East Hampton Town Board Work Session Montauk -5/13/25

001East Hampton Town Board, we are live. Thank you, Jason. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the East Hampton Town Board work session of Tuesday, May 13, 2025. Carol, if you could please read the roll call. Councilman Flight. Councilman Lee, present. Council member Rogers present. Council member Calder Pedmont present. Supervisor Burke Gonzalez present. If we could all please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. So this morning we open with public portion. We ask folks uh they can talk on any topic and we ask you to please keep your comments uh kindly to three minutes. Then we have six work session topics. The first is bids

002with Jeannie Corrosa. Then our town administrator Becky Hansen will be taking us through a draft remote work policy. Then we'll have a presentation by John Ryan senior on water safety update. And then the beach advisory group is going to take us through the summer 2025 beach action plan. And that'll be followed by two presentations both by Mark Abramson, our assistant director of natural resources. The first is an update for the town hall EV charger program. And the second is an EV fast charger recommendation. That'll be followed by liaison reports and then resolutions. So we'll start with public comment. Carol, has anyone signed up? No. Is there anyone here that would like to address the board? Okay, Jason, is there anyone on the line? Yes, we have two callers on the line. I will unmute the

003first. Perfect. Thank you. Hello, caller ending 0790. You're on the air. Hello. Hi. Good morning. Hope everyone can hear me. Okay. My name is Channing Tobin. I'm a longtime resident of Spring and I am respectfully requesting that our leadership opt in uh to permit licensed adult use cannabis retail dispensaries. This decision uh would provide our community a much safer, more economically sound approach in addressing the challenges of cannabis access. The current unregulated market presents major public health risks and licensed dispensaries with established guidelines to protect our community while fostering new opportunities for economic growth. By opting in, East Hampton Town has the potential to create a safer environment for its residents, reduce the risk posed by this illicit market, and realize a significant new source of tax revenue to benefit the entire community. Currently, unregulated

004cannabis is easily accessible within our town, creating an unsafe environment, particularly for our adolescents. Because these products are purchased illegally, there is no guarantee of safety or purity, and unregulated cannabis can contain harmful and toxic substances that put our young people at risk. Allowing the al adult use retail dispensaries creates a safe and controlled regulated market with strict age verification protocols safety product safety standards reducing the appeal of dangerous illegal cannabis. Opting out does not prevent access. It merely keeps it unregulated and illicit. Choosing to opt in is a more realistic solution that would allow us to harness the current market while implementing guidelines and guard rails to ensure that all cannabis products available in East Hampton Town meet high safety and quality standards set forth by New York State law. This is the clear

005choice if we want to move forward with a safe and structured future for our residents. Licensed dispensaries offer East Hampton Town a substantial new source of tax revenue. These funds could be directed towards essential community initiatives such as education, public safety, youth programs, thereby benefiting benefiting all residents. Other communities in New York have chosen to opt in and seeing positive impacts and new opportunities. We believe East Hampton should be a part of this progress and benefit from the same financial advantages. East Hampton permits the sale of tobacco and alcohol which have well doumented health risks and high mortality rates. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tobacco smoking related illnesses cause about 480,000 deaths a year, while excessive alcohol use is linked to around 95,000 deaths annually in the US. Studies indicate that

006cannabis has a significantly lower association with severe health issues and mortality than both alcohol and tobacco, even as a wide range of medicinal purposes. Given both alcohol and tobacco are easily available across our town, it's reasonable to treat cannabis with similar regulatory responsibility, offering residents a safer legal choice within a control framework. The time is now. We have a unique opportunity to come together to shape a better future for our community. With an illicit cannabis market already thriving in East Hampton, it is our firm belief that current arguments against opting in simply don't meet the standard. Now is the time to come together, make our voices heard, and choose a path that prioritizes the health and safety and prosperity of our home. I, along with many other constituents, respectfully urge the board to join us

007by adding um adding and opting in for adult use cannabis retail dispensaries in our town. Um, and I guess I just have one last question. Um, and I know you all can't answer, but just I'm curious as to why the board hasn't moved forward with this vote. Um, anyway, thanks all for listening and have a great day. Thank you, Channing. Jason, if you could put the second caller through. Absolutely. Hello, caller. Ending 9004, you're on the air. Hello. each looks gloring a phrasey from rerald long island. It's good to be here once again foiled again. You guys are in Mont Talk and not here on Pantigo Lane. Anyway, um I'm really thrilled that our uh Rewild collaboration with East Hampton Town is uh continuing and East Hampton Compost is opening once again for the season

008uh this Saturday. So, start collecting your food scraps so we can transform food scraps into soil food. We'll be once again at uh Springs Farmers Market, Sag Harbor Farmers Market, and the Montalk Community Garden and opening Wednesday, May 21st at Amber Waves. So, um you can get all the information rewlong island.orgcompost. Um, this year we're also doing an eco table at a number of the locations. So, please ask us your questions about composting, recycling, native plants, pollinators, and how to kill your lawn if you want. We'll we'll teach you how to smother your that grass. The other thing that's going on, um, an invocation to the entire community because Really is about bringing community together to care for the health of our pollinators and people, wildlife, sea life, shores, and soils, is gardens planting day.

009Once again, we're working with the town of East Hampton. At the East Hampton Historical Farm Museum, there is Matthew Lester's Pollinator Garden and we will be planting the garden itself as well as a separate plot nearby. That will be a great demonstration area for folks looking to put in a smaller native garden in their homes, yards, and that will be um May 21st. Thank you, Gloria. Jason, is there anyone else that's called in? Yes, there is. I'll unmute them right now. Thank you. Hello, 8764. You're on the air. Can you hear me? Yes, I can. Good morning, town board. This is David Buddha. I was not planning on calling in, but I was I heard the very slick press release from the person who was advocating for you to uh consider allowing opting in for

010retail dispensaries of marijuana products in East Hampton. I strongly and strenuously disagree and ask you to urge you to stay the course. East Hampton, especially in the summertime, has enough t problems with uh the actions of of people that use uh marijuana products and certainly there's nothing about expanding that reach and expanding that opportunity to purchase such products in the town in any way would diminish the existing illegal market. So it's a matter of do you want to expand the use of such products amongst our population especially the youth and create even greater dis uh dangers for people that in the town and dis uh such as uh additional driving problems people driving high which is extremely hard for the police to deal with. So I just ask you to stay the course there's just

011no need to expand uh that type of activity in the town. Thank you very much. Thank you, David. Jason, is there anyone else on the line? We have no new callers on the line. I'm just going to come back to the room one more time. Does anyone want to address the board? Okay, so we're going to move on to our topics and the first up is bids with Jeannie Corrosa. Welcome, Jeanie. Morning. Good morning. First, we're starting off I'm starting off with a few acceptances. The first is for the annual cesspool and tank pumping services. Quackenbush cesspools is the apparent low bidder. Next is Westlake Dock Repairs. Keith Grimes is the apparent low bidder for that. The amount is 1,799,999.70. Um, next is the purchase and installation of a new fire pump on marine vessel.

012The parent low bidder is emergency mechanical services in the amount of $137,62.72 cents. Um communications building renovation um is the next bid. Um that's the building behind the justice um court. Uh that in the amount of $585,000. The parent low bidder for that is Long Island Craftsmanship Bank Inc. And um the final acceptance is for the demolition at the 403 Abraham's path property. Ducson Inc. DBA AMCS Environmental is the apparent low bidder for that in the amount of $158,88828. We're rejecting a bid for kitchen uniforms and small wares. And we have several notices. First will be for a self-mailing newsletter for the town of East Hampton, a mu a mule utility vehicle for lifeguards, and um P6 portable pumps for the marine patrol. And that's all I have. All right. Thank you, Genie. You're welcome.

013Okay. So, next up, we have Becky Hansen, our town administrator, to take us through a draft remote work policy. Welcome, Becky. Good morning, supervisor, members of the town board. Um, for the public's benefit, I'm here to present today a draft remote work policy for full-time employees. Uh, the supervisor had expressed an interest earlier in the year in formalizing a remote work policy for employees at the town. Um, we have drafted a policy for your review. It's modeled very simil similarly than one that the town of Southampton is currently administering. Uh the policy draft policy was reviewed with our uh group of department heads through their um monthly meetings that the supervisor holds and the policy has also been sent to the CSEA union for their review also. And I think the um legislative t intent

014the first where's clauses really highlight the purpose and the and the reasoning that the town is looking to formally adopt this type of policy. So I'll just read from that and then we'll go through each section. The town of East Hampton is committed to supporting a professional, healthy, and effective workplace while maintaining the highest standard of public service. As work models continue to evolve, remote work when appropriate and thoughtfully manage can offer important benefits to both employees and the town. This policy is intended to guide departments in evaluating and implementing remote work arrangements that help improve work life balance, reducing commuting stress, and support employee recruitment and retention. It also aligns with the town's broader goals including climate resilience, operational efficiency, and continuity of service. It is recognized though that remote work is not suitable

015for every role. It can be a valuable tool in maintaining a flexible and responsive government. The intent of this policy is to offer structure and fairness while preserving the essential connection between public service and community engagement. And I really have to thank Diane Petrizzio um the head of the town's human services for working with me on providing that information. Um so again I think it's no secret the town of East Hampton like every other employer public or private sector has struggled to recruit and retain especially postcoid. Um again I think it's no secret that the town's geography unfortunately um presents itself as a detriment when trying to recruit and retain employees. Even though the South Fork Commuter Connection has been an overwhelming success, the employees that do take it love it and um I know

016we are going into the new summer schedule, but people are really really pleased with it. However, um we have realized that there are a number of functions that could be provided um by the town employees uh in a remote situation. So um this policy again outsides that outlines the town's approach to the remote work how the town will assess the types of employees and the type of work that may be suitable for remote work. So it is important to note that this policy is different than the flex time policy that the town board adopted last year. So the the draft policy provides two type of um remote situations either a fully remote work situation or a hybrid uh work situation. So um the hybrid situation itself also we prevent we present two different scenarios. an

017employee that chooses to work um a hybrid remote schedule could work up to four days a week from a remote location because then obviously five days you will be um a fully remote employee. Or there is a provision in here that an employee may per may be permitted to start their workday on certain days from a remote location, work one or two hours from home. That employee then punches out um commutes to the office, punches in again, and then finishes their workday um act in the office. And this type of remote schedule would um be only apply at the beginning of the employees workday. Um obviously there are a number of factors that the town board and a department head would have to consider for any employee to um you know have the option to

018be cons considered for a remote schedule. Um if an employees job in involves daily receiving, assisting or interacting with members of the public that does their position entail using town equipment or to perform at town facilities or properties those types of situations. Unfortunately, those employees would not be eligible for a remote work situation. Um, but other types of situations where employees do perform certain independent projectbased work. Um, uh, certain work quality and performance would also be considered by the department and and the town board in any application from an employee to have a remote, um, work schedule. And again, unfortunately, this is not going to be um available to every employee that especially those that are out in the field um you know, whether or or custodial work or or those types of situations. Um

019an employee must formally apply to be considered for a remote work situation, either a fully remote, which the town did fortunately just hire um Eric Chance. Um, you know, unfortunately that didn't work out for us in the housing department, but did work out for the planning department with um, you know, Eric's years of expertise um, and experience working with the planning department. That that fortunately is one of those positions um, that could be fully remote even though um, Eric will, you know, can attend when needed um, to come to town hall or to attend meetings as needed. But again, there are probably very few positions that will actually be or could be considered as a fully remote position. And Becky, just to emphasize uh in the role in planning by attending the regulatory board me

020land use board meetings, he'll be able to do that via Zoom. Absolutely. Yep. And again, Zoom, uh, Microsoft Teams, all of those have, you know, really opened up this to be able to offer this type of remote opportunity too when everyone either had to do a conference call or meet in person and now even meetings with people in the same town or even within east in the town itself, we're having by remote or or team meetings or zoom meetings. Um the town board in consultation with an employees department head will evaluate the request for a remote work schedule and determine if the employee um is eligible based on the factors set forth in uh the beginning of the policy. The town board and department head will consider the operational needs of the department or division

021as well as existing or previously approved remote work applications. The town board does have final um discretion over um any employees request to work remotely. Um the policy also sets forth um rules and procedures as far as you know clearly um it's important employees have to understand that they still will have to punch in and out um whether they're uh fully remote or one of the hybrid options because obviously we still have to be able to track their time um through our time sheet system which again is a module that can be uh placed on any laptop that that an employee is using. Um so The rules for employees are the same as if they were working in town hall in their office 300 panigo um our our housing office on Bluff Road. So all

022policies, procedures, rules still apply to an employee even if you're working um in a remote location. Um the policy uh also states that the town will provide um any computer or tech technological equipment, phones, anything that an employee may need to effectuate their their remote work schedule. Um it's also important that an employee that is approved to work remotely may be recalled to the office at any time to either provide coverage for a meeting or for some re some other reason that the department head or the town board requests. Authorizations to work remotely may be limited by the town and those authorizations to work can be withdrawn or um or revoked by the town board or um at the request of a department head at any time. This is not an entitlement. It is not

023a given um obviously subject to um the demands um by the town government by the public and and other factors. So there are just two small uh recommendations I do have that on the first page. It should be noted that this applies to full-time employees only and all of our employee units um because that's not clear in the resolve clause. So that is my fault. And then just on page four at the bottom punching in and out where it says that punch uh sets of punchins must uh total eight hours. um which is an overwhelming majority of our full-time employees, but we do have employees that do also work 30 and 35 hour work weeks. So that 8 hours would also be revised to read six, seven or eight hours depending on the employees work

024schedule. Thank you. I'll just say that no, I don't really have many questions. I think this another step that the supervisor is trying to work on about modernizing uh government the availability uh to craft with the flex policy and also this policy to uh work and try to maintain staff or try to actually work for the taxpayer and the residents. Um a lot of this has come through discussions and again I think it was last week there weren't a lot of good things during CO but some things out of CO we were able to work forward and we got this in a way too. Um, we still want everyone to know or at least I would like to everyone know to live here, work here is a uh is a motto of the town of

025East Hampton for our staffing. There's great employment opportunities. But what we know now is that the department head seizes the availability for their staff and they can maintain the structure and order in their department. I'm supportive of that specifically since all the department heads looked at this also. So, I thank you for crafting it. And again, this is looking to formalize something on a more semi-permanent or permanent basis, not the oneoff where an employee, you know, maybe an employee who lives up island has a doctor's appointment in the afternoon and asks their department head, hey, can I work from home in the morning? you know, and so those one-offs, you know, we've we we're very flexible with and and understand that, you know, again, sometimes our our personal lives do creep into our our public

026work life and in trying to be accommodating, but this takes it a step further and creating a formal policy and again a more semi-permanent permanent um type of work situation for the employees and and more predictable for them. Yeah, I think that's an important part. There's the appeals process. There's there's avenue to request that. So for the employee themselves, they now know what the structure of the policy is to formalize. So I I think that's important as we move move ahead in in the world we're in right now. I support it. Um I think it's uh I I also support the uh the way that the process came down with the draft that and then go to the department heads who I hope talk to their staff and then this policy grew out of that

027collaboration with across the town. Um, I think it's h what is it? Happy wife, happy life, happy staff, happy community. Um, we want people to feel good about their jobs so that that translates into the community. So, I think this is another option for folks who feel pressed and certainly we don't even need to talk about travel times these in in 2025, right? Yeah. I'm fully supportive as well. I I think it's uh it's the reality in the world in which we live in the area in which we live. um the flex policy that is already adopted for sort of oneoffs or or being accommodating to staff I think is helpful but this makes sense on a more permanent basis and I think that the example you gave of Eric Chance who simply moved out

028of town and you know would have loved to have stayed I think working with us and um I think a credit to the supervisor and the board to recognize maybe there's an opportunity to keep him on by remote and I think that that partially led to this policy which I'm sure will have applications through other departments and other staff members. Um, I think we should all acknowledge that, you know, managing workflow remotely is going to be its own unique challenge, but um, we'll allow for more opportunities for more full staffing and and hopefully getting everything done that we need to get done. All right. And that's one of the things that the department head and the board would consider too with any employees application. Are we able to manage and evaluate, you know, in an

029effective manner that the employee is doing the work, is producing the work that they're supposed to be doing. So obviously if the employee is not meeting that standard that you know either the request would be revoked or revised um you know at some at some other time. Yeah, I'm very confident in the department head's ability to do that. And and you also noted I think we should all acknowledge that for some workers, some employees, they won't be able to take advantage of this. Um and it's the work we choose. You know, if if if you happen to be in a position where your work has to be on site, it still has to be on site. don't think that should prevent somebody else who's being a productive employee offsite from being able to take advantage

030of the remote policy. So, I think until um you know, we haven't if so long as there are no comments from the CSEA um again, Jim Bennett has a copy of it and is reviewing it. If there are any comments, certainly share them with the board and and if I need to come back and present again, otherwise we can um schedule this for adoption at the at the first June meeting. Okay. Okay. Sounds good. Thank you, Becky. Okay. So, next up we have a water safety update by John Ryan Senior. Welcome, Big John. Welcome. Welcome. And water safety can't be remote. [laughter] Hello. I am I'm older than UI King, by the way. [laughter] Let the record show. Wear a lot of hats. I want to anytime I have an opportunity to address the board

031the first thing we have to do is say thank you. This board we look at our our our logo we are surrounded by water and this board has has supported all the programs that we do. So uh today I I wear the town of East Hampton logo. Okay. I am a lifeguard trainer. And right there with me, he's the co-lifeguard trainer. But let me explain the big difference. Uh and and the other thing is whenever you have a clipboard and a whistle, you can be in charge of anything. [laughter] That's why I won't. But but uh the difference between myself and John, he gets wet. I don't get wet much. But I did get wet on January 1st. And I just noticed the board. I don't think you guys got wet on January the plunge

032[laughter] for the benefit of the food pantry. But anyway, so hats. Okay, so this is Ocean Rescue and Ocean Rescue is a is an organization that supports all the programs that the town runs and more. [sighs and gasps] It supports the high school swim teams. It supports the hurricane swim teams. supports our programs, our town programs, which I might mention um our our NIPER program uh 6, seven, and 8 uh that that is starting up since uh and our junior lifeguard program and our lifeguard training program. All those started at on Sunday at the Y um every Sunday since March and we will continue to show up and train Nippers, junior lifeguards and lifeguards every Sunday. And that training is free and and I will tell you that our junior lifeguard program and and the

033Nipper program are unique in the sense that in normally I'll give you one example. Jones Beach has a huge program, not as big as our but huge. And on a particular Sunday, they have 40 open spots. They swim kids. They pick the top 40. That's it. We don't do that. We insist that every kid in our program, whether they be nipper, junior, that they they qualify and they become swimmers. And when so when they come to the bay, the nippers go to the bay and the ocean, they are they are competent swimmers. And that training is free. Okay. Um I'm supposed to talk about water safety. Um, but before I forget, all right, June 20s is a very important day, okay? Uh, when I say I wear a lot of hats, okay, I taught. Um,

034I am ahead of I am not the I'm actually not exactly the head. My wife is the heart and soul of the Ryan clan, which is 50 strong. 50 strong. And of those 50, okay, 30 ocean lifeguards. this this year um we have three of my grandchildren becoming ocean lifeguards. Um and uh the other thing that I did I taught 28 years. I've been on the school board uh longer than that and I've been retired from teaching longer than that. But I want to ask everybody you feel please on the 20th of of uh of of of June please go and vote I'm sorry of May please go vote for your at your school district and vote not telling you how to vote but make sure you vote all right very important especially in Montalk

035they got a big project going and I hope hope it passes okay water safety let's let's take a good look uh let's take a good look at some of the things that are important all Right. Um, one big thing and I'll give you a little thing. We all know Joan Tulp. I believe she's the morning mayor of Amagancet. Joan Tulp regularly is in charge of Indian Wells Beach. And I tell Joan, Joan, are you taking care of the beach? So any one of you, if you are in at a beach and you see a problem, there is something we can we can all do. And the first thing you got to be sure is you you call 911. All right? And and that if I handed these out, some people might have them, but make

036sure you call and stay on the phone. Don't hang up first. If you are going to make a rescue and you can't you want to get in quick, make sure you take a piece of equipment. All right? No matter where it is, because the easiest part of a a rescue is getting to the victim. That's the easiest part. The hardest part is keeping them afloat. not necessarily getting them in because because we have ocean rescue. So just like when we have a fire we we have very quickly fired them in. We as ocean rescue members all year round we have never missed a mandate with within five minutes we are there with equipment to to back you up and to make that rescue. Okay. So the big thing would be stay in the line. try

037to get somebody that's going in to take a piece of equipment. I'll never forget there's a woman in Florida, her husband, she couldn't swim. Her husband was in the pool. She threw all the the pool furniture into the pool so he could finally stand in the deep end and get out. That's how she saved him. Okay. So, um also swim near a lifeguard, but that's pretty tough to do. Beaches open on Memorial Day and then they open full-time in in in mid June. And and besides that, besides all our protected beaches, there's a lot a lot of unprotected beaches. So, when we say swim near a lifeguard, do it, please. All right. Um and and and I I'll say don't allow anyone to attempt a swimming rescue without calling 911 and taking a flotation uh

038device. All right. Um pool rules. That's our big problem. I I claim um all the home pools. Uh and that's what this is all about. I think we're going to throw it. Johnny, are you going to talk about that? Okay, I'm going to talk. We supposed to have that on the screen, but anyway, uh if if you if you grabbed a piece of paper and you looked at it on the back, what's wrong with that? All right. Every pool in the town of East Hampton needs a fence. So, the first thing we noticed is there's no fence. And of course, the lifeguard at the pool is the adult supervision. And we can see that that guy's watching his his um his car instead of watching the kids in the pool. Um there are probably other

039things here. The bucket, very small children, buckets full of water are a very dangerous thing. Kids can fall in and and not get out. Um so anyway, we have that. I'll continue with my pool rules. We we train our juniors. Uh reach and throw. Don't go. All right. Don't give your body to uh often times at this time of the year, somebody goes out, an adult goes out to save his kid or or a brother goes out to save a younger sister and and they drown. All right? So, you got to be careful. Uh never swim alone um in your own pool. Make sure you have a fence and a gate that closes. Um, [clears throat] don't Oh, by the way, we we we train our juniors at the end of the night, make sure

040you take all the toys out of the pool because a kid can get into that pool and reach in and and fall in. All right? Train and train them to watch and if somebody stops watching them, you get out of the pool or you tell them, "Hey, watch me. I'm in the pool." All right. We we try to do that. Um so we try to teach our kids to to be safe. All right. Um and the other thing we we often do, I'll never forget, uh there was a school group down at Indian Wells. James Buds was the lifeguard at Indian Wells. And these kids all had their boogie boards and we said, "Hey, all you kids boogie boards." It was a class group. Come on over here. Okay. So let's let's all you we're

041going to go out and see James Butt. He's out there with the with a torpedo. We're all going to swim out to him. Okay. By the way, leave your boogie boards here and go out because leashes break. All right. So, don't rely on flotation devices if you can't swim. All right. Um, rip currents. We we we we know that anytime there's a jetty, there's a rip current. On the uh on the uh Friday before Memorial Day, I am traveling to Rockaway Beach with TJ Calibri. My son John would go uh Regina Scully, one of our great benefactors in town for is starting a PSA [snorts] program for the for the city of uh New York New York City. And the reason why Rockaway Beach is a big problem because all it has is jetties. And

042anytime you have a jetty and city of Long Beach, same thing. where I grew up. Anytime you have a jet, you have a rip. And the key is to not fight the rip. And the other key is that people get shocked by realizing when they're in a rip, all of a sudden they have to be able to swim because no matter where you go in the water, the sweep of the water will bring you to that rip. And then a series of waves come in. This is our typical rescue. Serious waves come in. And you never try to beat a wave. So you dive under it and all of a sudden instead of being at your waist and now you're at your chest and then once you're over your waist, you have to be able

043to swim and people turn and try to swim in and all of a sudden they go backwards and that is the rescue. And if they panic, excuse me, if they panic, that's the real problem. And and that's our rescue. And and so uh the great thing is uh if you just relax and and and eventually it will it will dissipate. You can go laterally and then come in. All right. Uh diving can be a problem back injuries and whatever. Um I think I've covered most of it. Uh, I will say that that that one great great asset and we're just about ready to open a pool in Montro is the East Captain YMCA pool. That pool and uh it allows us to start all our programs. Every one of our our lifeguard programs start at

044the Y. And of course, we expand the town, certifies uh uh uh a still water certification allows any any one of uh uh person 15 and up to work at any bay or pool. Our ocean certification uh uh age 16 and up allows you to work at any uh ocean bay or pool. And we supply as a town, we supply uh lifeguards not just to the town of East Hampton, but all over the the South Fork at Long Island and even on Chelter Island. Um I think I've covered a lot. Any questions? So, I'm going to turn it off to Oh, one other thing. Okay. I mentioned the Ryan Clan. The Ryan Clan is expanding. [laughter] And this year I have I have 23 grandchildren, but I have three great grandchildren and I'm going to

045have three more. And guess what that guy over there is going to be? He's going to be Grandpa John as we speak. [laughter] Hy, one of our wonderful uh chiefs of the town of East Hampton. Hy Sincu is going to have babies. And then I also have Ryan O'Dire, another grandchild that is the father of a baby. and uh Devin and Jared Blow are gonna have a child. So, God bless them and God bless the town of East Hampton. Any questions? I'll turn it over to I have a comment for you if you don't mind. Okay. Sure. So, um uh even on Channel 12 News, there is actually a missing swimmer in Kings Park this morning or last night then too. So having lifeguards for life and having the Ryan family for what you've done,

046not just for the town of Eastampton, but for the state, for the nation, and now internationally, what the Ryan family has started is something I think that we are all blessed to have out here. Thank you. I was at my daughter's softball game, one of my daughter's softball games yesterday, and I was talk, we were talking about the old school stuff in East Hampton Village, you know, when the park was built, and I ran into Jimmy Quackenbush, his daughter was playing in East Hampton, and we talked about when you would teach us to go swimming in the pool before the YMCA on Race Lane. It's now a electrical place or something like that. Yes, that's right. Kenan used to run the Mr. the boys camp there. So that's where and that's where we would learn

047to swim in the 80s. And as we progress with the YMCA, as we progress with the Malk Playhouse, I look forward to having the Ryan family continue all that and all the multiple generations. But I wanted to learn how to swim. My dad's from Indonesia. He doesn't like the pool, but every house he had had a pool. I wanted to learn how to swim without your assistance. Yeah. And that's nearly 40 years ago. So, thank you. I got pushed off a dock at the bay. [laughter] And thank you for listening. and you'll you'll get a better presentation from himself. [laughter] So, thank you so much, John. Thanks, John. Motion to close. [laughter] So, funny. Well, uh, madam adviser, I'm going, uh, the next, uh, next presentation we have is actually the summer 2025 beach action

048plan. And to the rest of the town board, uh, we have multiple members of our beach advisory group here. We have uh superintendent of recreation uh John Rooney. Uh you please come up to the podium if you can. We have uh uh uh chief marine patrol Tim Treadwell. And we also have our chief lifeguard John Ryan Jr. Please join us. Thank you very much. Megan, were you going to run that PowerPoint if you wouldn't mind? Thank you. [clears throat] Oh jeez. T is the season already. David, it is Thank you. So, as I fill in time here, um, what I want to let everyone know is that we're going to present what our beach action plan is for calendar year 2025. Um, if we can go to the front of it, if you don't mind,

049Megan page, you want to be great. Thank you very much. So, this is summer 2025. This is the East Hampton Town uh town beach action plan and future recommendations. This is something that we have started to uh historically do now uh uh during and postcoid seasons as we get ready. Um next next slide please. The town's uh beach parks and uh recreational advisory group uh is consist of multiple members of town departments on here uh from Chief Michael Sarlo, John Ryan uh John Ryan Jr. uh Tim Treadwell, Francis Bach from the town trustees, Steve O'Brien from buildings and grounds uh and John Rooney from uh town recreation department among others. Our mission I changed the mission uh from what was last year. Next page please. Next slide. Uh simply the town of East Hampton's beach

050advisory group was convened upon the request of the town council to consider the use of the town's beaches, parks, and recreation areas to make recommendations on safe use of beach uh bathing beaches during lifeguarded and recreational facilities opened hours. Initially, this came out of CO how we were going to open the town's uh beaches during CO because we were under strict uh uh restrictions uh by executive order. this has morphed into just being a great thing and I want to thank the supervisor uh and other board members for continuing this and the collaboration. Um we will go into each individual's things but the next page please next slide sorry no worries this is a slide of actually ditch planes prior to um uh I believe it was this term were during co Okay, great. So,

051the beach action plan includes a 2025 beach operating permits have been received. All our bathing beaches have to receive the uh uh operating permits. John uh sorry, Rooney might be able to add a little bit to that later. Recommendations for lifeguard and beach operations east of the town safety protocols for our lifeguards and beaches. our comfort station operating and custodial protocols, continuization, continued utilization of park mobile for paid parking at our beaches and beach locations. Uh and uh staff uh staffing levels maintained for all our departments and the the greatest thing out of this is the continued coordination between agencies and town departments to carry out the town's 2025 operation plans and policies. Uh I would like to go into John Rooney if he can help us with the next slide about our beach openings

052please. Sure. Good morning everybody. Um John, so yeah, season's upon us and uh it's coming up and we're going to be opening up um Memorial Day weekend. As usual, we start opening uh some of our beaches um Memorial Day weekend. We keep them open on the weekends until we get into mid June where then everything opens up [clears throat] uh for that first weekend. Um Indian Wells, Atlantic uh Avenue, South Edison, and Ditch all in the ocean, they all open up as of uh Saturday, May 24th. And we also then also have Big Alberts [snorts] on the bay opens up that same day. And then a couple of weeks later um on June 14th, we end up opening up Maidstone um East Lake which are also on the bays and then also Kirk Park and

053then the uh the stand that we add in on Motel Row between South Edison and Kirk. So that'll be opening up on on the 14th. So can I just say so ditch planes were in good shape with sand and being able to put our beach lifeguards down there. Yeah, the uh the sand that's actually been accreing there over this course of this wintertime. Uh I think we didn't we've had a lot of northwest winds this year. Uh but there's a lot of sand on that beach, more sand than I've seen in years. I don't think we're going to have to replenish it for a recreational beach. Uh there might be a little change or a little needed of a sorry, a burm in front of the in front of the stands for the guards, but

054yes, we'll be open ready to go. That's our rejo. Great. John, can you go through the recommendations then for our guarder beach operations will come in for the lifeguards. Um, so obviously we want to have continued coordination with the East Hampton Town Marine Patrol and East Hampton uh volunteer ocean rescue which we always have. Um, drone technology will be utilized for life-saving needs and dangerous marine patrol observations. And we've been doing that since I guess co time a little right after that. Yeah. Installation of the ADA beach mats. They'll go in um at Indian Wells and Atlantic Avenue um as we get into that first Saturday. Um obviously continue with our lifeguard, junior lifeguard uh programs. The training is still going on as John Senior was just telling us about at the YMCA that continues

055till mid June and towards the end of June we start our Nipper guards and our junior lifeguards uh on the sand as well. um training and testing of new and current lifeguards and which is ongoing um as we speak and it gets more and more intensive as we get into the season. Uh continue use of ATV vehicles to guard beaches and I believe Jeannie mentioned this morning that um earlier that you guys approved um we can get upgrade one of our one of those vehicles. Um and then outreach campaigns for residents about beach conditions um much like Johnson you were just doing. And then uh international water safety week. I don't know the details of that one. So you know that. Yeah. So I can uh I can speak to that. Uh so this year

056we're not having an international water safety day. We are going to have international water safety week uh which is generally what it is. But it's uh gives us an opportunity to send out social media posts and whatnot on different ways of as my father just presented on uh pool safety concerns and also rip currents things like that. but we can designate things on certain days of the week trying to stress the safety on the beaches, our local beaches. In addition, there's that QR code down at the bottom of the of the slide. Um that's on all of our beaches at the head of the beach and uh individuals can take a picture of that and it'll QR code. It'll direct them right to the the website, lifeguard website. Uh on that page it will show

057the the surf conditions of the day to water temperature, the winds, the um we'll also show um we're this year we're we're working on what's called having the guards do a little additional uh take a little additional data on uh prevents. Prevents are um preventative measures to making sure bthers are safe in our waters. That may be if we're driving that ATV from uh from Atlantic Avenue towards um Beach Hampton and we see rip currents that say 9A. Every beach is has a sign on it. Every uh public access point uh to the beach has a a number on it and a letter. Uh 9A being say one of them. Um if they if if we are driving past that and we see a rip current right there, we can tag that and immediately on

058our page our our um public page will pop up rip current advisory at 9A. Uh if it's marine life, dangerous marine life, say we can tag it location, add the location and it will pop up on that page. So, somebody goes to that page and they start to see, "Wow, there's a lot of lot of rip currents being tagged or marine life. Maybe I should be going and swimming in at a protected ba protected bathing beach." Um, uh, so, you know, it's it's just another way of advertising or giving the public uh a little bit of understanding of what what's going on at the beach before they get to the beach. Because we all know you bring all your stuff down in the beach, you're less likely to pack it all back up because you

059realize the surf conditions are bad. You should be going to a protected bathing beach. We always recommend swim near a lifeguard. Just because you can see them doesn't mean they're and they're way out of your away from the swim area. We have a designated swim area. Please swim near those lifeguards. John, could you also talk about the flags, the colored flags? Sure. Uh we we fly three different on that same page. you'll see a color at the top of the page and it will represent the flag color that we're flying on the on the day. Um, the first responsibility for lifeguards when they show up at the beach is to look at the surf, know where your hot spots are, uh, where we we have concerns and we determine is it green. Green means stop

060light. Green means go. All right. Calm conditions doesn't mean that somebody can't get in trouble, but less less concerns. All right. Yellow is cautious. See a yellow light just like a stop light. Cautious be uh so cautious conditions will be we have we uh see rip currents. We know that the it it might be a shore break. It could be dangerous conditions of conditions. All right. Red means red means danger danger. Uh stop stop and think about what you're going to do. We [clears throat] strongly advise you not going in the water. Um so those are our three colors. is also which we don't fly too often uh is uh and uh thanks for Lisa here uh he he came up with the idea there are flags out there that say big circle and a

061swimmer with a line through it no swimming on hurricane surf days or days where we have red flag day we may put up that sign at any one of the beaches all right um to indicate to people look you shouldn't be swimming all right if you're out there we're coming to get Right. Um so uh that's one way which we can uh we have that outreach to the public to let them know that we have concerns about the condition ocean conditions. As far as the junior lifeguard program is concerned, our enrollment is increased. Uh we believe we're going to we're expecting an increase in enrollment in the amigansa program and the montto program. Um uh so on the next page so we're dealing with um town of East Hampton is fully staffed. Uh that's a

062good problem. All across the United States there what just came from a USLA conference up in Newport, Rhode Island and uh there was a conference gi one of the speakers was talking about the impacts of COVID and whatnot uh on on lifeguards being able to employ lifeguards. Um and you know the concern across the United States is being able to get lifeguards. Well, we don't have that problem. We are doing it right. Uh we we run a the Nipper program, junior program, a cadet program. Uh as I was driving out here, I get a phone call uh and guy guy wants to talk to me about our cadet program. He's from Connecticut. He ran into me up at the USLA conference. I will talk to you about your connect your cadet program. Cadetses are it's

063an apprentice program. Okay. So that apprentice program teaches uh these 15 year old kids that have come through up through the junior program teaching them how to become a Bayer ocean lifeguard. Right. So I'm sure on the way back I'll be my father and I will be speaking on on speaker phone to this individual about our our cadet program. um back uh can you just talk a little bit about that conference you went to the USLA and [clears throat] how East Hampton was recognized? Yeah. So the gentleman that uh was from Long Beach that spoke about the economic factors and and the uh how co's uh factoring in on how life getting lifeguards is difficult. Uh and in in the middle of his his conversation um or his his talk about this, he he said

064uh Carnegie had a a theory that if he was Carne I'm not a history major. Carnegie was was he steel? Mhm. I think so. All right. He had everything that had to do with steel a linear pro approach to it. he was going to make sure that anything that involved steel, he was going to work. He was going to open businesses for that. And so he had a linear program. And so on the end of his presentation, he mentions this and up pops the East Hampton Town website with all of East Hampton logos on the bottom starting with the Nipper program, the junior program, the Hurricane Swim Team, the East Hampton Town Lifeguards, Eastampton Village Lifeguards, and East Volunteer Rescue. and he says, "You see, East Hampton had I I know Ryan from He took

065our PWC rescue operators course." Um, but I certainly didn't expect him to be pulling us up and everybody's looking. I'm starting to get a little little embarrassed and but whatever. He just said, you know, East Hampton's got it right. They have that linear approach just like Carnegie and and they should be proud of what they do and we should learn from what he's doing. This lifeguards from Hawaii, chief lifeguards from Hawaii, president of the president of US decided to after the conference in Newport. Uh he came over and says, "What's the chances there's any surf out in East Hampton?" I was like, "Oh, there's definitely surf out in Malk." So he decided to drive down here and stay a couple days out in Montalk to visit not just our beaches the Dory barn how we're

066running things and he said he made a comment he he said you know John you guys have something very special here and talking about the the life-saving station and he said every single lifeguard in the United States should be coming here and seeing what you got And I was again he and he's fil he's trying to film me. I'm like, "Oh, please don't film me." No, no, really. It's gonna be good. I'm like, "Oh, you very cut and paste, whatever you do." But it was uh quite impressive. Um it was a great conference. Uh it's four days. It's lengthy. A lot of meetings, a lot of committees, sitting on making decisions, trying to improve things, you know. Um but in any case, uh dogs, we all know dogs are permitted on certain beaches. Mtok, no.

067No dogs allowed. Um and uh in Amigansit things are outside the area. We ask you please look, you know, it's it's for the sake of people that come to the beach. You bring in a dog, there's there's rules right at the top of the beach. Please read the rules before marine patrol or lifeguards have to come over and tell you can't have dogs in the area. Um smoking. We certainly don't want smoking in the area. All right. 500 feet outside the protected area. And then um this year uh we're we're getting uh Chief Treadwell is um one of his um marine patrol officers going to come down to train us on stop the bleed um and uh and that that will you know uh wound wound uh we have tourniquets in our medkits that lifeguards

068will be trained to use if if needed. Thank you very much John. Uh just a moment. Can you go to the next slide here? This is what Big John was talking about earlier. If you see this photo here to anyone in the view audience, we'll circle what is wrong in this picture. And Johnny uh Junior, Ryan Jr., do you want to just go through them here? We're looking at this screen. So when I do when I bring this to the kid, I have a big one that's big kids sit I go to the country school or the spring school or I'm against school or East school district. bring this and I ask them and the kids always say, "Well, the boy is playing with the gonna hurt the dog with the big stick." And I

069like, "Okay, [laughter] I get it." Uh, well, that's I'm glad you mentioned that. That's right. He should be very careful with that. But that is a piece of rescue equipment. And there's another piece of rescue equipment at the pool that that looks to be a little too high. Shepherd's hook and you can reach out and grab somebody if they get in trouble in the pool. It's a reaching tool. Is there anything else in there? And the kid says, "There's that ring thing up there." Y says, "That ring thing." That's called the ring boy. The only problem with that is that it's a little too high for that little boy there who could possibly use it if needed. And the fact is, you should be putting those things uh back where they belong. That little girl

070that's in the pool in a flotation device, she's in the deep end of the pool. Does she know how to swim? Don't know. And I'm not so sure if she's in a flotation device. She probably does not, but she could easily slip out of that. Uh, no. As my father mentioned, no no fence around the pool. All right. Dad's not watching. Now, I always tell remember, you got to you can't be in the pool unless you have somebody watching you. And his mom and I say, "Is mom watching you?" And she's got her phone out doing this. And they're like, "No." Yeah. So, you need to tell mom, "Put that away. She's got to watch you because you can get in trouble quick. Um, she shouldn't be reading a book. She should be watching you."

071Uh and so uh there and the bucket drowning my father talked about kids can't when they fall little kids babies fall into those buckets they don't have the strength to push themselves out and they can drown six inches of water right uh so I think that's pretty much it but you'd be surprised that kids will come up with other things that I didn't even see but thank you very much John and uh Mr. Mr. Ryan, thank you for bringing that to us. I'm just going to go on to buildings and grounds and I just ask John questions. Okay. Sure. Were you going to say something? Well, I just wanted to mention flags. You mentioned flag. Uh as a general rule, the biggest problem we have is a red flag day the ocean is roaring and

072the next day as it calms down, you go to a yellow flag and it looks calmer and that's generally a tendency. And then Johnny mentioned no flag and we don't like to say no flag because if we do that on the protected beaches those we're afraid those people will go to all the unprotected areas and swim there. So I think what we will do is on a on a on a red flag day and even rougher we will try to restrict it uh flippers people in with flippers because uh u you know knee high they don't ever want to take waste time bathing but you know we're pretty good at the protected beaches Johnny I don't think we're able to anybody no we have Yeah. Not to drown. That's pretty good. And and the reason

073why Long Beach and Rockaway are such a big problem this time of year is because it's unprotected and the jetties and the rails. And so they regularly have surroundings and Regina Skully is starting to PSA think all about don't panic in a rip and what a rift is. Well, thank you very much. I'm John. I was just gonna ask you, sorry, uh, quickly, uh, when you have the date for the safety week, if you would just let us know so we could put it out through our networks. Well, yeah, I definitely will. And I'd also like to, uh, bring a few of our cadets here to talk about some of some just hot topics that come up. That would be great. Thank you. Thank you. Moving on the buildings and grounds. Uh we we've made

074a concerted effort over the last couple years to install our new beach rules. Directional signage been placed at a bay and ocean uh road ends. This includes as far as permitting permit signs so individuals and uh uh residents and visitors are aware of what the rules and locations are for parking and and such. Staffing levels are sufficient in buildings and grounds for the increased workload for referee removal and infrastructure repairs. Uh the morning trash runs in M talk are staffed and will be implemented. Uh we also will have our beach rakes will be deployed to all our b uh all our ocean beaches on there on a rotating basis during the week. Custodial staff levels are sufficient for the increased frequency of bathroom cleanings and been hired recently. But as we've done in the past,

075our beach comfort stations will be closed at night uh late night and reopen very early in the morning by town staff. This decreases the amount of vandalism. Uh last year we installed a lot of uh security cameras at our um a good majority of our our uh conference stations and there really wasn't any vandalism last year. So that's worked out well in that process. So we'll continue to do that then too. I'm going to bring up uh Chief Tim Treadwell for the next slide which will be for the East Hampton Town Police and Marine Patrol. Good afternoon Tim. Um again the uh the constant communication between departments, the collaboration is wonderful between the board, myself and the lifeguards uh with the police department, with the parks department, with buildings and grounds. Anytime we have a

076problem or there's a problem on the beach, everybody really really works well together and makes everyone's lives a lot easier. So uh that's a wonderful thing. Um we do have sufficient staff levels uh for this season as far as the marine patrol goes. Um, as of January 1st this year, uh, there's a new law in effect called Briana's Law in New York State where everyone operating a power-driven vessel is required to, uh, have a boater safety certificate. You can obtain one of those in a number of ways. You can take an online class or you can take a in-person class. I'm offering one of those classes here on the 17th. I better check that date. um my counters and then another one at the Montalk Fire Department I believe on the 12th and the 14th.

077Um I I uh they would be my fourth and fifth class so far this season. Um I really think it's a good thing for everyone. Um even if you're not even if you don't own a boat, it's good to know how to be safe on a boat in case you're out on somebody else's boat and something goes wrong. So I I'm a big fan of the new legislation. Um the uh um the the the courses that we do here, there's no charge for them. They're compliments of the town of Eastampton, of the Marine Patrol. You just have to pay $10 to the state for your permanent card. You actually receive your temporary certificate the day of the class upon successful completion and passing of the exam. Tim, thank you very much. Can you just also

078let the board know about emergency marker uh beach locations and what we've done with those recently? Yes. Yes. So, uh, uh, uh, Chief Ryan was very helpful with that. We replaced, you know, the, you know, when we first put those out, it was really a great thing for the town. Just explain to the general public what that is. Okay. So, so, so basically on on every beach access, there's a sign that's an emergency marker. So, if it's in Montalk, it'll say 26M. So, if someone's in distress, they can then call 911 and say that there's a swimmer in distress at 26M. Then the dispatcher can put that in the CAD and direct all of the rescue personnel, whether it's lifeguards, marine patrol, East Ham volunteer rescue, whoever is responding to the scene can be directed

079uh in an effective manner to that. So, it's always a good idea if you're going to be out on the beach and you're going to be swimming to take a look around and see what that sign is so that if something comes up, you know, you don't have to go search for the sign. That would um you uh that would be very helpful. And recently we installed those in in U Waynekit also. Correct. Correct. Now they're Yeah. And they're they're going to be facing from the street, but also if you're facing the dune from the sea, you can see them there, too. So, we make sure those are up to date because, let's be honest, they take a beating during the during the off season. So, we made sure those are up to date. And

080we've replaced a great number of those. Yeah. I thank you very much, Tim, for your help. Always. One other thing, if you explain, Daddy and Tim, about the Jeff course we run. Sure. Uh so we we um every year we do a course that includes the New York State Boer safety certificate uh for the town and village lifeguards um whoever needs uh to get their PWC for rescue certification. And we've been doing that for a long time now, 10 years or more. And uh and it works very well. Um you know, and it's it's hands-on for the lifeguards though. And it's a great hands-on course that you know cuz the uh the the personal watercraft aka jet ski is a is a phenomenal rescue vessel. Um I was on the Dory rescue squad and it's

081it's a lot quicker than a Dory and and a lot safer although of course a Dory did have a nice capacity of putting people in it. And I think one of the things that uh Mr. John Ryan Senior is that the collaboration between all the entities. There's a lot of waterfront where we have 71 miles of waterfront here, but we have jurisdictions from the county to the state to the village to the township, the Coast Guard, they all work well together and there's a lot of crossover training that happens during the summer season also then too. So, absolutely, a lot of effort and really East Ham Volunteer Ocean Rescue is a big part of that. You know, uniting, you know, we do drills with the Marine Patrol, with the Coast Guard, with the fire department,

082with the lifeguards. Uh it's it really it gets us to um all work together in a training capacity. So then we have to work together in a rescue pa capacity. It becomes that much easier. Thank you very much. And the advantage of that jet ski is that it can make rescues in the break. You can't do that with a lifeboat. You can't do it with with the rescue team. the jet keeps and the other thing is people see all the people that are operating that jet keep certified to use it right and if I could just make one more plug for the marine patrol and the lifeguards and everyone that uses the beaches please don't bring your household garbage to the beach and please don't try dumping your household garbage in the in the town

083receptacles and also if you're going to have a beach fire all the beach fire regulations are posted but figure out a safe way for you to remove all your fire debris from the beach and please leave nothing on the beach but your footprints. Right. Thank you, Tim. And if the pan's full, you can take it home, carry it in, carry it out. That's right. Thank you. That's correct. Uh Mimi, if sorry, if we go to the next uh slide, please. Uh I'm going to speak for Francis Bach and Eastampton Town Trustees are a part of our beach advisory group. Uh they are extremely happy and working and continue to work with East Hampton Town agencies on enforcement of our town beaches and to some of many of our waterways. Nighttime activities and fires will be

084constantly monitor on our town beaches as Chief Treadwell just mentioned on there and particularly not just on some of our ocean beaches but our outward beaches might be Laos Point Drawer Drive and other areas. The pumpout stations which they maintain will continue to be monitored due to the increased volume of usage. Recently you saw that we actually had new monitoring systems put onto some of our pumpout stations at Gan Road and Montalk. Uh if voters need that, please contact the town trustees for that information. Uh we're going to go to the next page and uh John, do you John Rooney, do you want to come up and we'll talk about the town rec department for your season? Sure. Um at at our beaches, we have uh no parking spaces that are reserved for our town

085lifeguards and um that's going to be enforced to uh to just keep those spots clear so our lifeguards can park. And we're just asking everybody to just pre please honor that. Um, and we currently for uh for paid parking, we currently have three park mobile zones um in the town of East Hampton. They're all in Montalk at the moment. Kirk Park uh parking lot um South Edison um right right near the uh where that beach is on the street and also South Elmwood Avenue. Um we're going to be expanding Park Mobile to uh Atlantic Avenue Beach this summer. Um nothing's changing in terms of what it costs and what days you can uh do daily parking and pay. It's just going to be through the app um as we've successfully done here in Malkque. Same

086way there. Um so we're pretty excited for that roll out as well. And that's going to be starting on Monday the 16th of June because that's when uh the first Monday when the lifeguards are there. Thank you very much for taking the lead and that assistance on that. John, uh last page here, very simple. ABC's always swim near a lifeguard. Be respectful of others and clean up your litter. I just want to highlight on all of those and to John Ryan uh Junior and senior just said that let's swim near the lifeguards. The next one is be respectful of others. Last year by the end of the season, there was a lot of disrespect treatment of some of our lifeguards and some of our TCOs and even individuals that are sanitations department. The town of

087Eastampton will not stand for that and the treatment of their staff and too. Please be respectful, be patient to all our visitors, and we will have a wonderful season as we've done out here for a long time. Clean up your litter. Uh uh I on Mother's Day, I took a hike with my family, and we were in the walking dunes of all places, and there were dog bags of tra dog poop left on the top of the walking dunes, which is one of the most beautiful locations here. I don't have a dog. I thought it was just disrespectful and and lazy. And let's just let you know, it's illegal. Uh David, can I add on on to that because it's a a pet peeve of mine. Sorry. Um but uh we just to be respectful

088of others, it's also a code to please pick up after your dog. But it doesn't end there. Um the plastic bags on the beach that we're seeing, as David mentioned, we're also seeing them made stone at many other places where dogs are welcome. I have two dogs. The easy solution for this is to keep an old cooler in the back of your car in your in your the trunk of your car or somewhere just if you don't want to put it the poop bags in your car, just stick it in an old box until you get it home. It's uh really challenging um for folks to navigate all of the poop bags on our beaches and it's an easy fix. So, I'm just going to add to that. Please clean up after your dogs and

089then take it with you. That's that's a great idea. Thank you. Thank you, Kate, for that. Um, lastly, fires. As uh, Chief Trebel said, remove your fires. Come with a plan for that. Make sure you go by all the rules. You can go on to the town's websites for those also. And, uh, we're all in this together for a great, wonderful season. We have great agencies. Madam Supervisor, the town of East Hampton is ready for the season, ready for the visitors. We're happy to be here. there's anything I can help the town board of any of these agencies, uh, I believe your town and your beaches are ready. Beautiful. Thank you. Thank you for joining us today. Really appreciate it. Yes. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you, gentlemen. I mean, with the weather this weekend, it

090was Yeah, it was beach weather. Oh, it was. It was. Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you. Okay. Can we leave? You can leave. [laughter] You're dismissed. All right. Now, we'll we'll hear from Mark Abramson, our assistant director of natural resources. We're going to talk about EV chargers. Welcome, Mark. Good afternoon, supervisor. Good afternoon, uh, town board members. I am Mark Abramson from, uh, the natural resources department, um, assistant director. I'm just going to have a couple two, uh, quick, uh, presentations. One update on our uh the town's uh town facility, the main uh town campus. We're installing 20 uh level two chargers. Um and it's been in the works for a while. The uh the town has received a grant uh I think it was a 2022 of $250,000 uh to put these uh these chargers

091in over at town hall. It's uh through the uh New York State uh Department of Environmental Conservation Municipal Zero Emissions Vehicle Infrastructure Program uh ZEV for short. Um so that's shown on the screen. Uh so these uh ports are going to be uh placed in next slide placed in uh by Linkwell, which is a New York State Office of General Service Contractor. um they're going to be doing it from start to finish uh with the help of uh PSCG uh to uh to get the approvals and to uh drop the transformer for the actual uh uh infrastructure. Uh so what's going to be placed is going to be uh 10 dualport level two chargers. Uh right now there are uh three level two chargers at town u with uh two ports each. So, uh, six

092stations, only one of those stations are are currently available. They're a few years old and, um, they they've, I guess, gone past their, uh, their time. Uh, so They're going to be replaced. Correct. So, in total, we'll we will have the uh the 20 working chargers, which uh with this program, there's going to be a five-year uh service agreement with an additional 5 years on top of that um for 80% uh functional uh uh functionality for a full uh 10 years. So, we shouldn't have any issues moving forward for uh level two chargers for the town fleet and for the the uh the public use and should be available 24 hours, 365 days a year. Let's go to the next slide. So, uh the uh three of the ports are going to be on the

093north side of the uh the parking lot by the uh the police substation. Uh then the other seven are going to be on the west side um on as you I guess as you're leaving uh town hall on your right. um bring up the next slide. It gives you an overview of the areas that are going to be uh installed. So you see uh up on the north side there, this going to be the the three ports, six stations, and then there's going to be another seven ports, 14 stations on the uh the west side. Uh the uh eight of them are going to be designated for uh town fleet vehicles, and then the other uh 12 will be available, like I said, uh 24/7, 365 days a year, and for 10 years. Uh so

094that's basically the overview for for the uh the program. We're going to uh we're waiting for a PSNG approvals which we actually met on the site uh this morning. I met with uh Matt from uh our engineer for for from LKMA um and and uh one of the representatives from PSNG said that all the approvals are are good to go. was waiting on a timing for Linkwell to actually uh start the the run from the front of town hall back to the transformers which is going to be the north side of the property. Um and once that's done, PSNG will drop in a transformer. Linkwell will uh then uh set it up and it'll then make through uh you know check the electrical, see everything's working and should be up and running hopefully within uh

095two months. Um and right now any more any questions comments on on the progress please? Ju just um Mark uh in terms of the trenching when you say start to finish they're going to do the paving. Yes. Okay back over where that and these are small trenches for these correct and you obviously you have Matt uh our town engineer uh working on it. So they're aware of all the other underground utilities that are around. Yes. So, from a practical standpoint, I think I don't know if we're going to want to relocate where the Hampton Hopper parks because that's where the Hopper parks and it's where when human services have, you know, when the programs are really busy, they've had some of their vehicles parked overnight at town hall and they typically park along that western

096uh side where the Chargers are going. So, we're going to have to look at that. And then the other thing is if we're going to have this kind of infrastructure here, I don't know if we've looked at the lighting if this is going to be available to residents 247. Um I don't know how well lit that back part of the parking lot is. There's one light pole back there. That's all the lit the units are are going to be lit. I mean obviously just enough so that you can see what you know how to plug it in and able to uh you know to to put it in take it out without any issues and and uh we're going to look at a next presentation on fast chargers. I don't well we're still here but

097I don't think the town hall is an appropriate uh place for the fast chargers the level two chargers which are a slower charger but in terms of uh people who work in the town besides our own town fleet of electric vehicles which is ever growing um for the public that comes into town hall spends a little time there maybe comes to one of these meetings uh these are appropriate uh for there and the infrastructure at town hall what they need to put in is much much too large for the space available um in terms of the electric infrastructure. So these are the ones that are most appropriate for our town hall. Okay. Again, uh moving forward to the next presentation. These are recommendations. Can you just do next steps on this one? Oh, sure. I

098I think I thought that I'll go over again. It just if uh let's just coordinate with uh buildings and grounds and and the food pantry. Yeah, I met with uh with Steve on side this morning. Absolutely. Perfect. as you circles and start trenching so we know what's what's going to have to be marked off. And yeah, the only thing that that I approached with them and and then PSNG asked about is just uh there's going to be a temporary access point from the exit from uh from the food pantry through to where the uh the transformer is going to be um where right now the uh the beach rakes are. So that area is going to be just some some sort of like a gravel or something so that the PSNG can bring their truck

099in to drop the transformer. I appreciate the coordination. What's the construction time like? What? Um, from start to finish, u, they said about, uh, four or five days. Okay. So, not too long. Okay. Any more questions? Not on that one. Okay. If not, we're going to move forward with the recommendations for uh these fast chargers. So uh the town has been recognized as one of the uh leading communities for the state uh for uh for clean energy and commitment to uh to sustainable uh energy portfolios. Uh the town has been uh uh recognized as a climate smart community, a clean energy community from the state. Uh we did put together a commitment in 2014 to become 100% uh renewable for our energy um by 2020, but we then updated it to uh 2030 and hopefully

100we're on on course to uh to get that that done. Um we did have a uh renewable energy roadmap plan which um has recommended installation of of uh EV chargers throughout the town. So that the uh it there is actually opportunity for people to to use electrical vehicles um you know straight from from each side of the of the town without having to worry about uh about charging. Um, if you want to bring to the next slide, that's just a uh a cap of uh the roadmap recommendations showing that that more public EV charging is a recommendation and something that we're going to try and move forward with. Obviously, we're going to do the level twos and this is a as of right now move to the next slide. Uh we there's has been an

101incentive from PSENG and Linkwell which I mentioned earlier is a contractor for New York State Office of General Services. Um they are incentivizing uh public uh governments and local governments to install these fast chargers. Um there's a few minimal requirements. Obviously has to be owned. The property's got to be owned by the town. They have to have uh threephase 480 volt uh electricity available and then uh have reasonable walking distance to a retail business to to actually you know have something to do while you're charging your your vehicle with these DC fast chargers 15 to 20 minutes to 80% of a charge. Um if you move forward next slide so it's a win-win for renewable energy and businesses. Yes. Yes. And uh so uh we I put together a couple of uh or four or

102five locations that would meet these qualifications. Uh K just mentioned that she doesn't think that the the town hall is something that that is something that we should do just have the level twos. So that can be scratched off right now. The other four locations are also uh meet the qualifications and um so these these proposals are going to have uh two dual port chargers. Um they're going to be uh you know four ports each I know sorry two ports each but two ports each two chargers four ports total in each of those locations. Um so move to the next slide. I wanted to put a map together. This is a few of the areas that that meet the qualifications just on on the map to see that it covers a lot of the the

103town. Um, we do have now fast chargers out in Montalk. Um, between Montalk and Amigansit, there's lacking of town owned parcels and not a lot of retail businesses that are walkable. So, it's not really something that we can uh propose. Uh, so move over to the next slide. So, for each of these uh these these proposed locations, um, Linkwell has put together a cost sheet. Uh so the total uh project value for all these are between $500 and $600,000. Uh PSENG uh potentially has $370,000 for each of these uh these locations available. And then Linkwell is going to then uh put up additional funds so it brings it down to a reasonable cost for the the town to to actually pay. So, a $537,000 uh infrastructure is going to be costing the town $15,000, which

104I mean, from from my point, it's it's a a win-win situation right there. And we get the infrastructure basically for free. And we do have some some numbers showing that depending on how we're going to uh uh charge the public for these, it's probably a 2-year uh uh cost uh two-year re rebate or payback. Yeah. Payback in within two years for uh for the costs of the $15,000 152. I think the highest was 20 and change. So Mark, I just want to clarify. We're only looking at the East Hampton airport right now. Yeah. Yeah. The numbers that you're talking about, it's a half a million dollar incentive for each location. Yes. Yes. I mean, give or take um for each location you want to move forward. Again, we've put them through. I mean, this one

105is obviously more because the the the cost was more. So, they actually giving us some more uh to to make it down to something that that we can afford. And next, so that's the CDCH building. So, that's where the new ball fields are. Yep. Um, this is a town hall, but that's that's been next. So, can I just can we just go back to it's page six where we do talking about it's the the recreational facility behind CDCH. Is there you know in order you you put it all the way in the back. I mean, that's where it's cited. Is there an opportunity to put it closer to Stephen Han's path so folks don't have to drive all the way up that pole to be able to charge and and make it closer to the

106street? Yes. I I I I think the locations can vary. I I mean this I'm just looking at areas that there are four parking spaces now that would be able to accommodate so that you know we can actually bring the power to those areas. But again it's see that's probably an easier run off the transformer in that location. But I would re I would suggest that also yeah I'm willing to work with you on that. Yeah. I mean the locations are are general so they they can be moved within reason I believe. Sure. looking forward to uh to a couple of the other areas and the costs. Um so this is the last one through M Harbor and then I'm sorry I'm a parking lot. So right now Amigans parking lot has um four level

107two chargers that I think three out of four are functioning but I think that this is a good location to actually have these uh these fast chargers because there's a lot of retail businesses and it I think would be be a a good fit there. These get heavily used. Yeah. So I I mean if you again we can also like uh in the airport parking in this parking area we can actually have some signs saying you know 15 20 minute parking. So it's not going to be overused and it can be used for either EV charging or not EV charging if we get some sort of push back from the public that there's not enough parking in that area. So if we could just limit to a 15-minute parking then that's something that's well and

108the airport has that. So, the airport has a small lot that's 30 minute parking. That's And because of where it's cited on the map in here, it's in the paid parking lot. So, you don't even have to go in the paid parking lot. You could do it. Yes. And I talked I talked to Jim regarding that. I think that would be I'm not I wasn't sure exactly where that area was. So, again, it's that would be the perfect area for it. 30-minute limited parking and you can get your car charged at the same time and it's not going to limit just to just for AV parking. Yeah. So next steps is uh to for the town board to decide on some locations. Um then uh I would uh we will talk to link well and

109uh they would uh you know go move forward with applying for for the the incentives and then we can identify the funding through the one of the town budget lines. I saw one of our budget lines sustainability has enough to to afford these these uh these actual locations. Um I I believe that uh it was mentioned that the airport should be paying for for their their situation if they have the money available and then that's something that we can bring up with them. Yeah, Ni just put out was we just did our we did our uh capital um bonding and she just put out an email I think it was this morning. So I think there is what was it $100,000 we had in the sustainability line? Last I checked it was like 85 and

110change. Was it 8 [clears throat] So on the locations, I think all these locations are the best locations we can. Okay. Uh we're starting to get to a point where we're building that mesh network of chargers within the township. Uh you add on to what's already been within our network being town hall campus. I agree with Kate that not for this particular incentive. You also then have downtown malk talk which I believe are being changed out also. I think we're also adding them out by the docks in one of these locations. Then two that we're building out the the network for EV chargers with some of these additional locations on there. And as uh uh as we as we have this set, then maybe we could fill in gaps here and there almost like uh

111almost like cell phone technology in a way. Um so I I support the locations. I I I I think all of them will be very open, meaning not to vandalism and such. And I think they'll be appropriate. So I I'm supportive of looking at this and moving this forward and can't you just let me know how you know. Thank you. Well, thank you for comments. So So any other questions, comments? I mean, no. Yeah, I'm I'm supportive as well. I don't know. Were there other locations that you identified as poss? Not that I could find. I mean, we can look a little bit deeper, but No, that's that's okay. And I I'm actually open to the the town hall. do feel like people pop into the clerk and those spaces where it was proposed are

112usually empty and it also can be court spaces, but I know Kate's done a lot more research on this, but I'm I'm open-minded about that and I I support the uh the concept for sure. Yeah. I mean, I think it's it's whatever wherever we can find the money is available. It's something that I think it's something that's that's that should be should be looked into. Yeah. But there's a tremendous amount of EVs in town, people ownerships, that's only going to grow. Um, right now as an EV owner, if I want to I plug in at night at my house, like a big toaster. Um, I don't even have a special level one. I just plug it in. But if I'm going to travel a distance, I'm either going to I right now either have to

113go to Bridgeampton to where their shops are and walk around, get coffee there, which is not preferred, or I have to travel out to Montalk and then hike back into the west side of town. So I think in terms of our roadmap uh goals, our renewable energy goals, uh creating that network, filling in that network is a priority and and therefore I support the cost, the talent cost. Plus, who could turn down these incentives? I know it's crazy. Yeah. I mean, such a great tremendous incentives. It' be a shame to pass them by. Agreed. Yeah. Thanks for bringing that to us, Mark. Okay. I'm I saw it. It's just jumped right on it. Yeah, it's great. Thank you, guys. I appreciate your time. Thank you, Megan. Thank you for helping out today, Megan. Yeah, thank

114you so much. Okay, so those are our topics for today and we are up to liaison reports. David. Sure. Madam Supervisor, thank you very much to to all the residents of the town of East Hampton. I want to let everyone know that the uh Steven Hanss path long lane roundabout update is that is functionally working as a rotary roundabout as of today. Please be aware of new traffic patterns in this location and that there's ongoing construction in the center center. So please give a break to any of the construction workers. Uh they will be working on the Belgian blocking in the middle and the curving in the middle middle as all the curving on the outside is substantially complete. This should take us up to Memorial Day and the contractor has sped up their time

115frame to hopefully be out. No one wants really be working past Memorial Day here. Uh they uh they be out of here. I was down there at 6:30 this morning. They were already striping it. I've already gotten one comment uh uh from an individual that traveled through there today said that is it went smoother than that than than that person had thought. So was that the clerk? I don't know because I spoke to the clerk on the way into the office this morning and she thought it mean you want to say what your experience was went very smoothly and it was marked out. So, we we hope that continues, but as the construction uh happens, uh please continue to give everyone a break. And uh again, this is a public safety initiative. Uh any questions

116or concerns, please contact my office. Going back into Highway is finishing up their uh some of their paving projects. That area will also be extended and paved up to uh Cedar Street also too. So, they're moving through uh they're finalizing their paving. They're going to be doing uh on selective locations nighttime uh striping. I think they just complete some of the villages completed their streets last night or the night before, but be prepared that there'll be nighttime uh uh striping of fog lines and yellow lines upcoming. I'm going to ask so we I know the company that we use is from Connecticut because that's who's on contract. Are there and I are there going to be other roads that'll be the fog lines? because I know that my East Hampton CAC is always talking about

117fog lines and needing to be um filled in and I think we had gotten some word about North Main Street going up to Springs Fireplace Road. They had faded. I don't know if those were on Steve Lynch's radar. Neither do I. Okay. Sorry. Yeah, I don't. We could we could check on there. I don't know. We could get from him where they're going to be putting in, you know, going back and doing that. They're typically the same ones, but um they f they that's I I can't answer that question. I don't want to give anyone the wrong information, but I just let everyone know that it's going to be happening. Then again, if that's something that we want to look budgetary to do more and more fog lines or reflectiveness, we can talk about that

118again, but I'll try to find out. I'll let you know, madam supervisor. Um let me just get to I'm so sorry about this. And I have an aquaculture update from John Barley Dunn. I want to thank John uh for this. Uh so far the season's been actually let's go touch wood so far. They've in three batches oysters at the nursery. Uh close to 8 million no oysters. Um clam production is also doing very well. They're doing their oyster an oyster spawn Thursday for Thrill Harbor Reef which will be installed in the boat uh yard lane and springs in the end of June. Oyster gardening is well underway. Fingers crossed for bay scout production. Spawns will start later this month. Uh that's actually a very interesting thing to go witness at our our our aging aquaculture

119facility. But again uh the staff aquaculture is doing quite well then too. Uh other updates on here then too. Uh second house update uh second house they're looking for the final closeouts uh hopefully today. Uh James Pinkot is working on that. Uh buildings and grounds will be there at the end of this week finalizing with some top soil to try to regrade the area and seed in time. The town of Eastampton is removing all of their stored equipment. Hopefully that'll be all gone by this week. Um, and they are uh the orchard installation was uh uh recently completed by the Montalk Historical Society. We'll continue to work with them as they move forward on that. Um, I have a couple resolutions on for this week. Also, uh, one of them is on on today is

120for uh, it's to apply for a plaque for our national register historical plaque for the Montalk Playhouse Auditorium on there. and the other one is for a grant intake for an AEDS. Also, I want to thank Sam Klein also for working on these with me. Please don't forget that at the American Legion and Amiganza, the Vietnam traveling wall is coming next weekend. I believe it's the 23rd to the 26th. I truly look forward to seeing seeing that uh there. Um please please visit it. Really, please visit and think what what why it's there and why we all here. Lastly, uh, madam supervisor had a meeting and it we talked about the question was things that you value, right? That was one of the questions and one of the things why why do you things that

121you value in your job and one of the thing my answer was I I value when my kids become engaged and ask me questions. It could be questions on the beach. It could be questions on the airport, questions on everything from hunting all the way through. What this Saturday today was was something that I extremely valued. Uh based on the weather last week, uh the uh the East Hampton High School school district uh Kathy Mastersonson, who's the athletic director, worked with John Rooney and they found another location for a double header for East Hampton High School Bonic softball versus Harbor Fields and it was at the Fred the Recreation Facility at the new softball fields there. They worked with Little League to make sure all the timing worked up there. There were hundreds of hund

122dozens of kids up there watching East Atlanta High School softball which my daughter plays on then to start it were able to play on those fields. They swept the double header and they put themselves for the first time in five years into the section 11 playoffs for the county there. That was something that was very valuable to me. Thank you for that. And that's my latest and report. Thank you, David. And and you want to give an update on the uh the multi-purpose field? Nope. I'll do that, too. I'm going to sit on that one and go from there. [laughter] You got it. All right, Kate, you're out. David, you should really feel that. No, we all we all should go. It's awesome. Um uh so I have two quick updates. One is the uh

123$600,000 New York State Coastal Resiliency Grant Steering Committee continues to meet. We have our RFP out uh for consultants on uh on this project and we're developing um some side projects that are part of the things we have to task we have to tick off like creating a survey for the community and Sam is very Sam Klein is very good at surveys. Um so she brings things to the committee and you know we're supposed to review these drafts and we all just sit there and oo and a how great they are. Um, and also we're looking at the advisory committee membership. And again, the folks that are were on this committee is uh, Jen Akono, Leo Daunt, uh, Andy Harris, and, uh, Sam Klene, and myself. And it's a really constructive working group uh, uh,

124of folks. Um, Andy's there because this is uh, obviously a water uh, qual LWRP grant and he sits on that committee. and Leo's from the chamber and Jen from the Playhouse and of course Sam's I I can't speak enough about how valuable she is. So that work is progressing. While we were here, I'm going to read it off my phone. I got an update if I can okay from Orstead on the repaving of Beach Lane and this came in uh after we were already here. So uh the crew [snorts] was able to complete the road repairs yesterday and they have started the final paving today. Uh they believe that the the paving will be completed today, David, but we'll be doing a final walkthrough with highway department and myself and you're certainly invited to make

125sure everything is done properly on that project. So that went very quick. Uh we were lucky even with the rain. And that's all I have. Great. Thank you, Ian. Uh yes, the Springs Farmers Market will open this Saturday, uh the 17th from 9 to 1:00 p.m. at Ashwag Hall on the lawn there. uh encourage everybody to check it out and if you're parking just uh be mindful that parking is is tight there and and park safely. I also just want to suggest that when there was a festival last fall um and the blacksmith shop in that same area, I was successful to parking in School Street and then walking across the bridge at Pussy's Pond, which is a quite quite a nice walk and just want people to consider that as a possibility. Uh the

126blacksmith shop will also be open on Saturday the 17th. Um, I think a lot of people have probably not been to the Parsons Parsons Blacksmith shop, but it's open monthly on Saturdays to coincide with the farmers market. Uh, James Deartis, who's a a fantastic artist and blacksmith, will be there demonstrating um the forge will be going and and I I highly encourage, you know, really encourage people to check it out. It's a very cool building and uh blacksmithing very interesting art. Um, also just want to note that and and thank the springs Historical Society. They are actually celebrating their 50th year this year. Congratulations. Um and there's a a really dedicated group of of people who helped take care of the blacksmith shop. Um the Heart of Springs group. There's just a lot of good

127work that goes on there and I want to acknowledge that. And in fact, they're going to be in the blacksmith shop this Thursday cleaning up and preparing for Saturday. And um over my just over a year being on this board, I've sort of seen some really positive transformations in there. And I it's a it's a gem and I encourage everybody to check it out. Uh the property management committee will meet next Wednesday uh at 4:30 at town hall. Uh the tenative agenda is to talk about uh Brooks Park, which has been a CPF property the town's own for a while and um we'll discuss the future there. Uh lastly, I want to mention that the firsttime home buyer program, we discussed this recently as a town board and adopted the new program with some changes.

128Uh, and just want to encourage anybody out there who might be looking for their first home to reach out to Joanne Pilgrim in the housing department. Um, there's information on the website, uh, currently in English and it's also being translated into Spanish. Um, one other thing I want to mention about the first-time home buyer, it's this has come up through, um, outreach by members of the community is how we might use that program to allow people interested in constructing their own home or purchasing a modular home. And I'm very open-minded about that. I think that I've I've spoken with the town attorney um John Jill Nikki who thinks there's a legal path forward. I just want to mention to other board members the only concern would be making sure that a house gets constructed in

129a timely fashion so that um if we're giving assistance that we make sure it it ends up as a a habitable space. So I'll I'll follow up with more about that. But again uh that that program I think has been very successful and I encourage everybody who might be interested to reach out to the housing department. Great. Can I just bring up the the this the culvert over by Old Stone Highway. I I mean I've driven through there. It looks like they paved within the last couple of days and when you're saying park on school street for the farmers market, it got wider so it's safer to cross and you do and it there's a nicer view because those fragmitees were were removed. Yeah. So is there much more work that needs to get done

130there? Yeah. There the the timing of that based on on weather. I think they still need to paint the bridge and seal some cracks, but that's not going to be super noticeable. Um, it's just small repairs and then a final cone of white paint so it'll look nicer. So, that work is is winding down. I would like to continue to explore the trimming, you know, cutting that fragmite to open up more more of that vista. think the work that was done was really successful and also like a longer term plan to explore street parking there and sort of integrate um there's a lot of great events that happen in in Springs and as anybody who's been down there traffic can be a little bit dicey. We don't want to put a big parking lot in

131but I think we can be creative with places to find additional parking that isn't so noticeable but also accommodates bigger events. So it's a it's a longer term view but um hope we get there. Yeah, that's great. Thank you. Uh, I just wanted to let folks know there's two resolutions that I have on for Thursday. One, um, we're going to be accepting the offer of a donation of a boulder and memorial plaque in honor of Ronald Slaughter uh, family for um, having, you know, sold to the town uh, the 66 Wayne Scott Main Street. Uh, folks remember that uh, that property Mr. Lauder had purchased in 2021 at a cost of 66 million and 3 years later sold it to us for open space, water quality, and historic preservation at a cost of 56 million.

132So, uh, Mr. Lauder's friend, uh, Andrew Sabin is making that donation. So, we're going to have a resolution on to accept the Boulder and memorial plaque. And then also, Jeanie mentioned it. Um, we had talked about doing a community newsletter that would get mailed um, ideally on a quarterly basis. So, we're going out for um, bids for for printing and inkjetting the addresses for a a four-page newsletter and Jeanie is also going to be going out for quotes to hire a graphic designer. Uh, and then lastly, the Citizen Police Academy graduation is this Wednesday night, and I've been asked by Sergeant El Versa to get a head count. So, I don't know if folks could let me know. Um, today if you'll be attending the graduation tomorrow, I believe it's at 5:30. I'll be at

133a softball game at headquarters. So, sorry. Okay, no worries. Um, so that's what I have for today. And then we have a few resolutions. Yes. Thank you very much. I'm very happy to be able off the resolution 2025716. This is authorized a payment for our 2024 Nelson and Pope invoice which was dated September 16th, 2025 for work that was completed in 2024. Uh and the amount uh the invoice was for $2,176.25. Second. All in favor? I I have resolution 2025717. This is a bond for $1.5 million for the Lake Malk navigation project. You might recall that we did this resolution last week, but uh we're rescending that bond because we needed to do it not in the amount of 1.1 million, but we actually needed to do it at the uh at 1.5 million, which

134is still just an estimate. So, do I have a second? Second. Carol, can I get a roll call, please? Council member Flight, Council Member Lee, I. Council member Rogers, I. Council member Calder Pedmont, I. Supervisor Burke Gonzalez, I. Resolution 718 is to approve employee reimbursement for the Citizens Police Academy graduation. This is for refreshments and flowers. H, and it's in the amount not to exceed $600. Second. All in favor? I. 719 is to approve police department crime prevention training. This is for police officer Jack Borie that he be retroactively reimbursed for training he attended in an amount not to exceed $1,000. Second. All in favor? I. 720 is for remote monitoring and maintenance agreement for 2025 for the East Hampton Town Police Department. This is maintenance of their computer servers at an annual cost of

135$41,236. Second. All in favor? I. 721 is reversal of fees paid via credit, debit card and echek. This is at times uh payments that are processed electronically are later deemed to have been processed in error or duplication. So this uh puts a process in place for refunds via the same payment method and department departments must notify finance department in writing before refund fee is pro processed. Second. All in favor? I I have resolution 2025722. This is to authorize an application uh to national register sign grant program. Uh this is a plaque for the Malk Playhouse Auditorium and this goes uh an application to the William G. Pomemeroy Foundation for this sign. Second. All in favor? I. 723 is to amend hourly rates for part-time traffic control officers retroactive to April 6, 2025. Second. All in

136favor? I. All right, that concludes uh our agenda. I'd like to make a motion to go into executive se session for CPF, personnel, litigation, contracts, and real estate. Second. All in favor? Thank you everyone for joining us and thank you LTV. Thank you guys.