally replaced or was it just kind of piece together? Good question. Some homework for you. Okay, I'll get on it. I gave a summary of the I have a little summary of main beach. I gave the trustee amid. I I have the summary but the summary doesn't doesn't say. Yeah, we can go
016to the archives of the the paper and maybe the village records and uh you want to know how many times it was renovated and was it completely renovated or was it just you know a little here, a little there? Well, guess what? I'm going to have to leave the meeting early to go to Maine Beach to find out about this. I'm interviewing five uh members of the class of 1959. Uh okay. And we probably have to have lunch. So, I'm going to go. Thanks. You all right? So, what I was saying was I'm going to skip the public hearings for now in the board discussion because I see we have some people that would like to address us. So, we're going to jump to that first so you're not sitting through all this other material.
017So, anybody would like to address? Yes, ma'am. Good morning. My name is Judy Menure. I'm not a village resident. I'm a town resident. I'm sorry about that, but I didn't I didn't know there was a difference when we bought our house. At any rate, this is perfect today because you were talking about the beach and you were talking about renovations at the beach and you were also talking about our sanding and we're only five and beach is one. I know how you can fix it. Can you lower that? Sure. I'm having a hard time hearing you. I can't. How about that? There you go. Perfect. Perfect. I know how you can make yourself I know how we can make Maine Beach number one beating Cooper by fixing the parking problem. As you can see, I'm
018disabled. I became disabled about three years ago. I'm not able to walk on the beach because the sand is detrimental to my health. At any rate, if you can picture the beach, there are two parking lots. There's one on the right facing the ocean. There's one on the left side of the beach, one on the right side of the beach. Right. The left side of the beach is known as parking lot two. Right. The parking lot one is on the right side. Parking lot one is dedicated just for village residents. And uh when you look at parking lot two, there are two uh disabled parking spaces right at the top of the beach, right next to the beach, which is great, but two is really not very many. Down at the bottom of that very
019steep hill, and the older you get and the more disabled you get, the steeper the hill becomes. There are three spots and then there are three within the parking lot itself. Those spots are useless because there is no way anybody like me or anyone who's even more disabled than I am can possibly get up the hill without the use of a car. So I was wondering if there was any way you could help us do something about that. giving us some more parking lot spots on the top of the hill or even I know it's hard to say to the people from the village you have to give up some of your spots but the actually I go to the beach every day that lot is very unused it's rarely rarely even full maybe on
020July 4th if it's really hot so I was wondering if we could dedicate some spots in that lot for people who paying the $750 or 500 if they were lucky and out there in February to to use as uh uh I call them spots really um disabled spots so that there would be more parking for people to come to the beach and maybe that would be something that would make um Cooper's Beach number two and us number one. So, I thought if you could take, you know, if you wanted to ask me any questions or if there's anybody in the audience who wanted to say anything. I have my I have my team. The team is really bigger, but you know, it's early in the season, so a lot of people aren't out yet. Is
021there any I don't know how Yeah, we've gone through this a few times. Um, not with you obviously, but over the years. And the problem we have with utilizing lot uh one is that village residents have that's an exclusive lot for the village residents and the locker holders that also park up in there which also are unused. What's that? They're they may be sold but nobody's ever in those. I sit right there every day. Yeah. But if we start opening it up to non-residents and then there are no handicap spots available in that lot, what do we tell a resident that's handicapped when they pull in the lot and they have no place to park? Come earlier. So I think what's that? Come earlier. I think it's um I think the better way to handle
022it is maybe to put more handicap spots at the top of Main Beach. That'd be great. You know, maybe two more spots. with that. No, because there are six you're right now there are six extra spots at the bottom of the hill. So, can you give us six other spots where we could park more readily? Well, they were moved from the top to the bottom because I think the ones the ones you're referring to at the very bottom because they were on a slope, right, Tom? Right. They were they were on the slope and they actually didn't meet to the um ADA certifications in a sense for parking. Yeah. The Yeah, I don't know what that means. Can you So the we used to have if you pulled up to Main Beach and where the
023where we put the new handicap spots now, they used to be all the way to the left, but they were on the on the grade slope, which made it kind of silly to have it on the on the hill. I understand. So we wanted to make them more flat and more accessible and and safer, right? But the buttons on the bottom are totally unaccessible. I think that we said didn't don't correct me that the village staff has come repeatedly and said they will help anybody get up. How are they going to do that? Well, you're not in a wheelchair. How are they going to do that? Th this seems to be a topic that comes up every year and we're very sympathetic to everybody and um with the help of of Tom who's in charge
024of a lot of our ADA um code, we did unfortunately have to move those spots up to the left of the beach because they were not compliant and technically we were at risk of allowing handicapped people to park there because it's on a hill. Of course, you can appreciate that. Excuse me. Wait, across the front of the beach. They're not on a hill. No, they're not. Now, again, there is a balancing act where we have to follow because if we handicap spots require certain amount of space for opening of the doors and there is a um a marked off spot for wheelchair access and all those things. So taking away from the 15-minute parking also also ends up being another conflict with the community because then no one can park at the head of the
025beach and and and it is a very difficult I understand situation that's why because parking I know parking lot one is off limits and I understand all that and but that is to me is the only reasonable uh s solution because it's flat. It's right on the ocean. It's there's no walking. I mean, there's walking, but there's no I could not walk up that hill. I just couldn't do it. So, if I want to go to the beach by myself, I can't. We do have an unloading zone. We have an unloading zone that's clearly marked for. You can't load me. I have to park my car. It's definitely a tough topic. I was just hoping that you would There's There are not that many of us who come. We come every day and every day
026we fight with Diane sometimes if it's empty she'll say okay go in you can't it's very it's frustrating and it's anxietyprovoking I'm 85 years old yeah you know I want to just go park my car and have a nice day and it seems so reasonable let us park there we don't have to park right in the front we can walk on a flat surface we just can't walk up a hill so if you could take it under advisement I would really appreciate the spots that be put at the top of the beach. Do you find that they're filled? Yeah, there only two of them. You come there at 10. If you're out there by 10, you're done. Okay. Okay. Oh, that's it. All right. Well, thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate your time.
027I appreciate the time also. Unfortunately, I am virtually stoned death and slightly blind. It is. I mean, I have loved the village, Maine Beach, for 42 years. We live on Ghoul Street. There never was any other beach we ever even knew about. I cannot cross from one side to the deck. So even if it's aligned with the entry, I can't do it even with my cane. My husband who doesn't reveal his [Laughter] age at infinitum um won't admit to the fact that he can't do it either. He walks parallel to the ground. We never really had a problem prior to these new rulings because when we used to go to lot one when we became aged and handicapped. I don't know if there was a wink wink that went on, but it was known because
028we were always there by the people at the deck that these handicap people can use the lot one spots. I had friends in the village who said, "Oh, take my spot or whatever." But the fact is what Judy Mench said is valid. Not all the time, but most of the days that we're there, there are so many available spots. And we sit and we're so upset by it because truly our lifeline is being on that beach. And you know, you're all young kids. I was a director of a senior center for 20 years. And when I first started in my early 40s, I used to say, "We, the collective, we will do this. We will." And they say, "Ela, what are you talking about? We you're a young I said we will all be there
029meaning me and I just ask you to literally walk in our humble shoes and canes and sticks and deafness and it is I don't think you can appreciate how much we love that deck and what you provided with your served. Excuse me. If you could take the microphone and put it in front of your mouth, I'd appreciate that. Thank you. See, I can't even hear that. I guess I'm finished. But I just would like Your husband's clapping for you. Isn't that nice? It's very nice. Your hearts and your hearing talk about possibly using about what? Possibly using the I can't hear. Okay. Um I'm sorry. I'm Rachel Hicks. How are you? Um Elaine had mentioned to me that in Florida, if all the handicap spots were taken that they at the beach, then they could
030take and use an empty spot and put their handicap label on the car and it would not be a problem. Would that be a possibility? You know, it's I was going to say, you all seem like a great bunch of people and I really appreciate you coming here and talking to us and taking the time and I was going to say, let us put our heads together and see if we can come up with an idea, but I think that sounds like a wonderful idea. Every spot is down. I thought you guys were a team. Maybe at the 15 minute. That's what I was thinking. No, no. I was thinking at the 15-minute parking at the head of the beach. Yeah. If those two handicap spots are taken, if you pull in one of those
031spots and you display the handicap permit like this lady was saying, then we would not put a summon on as long as you had the handicap sticker and the beach permit. I think that's a great idea. Let us think that through and then maybe that's something we can do because then we're not permanently changing those spots. But if you need it, the handicap sticker would override the 15-minute parking for the day. Could that be in another place as well? Slightly the on the left side. It could be the whole front. You could use the all the whole 15minute parking and if you had a handicap permit, it would resolve the issue. And then see the problem is when let's say there's nobody parked up there and it's let's say we made it all handicapped parking
032then nobody can use it because you can't even park temporarily in a handicap parking space if you're not handicapped as you all know and that's one of my pet peeves that people use and abuse these uh parking permits and uh so this seems like a very smart solution to me. I have a question either for Lisa or for Tom. If we allow this, the spots that are 15minute don't have the um extra space on the sides. Does that open us up for any type of liability? No, they do. They have the extra space on the end. So, for example, if you have a van and it has a wheelchair uh lift or you need to open your door all the way, which again is what we try to provide to be compliant. Those other spots
033don't have that. They're tighter. And I'm all for this idea. I think it's a great idea, but if someone were to fall or some cars were to have some type of accident, then it's our fault. Well, I don't know. That's why I wanted to ask them. Yeah, we could we could ask our attorney, but that but my personal feeling is no because it's not a designated handicap spot. That that's that's my first instinct. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I love the idea. But that would mean that um you know, a lot of people do come to the beach for 15 minutes to eat their lunch and leave. So, it could be that all those spots are now handicapped, but it's only temporary. I mean, if if you came up there and somebody was already in the 15-minute
034spot eating lunch, you'd still wouldn't be able to park. So, I think this is a good compromise. I I think it's Or we can see how it goes. See how it goes for this summer. If it's abused, then we Chief, what do you think? Putting you on the spot twice. Or what if we do? Yeah, [Laughter] I I don't know. By doing this, are you going to open up another can of worms with those people that come that come for 15 minutes that don't have any beach dickers that don't pay any beach dickers and there for 15 minutes to eat their lunch? And I I you know, why are we catering to those people if they haven't bought a beach permit? Well, then I think I would rather help people who've bought a beach permit.
035I mean, it certainly can be done. We can we can do that. If that's what they wish, then if you want to try that or do it do it a pilot program, see how it goes. And if I think it's a great idea, administrative action is all it is. Yeah, we can we can do it. We can address it. All right. Right. Glad you're on board. We're not changing the code. We're just This is a pilot program for this. It was a great idea. Great idea. Very good. Everything's done. That really solves the entire problem in my head. Most of it. Yeah. One of the issues that we are having a lot one is that we we have 175 locker permit holders and only 76 spots. So I know that it does seem empty from
036time to time and believe me that's my complaint too sometimes. But it is I believe you. I'm there. I I know you're right. You're absolutely right. Yeah. I would be willing to spend another $200 and I could park there and I have this every morning when I talk to you when we get up there now, you know, then we fight with Diane and it gets really not nice. No, I think I think we came up to a great solution. I think this is hopefully this will work. Thank you very much. Thank you. Why don't we um Drew is not here, right? I'll fill him in. I was thinking to make this a little better, maybe take three more spots and put a little, not a handicap sign, but put a little reserved sign in front
037of that spot so that you're not then when you come up to the beach, you're not waiting 15 minutes for somebody to move. Or, you know, they may even sit there longer because the police aren't really enforcing the 15 minute. So, you might be sitting there for a half an hour waiting for a spot to open. So, if we put a couple of reserve signs up, no parking reserved, but you'll have to know that you're okay as long as you have the handicap. This is going to be a secret. Hold on. Shut off the mic. Public meeting. Just for the people that are here today. It's great. So, thank you very much. I'm glad we could help. This is a great put our heads together and we came up with an answer. It's excellent. Thank
038you very much. three houses down. That's another way to have a problem. Um, right away. Well, thanks very much everybody taking the time. I'm glad. Yeah. Thank you. You know what? Everybody said nothing was gonna happen. I've been working on this all since last summer. They said, "Ah, you will listen to Well, you should have brought her with you." Thanks very much. No, no, I get it. That's why I moved this ahead. Yeah. No, you're not being rude. That's why I moved this ahead so you could leave and not have to sit through all this. Thank you for the suggestion. Thank you very much. Yeah. Thank you very much. We're going to We'll start this immediately. Okay. Good. Tom, I don't know if you or Joe is Joe now going to be taking care of
039this. I'd like to go up there and review if there's anything that they could possibly trip on or anything with the concrete. Yeah. You know, I just want to take a quick look up there because I think this is a good idea, but I think we should get up there and just double check the area to make sure that there's no hazards up there. You want to do it today after after the exact I could do it today. Yeah. As long as he I can see Lraine is very happy. Right. So, um or whatever works again. Yeah. And I don't know if Dave Colin, anyone Memorial Day weekend, I want to make sure whatever policy we put in place, it's today with Drew and Diane, right? Yeah, that was terrific. Okay, let's Is everybody good?
040Maybe we can talk about it in executive session. Okay. All right. Here we go. Uh let's Well, I just want to say, you know, a lot of people come here and they say, you know, the village people get this, they get this, they pay 200 and we pay $700. What people have to understand is we represent the village and we do as villagers pay an extra layer of taxes. There are people who pay $350,000 in village taxes and one of the things they get is a beach sticker or beach pass, lot one. So, it's not that we're just handing these out in these village residents. That's one of the perks of paying this extra layer of taxes. And so, you know, I just want to make sure we protect the best interests of the villagers.
041Well, that's why that's why I wasn't we're not in favor of taking away from lot one. That's why we changed the law the way it was written because the prior administration was letting people use lot one non-residents residents because they had a handicap permit and I didn't feel that was right because I mean you don't just not just because but if you have a handicap permit it doesn't give you permission to go to a movie without paying for a movie ticket. So to allow that is is a similar um similar reason. So I'm not in favor of giving up anything in lot one. That's why I think this solution all we're losing are people who have probably not bought a permit and want to come up and look at the ocean while they eat lunch.
042So I think this is a good a good fix and it and we don't have to restripe anything. We don't have to take away from parking because like I said earlier, if you stripe something with handicap paint, then no one can ever park there even for 5 seconds. That's what the law says. So this works better. So now if you want to come and eat your lunch in Main Beach, you have to buy a $500 or $750 ticket, right? That's fair. I Oh, there'll be other spots open possibly. I mean, we can, you know, there's there's a group. I mean, my personal concern, I'm not worried about people who haven't paid for a beach permit during the day. That's so I mean, these people all paid either 500 or 750 for a permit. So, I
043think, you know, catering to people who want to park for 15 minutes to look at an ocean and haven't paid a dime, I don't know. It doesn't doesn't bother me that they can't have a spot. But that's me. Quick points is you can't do this at Cooper's Beach. They shut down their beach access in the summer because it's too busy. We write that down. Okay. Um and um you know we the some not these particular people but I think you know East Hampton Town has to provide for a little bit more because yes we've got a beautiful pavilion and everyone wants to go there but you know they people pay town taxes and they can go to town beaches and they don't want to because of course it might be nicer at Maine Beach but
044um again I agree with Carrie to a point where you know we have to look out for the village residents that are paying for these beaches. They're paying for the upkeep. They're paying for everything. And you know, lot one is full a lot. It's full all weekend. It's full with the junior program. It's full with the robust Beach Hut uh snack bar that that has developed up there. It's not empty all the time. I I go up to Main Beach a lot and lot one is very full, much more than it used to be. And it, you know, the beach right now it's it's we're doing a lot of great things up there and it's be getting busier and busier. So, I'm not surprised that there's a tighter parking issues up there, but you know,
045at the end of the day, I I do think we have to look after village residents first and try to open up. So, that I I do like this program to see how it works. Um, I'm just again a little bit more concerned about people tripping and falling or having know a whole another issue with that whole front lot being, you know, not not accessible. But again, you know, Jerry, I I think your point of if you don't pay anything, then I mean, you can go to George Beach or Wyborgs and park up there and look, right? You can have lunch there. No, I don't know. I don't know. I I I I don't know if there's an easy solution to this problem. We'll see how this works and we'll see where we go from
046there and it doesn't take away anything from the village resident. So, I think it's a good fit. You saying people should be at village town board meetings complaining there's nowhere for them to go at town beaches. Yeah. I think a lot of it is that like the one lady's um she lives two houses outside of the village, you know, and that's why we did this. There's so many people that live on the fringe of the village that feel like Maine Beach has been their beach since they were kids and there's no other beach for them. So that's why we started the $500 discounted day so that those people could enjoy continue to enjoy at a reasonable price the beach they grew up on. So I think it's uh you know to ask somebody who lives
047on Gold Street to go to Amagancet, you know, it probably doesn't sit well. Didn't we have last year, didn't we have a something where there they could call in and someone would be on call? Yeah. And then to help them. What I had a a woman tell me is that, you know, they don't want to have to rely on they want to be independent. Okay. They don't want to rely on have to call somebody and have to get help. And it's, you know, they want to be able to do it themselves, which I totally get. But all right, are we ready to move on or? Yeah. All right, here we go. Marine introductory number seven of 2012. I need to do the budget. My apologies. I'm sorry. Back to u I'm as excited about it
048as Sorry, the village administrator is up. Not as excited. Uh I'll just read a portion of the letter that I sent to the board yesterday. So, um, in crafting the, um, or I should say I'm pleased to present the tenative budget for the village of East Hampton for the fiscal year beginning August 1st, 2025 and ending July 31st, 2026. In crafting the annual budget, as you all know, the priorities are to lower taxes whenever feasible, deliver high-quality services to village residents, invest in the vill's infrastructure, strengthen our onhand position to fund long-term uh, capital projects, and then reduce our overall debt burden. And I'm proud to report that the 2026 tentative budget does all those things. Um, I'll read some of the highlights. It increases taxes by 1.28%. Uh, I believe it's the lowest locally
049at the moment. Tax rate is 31.44. The assessed value is 50 million. Let's see. Estimated revenues are 15,292. Personnel budget is increased by half a million. Workman's comp is a decrease of $40,000. Surplus remains at $600,000 which is extremely healthy with our contingency account at $300,000 as well. We increased that last year and we were able to keep it just that high. So that's good. It gives us a lot of cushion which is nice. The see medical insurance is an increasing is increasing again 5%. Employee retirement increases 19.6% 6% police retirement 9.7%. And our uh building department revenues are increasing by $1.4 million. That's that's really well. Uh and the new contractor's registry permits are increasing by $166,000 and growing every single day. Just signed a bunch now. So, and of course, the fire protection
050services just decreases about $434,000. And at next month's meeting, we'll be replenishing the EBR again. Uh and that is that is it. That's just quick highlights. That's great. And I have to say, you know, the village uh Marcos and his team and Dominique have done a great job with the budget again this year. We had some uh we had some delays as we negotiated or attempt to negotiate with the town about dispatch. And what I wanted to say too earlier is there's been a lot written in the local papers about the dispatch, the 911, and recently I did I was on a show that I do every month called Meet the Mayor. It's on LTV. And if anybody really wants to dig deeper into this 911, I I explained the entire thing for about a
051half an hour on this show and it kind of laid out what really went on and and uh the thought behind everything that went into our decisions, the town and the village. So, if you tune into that, you'll get a better understanding of, you know, where the village is with this entire situation. And again, you know, this is our first tax increase in five years since I've been mayor. And this board works very hard and our our village team works very hard, our department heads work very hard to keep the budget costs under control. Uh we did not break the 2% cap which is a state law. Uh however, and what people should know, people that live in the village receive a tax bill from the town of East Hampton and they also receive a
052tax bill from the village of East Hampton. While the village has been very conservative and keeping taxes down and again this is our first tax increase in five years and it's 1.28. Not that it's nothing but it's very small in comparison to what's going on around us. However, in the last four years, the town has increased our village residents taxes over 25%. So, that is something you should hold your town representatives accountable for and find out why this is happening. Uh, it's a little frustrating that we work hard so hard to keep the taxes down and then we're getting hit from the other side uh with huge increases. So, I just point that out to everybody. And they've never been that high before, I'll add. Yeah. And if you I did some research and I
053went back to the four years prior to this past four years, so eight years ago, and uh the average tax increase was about 1.88% from the town and now it's close to seven or 8% each year. So it's um it's something that needs to be looked into by village residents to the town. So just wanted to point that out. And the village also pays for a lot of the infrastructure that's front-facing. When you think of East Hampton, the parks, the streets, the beautiful village, the beaches, the pavilions, it's the village taxes that are paying for that. So, you know, it's time, you know, to make sure that there's some like the dispatch discussion was to we were paying for the dispatch. So, it's time, you know, to get subsidized for some of these things or
054have the town be responsible for them, right? Yeah. And that's where this all started. So, Uh, and it's just been a uh, it's been a very hot topic in the local papers. So, just wanted to clear that up a little bit. Are we ready to move on to the public hearings? Introductory number seven of 2025, a proposed local law amending village of East Hampton Code, chapter 62, article 2, alarm systems, section 623, registration required, B1, two, and three. So moved. Second. All in favor? Is there anybody who would like to be heard on this? No. Are we closing this? Yes. Can I get a motion to close? I make a motion to close. So moved. Second. All in favor? Okay. That public hearing is closed. Introductory number eight. Sorry. Okay. Introductory number nine of 2025,
055a proposed local law amending village of East Hampton Code, chapter 267, article 5, section 26746, vehicles scoff law. Is there anyone who would like to be heard? Are we closing this? Yes. I make a motion to close the hearing. So moved. All in favor? I. Hearing's closed. Introductory number 11 of 2025. A proposed local law amending village of East Hampton Code Chapter 196 noise section 1961 prohibited noises evidence of violation A10. Anyone like to be heard? Motion to close. So move. All in favor? I passed carried. Closed. Hearing's closed. Introductory number 12 of 2025, a proposed local law amending village of East Hampton Code, chapter 267, Vehicles and Traffic, Article 1, General Regulations, Section 2675, Beach Parking C, Parking Permits 5C. Anyone like to be heard? No. Are we closing this, Lori? Yes. I'll make
056a motion to close the hearing. Second. All in favor? Hearing's closed. Introductory number 13 of 2025, a proposed local law amending village vamp code, chapter 77, beaches, section 7714, locker permits, section 77142. Anyone like to be heard? I make a motion to close the hearing. So moved. Second. All in favor? I. Hearing's closed. All right. Next up, board discussion. Sparking fines. Chief, if you want to. It's based on your memo, right? Yes. So, the memo that I put forth to the board is we have not had a increase in in fines um in I I can't tell you when the last time. I think it's been a long time. So, I put forth to increase fines in reference to no beach stickers, uh parking um overtime parking um uh to the board to uh hopefully
057uh uh help deter uh because we do offer we do issue a lot of tickets and I and I think especially at the beach, you know, um you know, the $150 some people just just do it and they and they say, say, "All right, we'll we'll take it." So, we've increased that fee um along with the other parking, the overtime parking. So, hopefully that will maybe get gain more compliance and uh I hope the board would support support this this increase. Any questions? I have a question, Chief. Um out of the amount of tickets that we issue, how many what's the percentage that are paid and what's the percentage that are fought? Um, and when they're fought, do they settle in half or like how does that work? I just would Well, I mean those
058numbers I'm not exact I don't have I mean we have council um outside council uh Lester that does that. We can get that that get get that number. What the what's plea bargain down to what's what is actually uh paid and that comes in without being contested. I don't have those numbers uh trustee off the top. My the direction that I was going is is that if you go to court and you challenge a ticket, you're basically turned around immediately just to pay half. Yeah. And they get you out of the court. And I know the court has an agenda and they have a schedule, but it doesn't really seem right. Um, however, I don't I'm not a lawyer. I don't know how it works, but you know, if you get a ticket, you should
059pay it. And there you go. And maybe if it's more then they'll half of more is more. Well, I mean that's I think that's up to our council, our outside council makes the decision if they want to plea bargain a ticket down. So, um if if the boards wants to hold a hard line on that and if if we don't want to plea bargain down parking summones, then we should probably let outside counsel know that that's our position. and either you you pay the full fine or go towards a trial to prove your guilt or innocent or your your your innocence on that. You know, it's left up to our council to do that. Just like the ADA's plea bargain, all criminal cases, it's okay. Thanks. Do you know, Jerry, how many tickets end up
060being Do you know? Is there like a rough percentage like Well, we could did they most of people pay them? I mean, is it like is it like 90% of the people pay the ticket or we do I mean and and you know the board's taken action in reference to parking summons which is which is a smart idea with the scoff law because as we've looked into the number of parking tickets that have been issued there are persistent violators that have thousands of dollars that are unpaid fines. So, just to just as a as a adjunct to to this conversation that that local law that the BOR is adopting will help those persistent violators that get tickets. Um, and some of them are that we've looked into are thousands of dollars that have been paid,
061but there still have thousands of dollars that are unpaid. Uh again, to get to get more comp get more compliance, have a little bit more teeth into this as as as the fines go up, maybe more of a deterrent as we have scoff laws. If we're going to impound your vehicle now, if you're habitual offender, maybe you'll have more teeth and we'll and we'll gain more compliance, which will give us, you know, quicker turnover, better for shopping and and and store owners and in the, you know, and and the beaches also. Great. I I'm in favor. Yeah. Thank you for your support. Does anybody else have any questions or about that or about the fines? Okay. Is that on here for resolution or are we going to work? Do you for discussion only? Discussion. Yes.
062Okay. So, next next month we'll put it on at the Yeah, of the special meeting. Oh, at the special meeting, right? Okay, great. All right. Uh let's see. All right, we're ready to go to motions. Can I just say one thing? I just want to remind um that the village just everybody in the village that the laws have changed. We voted about the noise of landscaping and construction that it can't happen before 8:00 a.m. or after 6:00 p.m. And I I hope you know the landscapers and construction know this, but also the residents have a responsibility to tell the people who work for them as well because it's consistent and constant this late night working. um husband's getting out of bed at 8. He goes to bed early at 8 at night to run across
063the street to tell them to stop making the noise. So, please tell your, you know, that 6:00 is the stop. And we are enforcing that. I think the chief was enforcing it this week. Yeah. You um quietitude is so important. We're out here to relax and rest, to escape, you know, the bustle of the noise in the cities. And so, please everybody be respectful to your neighbors. Yeah, thank you for bringing up Trusty Doyle. We we have done a u a blitz or a campaign uh with the new that started May 15th. So for some u it whether it's ignorance but it's or the date the laws were changed uh for reasons of quality of life which this board is is is uh accustomed to to pushing. So yes, Monday through May 15th to September
06415th, uh, you know, Monday to Friday, and the laws were a little convoluted and now they're all geared towards the same because the noise is the noise, whether it's landscaping or construction, 8 to 6, Monday to Friday, and then Saturdays 12 to 4. And there's no construction or landscaping on uh Sundays and and holidays. This past week, we've along with our code enforcement, Tom and Joe, uh we've had uh some building sites uh that the mayor is aware of that have been non-compliant. Um and we've been out actively, the police department along with code enforcement, those habitual offenders. Um uh the the building department issued stop work orders because as we found out in our meetings uh from the contractors, some of the residents, they're multi-million dollar residents and a $250 village code summons um
065holds no weight. Uh so we with the support of the building department, they shut those job sites that were because we were there every day um issuing the contractor registry and and summones. So there have been a lot to that to that and we had nice meetings with those and um we're hoping and have been to this point had compliance with those but we are on a campaign my department uh I put out a directive to those quality of life issues but to trust Doyle we can't be everywhere all the time so if a resident is out there and anything falls within and even the leaf blower uh we've just did a couple of summones about the gas powered leaf blowers so please don't feel like you're bothering the police department. You pay taxes for
066us to respond. We're happy to respond. Uh but we can't be there all the time. They are proactive. If you hear something, call our 324077 non-emergency number. Report the construction. An officer will respond and act accordingly and we will deal with it. If it's a continuous job site um that's under the gun to try to get done. And that was some of the questions. Well, what's going to do? and and we've dealt with council in reference to issues if we have to go past just summones or a temporary stop work order. Um we're all lined up to do what we have to do and get latigious if if these contractors don't want to stop. Uh we we we talked about those people that are having those houses done that at some point after the construction
067is over. This will benefit the n the person that's building the house when their neighbor decides to. So don't be selfish about this. Follow the rules. And I I think I think the message was well received and they realized those particular contractors that uh some did it on their own. This these particular ones we had to bring in and have a nice chat with. Uh there was one up on others roads that after they got three summones uh they realized that uh okay, I'm going to comply. So it is new in the game. It started May 15th, but it it uh we're all hands on deck with this for this quality of life, especially we're coming into our big season and people don't want to listen to this noise. They come out here for peace
068and quiet and we're committed to enforcing those new regulations. So thank you for bringing that up, Tristie. Yeah, I have to compliment the police department and the building department doing a great job with this enforcement. it um you know the chief said you know it's a new new regulations but these particular job sites that the chief is talking about the building department went out of their way myself the deputy mayor met with the building department and we decided what we would do at Main Beach and we would do at 2 Mile Hollow Beach because there's two huge construction sites going on is we allowed them to park at Main Beach um two-mile hollow and Georgia out out of the way and we gave them special permits to park Monday through Thursday and there's no parking
069on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. So even though the regulations were new, they were also given plenty of warning not to be working. They knew the regulations and then when they decided to operate anyway, they were then given warnings and they didn't listen to the warnings. Then they were given summones. They didn't listen to the summones and then finally we had to get a stop work order to put on the project. Removed everybody from the property and then we got compliance. They came in, they talked to us and they understood now that this wasn't going to continue and the chief made it very clear if it continues the next step will be go to court and we'll get an injunction and the job site will probably be shut down for weeks. So, I think we're on
070a good track, but I I have to remind the residents, we're doing this for your quality of life and you need to help us. You need to call in if you hear something. Again, leaf blowers between May 15th, September 15th can only be electric powered. No gas powered leaf blowers. So, call in, let us know, and it'll be shut down. the the the idea of the registry was to get all of these contractors on board so they would know the rules, so they wouldn't violate the rules even though they some of these have signed up for the registry and they still violate the rules. So there's nothing more. It's a $1,000 fine for the registry not being registered. So hopefully that'll get some attention and get people to comply. But thanks Chief. Thanks Tom. Joe,
071the $250 fine, is that seem like enough? Like Chief said, it's like multi-million dollar projects are going up and like a $250 summon is like whatever, it's a cup of coffee. Um, to these people, is there a way to increase the fee and make it hurt a little more? Like maybe after the second or the third time or like the first one's 250, the second one's a,000, the third one's 10,000. I don't know. I'm just trying to say is that like 250 is nothing to these projects. I mean, it really is nothing. We could talk about that with our attorney. The shutting down of the Yeah. project is what does the trick. It does, but no one wants that. Like, you know, these are residents, too. And so, again, sometimes, again, I don't know, but
072the village resident might not even be aware of this. Like, they just tell the contractor, "Get it done." And the contractor is really the one at fault, I would think. So, the contractor doesn't want these fines. I don't know. No, it sounded like the chief said that some of the residents are knowingly directing their contractors to do that. Well, that's a whole different story. Again, it's pretty funny though when you drive around and you see how disrespectful people are. They're offloading sod at 7:30 in the morning. On Sunday morning, we had a construction site that decided that they were going to bring a cement mixer in at 7:30 in the morning and pour a new pool. I mean, it's just so disrespectful. And I think the the neighbors or the the residents really need to
073pay attention to what's going on because like the chief said, one day they're going to be a resident and there's going to be a construction site next to them and they're not going to appreciate it very much. So, I think we're on the right track. Yeah. And I think we will get compliance. It just might take a little more time than we were hoping. So, thank you, Chief. That's And Tom and everybody. That's great. All right. Uh, resolutions. Resolution number 156, 2025, approve claim vouchers for the month of May. So, moved. Second. All in favor? Passed and carried. Number 157, approve warrants as listed. Number 40, guarantees, 41 and 42, general fund, 43 general fund warrant, and 44 capital fund. So moved. Second. All in favor? Passed and carried. Who approved budget transfer schedule number
074six, reference number six, dated May 2025. So moved. Second. All in favor? Passed and carried. Resolution number 159, approved departmental reports. So moved. Second. All in favor? Passed and carried. Number 160 resolved. The fiscal year 2025 village budget is hereby amended to increase appropriations from the assigned unappropriated fund balance in the amount of $295,000 for expenditures related to the cease cottages roof replacement. So moved. Second. All in favor? Past and carried. Number 161 resolved. The fiscal year 2025 village budget is hereby amended to increase appropriations from the assigned unappropriated fund balance in the amount of $50,86.96 cents for expenditures related to the emergency services building for the replacement of two doors. Some moved. Second. All in favor? Past and carried. Number 162 resolve the fiscal year 2025 village budget is hereby amended to increase appropriations
075from the assigned unappropriated fund balance in the amount of $25,697 for expenditures related to the emergency services building verata access control. So moved second. All in favor? Passed and carried. Number 163 resolved. The fiscal year 2025 village budget is hereby amended to increase appropriations from the assigned unappropriated fund balance in the amount of $386 $386,600 for expenditures related to the main beach pavilion roof replacement. So moved. Second. All in favor? Fast and carried. Number 164. Authorize the payment from the general fund in the amount of $498,912 for the fire department length of service awards program LOAP. So moved. Second. All in favor? Passed and carried. Number 165 approve fire department LOAP review and approve and accept the recommendations of the updated point system to reflect current New York State regulations effective January 1st, 2026. So
076moved. Second. All in favor? I passed and carried. Number 166 approved the $4,34641 refund due to Henry Duker to Representative Spanic Tax Reduction Service concerning erroneous real estate taxes paid. So moved. Second. All in favor? Passed and carried. Number 167. Approve the $347.71 refund due to Mataya Monty to Representative Bonnic Tax Reduction Service concerning erroneous real estate taxes paid. So moved. Second. All in favor? Passed and carried. Number 168, deem surplus and approve the sale and disposal of the equipment listed as requested by DPW Superintendent Dave Collins per his memo dated May 17th, 2025. So moved. Second. All in favor? I. Past and carry. Number 169 deemed surplus and of no value. One 2008 Volvo with four in one bucket and accept trading allowance of $18,000 from Jessco equipment to be applied to cost of
077a new machine. So moved. Second. All in favor? I passed and carried. Number 170 deem surplus and approve the sale disposal of one workstation computer and three servers from Village Hall that are broken and beyond repair and of no value. So moved. Second. All in favor? Passed and carried. Number 171, deem surplus and approve the sale online by Auctions International of a 2013 Ford Focus per March 19th memo from Chief Ericson. So moved. Second. All in favor? I passed and carried. Number 172, approved $2,93052 quote from Lincoln IT for a new computer replacement at the Emergency Services Building, One Cedar Street. So moved to second. All in favor? I passed and carried. Number 173 approved $12,982.50 quote from Ben Kpinsky Builders for painting of street light poles. So move. Second. All in favor? I passed
078and carried. Number 174 approve the $1,93.13 quote for four Durabond printed beach signs from Hampton signs for Maine Beach, Two-Mile Hollow, and Georgia Beaches. So move second. All in favor? Pass and carried. Number 175, approve the $5,600 change order number three from Ben Kaprinsky Builders for wallpaper and hallway at the Emergency Services Building, One Cedar Street. Second. All in favor? I passed and carried. Number 176, approve the amendment to resolution 124 of 2025 to indicate the $50,86.96 quote from Ben Kpensky Builders for two door replacements at the Emergency Services Building, One Cedar Street, to be paid from the assigned unappropriated fund balance. Some move. Second. All in favor? Pastur. Number 177, approve the new fire department members, Matthew Bilski, hook and ladder company number one, and Ryan Bonitez, engine company number four. So moved. Second.
079[Music] All in favor? Pass and carry. Sorry, I was doing something. Number 178, approved change in status membership for listed members of the Department of Emergency Emergency Medical Service EMS effective May 1st of 2025. Perary Mott's May 10th, 2025 memo. Some moved. Second. All in favor? Passed and carried. Number 179, approve Laura Martinez and Harry Dvaris as a as part-time emergency medical technicians, basic EMTBs at the hourly rate of $30 and authorize each of them to work the seasonal period from May 23rd, 2025 to September 15, 25 in accordance to civil service regulations effective May 23rd, 2025. So moved. Second. All in favor? I passed and carried. Number 180, approve Eric Ecker as a part-time emergency medical technician parameatic paramedic EMTP at the hourly rate of $40 and authorize him to work the seasonal period
080from May 23rd, 2025 to September 15th, 2025 in accordance to civil service regulations effective May 23rd, 2025. So moved. Second. All in favor? Passed and carried. Number 181, employee 2025 seasonal paramedics and EMTBS effective May 12th, 2025 as listed in Jerry Turza's May 15th memo. So moved. Second. All in favor? Past and carried. Number 182, employ 2025 seasonal traffic control specialists and traffic control officers as listed effective May 17th of 2025 per May 7th, 2025 memo from Chief Ericson. So moved. Second. All in favor? I passed and carried. Number 183, approve the museum tour guides John Stillwell at $20 an hour and Francine Hanford at $18 an hour to work during the summer months May 1st of 2025 to November 30th of 2025 effective May 24th. So moved. Second. All in favor? Pass and carried.
081Number 184. Approve employment of Nathan Aldrid as groundskeeper. Step three, at an annual starting salary of $66,965 effective June 1st of 2025. Second. All in favor? Best in car. Number 185, approve three-year employment agreement with Joseph Polalmo as principal building inspector and an annual salary of $150,000 effective retroactively to May 1st of 2025. That supposed to be six years. Is you sure? Second. All in favor? All right. Pass and carry. Number 186, approve the listed promotion and staff additions to the beach department effective May 24th, 2025 per the May 17th memo from Drew Smith. Second. All in favor? I passed and carried. Number 187, approve the special event permit fee schedule as per section 1398 for the 2025 season effective retroactively to May 1st of 2025. So moved. Second. All in favor? Passed and carried.
082Number 188, notice to biders for the below listed public works contracts with bid specs available May 23rd of 2025 and bid opening to be held on June 3rd at 2 p.m. at Village Hall for crack sealing and silk coating. So second. All in favor? I passed and carried. Number 189, notice of public hearing to be held on June 18th of 2025 at 11:00 a.m. at the Emergency Services Building, one Cedar Street, East Hampton, for introductory number 14 of 2025, a proposed local law amending village vamp code, chapter 278, zoning section 2787, Board of Appeals, Variances, Special Permits, Fes A12345, Terms of Office. Second. All in favor? I passed and carried. Resolution number 190 of 2025, notice of public hearing to be held on June 18th at 11:00 a.m. at the Emergency Services Building for introductory
083number 15 of 2025, a proposed local law amending village vamp code, chapter 121, design and site plan review section 1215E. So moved. Second. Second. All in favor. Number 191, notice of public hearing to be held on June 18th of 2025 at the Emergency Services Building for introductory number 16 of 2025, a proposed local law amending Village East Hampton Code Chapter 42, Planning Board, section 421, planning board established, membership and terms of office renewal. Removal So moved. Second. All in favor? Past and carried. Number 192, notice a public hearing to be held on June 5th of 2025 at 11:00 a.m. at the Emergency Services Building, One Cedar Street, for introductory number 17 of 2025, a proposed local law amending village vamp code, chapter 267, vehicles and traffic, section 26715, penalties for offenses B, E, and F.
084So moved. Second. All in favor? Pass and carried. Number 193, notice of public hearing to be held on June 18th at 11:00 a.m. at the Emergency Services Building for the proposed fiscal year 2026 budget. So moved. Second. All in favor? Passed and carried. Resolution number 194, adopt local law for 2025, introductory number seven, a proposed local law amending village vamp code, chapter 62, article 2, alarm systems, section 623, registration required B1, two, and three. So moved. All in favor? And carried. Number 195, adopt local law of 2025. Introduc for introductory number nine of 2025, a proposed local law amending village vamp code chapter 267, article 5, section 26746, vehicles, scoff law. So moved. Second. All in favor? I passed and carried. Number 196, adopt local law of 2025 for introductory number 12 of 2025, a
085proposed local law amending village vamp code, chapter 267, vehicles and traffic, article 1, general regulations, section 2675, beach parking C, parking permits 5C. So move second. All in favor? I pass and carried. Number 197 of 2025, adopt local law of 2025, introductory number 13 of 2025, a proposed local law amending village vamp code, chapter 77, beaches, section 7714, locker permits, section 77142. So moved. Second. All in favor. Pass and carry. Lorine, we're gonna have to add on. We closed introductory number 11. Okay. So, we need to pass that. So, if you can just make it 198 2025. We have 198. Adopt local law. Okay. Page. We have a 198. I I can do 207. I can do it at the end. Oh, I don't have There's There's an agenda to the agenda that has All
086right. All right. So, I don't have that on my your other sheet. fits in the other uh a whole another page here. Oh, wow. Wait, I got it. I got it. We're not done yet. All right. My mistake. Doesn't happen often. Oh, that was a joke. Sure. Here, I have another one. Thank you for laughing in the back. I appreciate that. Go ahead, Lorine. Sorry. Resolution number 198 2025 approve request to enter into paving agreement with PSG Long Island receiving payment of $45,000 for the restoration by our contractor for work on Egypt Lane Aabonic Road in Main Street. So move second. All in favor? I pass and carry. Number 199 approve the contract with Fundamental Business Service Incorporated to provide professional services for fines and penalty collection for the town and village. So move second.
087All in favor? Passed and carrying. Resolution number 200 approve $81,549 quote from Lenv Bonia for work sidewalk replacement and curb repair to be paid from the assigned unappropriated fund balance. So move second. All in favor? I passed and carried. Number 20, resolution 2011, notice to biders for proposal for public restroom cleaning for a two-year period with bid specs available May 23rd and bid opening to be held on June 10th of 2025 at 2 p.m. at Village Hall. So move second. All in favor? Carry. Resolution number 202 accept low bid of $81,886 from bulk storage for the repair and re-shingling of the salt barn located at the Department of Public Works per May 20th, 2025 bid results. So moved. Second. All in favor? Passed and carried. Number 203, approve the $13,538.90 quote from Ben Kpensky Builders
088for repair to the town pond drain facade to be paid from the assigned unappropriated fund balance. So moved. Second. All in favor? I passed and carried. Number 204, deem surplus and approve the sale by public auction or brokerage three vehicles as listed for the May 7th, 2025 memo from Dave J. Cox. So moved. Second. All in favor? Passed and carried. Number 205, approve the acceptance of Joseph Kaggliotti Jr. of Prestige Electrical Inspections LLC to be added to the Village of East Hampton's approved electrical inspection agencies. So move. Second. All in favor? I passed and carried. Number 206, notice of public hearing to be held on June 18th of 2025 at 11:00 a.m. at the Emergency Services Building, One Cedar Street for introductory number 18 of 2025, a proposed local law amending Village V. Hampton Code,
089Chapter 250, Streets and Sidewalks, section 25010B, C4, obstructing streets, highways, or rights of way. So moved. Second. All in favor? I passed and carried. Resolution number 207 of 2025. Adopt local law for introductory number 11 of 2025. A proposed local law amending village vamp code chapter 196 noise section 1961 prohibited noises evidence of violation A10. So moved. Second. All in favor? I passed and carry. Thank you. Did that on the fly. That was really good. Good. Very smooth. U. I would like to thank Dave Collins and I would like to thank Marcos. But as you go through these uh items that we just approved, you realize there's so much money that is being spent in fixing up all of our structures and our buildings and the roofs at Main Beach. And this has been put
090off for so long that it's really important that we get this done. I mean, this building has windows, as the chief pointed out to me today, that you can, you know, that are so rotted that you can put your fingers through them. and it's just inappropriate that we should let public buildings fall into disrepair. So, I think it's so important. You see a lot of money being spent, but this is really important money that's being spent. These are are village residents assets that need to be upkept and uh I just wanted to thank you both because I know it's a lot of money and I know it's a lot of work, but it's really important that we do this. So, thank you both. And before we leave, I would like to ask Jerry, I'm putting
091you on the spot, Jerry Tursz, if you could step up. What I forgot to mention is Trustee Doyle and I, Jerry and the chief all traveled up to Suffach County about a week ago for a presentation. And I just like Jerry to update the public on what this was because I was so impressed by not only our employees but employees from all over the county that were receiving these life-saving awards. And I thought maybe you could expand on that a little bit. Uh certainly. So last month uh we recognized the uh 17 members of the Department of EMS, both paid staff and our volunteers um for the various life-saving actions that they did. uh one of the crews in particular uh and again the mayor was there. It was part of a very large contingent.
092We had three drowning victims last June 15th off of Cedar Point, probably one of the most remote places in our district. Uh they responded up there as part of the group. There was one subject uh who was submerged underwater for about 10 minutes uh found to be in cardiac arrest. uh pulled out of the water, transported via the Santa Clara Marine patrol boat uh to the end of um Alb Brook Road where was turned over to our EMS people uh led by one of our paid paramedics, Steven Montalto, probably one of the best providers that you'll ever find. Um with Chief Mott again, who's probably one of the very best providers in the entire county, if not beyond. um Terresa Reynolds, one of our paid EMTs, uh assistant chief Marielle Maguire. Um they were the
093four who transported the individual um who was still in cardiac arrest. Um through their uh great work, they were able to resuscitate him and route to Southampton Hospital uh where he and he was subsequently released a few days later. So, we went up to the uh regional uh EMS uh council awards where they recognize various EMS providers from throughout Suffach County. Um, it is also good to note that several other providers who have either worked here in the past or currently work here. We're also recognized for some some just amazing things that they've done um with resuscitating people, bringing people back to life. Um it's a great caliber of folks that we have uh rec you know they were recognized amongst their peers uh amongst politicians, dignitaries. Um and it was just a really good
094good thing. You know they were uh they were recognized. Um you know we all get into this business to help people. Uh every now and again our folks get the opportunity to actually save a life and truly make a difference. So yeah, it was a good it was a very good day. Yeah, it was so incredible to me to be there. The room there was probably about 200 people in the room. There was probably a hundred awards given out and every one of those awards were someone who was saved. Y and I was like impressed. I'm like, "Wow, this guy's a really uh you know, we're saving a lot of people throughout this county." And then I talked to uh had a conversation with the county doctor afterwards and he said it's really only about
0958% of the people are being saved which is incredible that they pull out is the amount of people with the cardiac incident. Yeah. With the cardiac incident cardiacs. Um one of our uh part-time EMTs that we recognized last month, Dominic Guida, uh he's actually an assistant chief of the community ambulance where we were at. uh he was recognized for an exceptionally challenging and tricky save involving an 8-year-old child. Um that's like an extreme anomaly uh that particular type of instance. So that's the caliber of folks that we have here that we bring to our community. So it's and that just rolls me into the next thing I'd like you to talk about is that new life-saving ah yes station we have in Heric Park. So, the Tintel family, longtime village residents, uh made a donation
096in conjunction with the Lewis J. Ampora Foundation. Uh Lewis uh passed away about 25 years ago as a young high school student in Northport uh playing lacrosse, his first game. He took a lacrosse ball to the chest when in the sudden cardiac arrest. his family went and um they did something extraordinarily productive and proactive and they pushed for legislation so that when we were looking at our schools, our athletic fields, things like that, there's a requirement for AEDs. Um the Tintel family wanted to make a donation in memory of Mrs. Tintel's father, uh Mr. McLaclin. So, they thought the best place would be Heric Park. So now in the privy uh in between the little vestibule area uh there is a climate controlled AED station. It's there 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
097It's monitored. Uh it's accessible to everyone and anyone. Uh it's a great location for it. I know our DPW is going to work on some signage for some of the different athletic fields so everybody that walks in that park knows that there's an AED nearby. Uh we had the school there. The mayor was there the other day with us as well. Uh Chief Ericson. So that's that's a tremendous asset to have there. We all know we've had a number of calls over the years in that park area. Uh it's accessible not only to the people in the park, you know, you had a few hundred people there the other day. We've got events we've got thousands upon thousands of folks there. There's always the potential. It's a lot easier. Um we've always got officers on
098foot patrol. So like the chief alluded to, if they're walking or if they're on bike, they don't have the EED, they've got one there. So it's it's something that's out there for the public. Um hopefully we never have to use it, but it is something there that's that's going to help keep our folks safe. Yeah. So the er um the Tintel family who live in the village or the family who donated that, it was super generous of them and and hopefully like Jerry said, hopefully we never need it, but god forbid we do. It's right there and it's the public can use it and there's it's very simple to use and it's accessible and uh yeah, it was just a great donation and and it's so important by our sports fields to have something like
099that. That's great. And we're also working with the foundation um the Akenor Foundation to possibly look at I identify a few maybe other areas of the village since we have so much activity that we might be able to do something in. So it's a work in progress. Athletic director Kathy Masterson is incredibly grateful for this. The athletic director from the high school. Yep. Yeah. Superintendent. And the other great news is the emergency room opened and the Eastampton Village ambulance uh Eastampton Village EMS transported the first 911 patient there yesterday. And what was their turnaround time? Uh it was quick. It was a blink of an eye. It was a fair people should know when when a volunteer in East Hampton gets called, it's pretty much a two-hour commitment for them. They time they respond to
100headquarters, they get the ambulance, they go to the house, the person is put in the ambulance, they're taken to Southampton Hospital, and then they come back. It's a 2hour minimum turnaround time. So, this should cut down a lot of that and get the ambulances back in service even quicker hopefully. So, yeah. So, thank you. All right. Thanks everybody. So, I'm going to look for a motion to close this meeting and then go into executive session to speak about real estate personnel and legal stuff. I make a motion to close the hearing. Second. All right. corn.