East Hampton Town Board Work Session 04/01/25

001to East Hampton Town Board. You are live. Good morning everyone and welcome to the East Hampton Town Board work session of Tuesday, April 1st, 2025. Carol, if you could please read the roll call. Present. Present. Present. present. If we could all stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. Harold, do you have a signup list there or no? So, today we start our meeting with the public portion. We ask you to kindly keep your comments to three minutes. uh as a number of folks want to speak. Then we have uh topics today. We start with bids and that will be uh presented by Lisa Valick. Welcome

002Lisa. Uh then we have the East Hampton Town Police Department 2024 annual report that Chief Michael Sarlo gives every year. That'll be followed by an update from the water quality advisory committee uh led by Rachel Gruen. And I see that we've got a number of members from the committee here. Yes, I think Rachel is not feeling well today. Okay. So, Romesh just told me Romesh is going to pinch hit. Yeah. Okay. Terrific. Then we've got a presentation from Joanne Pilgrim and Tom Flight and that's the ADU committee code change recommendations. I do have to pull the u the fifth topic, the proposed amendment to chapter 255 zoning definition of community resource. We're going to move that to next Tuesday. And then lastly, we will have a presentation from Rob Connelly, our town attorney, on proposed

003amendments to chapter 25 and the code of ethics. That'll be followed by liaison reports and we have a handful of resolutions. So, first uh up uh signed up to speak is Jennifer Folks. Welcome, Jen. Good morning, Supervisor Burke Gonzalez and members of the town board. I'm Jennifer Folks. Do I need to state my address, too? No. Okay. Um, today I'm here speaking on behalf of OMAC, the Old Montalk Athletic Club. I'm here to ask that the town board consider a reduction in special events fees for OMAC events. OMAC is classified as a 501c7, which is defined as a nonprofit organization, but not technically a charitable organization. We are a community organization made up entirely of volunteers. And our mission is to produce events that benefit the community. We provide scholarships to graduating East Hampton High

004School seniors. We support our high school teams by providing the funding they need for special uniforms and trips to tournaments and other competitions. In fact, we've sent two East Hampton High School runners to nationals in recent years. We sponsor local adult athletes and races around the country. We donate to the local food pantries, the HLA, and other organizations that request our support. Most recently, through a very successful Mayday 5K event in the village, we have been able to donate over $45,000 to local mental health organizations in support of mental of adolescent mental health. So, while we are technically not a charitable organization by definition, OMAC does support our community and in the past, the town has waved the special events fees for our events. To that end, we are asking if it might be possible

005to work with the town on a reduction in fees for special events such as the Monttok Mile and Brewathlon. At we all recognize that the support of the town in the way of police presence and other infrastructure is integral to the success of our events and we don't want to be a drain on the town's resources. We are open to suggestions and want to both make sure we can still afford to produce events that benefit our community and contribute in a meaningful way to the town. Thank you. Any questions? No, we we'll I'm sure we'll discuss it later. Thank you. Thank you, John. John Tarbet. Hi, John. Tarbet. Welcome, John. Hi. Thank you. I got a feeling you know why I'm here. I did email the board last week. Um, and I'm here to address

006what's become a significant issue in the the permit process, zoning board and planning board. as you know from my email and probably know just general knowledge is now taking well over two years to get a permit for a natural resource special permit or even for a planning board permit. And this is not an issue with staffing. Morgan and Tyler do a great job doing what they can to move things along. The process is broken. It just simply cannot take two plus years. We have complete applications that we're told it's going to take 8 to 10 months for the planner to get to it. It it just it I I want to be part of the solution. I I know I have good ideas that could help, but I want to know the board is aware

007of it and that you're working on a way to allow people to get through the process quicker. Thank you, John. Thank you. Is there anyone else here that would like to address the board? David. David. Welcome, David. Thank you. Uh good morning, David Buddha from the Springs. As I did on November 12th, I'm here to speak briefly on the uh ADU committee recommendations for changes to the town code concerning uh accessory dwelling units, which used to be known as affordable accessory apartments. I think it was uh they say it was Albert Einstein who said that uh doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get a different result is the definition of madness. Um, instead of over and over again tinkering with the ADU formula and regulations and code provisions, what I

008suggest you do, as I did suggested on on November the 12th, the real focus if you really want to accomplish significant change in providing affordable housing is not through the ADU mechanism, but rather through looking at the townowned properties to see where you can possibly expand the affordable zoning. affordable uh housing overlay zones in existing residential areas and perhaps consider give us consideration to creating a new apartment zoning uh designation in appropriate locations. The town purchased a large track of land in Montalk a couple years ago that is sitting I believe it's on East Lake Drive. The town is currently apparently uh hoping to acquire from the county several large tracks of land, some of which might be appropriate for affordable housing. I don't know how that's going. Those were lands that the county had

009acquired by tax foreclosure and then had put up for auction and you were last I heard in the process of hoping to acquire them for little or nothing. So that's really where the focus should be. But go turning to the specific recommendations. There are two that are in my opinion totally outrageous. Number one, cons asking the board to reduce the minimum lot size for an allowable ADU to 10,000 square ft is really um poorly thought out. The town has over the years since zoning was created 1957 eliminated smaller residential lot zoning. There was a C-zone at that time and the minimum lot zone that we have is 20,000. It's not because we as a town want to be exclusionary or elitist. It's because we live in an environmentally sensitive area. The county establishes minimum lot

010areas for subdivisions depending on the water quality resources and depending on the land. um characteristics at either 40,000 square foot minimum or 20,000 foot minimum. Our minimum wonia of 20 is a is a response to our environment, our concern for protecting our resources and bettering the quality of life for our citizens. It's not because we want to exclude people or uh be in any way discriminatory to give consideration. And now those areas of the town that do have 10,000 foot lot area uh areas, those are the areas that were established and uh populated historically in an older period of time and are the ones that are most sensitive and therefore the ones least likely to bear the uh benefits of bear successfully additional um usage. Let me just move on to one other topic and

011and that one is actually the most outrage outrageous suggestion. If I understand the proposal correctly, someone is suggesting that ADUs, the living area, the gross floor area be excluded from the calculations and the limits that the town imposes in the zoning code for residential uses. How can you do that? That would be a type of reverse discrimination that would not sustain u a court challenge. You certainly cannot give ADUs the exclusion from ordinary and regular zoning laws that establish a maximum amount of gross floor area within a zoning area based on the size of a lot whether it be 10,000 20,000 40,000. Thank you very much. Thank you, David. Jason, is there anyone on the line that was like public? Yes. Give me one moment. Let me just get that up and running. And in

012three two hello caller ending 4221 you're on the air. Thank you LTV. Good morning Tom board. This is Jane Miring and Amigansit. I'm speaking to you today as an individual resident. As you are aware I've spoken in support of all proposed affordable housing developments over the past four years. I've also supported the recently proposed density increases for senior and regular way affordable housing. So, I hope I'm known to you as a firm advocate of affordable housing. I also agree it's confounding that our ADU program hasn't gotten more uptake, though I of course support working to address that. I also want to note specifically today I'm not making any comments about nor do I have any opinion yet regarding the proposal to quote remove the requirement that the property be the property owner's primary legal residence.

013So, I don't want to get too far ahead of your work session discussion later, but I'd like to offer some comments now. Point one. First, a correction to a key statistic in the PowerPoint. Slide four notes, quote, 58% of lots in town are less than 20,000 square ft, so majority of lots are currently ineligible. The correct data is quote 37% of residential lots in the town are sub 20,000 square ft. So, majority 63% are currently eligible. Point two, I understand the motivation to consider dropping ADU lot size threshold to 10,000, but I do see this as potentially problematic for the following. One, 10,000 square foot lots are 50% under size substandard to the 20,000 foot zoning minimum, which is central to key goals objectives of the comprehensive plan. And two, it does disproportionately impact B

014residence zones, which have the greatest density. some numbers. 56% of all lots in B resident zones are substandard to zoning minimums. 82% of all the 10 to 20,000 square foot lots across town are in the B zone. Which leads me to point three. A, the proposal states that only attached ADUs will be permitted on lots between 10 and 20,000. And B, it states ADUs would be excluded from maximum GFA calculation. So per existing code attached data use can be up to 12,200 square feet and this means on a 10,000 foot lot the principal resident structure could exceed legally permitted GFA by as much as 55%. Respectfully this should be viewed as unacceptable especially given the undersized non-conforming nature of these lots. Above ground ADUs should be counted to the measure of GFA. In addition, it

015could make sense to prorrate permitted attached ADU size above ground from 12,000 for lots down to 600 for lots less than 20,000. Also, removing detached ADU, removing a detached ADU option takes away design flexibility across a whole range of lots up to 20,000 square feet. I'm not seeing how that is necessarily logical or productive. Most important, not counting attached ADU square feet to GFA potentially creates a serious problem when ADUs are ultimately quote relinquished, such as on change of ownership. It's one thing to take a kitchen and plumbing out of a 600 foot detached ADU and reverting it back to a conforming accessory structure. It's quite another thing to start demolishing parts of the house or allowing non-conforming GSA to continue. And I know I'm going over, but just my last thought here very quickly.

016Point four, the committee discussed but quote, "The committee discussed but did not support changing the term used to define ADUs as affordable." I do find this quite disappointing that the committee opposes ensuring ADU tenants are income qualified. We have thousands thousands of folks on waiting lists in this town for affordable housing who are qualified as such. So, it's a huge gap that ADUs will not meet that affordable housing hurdle necessarily. Thank you. And I really look forward to this important work session later today. Thank you, Jane. Jason, is there anyone else on the line? We have no other callers. I'm just going to go one more time in the room. Is there anyone that would like to address the board? All right. So, we're going to do you mind supervisor if uh we have uh

017the chief of the East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue here, Chief Andre Tribuovich. You had a rescue this weekend that I was going to do my lesson report. Yeah. Okay. Do you mind if you come and just tell tell the board about the rescue? You just have to come to the the thing here. This is off. Sure. Sure. His name again. Feel sick. I was sorry for a different reason. You right there at the at the podium behind the podium. Andre. No, I feel so official again. My name is Andre. I'm a chief of East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue. Um, thank you for letting me speak, but I I guess you you just want me to to give like a quick I believe uh there was a there's a rescue that volunteer ocean rescue participated in

018from some surfers this weekend and specifically about locations of some of our equipment that we that your equipment that you deployed was essentially essential in that rescue of lives and this being a cold water in in March on there then too just by chance I caught you out of the corner of my eye. I was going to talk about in my leazison on report but if you're okay with that sorry on the spot. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. I'll I'll I'll be brief. Uh yes. So the call went over at ditch planes. It was two surfers two surfers in distress. Uh one actually made it to shore safely by himself. The other one needed help. So we thankfully to have the um unit at Nick's beach that we have uh you know town provided. We used to

019have our montalk rig. So just just to give you an idea. Yeah. So we have a a full rig set in Mtok Amigans and uh in the village of East Hampton. So the one that was in Malkque used to be in Playhouse and once they started to build the pool we had to move our equipment outside and jet ski cannot be uh outside in the freezing temperatures. So that's why the decision was made to create something and it was a great uh we call that can but it's like a heated container that's uh now located at uh right across the street from Sloppy Tuna uh Nick's Beach. And so that's where the we actually launched the jet ski um on Saturday for the rescue that was happening at Ditch Plains. And it's usually like it's

020part of our protocol to do that as well cuz d planes um the the access to the beach is getting sometimes really destroyed and you know we can't really access vehicles on the beach. So, it's always easier to drop the ski in the water either from Nyx or if it's a lighthouse rescue, we go from the boat ramp um in Monttok, Lake Malkque. And today, I mean, this past weekend, we were able to launch this ski at Nyx and uh you know, relatively quick response. I mean, it's winter, it's still uh um and we knew that people had floating devices, so it we we had to manage it. We didn't send anybody, you know, directly, but it if it was a swimmer in distress, we would probably get another additional resources to either paddle out

021or swim out to the victim. Um, and it was rough water conditions. It was probably like a sixoot swell with uh, you know, high winds as well. Um, I think our guys did a great job and fire department was there helping. Um and coincidentally there was a East Hampton um volunteer and rescue member and her son was in the response from uh Montalk Fire Department. So they actually assisted the victim out of the water at Ditch Plains. Um that's about it. I just want to thank you again for that uh unit that we have. Um and you know hopefully we'll work together on on everything and uh we'll have more rescues there and throughout East Hampton Town. Thank you. Thank you very much, Andre. Thank you so much. Okay, so we're going to move on

022with our topics. Lisa, you're up with bids. Welcome. Good morning everyone. Lisa Vich from the purchasing department. We have some extensions and some notices. So the first extension is for EH248 which is the compliance work at the airport fuel farm and that's Gemstar construction corp. The other is EH24-014 printing of envelopes and business cards and we have a few vendors there. It's Czechomatic, Rididgewood Press, concept print and Montalk printing. Eh24-010 supply and delivery of international truck parts. That's Allegiance Trucks. Eh24-1013 supply and delivery of Ford OEM parts, which is New and Bay Newan Bayore Ford, excuse me. Uh, EH23-022 t-shirts, sweatshirts, and other uniform items. That's ABC custom sales. Um, we have an RFP there also. So, it's EH2022-104 professional services for the collection of delinquent fines and penalty penalties. and that's fundamental business service.

023And we're noticing for the annual cesspool and tank pumping services and also for the RFP to license to utilize agricultural land at 20 Springs Fireplace Road. And that's it. We're a little busy. Enjoy your day, everyone. All right. Any questions for Lisa? All right. Thanks, Lisa. Okay. So, next up we have uh police chief Michael Sarlo to take us through the 2024 annual report. Welcome, Chief. Good morning. Uh thank you for having me here today annually having a chance to formally present our annual report which we compile um usually is available some point in February, early March. Um all of the last 12 annual reports are available and accessible in electronic format um in a link on our department website. So you can kind of go back. We each each year we compile like a

024five-year um evaluation of statistics. So there's when you start piecing it all together and look through um kind of how the flow of police work has gone within the township, it's all available there for the public to consume right on our website. Um, I'll try to walk you through a brief summary of the report today and then answer any questions that you all might have. Um, obviously it was another very busy and challenging year in local law enforcement. Um, with very heavy traffic volume, increasing demands for proactive and preventative policing measures, continuing technological upgrades, and ongoing progressive community policing efforts. The department continued to integrate our body warn cameras, in-car video system, license plate readers, and fixed cameras into our operations. We recently completed the full implementation of a new records management system and computer

025aided dispatch system. The efficiency and modernization of our department continues and we appreciate your support in helping us work through these evolving and new everchanging requirements for us as a police department. I would like to recognize the outstanding work of our 2024 police officer of the year, Nicole Fiero. Uh Nicole led the entire department in overall arrests as well as in DWI arrests for the second consecutive year. Um additionally, our detective division in conjunction with the Suffach County District Attorney's Office, East End Drug Task Force, successfully completed a year-long investigation into a major narcotics distribution ring which was operating between New York City and Monotok. It ultimately resulted in the arrest of two individuals on multiple multiple felony counts related to distribution, sale, and possession of dangerous narcotics. The professional efforts of our patrol officers

026in developing investigative leads should not be overlooked in helping make a dent in the flow of dangerous street drugs into our community. We are fortunate to be able to renew the Citizens Police Academy during 2024. A tremendous program which engages community members and provides an excellent opportunity for feedback and engagement with our stakeholders and our officers. I want to thank Lieutenant Chelsea Tierney and Sergeant Kenny Alvera for spearhead spearheading that effort. Throughout 2024, our officers saved lives through Narcan administration, CPR, and defibrillator use. They performed heroic acts and routinely showed great investigative instincts and persistence in bringing justice and closure for victims of crimes. We continue to get high praise from the district attorney's office for the quality of our work that the department puts forth in prosecution of cases. While we also continue to

027build community relations through our DARE and school resource officer programs in the schools, collaboration with local mental health initiatives, a child safety seat team, drug takeback day initiatives, crimerevention presentations with our senior citizens and local community groups. Training our officers remains a top priority in keeping up with evolving state requirements and yearly proficiency while ensuring our specialized units are ready to respond to critical incidents. Our police dive team, ESU team, and unmanned aerial systems team continue to provide valuable support for the department and the community. Some areas of instruction for our training include deescalation, disability and vulnerable citizens awareness, responding to emotional crises, state liquor authority enforcement, school law and juvenile cases, active shooter and mass casualty response, and mental health first aid for law enforcement. We're also thrilled to welcome eight new police officers

028hired by the department in 2024 with four of those being Spanish-sp speakaking officers. We would like to thank and congratulate our retiring officers in 2024, including Captain Chris Anderson for his over 34 years of service and Detective Arthur Scalzo along with recently retired Sergeant Wayne Mada and Detective Sergeant Ryan Hogan. We thank them for their service to the community and wish them all the best in their retirement. To review a brief statistical analysis of the department activity in 2024, the department affected over 500 arrests, including over 100 penal law and over 400 vehicle and traffic law arrests. Included in the vehicle and traffic law arrests were 190 for DWI. Officers issued over 4,400 traffic tickets, over 5,000 parking tickets, and 1,000 town code summons. The bulk of our calls for service, which take up a

029majority of our patrol time, continue to be medical aided cases, alarms, 911 hang-ups, and fire chief investigations. Motor vehicle accidents fell during 2024 below 800 for the first time in 5 years. While unfortunately, emotionally disturbed persons calls also rose to a 5-year high of 114. Quality of life calls such as parking, noise, town code, civil disputes, speed enforcement all continue to grow and hold steady year-toear with actually commercial noise and civil complaints dropping to a 5-year low. Our investigation numbers continue to hold steady, showing no significant violent or pattern crime trends, which would be of particular concern. Identity theft and fraud continue to climb uh up over a hundred again, mirroring a spike that we saw in 2022. Usually, these are because of a particular type of cyber crime committed by people from usually either

030overseas or outside the community that end up hitting on people's phones and computers and it comes in a wave. So, that's why those numbers tend to fluctuate, but obviously it's a continued problem and something we're focusing on. Um, our crime index numbers and cases handled continue to show we are living in a very safe and relatively low crime community. Of particular interest in today's climate, we have received zero ICE detainers or warrants during 2024 and the first part of 2025. And in the past 5 years, just two detainers and one warrant total. Unfortunately, the community experienced seven overdoses during 2024, one of those being fatal. and there was one fatal suicide incident. With over 25,000 civilian interactions, the department received just four civilian complaints. We also had just nine reports of use of force by

031our officers. In summary, I'd like to thank the board for the opportunity to continue to present our annual report. We truly appreciate the support the board continues to show for our officers and our operations. We'd like to thank all of our civilian support staff, other town employees, and the townwide volunteers we work so closely with throughout the year to ensure public safety for our community. There's any questions? Open it up to the board. Anything you'd like to discuss and something you've seen or have some questions about within the annual report. Chief, I would just um like to say that I think the public safety we have in this town is is a variety of many factors. population sizes, our geography. Um, but I think above all, it's it's how our police department operates in this

032town and and I thank you and all the officers for that. Um, the commitment and the lifestyle choices you make to do that are an incredible gift to society in which you live. Thank you very much. Thank you. So, so going through the report, I've seen multiple of these. It's very interesting to see over the time that I've spent on the board maybe eight years now then too how efforts the board through our budgeting and trying to get uh the resources to the P PD and marine patrol takes a couple years to get to see the numbers potentially precipitates drop or increase in some which ways for uh violations quality of life the decrease in quality of life complaints is residential you'll see there uh one of the things that you'll actually see in when

033you get to the marine patrol on is u not uh non-compliant beach fires are up tremendously on there because we've had put efforts into the budget to actually get additional resources into the department to go for greater amount of schedules later in the night. M talk other locations then too. So you're starting to see that trickle in after you have a couple budget cycles into the report to numbers that people and our residents have asked us to take care of and too from our side. But again, just because we hire the individual the uh uh or we we put that in your budget, it's up to you to go make sure that individual's trained. Going back to training, some of our police officers have close to 280 hours of training a year. No, days. Sorry,

034hours. Hours. Hours. Sorry, I apologize. Okay. Weeks of training on there. And this goes anything from dive dive a dive team to uh the drone teams on there. And just this morning when I was in the village here, walking the village, I saw that the ESU treat team was looking at one of our uh places of general assembly. He wanted to say to go out and look at that for a potential location if something happened. They were preparing even today as we speak then too. uh I don't know if he did that on purpose as you're seeing it, but the amount of training that your department does there that's not necessarily seen as much, but if you dive into the numbers on here, it really gets realized how professional the department is. Uh and those

035are the things that make it a very safe place. One more, sorry, one more for me. I've lived out here my whole life. I, you know, a lot of us say that the Shinik Canal is one of those things that just geographically protects us. I agree with that, but I also say it's Eastampton Town Police Department that protects us, too. And under under your uh your leadership, we've see that and we're seeing the proof in this report then. Thank Thank you. Appreciate that. And I'll just touch on a couple. I agree with of course everything that uh folks have said and I agree because it's proven in in in what uh your report uh for the work that your team has done last year keeping us safe. Um, I'll just highlight on page 11 and

036I encourage everybody in the community to really take a look and take a deep dive into this because when you say statistics or when we say words like medical aid cases, you know, really think about what that means. That means helping people that are in distress, families, kids, parents, you know, that that means, you know, medically aided. You know, I always feel like we use these terms, but when you dive down each of them, it's all about helping people in any way that your department can. Um, I also want to highlight the average response time, which is phenomenal to me. I I don't know how this can get done, but for priority ones, the average response time is 5 minutes and 47 seconds. And for priority two, it all it goes all the way up

037to six minutes and for another minute. So, that is phenomenal to me. uh and the organization of your team and how quickly you can respond is what saves lives. So, I just want to thank you for all the work that you do helping our community be safe, helping them when they're in need, um and also how quickly you get there. So, thank you so much. Thank you. I would just reiterate those, you know, I agree with everything that's been said. Um, and just just very briefly, I appreciate all of that and that you do and your your your job as chief of police, but also how professionally you present things to us and the public. I've I've heard numerous members of the public um comment in a positive way on on how you conduct yourself

038and and is greatly appreciated. So, thank you. Thank you. So, I just want to share I I don't haven't had an opportunity to actually talk to my fellow board members about this, but I guess it was a week and a half ago I had the privilege of attending the graduation of six new police officers and four of which were Spanish speaking. Um, and I was also outreached by a couple of those uh new officers also, you know, they're lo came off the local list. They're from our community. Some of them grew up in affordable housing. I mean, this is why affordable housing is so important. Um, but the ceremony up in Suffach County in Brentwood was really incredible. They uh had the the uh bag pipes and the drums from the I guess it was

039the Emerald Society of Suffach County. It was there was a lot of pomp and circumstance. There was apparently they practiced for a week. The precision of the officers walking in, the pride that they took. Um then each officer was called up to the stage. Um Mike, you were on vacation and um so Lieutenant Greg Martin stood in for you. Uh also attending was Detective Sergeant Frank Sokalowski and Sergeant Kenny Alver Versa. And just to show the support to, you know, our new recruits of how important it is that we're going to be integrating them in into the force. And um you know we had pictures taken and then you know made it up on social media. But it was just an extraordinary experience to look at the our um the the officers like Lieutenant Martin

040and Sergeant El Versa. It was the first time they had been back to the academy since they themselves graduated and you know they were reminiscing about you know their time at the academy and it was just a tremendous experience and I you know suggest to my colleagues that the next time there's a graduation we should really think about going in force because it's uh it was an incredible experience. Um and then I on um Sunday our new officers were all in uniform. They had their badges. They had their name plates and they were out you know working the M talk parade uh the friends of Aaron parade. So, uh, they got indoctrinated real quick into, you know, and I guess each one has been assigned to a squad. So, and and an officer and, um,

041so it was a great they I guess last week they were training, right? And they were getting the lay of the land and this was their first time out on patrol. So, that was incredible. And then um as you mentioned um Sergeant Mada retired and we had his walk out ceremony on Friday and there was a great turnout for that and we're grateful for his service and I was having a conversation with Lieutenant Tierney and we were talking about the police uh academy the civilian police academy and she was saying how we're actually getting interest from some of the young people that are taking the class that this is kind of turning into a recruitment tool. Not just about, you know, educating the community on what it is uh community policing is all about, but

042there are now folks that are, you know, after going through a couple of these sessions that are interested in pursuing law enforcement as a career, which wasn't the intent of the academy, but it may be, you know, one of the byproducts, which is pretty exciting. and many of the folks that expressed interest were Spanish speaking which you know we're looking to increase those numbers on our on our force. Correct. So thank you for all you do. Just my my quick recap um as piggybacking on what some of you have mentioned. We do work very closely with the board to listen to the concerns of the community. And it can take us a budget cycle or two to get the resources we need to be able to focus on some of the areas of concern to

043to make sure we have the personnel or technology to address those issues to improve public safety. And you guys have been a valuable partner in that. We appreciate your support. This annual report is one of those tools that helps us evaluate our own successes, failures, where we need to focus, uh what we can improve upon, and it it's a valuable resource to us to be able to have this interchange with you and with the public forum. And my email address is right on the top of the um department website. And you know any questions that come up out of anybody from the press or the public in reviewing this by by all means please reach out more than more than willing to continue the discussion. And my la very last comment is that whole idea

044of the um pomp and circumstance. The six six months plus of training, you know, uh 5 days a week, 10 to 12 hour days um culminates with that celebration. And those officers are now ours to continue finishing their field training. And we hope to impart on them that continued service to the community and the idea that we are here to help. and we're going to focus on investing in them to train them to be part of what we've built here as a as a department. And the support of the board and the community is is very much recognized by everybody. So, thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you, Chief. Thanks, guys. Okay, Romesh, you're up. We're going to hear from the waterfront advisory committee. We're grateful that you could, you know, pinch it today and and

045get us up to speed. If Rachel could have uh shielded this, she's down with the flu or something like that. Um the uh waterfront advisory committee uh is uh a statutory committee that uh oversees the local waterfront revitalization program which is the uh coastal component of the gonna let Amory get the presentation up so people can fall follow along at home. It's coming up. I I want to uh kind of frame this just as um This this is the uh this is the long-term uh view of things that uh you guys get to work on. Um and is probably um the more difficult part of your job which is the the real uh uh visioning uh for the community. Um, these plans are uh set up with something like a 30-year horizon and um uh

046this one is uh coming coming due. So it's uh it's getting time to uh renew that uh that view and u uh update uh the uh planning tools that uh we've developed for this. So I'm just going to go back in history a little bit Romesh and give props to those that are due. Uh so the waterfront advisory uh the town waterfront advisory committee is part of the LWRP um local revitalization plan uh waterfront revitalization plan that was developed by specifically a committee made up of Romesh and other uh members of our community. East Hampton is one of the few towns that actually have an LWRP. And not only is that important for our coastal planning, few municipalities in in uh New York State, not only is that important for our mun for our planning

047and and development of our coastlines, but it also is one of the key um foundations for receiving grants. Um, and if it wasn't for the work of this committee and the plans that were put in place when we first got our LWRP adopted into our con uh comprehensive plan, for example, the $600,000 coastal resiliency grant that we're now moving into uh planning stages uh would not have been awarded to the town. Uh that was through this committee. So uh the work the we are standing on your shoulders Romesh uh in in a roundabout way of saying all the work that you and others did to formulate um our coastal resiliency uh in the beginning of of uh developing this plan has been invaluable to us from the moment it got adopted. Well uh thank you.

048It's been a a kind of a a long hall over the years uh and um um has been through several iterations. David has been one of the liaison and Kate has taken it over the last few years and u um of course we uh ran into some slowdowns with COVID. So um we're uh uh coming around with a new round. Now the uh mandate of the uh committee is to uh oversee this local waterfront revitalization program which is uh a uh uh statemandated program with uh 44 coastal policies that u uh the town adopted to its local conditions uh according uh in cooperation with the New York state program and um let's see we uh work with the supervisor on producing an annual report on the local waterfront program and uh we advise the town

049board on demand as you see fit. Um the um let's can we go to next slide? Pushing that. Okay. So, the uh the plan itself is up on the town website and it is uh I see that it's still under uh Andrew Cuomo's uh u governorship, but uh the full plan is available there and uh it is uh um probably 700 pages of u some bureaucratic uh gobbledegook, but also a great deal of uh detailed content about the town's uh local conditions and coastline and uh very detailed policies uh which have um influenced our u ways of approaching uh zoning and u natural resources and a a slew of other u policy issues including public access, fishing, recreational uh issues, land use uh and um everything from scenic to historical resources. next. So, uh the

050we have five members on the committee uh three of whom are here including myself. Um and um um Rachel Gruen uh who uh whose PowerPoint talents put together this presentation uh is a science teacher and has been an environmental consultant lifelong resident. Um Peter Struggats uh who is uh here there somewhere. Wave please. Is a um trained coastal engineer and um has also done uh a great deal of uh uh environmental entrepreneurial uh work. Uh Mike Northrup is the uh program director uh for the Rockefeller Brothers Sustainability uh foundation and uh he um has incredible connections throughout both the u national and international uh community that u uh kind of networks around climate issues. So he's been really uh useful in bringing resources to bear that uh help us to focus on uh climate change

051issues particularly. He's also a local resident and grew up out here. So um uh and uh Andy Harris um who's also here there he is is our Montalk eyes and ears and has been a participant in uh u a number of the u town's environmental um uh committees over u many years and um has u really uh helped us in particular on this uh montalk grant that uh uh Kate referred to u in helping to uh focus and pull that to together. Uh next one and uh Kate has of course been an enormously capable liaison for our committee. So, uh the way that this u uh legislation came into being is interesting because it uh derives from uh federal coastal zone management legislation that was uh uh put out in 1972 and it is set

052up so it's grassroots up which means that uh we uh conform to the uh kind of outline of coast policies that the state puts together. But then um once our uh program gets approved, the uh state and federal agencies are supposed to conform to our policies, which is um different than the way it usually works from the top down. And u u probably in the current environment that may be an advantage. We'll see. Uh the um our um the draft of this uh document that we use was finished in 1999 and it was approved by the town board, but it was not uh um approved by the state until 2007 under the McGinty administration because some implementing legislation had to be passed. and um um usual political complications. So we say anyway u so it

053has been in effect and part of the uh town's uh planning process uh since 2007. So um as a document that was uh designed to have a 30-year planning horizon. It's about uh expired. Um, next one. And it has been uh put into the uh uh comprehensive plan, it is that uh outline of what uh we're supposed to be doing along the coast. the policies if you go into them and they're used regularly by the U planning department and zoning as uh Kate can attest from when she was zoning chair uh it's leverage at times when uh you need to u um have reasoning and uh policy language behind decisions and it has helped the town in a number of instances in defending its um uh environmental policies. Next. So, uh, Kate referred to the,

054uh, eligibility for grants, and there's a point system in the, uh, uh, as you're, I'm sure you're aware of the in the state, uh, consolidated funding application u system and having a approved LWRP uh, gives you a leg up. So um in um this Montalk uh project that we're uh received a a rather sizable grant for u that was definitely a factor. Uh we've also been encouraged by the department of state uh the coastal program under um which these um LWRP programs proceed um to apply for an update of the uh our u LWRP. So, um we would like to do that for this current funding round uh coming up. Uh the uh uh applications go in I think in July. So, uh there's some preparation that needs to go into that. We uh have

055um thought to do it uh probably in two stages uh so that it's doesn't become as much of a u uh a burden uh as the last time around which u um I think we took almost 10 years to do it as a a a complete local program. So hopefully that can be done uh much more quickly since we have the skeleton of it already. So um the challenges that come next are much more u you know pronounced because of climate change uh the severity and increase in the number of storms that are coming our way that I think we're all pretty aware of and that um you know we have dodged uh the major bullets to eight, but that is not going to uh continue forever. Certainly. Uh next one. So, uh part of

056the LWRP is a um uh projects list. Um and uh we have addressed um a number of recommendations for that. uh which um uh went to the board um I think precoid probably we should get you an updated version of that to uh consider. A lot of these things converge with what has been done in the interval. for instance, the uh KARP um um program which has already been incorporated into the comprehensive plan. Uh the um hazard management plan uh planning that uh Tom is uh working on. Uh we would like to uh bring to bear a longer term aspect of that uh particularly in relation to uh flooding and erosion and uh long-term shoreline recession, water resource management. um and um all of the sort of u longer term aspects of sustainability for the

057town that uh really need to be looked at in terms of uh climate change um and uh the uh uh things like the hamlet plans that have already been uh pulled together. So I think there's a convergence of uh both the interests that would come from the uh LWRP update, the current projects like the Montalk uh resiliency plan, the KARP and the Hamlet plans and all of that uh can be pulled together and uh will become the uh blueprint for the uh preservation and sustainability of the town over the next coming decades. So, it's difficult to take that kind of a long-term view because there's so much uncertainty involved in that. But it's still I think the the necessary exercise that we have to undertake and uh especially as uh we are more on our

058own the u can you go back one slide I'm sorry. So the background of this slide is the uh from the CARP plan and that is the uh graphic from uh the 2030 to 2050 um period when uh the town may begin to look like four islands which is a sobering uh proposition to uh begin to envision for all of us. I think um okay thanks. Um so these are some of the uh priorities that we are uh asking you to uh consider that we apply for the uh update to the LWRP itself that uh some of these long-term sustainability uh issues uh around uh modeling the sea level rise and what that's going to look like as in that karp uh map that we were talking about. uh the longer term hazard mitigation and

059uh hurricane damage mitigation planning that is the extension of what Tom is looking at with the emergency services and uh short-term emergency planning for uh storms and um what measures the town can take to adapt to uh climate change over the long term. Um so um we uh think that we have some uh uh talents and abilities within the committee that we can bring to bear as and hope to u be uh helpful as uh um we proceed with some of these uh uh planning exercises. and we're u appreciative that we've had the uh opportunity to work with you all. Thank you. Oh, and the last uh slide. I think this is just a great illustration. Uh this one's thanks to Google Maps, but um you know the fragility of our town sitting out in

060the ocean and the graphic uh view of that you know satellite um um image I I think in the that uh sense of where we are is important to keep uh in view as we uh work on these matters. Thank you. I'm happy to respond to any uh questions. So, I'm just going to start for a second and uh thank you um for all you've done and all you continue to do and the entire committee. Um I just want to uh emphasize that the local waterfront revitalization uh program includes um resiliency for our business downtowns as well and that is going to continue. Um so the coastal assessment and resiliency plan built out of this plan and now the uh work that we're doing on the um mont resiliency grant is going to build on

061these plans uh al together and that is while we're looking at what Tom is looking at the short-term hazard mitigation instant recovery what we're going to be looking uh at in the uh the resiliency grant I'll just remind everybody once again that this is How do we get our business areas up and running? How do we get businesses back online as fast as possible? What can we do to pre-plan for these events? So, uh we'll have that RFP going out soon um to start this study uh which is the longer look. Also, we'll talk about um what we already know are effective um natural barriers and natural recoveries for our coastal areas. Returning our our uh living shorelines, returning our um depleted wetlands because these are the sponges. These are the ways that all of

062this information gets incorporated into the idea of resiliency and sustainability which not only includes the environment but also the community. So um if if we didn't have this work uh in the past, we would not be able to plan for a sustainable future. Um I hope you'll think of the uh MTalk program, the resiliency plan also is kind of a model for the other parts of the town as well. Absolutely. It's really going to and uh in to a great extent I think maybe uh a model for other parts of Long Island as well. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Appreciate your message. Okay, next up we have the ADU committee code change recommendations. Tom, did you want to Yeah, um I I am. I'm going to be a little longwinded. Joan Pilgrim address

063some of the questions that were raised earlier. Um but just to kind of introduce just the recommendations we have uh today are the result of the last year's work by um the ADU committee um with experts in the field of finance, law, building, real estate operations, housing and community relations. They're your neighbors, colleagues from a wide array of backgrounds. Um so I I'd first like to thank Andrew, John, Deb, Bry, Eric, and Punit for all their help and to all the town teams for everything they've done and helping to guide this progress. Um, you know, I I also want to remind the public of what we as a board task this committee to do when we pass the resolution forming it. There are three clear goals. To streamline the permitting for accessory dwelling units in

064supportive housing, to enact policies that encourage development of accessory dwelling units and make recommendations to town code to facilitate the development of accessory dwelling units. So, ADUs, what what are they? Accessory dwelling units, right? that they are what I see as a missing rung on the housing ladder right now. They're a way for homeowners to get on uh you know to build apartments on their properties that they can annually rent out to either family members or people who live and work in the town year round. They can raise in size from 300 to,200 square ft depending on the situation. And the rent that they can be charged is capped by the town to be affordable depending on the number of bedrooms from 2,200 to $3,260 a month. They're a way acknowledged to turn a single

065home property into a two family property. They're also a way for property owners to help address the housing emergency. We talked about risk in the last presentation, long-term risk. We have immediate risk here. Um, this is in a way that can help generate income for families and leave a modest environmental impact in doing so. What aren't they? They're not short-term rentals. They're not summer homes. They're not open market apartments. They're not coast apartments. They're not commercial space. So, why why are we talking about them again? So, we're a pro-ousing community, but we have a broken housing system. We need to address the loss of housing for people who live and work in this town year round. Its impacts are a huge risk to this town. It's not on the town's, you know, risk assessment list

066at this point in time, but our ability for local businesses and government organizations to operate, be it the towns, schools, state, county, is significantly impacted by their ability to hire and retain staff who don't want to live here um because they don't get paid enough or they can't afford the rent. It's an affordability issue. It is also a primary driver of many of the other resident concerns we face today. The traffic, the litter, the support and volunteers, key local organizations to name a few. The proposals today look to address a very specific part of this broken housing ladder, the inadequate supply of affordable one to twobedroom housing. As we've discussed moving forward for these to become code, we have to balance the risks that have been raised by people that people envision resulting from these

067proposed changes to town code um against the risk we're facing a result of the lack of the housing. For the proposed changes, it is the opinion of the committee and myself that we have adequate protections in place. Joan will talk to some of those. I also think we need to talk about timing. Included the end of this document is a timeline for how I would like to see this legislation proceed. I I say that because to me this housing is an immediate need and this is one of the quickest ways we can increase the footprint of housing in the town. I also additionally you know as I think it was raised during the meeting the importance of public record you know forefront of my memory um in our last GFA discussion with references we made

068to during the work session stating how ADUs will not count towards GFA. I think having passed that legislation with that in mind were we to go back on that would have very different implications for that legislation. Um lastly I do kind of quickly want to touch on discussion of affordable. Um you know was raised by one of the callers in today. Um what is affordable? It's it's very different here to if you're say in East St. Louis. Um the US housing department which is the leading agency is defined as housing on which an occupant is paying no more than 30% of gross income for housing costs including utilities. There is the New York um community housing fund law we recently passed that says you know affordable for one to two people is combined income of

069184,000 roughly um three four people a household with an income of 215,000. Um, I will say this, we do have protections in the town for this already. No ADUs um are allowed to be rented unless they're affordable rents, which are capped at 130% of fair market rent. If you go on Bonuk Rentals on Facebook and have a look at the rents that are out there in the public sector, these are definitively affordable. you know, um I I think we need to bear in mind the need for housing is at all levels. It's not just the low-inccome levels. If you look at the open positions jobs on the town website, on the hospital website, these go up to much higher income levels than are typically expected. We need this housing desperately. Um with that, I'm going

070to pass over to Joan to recap where we've got to um and what where we're at. Thank you. Thank you, Tom. Hi, Joanne. Hi. Um, excuse me. Just start with a little bit of an overview. Tom's um touched on a lot of this, but um the committee that was formed basically looked at some core questions, which would be what is the role of ADUs uh in helping the ongoing housing crisis? What regulations have worked and which haven't? And what changes to the town code policies or procedures could result in additional ADUs without compromising community character? Uh the board last uh reviewed some recommendations from the committee in November and since then the group has been meeting and has come up with another set of recommendations which I'll go over. These are the recommended changes. Some

071of them are dimensional. So uh the first recommendation is to change the minimum lot area requirement for attached ADUs from 20,000 square ft to 10,000 square ft. For detached ADUs, it would remain the same. There's no recommendation to change that. Um, also to change the maximum number of vehicles permitted on a lot with an ADU from four to six in order to not overly restrict properties with ADUs. And that'll be addressed on a a coming slide in a little bit more detail. Um, and then there's some recommendations regarding eligibility uh for where you can place an ADU. One would be to remove the requirement that the property be the property owner's primary legal residence in order to allow second homeowners to build ADUs. Um, another would be to add a requirement that the tenant must

072either be a family member of the owner or a resident and resident is defined as someone who lives or works in the town of East Hampton. and then um to change the rule that the ADU right now it's not ex it's it's essentially keeping the rule but clarifying the definition. Right now we say that the rule say that the ADU should be the tenants quote legal doicile. Um the committee is recommending that that be changed to the wording of sole legal residence to make it clear that the tenant really should not have another residence somewhere that this is their sole residence. Um and then there was a discussion and the committee decided not to make a re recommendation to change the terminology that's used um for ADUs and Tom addressed that a little bit. It's

073largely a question of terminology because ADUs by definition in the town code are affordable housing units and affordable housing units in that definition defines the maximum rents as tied to 130% of area of fair market rent. So there is always there's not an ADU that is allowed to be in the town without having a cap on the rent. Uh they're required to get permits from our uh office of housing and community development in order to proceed. So to address the dimensional recommendations um the the thinking behind the change in the minimum lot area for attached ADUs from 20,000 to 10,000 square ft. And I know this was a statistic that was questioned. I can't give further clarity today on this, but uh 58% of the lots in the town are less than 20,000 square feet.

074So the majority of lots are currently ineligible. Um the owners of smaller lots are often the people that can benefit from the rent charged that they they will get from building an ADU. And we many owners of smaller lots have expressed interest in doing so. It's kind of a win-win in their minds that they can provide a housing unit as well as get some um recurrent income. Attached ADUs are less likely to increase the potential impacts on neighbors as they're within the principal building versus a detached unit. um the ADUs would be excluded from the maximum gross floor area calculation as has been mentioned and there wouldn't be a net impact on the potential density in our neighborhoods because there's no change to the maximum number of permits for ADUs um in the in each

075school district or overall the whole town. So, right now there are that's set at 40 40 maximum uh per school district. And um one of the things that's been looked at about um doing things to to incre to u encourage more ADUs is that none of the school districts are really very close to their maximum limit. As far as changing the maximum number of vehicles permitted on a lot to six from four, the current requirement is that two spaces be dedicated for the ADU, but there's also an overall limit to four cars on a property. So that would leave only two available car parking spaces or cars to be allowed uh for the property owner and their family members. Um the committee discussed that the current requirement is unduly restrictive and that no other residential

076property has this limitation um unless it's a rental property. We'll go into detail a little bit more about eligibility. So to remove the requirement that the property be the property owner's primary legal residence in order to allow second homeowners to build them. Um, a lot of second homeowners have inquired about building an ADU and um, you know, in discussing it, it's hard to find a reason that they should not be allowed to do so. Um, I think the the rationale behind the initial uh, restriction was that it might be more common that there are disturbances on the residential site if the landlord is not um, in in full-time residence. and that really hasn't been supported. Um, and also second homeowners presumably use their properties themselves for portion of the year. The town code is inconsistent

077because the summer rentals with the owner not on site are permitted, but the same owner cannot yet cannot rent year round to a resident. As far as the requirement that a tenant either be a family member of the owner or a resident living or working in the town of East Hampton, uh the effect of that is to prioritize housing for residents and the workforce. Um we know that family members are tenants in a good number of the existing ADUs, about a third of them. Uh, a resident as proposed to be defined in the firsttime homeowner down payment assistance program that the board will be discussing is uh a current resident of the town or a resident within the last 5 years or an employee of a business based in East Hampton Town and that in

078that proposed definition would include holders of East Hampton Town contractor's licenses. And then in terms of the uh as I mentioned before just changing the the language that the ADU be the tenants's legal doicile to the sole legal residence would just make it clear that the tenant should not have other housing and therefore there's someone in need. So the overview of the changes change the minimum lot area requirement from 20,000 square feet to 10,000 square feet for ADUs that are attached or within the house. Change the maximum number of vehicles permitted on a lot with an ADU from four to six. Remove the requirement that the property be the property owner's primary legal residence in order to allow second homeowners to build ADUs. Add a requirement that a tenant must either be a family member

079of of the owner or a resident, meaning someone who lives or works in the town of East Hampton. and change the it's change the rule that the ADU be the tenants's legal doicile to saying it must be their sole legal resident to make it clear that a tenant should not have other housing. And the last slide shows the timeline of next steps would be today's town board discussion of proposed code changes and then um routing routing this to the changes either for their meeting later in April or their May 7th meeting. um the town board reviewing the town attorney's specific code changes in a resolution and scheduling a public hearing which would um take place either May 1st or May 15th. This would be then referred to the Suffach County Planning Commission May 1st or

080May 15th. you could schedule a public hearing um on June 5th following that and then the adoption of code amendments would come at a subsequent meeting either on July 3rd or July 17th if anyone has questions. Thank you Joan. Thank you. Very good job. I I do want to just talk about um the area median household income because this is something I I worked in this industry for a long time with GIS for many corporations that when you go into a new area, you draw the trade area of what you think a store or a facility is going to be and you analyze the demographics in that and you'll look at things like median household income, educational levels and that will help you determine what the demand for that facility is going to be. One

081of the key factors when you do that is you draw your trade area and you make an assumption about what percentage of the demand is going to come from within the trade area and what is going to come from without. So in a high tourist area such as our area, you're going to have a much lower percentage of your demand coming from within that trade area because people are traveling in to use it. What that means is that when you're looking at the median household income for an area with a low capture rate, we call it, it's often very misleading. In the case of our town where we're talking about second homes, one of the things about second home ownership is that you you're typically going to have a much higher median household income, but

082we are not capturing that in the census rate when we're looking at what the area AMI is. So I do think that you know our terms of what's affordable with regard to AMI are potentially you know somewhat misleading. Okay. Do we want to go through this one recommendation at a time? Would that be would that be let's go down or easier to do what we want to do. So the first recommendation is to change the minimum lot area requirement uh for attached only ADUs from 20,000 square feet to 10,000 square feet. What are board members thoughts on that? Do you want to go down the line or or how whoever? So, uh, my thought on that is that it's a So, just overall before we go through the the um the the the recommendations for

083me, I would need a I would we we don't have an update on the program. So, I don't know I don't have basis for these recommendations. Like when it says many second homeowners, I would love to know the numbers. you know, what numbers are we talking about here in in a lot of the the terminology that we're using here? I think a report would have been great to be helpful to make um decisions because I don't know what any of the numbers are that we're talking about. Um when we did the 80 uh you know, and I'm going to call them a AUS because I really want to make sure that people understand that these are not accessory dwelling units like guest houses. It has to be affordable. It must be affordable uh and fit

084into our affordable program and there are guard rails for that. But I I would like to just see more analysis overall of what guardrails worked, what changes should be made. Um so that that would be very helpful for me to be able to make a Could you give a little bit more detail on that? Well, if you do a breakdown of of how this is operated, the challenges, how many ADUs have come in, you know, a report, we did speak in pre prior work sessions, I believe. Yeah. So, that was I I pulled the November 12th presentation because I wanted to go back. At that time, there were 43 properties that have ADUs in various stages of permitting. I don't know where that number is 5 months later. Um, so that would be helpful. There

085are still 43 ADUs existing. Um, then there are 20 potential new ones pending through the plus one ADU program. So 43 plus 20. And could you break those down by the school districts? Sure. Um, right now there are two in Amagancet, four in Springs, seven in Montalk, and 20 in East Hampton. Um the additional ones would add one more to Amagancet for a total of three. Nine more in Springs for a total of 23, one more in Monttok for eight, and nine more in East Hampton for a total of 29. And do you have that by lot size? By what? Do you have that breakdown by lot size? I'm sorry, I can't hear. Do you have the breakdown by lot size? You know what size lots these are going on? I I think when you're

086talking about being capped at 40 units per hamlet, perhaps we're going into a level of detail that we're delaying delivering this housing for issues that potentially important, but it's a very minute level of detail. So, you're um I shouldn't have questions. No, no, I'm just saying I just, you know. Okay. So, would a breakdown by lot size would be great. So, we could see what lot sizes are taking advantage of this um you know, if there's a scale of that. So we can work on what lowering it should be. If it should be a 50% lowering or go down to 15,000 square foot. I mean I don't understand the justification for a 50% uh reduction in required lot size. It's not that I'm against it. I just don't understand the basis for it. So we

087we do have the number of lots 10,000 square feet or under. We also you're wanting do you want it for every thousand square feet? So 11,000 12,000 13,000. Just we have a finite number. If you could just say what lot sizes those are on the the 40 lots. We have the 43. The 40 plus 20, right? 43 plus 20. Okay. I mean, we we absolutely can. What are we hoping to learn from that? It would help me make a decision, Tom. It would help me know which lot sizes are being most utilized for this program. It also would help me if besides the word many, you had a number of how many second homeowners actually because many I don't know what that means. So I I would just again I would just say here like

088I again it's good information to have but I think we run especially with the housing crisis the issue of analysis paralysis here. We can absolutely get you that information. Well, then I don't I don't think you should take too long if you already have it. And certainly, you know, I I don't think I have a reputation for analysis paralysis, but we have to make our decisions based on some type of analysis. For me, it's helpful to have those numbers. I I don't I was asked to produce a lot of information when we were changing zoning codes. It it wasn't the idea that there was a paralysis. It was the idea to ensure that these are for the people that need them. they don't become commodities which is always a a fear of mine and and

089and it becomes an additional commodification of our neighborhoods. So for me that's would help me be assured that the guardrails that we put in place last year right when did we pass this law um very short time ago that we've seen how this is growing and that we're addressing the challenges for how it's growing. So if that's your definition of analysis paralysis. So So is the is the issue more about how is this being enforced? Like you're worried about people abusing the system. That's another issue I have is is how do how are we going to enforce any of the uh additional enforcements for the recommendations that you have in place? to the office the office of if I may council woman um one thing I can say and we can certainly look at the

090properties that u have licenses for have rental permits for ADUs and look at the lot sizes but one thing I do know anecdotally and just from recent experience is that many of those who had applied for the plus one ADU grants for which we recently just verified for CDL excuse me for CDLI that they meet our minimum lot size. Many of them are just squeaking by to meet the minimum lot size. They're very close to half acre. Yeah. So, you know, they're that's really important to know. So, whether we reduce it in this phase to 15,000 square foot to capture all those or if there's a basis for the 50% change in lot size. So, out of those 20, I would say off the top of my head, and we can certainly look at it

091again, many of them were in the zone where we had to double check and make sure they made that 20,000 square feet. 20,000 isn't even really a half acre, right? And the fact that we've gone from 23, I mean, 43 to 63 in just a few months time to me is is a is a great sign. But that had the the the plus one from the CDLI program that had an income cap. Do you recall what the income cap was for that program? I think it's $125,000. So So the so the the the income for that home was under 125,000. So, it's presumably going to be people who are owning So, for me, you know, and I'm looking at we're we're we're looking to do with the community housing fund program um loans, right, up

092to $125,000. We're waiting for um you know, the IRS. I'm very I'm not confident on the IRS coming back with a ruling that in the next year or or longer, frankly. Like, we we've spent a lot of money with that lawyer to to get that ruling. We we haven't heard anything back. I think there's other alternatives. My colleague uh Kell Pedmont, we we've talked about this previously. I I think if we wish to use CHF funding um to support the ADU program, I think we we if we're going to achieve it in the next year or two, we need to take a different approach. Rob, have you had you don't mind? Have you had any interaction recently with the attorney from Whiteman Austerman and Hannah? That's I have not. Could you reach out to him

093and see where we received an email this morning, okay, with some paperwork. The the request has not yet been submitted to the IRS and uh the town needs to arrange for a payment uh for the fees for the IRS in order to do so. That's what we got today. So, I just for the public's benefit, I just want to say that what we're talking about is when uh we uh did the grants for the septic rebates, um they were uh exempt from um income tax and then uh a controller changed that rule and then suddenly folks got hit with an income tax bill uh that they weren't expect accepting expecting on a $40,000 grant. uh which for some folks that was considerable and quite a hit. So what we're trying to do here uh what

094we're talking about is ensuring that folks know in advance whether it's taxable or non not going to be taxed as income any grant that they'll receive from our program. I think the other thing we might want to consider asking legal advice on is, you know, what wording we could give to the public while we to give them a grant as to ensuring they've been adequately informed of what their tax risk is should they take this grant and the IRS make a potential ruling. What's the maximum penalty they can incur? I think if people took the grant with that knowledge, I think the town would have done its due diligence. Okay. Well, on this on this issue, I don't want to get too sidetracked. I I mean, I I do this is a more intricate thing.

095I think what Tom just said is is important. If we know what the risk is, it might change things, but I don't want to get sidetracked. I do think that's a a different conversation. Um, in terms of the the minimum lot size, um, well, I'm generally in favor of this. I think we want to encourage ADUs. We've identified them as uh one of the many solutions to the affordable housing crisis that we do have. So, I'm I'm generally supportive of this and I appreciate the work that Tom has done. I know the housing department, Eric and Joanne and and the whole committee. Um I know a lot's gone into this. There's this not just the last week. Um this is a big reduction and and I I do think that the GFA comments are important

096here um in that you know if we're allowing for for much more development on a small lot. I will say that and I don't have all of the numbers and I think it's going to be hard for us ever to know who didn't apply because they knew that their house was too small that their lot was too small. We do know that through the CDLI, and I don't have an exact number, that many people didn't qualify because of the lot size. Um, and so they were turned away. Some people might have realized that and didn't apply because they were already concerned. I I do generally agree with with Tom's point that we do, if we have a limit on the number per school district, I I don't think we should be worried about becoming overrun

097and we can change that number in any way we we we want. Uh my only concern here is just the impacts of the development on a very small lot if it's feasible. Um my initial instinct is to be supportive as long as it meets all the other dimensional regulations because from the outside it would look the same. I do think with the GFA exemption on a 10,000 square foot lot, it it could change the and this came up during the GF the code changes um generally and and and I expressed some concern about outbuildings that would be allowable if there was an ADU in there, but if the ADU was removed, that structure would be non-compliant. And I think we'd have the same um the same concern here that if somebody builds a house with

098a large ADU, the new home owner decides not to do that. How do we make them remove that? practically speaking, do we, you know, take off half the house? And I I so there's some issues here. Um, you know, I've expressed support of this to Tom. And so I'm not trying to to change that. I just I think that based on a couple of public comments, I want to look a little closer at this. And and Kate brings up a fair point that maybe we go to 15,000 or something. Again, I would have to look at it more, but generally supportive reducing lot size. And I think there's a lot of lots that are just slightly less than a half acre that would not qualify that wouldn't create any any major concerns. So generally supportive

099with those caveats. Sorry Tom, not be more specific about that because my concern is if we I'm not comfortable going all the way to 10,000 square feet. My you know the point of going from four cars to six cars, you put six cars on a 10,000 square foot property. I mean that changes the the complexion of the neighborhood. I mean I just think that that's too intense from my perspective. Um because typically um you know with small lots um you know it's in a small lot neighborhood and and I just think six cars are are a lot of vehicles and that's your front wall. I I I hear that. I I would also say that's what low-income households out here look like. We might not want to see it but we need it. Okay. So

100if my comment if you don't mind. So uh I'll go to the easy ones. Yeah. Um the eligibility aspect of it then too I think matching the the code. Are we going line by one by one? You want I don't really care. I only comment on the first one. Okay. So I'm so sorry. Are we still at the first one? Okay. 10,000 to 10,000. So uh the the I think we also have to recognize that there's different types of accessory dwelling units. There's detached and attached ones also then too. uh on a on a small lot size on I think it was my first legislative thing that I um was able to move through was decreasing lot size for detached accessory dwelling units um and that really didn't increase indivi you know from I think

101it was 3/4 an acre down to 20,000 square feet we picked 20,000 square feet at that time because it was just under a halfacre and typically what was called considered a builder's halfacre which is a lot of what Springs is at 47047 seven an acre and that was whatever they did in the 80s or 60s and stuff like that. So that added in a large percentage a lot to that. It didn't over tax and burden the system. The system being uh the staff that we have to do so I think what we're seeing now it was the work with the work of Tom and others is that we're we're finding a funding sources to actually pay for these and that's why we're getting a large increase there. Then too, uh, I do have concerns about

102a couple things on lot size. If you're at a lot size of 10,000 square feet, you can clear cut the property. That's in the town code. Hence, if you're at a lot size of 10,0001 ft, you can't. And two, so uh that you know what what are you doing for a vegetation on on a property? If you're going to uh um a parking space, a parking space is going to be 180 square feet typically, you know, 10. What's what is it? 20 20 by 20 by 9 or uh 18 by 10 on there. You do the six on there. Let's say it's 200 200 200 square feet per per car lot on there. You're,200 feet. If you're at six and on a 10,000 foot one, you're at 12% you're at you're you're you're getting to

103large numbers and lot coverage and such. I don't see that being as uh as maybe as challenging if it was an attached ADU, but a detached ADU, which would be another 600 square feet on there. You might get very close to your lot coverage pretty quickly on there then, too. So, um I I'm I I have always been in favor of decreasing and trying to bring in more properties where decreasing lot area for ADUs where it's appropriate. I think we just have to determine is what's the appropriate cut off right now then too and we can massage that a little So I don't can I just does that data exist from the the zoning code amendment work group in terms of of you know where the the lines are drawn like does you know Jane

104had a different number than what was in the presentation right she was saying that it is a different number that 30 37% of residential lots are more than half our lots are less than one acre one acre or less is that town data or her data sorry that's town data provided by the uh planning department under under Dan Gross. Yeah, that's easy to I've seen that also and also with building permits. All all of the data that Jane collected was from departments in the town and with planners uh and that is her profession actually. So I would I would be I'm interested in still having that discussion of decreasing the dimensional requirements for an ADU, but we might have to go into that. Is that do we Okay, so I got a family of six.

105We're all going to be driving on there and very shortly I'm going to have five cars and that's illegal for me and I don't need an ADU. I just need for my family. Right. That was But what size lot are you on? I'm on a I'm on point47. So there's I think there's a big difference of having five or six cars on on a builder's halfacre versus on a 10,000 foot lot. That's what I was just going to go to on that is is that if if within this section of the code do you have different parking regulations for different size lots if you have an ADU meaning yeah you know what you're maximing out of four on an ADU you know you have to say that if it's a lesser degree meaning square footage

10610,000 or whatever it may be if that you're 47 or or above or half acre above yes maybe have six because that won't won't change that character neighborhood as as much. Uh what does it what does it do? It it does decrease exactly how you know how many drivers you can have, but that's a determin of the property owner and too. So, uh, I don't mind if we want to get that information, but I I do want to try to see how we can incorporate this because there if there's a demand, which I'm hearing there's a demand for smaller lots on there, I want to try to find methodologies to try to meet that demand, but at the same time, not to put such a burden onto some of our smaller districts. Can I just

107I thought the the four cars per property was only when that property was a rental property. No, it's a town code. It's for Yeah, I have it here. I think it's if it has an ADU on it. It's off street park. So, it's probably the same for rentals, too. Like, Right. Right. You have to have a minimum of two spots. The maximum cars are going to have Rob, we went through this, did we not? I I feel like there's actually not a limit if you're the household occupant. Um, but it's otherwise there is a limit then it's limited to four. But if if David's got six drivers, you know, and six cars, he can do that because he's a just think of the insurance the homeowners uh when you're the homeowner, you can have is

108the you know any number of cars. Okay. So, so it sounds like point one that generally speaking the the board is is open to decreasing the minimum lot area that the question is where what's that number and that we're we're looking for some more detail and analysis in order to make that decision. Yeah. I mean would would we be supportive of of a lesser amount now or we just need more information? I think because I I I could commit to something that improve, you know, allows for more but maybe doesn't go all the way to 10,000 just for the sake of of of progress. Um, one thing we can pull, Joanne, I'd ask you to maybe look at the CDLI applications that got rejected and if there were some that were very close because I

109would hate I would hate for lots to be 19,000 square feet and we all agree that that would be okay and not make any progress because we don't want to go to 10. And so yeah, 15 18 I think that we could probably settle on that. And for in my mind it's going to be hard to pull data that shows I mean I think that we want to create opportunities as long as we're not creating problems. And so if we identify a certain lot size as not being problematic. I don't really care if there's other lots that could take advantage. Why why restrict those? I do think we want to be careful not to cause problems. So anyway, this I think this point might be one that we could move forward on more quickly and

110make a really big difference without going all the way if we could get consensus there. Okay. So the next one is change the maximum number of vehicles permitted on a lot with an ADU from four to six to not overly restrict properties with ADUs. So, I'd be comfortable with that, but I think we have to go to a smaller six maybe on, you know, 047 or where we're at right now, but four on if we do decrease on there. So, it's kind of like a sliding scale this if if we do we decrease the minimum size. We're just want to be cautious about the number of correct. Um, yeah, I think it's going to be very difficult to build to live in a house and build a 1,200 square foot ADU and have a sixcar

111area, as David said, in terms of lot coverage on a 10,000 foot lot. I think that that's tough. Um, so I'd like to see a number that would actually work um for everyone, not you know, for the quality of life for the people living there and and also for uh the community character. Um it's just uh six cars on a 10,000 square foot lot besides a house that is uh allowable. Um figure I don't know 1,700 just off the top of my head. Then an additional 1,200 um for the ADU not counted in GFA and then the six cars. That's that's going to create um a lot of uh uh congestion. Yeah, I'm generally supportive of this at the the lot size that we have now. I think six cars is not not excessive and

112it makes sense. I think that the conversation becomes trickier if we reduce it a lot, but I don't see any problem with the sliding scale. I do think it's important to note here, I mean Kate, you made you made good points there, which is maybe you can't fit all of this, but I think importantly, my understanding is the ADU committee has been looking at this in the context of as long as you follow all the other rules. And so we're not trying to allow people to overdevelop. I think the GFA is an important outlier there in terms of, you know, that we should look at more closely, but otherwise, I think the setbacks, everything is the same. And so if someone can't fit it, they can't do it. we wouldn't be allowing those people to

113skirt those those regulations that are constricting. Um, so I'm supportive of this and I don't see any problem with having a sliding scale if we're concerned on smaller lots, but generally going to six fully supportive. When you say the GFA is a consideration, what what do you Well, what I'm saying is I think that the context and why I've been so supportive and in not knowing all the details of this general concept is that if you're allowed to have a development pattern that looks the same from a coverage, from a clearing, from an everything standpoint, why wouldn't we allow somebody to have a an affordable, you know, et and but what I'm saying is if we make a cutout for GFA that allows I mean Jane Maring said, you know, 50% bigger, it's something to

114look out for. Are people able to then build a much larger house because there's an ADU in there and then what happens if that house transfers? That's the enforcement. Tricky. Yeah, absolutely. Well, it's not just enforcement. It's are we setting somebody up to Well, after that's what I'm saying. If they decide decline to use the asbuilt house, then we're really going to cause people problems and expense by removing that part. And we don't want to we don't want to legislate that would allow for the creation of issues. And again, this came up a little bit without buildings of the recent zoning code stuff, but this would be a a major impact because somebody might buy a house not knowing that and then somebody says you can't, you know, but anyway, I'm supportive of the So,

115moving on to number three. Remove the requirement that the property be the property owner's primary legal residence in order to allow second homeowners to build ADUs. So, you had mentioned that many second homeowners. Do you have numbers of folks that have inquired? And it's not something we've kept a specific record of. You know, it's just knowing people who have called or, you know, people I've had to tell that sorry, you don't qualify for a um a rental permit for an ADU. Um it's not something we've quantified at this point. It would be hard to get. I don't think this is a hard data thing because we'd have to ask everybody, would you consider an ADU? I think it's going to be hard to find the data on this. what I would want to focus the

116conversation on what's the concern and I think that that Joanne in her presentation said the concern I think was there might be more quality of life issues if there wasn't a full-time resident in the primary structure I don't know I'm in favor of this one I think because I don't as long as we're regulating our ADUs making sure they're used properly then I don't see a problem with opening the door to somebody who has a house they don't live in full-time so I think that goes back to the initial discussion for ADUs that we had a couple years back it all comes comes down to enforcement. Either the permitting or the checks that either building department or in combination with the housing uh uh committee housing office has to do and should do. That's was

117only one of the only reasons that I've I I was favorable of this moving forward on there then too because that then I think where read between the lines here. If you have a prop uh the primary property owner on the property, they're going to look after the property. I think you're more fearful of that property being commercialized if that property owner is not on there. But if in making sure that there not be that this program is not being taken advantage of the next back stop and the back stop is the town to actually inspect the properties. You're correct. You're correct. At the last meeting we did say that in the year I think it was 2023 meeting the the number one concern why they had this in place was the concern for the

118potential for absentee landlords. Um you know that that's why I was yeah and I think we also talked about you know some of these homes are you know owned by LLC's and we don't even know you know second homeowners we talked about lifting the corporate veil. Just wanted to add one thing to note on this though is that you cannot have both an ADU rental permit and a rental registry number. So you cannot be renting the primary house as well as an ADU. So it has to be someone's weekend house or whatever if it's not their full-time regist. So maybe we look at something that's not uh registered as an LLC. So we we also we currently get the names of the LLC's and and the agent for the LLC. We do have a name

119for every LLC we give um ADU permits to. Yeah. What? It's funny because I was supportive of this when we talked about this in November, but now I've been getting emails from um a particular high-end residential builder who is now co-op ADU and home and and the videos that we're receiving are um not these uh properties or ADUs are not being used in that way. So, it's just I mean, I I did review that. I I think that's not entirely correct. I I think he's emphasizing the possibilities of them, but it does see clearly say on that website and video, ADUs have to adhere to what the town regulations and permits are. I think there's a slight danger there too of because these are potentially looked at as higherend ADUs that people might build on

120their properties that there's something wrong with them. Look, if if people with wealth and nice properties wish to put luxury ADUs on their property for people to live in, provided they're still being year round occupied and they're at the rent restriction and it's a yearround town of East Hampton employee or resident, there's nothing wrong with that. Yeah. If you want marble or lenolium and the same thing, if you're charging the same rent, I'm fine with that. Yeah, I I agree with what Tom just said 100%. And I think that I think that this is an enforcement thing and that's a separate conversation. I think we're talking about now is who should have the opportunity to build these. My assumption is that every ADU on in East Hampton is going to be used properly and if

121it's one on Further Lane or, you know, someplace else, it doesn't matter to me as long as it's providing, you know, an affordable house for someone who needs it. Yeah. For me, it's use if if I just may ask on this. So, do you have to be a year round? Does the tenant so I see the tenants legal doicide to sole legal residence because one of my concerns is uh you know in is building a um separate living quarters for your staff but they would have to be what what requirements would that if it's a seasonal staff for the and only work at the house what would be the requirements of the tenants requirements that they don't live anywhere else that's one of the suggestions here and you strengthen that language and they have to

122work. We just changed that. There's currently no year residency requirement. Sorry. Yeah. Currently no year round residency requirement for ADUs on residential properties, but uh if the lease is for less than one year, yeah, they have to provide proof that the tenant is employed in the town of East Hampton. So that's essential. You can't just come out and use it for a summer vacation spot. Be employed by the homeowner. Not necessarily. No, but they could. They could private chef could live in my ADU. There's nothing that addresses who employs you. It's just you have to be within the town. And so legal residents while they're while they're registered with the ADU because if the if someone is not has you know um if someone travels with the family um and is their private chef then

123that would be their sole residence until they go to the next place with them. It's got to be it's got to be permitted. It's got to be income restricted and it's a job. Yeah. I don't mean I'm I'm not really going to get upset if you know someone that has the means that that that's employing people. There's I' I've been on properties and work for people have 20 people that work for them around the property. God bless. You did something right. You know, if you if you want to provide provide housing, you're you're by means you're trying to provide housing. And if you meet this and you have the back stops and those those safeguards that we started to look at in 23 are there, that's just what we have to do as a town.

124we have to enforce our code for compliance and this is just another example of it. Yeah, I always I always think of affordable housing for you know the kind of the backbone of our community and the folks that um you know work in all the businesses in town and maybe are teachers and maybe are police officers and maybe hopefully would work for the town. I I had I know a teacher that many that actually uh would rent their house summertime. They would move and be the property manager for the family. a further lane in one of their ADUs. We want to say before ADUs were there. This is that's that happens. So, um I I don't think we can look at it and saying it's it's it you know the rich getting richer on this

125one right now. I think however we get affordable housing there by our methodologies, we should we try to try to do that, but we have to make sure we enforce it. So, can we right can we just talk about enforcement? like what does that look like? And um so let's just say you do a so is it you're the office of housing that goes out and does an annual inspection. You're going to get on people's property and you're going to be able to inspect that there are somebody living there. I mean how does that what's the mechanism there? That has not been the practice been the building department hasn't the building department. I don't know that they do annual inspections. We work closely with the building department in terms of when a CFO is issued

126for one of these or when a building per actually upon the issuance of a building permit for one of these, we're informed. We assign them a number. We don't give them a permit until a temporary CFO has been issued and then they have to come to us for their rental permit um in order for the final CFO to be issued. And what I've been doing since I've been at the office of housing and you know we're we're keeping track of the the um um expiration dates of each permit. It's an annual permit and sending out a letter to people who you know are delinquent in getting them um in getting them renewed. um actually referred one to ordinance because they didn't respond and you know and in order to renew your permit all of the

127documentation has to be resubmitted for both the tenant and the landlord according to what the current regulations are. So if they're employed in the town of East Hampton they have to show that it has to be a current job. So if that changes within a year you know again that documentation has to be relevant at the time. We have a pretty good system right now in terms of, you know, checking in and getting everybody. We just went through kind of a an outreach to everyone and checked on where the permits were and sent letters to all of those who were delinquent. Got most of them. I would say there may be a couple of that are outstanding with whom I'm still talking to the owners. there, you know, issues where the tenant was out of

128the country or whatever, but they pretty much all have been responsive and we're, you know, we have a system going forward where we would be on top of that. Um, and again, we I work closely with Allison in the building department to say, "Where is the status of this person? Have they come in for their final CFO?" She checks with me before uh issuing a final CFO to make sure we have a shared database. So, they make sure that the people have submitted and have received their um rental permit. Great. And so that's a yearly renewal. Sorry, that's a yearly renewal. Yes, that's good. $50. I think the other the other thing related to the enforcement side is is like we have to acknowledge there is a vast amount of illegal multiple housing in the

129town like it it it happens. We try as best as we can with code enforcement to address that. But like many departments because of housing we we are somewhat underresourced. So enforcement is going to be a continual challenging for all the housing options. But one advantage to this program is is that because these will have gone through our building permit process, we understand there's going to be the structural safety elements for people renting them. The more of these we can put out there versus that illegal housing that's out there, the better off our residents are. As long as we're not creating more illegal housing. Yeah, I I agree with what what Tom just said. And I do I I mean I would suggest that we actually have a a follow-up conversation that deals with the

130program generally in enforcement because I think changing parameters is one conversation. You know whether the program is working or we have enforcement mechanism is a separate conversation. If it's not working for the ones we have, we probably shouldn't be doing it at all. And so I understand why that the conversations are related. But I think that we should probably gather information and just go over the whole program separately and maybe not vote on this but go through the, you know, suggestions. And to David's points a minute ago, um, I mean, we live in a in a service community. You know, a lot of the jobs are service related. And so if a if a homeowner has staff living on site and that's a person who otherwise works in town and would be living someplace, I

131think that's part of the need. I think that that's where the sole legal um residence becomes very very important because what I think Kate's concern is valid which is we don't want people popping in and out. You know, we want it to be for somebody who's part of the community and that may sometimes be seasonally, but it's the only place that they live. They're not here on weekends and then in Florida or wherever else. Um but I'm supportive of of this for sure. I think second home owners should be allowed to to build. Okay. So, what is the consent? So, obviously Tom, you're supportive of that. David, you're supportive. Are you supportive of allowing second homeowners? Yes. Kate? Yep. Ian? Yes. Okay. So, that's that can go forward. Uh, number four is add a requirement

132that a tenant must either be a family member of the owner or a resident, meaning someone who lives in the town of East Hampton. Is everybody supportive of that? Yes, I'm fully supportive. The only thing I want to note is that the language about a contractor's license. I don't think that that should count as work here. Yeah, that's a new addition I think that has is has been and I understand where why it might have been added, but I would rather take a conservative approach here because I think people could just get a license and not be from here and never do any work. And we have 70,000 contractors, right? Yeah. So, I just want to that that was important language. I think Stripe, if it just lives or works in East Hampton without the

133contractor language, I'm fully supportive. Okay. Sure. Okay. Tom, does that Yeah, I acknowledge that unless I'm missing something about I think it's I think they need to show more evidence and they could have a contracted license but also have this came up. I I'm aware of this because it's something else I'm part of. Yeah. Okay. And lastly, change the rule that the ADU be the tenants's legal doicile to sole legal residence to make it clear that a tenant should not have other housing. And that's that that's something that's gone through the town attorney's office, Rob, that's okay. Is everybody good with that? Yep. Yeah. To me, this is the cornerstone. I mean it it shows that the housing is going to Okay. So is it in the code you mentioned? So you can't have an

134ADU and a rental registry permit. Correct. Is that already stated in the code? It is. Yes. Okay. So I think that we just need to um it looks like three, four, and five everybody's supportive. So, we just need to have you folks come back with a little bit more data and we need to kind of fine-tune where the line is drawn as far as the size of the um the the lot area. And then whatever that where that line is drawn will determine I think how a sliding scale might work for for small lots for a number of cars. That's is that what we've all agreed to? I mean I I I'll look into it. We'll see. Okay, sounds good. All right, beautiful Joanne. Thank you. Thanks, Joanne. Thanks, Tom. Okay, so now we're gonna

135go Rob, you're up to talk about proposed amendments to chapter 25, code of ethics. Good. Thank you very much. the three amendments to chapter 25 that the draft amendments and one other was previously discussed I believe back in September. I'm going to start with the the two new uh amendments. The first is the town ethics code requires that any member of a municipal board which includes the governing boards and the administrative boards um be bound by the town's uh conflict of interest policy and uh submit a financial disclosure form at the end of each year. Over the past couple of years, the town board has created two new um boards or one board and one committee. the community housing um advisory comm I'm sorry the community housing advisory board and the water quality technical advisory

136committee. Now because these two uh I'll call them boards make recommendations to the town board regarding the dispersement of funds. It makes sense that uh members of both the chab and the the water quality uh committee should be bound by the conflict of interest provision of the ethics code and be required to submit a financial disclosure form at the end of the year. The second uh proposed change which actually is the last change that is in the memo um of the ethics board as the code currently reads. This is 25-11 board of ethics powers and duties section K advisory opinions. It currently reads, "A request for an advisory opinion shall be confidential, but the board of ethics may publish such opinions provided that the the name of the requesting person and other identifying details are

137not included in the publication. The board of ethics shall endeavor to the extent practicable publish its advisory opinions so as to assist town officers and employees in complying with the applicable laws. The proposed change would read as a request for an advisory opinion shall be confidential. However, the board of ethics shall publish such opinions provided that the name of the requesting person and other identifying details are not included in the publication. The board of ethics shall publish its advisory opinions so as to assist town officers and employees in complying with applicable laws. an advisory opinion which concerns an individual employee shall be forwarded to the town's human resources department to be included in that employees personnel file. I think the reasoning behind this is clear that if a an employee gets an opinion that is

138contrary to how they're behaving um and they continue to do that after the opinion is issued, they should be disciplined for that. And I think that the only way that you can do that is if the there's a personnel letter in their file. And uh something other else that Mr. King has brought to my attention which I don't think is necessarily needs to be codified but should be a policy is that when an individual applies for a position with the town of East Hampton and comes in for an interview they should be given at that interview a copy of the this chapter of the code and they should also sign off uh you know stating that they did receive a copy at the interview. So this way there's no question as to whether or not

139u they know what the conflict of interest policy is if they you accept employment with the town. Rob, just on that one, I I I understand that for town employees, but I think one of the issues we've had discussions around is board members as appointed board members and conflicts of interest there. Um an appearance of conflict of interest. Is this something that would apply to them as well with this? It would. Okay. And they would and it would be an annual review for them to kind of sign this ethics financial disclosures. Yeah, they do financial disclosures every year. So you could you could give them a copy of it just to to refresh their memories that they've received it or at least at first appointment so that they can at first appointment you know I

140think once you know it you should know it but or or if it gets revised. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So Rob, there was one other. Yes, this was discussed, I believe, back in September at our work session. Um, chapter 25 A1, certain actions prohibited, states that no municipal officer or employee shall directly or indirectly solicit any gift or accept or receive any gifts a value of $75 or more than form of money, service, loan, travel, hospitality, thing, or promise in any form under circumstances in which it could reasonably be inferred that the gift was intended to influence him or her or could reasonably be expected to influence him or her in the performance of his or her official duties or was intended as a reward or any for any official action on his or her part.

141I think you're probably all invited to um events at which the cost to attend these events are much more than $75. And I think as members of the town board, the community expects you to attend these events so you can carry out your official duties, so you can network with uh individuals, make connections. Um, but that limitation styies your ability to to attend uh, you know, a charitable event or a political event. And unless I'm wrong, none of you are titans of capitalism, so you can't all just write checks for, you know, $2,500 to a to attend an event. Yeah. I I I it's slightly problematic this one for me, and I'm just going to say why, which is that I I acknowledge, yes, you know, those kind of events we should be going to,

142but like it's a very limited person who, as you say, can afford a $2,500 check. So automatically by being there you are effectively in sconc in a kind of very specific group of people and you know I'm not sure that that that to me sits somewhat uneasy. You know I think that cap you know needs to be acknowledged and you know maybe raised potentially from the 75 or whatever it is. But I think at a certain point that has to be very clearly recorded and capped off in a certain, you know, after a certain point, I would be uncomfortable if you're talking about a $2,500 ticket to something like No. Yeah. I think I mean I I will say that the majority of the ticket prices that I I think are around $250 that we

143we get invited to. Um, and you know, you could be invited to two of those events in a weekend or, you know, or more. and um I couldn't afford to to be able to attend those events and you know but if I'm comped I I can attend and show support for you know a foods pantry a child care uh not for profit you know you know domestic violence shelter I mean these are things that we get invited to or maybe I maybe get more invitations as the supervisor historical society programs that, you know, I could never afford to attend, but my presence and our presence is is requested. Yeah. So, yeah. I And I'm sorry, Kathy. And I don't think going to an historical society event, it's going to change my perspective on on anything

144as far as like um I mean, I don't know where what the nexus would be, you know, as far as some of these organizations or organizations we give grant funding to, but that is a process that is done publicly. We we have two or three work sessions on our annual budget. We have a public hearing. We discuss. So, I don't think it's, you know, because I get invited to an event that I'm going to give them more grant money the following year. I mean, that's a town board decision. So, I think I just I I potentially it would maybe be a cleaner system if we budgeted for this and said annually, look, the supervisor is expected to go to this many events and this is a line item that can be monitored and recorded. I

145don't feel comfortable using taxpayers money for this because the reality is the the $250 ticket, it might only be costing them $75 and the remaining funding is, you know, their fundraiser, you know, that's how they're raising their their funds. Yeah, that's that's the point I was going to I mean I Tom, I really I I full wholeheartedly agree with your concerns and and I like Kate, I wouldn't want it to be a taxpayer burden, but I understand the concern here. But to Cathy's point, I think that a lot of times the value received, I mean, the ticket's the price of the ticket is the price of the ticket, but if you go for a half hour and it was some concert, you're not consuming or taking personal wealth out of that. Um, so I I

146I understand the concerns, but I I think the ethics committee was okay with this one. Um, at least for a single ticket. And and and I would be too, because I think a lot of times the food pantry example is a very good one. If there's a $2,000 ticket to support a food pantry, it's to raise money, not because the the people are getting that much value out of it. And it would be, you know, I think it's appropriate for board members to attend. But just so you know, the food pantries aren't charging $2,000 a ticket. It's more in the $150 to $250 range. And you know, the state officers and employees are they're generally prohibited from soliciting or accepting gifts of more than nominal value from individuals and entities that do business in the

147state of New York. But there are um there are some exceptions. Um state officers or employees are covered under the gift regulations may accept complimentary attendance including food and beverage at certain events and functions provided specific conditions are met. one that's a bonafide charitable event or two that's a bonafide political event and the city of New York in an advisory opinion their conflict of interest board in opinion 2000-4 found it permissible for an indiv for an elected official or member of his or her staff authorized by him or her to attend as part of his or her official duties a function of an organization composed of representatives of business, labor, professions, news media or organizations of a civic, charitable or community nature when invited by the sponsoring organization regardless of the price which the public

148may be charged for a ticket to the event and regardless of whether his or her office provides funding for that organization. Uh the board there also further found that this in the same opinion that an elected official or a member of his or her staff is permitted to accept one complimentary guest ticket without running a foul of the law. So it would be my proposal which is the same proposal from back in September that uh at the end of section 25A1 that we just add the f following sentence notwithstanding the foregoing it shall be permissible for a municipal officer or employee to attend as part of his or her official duties a function of an organization composed of representatives of business labor professions news media or organizations of a civic charitable or community nature. Sorry,

149I lost my page. When invited by the sponsoring organization, regards regardless of the price which the public may be charged for a ticket to the event and regardless of whether his or her office provides funding for that organization and shall also be permissible for the munipal officer or employee to accept one complimentary guest ticket. Okay. I I do have a question and and that is um on the advisory opinions where I mean I don't recall in the the almost 12 years that I've been here that an advisory opinion has been published with the identifying details removed. What is the mechanism and and how does how would it be published? I don't know if that's a question for Carol as the liaison to or the secretary to the ethics board in your time have you published

150advisory opinions? Okay. I think the issue my question as a secretary what do you mean by well that was my that was my newspaper be yeah or to the website or to the you know what I mean? Yeah. To all employees. I mean, I don't know how that would Yeah. My understanding of this, and I might be wrong, so feel free to correct me, was that it internally, we might not the department head might not know that a a staff member had an opinion given that might affect their job. And so, how do we make sure that we know? Maybe going to the personnel file is enough because yeah, I don't think we want to publish in the paper or broadly, but we do want to make sure that we have an understanding of opinions

151that have been given so that we know, you know, if there's compliance, right? Exactly. And and maybe it comes up again, you know, a situation today comes up that was already addressed last year. We never got that opinion and so we, you know, run a foul again. Mhm. So I don't know the mechanism but it seems like we should have this information internally as a town but you know not published broadly. Yeah. And the recommendation here is to to have it go to the person's personnel file and and obviously the the intro is that it's all kept confidential. I mean yeah. So maybe that's if that's not a practice we've been doing. And how many years have you been associated with the ethics board? So yeah. Well, in the personnel file, anybody who needed to

152have the information internally would be have access. What's that? If it was in the personnel file, would anybody who might, you know, a department heads for example that that person worked under or us, we'd have access to that information or no? Sometimes we don't even know that the request has been made for, you know what I mean? Because the the request for the opinion advisory opinion is confidential. Would it know would the emphasis be on the ethics board to advise the town board if they see a concern? So if they've issued an opinion and they said let's just say you can't do that action. Yes. And they get word that that they are taking that action that there's some kind of mechanism in place. I mean I don't know Rob is that what if someone

153breaks these ethical laws what is the uh what's a misdemeanor under the under the code? Um whether or not anybody would ever actually be prosecuted for for that, I don't know. Um but it, you know, a misdemeanor is a misdemeanor. It's punishable by up to one year in jail or that's public, right? Public proceeding. Mhm. So then would an in if say this wasn't the town but another organization private corporation would employers be informed of anyone's um I mean are we supposed to be informed of the alleged breaking or the actual it happened and someone got a misdemeanor? You mean if they actually break the ethics code and they're prosecuted? Yeah. I mean it would have to be the town who would have to prosecute prosecute. So we'd be notified. Prosecution is going to be

154pretty unlikely. The real thing is just do we know the ethical ethics opinions, right? Yeah. I think may maybe even the mechanism is is that from the board of ethics if they have a concern they approach town attorney's office and town attorney's office gives the board the legal advice accordingly in exec and if action needs to be taken we we would then recommend it accordingly. Um, I mean, look, I I in spirit I'm supportive. I think that that we should, you know, the ethics opinion should mean something and so people should know of them who need to know. It's obviously delicate, so I think we need to refine this a little bit, but I'm supportive in spirit for sure. Um, and I think to Carol's point, we just have to be careful with the word

155published. I don't think we're trying to do this broadly, but I think having an idea of what the ethics community has come back with, honestly, even positive, so that we know they think something's okay that might be questionable. Yeah, it's I just don't know how to do that. It's educational for all of us if if we uh understood what the opinions were, so maybe more work could be done. Yeah, I think Becky's coming down, our town administrator, because she's the one that had um brought up this request to have to have uh the opinions go into the HR. All right, let's get ready. Come on. All right, come on down, Becky. Wow. So, obviously Becky's been, as she always does, listening into the town board work session. So, do you want to help us through

156this piece? Sure. Uh, Becky Hansen, town administrator. Good thing I didn't wear heels today. Running down here. I am a little out of breath. Response time is impressive. Thank you. Um, okay. So, the goal of that provision is the way the ethics code currently reads, and I'm not speaking verb verbatim, but I think I'm close, is that if an employee seeks an opinion from the ethics board, the ethics or the ethics committee, the committee may share that opinion. Um the concern that we have with human resources is that if an employee does receive an opinion that may that may say okay um my job is X and let's say I have outside employment that I do you know A and B does my daily job is there a conflict with me still performing A and

157B having a certain position with the town and if the ethics committee came back and said yes we do feel that that is an you know could be an ethic issue, you should no longer be employed doing A and B. The town under the code has no idea that that opinion has been issued and whether or not the employee is complying with the findings of the ethics committee which then if the employee is still engaging in that behavior that would affect their employment in theory with the town that they are violating um what the ethics committee found could be an ethics violation by them having again using the example a certain outside employment. So that is the goal of that provision to amend it that the ethics committee can share those opinions that would remain

158confidential with town human resources just so the town is able to make sure that the employee is abiding by what that opinion is as it could affect their employment status with the town. It would not be shared publicly. Um again it would personnel files are confidential only available to you know human resources and the employee themselves. So the go ahead go ahead Tom. So the requirement would be that the obviously on their application form they would have to self-report what this other employment is annually kind of do that is the implication then that this would be flagged to the ethics committee to then be reviewed and say we see that as a conflict of interest or how would that determine the idea would be when someone is applying okay let's say a new employee that

159they are applying for a position that they would disclose if there's any outside employment and I believe the ethics committee has talked about you know with pre-employment payment mental correct me if I'm wrong that it would be ideal that all employees and we do ask them to note that and but they don't always do that so that pro in that prehiring process that there if there is some outside employment that it would be disclosed prior perhaps we they do seek you know an opinion from the ethics committee and then we deal with it then or if you have a current employee that does have um um again the the the usual example is outside employment if you have outside employment ment um they should be self-reporting ideally that okay I have this particular position with

160the town and maybe I you know I I have a construction company or I have a property management company you know um or selling real estate though are just a number of examples that we do see and that performing that outside work is not going to be an ethics violation with their day-to-day job with the town of East Hampton. So again, ideally they would be self-reporting or if the member of the town board is aware or someone that you know someone is performing some type of outside work that may be a conflict of their position with the town and again that they that that employee then goes to the ethics committee to seek an opinion on that particular outside employment. Again, if there if it's found there is an ethics concern or violation, again, under

161the current town code, the board or human resources were not aware that that employee may or may not be violating the ethics code. Right. And the part that I think is crucial is that it's a totally separate board from the town board that's it's completely independent. Yep. Yeah. Independent board that's making the determination on whether something's in violation of the town ethics code. Yes. So the the piece that was um that came up was that a request for an advisory opinion shall be confidential the new languages. However, the board of ethics shall publish such opinions. Um to your knowledge, I mean Carol's been doing this for a decade. We've and I my 12 years there I've never seen a published advisory opinion. Not that I'm aware of. No. So maybe it shouldn't be shall. So

162maybe it's a request. But however, the board of ethics may publish such go back to may publish and then um maybe that um provide a cop a confidential copy to the town's department of human resources to be placed in the employees personnel file. The code reads 2511K. Um, three, a request for an advisory opinion shall be confidential, but the board of ethics may publish such opinions provided that the name of the requesting person other identifying details are not included in this publication. The board of ethics shall endeavor to the extent practical to publish its advisory opinions so so as to assist public officers and employees in complying with applicable laws. So ideally again what we're seeking from the human res resources um perspective is that that opinion is shared with the town department of human

163resources in a confidential manner to be kept in the employees personnel file which again is confidential because again we don't know if an employee is complying with the terms that are set forth in an opinion from the the ethics committee. So I think we want to go back to the original language in the first in the first two sentences because we don't want to say that they they shall publish it. It's may and it's to the extent practicable. The problem is is that it doesn't say publish where or how she'll record it perhaps instead of publish. shall record it. Well, maybe it published to the human resources department. Okay. Well, it sounds like even the current code encourage us to do this when we're not we're not doing jeopardizing confidentiality. Why don't we just have

164a board of ethics page with opinions, you know, or or something like that where we could access previous opinions. And so it could be like on the website, you know, if you want to go figure out what the opinions have been, you can go and which under the code those would be redacted, but human resources, we would want a unredacted, right? Confidential, a copy that would be kept confidential because again, we don't know if the an employee is complying with the terms of the or even if it weren't redacted, just generalized like you can do this kind of work and hold this position without the details. But I I don't know how practical that would be. Um the only thing I have a question out of if it's confidential in the human resources department, who

165is it confidential to? Could a department head whose staff member that was have access to that or no? Not necessarily. So I wonder if we're achieving our goal there of making sure No, I mean it it would be um again personnel files are confidential and to be viewed um human resources and the employee themselves. If a member of the public foiled somebody's personnel file um you know they might get their civil service application with you know their their address and their cell phone number redacted, but nothing else in there they would be privy to. and especially if you specify within the code that that document um you know it is confidential right I'm comfortable with how the code is and if if what we're trying to do is make sure that staff members or potential

166employees are double-checking that and having a means to do it through art chapter 25 I think it's easiest just to end up saying you know specifically state where that copy would go to under whose authority ority in review and that's it. I'm I'm I'm still comfortable with the may not the shall I mean again the publishing is is one component of it. The other component is which was Rob drafted as a separate a separate line. An advisory opinion which concerns an individual employee shall be forwarded to the town's human resources department to be included in that employees personnel file. So Rob, we're going to go back to the original language in the first two sentences and then keep the the new line about HR and then I think we can put this on for public

167hearing on Thursday. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Beck. Great. You're welcome. Appreciate you joining us. All right. So, what happened? Yes. Okay. We we finished the the last part, the the gift thing. We're all I think Tom, you had concerns. I don't know. Yeah. No, I'm not I'm not comfortable with it, but that's okay. We can still go to public hearing. And the only thing I have a question there is there was an additional ticket, and I think that the board of ethics was in favor of waving the limit for individuals, but not for an additional. Um, you know, my personal situation is different, so I understand the difficulty that provides, but I I have a hard time going against the opinion of the committee, even though it's ultimately our choice there. So, I'm certainly in

168favor of raising the the amount, but I don't know about the second part of that. I don't know. Let's we'll hear it. I mean, I know for for instance, for in my experience, there have been weekends where I have attended nine events in a weekend from Friday night to Sunday night. if I didn't bring my spouse or you know sometimes but an adult ch my adult young adult comes with me I wouldn't see my family. No I get it. I get it. So I I mean I again I don't think that it compromises you know our position on something um like I said anytime we want to give grant funding to any organization it goes through a number of work sessions. It goes out for public hearing. Um, so I I don't see the nexus

169and [Music] um sometimes I think my spouse is more popular than I am when I go to an event. Okay, so we're through our topics and so we're up to liaison reports. Thank you. One moment. Yep. [Applause] Okay. Okay. Okay. Amigans assistance advisory committee will meet um next Monday at the Amaganti school 6:30 p.m. in the school library. Um it we continue to be in our beta testing days of it right now for the building fire marshall code enforcement offices. Um if anyone has interest in being involved in that beta testing, please reach out to myself or the IT department or the building departments accordingly. Uh human services. Um reminder, it's it's gone on today already, but blood pressure screening is on the first Tuesday of every month at the senior center. Uh we also

170have morning Zumba, which has been a great success. We've added uh Zumba uh afternoon Zumba, which begins this week. Um it's tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. Uh there is senior transportation available for those interested. Um if you need more information, call 631-324443. Can I ask you a question? AAK is going to meet the first Monday of the month. I'm sorry. Second Monday. Okay. So that it's it's not your act. I apologize. Yes. Isn't the 7th, it's the 14th. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Um tomorrow, Wednesday 2nd of April will be the first meeting of the mindfulness club um head by our senior citizen club leader. Uh it will be at 10:00 a.m. uh to integrate wellness practices in your life. Um, we also have our arts and crafts scheduled for every Friday afternoon at 1 p.m.

171And then additionally, I just wanted to highlight um, one of the grants we do give as a town is to an organization, the retreat. Amir, if you could pull this up again, that would be great. Um, they are hosting a series of webinars on Zoom from 12:00 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. Uh, Wednesday, April 19th, there is a one on digital boundaries, navigating screens, social media, and online safety. Wednesday, April 23rd, there will be one on cultivating healthy relationship differentiing between healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors. And Wednesday, May 7th, there will be a talk on survivor speaks um here from a survivor of domestic violence who shares their personal journey. Um I also know this organization has done presentations to our senior center um and they've been very warmly received um and doing a phenomenal job.

172If you wish to learn more, there is a QR code on the screen. you can um scan with your phone to get more information. Um a reminder to people that um recycling stickers are due. It's April. Um you are able to purchase these from the town clerk's office uh and the Montalk Annex Monday through Friday. If you need to get one on the weekend, the only location you can currently do that is at the sanitation center on Springs Fireplace Road. Um Brooks Park. Um, just to update my board members here, um, the Brooks Park board did, uh, return their proposal for a possible license agreement. I will be reviewing that with the attorney's office, land management department, and, uh, presenting to you accordingly. Um, licensing review board, we met last week to discuss possible licensing

173review board procedural improvements. Uh we're doing a comparison with operations in other towns uh on the east end and just kind of looking to potentially change a few elements to provide better protections to town residents. Um you know such things as right now there's an issue they feel there's too many postponements going on. They also would like to um a lot of postponements going on people either cancelling or just pushing out you know the meetings and like how many postponements should a hearing actually be allowed? Okay, further. Um, you know, they also noted that in the past there was actually a small budgetary amount to allow them to advertise, you know, what the LRB does and and who it serves. Um, that's something we might want to consider going into 2026, too. Um, um, as

174we do the budget there, um, you also push push it out on social media. Yeah, I mean, we've got Yeah, exactly. It's thousand plus followers, I think, on Instagram. um uh East End fire commissioners um just kind of raised two things here. I mean one thing we we talked previous meetings about the um you know the importance of our emergency services out there and the challenges they have in recruiting. You know one thing you are seeing as we get these daily FRES reports with regard to this is when there is a fire now you are typically seeing nine mutual aid agencies go in to respond to it. that is because it's very hard for these firehouses to get crews out and you know with the fire risk being as high as it is. Um they're

175taking it very seriously. But that that's what's happening. We're seeing it in our own districts. Um so again just as we you know watch this and consider what we can do the community. Do consider signing up for that. Um, I also want to just highlight with regards to that some training opportunities that are going on um, both for like EMS and for fire departments out there. Um, Suffach County is hosting a meeting for all um, EMS instructors um, today um, April 20 April 1st, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. at the location at 360 Yapank. Um, Suffach County REMCO. There's also the Thomas Ladier Memorial EMS conference Saturday, April 26, 2025. For those of you who did know Tom, he's an absolute legend in that field. Um, REMCO is also taking applications uh for the CPR life-saving

176awards ceremony. This is one of the most amazing things people can do in their lives. Um, you know, if you know anyone who's been involved in a CPR life-saving award ceremony, um, they can go to the SUFFK robot um, website and make a a nomination on the CPR life-saving award nomination link. Any questions, you can reach out to me on that. And then finally, fire service update in this realm. Um, just to let you know, there's an engine company operations course at Bayport Fire Department uh today at 7 p.m. There's also a terrorism awareness um and activity reporting for fire, EMS, and fire police classes Monday, April 21st at West Hampton Beach. Um, special events, just kind of one thing that, you know, just to call out to people as we get these applications in,

177signage, it has to adhere to town code. um even on private property and temporary signage, there are specific regulations as to what those are. Please ensure as you do signage for your events, you're adhering to those. Um public safety um as noted kind of last year, we were in the public safety calendar of April. Um the uh alert this month is for severe weather and specifically flood safety. Um Amber, if you want to just bring up, it's just it's a graphic more than anything else, but this is from from FEMA. You know, what you should know about flood safety. Uh, make a family emergency communication plan that includes your pets. Have emergency supplies in place at home, at work, and in the car. Check in your neighbors to make sure they're okay. Know what to

178do before and after the flood. Flood insurance takes 30 days to take effect. So, please purchase now to protect your family. Listen to local officials by radio, TV, or social media. Evacuate when advised by authorities or if you live in a flood or flood flame prone area. Um, if you're on high ground above flooded areas, be prepared to stay where you are as you may be your best protection. And finally, never drive or walk through flooded streets. Turn around, don't drown. Do not go through flood waters. Ironically, I was thinking back, it was around this time last year we had that big flood out in Montalk. So, Memorial Day weekend, it's that time of year. Yeah. Um, disabilities advisory board. Um, we met last week. One bit of feedback that did come back from that

179committee is they have noticed in quite a few of our town parking lots that the ADA parking spaces um are not according to ADA code um such things as the unloading area um doesn't allow a cutout to let people up onto ramps. They've just asked as we go forward with any parking plans if they could just have visibility to what the ADA parking is in any lots. um Arts Council Committee. Um they will be hosting a event on June 12th um at LTV, a CNN panel discussion to discuss arts in the Hamptons and what can be done to strengthen that community. Um and then last but not least, oh sorry, penultimate um emergency preparedness. Um we continue to review the FEMA plan questions. has actually shared those with um my my colleague Councilman Lee this

180morning. Um there's a few areas we continue to work on, some we've completed. So just reading through the categories that we are addressing with this plan. Communications has been completed. Um continuity we are still working on with town administration and the Eastampton PD and the town emergency preparedness coordinator. Energy is one we need to kind of discuss as a board um at some point in the future. financial management has been completed. Uh firefighting I'm working with both the fire marshall and the fire districts on. Similarly for hazardous materials, law enforcement, the police department is working on logistics and resource management is one we'll need to work um with the town administrator on mass care. The emergency prep coord emergency preparedness coordinator needs to give us feedback on. Uh mutual aid multi-jurisdictional coordination has been completed

181by the town attorney's office. Private sector coordination is one I think we should discuss as a town board. Um and then uh protective actions and public alert warning are being worked on by East Hampton Town PD. Public information has been completed by our public information officer. Public works and engineering infrastructure is being completed by the Department of Highways. Recovery as a community we need to discuss as a board. Uh search and rescue is being completed by Eastampton Town Police. transportation and volunteer donations management. Volunteer and donations management. I would um like to reach out to the public. If there's any members who are interested in being involved in helping coordinate what that might like look like in the event of emergency, please do reach out to my office. Um lastly, tick control. We had an

182excellent presentation last Friday uh by Dr. Scott Campbell of Suffach County Department of Health. Um it was regarding the tick life cycle. Um for those who are interested in seeing it is available in the minutes of our committee meeting. Um just in terms of learning more about tick life cycles, periods of heightened risk, mitigation methods, range of areas. Um encourage you to watch and learn the presentation. Um Dr. Campbell did also note that he is available for presentations at libraries, public institutions, schools as needed. Um please feel free to reach out to him or my office if you cannot contact him. That's it. Thank you, Tom. David. Uh, this past Friday, I attended U New York Crant and also Cornell Cooperative Extension Seafood Summit, New York State Seafood Summit. I attended with uh John Dunn

183uh department head of a culture. Uh here there were panelists that included Amanda Jones from Inlet Seafood and others along with county legislator Walker in the in South County's executive Ed Roma. uh a lot of the discussions surrounded uh increases in needs for shoreside infrastructure including ice houses and food processing locations potentially uh local localized closer to potentially a riverhead in those areas then too. It was a great discussion at that time. I got to meet uh the director of marine resources in the DEC uh Martin Gary among others then too and I have invited them out to the township for a tour of our marine resources out here also then too. uh there uh Sarah Lansdale uh who's in economic development for Suffach County uh also alerted alerted uh the individuals there that they're

184putting out a working waterfront survey. Uh this is to survey individuals that have waterfront properties and commercial properties to find out what do they offer, what is needed on there then too. That survey will be coming to us shortly and we'll try to put it out to our socials to get a robust uh response for that from the east end. Also then too um there was discussions there also about uh a uh agriculture excuse me aquaculture spawning also uh and um that is also currently still happening within our department of aquaculture then too um I had a conversation with uh Tim Wattsman New York State uh parks uh they are preparing to accept uh lowest responsible bidder for uh NPI fire reduction And that would be as far as creating the burn piles. So they're

185still on track with these timelines and also funding trying to receive all the funding needed in the state budget for this uh and stay on this time frames and timelines that were produ that were presented uh a couple months ago in M talk. Just let everyone know that as far as East Hampton Town lifeguards, please continue to sign up uh your children for the Nipper Guard program and also evaluations for lifeguards. And if you're interested in lifeguarding for the town of East Hampton, please contact the recre recreation department at 631-3244141. Uh Eastampton Little League opening day is upcoming this month. I want to thank some buildings and grounds department for working with the little league and uh they are I believe they should be have completed all our little league fields as far as uh

186adding more clay to the interior of the the diamonds for safe play. Again, a lot of people have been practicing over Stephen Hans path also then too. Um, if you're interested in playing Little League, contact Eastampton Little League at their website then, too. But I think opening day, I believe, is coming up on April 25th. I'll confirm that with the town board in a time frame and everyone there. Uh, Kentwell Court, I want to let everyone know that the infrastructure uh, Suffach County Department, Suffach County Water Authority has completed the installation of water there and we're working with PSEG for the installation of the power there and then we'll complete that road. I'm anticipating that we would like to come back to a town board to discuss the RFP and other decision make decision decision

187placement processes potentially in May here uh supervisor and I'll get that onto your pencil into the agenda there then too. Um, I want to let everyone know about an um, steam hands path multi-use field is moving forward at a rapid pace right now and they are should be completing a lot of their drainage this week and also start to get ready for um, concrete work then too. So that's still happening over there and again it's not interfering with any of the parking as all the mobilization is taken care of in the areas on the fields then too. Um we uh I want to let everyone know an update about the Monttok Harbor um cap dredge project uh which is slated to happen in the end of this year here. First of all, the the harbor's

188uh the tips of the harbor is actually already shing in again. So I've been told by fishing captains. Uh a lot of northwest winds have been blowing and a lot more sand in there. Uh but again the dredging project is there's a couple critical pathways there. one being in engineering uh that's Army Corps, one being funding by the the Army Corps. The other one was receiving our easements uh for for multiple properties that are not in the town's ownership. Those uh those easements have been received as of last week then two and they will be uh they will be filed with the county clerk hopefully this week if not already then two. So that's a milestone moment for this project that the town had to take care of. I want to thank everyone in the

189town that assisted myself with receiving those and also to the property owners that donated those easements. [Music] Um uh we closed on the former Cheryl's Dairy uh uh property that's at the uh almost at the confluence of Springs Fireplace Road and Three Mo Harbor is about 20.5 acres there and too as you heard the town will be going out to an RFP for for uh for our farmers wanted in the coming weeks here then too. Uh but the town uh town land management is going to be working on mowing some of those uh fields to get rid of some of the woody invasives and there's some other work that has to be done because there's a lot of there's some invasives that have grown up in the field properties and also some tree work on

190there then too. So more information to come on that and as land management is doing their uh boundary assessments of the property then too. Again, it's another uh day in which the town is protecting our agricultural history as we have to within the town comprehensive plan and one of our goals. Lastly, uh spring paving has started already and has started in Montalk downtown Malkque where they're milling and going to be paving. They're milling a lot of the areas in the central business district uh on their Steve Lynch, superintendent highways and Terry Nesbbit out there. They're looking to try to complete this year as they did in the fall and the spring of last year. much of the paving in the downtown business area. I have alerted the chamber of commerce all right of this the

191timing uh and then also the milling and the paving which we think might happen next week. They're weather dependent of course uh and again I think the highway department and then also the businesses for uh their knowledge of potential inconveniences there to some parking in the end everything would be uh everything will be uh striped and that includes ADA parking spots too. Uh and that's all I have. Great. Thank you David Kate. Yes. Uh I'll start out with um a report on the uh no spring fling event uh that the litter action committee held um in uh last week. Um the members of the East Hampton Litter Action Committee um went to uh Maidstone Park for on Saturday morning for the first uh kickoff of the no spring fling spring events. the um they were

192joined by we were joined by the members of the East Hampton Sportsman Alliance, the Springs Citizens Advisory Committee and as well as um neighbors in Springs. And I want to thank everybody for their endeavor. A report is that hundreds of beer bottles and cans, hard selzer, iced tea, water and soda cans, lunch containers, coffee cups, napkins, knives, forks, and spoons were included in the 15 bags of litter collected. um these environs that were picked up surrounding the parking lots, including the trails leading from the parking lots and the ball field and from the playground to the bay. And these were found to be favorite spots for bottles and canned tossings. There was also the ubiquitous finding of socks, hundreds of cigarette butts, cigarette lighters, energy drinks, bottle caps, and teeth flossers. And that joined the

193car tire in the assortment of stuff found in the beautiful landscape of our Cherish Park. There's a special thank you from the LAC to the Maidstone Market for rewarding the participants for their efforts with bagels and bananas and beverages after yet another litter adventure. The next one will be the scheduled pickup is at Springs Fireplace Road April 5th at 10 a.m. Meet at Grant Avenue where you can choose your very own vest and litter grabber or just organize a litter pickup of your own. Creating a litter free in East Hampton is easy. Don't toss it. see litter, pick it up, cover your vehicle load. Please don't trust East Hampton. Um, also the uh grant uh MTOK resiliency grant uh steering committee continues to meet on a weekly basis on Fridays. Um, we have uh completed

194a review of the RFP uh going out for the consultants uh for this uh for task one and two and three of the project. Um we will we're now sending it to Gene Corrosa purchasing for adding the legal language that is required of the town and then uh this week uh David will be a guest of the steering committee um going over the uh any final suggestions for the RFP. Um South Wind Farm um they are going to come back and uh uh repave Beach Lane because of some settlement. Folks may see some engineers out there doing very small boring holes into the pavement. That is to study what's happening with the settling that's underneath. Um there's several different structures underneath. One is cement and then next door to that is regular uh fill. So

195we're going to they're going to analyze the settling before they repave so that they can do the proper job on that within the time frame allowed. Uh finally um for this week I will be speaking uh Friday if you're at uh Stony Brook um college at the Student Activity Comm uh center the SACE in ballroom one there is the 2025 Long Island youth climate summit um and this is hosted by the student for climate action and renewable energy long island and the theme is from climate science to solutions to policy and career. So part of this will be some information on careers in sustainability. Um I'll be part of a group uh uh talking about the power of youth engagement in climate policy and that will feature county executive Ed Roma, county legislators Rebecca Satin

196and Steve Engelbright, South Hold Town Supervisor Al Krupsky, uh myself and New York State Senator Monica Martineesses. Uh so please if you're uh would like to attend uh just reach out to my office and I'll give you more details on how to become part of the solution. Um and uh that is all I have. Great. Thank you Katean. Uh yeah like to start by sharing some disappointing news actually which is that the town was not awarded the New York Forward grant we've been talking about for the last year or so in in Springs. Um and we did a debriefing with New York State to figure out why. And that's sort of a unique grant encouraging redevelopment um and revitalization. Um it and they made an emphasis to say it's not for typical municipal projects. They

197they really want sort of um it was a difficult conversation because they're not telling us exactly what to do. And so it was a little bit vague. So the impressions I give or I'm stating will be a little editorialized, but it was my understanding of of of why we weren't awarded. Um they were looking for sort of mixeduse projects um that included housing. housing was a really big which which makes sense because you have to be a pro- housing community to be part of that and they also made an emphasis of saying that the New York state wanted to be part of the planning process and so I got the impression they were looking more for like a you know this is one example be a dilapidated block that they could sort of really aggressively

198come in with uh unique solutions that wouldn't be your typical thing. So um with all of that in mind I I I think that this was I can't emphasize enough how rewarding and encouraging that that process was. um starting with Samantha Klene um and all the work she put in, but then there was really quick work from business owners and community members of Springs and uh I think we talked about a lot of really good ideas and at the end of the day we asked for what we wanted. We were intentionally conservative based on the Springs Hamlet plan. Um you know the community didn't want uh you know a massive new block of a mixeduse development and so I don't regret not being more you know we don't just want to seek money to do

199something. we want to do what what our community wants to do and so um you know is it whether we want to reapply for that in that area or perhaps someplace else in town if it's appropriate. Uh but again that the what I'm taking most from this is is what great work and contributions there were from so many people from answering the survey to letters of support and I think that with the ideas we talked about um we can develop those further to benefit our community. So I think it was a very um you know a really constructive process and again so let me just add and congratulate you on that even not getting the grant because it took us numerous times to get we didn't get the resiliency grant on the first go but

200that relationship that you're developing with the state and the encouragement that you'll get from that is all about how you're going to be successful in grants in the future. So that the exercise that you're thanking people for, I thank you for leading that because that's really how you get those grants in the future. Thank you, Kate. And and again, that should all be passed really to Samantha Klein. She did most of the work, but I appreciate and also they they they open up the door to other grants that Sam probably already knows about, but there might be other opportunities. Um and and overall, again, we'll revisit whether we to to Kate's point, you know, they said a lot of people applied more than once before getting grants. We'll re-evaluate knowing the criteria why we didn't

201get it, whether there's a more appropriate or whether it's an appropriate thing for us to see. So, well, thank you. Uh the property management committee will meet uh tomorrow at 4:30. Uh typically, we meet in this room. We're actually going to meet at the Wayne Scott Chapel and Wayne Scott uh because we do want to discuss the 66 Main Street uh property. Um that will be the main item on the agenda. And the other item that we we want to address is the Dodge management plan, the Dodge property, which is very very close to being finalized and hopefully that will be the last discussion at that level and then I can bring it to the the town board for a discussion. So at the Wayne Scott Chapel tomorrow, Wednesday at 4:30, the property management committee

202egg advisory will meet uh egg advisory committee will meet next Thursday uh April 10th. Um we're going to move the location of that committee's meetings to 300 Panagle Place. I will follow up with more details about the specific room. Um, we meet on the second Thursday of every month based on people's of availability, but what I found is that it's hard to have a permanent home. And so for community members and members of the public who might want to join, I'm trying not to have it in different locations depending on space availability. There's a conference room at 300 uh Pano Place that I think we'll use. And again, I'll I'll follow up with more details next um work session. the old stone culvert uh project that that I hope people have noticed in springs that

203started last fall. Um that will be com uh finished completed beginning April 14th. There it will be a a bridge closure to replace the culvert there. Um and we asked the contractor to do it during a school break which starts on April 14th and um very appreciative that they've accommodated that. There is a potential of up to two weeks of the road being closed. I hope it's quicker than that. Of course, we can't guarantee that, but at least the first week that the school will be out and hopefully people can adjust. Um, I'll be reaching out to um everybody who I think needs to know about this, but if any members of the public are listening and know people who travel those areas, Old Stone Highway, uh, please let me know. Encourage on an encouraging

204note on that project, I've heard nothing but um, positive feedback on the Fragmighty removal um, and the way that that looks. I think that that it's beautiful to have the view of the pond again and and and very encouraged and and and frankly it's one of the rare times that I've only heard positive things on a on a impactful project like that. Usually you hear all all sides. Um along those lines, the spring CAC met uh month with with nothing really new. It was a lot of um updates on things that we've already discussed. The the main thing that I would like to bring to the town board is fragmitey removal. Um I'm spawned. I think frag money is a big problem across town. Uh again, was very very pleased with the with the removal

205we did as part of that project I just mentioned, but it's expensive. They had to dig up to six feet down to remove all the roots and uh very very expensive and not really, you know, tenable to do that all around. I I do wonder if we can do a cutting project um on pussy's bronze. So we did that in the past on a cutting project and um there's we and I sorry no go for it. So, I did bring this up um I believe to natural resources. Uh one of the multi-tools that we purchased, the attachments for um uh building the grounds has a 14 foot articulating arm that can go out that could cut into water. You is for hedge and that's something that that could probably be done relatively easy up to

206a certain distance away if you get the right permitting on there. Just to let you know, we have some equipment on there that could help. I think that that's great and the main area that we want to focus on is the actual bridge of Pussy's Pond. I've actually heard people are afraid to walk across because you have to sort of go through this which surprised me honestly because it's kind of as invasive it is it's kind of a pretty walk. Um but you know there are DC permits involved. I have spoken with natural resources. I think the trustees you know may need some but I I want to figure out a way to move forward on that because I think that we're not going to be able to I know we're not going to be

207able to remove all the fragmite fully by digging down and that's a much more invasive process. But, uh, I I hope we can make a difference. And Dave, your feedback on the fact you've done that before is is helpful. And I'd like to pursue it in that location and and perhaps others. Um, and this also ties back into, I think, the New York Forward grant in Springs in general. Improving parking in that area of Springs where there's festivals and farmers markets and and various things. I found when I went to the Heart of Springs event last year that I parked near the school and walked across that bridge and probably was closer than many people and it was a very safe, beautiful walk. And I think that by by opening this up and maybe thinking,

208you know, holistically about parking all around that area, we might have safer streets. And um that's a sort of a tangential um you know application but I think that you know if if we removing those those those fragmitey if it allows for people to use that bridge to access you know the heart of springs I think that would be a great thing. Can will you with the um work that's going to be done at the Old Stone Culver, can you reach out to the Springs Food Pantry and Holly Weaten because they've extended their hours because from what I understand the wait was like an hour and a half. So they they now start um uh doing their their outreach. I think it starts at like 1:30 and it used to start much later in the

209afternoon. Okay. I just wanted to a couple things I wanted to touch base on. One is um you know the town's planning department has received some criticism of late and I'd like to set the record straight. Today applications are moving through the town's planning department more swiftly than in years past thanks to targeted improvements in workflow management. Historically application wait times were longer and less predictable. That has changed. In recent years the department introduced systems to track review timelines and set internal benchmarks. steps that have resulted in a more structured and accountable process. As one of the town's busiest departments, the planning team manages a complex workload. It provides critical support to the town's appointed boards whose decisions play a key role in protecting East Hampton's natural environment, essential habitats, and preserving the character of

210our community. This work is necessarily detailed and technical and it requires careful deliberation. To further improve access and transparency, the town has begun implementing open gov, a digital platform that allows residents to submit and track planning applications online. This this will streamline the intake process, reduce administrative delays, and make it easier for applicants and the public to engage with the planning process. In addition, the town board recently approved a resolution to retain AKRF, Inc., a municipal planning consultant, to conduct a best practice study of the site plan review process. The study will help identify strategies to improve efficiency and consistency while ensuring that all recommendations align with the town's existing code and long-term planning goals. While staff capacity is often cited, a major factor affecting review timelines is the quality of applications submitted. Delays frequently

211stem from incomplete materials, repeated corrections, or a lack of responsiveness to established requirements, challenges that consume time and resources. The planning department remains focused on steady progress, clear communication, and a fair process for all applicants. Its work is essential to ensuring that development in East Hampton proceeds thoughtfully and in line with the values that define the town. I'd also like to address one other thing. Uh I know that there's been some talk, we've had a couple of uh town department heads that have recently resigned and like many businesses and local governments across the east end of Long Island, we continue to navigate ongoing challenges related to employee recruitment and retention. challenges that reflect broader regional trends in housing affordability, transportation, and the cost of living. At present, we have department head vacancies in our housing

212department, town attorney's office, and building department along with a handful of staff level openings in the planning department. Despite these gaps, our team remains committed to delivering highquality service, and we continue to make steady progress across departments. We appreciation the dedication of our staff who are stepping up during this time and we're actively working to fill these positions with talented individuals who are eager to serve our community. Uh so that's the comments that I wanted to make today. I do want to bring up we did have um a resident come during the public portion to ask about uh special event fees and I was hoping that maybe we could have a discussion of that. That was for uh that was Jen Folks for OMAC. She had said that um the old old Montalk athletic club

213um is a I'm trying to see where I have a 501c7 and uh they were looking for a reduction in special event fees. You know, in my almost 30 year years living here in East Hampton, I'm very familiar with the work that OMAC does and the contributions they make to their our community, the scholarships they give out and how they support Hampton's Lifeguard Association and many of our um schools athletic teams. And I would like to see us, as we have in the past, uh wave the fees for special events for OMAC. I don't know how my colleagues feel. I absolutely support that knowing the work that OMAC does. Um, not all organizations uh can actually meet that 501c3, but if you're in that category and I think Jen spoke very clearly of the work

214uh that OMAC has done for our community, then they should remain um not being charged as has been the history uh for OMAC. Yeah, I I think it's about the town code and the town code very clearly does state that, you know, instances where there are civic organizations that provide a public benefit, the town board does have the right to wave those fees. Uh, in this case, I would support it because I do think it meets all of those criteria, right? Yeah. I was going to say I would want to hear from the special events committee, but Kate and Tom are are the leans there. So, if they're supportive, I am too on this on a case- by case basis on this uniqueness of this. Yes. Absolutely. Yes. Absolutely. Okay, great. So, we'll get that

215communicated, I guess, through Chelsea and Anmir. I wouldn't mind getting a rugby game out here again. Let me know. All right. So, do I have a motion to go into exact session? We have resolutions. Sorry. No, you can't. Yeah, I can't. All right. Resolution 2025473. Um this is uh whereas Larry uh Leia Terry Beante um offers specialized dance fitness classes and the classes will begin um in December on Wednesdays at 2 p.m. Um uh uh so this wellness 60 plus Wednesday afternoon Zumba classes at a cost to the town not to exceed $2,660. Second. All in favor? Hi. Um, sorry and I just one misread that the classes begin in April. Apologies and they go through December. Um, 2025474. This is for a wellness 60 plus afternoon drawing and painting instruction. This is a new

216program we're offering. Uh, whereas Kate Goldman is an artist and art teacher living in East Hampton. She will provide uh classes including painting, collage, mixed media, tie dying, paper marbling, sculpture, and pottery. Uh, the art instruction classes are scheduled to take place April 8th and April 29th at 2 p.m. at a cost to the town not to exceed $200. Second. All in favor? I. 475 is again a new program to offer the Jackson Pollock painting workshop. Uh, whereas Joyce Romano, the executive coordinator of the Pollock Kraner House, uh, will provide Jackson Pollock painting workshops for the 60 plus community. There'll be four 1-hour workshops April 22nd, April 29th, May 13th, and June 3rd at a total cost to the town not to exceed $100. Second. All in favor? I I my pleasure to offer resolution

2172025476. This is authorized payment for prior year invoice to Best Climate Control Corporation in amount of $480. Second. All in favor? I I have resolution 477 and this is to accept a grant of scenic and conservation easement. Whereas a public hearing was held by the town board on March 20th on proposed grant of scenic and conservation easement. Resolve that the town board hereby accepts the easement listed below. The grtor is April Taylor. Um the date of the easement is February 10th, 2025. The location is 419 East Lake Drive Malk and the reviewing agency is zoning board of appeals. Second. All in favor? I. Resolution 478 is again a grant of a scenic and conservation easement. This is the public hearing was held on March 20th, 2025. Resolve that the town board hereby accepts the easement

218listed below. The grtor is Ellen Fine. Uh it's uh the date of the easement January 6, 2025. The location is 3 Miller Avenue in Montalk and the reviewing agency is the zoning board of appeals. Second. All in favor? I I resolution 479 is to authorize energy manager platform with uh NIPA whereas the New York power authority offers a web-based energy management platform which can provide a virtual audit to analyze data relating to energy costs which when completed is expected to result in energy efficiency recommendations resulting in energy saving opportunities. um resolved that the supervisor is authorized to renew the agreement with the New York State Power Authority for the NYM platform access at a cost not to exceed $10,795 and uh 20 cents for a 2-year agreement. Second. Okay. Resolution uh 480 is for a

219release of securities. Uh and this is uh whereas uh in urban renewal areas um certain work uh certain securities are taken for work approved road work in those areas. Um resolved that the following security by held by the town board is hereby released. Uh the applicant was James Kim at uh 52 Dogwood Street in Montalk. It was uh for an urban renewal parcel at 71 Harbor Avenue in Springs. And uh the uh check uh the remitter is James Kim and it's for $8,700. Second. All in favor? I. 481 is to release security. Um again, a report was received from the town's consulting engineer approving work in certain renewable renewable uh I'm sorry, urban renewal areas and resolved that the following security held by the town board is released. The applicant was Van Air Homes LLC

220and the urban uh renewal parcel is described as hold on one second uh 37 Gardener Lanes and Springs and it's in the amount of $22,500. Second. All in favor? I. Resolution 482 is approval of various upcoming special events for March 2025. Resolve that the following special event permits are hereby approved with the conditions agreed upon by the reviewing committee. Monttok Chamber of Commerce the annual extravaganza Easter egg hunt on the Montalk Green. Um this will take place Saturday uh 412 from 11:00 a.m. to 300 p.m. Uh Springs Improvement Society Springs Farmers Market. Uh this is Jen Folks has taken over that. This is at Ashwa Hall. Saturday 5:17 2025 through 9:27 2025 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. And next is the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, ARF, Hampton's Pet Celebration Day at 124

221Daniels Hole Road. This is Saturday 5:17, 2025, 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The Malkque Artist Association Art Show on the Green. Friday 6:17 2025 and Sunday 6:29 2025 from uh noon to 5:00 p.m. and Thursday 6:25 um at 300 p.m. Uh the t the takedowns are the the same days. Is that a typo? Yeah, I think that's a typo. Should be 6:17 to 619. Yeah. So 617 to 619. Uh I'd like to make that amendment to that uh portion. The M talk Artist Association Art Show on the Green, Fridays, uh, August 15, 2025 to Sunday, August 17, 2025, 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 pm. and uh Devon Yach Club's 4th annual Fourth of July, I'm sorry, Devon Yach Club's many annual Fourth of July celebration of fireworks show dinner and show at 300 Abraham's Path uh

222Abraham's Landing Road in Naganzit. Saturday 7:5 from 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. The rain date is Sunday 76 from 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Devon Yach Club is also hosting their annual dinner dance, the Como's Ball, 300 Abraham's Landing Road on Saturday 7:25 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. And the Montalk Chamber of Commerce will host the Montalk Farmers Market at the Montalk Green on Muk Highway. The dates are listed below. Second is amended. [Applause] 179. Yeah. I think there's I think that's a they usually do them on a weekend, Carol. So, I'm going to suggest that those are also a typo and if we need to do another one, we'll do it. June 19th is a perhaps we should just pull those two from the We can do them next. June 17th is is

223a Tuesday, not a Friday. Okay. So, I'll I'll pull Okay. So, I'll pull the um the um parts of the resolution that have to do with the MAK artists association. There's two of them for their art shows on the green. Both of them and we'll come back with make sure we have correct dates. Second as amended. All in favor? [Applause] And lastly, I have uh resolution 483 to amend resolution 2024-25. This is the JCAP grant resolution. Um this is uh where the Justice Department requested authorization to submit for a grant application for financial assistance to the state of New York unified court system. And whereas resolution 2024 uh25 needs to be corrected to state that the town of East Hampton authorized the justice court to file an application for 24 and 25. Whereas the East

224Hampton Justice Court received correspondence from the state of New York stating that the total amount granted is 57 $5,750.78. Be it resolved that the town authorize the East Hampton Justice Court to file an application 2425 for funds from the state of New York Unified Court System uh under uh the judal court assistance program in an amount not to exceed $30,000. Further resolved that the town board directs the finance office to make the following budget modifications. Uh state aid JCAP justice court increased to $5,750.78. office furniture uh and expenses. Furniture and expenses increase that to $3,84463. Increase office uh expenses in the amount of $1,96.15. Second. All in favor? I resolution 484. This is to amend resolution 2025174 Long Island Mason. Um Long Island Mason and Concrete Corps has provided an updated quote for a lesser

225amount of $997.50. 50 cents. Uh, and this resolution is to reflect that amount. You don't hear that more often. Exactly. Second. Exactly. All in favor? I. Uh, resolution 485. This is to approve change order number one, Canwell Court Road and Drainage Project. Um, this is to adjust the co uh the change order number one scope of work is $11,150 which will increase the contract cost to $358,5150. Second. All in favor? I. Resolution 2025486 is the termination of employee. Uh the town board hereby adopts the findings and recommendations set forth in the report of hearing officer Ponzi dated March 20th, 2025 and in accordance therewith terminates the employment of Andrea Cass effective immediately. Second. All in favor? I. I have resolution 487 and this is to amend 2025 CEA schedule A to add principal planner 2.

226Whereas the town has requested that the title of principal planner 2 be added to the csea schedule A. Be it resolved that the CSA schedule A is hereby amended to reflect the addition of principal planner grade 33 uh which is uh $4040 per hour with a schedule of a 40h hour per uh 40 hours per week work week effective April 2nd 2025. Sorry move for discussion on this one. Could you just explain how was that position fit into the hierarchy of the planning department? Exactly. It's going to report into it's going to replace another position uh that we had at a different title that they don't um accept anymore and this is the new name for the title and so I'll be reporting directly into the director of the department. Okay. Second. All in favor?

227I have one more. You have a resolution. Oh, I'm sorry. It wasn't on my uh Thank you, K. Resolution 488 to amend resolution 2025455 to authorize payment of past due invoices mission communication score camp hero in the amount of $774. I move for discussion. I feel like a second. We had this on the agenda in a prior week. I feel it's to amend it because there was a correction on the budget line. Thank you very much. Second. All in favor? I. Okay. Now, do I have a resolution to go into exact session? I have a motion. Motion to exec session for personnel contracts CPF and advice of councel. Second. All in favor? I. All right. Thank you everyone for joining us today and thank you LTV.