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Okay. Good evening, everybody. Today is Tuesday, August 18, 2026. We're here for a town board meeting. Before we go any further, let's stand and say the pledge. Councilman Kering, would you leave us in the pledge, please?

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of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God,

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indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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Thank you, sir, very much, Councilman Rothbott, we have an invocation tonight.

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Well, we had our chaplain from the Rugged Fire Department just in winter, but I don't see him here today.

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So with that in mind may I ask our town clerk Reverend James Whitton to lead us on an invocation

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please.

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I would love to.

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Thank you.

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Can we bow our heads Lord we ask that you be with our community.

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Quiet our minds to the faithfully consider all of the challenges we face as a community.

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Please bless all those who serve and exercise their civic duties to bring us together.

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We, with our police and our first responders who dedicate their lives to the

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betterment of all, we, with our citizens who go about their lives and want to

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do the best for their families and their community as well. We ask all these

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things through our Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen. So tonight we have a few special

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things to start off from meeting about and our community is a special place and we

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We want to begin with a few proclamations that we have for the life-saving efforts that

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happened this last week, and I've asked Lieutenant Devaro to come, and he's going to share

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a timeline and narrative for us at the town board would join me down front as he does that.

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We're going to present these proclamations after he's finished reading.

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We'll present the proclamations.

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On Sunday, August 16th, 2026, approximately 1026 AM, Riverhead traffic control officer

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Ryan Zaleski, who was assigned to the Polish town fair, observed a Hyundai sedan being

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operated radically by a female driver.

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T.C.O. Zaleski observed the Hyundai strike a parked vehicle on Suzy Avenue and attempt

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to leave the area.

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As T.C.O. Zaleski approached the Hyundai, the vehicle struck a second vehicle and continued

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its attempt to leave the area.

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T.C.O. Zaleski approached the vehicle on foot in an effort to get the driver to stop.

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However, she fled the area at a high rate of speed traveling northbound toward Osborne Avenue.

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The TCO immediately transmitted the vehicle's description, direction of travel, and license plate

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to the uniform officers who were assigned to the festival.

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A short time later, several uniform officers observed the suspects Hyundai traveling southbound

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on an Osmoan Avenue at a high rate of speed toward the festival area which had been closed

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to vehicle traffic due to the large number of pedestrian's presence.

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Several officers attempted to stop the vehicle, however the driver continued around marked

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police vehicles and uniformed officers.

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As the vehicle continued toward the festival, police officer Matthew Necknes and Lieutenant

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Dino Israel attempted to stop the vehicle.

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As the vehicle refused to stop, P.O. Necknes transmitted the vehicle's direction to travel and its immediate threat to the large number of pedestrians in his path.

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Police officer Stephen Addy, who was assigned to the fare, jumped in a nearby patrol car and responded to the suspect's vehicle location, which had been given out by police officer Necknes.

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After seeing the suspect fail to stop and the close proximity to the fare, police officer

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Addy made the decision to stop the vehicle by positioning his vehicle between Hurlian of

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travel and the fare.

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His vehicle was then struck by the suspect's vehicle.

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Police officer Addy's actions prevented the vehicle from further risk to the thousands

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of people to fare.

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Due to the actions of traffic control officers Oleski transmitting all of the pertinent

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information, police officer Neknes advised in the officers on scene of the gravity of

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the situation, and PO Addy's selfless act of heroism, there were no injuries to any

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of the attendees of the post-town fair or the police officers involved.

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Thank you very much.

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So I'd like to ask all three if our TCS, our TCO would come forward, our traffic control

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specialist, Ryan Zeleski, officer Stephen Addy, and if officer Matthew Neknes would come

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to the front.

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we'd like to present these to you, Ryan Zlaski, because of your humility, your honor and your speed.

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We don't know how many people will be saved because of what you've done, but we know that you've saved people.

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We know that you change the lives, as each and every officer does, you put on that uniform each day.

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Thank you from the bottom of our hearts, from our community, from each one of the town, towards remember, for what you did in fast acting.

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You did it with selfless reaction time with humility and with kindness in your regard

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For everyone else around you will forever be appreciated. I hope for the remainder of your days

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You're never buy a cup of coffee and we're ever had again

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I hope everywhere you go people remember because again, we do not know what was saved

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But we do know that you saved and so thank you very very much for each and every one of your actions

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I'll make this I'll for Adi. Thank you again. Thank you

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Thank you guys very much.

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For the record, it is a super proud, how are we super tended dads?

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It's very proud.

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Thank you guys very much.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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Ron, thank you very much.

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What a thank you to our PBA for showing up tonight in honor of those gentlemen each and

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everyone for our absolutely proud family members that are here.

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With that, the next thing we'd like to do is we'd like to invite our little league winners

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in from our 10 new World Series Team and present them with certificates each and every one so as the officers make their way out

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we have a great night and I will make their way in. And as they're doing that if any of the town board members

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have announcements that they'd like to make, welcome you to make them as our little leaders make their way in. So

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everybody has announcements? I do actually Justin. Do you have that flyer for the blues on the river?

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Maybe we'll adjust and get that if somebody else has anything to do with us.

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On Friday night, the 28th, we have the at Waiting River.

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We have the summer's not over yet, concert.

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It's an 80s band that's going to be playing at the Waiting River beach.

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All residents in River had a welcome as long as you have a beach permit and we're going

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to be waving the parking requirement that you park in the lot because we think it's going

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to be very well attended.

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We'd love to see everyone there and I'd like to thank our town clerk, Mr. Wooten, who

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who responded to this event very graciously.

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Thank you so much, sir.

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Thank you also, besides Councilwoman Waski's event,

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the East End Arts is having their summer suarie

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on Saturday night, and that's at the Strong's Marina

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from 6 to 9 p.m., please come out

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and help support the arts in our community

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that would love to have you there

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and donate, give some donations to them.

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And lastly, on the 30th, the American Legion

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is doing their 250th celebration,

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to come attend. I just don't know the hours for that. Does anybody know the hours of that yet?

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I do not. The 250? Okay. American Legion. That's what I have. I think it's 12, but I'm not positive.

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It starts at 12. Okay, so as you can see on the screen on Saturday, August 29th beginning at noon,

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we will have the blues on the river that will be in Grangebell Park. We have several people coming

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to sing. One is our very own Chloe Halfin, the supervisor's daughter. So we're very

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excited to see her perform. I hear that she's quite talented and I've also heard that the

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other singers are also talented and they are promising to provide a great show and there

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will be vendors and you can go down town and visit the local restaurants. We do have diggers

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participating in the event, so they will be on site at Grangebell Park, so I hope to see you all there.

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And thank you, Councilwoman Lasky, if I see your business is sponsoring part one of the sponsors event.

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Thank you very much.

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I'm happy to get back to the community.

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I just want to take a moment to congratulate over the weekend I was talking to a riverhead fire department chief.

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Chief Pete, and he informed me and I don't think any of the board members were aware.

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But they had a wonderful celebration for Bobby Cersim Panek, who has completed 51 years of service.

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Really was 50 last year, he didn't get the acknowledgement last year but so it's actually 51.

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But being a volunteer firefighter myself, that is an incredible achievement to go 50 years of volunteering.

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within the fire service. So thank you very much for Bobby and the Riverhead Fire Department for

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everything you do. The only other thing I just wanted to let people know, we've gotten a number of

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phone calls in terms of people that are concerned about what the assessment is going to be on the

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county line for any of the tax assessments that currently take place in any of the settlements. So we

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want to have full transparency throughout the whole process. Been to work with the county to see

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if there's a way to extend the payment schedule so that it is not a one-time hit.

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But these are the court battles that we are seeing where we potentially have agreed

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to settle, and we just want to be full-transparent with everybody.

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And once we have an idea of what that dollar amount is going to be, it's really going to, obviously

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everybody pays a different fee based on the assessment of your house, but we'll try to get

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a figure that will kind of give, like, more of an average taxpayer in the town of River

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ahead will be assessed on that to make up for those assessments.

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So we'll just, once we have information to share, we'll be forthcoming.

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So I'm just letting everybody know that I hear your concerns and we want to put that

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out as soon as possible so everybody will be aware of how it affects each and every one

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of us.

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Supervisor, I just have one more request, it's not so much announcement as a request.

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I'm the liaison for CAP and they are requesting that the cannabis owners, the people at

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on these shops. Please be in contact with Cap. They are trying to speak to you. They'd like to

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work with you. They would like to have the lock bags for any drugs that you have. And they're

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trying to reach out to a couple of individuals and they have not responded. So please be responsible

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business owners in the community and reach out to Cap. They'd like to work with you. Thank you.

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Yeah, we're good for us to maybe as a board we could send a letter together asking those businesses

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was to do that as Lee's on, that would be awesome.

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Thank you for doing that.

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And I think that, unless somebody else

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has another announcement, we are at our section

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where we want to honor our Little League championship team.

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And so I have asked our deputy supervisor

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to read those names a lot, but we are so proud

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of the Red Little League 10U World Series softball team.

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They won the District 36 championship.

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So why don't we give them a huge round of applause?

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So proud of each and every one of you, your coaches as well,

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parents for putting it all the time thank you everybody for doing this so what

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we're gonna do is we're gonna come down as a board I will hand out a few of

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our certificates we'll share them and we'll have you guys come up together and

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do that so if you guys want to come up we're gonna call your names but the whole

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group can come up we have certificates for everybody so number 28 Julia La

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Alexis Gatz, number four, Autumn Blachi, number 64, Kaylee Conlon, number 13,

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Marina Caputo, number 11, Emma Stein, number two, Genesis Jeronimo, number one.

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Number 12, Josephina Maymone, number 7, Lyonna Cruz, and number 5, Mia Rispoli.

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How heavy are these? How do you hold these up?

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I know, right?

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Whoa!

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Oh, can I see?

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Those are the real two.

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You guys are like, really?

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I really think so.

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All right.

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You guys are great.

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Congratulations.

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That's a lot of work and a lot of dedication.

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All right.

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You guys are going to come up.

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We're going to take a picture together.

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Yeah.

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We're proud of each and every one of you.

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Great job, ladies.

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Oh, you girls are great.

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That was one to you, dude.

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Yeah.

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We're going to turn around and we're going to hold our

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Just if he gets up so that he can take your mom and dad and everybody can take pictures of us.

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You can bring him on to get there.

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Super John, let me read it.

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That's just for me.

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You got to go with the sign.

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Apparently he grows as too tall for me.

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That's it, that's it.

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Alright girls, are you ready for next year's championship?

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Alright, alright.

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Okay.

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Oh me?

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Okay.

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I'll still have a little bit of these.

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Alright, alright.

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It's gonna be better now.

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You

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guys tried for a good job right?

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It's alright.

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It's an out of here with the sponsors.

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It's a famous out.

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There's a lot of things going on.

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I'm going to put it on the table.

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Yeah.

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I know.

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I know.

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I know.

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We

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are accepting sponsorships already.

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Absolutely, I love our little league, it is a great place to be, a great place to spend

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the summer, a great place for families, and so a good deal.

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That's right.

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Thanks John.

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Alright, does that make your way out?

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We just want to make sure everybody is aware that we have so many wonderful things going

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on in our town.

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If you didn't check it out, rewind and watch all the announcements that were made and see where you can be involved in Riverhead

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And so with that, we'll ask our town clerk, Mr. Wooden if you would do our correspondence and reports course

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Sure

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Under reports, we have the receiver of taxes monthly utility report

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For the month of July

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At $676,798 and 67 cents

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We received a monthly building department report for the month of July at $113,078 even.

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And the town clerk's monthly report for the month of July at $16,773.50.

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Under correspondence we received several letters from John McCollough about the iconic hotel,

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a petition that was circulated around and ICE.

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We received a letter from Colin reference the H-D-E-E-C, which is the Hispanic Committee.

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Warren McKnight about ICE.

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There's been a long about policies and procedures.

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And Laura Jen Smith, C-C, and copied us a letter that she sent to Suffolk County planning

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and reference to the potential environmental justice area with the Baconic Hotel.

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All those letters are printed and published at the end of the agenda on the website if

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you'd like to read them through the item, and that concludes our reports and correspondence.

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Thank you, Mr. Wooden.

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This time, we have a public hearing, which was scheduled for 6 p.m. at 6.22.

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To amend chapter 301, Article 16, Business, PB, Zoning, Use, District, and we have added our

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senior planner, Greg Bergman, to guide us through that.

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All right.

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Good evening, Mr. Supervisor.

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Those are the members of the town board for the record.

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My name is Greg Bergman, Senior Planner with the Rivet Planet Department.

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Tonight's public hearing is being held to consider a local law to amend town code chapter

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301 article 16 entitled Business PB Zoning Use District.

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For the public's knowledge, and it's up on the board there, the Business PB Zoning Use

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District is located on both the east and west sides of Roanoke Avenue, generally beginning

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just north of the intersection of Roanoke Avenue and Northville Turnpike, and extends north

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word, just south of the traffic circle at Roanoke Avenue in old country road.

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The impetus for the proposed code amendment was initiated when an application for a use

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permit was submitted to the building, the end of April for a property located on Roanoke

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Avenue, where an applicant sought to establish a hair treatment studio, which is akin to

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a hair salon.

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The use is not currently listed as a permitted use within the business PB zoning use district,

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which currently allows for a range of professional offices as a permitted use.

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The code currently lists 19 different types of professional offices.

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Our current definition of professional office, which is located in town code section 301-3,

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lists those professional offices as well as quote any other professional office determined

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by resolution of the town board to have similar impacts to those listed above end quote.

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As the board will recall back on April 21st of this year by resolution number 2026-403,

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The board adopted a resolution finding that an esthetician's office, while not specifically

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enumerated in the list of professional offices, had similar impacts to those that were

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specifically listed, thus allowing an esthetician's office to be located at a property on RONOC

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Avenue.

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When the matter of the hair studio came across my desk, it caused me to more closely examine

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those permitted uses and think of them in terms of impacts as that's what the code specifically

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directs the board to consider.

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Thus, a code amendment was generated to allow personal services as he permitted use within

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the business PB zoning use district.

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Town Code currently defines personal services as, quote, a commercial use that provides specialized

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hands-on services directly to individuals as for personal or physical benefit.

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These services generally involve customer interaction and may include activities that focus

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on personal care, fitness, wellness, or leisure.

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Personal service establishments do not involve the provision of professional or technical services requiring specialized education, certification or licensure as seen in professional offices.

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Services provider typically have a non medical, non therapeutic nature and do not involve significant office based administrative or professional consultation functions.

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Personal services specifically includes fitness studios, beauty services, massage therapy,

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personal coaching, esthetician and skincare services, fortune telling or psychic readings,

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cultural or educational studios, pet grooming services, dry cleaning or laundry services,

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as well as any other use that the zoning officer determines to be similar in nature to those

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listed above.

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The nature of personal services are such that they are interior uses, they are generally

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not high traffic or trip generators and would not typically be anticipated to involve

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any outdoor activities or storage which would create a detriment to the neighboring residential

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properties. The matter was initially discussed by the town board at a work session on June 9th

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of this year. Subsequently went back to Code Revision Committee for further refinement,

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which included the proposal to make personal services a specially permitted use within the

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business PB zoning use district by special permit of the town board with the

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exception of dry cleaning and laundry services, as well as the inclusion of

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limits on the hours of operation, which are proposed to be limited from 5 a.m. to

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10 p.m. So in summary, the proposed amendments to town code chapter 301 article

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16 would by special permit of the town board permit personal services with

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the exception of dry cleaning and laundry services and would establish limits

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on the hours of operation of business uses within the business PB zoning

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use district from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. It is worth noting that there are already several properties along

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the Roanoke Avenue corridor that have already been converted from single-family residential to

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some type of medical office or professional office. Any other property that would like to come in if

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they would like to convert to a commercial use or a personal service would need to make an application

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would have to undergo site plan review by the planning board. That's it and in nutshell I'd welcome

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them to public comment.

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So we'll open it up to the public in the room and online.

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And again, you'll be allowed to speak on this subject to us.

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Hi, good evening, LeVern Tenenberg.

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Riverhead.

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I would like to state that I believe that the proposed code

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change before you tonight is misguided and inappropriate.

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Rhono Gavanos, the stately road with a 30-mile per hour speed

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limit, lined with stately homes

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and boarded by Rono Kite's development.

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Rono Kite's homes were built in the 1930s and 1940s

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before there was a hospital or old country road

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and they were placed on relatively small lots

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often only 60 feet wide and about a fifth of an acre.

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Changing the zoning to accommodate personal services businesses

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will be a detriment to adjacent residential property owners

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and those homes in close proximity.

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Some properties along Rono Kite's new struggle

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to provide the proper on-site parking as evidence by the situation on northern Parkway.

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I believe parking in the front yard is acceptable already in the current zoning,

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and how is that appealing to neighbors or to visitors to our community?

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Allowing apartments on upper floors presents its own problems.

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Consider 1025 Ronald Gavanon.

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For many years, the second floor of the doctor's office was rented out as an apartment.

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I recently found out that the use of the second floor as an apartment was specifically

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prohibited on that property. The property has changed hands, and there are three

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cars continuously parked there day and night. To suggest that the apartment

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dwellers were parked on the premises at alternate time schedules of the

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business as a red herring, and no more than wishful thinking. No one can force

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tenants to leave the premises during the day. That will lead the business component

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to lack on-site parking, which would then force cars to spill out onto adjacent

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and side streets and park in front of others homes.

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Take, for example, the proposed use of a fitness studio or a

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Pilates studio.

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Those uses would generate many participants who would need to park

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a car in addition to the instructor and receptionist.

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Many rural and revenue properties are not designed or equipped

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to accommodate that many cars.

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That would involve seeking a variance with the zoning board of

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appeals to allow more impervious surface or smaller parking spaces

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to allow for many cars at one time, or even reducing the required

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stepbacks from a required 10 feet to 5 feet. Once that door has been opened, others will

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point to precedence as a reason for them to obtain the same variances. Additionally,

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permitting these personal services to operate from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. would be disturbing

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to the residential neighbors, having to deal with car doors, opening and closing, causing

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their dogs to bark at the noise, headlights pointing into the yards at night, and dark

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sky issues with security lights not being properly aimed downward. It seems that these

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These uses being proposed for business PB are widely available throughout the town.

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These uses are available in the following zoning districts, DC-1 Main Street, DC-3 Office,

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SC Shopping Center, BC Business Center, HC Hamlet Center, BC Village Center, Business

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CR, and the Railroad Avenue Urban Renewal Overlay District.

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By the looks of it, these zoning districts cover the entire town from West to East.

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These zoning districts have old and necessary codes in place for lighting and parking, including handicap parking,

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do not board a residential lots and are specifically designed and zoned with these uses in mind.

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This town has many properties with building set of vacancies.

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Income-producing properties rely on an income stream to be successful.

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If you grant this zone change, it would adversely affect landlords where the uses are permitted.

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When vacancies occurs, occur, and landlords are unable to fill those vacancies, the

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proper owner then seeks a tax reduction.

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You could very possibly decrease property values by this proposed action.

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Why would this board add uses currently not permitted in the zone when a business owner has

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a plethora of opportunities to locate their business in a zone where it is permitted?

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Why settle nearby homeowners with unnecessary nuisances?

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Why are we contorting ourselves to accommodate one person's request at the expense of many

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others?

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If you purchase property, you should do your due diligence and be familiar with the zoning

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of that property.

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One should not rely on zone changes or ZBA approvals to get what you want.

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Again, the personal service uses are widely permitted throughout the town.

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In my opinion, this request to include personal services and apartments on second floor should

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not be entertained by this board.

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Please remember the constituents you serve who rely on you for the quiet enjoyment of their homes.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Hi, Cindy Clifford, Riverhead.

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I pretty much echo everything Laverne just said.

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I'm concerned about a precedent setting that has, you know, we've seen similarities before,

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where we have zoning and someone comes in and buys a property and they need the zoning.

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And that's sort of, you know, like a backward way of doing things, right? You buy the property. If you know you can do what you want to do. So, there's that houses. We're already looking at the problem with affordability and availability of single-family homes. There are still some on Roanoke, but if then it changes where more businesses come in and take them over, we're further reducing the option for homes. Riverhead itself, the character of Roanoke Avenue,

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is very symbolic of the town.

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It's got the beautiful trees and it's a quiet road

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and it's supposed to be 30, it isn't always 30.

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But to further change the character

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or to risk changing the character of that road seems

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somehow like we're doing all this

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for a guy who wants to do a hair salon.

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Like Laverne said, there are a million places

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will help him find a place to do his hair salon.

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They then look at taking trees down to expand parking lots

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to put up more parking lots

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to add more non-pervious surfaces. There are so many other options. I have to ask, do you really want, do we really want to see a change to zoning to satisfy a single buyer who purchased a property and then realized or figured he could just get it changed? Thank you.

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I haven't considered this issue before so I just became informed of a lot of concerns with it and I just one thing that really stuck out to me was that...

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You just need to give us your name and your name, that's okay.

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My name's Kimberly Wilder and I'm from Riverhead.

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Thanks for being here.

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Right by the Honda Apple.

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So I really hadn't thought about it a lot before but I just became very informed about it.

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And one thing listening to it that I really reflected on is that the idea that businesses

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would be right next to residential from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.

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sounds like a really honoristh thing.

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I mean that doesn't take into account just the life of children that need to sleep a little later

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children that need to sleep a little earlier so I think that it sounds like the

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whole thing needs a big consideration and a big overall overall but if you're

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going to do something in somewhere that has so many residential at least it

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seems like you should make the hours much more limited I don't think most

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hair salons need to open at five and most businesses that are like squeezing into a

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residential neighborhood probably don't need to open at five too.

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Thank you for your

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I'm a little late to the party on understanding this public hearing and the change in zoning,

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but from what I have read and what I've listened to the previous three speakers is that the zoning

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change on Ron Oak is an impetus that just kind of appeared out of nowhere. I don't remember it being

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I was hoping to hear about this during our comprehensive update that we did in 24.

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Maybe I missed those conversations, maybe they did happen, but I don't remember being

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written into the comp plan.

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I'm not opposed to having new zoning made that didn't originate inside of the comprehensive

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plan update for very good reasons.

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Right? But this one seems, though, it's to accommodate one particular individual or property,

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and the holistic look at Roe and it needs to be considered. The idea that vacancies elsewhere

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where this zoning is allowed would happen and properties will lose value, it should be a sticking

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point for you and your decision making on how to keep the value in our businesses and our homes

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and keep the tax base safe. Thanks.

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Thank you for your comment.

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It's one of the C of any best in the room.

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Okay.

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Isn't it a peer that anyone else has?

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Yep, sure.

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Just so that there's some rhyme and reason for this,

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I just wanted to voice my thoughts on it

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of why I was considering it.

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We already have a lot of offices that are down on Rona Gavanue

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that the tenants are moving out.

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Ronald Gavin used to be big for attorney's offices

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to be in there.

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Times have changed where the attorneys no longer

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need the bigger area for their legal staff.

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They're doing everything remote.

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A lot of them are working from home now.

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The idea was, OK, if we wouldn't have those vacancies

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and buildings that have already been turned into a business, you know, the parking lots already there.

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It's not going to go back to being residential.

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I don't see too many people wanting to buy a house that's been converted to a business.

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So just to kind of keep the flow of being able to have tenancy in those properties

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was part of the reason that I was considering this.

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and I appreciate the concerns that have been brought forward.

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They're very good concerns and worth consideration.

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I just,

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when Takwee said, you know, she's kind of new to the whole thing and I realized,

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you know, maybe it looks that way but it really isn't.

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It was a thought process of how to be able to establish businesses still in these properties

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that have kind of restrictions on them.

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What's the difference between an anesthetician?

452
00:35:54,470 --> 00:36:04,230
And then you have someone, the people, I believe that said on their application that they want to do a scalp treatment therapy thing or something to that effect.

453
00:36:05,650 --> 00:36:12,530
You know, what's the difference there is kind of like there's a gray line so that's where that really this has come from.

454
00:36:12,770 --> 00:36:17,010
So it's not specifically to one particular person.

455
00:36:17,010 --> 00:36:23,710
then it was opening up the uses for other things that could possibly go in the buildings

456
00:36:23,710 --> 00:36:28,870
that have already been converted from residential into a commercial business.

457
00:36:29,150 --> 00:36:31,510
So I just wanted to explain that to everybody.

458
00:36:32,810 --> 00:36:35,010
Is councilwoman, anybody else?

459
00:36:36,370 --> 00:36:40,230
So with that, we'll close the hearing and we'll keep it open for 10 days to the 28th.

460
00:36:40,270 --> 00:36:42,050
But thank you for all of your comments.

461
00:36:42,410 --> 00:36:45,510
We always have these public hearings, we're listening to understand and to take that back.

462
00:36:46,350 --> 00:36:49,810
Councilwoman said a lot to think about there, but we will close it.

463
00:36:50,010 --> 00:36:53,770
Keep it open for the 28th written comment and then we'll go from there.

464
00:36:54,010 --> 00:36:58,550
So with that closing our public, our only public hearing tonight, we will take comments

465
00:36:58,550 --> 00:37:00,330
on resolutions from the public.

466
00:37:01,470 --> 00:37:04,770
Again, for their remainder of our night, I just want to give this to everybody now.

467
00:37:05,550 --> 00:37:11,230
Our time has been a lot for quite some time here in Riverhead that it's three minutes and

468
00:37:11,230 --> 00:37:12,150
We ask that you adhere to that.

469
00:37:12,810 --> 00:37:16,930
As respect for your neighbor and that when you come forward you state your name and your

470
00:37:16,930 --> 00:37:21,930
hamlet and then you speak from there and we ask again that you are respectful of the

471
00:37:21,930 --> 00:37:25,510
other people in the room and that you speak to us and that would be great.

472
00:37:25,950 --> 00:37:28,210
And we welcome our first person to the podium tonight.

473
00:37:28,690 --> 00:37:38,090
Well, we are Warren McNight Riverhead, resolution 2-026-800.

474
00:37:39,550 --> 00:37:44,070
I've spoken to you on this problem.

475
00:37:44,950 --> 00:37:47,750
Other people have spoken to you on this problem.

476
00:37:48,570 --> 00:37:54,760
And County Executive Office worked on this,

477
00:37:55,500 --> 00:37:57,360
Riverhead Town worked on this,

478
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:01,880
and even the Suffolk County Police worked on this.

479
00:38:02,660 --> 00:38:05,880
And the only thing I could say, it should be memorialized,

480
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:12,460
too many people over the years have suffered death and industry there, and it

481
00:38:12,460 --> 00:38:16,500
commend the town boy for doing this. And thank heavens, you're going to

482
00:38:17,140 --> 00:38:21,240
memorialize this because maybe people will remember if they see something

483
00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:26,300
happening, do something, and keep working on it, and we'll save the lives and

484
00:38:26,300 --> 00:38:29,700
make a better community. Thank you, Warren. I think that's what the resolution is

485
00:38:29,700 --> 00:38:31,520
going to be doing, so thank you for your comment.

486
00:38:36,110 --> 00:38:36,990
Any other comments on

487
00:38:36,990 --> 00:38:39,150
Resolutions, anyone online?

488
00:38:47,310 --> 00:38:49,910
Just another second, I don't want to make it in a minute.

489
00:38:50,290 --> 00:38:54,330
All right, with that said, we will move on to our town clerk to read our resolutions

490
00:38:54,330 --> 00:38:56,650
and vote on them accordingly.

491
00:38:57,150 --> 00:39:00,390
Okay, resolution number one is resolution 765.

492
00:39:01,430 --> 00:39:06,070
Why is it budget transfer for the 2026 legal fee so moved?

493
00:39:06,290 --> 00:39:06,510
Second.

494
00:39:07,810 --> 00:39:12,070
Before we vote, I just want to make a note that this at our work session was originally 150

495
00:39:12,070 --> 00:39:16,350
50 and it's just gone up to 280 in the numbers and I know people have asked a lot so we

496
00:39:16,350 --> 00:39:20,410
just wanted to, again, as Councilman Rothwell said before in transparency we want to make

497
00:39:20,410 --> 00:39:24,670
people aware after going back and looking at our financial administrator and attorney's office,

498
00:39:25,270 --> 00:39:29,090
put together a stronger number they felt like that would get us to the end of the year so we didn't

499
00:39:29,090 --> 00:39:33,310
have to do this again for the reasons listed there so with that vote please.

500
00:39:34,390 --> 00:39:36,330
Waski? Yes. Maryfield? Yes.

501
00:39:36,330 --> 00:39:36,430
Yes.

502
00:39:36,750 --> 00:39:37,290
Yes.

503
00:39:37,690 --> 00:39:38,130
Rothwell?

504
00:39:38,250 --> 00:39:38,430
Yes.

505
00:39:38,930 --> 00:39:39,190
Albin.

506
00:39:39,430 --> 00:39:39,670
Sir.

507
00:39:40,370 --> 00:39:43,330
Resolution is adopted. Resolution 766.

508
00:39:43,990 --> 00:39:47,990
Adopt highway department budget transfer for duct palm estates paving.

509
00:39:48,490 --> 00:39:49,030
Seconded.

510
00:39:49,230 --> 00:39:49,810
Folk, please.

511
00:39:50,030 --> 00:39:50,350
Wasky.

512
00:39:50,610 --> 00:39:50,750
Yes.

513
00:39:51,030 --> 00:39:51,390
Maryfield.

514
00:39:51,490 --> 00:39:51,650
Yes.

515
00:39:51,910 --> 00:39:52,070
Yes.

516
00:39:52,990 --> 00:39:53,370
Rothwell.

517
00:39:53,490 --> 00:39:53,630
Yes.

518
00:39:54,130 --> 00:39:54,350
Albin.

519
00:39:54,450 --> 00:39:54,710
Yes, sir.

520
00:39:55,250 --> 00:39:58,290
Resolution is adopted. Resolution 767.

521
00:39:58,690 --> 00:40:02,030
Authorizes budget transfer for suetistic vector truck.

522
00:40:02,330 --> 00:40:02,650
So moved.

523
00:40:03,330 --> 00:40:03,790
Seconded.

524
00:40:03,970 --> 00:40:04,390
Folk, please.

525
00:40:04,390 --> 00:40:13,510
Wasky. Yes. Maryfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Helping. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 768.

526
00:40:14,030 --> 00:40:28,810
Chips and EWR 2026-2027 grant funds for highway, bar and capital projects so moved. Seconded vote please. Wasky. Yes. Maryfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Helping. Yes sir.

527
00:40:28,810 --> 00:40:34,850
Resolution is adopted. Resolution 769. Authorizes budget adoption for what

528
00:40:34,850 --> 00:40:39,710
is just a capital project number 82618? 2001 Scott Avenue,

529
00:40:39,710 --> 00:40:42,250
conference in New York, so moved. Second vote please.

530
00:40:42,510 --> 00:40:44,250
Waski? Yes. Maryfield? Yes.

531
00:40:44,390 --> 00:40:46,150
Yes. Yes. Rockwell? Yes.

532
00:40:46,490 --> 00:40:50,550
Howapin? Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 770.

533
00:40:51,490 --> 00:40:57,190
Authorizing the acceptance of civil asset forfeiture funds so moved. Seconded.

534
00:40:57,190 --> 00:40:57,750
Please.

535
00:40:58,510 --> 00:40:59,070
Waski?

536
00:40:59,250 --> 00:40:59,450
Yes.

537
00:40:59,790 --> 00:41:00,230
Maryfield?

538
00:41:00,270 --> 00:41:00,430
Yes.

539
00:41:02,150 --> 00:41:02,710
Rothwell?

540
00:41:03,010 --> 00:41:05,030
Thank you to the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office.

541
00:41:05,210 --> 00:41:05,310
Yes.

542
00:41:05,770 --> 00:41:06,130
And Halpen?

543
00:41:06,330 --> 00:41:06,750
Resonator.

544
00:41:07,010 --> 00:41:07,330
Yes, sir.

545
00:41:07,650 --> 00:41:08,990
Resolution is adopted.

546
00:41:09,250 --> 00:41:11,290
Resolution 771.

547
00:41:11,550 --> 00:41:14,650
Further amends Resolution 2026-107.

548
00:41:15,070 --> 00:41:16,830
Setting fees for the Riverhead Suid District.

549
00:41:17,010 --> 00:41:17,390
So moved.

550
00:41:17,830 --> 00:41:18,070
Active.

551
00:41:18,910 --> 00:41:19,730
Vote, please.

552
00:41:20,090 --> 00:41:20,410
Waski?

553
00:41:20,930 --> 00:41:21,070
Yes.

554
00:41:21,550 --> 00:41:21,890
Maryfield?

555
00:41:22,030 --> 00:41:22,170
Yes.

556
00:41:22,490 --> 00:41:22,730
Yes.

557
00:41:22,730 --> 00:41:29,170
Yes, Rothwell. Yes, open. Yes sir, resolution is adopted. Resolution 7-7-2

558
00:41:29,950 --> 00:41:37,350
Approves a live music at Waiting River Beach 2026. So moved second it vote. Please. Why is he? Yes, can't wait? Yes

559
00:41:37,350 --> 00:41:40,530
Yes, but well Jimmy, you're gonna sing

560
00:41:41,150 --> 00:41:41,710
Maybe

561
00:41:42,990 --> 00:41:48,430
Help it. Yes, sir as a Lucian is adopted. Resolution 7-7-3

562
00:41:48,430 --> 00:41:52,650
Ratifies the authorization for the police department to apply for a grant so moved.

563
00:41:52,870 --> 00:41:53,930
Second, vote please.

564
00:41:54,210 --> 00:41:54,510
Waski.

565
00:41:54,950 --> 00:41:55,170
Yes.

566
00:41:55,690 --> 00:41:56,290
Maryfield?

567
00:41:56,390 --> 00:41:56,550
Yes.

568
00:41:56,870 --> 00:41:57,050
Kern?

569
00:41:57,370 --> 00:41:57,610
Yes.

570
00:41:58,030 --> 00:41:58,410
Rothwell?

571
00:41:58,730 --> 00:41:58,950
Yes.

572
00:41:59,450 --> 00:41:59,690
Halpin?

573
00:41:59,730 --> 00:42:00,070
Yes, sir.

574
00:42:00,630 --> 00:42:01,610
Resolution is adopted.

575
00:42:01,850 --> 00:42:03,290
Resolution 7-7-4.

576
00:42:03,870 --> 00:42:09,350
Authorizes the Community Development Department to offer assistance to eligible first-time home

577
00:42:09,350 --> 00:42:09,770
buyers.

578
00:42:10,070 --> 00:42:10,450
So moved.

579
00:42:10,610 --> 00:42:11,010
Seconded.

580
00:42:11,270 --> 00:42:11,950
Vote please.

581
00:42:12,310 --> 00:42:12,630
Waski?

582
00:42:12,930 --> 00:42:13,110
Yes.

583
00:42:13,630 --> 00:42:14,110
Maryfield?

584
00:42:14,230 --> 00:42:14,410
Yes.

585
00:42:14,610 --> 00:42:14,770
Kern?

586
00:42:17,690 --> 00:42:22,770
This is a great program if you're not familiar at home. I believe you guys spoke about it at work session this past week.

587
00:42:23,310 --> 00:42:30,330
If you qualify for the county, qualify for us. There's $380,000 available for first time home buyers through Riverhead right now.

588
00:42:30,730 --> 00:42:34,930
And this is part of what developers do. They pay fee. So absolutely yes sir.

589
00:42:35,790 --> 00:42:38,710
That resolution is adopted. Resolution 775.

590
00:42:39,070 --> 00:42:43,090
Authorizes the fire marshal to attend a New York State fire academy training. So moved.

591
00:42:43,090 --> 00:42:44,090
Seconded.

592
00:42:44,150 --> 00:42:44,690
Moe, please.

593
00:42:45,510 --> 00:42:46,070
Waski?

594
00:42:46,230 --> 00:42:46,450
Yes.

595
00:42:46,910 --> 00:42:47,450
Maryfield?

596
00:42:47,470 --> 00:42:47,670
Yes.

597
00:42:47,970 --> 00:42:48,170
Kern?

598
00:42:48,730 --> 00:42:49,130
Yes.

599
00:42:49,610 --> 00:42:49,870
Rothwell?

600
00:42:50,050 --> 00:42:50,190
Yes.

601
00:42:50,670 --> 00:42:50,890
Alpin?

602
00:42:51,030 --> 00:42:51,310
Yes, sir.

603
00:42:51,830 --> 00:42:53,190
Resolution is adopted.

604
00:42:53,350 --> 00:42:55,210
Resolution 776.

605
00:42:55,770 --> 00:43:04,290
Resins Resolution 2026-605 and Resolution 2026-656.

606
00:43:04,490 --> 00:43:04,870
So moved.

607
00:43:05,150 --> 00:43:05,470
Seconded.

608
00:43:05,710 --> 00:43:06,210
Moe, please.

609
00:43:07,370 --> 00:43:07,790
Waski?

610
00:43:07,970 --> 00:43:08,170
Yes.

611
00:43:08,610 --> 00:43:09,110
Maryfield?

612
00:43:09,170 --> 00:43:09,310
Yes.

613
00:43:09,770 --> 00:43:09,990
Kern?

614
00:43:10,270 --> 00:43:10,450
Yes.

615
00:43:10,910 --> 00:43:11,270
Rothwell?

616
00:43:11,390 --> 00:43:11,530
Yes.

617
00:43:12,090 --> 00:43:12,370
Alpin.

618
00:43:12,950 --> 00:43:20,770
Resolution is adopted. Resolution 777. Approved salary increase for a part-time office assistant. So moved. Second vote, please.

619
00:43:21,430 --> 00:43:29,270
Waski. Yes. Maryfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes. Health. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 778.

620
00:43:29,970 --> 00:43:34,670
Ratifies the provisional appointment of a senior accountant. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please.

621
00:43:35,370 --> 00:43:39,690
Waski. Yes. Maryfield. Yes. Kern. Yes. Rothwell. Yes.

622
00:43:41,450 --> 00:43:44,810
Resolution is adopted. Resolution 7-7-9.

623
00:43:45,230 --> 00:43:48,530
Removed for visual status for principal account clerk, so moved.

624
00:43:49,090 --> 00:43:50,170
Seconded. Vote, please.

625
00:43:51,030 --> 00:43:52,970
Waski? Yes. Maryfew? Yes.

626
00:43:53,250 --> 00:43:55,130
Kern? Yes. Rothwell? Yes.

627
00:43:55,610 --> 00:43:59,450
Alpin? Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 7-80.

628
00:44:00,590 --> 00:44:04,390
Ratifies the termination of a part-time office assistant, so moved.

629
00:44:04,550 --> 00:44:07,810
Seconded. Vote, please. Waski? Yes. Maryfew? Yes.

630
00:44:07,810 --> 00:44:07,870
Yes.

631
00:44:08,090 --> 00:44:08,350
Kern.

632
00:44:08,690 --> 00:44:08,930
Yes.

633
00:44:09,290 --> 00:44:09,670
Rothwell.

634
00:44:09,730 --> 00:44:09,930
Yes.

635
00:44:10,250 --> 00:44:10,490
Alpen.

636
00:44:10,690 --> 00:44:11,010
Yes, sir.

637
00:44:11,550 --> 00:44:12,630
Resolution is adopted.

638
00:44:12,830 --> 00:44:14,170
Resolution 781.

639
00:44:16,230 --> 00:44:18,710
Radifies the termination of a maintenance mechanic too.

640
00:44:18,870 --> 00:44:19,190
So moved.

641
00:44:19,390 --> 00:44:19,650
Second.

642
00:44:19,930 --> 00:44:20,430
Vote, please.

643
00:44:21,090 --> 00:44:21,450
Waski.

644
00:44:21,670 --> 00:44:21,870
Yes.

645
00:44:22,250 --> 00:44:22,770
Maryfield.

646
00:44:22,910 --> 00:44:23,090
Yes.

647
00:44:23,390 --> 00:44:23,530
Kern.

648
00:44:23,790 --> 00:44:24,030
Yes.

649
00:44:24,590 --> 00:44:25,010
Rothwell.

650
00:44:25,110 --> 00:44:25,250
Yes.

651
00:44:25,670 --> 00:44:25,910
Alpen.

652
00:44:26,730 --> 00:44:27,930
Resolution is adopted.

653
00:44:28,150 --> 00:44:29,590
Resolution 782.

654
00:44:29,890 --> 00:44:33,150
Accepts the resignation of a public safety dispatcher.

655
00:44:33,270 --> 00:44:33,610
So moved.

656
00:44:33,830 --> 00:44:34,150
Seconded.

657
00:44:34,310 --> 00:44:34,750
Vote, please.

658
00:44:35,070 --> 00:44:35,350
Waski.

659
00:44:35,670 --> 00:44:35,870
Yes.

660
00:44:35,870 --> 00:44:35,990
Yes.

661
00:44:36,150 --> 00:44:36,630
Maryfield?

662
00:44:36,690 --> 00:44:36,810
Yes.

663
00:44:37,090 --> 00:44:37,250
Kern?

664
00:44:37,610 --> 00:44:37,910
Yes.

665
00:44:38,290 --> 00:44:38,610
Rothwell?

666
00:44:38,750 --> 00:44:38,890
Yes.

667
00:44:39,350 --> 00:44:39,550
Open.

668
00:44:39,810 --> 00:44:41,910
The solution is adopted.

669
00:44:42,090 --> 00:44:43,530
Resolution 783.

670
00:44:44,170 --> 00:44:47,370
Accept the retirement of a network and system specialist too.

671
00:44:47,690 --> 00:44:48,090
So moved.

672
00:44:48,270 --> 00:44:48,610
Seconded.

673
00:44:48,850 --> 00:44:49,430
Vote please.

674
00:44:50,110 --> 00:44:50,510
Wasky.

675
00:44:50,910 --> 00:44:51,110
Yes.

676
00:44:51,450 --> 00:44:51,830
Maryfield?

677
00:44:52,110 --> 00:44:52,350
Yes.

678
00:44:52,550 --> 00:44:52,990
Congratulations.

679
00:44:53,530 --> 00:44:53,690
Kern?

680
00:44:54,030 --> 00:44:54,330
Yes.

681
00:44:54,910 --> 00:44:55,350
Rothwell?

682
00:44:55,570 --> 00:44:55,710
Yes.

683
00:44:56,110 --> 00:44:56,250
Open.

684
00:44:56,790 --> 00:44:58,430
Terry has been here 27 years.

685
00:44:58,650 --> 00:44:59,590
Served as a union president.

686
00:44:59,590 --> 00:44:59,650
Good.

687
00:44:59,810 --> 00:44:59,970
Good.

688
00:45:00,050 --> 00:45:28,010
Thank you for your service. And Terry means a lot. She actually is the CSCA worker that brought the retirement initiative forward. And so her thoughtfulness is helped our entire town. So yes, and thank you. Resolution is adopted. Resolution number 784. Appoint Robert Dillworth to the Wildlife Management Advisory Committee. So moved. Seconded. Vote, please. Waski? Yes. Yes. Yes.

689
00:45:28,010 --> 00:45:34,570
Yes, Rothwell. Yes, Alpin. Yes. Resolutions adopted. Resolution 785.

690
00:45:35,270 --> 00:45:41,670
A points George Salisman to the wildlife management advisory committee. So moved. Second vote. Please. Waski. Yes

691
00:45:42,630 --> 00:45:49,850
Merchael. Yes, yes, Rothwell. Yes, Alpin. Yes. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 786

692
00:45:51,510 --> 00:45:57,630
Reappoints David Cote or Cody to the wildlife management advisory committee. So moved. Seconded.

693
00:45:57,630 --> 00:45:58,330
Oh, please.

694
00:45:58,690 --> 00:45:59,030
Waski?

695
00:45:59,190 --> 00:45:59,390
Yes.

696
00:45:59,870 --> 00:46:00,350
Maryfield?

697
00:46:00,430 --> 00:46:00,610
Yes.

698
00:46:02,150 --> 00:46:02,630
Rothwell?

699
00:46:02,910 --> 00:46:03,850
Too wise, you know this guy.

700
00:46:04,050 --> 00:46:04,410
I do.

701
00:46:04,530 --> 00:46:05,550
I've met him a couple times.

702
00:46:05,790 --> 00:46:06,030
Yes.

703
00:46:06,550 --> 00:46:06,850
Oppen?

704
00:46:07,170 --> 00:46:07,710
Yes, sir.

705
00:46:08,410 --> 00:46:09,550
Resolution is adopted.

706
00:46:09,790 --> 00:46:11,130
Resolution 787.

707
00:46:12,150 --> 00:46:15,490
Reappoints just in winter senior to the Recreation Advisory Committee.

708
00:46:15,610 --> 00:46:16,030
So moved.

709
00:46:16,330 --> 00:46:16,630
Seconded.

710
00:46:16,870 --> 00:46:17,290
Vote, please.

711
00:46:17,970 --> 00:46:18,430
Waski?

712
00:46:18,690 --> 00:46:18,910
Yes.

713
00:46:19,530 --> 00:46:20,010
Maryfield?

714
00:46:20,090 --> 00:46:20,250
Yes.

715
00:46:20,730 --> 00:46:20,970
Yes.

716
00:46:22,910 --> 00:46:23,390
Oppen?

717
00:46:23,570 --> 00:46:23,970
Yes, sir.

718
00:46:24,390 --> 00:46:25,170
Resolution is adopted.

719
00:46:25,170 --> 00:46:26,670
Reappointed Resolution 788.

720
00:46:27,430 --> 00:46:31,950
Reappoints Tom Gayrelson to the Wildlife Management Advisory Committee so moved.

721
00:46:32,070 --> 00:46:33,370
Seconded vote please.

722
00:46:33,650 --> 00:46:33,950
Wasky.

723
00:46:34,250 --> 00:46:34,430
Yes.

724
00:46:34,690 --> 00:46:35,030
Maryfield.

725
00:46:35,190 --> 00:46:35,370
Yes.

726
00:46:35,710 --> 00:46:36,390
Yes.

727
00:46:36,930 --> 00:46:37,290
Rothwell.

728
00:46:37,430 --> 00:46:37,590
Yes.

729
00:46:38,150 --> 00:46:38,370
Alpin.

730
00:46:38,570 --> 00:46:38,910
Yes sir.

731
00:46:39,330 --> 00:46:41,770
Resolutions adopted Resolutions 789.

732
00:46:42,190 --> 00:46:45,490
Reappoints Chris Whitt to the Wildlife Management Advisory Committee so moved.

733
00:46:45,910 --> 00:46:46,930
Seconded vote please.

734
00:46:47,410 --> 00:46:47,750
Wasky.

735
00:46:48,250 --> 00:46:48,410
Yes.

736
00:46:48,870 --> 00:46:49,270
Maryfield.

737
00:46:49,370 --> 00:46:49,550
Yes.

738
00:46:49,870 --> 00:46:50,130
Colonel.

739
00:46:50,510 --> 00:46:50,690
Yes.

740
00:46:51,250 --> 00:46:51,610
Rothwell.

741
00:46:51,710 --> 00:46:51,830
Yes.

742
00:46:52,470 --> 00:46:52,710
Alpin.

743
00:46:52,710 --> 00:47:02,550
Yes sir. The solution is adopted. Resolution 790. Reappoints Robert Gabriel's in to the wildlife management advisory committee. So moved. Seconded.

744
00:47:02,790 --> 00:47:10,770
Don't please. Wasky. I mean, people are on this committee. I know. All right. 14,000 and three. Well, they're all of

745
00:47:10,770 --> 00:47:17,310
them. Well, they're definitely not more than they do. They're just canceling Roth IRA current. Yes.

746
00:47:17,310 --> 00:47:17,370
Yes.

747
00:47:17,610 --> 00:47:18,530
All right, Maryfield?

748
00:47:18,670 --> 00:47:18,830
Yes.

749
00:47:19,230 --> 00:47:19,410
Kern?

750
00:47:19,810 --> 00:47:20,130
Yes.

751
00:47:20,550 --> 00:47:20,970
Rothwell?

752
00:47:21,030 --> 00:47:21,210
Yes.

753
00:47:21,530 --> 00:47:21,830
Hoppin.

754
00:47:21,970 --> 00:47:22,370
Yes, sir.

755
00:47:22,810 --> 00:47:24,030
Resolution is adopted.

756
00:47:24,290 --> 00:47:25,710
Resolution 791.

757
00:47:26,170 --> 00:47:29,490
We have points, John Kramer, to the Wildlife Management Advisory Committee.

758
00:47:29,830 --> 00:47:30,150
So moved.

759
00:47:31,430 --> 00:47:31,990
Seconded.

760
00:47:32,290 --> 00:47:32,890
Oh, please.

761
00:47:33,790 --> 00:47:34,210
Wasky.

762
00:47:34,490 --> 00:47:34,650
Yes.

763
00:47:34,930 --> 00:47:35,230
Maryfield?

764
00:47:35,390 --> 00:47:35,530
Yes.

765
00:47:35,990 --> 00:47:36,210
Kern?

766
00:47:36,510 --> 00:47:36,750
Yes.

767
00:47:37,050 --> 00:47:37,410
Rothwell?

768
00:47:37,530 --> 00:47:37,670
Yes.

769
00:47:38,250 --> 00:47:38,530
Hoppin.

770
00:47:38,750 --> 00:47:39,130
Yes, sir.

771
00:47:39,470 --> 00:47:40,630
Resolution is adopted.

772
00:47:40,790 --> 00:47:42,170
Resolution 792.

773
00:47:43,590 --> 00:47:45,770
Resolution establishing the town of River Head.

774
00:47:45,770 --> 00:47:49,650
has this material's response team and adopting the town of Riverhead has

775
00:47:49,650 --> 00:47:55,890
this material's emergency response plan and resource guide so so moved second

776
00:47:55,890 --> 00:48:02,490
it vote please waski yes very field yes turn yes Rothwell yes helping the

777
00:48:02,490 --> 00:48:11,550
solution is adopted resolution 793 a men's agreement with main street agency for

778
00:48:11,550 --> 00:48:13,290
for a live on 25, so moved.

779
00:48:14,510 --> 00:48:15,770
Second, vote please.

780
00:48:16,190 --> 00:48:16,530
Waski?

781
00:48:16,830 --> 00:48:16,990
Yes.

782
00:48:17,390 --> 00:48:17,790
Maryfield?

783
00:48:17,870 --> 00:48:18,010
Yes.

784
00:48:18,530 --> 00:48:18,750
Turn?

785
00:48:19,130 --> 00:48:19,370
Yes.

786
00:48:19,690 --> 00:48:20,050
Rothwell?

787
00:48:20,190 --> 00:48:20,350
Yes.

788
00:48:20,710 --> 00:48:20,950
Hoppin.

789
00:48:21,110 --> 00:48:22,030
September 10th.

790
00:48:22,030 --> 00:48:22,550
That's the new day.

791
00:48:23,050 --> 00:48:23,210
Yes.

792
00:48:23,950 --> 00:48:25,270
The resolution is adopted.

793
00:48:25,530 --> 00:48:27,050
Resolution 794.

794
00:48:27,670 --> 00:48:33,950
Rotifies authorization for the town attorney to execute a retainer agreement with Siegel and

795
00:48:33,950 --> 00:48:34,510
Sittler.

796
00:48:35,230 --> 00:48:36,310
P-L-L-C.

797
00:48:36,510 --> 00:48:36,890
So moved.

798
00:48:37,090 --> 00:48:37,470
Seconded.

799
00:48:37,610 --> 00:48:38,050
Vote please.

800
00:48:38,830 --> 00:48:39,190
Waski?

801
00:48:39,410 --> 00:48:39,590
Yes.

802
00:48:39,590 --> 00:48:39,730
Yes.

803
00:48:39,870 --> 00:48:40,890
Maryfield, turn.

804
00:48:41,430 --> 00:48:41,590
Yes.

805
00:48:41,910 --> 00:48:42,250
Rothwell.

806
00:48:42,390 --> 00:48:42,530
Yes.

807
00:48:42,990 --> 00:48:43,230
Alpin.

808
00:48:43,650 --> 00:48:44,190
Oh, yes, sir.

809
00:48:44,970 --> 00:48:45,790
Resolutions adopted.

810
00:48:46,050 --> 00:48:47,490
Resolutions 795.

811
00:48:48,350 --> 00:48:51,690
Authorizes license agreement with Riverhead Volunteer Ambulance Corp.

812
00:48:52,030 --> 00:48:56,450
For the use of the Riverhead Town Hall Basement for EMT Course Instruction, so moved.

813
00:48:57,310 --> 00:48:57,910
Seconded.

814
00:48:58,070 --> 00:48:58,510
Vote, please.

815
00:48:59,010 --> 00:48:59,470
Waski.

816
00:48:59,750 --> 00:48:59,910
Yes.

817
00:49:00,290 --> 00:49:00,650
Maryfield.

818
00:49:00,790 --> 00:49:00,950
Yes.

819
00:49:01,390 --> 00:49:01,590
Turn.

820
00:49:01,870 --> 00:49:02,170
Yes.

821
00:49:02,650 --> 00:49:03,010
Rothwell.

822
00:49:03,210 --> 00:49:03,410
Yes.

823
00:49:04,010 --> 00:49:04,250
Alpin.

824
00:49:04,250 --> 00:49:11,390
for use of our building. Yes. Resolutions adopted. Resolution 796. Authorizes the supervisor

825
00:49:11,390 --> 00:49:15,630
to execute a license agreement between the town of Riverhead and Riverhead volunteer

826
00:49:15,630 --> 00:49:21,430
ambulance corpse ink for temporary use of the annexed building. Lower level basement for

827
00:49:21,430 --> 00:49:27,990
medical billing and storage of medical billing records. So moved. Seconded. Folk, please.

828
00:49:27,990 --> 00:49:28,050
Yes.

829
00:49:28,870 --> 00:49:29,390
Wasky.

830
00:49:30,170 --> 00:49:30,550
Very few.

831
00:49:30,610 --> 00:49:30,770
Yes.

832
00:49:31,110 --> 00:49:31,410
Kern?

833
00:49:31,750 --> 00:49:31,990
Yes.

834
00:49:32,470 --> 00:49:32,910
Rothwell?

835
00:49:33,010 --> 00:49:33,190
Yes.

836
00:49:33,670 --> 00:49:33,930
Helping.

837
00:49:34,270 --> 00:49:34,570
Yes, sir.

838
00:49:34,970 --> 00:49:35,790
Resolutions adopted.

839
00:49:36,050 --> 00:49:37,530
Resolutions 797.

840
00:49:39,010 --> 00:49:43,330
Authorizes the supervisor to execute a license agreement between the town of Rivet and Rivet

841
00:49:43,330 --> 00:49:44,430
Volunteer Amiens course.

842
00:49:44,850 --> 00:49:49,850
The temporary use of the Armory Building Vehicle Bays in a Jason area to the west modular

843
00:49:49,850 --> 00:49:53,210
trailer and east heating equipment location for the Amiens storage.

844
00:49:53,610 --> 00:49:54,430
I'm going to make a motion.

845
00:49:54,430 --> 00:49:56,090
I think we just need to amend this.

846
00:49:56,750 --> 00:50:01,290
because there is a little bit of a fiscal impact, so we are during a winter time,

847
00:50:01,290 --> 00:50:05,830
we're probably going to have to rent heater units in there because there's no operating heat in the system

848
00:50:05,830 --> 00:50:09,810
and the ambulance do need to be in a climate controlled environment.

849
00:50:10,730 --> 00:50:15,650
We don't have the final dollars on that but it's what they need to do, you know,

850
00:50:15,750 --> 00:50:17,770
to operate obviously throughout the year.

851
00:50:18,030 --> 00:50:21,590
And while they're doing that, there is a savings,

852
00:50:21,590 --> 00:50:28,030
is the current building that they're operating in, obviously, when they tear that down we're not going to have electric heat and everything else going over there.

853
00:50:28,170 --> 00:50:34,050
So it's really about moving them from one location to the other, but there technically is a fiscal impact.

854
00:50:34,350 --> 00:50:36,650
So just like the change of fiscal impact, yes, please.

855
00:50:37,110 --> 00:50:49,590
So I have a prepared changed fiscal impact statement and the funds will come from the ambulance district fund.

856
00:50:52,150 --> 00:50:54,910
So if we can make a motion, motion is made to amend.

857
00:50:57,150 --> 00:50:58,730
Second, vote to amend, please.

858
00:50:59,550 --> 00:51:00,790
I need to amend the fiscal.

859
00:51:01,310 --> 00:51:03,550
Yeah, I have a copy of what Emory has written.

860
00:51:03,990 --> 00:51:04,950
I'd like it for the council.

861
00:51:05,190 --> 00:51:05,670
All right.

862
00:51:10,860 --> 00:51:11,280
Wasky.

863
00:51:12,380 --> 00:51:13,660
Yes, to amend.

864
00:51:14,140 --> 00:51:14,720
Very few.

865
00:51:14,900 --> 00:51:15,440
Yes, to amend.

866
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:16,820
Turn.

867
00:51:17,260 --> 00:51:17,820
Yes, to amend.

868
00:51:18,220 --> 00:51:18,640
Rockwell.

869
00:51:18,780 --> 00:51:19,240
Yes, to amend.

870
00:51:20,020 --> 00:51:20,440
Open.

871
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:21,760
Yes, sir, to amend.

872
00:51:24,500 --> 00:51:28,200
Read the amended resolution, authorize the supplies to the extradilicence agreement

873
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:31,080
agreement between the town of Riverhead and Riverhead Volunteer, ambulance course for the

874
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:36,500
temporary use of the armory, building bays, and area adjacent to the west, module office

875
00:51:36,500 --> 00:51:39,780
trailer, and to the east where there will be heating equipment location for the ambulance

876
00:51:39,780 --> 00:51:42,300
storage, so moved, as amended.

877
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:44,160
Second, as amended.

878
00:51:44,860 --> 00:51:45,300
Vote, please.

879
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:46,160
Waski?

880
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:47,180
Yes, as amended.

881
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:48,500
Very few.

882
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:49,260
Yes, as amended.

883
00:51:50,180 --> 00:51:50,340
Turn.

884
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:51,380
Yes, as amended.

885
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:52,120
Both will.

886
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:55,140
Yes, as amended. And helping. Yes, sir. As amended.

887
00:51:55,600 --> 00:52:01,680
Resolution is adopted. Resolution number 798. Otherwise, it

888
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:05,300
supervised a design a consultant professional service agreement with

889
00:52:05,300 --> 00:52:09,610
D&B engineers and architects so. Seconded.

890
00:52:10,860 --> 00:52:15,400
Vote, please. Why? Yes. Are you feel? Yes. Turn. Yes.

891
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:21,780
Off well. Yes. Alpin. Yes, sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution number 799.

892
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:26,820
Authorizes the supervisor to execute an agreement with the Riverhead Youth Sports Inc.

893
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:29,880
for the referee, umpire services for the town of Riverhead,

894
00:52:30,220 --> 00:52:34,660
police athletically football program for 2026 calendar year, so moved.

895
00:52:34,980 --> 00:52:35,260
Seconded.

896
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:35,840
Vote, please.

897
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:36,440
Waski?

898
00:52:36,700 --> 00:52:36,900
Yes.

899
00:52:37,140 --> 00:52:37,480
Murray Field?

900
00:52:37,620 --> 00:52:37,740
Yes.

901
00:52:38,060 --> 00:52:38,280
Turn.

902
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:39,500
Yes, Rothwell?

903
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:39,760
Yes.

904
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:40,700
How been?

905
00:52:40,820 --> 00:52:41,140
Yes, sir.

906
00:52:41,700 --> 00:52:42,420
Resolution adopted.

907
00:52:42,780 --> 00:52:44,260
Resolution 800.

908
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:51,440
Amends 289-2A, chapter 289 of the Riverhead Town

909
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:57,400
code to memorialize and already existing stop intersection between doctors

910
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:02,900
half and county road 43 North Filt turn pike so moved. Seconded vote please.

911
00:53:03,140 --> 00:53:06,240
Waski? Yes. Maryfield? Yes. Turn. Yes.

912
00:53:06,820 --> 00:53:07,460
Rothwell? Yes.

913
00:53:08,060 --> 00:53:14,700
Yes sir. Resolution is adopted. Resolution 801. Resolution because the South

914
00:53:14,700 --> 00:53:20,060
County War Authority has changed from going down Sound Avenue over to Route 25 so

915
00:53:20,060 --> 00:53:23,900
So we are grateful now that there's a little less of impact towards the farming community

916
00:53:23,900 --> 00:53:27,100
along Sound Avenue, but we do need to hold this hearing.

917
00:53:27,340 --> 00:53:31,300
So it authorizes a public hearing for the purpose of conducting the Merot balancing test

918
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:35,920
with the Suffolk County Water Authority's proposed North Fork Water main extension project

919
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:36,600
so moved.

920
00:53:36,780 --> 00:53:36,980
Second.

921
00:53:37,380 --> 00:53:38,140
Vote, please.

922
00:53:38,540 --> 00:53:38,920
Waski.

923
00:53:39,180 --> 00:53:39,400
Yes.

924
00:53:39,940 --> 00:53:40,420
Maryfield.

925
00:53:40,420 --> 00:53:40,620
Yes.

926
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:43,000
Rothwell.

927
00:53:43,060 --> 00:53:43,200
Yes.

928
00:53:43,740 --> 00:53:43,980
Alpen.

929
00:53:44,140 --> 00:53:44,440
Yes, sir.

930
00:53:45,020 --> 00:53:46,100
Resolution is adopted.

931
00:53:46,340 --> 00:53:47,680
Resolution 802.

932
00:53:48,500 --> 00:53:52,520
Resolution, calling public hearing regarding extension of the Riverhead

933
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:58,280
sewer district to include 840 old country road Riverhead, New York, so moved.

934
00:53:58,520 --> 00:53:58,940
Seconded.

935
00:53:59,060 --> 00:53:59,540
Vote, please.

936
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:00,740
Waski.

937
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:01,200
Yes.

938
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:02,040
Maryfield.

939
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:02,320
Yes.

940
00:54:02,660 --> 00:54:02,820
Kern.

941
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:03,360
Yes.

942
00:54:03,740 --> 00:54:04,100
Rothwell.

943
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:04,360
Yes.

944
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:05,160
Alpen.

945
00:54:05,260 --> 00:54:05,520
Yes, sir.

946
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:06,920
Resolution is adopted.

947
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:08,440
Resolution 803.

948
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:13,960
Authorizes town clerk to publish and post public notice to consider a local law to amend chapter

949
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:17,520
Chapter 255 of the Riverhead Town Code entitled Parades,

950
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:19,480
Assemblies, and Block Parties.

951
00:54:19,740 --> 00:54:21,800
Article 2, Special Events, so moved.

952
00:54:22,100 --> 00:54:22,460
Seconded.

953
00:54:23,140 --> 00:54:23,700
Vote, please.

954
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:24,400
Waski.

955
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:25,100
Yes.

956
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:25,880
Maryfield?

957
00:54:25,980 --> 00:54:26,140
Yes.

958
00:54:26,620 --> 00:54:26,760
Kern.

959
00:54:27,540 --> 00:54:27,760
Yes.

960
00:54:28,220 --> 00:54:28,460
Buffalo?

961
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:29,680
Yes.

962
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:30,600
Helping.

963
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:31,060
To serve.

964
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:32,940
Resolution is adopted.

965
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:34,960
Resolution 804.

966
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:39,080
Authorized town clerk to publish and post public notice

967
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:42,720
to consider local law to amend Chapter 231 of the Riverhead

968
00:54:42,720 --> 00:54:52,160
town code titled Fire Prevention Article 13 Fireworks and Pyrotechnics Displays, so

969
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:52,580
moat.

970
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:53,280
Seconded.

971
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:53,900
Froke, please.

972
00:54:54,260 --> 00:54:54,580
Wasky.

973
00:54:55,220 --> 00:54:55,520
Yes.

974
00:54:56,020 --> 00:54:56,560
Maryfield.

975
00:54:56,660 --> 00:54:56,800
Yes.

976
00:54:57,140 --> 00:54:57,340
Yes.

977
00:54:58,260 --> 00:54:58,580
Rothwell.

978
00:54:58,720 --> 00:54:58,880
Yes.

979
00:54:59,260 --> 00:54:59,480
Helping.

980
00:54:59,820 --> 00:55:00,140
Yes, sir.

981
00:55:00,580 --> 00:55:01,700
Resolution is adopted.

982
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:03,460
Resolution 805.

983
00:55:04,300 --> 00:55:08,900
Adops the local law to amend chapter 207 of the revamped town code titled Animals Article

984
00:55:08,900 --> 00:55:15,080
4. Prohibition on sales of commercially bred dogs, cats and rabbits in the pet stores so moved.

985
00:55:15,220 --> 00:55:16,520
Second, vote please.

986
00:55:17,020 --> 00:55:17,380
Wasky.

987
00:55:17,660 --> 00:55:17,820
Yes.

988
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:18,880
Very few?

989
00:55:18,980 --> 00:55:19,140
Yes.

990
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:19,880
Kern?

991
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:20,420
Yes.

992
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:21,260
Rothwell?

993
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:26,100
Again, this is legislation that I wrote probably about five years ago.

994
00:55:27,420 --> 00:55:32,200
And now I think we were certainly leading to charge there in the state of New York then came

995
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:36,200
out and passed very similar legislation, so this is really matching the town code to the

996
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:36,700
state code.

997
00:55:36,700 --> 00:55:37,300
So vote yes.

998
00:55:37,300 --> 00:55:37,400
Yes.

999
00:55:37,980 --> 00:55:38,420
It happened.

1000
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:38,840
Sir.

1001
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:41,020
Resolution is adopted.

1002
00:55:41,240 --> 00:55:42,300
Resolution 806.

1003
00:55:44,140 --> 00:55:49,680
Authorities is the town clerk to publish and post and notice two bitters for one new

1004
00:55:50,780 --> 00:56:02,540
Altec AT-40G telescopic articulating aerial device with ISO boom on 2028 Ford F-550 chassis

1005
00:56:02,540 --> 00:56:03,960
or equals so moved.

1006
00:56:04,300 --> 00:56:04,720
Seconded.

1007
00:56:04,720 --> 00:56:05,560
vote, please.

1008
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:07,800
Waski.

1009
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:08,240
Yes.

1010
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:11,280
Maryfield?

1011
00:56:11,420 --> 00:56:11,580
Yes.

1012
00:56:12,420 --> 00:56:13,140
Kern.

1013
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:13,720
Yes.

1014
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:14,780
Rothwald?

1015
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:16,240
Leave it to Cherry Picker.

1016
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:16,500
Yes.

1017
00:56:17,020 --> 00:56:18,020
It's an answer, right?

1018
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:18,500
Right.

1019
00:56:19,820 --> 00:56:20,040
Okay.

1020
00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:23,000
Resolution is adopted.

1021
00:56:26,340 --> 00:56:27,780
Resolution 807.

1022
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:29,360
Awards bid for queues.

1023
00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:30,140
Flex attract.

1024
00:56:31,420 --> 00:56:32,140
C550.

1025
00:56:32,500 --> 00:56:32,620
C.

1026
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:34,260
Portable video pipe.

1027
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:35,840
Inspection camera.

1028
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:36,600
Or equal.

1029
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:44,320
so moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waski? Yes. Maryfield? Yes. Turn? Yes. Rothwell? Yes.

1030
00:56:44,820 --> 00:56:51,500
Alpin? Yes sir. Resolutions adopted. Resolution 808. Extend is bid for 2025

1031
00:56:51,500 --> 00:56:58,040
annual procurement contract so moved. Seconded. Vote please. Waski? Yes. Maryfield? Yes.

1032
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:06,240
Turn? Yes. Rothwell? Yes. Alpin. Yes sir. Resolutions adopted. Resolution 809.

1033
00:57:06,240 --> 00:57:11,880
extends bids for 2025 annual construction contract so moved. Second vote please.

1034
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:14,480
Waski? Yes. Maryfield? Yes.

1035
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:15,560
Kern? Yes.

1036
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:16,620
Rothwell? Yes.

1037
00:57:17,140 --> 00:57:18,020
Alpin? Yes sir.

1038
00:57:18,460 --> 00:57:21,400
Resolution is adopted. Resolution 8-10.

1039
00:57:22,300 --> 00:57:29,160
Approved special event shop. The 255 application for Kutja, Gliance Club and your favorite.

1040
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:31,400
Blues by the river. So moved.

1041
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:33,080
A second did. Vote please.

1042
00:57:33,420 --> 00:57:34,340
Waski? Yes.

1043
00:57:34,340 --> 00:57:34,500
Yes.

1044
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:35,460
Very healed.

1045
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:36,680
Yes, it's going to be great.

1046
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:37,280
Kern.

1047
00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:37,880
Yes.

1048
00:57:38,380 --> 00:57:38,840
Rothwell.

1049
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:39,140
Yes.

1050
00:57:39,580 --> 00:57:39,900
Alpen.

1051
00:57:40,060 --> 00:57:40,380
Yes, sir.

1052
00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:42,160
The solution is adopted.

1053
00:57:42,340 --> 00:57:44,400
Resolution 8-11.

1054
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:49,560
Ratifies designation of alcohol service vendor to serve alcohol at the Polish independent

1055
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:51,200
Hall Festival, 2026.

1056
00:57:51,660 --> 00:57:52,040
So moved.

1057
00:57:52,420 --> 00:57:52,760
Seconded.

1058
00:57:54,140 --> 00:57:55,020
Vote, please.

1059
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:55,600
Washington.

1060
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:56,000
Yes.

1061
00:57:56,380 --> 00:57:56,820
Very healed.

1062
00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:57,900
That's why it's a ratified.

1063
00:57:58,560 --> 00:57:59,160
Kern.

1064
00:57:59,580 --> 00:58:00,180
Yes.

1065
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:01,000
Rothwell.

1066
00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:01,260
Yes.

1067
00:58:01,940 --> 00:58:02,200
Alpen.

1068
00:58:03,860 --> 00:58:07,360
Resolution is adopted. Resolution 812.

1069
00:58:07,940 --> 00:58:15,180
Authorizes designated alcohol service vendor to serve alcohol at the blues by the Bay event in Grangeville Park.

1070
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:16,820
So moved. Second, vote please.

1071
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:19,620
Waski. Yes. Maryfield. Yes.

1072
00:58:20,020 --> 00:58:20,780
Kern. Yes.

1073
00:58:21,260 --> 00:58:23,080
Rothwell. Yes. Alpine. Yes, sir.

1074
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:26,900
Resolution is adopted. Resolution number 813.

1075
00:58:26,900 --> 00:58:33,180
A's bill so moved. Second, vote please. Wasky? Yes. Very few? Yes.

1076
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:42,740
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Yes sir. The resolution is adopted. That concludes the resolution portion of our agenda.

1077
00:58:43,700 --> 00:58:52,720
We do have a CDA meeting after our meeting tonight. So in just a few minutes after open comment we'll have our CDA meeting.

1078
00:58:53,100 --> 00:58:57,740
But at this time, we'd like to open our floor for open comments.

1079
00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:01,680
Again, we asked that when you come to them, we'd ask that you're sitting in our audience

1080
00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:05,800
that just had a respect for those sitting around you that you do keep your conversations

1081
00:59:06,780 --> 00:59:07,140
quiet.

1082
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:13,620
But we ask that you come up, you say your name and your Hamlet, and then if you could also

1083
00:59:13,620 --> 00:59:15,420
just again be mindful of your neighbors.

1084
00:59:16,020 --> 00:59:18,880
And as long as they're good, I believe they formed a line, you just want to ask the people

1085
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:20,320
behind you if that's okay, ma'am.

1086
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:22,460
Oh, I didn't say, she was there.

1087
00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:23,040
Oh, was she?

1088
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:24,020
I was there.

1089
00:59:24,500 --> 00:59:25,860
So that's OK.

1090
00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:28,200
Hi, I'm Mary Beth Andrewsson.

1091
00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:30,720
I live in church lane in Acabog.

1092
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:33,620
And actually, I'm going to, I'm probably

1093
00:59:33,620 --> 00:59:34,420
at the wrong meeting.

1094
00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:36,620
I should be at traffic and safety.

1095
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:41,400
But I'm here tonight because the traffic on church lane,

1096
00:59:41,620 --> 00:59:42,880
which pool of Michael look closer to your mouth

1097
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:43,820
so we can hear you real quickly.

1098
00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:44,760
Yes, ma'am.

1099
00:59:44,780 --> 00:59:45,700
Thank you so much.

1100
00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:49,580
The traffic on church lane has become unbelievable.

1101
00:59:50,460 --> 00:59:53,700
The summer traffic is always heavier than the winter traffic.

1102
00:59:53,860 --> 00:59:59,920
I've lived there 51 years and we have multiple new developments on that road.

1103
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:06,760
We now have people walking on that road, which we never had 50 years ago, and they're walking

1104
01:00:06,760 --> 01:00:12,260
on the wrong side of the road, but it's a very dangerous road. It's torturous, and it's got

1105
01:00:12,260 --> 01:00:18,060
banks on either side, and you can't get out of the way of a moving car. And the speed limit

1106
01:00:18,060 --> 01:00:26,620
was 55 years and years ago, has come down to 35, but nobody's doing 35. They're doing 45

1107
01:00:26,620 --> 01:00:32,340
25 and 50 as per everybody does, 10 to 15 miles over the speed limit when they drive.

1108
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:37,720
We don't have enough police to monitor the speed on that road, so I'm going to go to the

1109
01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:44,380
traffic and safety meeting and give my blah, blah, blah to them because I don't want

1110
01:00:44,380 --> 01:00:47,300
to see somebody killed on that road, and it's just a matter of time.

1111
01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:55,320
You can't, the road is just too torturous or winding, whatever you'd like to call it,

1112
01:00:55,320 --> 01:01:00,480
And to be honest with you, you can't get off that road if a car is coming down because

1113
01:01:00,940 --> 01:01:07,760
the overhomes are built on banks because that is the way the water flows to meeting house

1114
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:08,040
creek.

1115
01:01:08,700 --> 01:01:13,980
So I'm sorry I'm at the wrong meeting, but I just want to bring it to everybody's attention.

1116
01:01:14,380 --> 01:01:23,960
Please be careful and be safe because Sweden adopted a zero vision to maintain speeds that

1117
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:27,100
that are safer, because if somebody hits you at 40,

1118
01:01:27,620 --> 01:01:29,780
you're gonna suffer great bodily harm.

1119
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:31,380
Thank you very much.

1120
01:01:31,580 --> 01:01:32,260
Mrs. and Jason.

1121
01:01:36,110 --> 01:01:37,310
You're not at the wrong meeting,

1122
01:01:37,470 --> 01:01:38,470
you're always welcome to come

1123
01:01:38,470 --> 01:01:40,470
and to speak at our meeting, and I think Councilman.

1124
01:01:40,830 --> 01:01:44,010
Mrs. Andreessen, so you, just so you're aware,

1125
01:01:44,210 --> 01:01:46,130
so the next traffic safety meeting will be Thursday,

1126
01:01:47,270 --> 01:01:49,810
the 27th that's in this room at 8.30 in the morning.

1127
01:01:50,550 --> 01:01:52,430
I'll talk to the chief, what we'll do is we'll put-

1128
01:02:04,350 --> 01:02:08,830
I don't think that Mrs. Andrews and has ever been told that she needed a microphone.

1129
01:02:08,830 --> 01:02:10,190
I was going to say it better.

1130
01:02:12,810 --> 01:02:14,490
I know you don't.

1131
01:02:16,810 --> 01:02:18,010
You're welcome.

1132
01:02:20,010 --> 01:02:21,570
Paul and Tucker from Riverhead.

1133
01:02:22,390 --> 01:02:28,850
Last night I attended an anti-bias task force meeting that was held right here in this

1134
01:02:28,850 --> 01:02:29,070
room.

1135
01:02:30,170 --> 01:02:34,070
I wanted to get a feel for what they did.

1136
01:02:34,070 --> 01:02:49,930
So I asked the task force if they had discussed the impact of ICE actions on town residents and if they had been asked for or made a recommendation to the town board about ICE's impact on our Latino community.

1137
01:02:51,010 --> 01:02:55,290
They said no, which seemed odd to me.

1138
01:02:56,090 --> 01:03:05,170
So, I asked them if the Ku Klux Klan marched down Main Street, would that be an issue that

1139
01:03:05,170 --> 01:03:06,650
would fall under their purview?

1140
01:03:07,550 --> 01:03:14,470
And they said no, which, again, seems rather odd for the anti-biased task force.

1141
01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:21,980
I've also been trying to find a record of what, if anything, the Hispanic Development

1142
01:03:21,980 --> 01:03:27,100
Empowerment and Education Committee has done about addressing the prejudice being directed

1143
01:03:27,100 --> 01:03:28,640
that are at our Latino community.

1144
01:03:29,520 --> 01:03:31,840
There appears to be no record of any action

1145
01:03:31,840 --> 01:03:34,500
of any type by this committee,

1146
01:03:34,960 --> 01:03:36,980
including if they even meet at all.

1147
01:03:38,720 --> 01:03:41,880
The Antibias Task Force and the HDEC

1148
01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:43,820
provide a great illusion

1149
01:03:45,260 --> 01:03:47,360
that you were doing something for our immigrants.

1150
01:03:48,900 --> 01:03:52,020
But in fact, you provide no representation for them,

1151
01:03:52,240 --> 01:03:53,020
whatsoever.

1152
01:03:53,020 --> 01:03:58,800
However, there are two questions that I have asked you numerous times and you have avoided

1153
01:03:58,800 --> 01:03:59,520
answering them.

1154
01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:03,320
So I think tonight they deserve an answer.

1155
01:04:04,860 --> 01:04:10,160
Do you intend to take immediate action to mitigate the fears of town residents being

1156
01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:11,800
caused by ICE actions?

1157
01:04:12,700 --> 01:04:18,400
And do you intend to take immediate steps to address the safety concerns of all town residents

1158
01:04:18,740 --> 01:04:20,420
being caused by ICE actions?

1159
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:28,360
I just want to give you time to speak for your comments, Mr. Tucker.

1160
01:04:28,460 --> 01:04:29,220
Waiting for your answer.

1161
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:30,620
So I can...

1162
01:04:30,620 --> 01:04:31,420
Public comment.

1163
01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:31,780
Yes.

1164
01:04:32,300 --> 01:04:33,320
I understand that.

1165
01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:37,620
So, you can utilize the last 46 seconds.

1166
01:04:40,710 --> 01:04:42,030
I care not to.

1167
01:04:42,210 --> 01:04:46,830
I care to hear answers to my questions and I realize that I am not following your rules

1168
01:04:46,830 --> 01:04:52,150
of order, but I have asked you these questions numerous times and you don't answer.

1169
01:04:52,590 --> 01:04:55,290
And I think the residents of the town deserve an answer.

1170
01:04:55,290 --> 01:04:56,270
So,

1171
01:04:58,400 --> 01:05:07,380
I will ask you again to take immediate steps to mitigate the fears of town residents

1172
01:05:07,380 --> 01:05:09,000
being caused by ICE actions.

1173
01:05:09,900 --> 01:05:15,740
And do you intend to take immediate steps to address the safety concerns of all town residents

1174
01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:17,560
being caused by ICE actions?

1175
01:05:19,740 --> 01:05:24,280
So, Mr. Tugger, I constantly speak to everyone about safety in our town about everyone.

1176
01:05:24,460 --> 01:05:25,960
So that would be my answer to that.

1177
01:05:25,960 --> 01:05:29,940
It's not limited to any area and we're always constantly speaking to all of our things,

1178
01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:33,960
all of our officers, and our PD, so.

1179
01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:40,340
Okay, so I will mark that as no, you have no intent to take any actions.

1180
01:05:41,300 --> 01:05:41,660
Maybe.

1181
01:05:41,860 --> 01:05:42,160
Thank you.

1182
01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:50,040
Good evening, everyone.

1183
01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:51,340
My name is Minerva Perez.

1184
01:05:51,560 --> 01:05:53,820
I'm the Executive Director of Ola of Eastern Long Island.

1185
01:05:54,440 --> 01:05:55,080
And I'm here.

1186
01:05:55,840 --> 01:05:56,180
I'm here.

1187
01:05:56,440 --> 01:05:58,280
Ola has dedicated 24 years of service.

1188
01:05:58,740 --> 01:05:59,240
I'm sorry.

1189
01:05:59,860 --> 01:06:00,180
What's your hand?

1190
01:06:00,180 --> 01:06:00,660
What's your hand?

1191
01:06:01,260 --> 01:06:04,300
My Hamlet is the entire East End of Long Island.

1192
01:06:04,900 --> 01:06:06,840
So we serve the whole East End of Long Island.

1193
01:06:07,340 --> 01:06:08,140
What's your question?

1194
01:06:08,320 --> 01:06:08,480
I'm sorry.

1195
01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:11,940
The Hamlet that I serve, or the Hamlet that I live in, or.

1196
01:06:12,660 --> 01:06:15,860
I'm just asking the Hamlet that you reside in.

1197
01:06:16,120 --> 01:06:17,880
OK, so I reside in South Hampton.

1198
01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:21,640
And our nonprofit serves the entire East

1199
01:06:21,640 --> 01:06:23,340
End for the last 24 years.

1200
01:06:23,660 --> 01:06:26,660
We do a lot of work in Riverhead across the schools.

1201
01:06:27,160 --> 01:06:29,220
We'll also with elders and all kinds of other work

1202
01:06:29,220 --> 01:06:29,680
that we do.

1203
01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:34,280
Alright, so I'll make that clear and it is Riverhead on the right side of the river supervisor.

1204
01:06:35,060 --> 01:06:40,660
So I'm here because I don't understand why such an important conversation like this could

1205
01:06:40,660 --> 01:06:44,440
not have been moved to a serious and meaningful conversation in a work session.

1206
01:06:44,720 --> 01:06:49,400
I sat here for about three hours during one board meeting about one hour of that was dedicated

1207
01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:54,400
to whether or not a motocross should happen in the town of Riverhead and it was a real conversation.

1208
01:06:54,840 --> 01:06:58,420
There were proponents of it, there were people that did not like this idea at all, there was

1209
01:06:58,420 --> 01:07:03,420
study done in environmental study, there were very deep conversations that were happening

1210
01:07:03,420 --> 01:07:04,440
about a motocross.

1211
01:07:05,100 --> 01:07:07,400
And thank heavens because that's what a town board does.

1212
01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:11,840
They hear from their constituents, they learn about the reasons that someone might want

1213
01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:15,420
this or not want this, and they come to decisions based on that information.

1214
01:07:16,020 --> 01:07:23,320
What I'm seeing right now is that there has been just this nonstop desire to mischaracterize

1215
01:07:23,320 --> 01:07:26,340
what the Ola Public Safety and Accountability Law actually is.

1216
01:07:26,340 --> 01:07:29,060
I truly believe many folks have not actually read it.

1217
01:07:29,200 --> 01:07:30,940
It is the most simple thing ever.

1218
01:07:31,300 --> 01:07:33,780
It does not replicate whatever New York State is doing.

1219
01:07:34,220 --> 01:07:38,660
It is essentially also a love letter, and I can speak with law enforcement directly later,

1220
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:44,460
but a love letter to law enforcement and our towns about what we do together so that when

1221
01:07:44,460 --> 01:07:49,720
there is a random ice raid that comes to town as they do, and as they will again, that what

1222
01:07:49,720 --> 01:07:54,880
we want to see is more presence from local law enforcement in a coordinated way with the

1223
01:07:54,880 --> 01:08:02,420
town, and with health care, with our schools, to make sure that there is not a rise in panic

1224
01:08:02,420 --> 01:08:05,920
and chaos and possible injury, which we've seen in the past and other areas.

1225
01:08:06,380 --> 01:08:08,540
So this is a law for a reason.

1226
01:08:08,980 --> 01:08:13,980
It's not a place to dig around and find provisions that might exist in some deep space that might

1227
01:08:13,980 --> 01:08:18,120
in a policy that might address a piece of here and a piece of there.

1228
01:08:18,440 --> 01:08:23,620
It is a law on purpose, that makes it very clear to both the town board and all of our

1229
01:08:23,620 --> 01:08:28,140
institutions, our law enforcement and our people that live here, that visit here, that drive

1230
01:08:28,140 --> 01:08:33,360
through here, that shop here, that there is a plan in action in the event, there's something

1231
01:08:33,360 --> 01:08:37,620
that could be causing panic and disruption because that's not something that you want

1232
01:08:37,620 --> 01:08:42,900
and you ask for. No one's asking you to stop ICE. We're talking about public safety and having

1233
01:08:42,900 --> 01:08:47,980
a plan. Let's have a real conversation about it with actual real information and facts. I'd

1234
01:08:47,980 --> 01:08:48,800
I'd love to do that with you.

1235
01:09:00,940 --> 01:09:02,080
Evan, shape any hollow.

1236
01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:06,060
First, I really hate following you after such a good speech.

1237
01:09:06,300 --> 01:09:06,540
Sorry.

1238
01:09:08,120 --> 01:09:12,400
I'm only here because, as a rapid response to ice operations,

1239
01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:15,660
there was a nice incident today.

1240
01:09:15,780 --> 01:09:18,860
I'm not sure if anyone was aware of it on Malin Avenue.

1241
01:09:19,760 --> 01:09:22,760
Another one was also in another area of River Ants.

1242
01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:23,540
So they are here.

1243
01:09:23,780 --> 01:09:24,500
You know, that's two.

1244
01:09:24,880 --> 01:09:26,120
If they double, that's four.

1245
01:09:26,320 --> 01:09:27,440
And if they double, again, it's eight.

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sooner or later there's going to be quite a few. So I guess the conversation will maybe

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01:09:31,200 --> 01:09:35,740
come up for you guys sooner or later. I hope that we do the right thing for us. I think

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01:09:35,740 --> 01:09:38,700
you'll have other people following behind me with the additional information so I'll

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01:09:38,700 --> 01:09:40,560
let them do it. Thank you so much for your time.

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01:09:46,250 --> 01:09:50,710
Cindy Clifford, Riverhead. I know it's election season and here in Riverhead we've seen the

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01:09:50,710 --> 01:09:56,230
migrant issue take center stage or at least the last five local election cycles. We see

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01:09:56,230 --> 01:10:01,150
how scapegoating fuels the hateful comments online turning neighbor against neighbor. So

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01:10:01,150 --> 01:10:04,990
So it's understandable you haven't been supporting our Latino or Hispanic residents, you let

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people believe there were threat in the enemy.

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01:10:07,310 --> 01:10:12,310
You use code wording like overcrowded housing, and ignore that the landlords and circumstances

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01:10:12,310 --> 01:10:13,730
create that problem.

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01:10:14,170 --> 01:10:19,570
Yet many are legal residents, many pursuing paths to citizenship, many already citizens,

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01:10:19,810 --> 01:10:21,690
and they're still having to be afraid.

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01:10:22,390 --> 01:10:27,550
What is pledging liberty and justice for all if we're ignoring the height of prejudice and

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01:10:27,550 --> 01:10:32,470
cruelty that ignores the rule of law that is the backbone of our Constitution.

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01:10:33,290 --> 01:10:37,770
Instead of liberty and justice we're seeing people being harmed, targeted, essentially

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01:10:37,770 --> 01:10:41,910
punished for how they look and all the while they're just trying to live their lives, take

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01:10:41,910 --> 01:10:46,490
care of their families and do the hard work that supports our local businesses and industries.

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01:10:47,030 --> 01:10:52,450
Joanne, I know this was not a private post so I'm going to mention that you put on Facebook

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01:10:52,450 --> 01:10:56,550
that you feel like people are coming after you and you're pleading for support because

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01:10:56,550 --> 01:11:00,310
you want to be reelected but imagine if I did not say that I wanted to be

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01:11:00,310 --> 01:11:03,830
reelected. Well you were concerned that you know whatever but you said

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01:11:03,830 --> 01:11:09,310
people were coming after you and you were upset. And I'm just saying imagine if

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01:11:09,310 --> 01:11:13,690
people were coming after you to grab you from your family or your home what if

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01:11:13,690 --> 01:11:18,230
brunettes were being targeted. What if balding white guys were being targeted?

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01:11:18,350 --> 01:11:24,130
Imagine living with the fear and the real possibility of leaving your family

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01:11:24,130 --> 01:11:26,730
only in the morning and never getting back home.

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01:11:27,150 --> 01:11:32,350
When you've done nothing wrong, being incarcerated and subjected to abuse, neglect, and nothing

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01:11:32,350 --> 01:11:37,450
and no one to help you, all because of how you look, or because there's a quota to fill,

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01:11:37,810 --> 01:11:39,930
and people who could help aren't.

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01:11:40,430 --> 01:11:45,270
If you don't believe what I'm saying, I ask you to verify what you read or hear to broaden

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01:11:45,270 --> 01:11:48,730
your information based to gain a more factual perspective.

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01:11:49,190 --> 01:11:53,710
As an elected official, your first responsibility should be to make sure every resident

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01:11:53,710 --> 01:11:58,710
Regardless of their heritage is safe and secure and knows that you and our police department

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01:11:58,710 --> 01:12:00,530
are working for their best interest.

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01:12:00,990 --> 01:12:06,630
The Ola resolution doesn't have to be accepted exactly as it is, but it cannot be any longer

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01:12:06,630 --> 01:12:07,970
blatantly ignored.

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01:12:08,390 --> 01:12:14,270
We want you, our town government, to put aside your personal bias and work to create a sense

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of safety.

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01:12:15,570 --> 01:12:21,090
So everyone is free to go about their lives, go to work, send their children to school,

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01:12:21,090 --> 01:12:25,230
and know that they will all gather around the dinner table at day's end.

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01:12:25,550 --> 01:12:27,490
Those who can help should.

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01:12:27,990 --> 01:12:28,450
Thank you.

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01:12:36,260 --> 01:12:37,300
Hello, everyone.

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01:12:37,660 --> 01:12:40,040
My name is Brianna Hurn, and I reside in Riverhead.

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01:12:40,700 --> 01:12:46,060
I'm a concerned heartbroken and frankly enraged resident and American citizen,

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01:12:46,420 --> 01:12:48,740
as well as a wife, mother, neighbor, and friend.

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01:12:49,420 --> 01:12:53,880
I'm here again to urge the Riverhead Town Board to pass or at least consider

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01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:56,960
the Ola legislation for the sake of our entire community.

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01:12:56,960 --> 01:13:02,200
We all deserve the right to feel safe and secure in our own homes and communities, and

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this is particularly true of children.

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01:13:04,900 --> 01:13:10,440
In order for them to grow up to be healthy and happy and become productive, well adjusted

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01:13:10,440 --> 01:13:13,480
members of society, they must feel safe and protected.

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01:13:13,980 --> 01:13:18,760
As a mother, the safety of all the children in our community is of utmost importance to me

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01:13:18,760 --> 01:13:20,820
as I'm sure it is to most of you.

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01:13:21,360 --> 01:13:26,120
And I can tell you that our children, particularly our Latino children, do not feel safe.

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01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:33,160
According to a Board of Report from April of this year, 145,000 U.S. citizen children have

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01:13:33,160 --> 01:13:38,920
lost a parent and 22,000 U.S. citizen children have lost both parents to ICE detention.

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01:13:39,500 --> 01:13:43,800
This is most likely a severe undercount because the report came out in April in thousands

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01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:47,800
where people have been detained since then and when asked parents to not want to reveal

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01:13:47,800 --> 01:13:51,200
they have children for fear of adverse consequences, which we have seen.

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01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:55,800
Children in our community and across the country understand this is happening.

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01:13:56,180 --> 01:13:59,940
They fear coming home from school camp or an outing with friends to find their parents

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01:13:59,940 --> 01:14:01,360
and caregivers gone.

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01:14:02,200 --> 01:14:03,440
Can you imagine that fear?

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01:14:03,900 --> 01:14:09,740
That anxiety, that trauma, what kind of impact is the state of being having on their psyche?

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01:14:10,600 --> 01:14:15,620
Furthermore, many of the children with detained parents witness their forceful and often violent

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01:14:15,620 --> 01:14:19,420
arrest and removal compounding that fear, anxiety, and trauma.

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01:14:19,420 --> 01:14:24,420
In the case of Johann Guerrero's daughter, she experienced the murder of her father in

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01:14:24,420 --> 01:14:27,000
front of her eyes by her government's hands.

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01:14:27,560 --> 01:14:31,260
Those who perpetrated this crime have not yet been held responsible.

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01:14:31,520 --> 01:14:36,920
In fact, none of the ICE agents who have murdered immigrants and citizens alike have been held

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01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:37,460
accountable.

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01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:42,720
The acute pain and overwhelming terror of that moment and this overarching situation and

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01:14:42,720 --> 01:14:44,700
moment in our history is unfathomable.

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01:14:45,300 --> 01:14:50,900
Right now, there is no reliable data on how many detainees or deportees have children in the US,

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01:14:51,140 --> 01:14:54,600
nor what happens to them once their parent is taken into custody.

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01:14:55,060 --> 01:14:59,560
And this is why, among many other reasons, that we must pass the low...

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01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,800
A legislation. We have to take immediate action to minimize the fear, pain, anxiety, and trauma inflicted on the children in our community when one or more of their parents is inevitably detained and or deported by ICE. We need a local law that requires ICE to be transparent with an accountable to our institutions and local law enforcement. We as a community must understand who the affected individuals are so we can respond accordingly. If the laws pass, we will know if a child in our community is impacted by a detention under schools and local providers.

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01:15:29,800 --> 01:15:33,340
will be mobilized to alert families and provide the necessary care.

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01:15:33,560 --> 01:15:37,660
We must protect our children and we must strive to ensure that they are safe and cared for

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01:15:37,660 --> 01:15:38,920
for our future.

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01:15:39,400 --> 01:15:39,720
Thank you.

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01:15:39,920 --> 01:15:40,220
Thank you.

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01:15:46,230 --> 01:15:46,570
Hi.

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01:15:46,850 --> 01:15:47,790
I'll say that way, waiting.

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01:15:47,870 --> 01:15:48,010
River.

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01:15:48,290 --> 01:15:51,690
A while back, I started learning about a concept called radical empathy.

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01:15:52,210 --> 01:15:57,290
Radical empathy means removing your own ego, judgment, and personal bias to truly immerse

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01:15:57,290 --> 01:16:02,710
yourself in another person's lived experience while also examining the roots of your own prejudices

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01:16:02,710 --> 01:16:06,250
and taking concrete action against injustice.

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01:16:06,990 --> 01:16:09,970
Recently, for me, that concept has been put to the test.

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01:16:10,470 --> 01:16:12,350
Working with a local group of young people

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01:16:12,350 --> 01:16:13,410
right here in Riverhead,

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01:16:13,630 --> 01:16:16,190
we have been educating our local immigrant population

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01:16:16,190 --> 01:16:18,570
of their rights should ice come to town.

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01:16:19,230 --> 01:16:20,750
Through that work, I met a woman

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01:16:20,750 --> 01:16:22,550
who lives and works right here in Riverhead

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01:16:22,550 --> 01:16:23,830
with her two young children.

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01:16:24,310 --> 01:16:26,610
She is hard working, kind, and loving.

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01:16:27,210 --> 01:16:30,950
She is also undocumented, but going for her permanent status.

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01:16:30,950 --> 01:16:41,510
Despite that, the three of them were detained by ICE and held in a detention center in New York City for nearly a month in December of 2025.

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01:16:42,290 --> 01:16:47,870
She and her children were terrified. One of her children continues to have nightmares from the experience.

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01:16:48,310 --> 01:16:52,790
She was sent home with an angle monitor. She is all of four feet 11 inches.

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01:16:53,610 --> 01:17:00,130
She is doing it the right way in seeking asylum and a new life here in our country with her kids.

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01:17:00,130 --> 01:17:04,590
I visit them often to remind them that there is good in the world and that they don't

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01:17:04,590 --> 01:17:09,710
always have to fear people here, but they are still afraid and understandably so.

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01:17:10,310 --> 01:17:14,950
I have radical empathy for them, as I can imagine what it would be like if that had happened

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01:17:14,950 --> 01:17:19,970
to me and my children, and so I let them know that they are loved, at least by me.

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01:17:20,590 --> 01:17:23,950
We have become friends and I am richer for having them in my life.

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01:17:24,410 --> 01:17:25,930
That's what radical empathy brings.

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01:17:25,930 --> 01:17:29,730
Ms. Wasky, you and I share something in common.

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01:17:30,370 --> 01:17:34,690
We both knew and loved Carrie Stromsky, a beloved riverhead teacher who passed away

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01:17:34,690 --> 01:17:36,570
sadly several years ago.

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01:17:37,070 --> 01:17:41,570
I often find myself thinking of her when I think of radical empathy because she had it.

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01:17:42,270 --> 01:17:45,490
As a teacher, she didn't ask her students to show her their papers.

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01:17:45,990 --> 01:17:48,830
She did what she was legally and morally required to do.

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01:17:49,410 --> 01:17:52,910
Educate them regardless of their immigration status.

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01:17:52,910 --> 01:17:58,010
Regardless of their opinions, that's what teachers are legally required to do here in

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01:17:58,010 --> 01:17:58,570
New York State.

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01:17:59,070 --> 01:18:04,010
The same goes for other elected officials in this state, including this town board.

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01:18:04,730 --> 01:18:08,450
You all sworn oath to the Constitution when you were sworn in.

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01:18:09,030 --> 01:18:14,410
So despite your opinion to which you are entitled as an individual, you are required to represent

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01:18:14,410 --> 01:18:18,910
all Riverhead residents regardless of their status and is not your job to ask.

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01:18:18,910 --> 01:18:24,410
Please consider joining me and so many others here an expressing radical empathy for all

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01:18:24,410 --> 01:18:25,050
of our neighbors.

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01:18:25,390 --> 01:18:28,050
It feels really good to love rather than hate.

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01:18:28,730 --> 01:18:31,870
Supporting the OLA legislation is a start.

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01:18:32,450 --> 01:18:34,130
You might even make some new friends.

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01:18:34,630 --> 01:18:35,110
Thank you.

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01:18:44,680 --> 01:18:45,720
Sarah Reynolds, Riverhead.

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01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:46,440
Hi.

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01:18:48,340 --> 01:18:50,240
I just want to start by asking some questions.

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01:18:50,940 --> 01:18:51,240
I'm sorry.

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01:18:51,380 --> 01:18:52,780
Can you just pull a bike up a little bit?

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01:18:52,840 --> 01:18:52,920
Sure.

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01:18:53,360 --> 01:18:57,680
Should our tax dollars pay for the federal government to act in secret within our

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01:18:57,680 --> 01:19:02,940
community. Are you okay with it as long as it doesn't affect you? How do you know for sure it

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01:19:02,940 --> 01:19:07,440
won't affect you if there's no transparency? No cooperation with local law enforcement and no

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01:19:07,440 --> 01:19:13,500
oversight on some level? To my point the last time I spoke here, we can see there is no accountability

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01:19:13,500 --> 01:19:18,420
transparency or concern for public safety at the federal level because there is contempt for the

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01:19:18,420 --> 01:19:25,960
Constitution and the rule of law by this administration. Rather, they seem to want the law to apply to

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01:19:25,960 --> 01:19:27,040
There's some people and not others.

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01:19:27,480 --> 01:19:29,680
There should not be two sets of laws in this country,

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01:19:30,160 --> 01:19:32,440
one for Trump loyalists and another for everyone else,

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01:19:32,780 --> 01:19:35,600
or one for wealthy people and another for everyone else.

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01:19:37,560 --> 01:19:39,040
And yet, here we are.

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01:19:39,800 --> 01:19:42,140
So what do we do if the federal government is going rogue?

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01:19:42,820 --> 01:19:44,920
Do we not have the right to petition for redress

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01:19:44,920 --> 01:19:47,700
of our grievances and protection for our communities

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01:19:47,700 --> 01:19:49,160
at the state and local level?

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01:19:49,720 --> 01:19:50,780
That's what we're doing here.

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01:19:51,380 --> 01:19:54,960
And again, just because this culture of lawlessness

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01:19:54,960 --> 01:19:59,440
this doesn't affect you, just because the violence and brutality of families being torn

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01:19:59,440 --> 01:20:03,560
apart and children being held in detention centers doesn't affect you, do you look away?

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01:20:04,380 --> 01:20:08,200
Should our tax dollars be used to pay for the federal government to disrupt public safety

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01:20:08,200 --> 01:20:08,920
in our community?

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01:20:09,520 --> 01:20:12,380
Are you okay with it as long as it's happening over there to someone else?

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01:20:12,860 --> 01:20:16,520
And how do you know it won't affect you if proper procedures have not been put in place

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01:20:16,520 --> 01:20:20,080
locally, such as the Ola Law, to deal with such disruptions?

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01:20:20,440 --> 01:20:24,160
A person's immigration status should not matter in how they are treated, because everyone

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01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:28,900
is supposed to get equal treatment under the law and should get equal treatment by anyone

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01:20:28,900 --> 01:20:29,860
with moral values.

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01:20:30,640 --> 01:20:34,760
No one deserves to be gunned down by a law enforcement officer acting as judge, jury,

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01:20:34,840 --> 01:20:35,600
and executioner.

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01:20:36,220 --> 01:20:41,300
I constantly hear people say there's a right way and a wrong way in relation to immigration,

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01:20:42,000 --> 01:20:44,560
but there's also a right way and a wrong way to treat people.

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01:20:45,160 --> 01:20:47,620
And there's a right way and a wrong way to enforce the law.

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01:20:47,800 --> 01:20:50,100
The right way is by not breaking the law yourself.

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01:20:54,560 --> 01:20:59,220
A bit of Ferdinand is a small community like ours and a young father was shot and killed

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01:20:59,220 --> 01:21:02,180
there by ice last month, Johann Sebastian Guerrero.

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01:21:02,620 --> 01:21:06,760
He was here legally on a work visa, legally on a work visa.

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01:21:07,280 --> 01:21:11,640
This was not an isolated incident because we have seen this kind of violence used against

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01:21:11,640 --> 01:21:16,280
American citizens, green card holders documented and undocumented immigrants alike.

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01:21:16,980 --> 01:21:21,400
So, I want to know what you would do if this were to happen in Riverhead.

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01:21:23,080 --> 01:21:27,440
What are your moral values in relation to how human beings should be treated, and what

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01:21:27,440 --> 01:21:31,320
is your commitment to people in our community being treated equally under the law?

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01:21:32,020 --> 01:21:32,360
Thank you.

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01:21:43,080 --> 01:21:47,060
Kimberly Wilder, Riverhead Riverhead, which is probably the best Riverhead.

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01:21:47,800 --> 01:21:52,040
Who is an elected official in a democracy responsible for taking care of?

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01:21:52,040 --> 01:21:56,600
Who is an elected official in a democracy responsible for taking care of?

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01:21:57,180 --> 01:22:06,800
And also which beings, which living souls in a democracy are meant to receive resources, concern, and leadership from elected officials.

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01:22:07,540 --> 01:22:14,920
One of our council people has asserted on a personal or campaign media site that they are only responsible for people who are here legally.

1429
01:22:15,580 --> 01:22:21,820
This line of reasoning leaves open many questions about who our council people should protect and whose rights they should honor.

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01:22:21,820 --> 01:22:28,120
is an elected official at any level of government responsible for people in

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01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:32,920
that jurisdiction who are illegal in some way. What if someone resides in an

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01:22:32,920 --> 01:22:37,660
illegal apartment? What if someone is living with but not married to a resident

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01:22:37,660 --> 01:22:42,420
of the jurisdiction? At one length of time what are council people care about the

1434
01:22:42,420 --> 01:22:48,280
health, safety and human rights of the person newly moved here? Elected officials

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01:22:48,280 --> 01:22:51,000
officials ultimately get their power from the voters.

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01:22:51,640 --> 01:22:57,160
Does an elected officially, technically, or morally, or in their heart represent only

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01:22:57,160 --> 01:23:02,300
people who are registered to vote, do elected officials represent people who are not registered

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01:23:02,300 --> 01:23:02,800
to vote?

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01:23:03,300 --> 01:23:07,680
Does an elected official technically represent children under 18 years old?

1440
01:23:08,590 --> 01:23:14,640
Should elected officials care about tourists in their jurisdiction to make sure that tourists

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01:23:14,640 --> 01:23:19,780
are safe on the roads and are protected from human rights abuses that might happen.

1442
01:23:20,440 --> 01:23:25,420
Do the people from New York City and NASA County who travel through here deserve safe roads?

1443
01:23:26,440 --> 01:23:30,640
Would our residents be more or less safe by us having a good healthcare system

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01:23:30,640 --> 01:23:33,260
and policies that prevent the spread of disease?

1445
01:23:33,940 --> 01:23:38,500
What if somebody who's from NASA County gets a cold? What if someone who's from Guatemala gets a cold?

1446
01:23:38,920 --> 01:23:42,180
What if someone who is living in an illegal apartment gets a cold?

1447
01:23:42,180 --> 01:23:43,880
or someone who doesn't vote gets a cold.

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01:23:44,420 --> 01:23:49,540
We care about all these things because all these things about all the beings in our community

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01:23:49,540 --> 01:23:53,760
come back and happen to everybody in our community.

1450
01:23:54,160 --> 01:23:59,660
I think that elected officials need to be responsible for every being in their community.

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01:24:00,140 --> 01:24:05,700
And some of the elected officials in our community and in our town even work for animal shelters

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01:24:05,700 --> 01:24:07,180
and help animal causes.

1453
01:24:07,660 --> 01:24:12,060
And if they can help animal causes, then they can help people who traveled across the

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01:24:12,060 --> 01:24:13,480
he's to come to our country.

1455
01:24:20,900 --> 01:24:23,140
Good evening, Kerry Flanagan, Riverhead.

1456
01:24:23,700 --> 01:24:25,880
A few days ago, I was parked in Riverhead

1457
01:24:25,880 --> 01:24:28,360
when an older gentleman stopped and asked for directions

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01:24:28,360 --> 01:24:30,160
to a location in Riverhead.

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01:24:30,720 --> 01:24:32,440
By his appearance and his heavy accent,

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01:24:32,620 --> 01:24:35,300
it seemed clear he was most likely not born in the US.

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01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:37,980
As I gave him directions, he told me

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01:24:37,980 --> 01:24:42,460
he had driven over 70 miles from Ridgewood Queens

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01:24:42,460 --> 01:24:43,560
to get to Riverhead.

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01:24:44,000 --> 01:24:46,300
As he drove away, there was that thought in my head

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01:24:47,060 --> 01:24:52,620
That this man could be someone that some or maybe all town board members would not select

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01:24:52,620 --> 01:24:59,220
to be there first and foremost concern based on his appearance and accent if he was to

1467
01:24:59,220 --> 01:25:02,580
need aid assistance or was involved in an incident with ICE.

1468
01:25:03,260 --> 01:25:08,220
That thought is shocking to me now and it is a shameful and said commentary on the state

1469
01:25:08,220 --> 01:25:14,180
of our town or rather a shameful and said commentary on the state of our town board members.

1470
01:25:14,180 --> 01:25:21,320
especially a town board member who expressed that sentiment during exchange with me on July 21st.

1471
01:25:21,700 --> 01:25:26,960
By the way, that exchange has now been viewed over 20,000 times on social media.

1472
01:25:27,940 --> 01:25:35,360
20,000 views from people not just in Riverhead but from other areas of New York and across the country.

1473
01:25:36,520 --> 01:25:43,020
20,000 times for people to listen and consider if they want to stay, visit or spend their money here.

1474
01:25:43,020 --> 01:25:46,380
Should I have warned that immigrant man of his possible peril?

1475
01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:53,340
Should I have told him to turn around and go back to Queens where he might be safer or be prepared to show his papers?

1476
01:25:54,080 --> 01:25:57,960
These are not questions I would have considered before July 21st.

1477
01:25:58,200 --> 01:26:01,480
Statements that went unopposed from the rest of the town board members.

1478
01:26:01,900 --> 01:26:10,300
Pricots from all of you, even our town attorney, who doesn't appear to know the fine details of the Constitution to which old board members were in oath.

1479
01:26:10,300 --> 01:26:16,620
Did I mention that the gentleman asking for directions was white, Polish and spoke with

1480
01:26:16,620 --> 01:26:21,920
the heavy Polish accent? Should I have to mention that? I hope you got to the Polish festival

1481
01:26:21,920 --> 01:26:26,640
and enjoyed his time. I think the time period from now until the next town board elections

1482
01:26:26,640 --> 01:26:32,140
takes place is the time for many of us to watch the town board's job performance and consider

1483
01:26:32,140 --> 01:26:38,020
who we want to represent us, all of us, and who will always lead and consider anyone

1484
01:26:38,020 --> 01:26:41,660
someone who resides in visits or spends money in our town.

1485
01:26:43,100 --> 01:26:47,740
Maybe hotels on Main Street Basit empty if this town board's reputation gets beyond

1486
01:26:47,740 --> 01:26:53,840
20,000 views on social media, whether it's a Polish, Latino person, a Latino person,

1487
01:26:54,060 --> 01:26:55,600
a Haitian, Jamaica, et cetera.

1488
01:26:56,060 --> 01:27:01,140
If the town board leaders can't lead with open minds, avoid their personal opinions toward

1489
01:27:01,140 --> 01:27:07,080
certain people based on their immigration status and they can't be concerned with everyone.

1490
01:27:07,080 --> 01:27:11,500
They have failed as leaders, and they should lead no one and be voted out.

1491
01:27:12,160 --> 01:27:12,720
Thank you.

1492
01:27:20,590 --> 01:27:21,150
Good evening.

1493
01:27:21,690 --> 01:27:24,330
My name is Trisha Martinez, and I'm a Riverhead resident.

1494
01:27:25,090 --> 01:27:31,930
Through my work, I've had the privilege of working alongside families, parents, and students across the East End, but especially here in Riverhead.

1495
01:27:32,570 --> 01:27:39,710
During that time, I've seen firsthand the fear and uncertainty many are experiencing because of recent immigration enforcement.

1496
01:27:40,510 --> 01:27:43,330
So this is why I support the OLA public safety law.

1497
01:27:43,330 --> 01:27:45,830
This is not an anti-ice law.

1498
01:27:46,090 --> 01:27:50,070
It does not stop lawful federal immigration enforcement.

1499
01:27:50,430 --> 01:27:54,750
It creates clear communication transparency and accountability for our local leaders

1500
01:27:55,810 --> 01:28:01,430
when immigration enforcement activities are taking place and can respond appropriately to protect our community.

1501
01:28:01,930 --> 01:28:10,850
It helps ensure that residents can continue reporting crimes, seeking emergency assistance, accessing schools and health care without unnecessary fear.

1502
01:28:10,850 --> 01:28:16,830
I urge the town board to review and support the OLA public safety law and stand for a

1503
01:28:16,830 --> 01:28:22,310
rubberhead that values public safety, respecting constitutional rights, and the dignity of every

1504
01:28:22,310 --> 01:28:27,090
single member of this community because you represent every single member of this community.

1505
01:28:27,410 --> 01:28:27,830
Thank you.

1506
01:28:36,530 --> 01:28:40,070
Sally DeNellan, Betty Hollow, I join in.

1507
01:28:41,610 --> 01:28:45,910
To begin, I support ICE operations.

1508
01:28:45,910 --> 01:28:48,870
if they're going after criminals who break the law.

1509
01:28:50,270 --> 01:28:53,790
I worked as a teacher in Brentwood for 20 years,

1510
01:28:54,630 --> 01:28:58,830
and we had a huge problem with MS-13.

1511
01:29:00,610 --> 01:29:03,650
Ice came in, along with other agencies,

1512
01:29:04,650 --> 01:29:09,050
and helped us rid of MS-13.

1513
01:29:09,570 --> 01:29:13,350
And I also want to share with you that a student of mine

1514
01:29:13,350 --> 01:29:20,430
was murdered in broad daylight. A block from her home by that gang. I like

1515
01:29:20,430 --> 01:29:25,330
Dice then. Not so sure what I think now. You can see the news.

1516
01:29:27,350 --> 01:29:28,850
I'm seeing persons

1517
01:29:28,850 --> 01:29:32,970
with just civil violations having their rights taken away.

1518
01:29:36,080 --> 01:29:37,960
Congress is frequently

1519
01:29:37,960 --> 01:29:39,220
denied access.

1520
01:29:42,360 --> 01:29:47,760
Now, I was going to say a lot more. Oh yes, I know the other point I wanted

1521
01:29:47,760 --> 01:29:51,300
to make because I'm reducing my comments.

1522
01:29:54,240 --> 01:29:59,740
I've heard that it's a federal law is the

1523
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:09,200
Please, in that we can't question the circumstances that we are in now. I disagree with that. Please take

1524
01:30:09,200 --> 01:30:16,820
a look at the civil rights movement of the 60s. Laws were changed. You yourselves fought

1525
01:30:16,820 --> 01:30:22,600
back against the Suffolk County Water Authority. So I really don't see that much of a difference.

1526
01:30:24,100 --> 01:30:31,130
Other East End Towns are looking at this, but not us, not yet, not yet.

1527
01:30:31,690 --> 01:30:33,770
That was always what I used to say to my students.

1528
01:30:34,290 --> 01:30:37,670
Miss, I don't get this, not yet, but you will.

1529
01:30:39,590 --> 01:30:43,250
Now, couple of board members have expressed their views

1530
01:30:43,250 --> 01:30:45,870
and a couple of you have remained silent.

1531
01:30:48,040 --> 01:30:51,100
Now, we didn't create this mess.

1532
01:30:51,320 --> 01:30:55,220
None of us in this room created this huge immigration mess.

1533
01:30:55,220 --> 01:30:57,720
It's been a mess for at least two decades.

1534
01:30:58,460 --> 01:31:00,380
Congress has not been able to fix it.

1535
01:31:00,920 --> 01:31:03,000
Our court system is broken.

1536
01:31:04,480 --> 01:31:07,480
But who's being punished?

1537
01:31:09,220 --> 01:31:10,900
Dreamers dreams are smashed.

1538
01:31:12,420 --> 01:31:16,140
Promise protection status is taken away, willy-nilly.

1539
01:31:17,680 --> 01:31:19,940
Okay, now I'm going to get really harsh.

1540
01:31:20,560 --> 01:31:21,460
And forgive me.

1541
01:31:22,520 --> 01:31:23,360
Tough love.

1542
01:31:23,360 --> 01:31:31,150
Town board meetings begin with the Pledge of Allegiance, with liberty and justice for all.

1543
01:31:31,930 --> 01:31:35,010
These days, ICE does not adhere to that.

1544
01:31:36,010 --> 01:31:39,270
They did when I had to fight MS-13, but I don't know what happened.

1545
01:31:40,510 --> 01:31:49,410
Our meetings also begin with the Christian prayer, indicating a desire to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ.

1546
01:31:49,410 --> 01:31:58,410
First, Jesus emphasized the importance of treating strangers in our lands with kindness and

1547
01:31:58,410 --> 01:31:59,070
compassion.

1548
01:31:59,490 --> 01:32:03,750
Sally, clearly Sally, I'm just going to ask you that just a second, if you just take

1549
01:32:03,750 --> 01:32:05,370
a couple of seconds and wrap up, that'll be great.

1550
01:32:07,340 --> 01:32:08,560
What, do you want me to go on?

1551
01:32:08,800 --> 01:32:09,260
Want me to finish?

1552
01:32:09,380 --> 01:32:12,120
I've got like ten more sentences or do you want to talk to me about something?

1553
01:32:12,400 --> 01:32:16,340
No, I just wanted you to finish over your time just a little bit, so it would be a thankful

1554
01:32:16,340 --> 01:32:16,740
so much.

1555
01:32:16,740 --> 01:32:19,400
I only have about seven more sentences, please.

1556
01:32:20,720 --> 01:32:21,620
Thank you.

1557
01:32:23,880 --> 01:32:26,600
Jesus emphasized the importance of treating strangers.

1558
01:32:26,600 --> 01:32:27,500
I already said that.

1559
01:32:27,780 --> 01:32:29,140
Clearly this is not happening.

1560
01:32:30,320 --> 01:32:31,720
We can say the pledge.

1561
01:32:32,160 --> 01:32:33,200
We can say a prayer.

1562
01:32:33,740 --> 01:32:34,740
But that is not enough.

1563
01:32:35,660 --> 01:32:37,060
Action is required.

1564
01:32:38,500 --> 01:32:39,920
Please take action.

1565
01:32:40,440 --> 01:32:42,960
And have a discussion about Ola's proposal.

1566
01:32:43,860 --> 01:32:46,500
Create a bipartisan task force to discuss this.

1567
01:32:46,500 --> 01:32:51,420
Let's have those tough conversations. We can handle it.

1568
01:32:51,780 --> 01:32:53,080
Bring it to a work session.

1569
01:32:53,780 --> 01:32:57,860
Protect the principles of a nation founded as a democracy.

1570
01:32:58,600 --> 01:33:01,800
This is our part, as a grassroots level,

1571
01:33:02,300 --> 01:33:06,240
to support those less fortunate than us.

1572
01:33:06,780 --> 01:33:09,660
It is a step to common decency.

1573
01:33:14,530 --> 01:33:15,830
Thank you for your comments.

1574
01:33:20,350 --> 01:33:24,630
Well, I was going to ask you, since you both have spoke, if you would wait until everyone

1575
01:33:24,630 --> 01:33:27,570
has the top opportunity to speak for the first time, I like your fairness.

1576
01:33:27,930 --> 01:33:28,730
Okay, thank you.

1577
01:33:29,050 --> 01:33:29,610
Appreciate you.

1578
01:33:30,030 --> 01:33:31,250
And then you can come back up.

1579
01:33:31,350 --> 01:33:31,850
That would be great.

1580
01:33:32,050 --> 01:33:33,890
But let's not everybody have an opportunity to speak.

1581
01:33:34,090 --> 01:33:35,290
So thank you.

1582
01:33:38,140 --> 01:33:39,020
Good evening.

1583
01:33:39,260 --> 01:33:40,580
I'm Charles Masoud.

1584
01:33:41,220 --> 01:33:45,480
My family and I, we own Parminog vineyards and Parminog vineyards.

1585
01:33:46,380 --> 01:33:51,860
And I'm looking at this thing on the wall, it says peace and prosperity through progress.

1586
01:33:52,280 --> 01:33:54,240
I would love to live in that town.

1587
01:33:56,220 --> 01:34:00,420
But I don't see how we will live up to the motto.

1588
01:34:01,960 --> 01:34:07,380
Somebody in town has drafted this private events bill that is out circulating.

1589
01:34:08,320 --> 01:34:11,520
And I don't know what they're thinking. They want to look at our finances,

1590
01:34:11,520 --> 01:34:19,240
They want to threaten us with penalties, they want to regulate our lives, and what problem are we fixing with that bill?

1591
01:34:19,740 --> 01:34:26,040
I haven't heard anybody from town coming to me and say, hey, we have a problem. Let's sit down and talk about your business.

1592
01:34:26,940 --> 01:34:36,840
What's going on? You come up like as if we're all out there trying to create problems for town and you're restricted to 60 different, have you read that thing?

1593
01:34:36,840 --> 01:34:41,620
I mean, it's ridiculous that you can even think about putting something out there.

1594
01:34:42,080 --> 01:34:49,080
It happens not to be acceptable because Ag and Market precludes you from doing this

1595
01:34:49,080 --> 01:34:49,400
thing.

1596
01:34:51,780 --> 01:34:57,120
So let me vent a little bit, but I want to leave with a suggestion, it's not enough to vent,

1597
01:34:57,820 --> 01:34:59,300
we need to be constructive.

1598
01:34:59,840 --> 01:35:08,160
The same way my previous colleagues who spoke, it's not enough to vent, come up with ideas.

1599
01:35:09,000 --> 01:35:14,860
What I would suggest to you as a board and you as a supervisor is if you really think

1600
01:35:14,860 --> 01:35:20,140
you have a problem with the wineries, bring us in, let's have a conversation, let's understand

1601
01:35:20,140 --> 01:35:24,740
what is the problem you're trying to fix, and let's see if we cannot come up with a solution

1602
01:35:24,740 --> 01:35:31,020
that's good for everybody, but when you throw at us the book like that, I don't know what

1603
01:35:31,020 --> 01:35:41,080
to tell you, I mean this is unbelievable, you're living in another world, wake up and start

1604
01:35:41,080 --> 01:35:44,080
working with us, you're working for us, we're not working for you.

1605
01:35:45,100 --> 01:35:50,200
If you have a problem call us in, we sit down together, we help you figure it out, we know

1606
01:35:50,200 --> 01:35:55,540
than you what we're doing. And therefore we can tell you what can be done. But don't come up,

1607
01:35:56,020 --> 01:36:00,420
have you read it that they want to look at our finances? Are you going to hire auditors to look

1608
01:36:00,420 --> 01:36:06,220
at our books? Are you going to build up the bureaucracy to spend more money? It's our money you're wasting.

1609
01:36:07,760 --> 01:36:15,160
So to what end? I've been doing this for 43 years now. We are a good neighbor. We have no problem

1610
01:36:15,160 --> 01:36:21,100
with traffic we obey the laws we are a good public citizen I speak for myself and for my

1611
01:36:21,100 --> 01:36:27,880
colleague wineries as well why are you treating us in a way that feels like you don't want us here

1612
01:36:27,880 --> 01:36:34,340
our business is down as you know wine consumption is down instead of the town helping us do better

1613
01:36:34,340 --> 01:36:42,280
you're trying to crucify us I mean come on wake up guys you're not doing your job by just sitting

1614
01:36:42,280 --> 01:36:51,500
behind the desk and issuing laws and whatever, call us in, let's have a conversation, we can

1615
01:36:51,500 --> 01:36:59,900
help you, help us. But having your lawyers drafts things that require us to hire lawyers

1616
01:36:59,900 --> 01:37:07,520
to sue you is not the idea to run the town. Okay, so please wake up, call us in, we'll have

1617
01:37:07,520 --> 01:37:12,040
a meeting, we'll help you, if there is a problem, we would love to solve it, we've been very

1618
01:37:12,040 --> 01:37:18,000
with public citizens and we will be here after you all have left. So bring us in. Let's

1619
01:37:18,000 --> 01:37:22,180
talk and stop this nonsense. Please. Thank you. Thank you, sir.

1620
01:37:26,110 --> 01:37:26,650
Just

1621
01:37:34,460 --> 01:37:39,620
waiting for the clerk. Okay. Hey, hi, everyone. Get that Rosario Rodriguez or

1622
01:37:39,620 --> 01:37:45,020
originally Rosario Rodriguez. Riverhead resident, urge, urging for a conversation and review of

1623
01:37:45,020 --> 01:37:52,160
all the local legislation, many people that aren't convicted criminal, sorry, many people

1624
01:37:52,160 --> 01:37:55,820
that aren't convicted violent criminals and are not receiving due process that are

1625
01:37:55,820 --> 01:38:00,700
being picked up by immigration, also known as ICE. We had a situation like that already

1626
01:38:00,700 --> 01:38:06,540
during President Trump's second term. We had community members on the east end here, yes,

1627
01:38:06,680 --> 01:38:14,520
where we live, that had no deportation order, no known record of being a violent person

1628
01:38:14,520 --> 01:38:18,920
and professionally nor in the community, and in fact their local police department provided

1629
01:38:18,920 --> 01:38:23,780
the community member a sheet that proved that they had no criminal record.

1630
01:38:25,400 --> 01:38:30,860
So there was also someone else that had a working permit, so they were doing it legally according

1631
01:38:30,860 --> 01:38:34,240
to what you guys like to follow, and as we all should follow, right?

1632
01:38:35,280 --> 01:38:41,560
These are people on the east end, there's factual people, factual experiences, but how can

1633
01:38:41,560 --> 01:38:47,940
we ensure that we remove violent criminals, convicted criminals, and not our innocent community

1634
01:38:47,940 --> 01:38:50,940
members that are being falsely targeted on the East End.

1635
01:38:51,880 --> 01:38:55,560
I immigrated to this country in 2001, from Guatemala.

1636
01:38:56,160 --> 01:38:59,480
I grew up on the East End, K through 12, you can find me in the yearbooks.

1637
01:39:00,220 --> 01:39:02,620
If you want, I can sign it, you know, for homies.

1638
01:39:03,860 --> 01:39:09,600
You know, I went to college and I graduated at SUNY O'Neil in 2019, and I'm here until

1639
01:39:09,600 --> 01:39:10,040
this day.

1640
01:39:10,040 --> 01:39:15,580
I was a permanent resident for over a decade, and then I became a US citizen almost a decade

1641
01:39:15,580 --> 01:39:15,940
of that.

1642
01:39:18,080 --> 01:39:24,440
So, Ken, a councilman, Ken, you're the town liaison for the HDEEC.

1643
01:39:24,940 --> 01:39:28,320
The chairman says the current immigration enforcement actions doesn't affect the committee

1644
01:39:28,320 --> 01:39:34,660
that was in the newspaper, but it does affect, it does affect because immigrants do have

1645
01:39:34,660 --> 01:39:39,820
businesses here in Riverhead, and you know that, you all the permits and all the fancy stuff.

1646
01:39:39,820 --> 01:39:44,900
And at one point, some of them, a few of them have expressed the impacts and the presence

1647
01:39:44,900 --> 01:39:48,420
of ice on them and how that's affected them as a business.

1648
01:39:49,280 --> 01:39:52,880
I love the East End with all my heart, especially Greenport because that's where I grew up.

1649
01:39:53,820 --> 01:39:57,960
It gave me the opportunity to achieve the American dream and I know for sure that Riverhead

1650
01:39:57,960 --> 01:39:58,540
could be the same.

1651
01:39:59,680 --> 01:40:04,900
So if you guys are fighting for America, as you say, I hope that you consider the realities

1652
01:40:04,900 --> 01:40:07,020
of all of it to everyone.

1653
01:40:07,480 --> 01:40:08,300
God bless you.

1654
01:40:08,300 --> 01:40:11,020
I appreciate you listening to me and hope to talk to you soon.

1655
01:40:11,460 --> 01:40:11,900
Bill,

1656
01:40:22,890 --> 01:40:23,710
bring the mic up to you.

1657
01:40:24,270 --> 01:40:26,090
I don't even need the mic, I think.

1658
01:40:26,170 --> 01:40:29,030
I know, but the people are recording it does.

1659
01:40:29,450 --> 01:40:29,730
Thank you.

1660
01:40:30,110 --> 01:40:31,110
Good evening, everyone.

1661
01:40:31,950 --> 01:40:33,410
My name is Bill Zellacar.

1662
01:40:33,750 --> 01:40:35,010
I reside in Medford.

1663
01:40:36,370 --> 01:40:45,410
My office is here in Calverton, and I am the executive director for Farm Bureau representing Long Island and New York City regions.

1664
01:40:45,410 --> 01:40:55,770
As I stand here before all of you, I can't help looking at the seal is Mr. Masoud said earlier.

1665
01:40:56,790 --> 01:41:00,490
And in the middle of the seal there we have agriculture.

1666
01:41:02,490 --> 01:41:11,630
Riverhead has always been known as the epicenter of agriculture on Long Island and of all of New York State.

1667
01:41:11,630 --> 01:41:18,870
I've been on the state boards for New York and also the American Farm Bureau Board and

1668
01:41:18,870 --> 01:41:24,650
everybody always goes back and refers to Riverhead as the epicenter of agriculture.

1669
01:41:25,790 --> 01:41:30,770
Such a heritage that this town and community has.

1670
01:41:33,080 --> 01:41:37,120
The big question is, does a town want to keep agriculture?

1671
01:41:38,340 --> 01:41:39,180
Okay?

1672
01:41:41,920 --> 01:41:52,340
Our comptroller, Tom D'Napoli, points out that in Suffolk County, 65 to 70% of

1673
01:41:52,340 --> 01:41:59,520
the agricultural income goes back into the community. We are the only county in New

1674
01:41:59,520 --> 01:42:07,400
York State that has those kind of numbers. If we're worried about trying to find a money

1675
01:42:07,400 --> 01:42:23,860
or you know, funding for our towns out there, agriculture provides a phenomenal amount of money into our economy through either the farms, through tourism, the restaurants, whatever it may be.

1676
01:42:26,470 --> 01:42:32,570
Over the years, just a little history, over the years, agriculture has changed a lot.

1677
01:42:32,570 --> 01:42:39,450
is gone from wholesale commodities going into Hunts Point to now primarily

1678
01:42:39,450 --> 01:42:46,150
directed consumer. The days of wholesale are no longer out there. So much more

1679
01:42:46,150 --> 01:42:52,250
is directed consumer times change. Agriculture changes just like every under

1680
01:42:52,250 --> 01:42:53,890
other industry out there.

1681
01:42:56,260 --> 01:43:00,580
Zoning concerns are a big issue for agriculture and that's

1682
01:43:00,580 --> 01:43:06,740
something that we all have to address. We have the right to form, which is controlled

1683
01:43:06,740 --> 01:43:12,020
by Agon Markis here in New York State. The Commissioner was with me here yesterday

1684
01:43:12,020 --> 01:43:15,360
going through several entities in the town of Riverhead.

1685
01:43:17,460 --> 01:43:19,320
The biggest concern we have

1686
01:43:19,320 --> 01:43:28,880
is the proposed event code that Riverhead has been writing. Where this came from? I wish

1687
01:43:28,880 --> 01:43:29,640
I really knew.

1688
01:43:31,730 --> 01:43:37,590
I've gotten copies of it constantly, it's changed constantly, and every time I hear

1689
01:43:37,590 --> 01:43:47,210
they say we're not targeting agriculture. But of the 31 pages of that draft, agriculture is

1690
01:43:47,210 --> 01:43:53,830
cited on almost every single page. So you tell me, is agriculture targeted in there or not?

1691
01:43:54,510 --> 01:44:01,830
Do you want agriculture in our community? My advice is pull agriculture out of

1692
01:44:01,830 --> 01:44:08,330
there. And as Mr. Masood said, we all have the opportunity to work together. We have

1693
01:44:08,330 --> 01:44:15,350
the Ag Advisory Group, okay? Other towns that I go to, there's always the town

1694
01:44:15,350 --> 01:44:21,130
attorney president and the town planning person. That's how we need to work

1695
01:44:21,130 --> 01:44:24,570
together to make things work. So thank you very much.

1696
01:44:24,650 --> 01:44:30,890
Thank you, sir. Bill, I just want to let you know one thing. The code is being rewritten

1697
01:44:30,890 --> 01:44:36,870
and to your point, the reason why it's taking a while is because agriculture is on every

1698
01:44:36,870 --> 01:44:42,430
page, and they're pulling it out and addressing the code that way. Thank you very much.

1699
01:44:42,430 --> 01:44:43,650
Thank you.

1700
01:44:48,710 --> 01:44:53,750
You okay? You okay with it? Okay. Yes, ma'am. Sorry.

1701
01:44:53,750 --> 01:44:59,970
I'm Nancy Gilbert, I live in Jamesport and I'm here to talk about another community issue that is...

1702
01:45:00,180 --> 01:45:28,480
Central to all of us, and that is our relationship to the land, the land on which we live. I'm here tonight to speak to you as a representative of the Open Space Committee. Our mission is to identify, review, and recommend to you the town board, lands that should be acquired by the town, and preserved as open space, and to develop and recommend conservation plans for these lands. Full disclosure, I'm a member of the Pecanic Land Trust Board.

1703
01:45:28,480 --> 01:45:34,080
My husband and I have donated our development rights to the Pecanic Land Trust and we've

1704
01:45:34,080 --> 01:45:37,480
put facade easements on all of our buildings with the Pecanic Land Trust.

1705
01:45:38,760 --> 01:45:43,580
The Open Space Committee feels strongly that the town of Riverhead should proceed with

1706
01:45:43,580 --> 01:45:49,500
the purchase of the 30 plus acre parcel in the northeast corner of the Forage Camp based

1707
01:45:49,500 --> 01:45:54,340
on the town's fair market value appraisal, which is consistent with the treatment of all

1708
01:45:54,340 --> 01:45:55,640
CPF purchases.

1709
01:45:57,400 --> 01:46:02,380
The open space committee has a rating system that we use to rate open space purchases.

1710
01:46:02,900 --> 01:46:09,260
I will tell you that we have never rated another parcel as highly as we have rated this parcel of land.

1711
01:46:10,720 --> 01:46:14,820
The 4-H camp has been at the top of our preservation list for years.

1712
01:46:15,480 --> 01:46:21,340
And thankfully, the CPS phone certainly has the money necessary for such a purchase.

1713
01:46:21,960 --> 01:46:27,120
Perhaps most important is that the parcel the town is considering is contiguous with

1714
01:46:27,120 --> 01:46:28,260
Sound Avenue Preserve.

1715
01:46:28,660 --> 01:46:32,460
I hope you've all had a chance to go hike the Sound Avenue Preserve.

1716
01:46:32,760 --> 01:46:38,100
It's really lovely from Sound Avenue up towards the sound.

1717
01:46:38,340 --> 01:46:39,180
It's really beautiful.

1718
01:46:44,560 --> 01:46:52,620
If we buy this parcel of land, it would extend Sound Avenue Preserve to the bluffs of Long

1719
01:46:52,620 --> 01:46:56,020
island sound, and it would triple the size of the preserve.

1720
01:46:56,700 --> 01:47:01,400
And I will tell you that the price per acre in the appraisal price the town has received

1721
01:47:01,800 --> 01:47:09,400
is much less than what we paid 4-sound adventer preserve 20 years ago, significantly less.

1722
01:47:12,900 --> 01:47:17,200
The opportunity to extend the preserve is one that will never come again.

1723
01:47:17,200 --> 01:47:22,860
Walking north for the preserve not only allows you to view native birds in wildlife but

1724
01:47:22,860 --> 01:47:25,780
it is also a link to our geological past.

1725
01:47:26,420 --> 01:47:31,400
As you leave the outwash plane and walk towards the sound, you encounter the glacial marine.

1726
01:47:32,160 --> 01:47:35,220
The views are truly magnificent in both directions.

1727
01:47:36,140 --> 01:47:42,220
Once this transaction is completed, it will be part of the contiguous parcel of over 200 acres

1728
01:47:42,220 --> 01:47:48,000
of spectacular preserved land that will benefit the people of Riverhead for generations to come.

1729
01:47:48,640 --> 01:47:50,960
What an incredible property this is.

1730
01:47:51,980 --> 01:47:56,920
It has probably been almost a century since the town had a chance to acquire property

1731
01:47:56,920 --> 01:47:58,920
overlooking Long Island Sound.

1732
01:47:59,620 --> 01:48:03,160
Another opportunity is not likely to occur in our lifetimes,

1733
01:48:03,720 --> 01:48:06,120
and definitely not at the price of the appraisal.

1734
01:48:06,120 --> 01:48:13,040
The Openspace Committee urges you to acquire this parcel with CPF monies as an open space

1735
01:48:13,040 --> 01:48:15,420
property for the town of Riverhead.

1736
01:48:16,320 --> 01:48:20,220
Our connection to land is truly at the heart of a community's identity.

1737
01:48:20,760 --> 01:48:26,200
We owe it to future generations and to those who walk these lands long before us and to

1738
01:48:26,200 --> 01:48:28,560
the flora and fauna who call this land home.

1739
01:48:30,350 --> 01:48:34,400
To preserve this magnificent piece of our heritage.

1740
01:48:34,400 --> 01:48:35,720
Thank you.

1741
01:48:38,840 --> 01:48:39,440
Good

1742
01:48:44,180 --> 01:48:49,500
evening. Good evening, Matt Pendleton Riverhead. I have a letter

1743
01:48:49,500 --> 01:48:58,200
that I was asked to read into the meeting in regards to the event code that you guys.

1744
01:48:58,360 --> 01:49:03,500
We know Michael for the day. You want me to? All right, so if you're having a

1745
01:49:03,500 --> 01:49:07,740
discussion in our room, we just ask that you not do that, so it's easier for

1746
01:49:07,740 --> 01:49:10,200
everybody to hear that would be super helpful. Thanks.

1747
01:49:10,760 --> 01:49:18,420
This is addressed to the town board on behalf of the Ag Advisory Councilman Kern asked

1748
01:49:18,420 --> 01:49:24,440
that we write something up from Ag Advisory, so there is no confusion from everyone because

1749
01:49:24,440 --> 01:49:29,840
it seems like there's confusion. Near members of Riverhead Town Board, we have continually

1750
01:49:29,840 --> 01:49:34,260
voice or frustrations with a proposed code, and it seems as though we have not been heard.

1751
01:49:34,260 --> 01:49:38,580
It is also deeply concerning that the code is being written without meaningful input from

1752
01:49:38,580 --> 01:49:42,160
the community and does not represent the interest of the residents.

1753
01:49:42,540 --> 01:49:47,420
The types of extremely restrictive burdensome code and specifically targets agriculture,

1754
01:49:47,660 --> 01:49:55,440
ratchets up fees, penalties, legal actions against farms, addresses exactly what special event

1755
01:49:55,440 --> 01:49:57,760
crisis is happening with the town.

1756
01:49:58,280 --> 01:49:58,940
You can read this.

1757
01:49:59,140 --> 01:49:59,960
I'm just trying to do it fast.

1758
01:50:00,100 --> 01:50:00,620
I have three minutes.

1759
01:50:04,330 --> 01:50:18,830
We're merely economic for the town and the community development director, oh sorry, or is it merely the economic opportunity for the town that was stated by the community development director as a recent town board work session?

1760
01:50:19,290 --> 01:50:26,570
There are a few easier ways for the town to generate economic opportunity other than placing additional burden on the backs of the farmers.

1761
01:50:26,970 --> 01:50:31,370
This type of narrative is concerning to our farmers beyond the proposed code.

1762
01:50:31,370 --> 01:50:49,870
It highlights a profound disconnect between the town's perception of agriculture and our community and the actual reality that is situation facing the farmers, preserving Riverhead's agricultural and rural character in landscape as a priori expressed by both farmers and residents per town comp plan.

1763
01:50:49,870 --> 01:50:55,210
And recently, you all, the town board, have been working tirelessly to put massive amounts

1764
01:50:55,210 --> 01:51:00,770
of financial resources to support downtown revitalization efforts and the business located.

1765
01:51:00,950 --> 01:51:06,930
You also took flexible stance on the land use of West Kyle, voting to modify terminated existing

1766
01:51:06,930 --> 01:51:13,510
covenants and easements to support those businesses on July 7th, 26th, you unanimously adopted

1767
01:51:13,510 --> 01:51:19,250
changes to Tanger. Outlet, outlet, zoning, code, restrictions, support, and most

1768
01:51:19,250 --> 01:51:24,790
recently, unanimously adopted two resolutions. Create a new golf course

1769
01:51:24,790 --> 01:51:30,210
zoning, which would grant course's enhanced use, which further support the

1770
01:51:30,210 --> 01:51:33,770
town business. Each of you have publicly supported the town farmers and farm

1771
01:51:33,770 --> 01:51:37,350
saying you support us and actually you are doing two different things.

1772
01:51:37,430 --> 01:51:42,410
Respectfully, we have seen the support and you are asking to support now and not

1773
01:51:42,410 --> 01:51:46,430
by placing additional burdens on the farmers leaving the agricultural out of this proposed

1774
01:51:46,430 --> 01:51:54,250
code. We appreciate the town board and whatever else. So that's coming from egg advisory

1775
01:51:54,250 --> 01:52:00,430
and then I'll take one minute just to say. I talked with Councilman Kern. I've asked

1776
01:52:00,430 --> 01:52:06,090
should I ask questions such we can't have a dialogue back and forth. If you guys really

1777
01:52:06,810 --> 01:52:13,050
support this code, then come down to egg advisory, like Masood said, and talk with us.

1778
01:52:13,650 --> 01:52:16,130
I've been to two work sessions with this.

1779
01:52:16,390 --> 01:52:21,070
One up here where it was Councilman Rothwell, and help, and remember we were talking, you

1780
01:52:21,070 --> 01:52:26,650
were talking about having a pamphlet to help generate good for farmers, you didn't seem

1781
01:52:26,650 --> 01:52:33,710
to remember the last time we were here when I was with Don Thomas on the last work session.

1782
01:52:34,710 --> 01:52:41,970
and the thing is, it's a 31-page, 30-something-page. It took 45 minutes for the town attorney to do

1783
01:52:41,970 --> 01:52:48,090
us an absence. It's like a thesis statement. If you just did what someone said and you do a

1784
01:52:48,090 --> 01:52:52,590
Google search on it, because I don't have that much time, so my wife did it fast. There was ridiculous

1785
01:52:52,590 --> 01:52:58,230
hits. Time and time again with agriculture is mentioned in it. I apologize to Mary Field and

1786
01:52:58,230 --> 01:53:03,250
and waski if I come across really direct, I work a full-time job, we run a farm, we raise

1787
01:53:03,250 --> 01:53:03,890
two kids.

1788
01:53:05,090 --> 01:53:12,210
And then it just blows my mind that Don Thomas can direct the town board to do this because

1789
01:53:12,210 --> 01:53:16,190
when I go and I ask Kern, he goes, no one supports it.

1790
01:53:17,170 --> 01:53:22,210
And then all of a sudden, there's this 31-page thing generated.

1791
01:53:22,210 --> 01:53:30,630
it. So if you have questions come right to us, okay, because no one on egg advisory

1792
01:53:30,630 --> 01:53:36,770
supported it for this to be that way. All right? Thank you very much. Yeah,

1793
01:53:45,310 --> 01:53:45,970
if you could

1794
01:53:45,970 --> 01:53:51,490
pull it down, thank you very much. Here we go. That's better. Good evening everyone. My

1795
01:53:51,490 --> 01:53:58,130
name is Georgia Lawsier, commonly known as Georgia Keller. Some of you may know me and

1796
01:53:58,130 --> 01:54:02,530
some of you may not, so I'll give you a brief introduction of myself and let you know

1797
01:54:04,150 --> 01:54:06,710
the special consideration I'd like you to think about.

1798
01:54:07,490 --> 01:54:11,630
So I want to first thank you for having this public hearing or actually it's not a public

1799
01:54:11,630 --> 01:54:15,890
hearing but listening to the public comments and testimony on a topic that affects many

1800
01:54:15,890 --> 01:54:22,110
of our residents and I'm speaking directly to OLA's proposed legislation and issues.

1801
01:54:22,550 --> 01:54:26,810
It is important to every single one of us that walks through this town, lives in this

1802
01:54:26,810 --> 01:54:33,550
town, works in this town, owns property in this town, pays taxes in this town, and even

1803
01:54:33,550 --> 01:54:37,030
if you're a child, and especially if you're a child, and I'm going to speak to that

1804
01:54:37,030 --> 01:54:37,390
in a minute.

1805
01:54:38,570 --> 01:54:43,110
So I've had a long history of advocating for topics that affect our many residents.

1806
01:54:43,430 --> 01:54:49,550
Some of you may know my long history as president of the Jamesport, Greater Jamesport Civic

1807
01:54:49,550 --> 01:54:54,510
Association, as well as being a member of the Lamarxon Preservation Commission with Mr.

1808
01:54:54,510 --> 01:55:00,390
lines over here for many years as well as other various civic and church duties as well

1809
01:55:00,390 --> 01:55:02,990
as my public teaching position.

1810
01:55:04,150 --> 01:55:09,990
So I've had Mr. Wooten's daughter and I've had lots of other students that come back

1811
01:55:09,990 --> 01:55:14,890
through the years and they appreciate the life that they grew up here in Riverhead with

1812
01:55:14,890 --> 01:55:17,490
because it's different than the rest of Long Island.

1813
01:55:17,670 --> 01:55:23,050
The East End is its own burden because we know from the tourism and the traffic but it

1814
01:55:23,050 --> 01:55:25,210
It makes it worth it because it preserves our culture.

1815
01:55:26,290 --> 01:55:29,130
And now I advocate for the children of our town.

1816
01:55:29,750 --> 01:55:34,710
Over the almost last three decades of living here and advocating for the community, I have

1817
01:55:34,710 --> 01:55:42,210
been publicly honored by being news reviews civic person of the year and Mrs. Maryfield.

1818
01:55:42,210 --> 01:55:47,270
You may remember last year providing me with the Martin Luther King Jr. humanitarian award

1819
01:55:47,270 --> 01:55:50,410
from my work with the students of our school district.

1820
01:55:50,410 --> 01:56:04,780
But my overriding message through all of those different things in age groups and even my work with saying is a doors church is that each of us has a voice and each of us matter.

1821
01:56:05,760 --> 01:56:15,980
And that we need all people to work together in cooperation in order to appropriately negotiate what is needed and what most we can get for everyone.

1822
01:56:15,980 --> 01:56:22,080
a high tide floats all boats. Right? So as you may surprise, I believe that we

1823
01:56:22,080 --> 01:56:26,100
should all be considered and we should all be considered valuable. Tonight I

1824
01:56:26,100 --> 01:56:30,260
have two points for you to consider and both are tied to our entire town. Like I

1825
01:56:30,260 --> 01:56:34,640
said, every resident, every property owner. As a grandmother, I have had to

1826
01:56:34,640 --> 01:56:39,060
quell the fears of my granddaughter that she's had that her friends won't be

1827
01:56:39,060 --> 01:56:43,640
there when she gets to school tomorrow morning. Or that they will be harmed because

1828
01:56:43,640 --> 01:56:51,200
something happens to someone in their family. And a lot of my students and her friends,

1829
01:56:51,360 --> 01:56:57,120
they're all very well documented. They're born here, they're citizens, but they've seen what

1830
01:56:57,120 --> 01:57:02,940
happens on the television. And unfortunately, we can't help them unsee it and we know that children

1831
01:57:02,940 --> 01:57:11,020
in crisis cannot learn. And as a taxpayer, as well as a teacher, I want to know that the majority

1832
01:57:11,020 --> 01:57:14,940
of my tax dollar that's going into our school district is being adequately

1833
01:57:14,940 --> 01:57:19,280
and effectively used and it can't as long as we have children in crisis.

1834
01:57:20,160 --> 01:57:23,240
And the fear and the anxiety that I see in young children today

1835
01:57:23,240 --> 01:57:27,240
is more than alarming because they're who will take care of us now

1836
01:57:27,240 --> 01:57:30,400
in our old age. So I would like to

1837
01:57:30,880 --> 01:57:35,200
remind you, though, too, that we love our rural farming culture and community

1838
01:57:35,200 --> 01:57:41,000
So you're remembering the time if you could just online and save you two points to make.

1839
01:57:41,180 --> 01:57:45,560
This is the second one, is that we need to preserve our farming and our rural culture.

1840
01:57:46,200 --> 01:57:50,360
And immigrants are a great part of that and have been for more than a century.

1841
01:57:50,360 --> 01:57:52,300
We're working on two centuries of that now.

1842
01:57:52,980 --> 01:57:55,540
And we need to remember no farms, no food.

1843
01:57:56,900 --> 01:58:02,120
So no migrant farmers to help with the harvest and all of our farmers, no food.

1844
01:58:02,120 --> 01:58:07,080
And what does that do to our economy, and what does that do to our tax base, and what does

1845
01:58:07,080 --> 01:58:10,600
that do to the agri-terrism that we've grown over all these years?

1846
01:58:10,960 --> 01:58:11,420
Thank you.

1847
01:58:11,660 --> 01:58:12,260
Thank you.

1848
01:58:18,460 --> 01:58:26,700
Hi, I'm Pastor Pat Chuppey on the executive team of the United States Church Immigration

1849
01:58:26,700 --> 01:58:31,740
Task Force for the Conference for New York State, for the Conference for New York State

1850
01:58:31,740 --> 01:58:39,880
and a part of Connecticut and also a co-operative parish that I happen to be in covers part of New York.

1851
01:58:40,460 --> 01:58:50,780
I just wanted to state that this isn't just a problem for Hispanic people or it affects everyone.

1852
01:58:50,940 --> 01:58:58,800
My daughter happens to be married to someone who's Hispanic and because of that she is very afraid.

1853
01:58:58,800 --> 01:59:15,260
He is very afraid to go out, they don't live in Riverhead, but the fact that they fear that they could get picked up when I asked them for their birthday last year, what they wanted for their birthday present, they told me they wanted passport cards.

1854
01:59:15,260 --> 01:59:19,700
I never in my life thought that's what my daughter would ask me for for her birthday.

1855
01:59:20,260 --> 01:59:23,380
But even then they were afraid to go out because they started seeing people getting picked

1856
01:59:23,380 --> 01:59:29,620
up because they wouldn't take the time to let the people take the cards.

1857
01:59:29,860 --> 01:59:35,800
My grandchildren, they're afraid that their stepfather's gonna not be there when they've

1858
01:59:35,800 --> 01:59:42,920
already lost their father because he has 100% disability from the Iraq war and he has a psychiatric

1859
01:59:42,920 --> 01:59:48,680
disability, and he left, so they're afraid they're going to lose another father because of it.

1860
01:59:49,760 --> 01:59:55,500
So it has a way of affecting a lot of people that have nothing to do with that.

1861
01:59:55,500 --> 01:59:59,580
And so it's important that everyone is

1862
02:00:00,080 --> 02:00:29,680
Reassured that everything is being done, that can be done for the protection of everyone, for myself, even now with these new electric shock gloves that are coming out. I'm concerned because I have a condition where, if I were to be electrically shocked, it would be devastating for me and could stop my heart. I have a monitor and stop in. And I, this morning,

1863
02:00:29,680 --> 02:00:34,760
was in her head and they happened to have been right in on Malene Street, right in the

1864
02:00:34,760 --> 02:00:42,840
heart of B.J.'s and DMV and Derri Land and the bowling alley. I mean, if something had

1865
02:00:42,840 --> 02:00:48,480
gone wrong, there's any number of people that could have just innocently been in the middle

1866
02:00:48,480 --> 02:00:55,460
of all that. And that's where the problem comes in. And you never know when that's going

1867
02:00:55,460 --> 02:00:59,480
And when that's going to happen, they then went to East Quad where they arrested someone

1868
02:00:59,480 --> 02:01:00,800
not too far from my house.

1869
02:01:01,950 --> 02:01:06,860
The one last quick thing I wanted to note, I know Ms. Maryfield, you said that no one

1870
02:01:06,860 --> 02:01:15,140
ever stands up and says anything about those that were killed by people who were here

1871
02:01:15,140 --> 02:01:18,120
undocumented, and that's actually wrong.

1872
02:01:18,360 --> 02:01:25,300
We held that long ago, a month ago maybe, let me just finish this, a vigil for unity

1873
02:01:25,300 --> 02:01:34,280
for the entire community right here in front of Town Hall, this poster right here, had pictures of

1874
02:01:35,640 --> 02:01:42,580
people that were killed by them, and there's your picture standing up that you said never was

1875
02:01:42,580 --> 02:01:47,600
held up. It was sitting right in front of Town Hall. Everyone was invited. It was well publicized.

1876
02:01:48,020 --> 02:01:53,760
There were prayers said for everybody. It was for everybody, military, police, people like from

1877
02:01:53,760 --> 02:02:01,200
the Gilgobiche and everybody else, as well as ICE people killed by ICE who knew too many.

1878
02:02:01,820 --> 02:02:07,780
And I just wanted to say that the only ones that showed up were the people that show

1879
02:02:07,780 --> 02:02:14,800
up for the candlelight visuals for those killed by ICE agents, and that's these people in the

1880
02:02:14,800 --> 02:02:15,080
room.

1881
02:02:15,080 --> 02:02:23,460
And so no one showed up for the visual, the people that we supposedly cared about.

1882
02:02:31,200 --> 02:02:36,300
Hello, my name is Silvina Silvivega, I have a resident of Riverhead, Wade and River.

1883
02:02:37,880 --> 02:02:39,900
Brian, new American citizen.

1884
02:02:40,980 --> 02:02:41,220
You will.

1885
02:02:45,230 --> 02:02:53,890
Up to a week ago, I was terrified to come to Riverhead because I didn't feel that my time

1886
02:02:54,790 --> 02:03:02,410
officials were protecting me. I was doing my passport, so when you do your passport,

1887
02:03:03,110 --> 02:03:08,610
you run your American passport, you have to send your certificate, your citizen

1888
02:03:08,610 --> 02:03:25,280
certificate. So basically I have no documentation that I was a citizen, so I was

1889
02:03:25,280 --> 02:03:34,560
a degree in Argentina. I have my own business here. I have my own home here and I speak the language

1890
02:03:35,520 --> 02:03:36,600
and I am terrified.

1891
02:03:39,580 --> 02:03:40,460
Thank you.

1892
02:03:51,180 --> 02:03:58,420
Hi, Ethel Sussman from South Jamesport. I don't get up here very often

1893
02:03:59,240 --> 02:04:05,940
but it seems to me that this is really a turning point. The turning point in the country,

1894
02:04:05,940 --> 02:04:14,660
It's a turning point for Riverhead and we have to figure out what we're all about in

1895
02:04:14,660 --> 02:04:17,740
this town as well as in the country.

1896
02:04:20,100 --> 02:04:30,380
I hear in great support of the OLA legislation, I won't go into all the reasons why people

1897
02:04:30,380 --> 02:04:38,860
much more eloquent than I have given more than enough reasons, but it's shocking to

1898
02:04:38,860 --> 02:04:45,940
me that this town, this town board and this town and the committees that are supposed

1899
02:04:45,940 --> 02:04:51,680
to be dealing with these issues, are not even talking about it.

1900
02:04:52,560 --> 02:04:56,080
And it's your responsibility to talk about it.

1901
02:04:56,080 --> 02:04:59,520
And this is one of the most important issues on our time.

1902
02:05:00,540 --> 02:05:07,380
And I urge you to step up and deal with it.

1903
02:05:07,800 --> 02:05:08,800
We need you.

1904
02:05:09,040 --> 02:05:16,440
This is your responsibility, and we need you on behalf of everyone who lives in Riverhead,

1905
02:05:16,760 --> 02:05:22,300
who works in Riverhead, who comes to Riverhead, who drives through Riverhead on the way to

1906
02:05:22,300 --> 02:05:29,360
somewhere else, we need you to discuss this. Other towns have done it. River

1907
02:05:29,360 --> 02:05:31,240
Kent can do it too. Please.

1908
02:05:34,860 --> 02:05:38,400
So Warren, Warren, I'm gonna ask, I know this is

1909
02:05:38,400 --> 02:05:42,840
like a rerun, but there's three people that have to work it online. So, yeah,

1910
02:05:43,100 --> 02:05:51,980
they're online. Thanks, Warren. I promise, I'll let you know. I promise. I'm not

1911
02:05:51,980 --> 02:05:52,920
I'm not going to forget about it.

1912
02:05:53,440 --> 02:05:54,200
You got it.

1913
02:05:54,520 --> 02:05:55,060
You got it, what?

1914
02:05:55,880 --> 02:05:56,220
Promise.

1915
02:05:58,900 --> 02:05:59,980
Mr. Wong, can you hear us?

1916
02:06:00,940 --> 02:06:01,500
I can hear you.

1917
02:06:01,780 --> 02:06:01,940
OK.

1918
02:06:02,380 --> 02:06:02,920
Desmond Wong.

1919
02:06:03,840 --> 02:06:05,240
Desmond Wong Reads Park.

1920
02:06:06,160 --> 02:06:09,640
So my August 14 letter is in tonight's packet.

1921
02:06:09,900 --> 02:06:13,560
It concerns the towns and police departments,

1922
02:06:14,000 --> 02:06:17,000
immigration policies, and how they interact

1923
02:06:17,000 --> 02:06:19,520
with federal immigration operations.

1924
02:06:19,520 --> 02:06:32,080
My July records requests on that subject produced two different versions of policy 414, but the records did not identify which was current.

1925
02:06:32,940 --> 02:06:45,160
So this afternoon Chief Frost replied to my email and clarified that the August 3 version it is current and the other was in effect when I filed on July 13.

1926
02:06:45,160 --> 02:06:48,780
So I'd like to thank Chief Frost for that prompt answer.

1927
02:06:49,900 --> 02:06:52,840
So members of the board, three questions remain

1928
02:06:52,840 --> 02:06:55,100
for the responsible town officials.

1929
02:06:55,680 --> 02:06:58,880
I understand that Mr. Howard is absent tonight.

1930
02:06:59,520 --> 02:07:02,220
So if anyone from the town attorney's office

1931
02:07:02,800 --> 02:07:06,960
or another responsible official can answer any of these,

1932
02:07:07,340 --> 02:07:08,460
I'd welcome that.

1933
02:07:09,420 --> 02:07:11,740
Otherwise, please identify who will respond

1934
02:07:11,740 --> 02:07:19,800
and I'll pause after each. So first, who? First and foremost, the Anne-Marie

1935
02:07:19,800 --> 02:07:27,080
Prananti Deputy Town Attorney. Second, this is a public comment. You can ask

1936
02:07:27,080 --> 02:07:32,440
any questions you like. You're not necessarily going to get an answer,

1937
02:07:32,740 --> 02:07:39,280
particularly if they're legal questions. I'm not going to respond to a legal

1938
02:07:39,280 --> 02:07:47,280
question without, quote, doing my research and due diligence. So please present.

1939
02:07:48,180 --> 02:07:53,660
I understand. Just repeating it for the record. And if you are able to answer it, I would

1940
02:07:53,660 --> 02:08:00,400
appreciate that. So first, who approved the current policy of 014? When did it take

1941
02:08:00,400 --> 02:08:06,900
effect? And when will the town post it on the police department page where another policy

1942
02:08:06,900 --> 02:08:12,940
It is already posted. It's the use of force policy. It's on the police department page.

1943
02:08:17,410 --> 02:08:22,350
I don't have any answer for you. You're certainly entitled to submit a Freedom of Information

1944
02:08:22,350 --> 02:08:31,810
request. That form is available online. I did submit the FOILA request and that was how I

1945
02:08:31,810 --> 02:08:36,870
received the policy form and form, which I'm asking about. So this is just a follow-up question

1946
02:08:36,870 --> 02:08:45,090
on that document. But I'll go on to my second question, which is policy 414 bars holding

1947
02:08:45,090 --> 02:08:51,810
an arrestee solely on an ICE request or administrative warrant. But another section of the same policy

1948
02:08:51,810 --> 02:08:58,030
treats them a removal order or a federal crime criminal charge as an exception. So if the

1949
02:08:58,030 --> 02:09:03,350
person would otherwise be released, can a removal order alone let Riverhead keep holding them

1950
02:09:03,350 --> 02:09:12,810
or transfer them to ICE. Same question for a federal criminal charge. If either answer is yes and under what legal authority?

1951
02:09:13,670 --> 02:09:21,130
So Mr. Wong, your three minutes are up with those three questions that you had?

1952
02:09:22,440 --> 02:09:30,620
Well, I'll say my, just say my third question just for the record, so state law requires

1953
02:09:30,620 --> 02:09:36,060
the town to have a procedure for relevant employees, when immigration officers present

1954
02:09:36,060 --> 02:09:41,260
a judicial warrant or court order for access to non-public areas of town property.

1955
02:09:41,860 --> 02:09:47,840
And so what is, represents procedure and who verifies the paperwork, who is the designated

1956
02:09:49,040 --> 02:09:55,340
So your time has expired. Thank you for your comments and questions.

1957
02:09:56,200 --> 02:10:16,220
Well, these three questions are in detail in my letter, so I would still appreciate detailed written responses to the request in my letter by August 28 after your the town attorney's office has done their due research. Thank you.

1958
02:10:21,790 --> 02:10:22,830
Two more actions.

1959
02:10:31,290 --> 02:10:31,870
Hello.

1960
02:10:39,560 --> 02:10:40,140
Can you hear me?

1961
02:10:40,420 --> 02:10:41,460
Yes, can you hear us?

1962
02:10:42,360 --> 02:10:42,660
Yes.

1963
02:10:43,320 --> 02:10:43,900
Hi.

1964
02:10:44,340 --> 02:10:45,860
My name is Ella Angel-Snow.

1965
02:10:46,840 --> 02:10:50,880
I'm also here to voice my support for Ola's proposed Easter.

1966
02:10:52,420 --> 02:10:55,460
If you could just please say your hamlet, where do you live?

1967
02:10:56,260 --> 02:10:56,480
Yes.

1968
02:10:56,680 --> 02:10:57,940
I reside in Sagafronic.

1969
02:10:59,120 --> 02:11:04,860
As others have mentioned, Riverhead is a place where many people

1970
02:11:04,860 --> 02:11:12,900
probably everyone on the East End has to go. It's where the DMV is, the Social Security Administration, Tanger outlets.

1971
02:11:14,180 --> 02:11:21,840
Also, I'm a community organizer and I work with kids and so my work often reaches across Hamlets.

1972
02:11:25,180 --> 02:11:34,480
I also think that we need to work together across the East End and I feel that every town should have already adopted this wall.

1973
02:11:34,480 --> 02:11:41,500
It seems like it's a little brainer, it asks for the most basic protection and safety for

1974
02:11:41,500 --> 02:11:49,460
all of the people of Riverhead and of the East End, and it's hard to understand why it

1975
02:11:49,460 --> 02:11:54,700
hasn't very swiftly been passed across the East End of Long Island.

1976
02:11:56,240 --> 02:12:02,720
As someone mentioned, the gloves that ICE is planning on using soon, I just want to quote

1977
02:12:02,720 --> 02:12:10,260
an NPR article, immigration and customs enforcement is planning to give its officers high-tech

1978
02:12:10,260 --> 02:12:17,420
loves that deliver electric shocks to people they're trying to detain, according to plans

1979
02:12:17,420 --> 02:12:20,900
posted by the Department of Homeland Security this week.

1980
02:12:21,620 --> 02:12:27,380
The agency could spend as much as $20 million on the gloves made by compliant technologies.

1981
02:12:27,380 --> 02:12:35,620
So I personally find this horrifying, and I hope that you all also find it horrifying.

1982
02:12:36,880 --> 02:12:39,880
And I'm just sharing it to shed some light.

1983
02:12:40,440 --> 02:12:50,560
You may already know, but just on how ice is operating, we know that people across the

1984
02:12:50,560 --> 02:12:57,220
country and right here in Riverhead and across Eastern Long Island are terrified as rogue

1985
02:12:57,220 --> 02:13:03,780
ICE agents continue acting with extreme violence and creating chaos and acting outside

1986
02:13:03,780 --> 02:13:06,400
of their constitutionally granted authority.

1987
02:13:07,740 --> 02:13:14,600
The East End Public Safety and Accountability Law doesn't in any way undermine any agency's

1988
02:13:14,600 --> 02:13:20,060
ability to do their job in accordance with their constitutionally granted authority.

1989
02:13:20,360 --> 02:13:26,600
It's about protecting public safety and it outlines clear systems of accountability so

1990
02:13:26,600 --> 02:13:28,980
that people's basic human rights are protected.

1991
02:13:29,680 --> 02:13:35,560
The law recognizes that keeping residents safe is one of the town's primary responsibilities,

1992
02:13:36,260 --> 02:13:40,700
meaning that it's your job as elected officials to take on these responsibilities.

1993
02:13:41,700 --> 02:14:00,200
It's almost, it's also out all of our responsibilities on the East and Community members to be proactive in our commitment to accountability and transparency, while resisting participation in what will be remembered as grave human rights violations.

1994
02:14:01,200 --> 02:14:06,920
The East End Public Safety and Accountability Law is designed to protect our entire community

1995
02:14:07,380 --> 02:14:12,380
because we are all impacted by the chaos that has created the ruptures and public safety

1996
02:14:12,380 --> 02:14:15,260
caused by random forwardless ice rates.

1997
02:14:15,540 --> 02:14:16,460
Thank you for your comments.

1998
02:14:22,820 --> 02:14:23,720
I believe we have one more.

1999
02:14:24,700 --> 02:14:27,240
I want to thank everyone for their comments tonight.

2000
02:14:34,930 --> 02:14:36,030
Mr. Harry, can you hear us?

2001
02:14:41,760 --> 02:14:44,320
Mr. Harry, can you hear us?

2002
02:14:44,320 --> 02:14:48,020
Good evening, Ron Hereary of Aquabog.

2003
02:14:49,090 --> 02:14:55,020
After the friars had fiasco made the New York Post,

2004
02:14:56,160 --> 02:14:59,960
and our taxpayers were blindsided by the...

2005
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:29,600
The multi-million-dollar screw-up by the town assessor's office, Ms. Wasky actually stood up on his board and praised the assessor's office. I filed a Freedom Information Act request, seeking information regarding the town's expenditures of legal fees. And in addition to the millions of dollars of judgments and settlements.

2006
02:15:29,600 --> 02:15:36,120
tax payers in the poorest town or one of the poorest towns and most tax town on

2007
02:15:36,500 --> 02:15:41,660
all of Long Island have had to suffer through. According to the records that I've

2008
02:15:41,660 --> 02:15:47,180
obtained from the town just this afternoon, almost a million dollars.

2009
02:15:57,020 --> 02:15:57,700
That's

2010
02:15:57,700 --> 02:16:10,860
2020, a taxpayer and citizen previously asked the town attorney and incidentally of the

2011
02:16:10,860 --> 02:16:18,760
almost million dollars spent just in 2020, almost a quarter of a million dollars was spent

2012
02:16:18,760 --> 02:16:25,640
in connection with the United Terminals litigation.

2013
02:16:25,640 --> 02:16:41,720
The town attorney, the former supervisor's son-in-law, refused to provide information regarding the terms of that settlement with United Terminal.

2014
02:16:41,720 --> 02:16:54,440
So, Council, can you advise us today recognizing your duty as Council of fourth-rightness and honesty

2015
02:16:54,440 --> 02:17:00,340
what the amount of that settlement with United Terminals was?

2016
02:17:01,360 --> 02:17:06,120
I cannot provide that information. I don't know that information.

2017
02:17:07,180 --> 02:17:13,300
Okay, can any member of the board that voted on a resolution approving that settlement

2018
02:17:14,120 --> 02:17:21,700
advise us today what the amount of that settlement is considering again, and I know there's

2019
02:17:21,700 --> 02:17:28,360
another member of the bar on that day is tonight, recognizing your duty of honesty, integrity

2020
02:17:28,360 --> 02:17:34,680
and fourth-rightness to the taxpayers of your town, what that settlement was,

2021
02:17:40,440 --> 02:17:41,220
is there

2022
02:17:41,220 --> 02:17:42,060
I have to say?

2023
02:17:42,160 --> 02:17:43,940
You know, we have a very, that's it.

2024
02:17:44,410 --> 02:17:44,880
It's not.

2025
02:17:46,200 --> 02:17:53,410
Mr. Herr, I'm going to advise the town board not to respond.

2026
02:17:54,720 --> 02:18:04,410
As a deputy town attorney, I have to do my research, making certain that there was a settlement

2027
02:18:04,410 --> 02:18:10,750
and the settlement is fully recorded before any town board member speaks on the matter.

2028
02:18:11,370 --> 02:18:17,750
Yes, like a good defense lawyer representing a potential criminal, you're advising your

2029
02:18:17,750 --> 02:18:20,210
clients to take the fifth and I appreciate that.

2030
02:18:20,470 --> 02:18:22,990
No, I'm not advised to take the fifth.

2031
02:18:23,030 --> 02:18:31,650
That being said, Mr. Rothwell, I know you've expressed your concern to my better half about

2032
02:18:31,650 --> 02:18:38,850
the increasingly precarious set of financial circumstances this time may end, maybe

2033
02:18:38,850 --> 02:18:43,550
in, and I appreciate your concern and I appreciate your dedication to try to

2034
02:18:43,550 --> 02:18:50,790
protect our community. I would ask that you and your assistance take all

2035
02:18:50,790 --> 02:18:58,110
necessary steps to make sure that our taxpayers do not continue to pay for the

2036
02:18:58,110 --> 02:19:08,450
mistakes of our clearly incompetent town assessor's office, enough is enough and the town

2037
02:19:08,450 --> 02:19:14,990
should not be embarrassed by making the New York Post again in another scandalous tax

2038
02:19:14,990 --> 02:19:15,790
increase.

2039
02:19:16,430 --> 02:19:17,710
Thank you very much.

2040
02:19:17,710 --> 02:19:18,590
So

2041
02:19:23,450 --> 02:19:25,990
I believe it weren't, it is your turn.

2042
02:19:30,530 --> 02:19:37,250
Any case, I'm here to help the town board and all of us with some positive information here.

2043
02:19:37,770 --> 02:19:38,970
Warren, just bring the mic.

2044
02:19:38,990 --> 02:19:40,130
A positive information.

2045
02:19:40,390 --> 02:19:41,310
People at home want to hear you.

2046
02:19:41,610 --> 02:19:42,910
A positive information.

2047
02:19:44,550 --> 02:19:48,770
You all took vows a constitution, and I love that.

2048
02:19:49,130 --> 02:19:52,630
My Bible, the Constitution, and the dictionary, and my God's in life.

2049
02:19:52,630 --> 02:20:04,230
In any case, I refer to Article 1, Section 9 of our Constitution, which is the suspension

2050
02:20:04,590 --> 02:20:06,050
of habeas corpus.

2051
02:20:07,730 --> 02:20:16,450
And what's going on in this country over the centuries, since the alien sedation acts

2052
02:20:16,450 --> 02:20:24,930
of 1798, there's been, you know, there's been the fact of suspension of habeas corpus.

2053
02:20:26,010 --> 02:20:30,790
And I'd like to give you all the progress over the time that has come.

2054
02:20:31,370 --> 02:20:41,710
Of course, 1798 did it, but in 1814 to 1815, the Battle of New Orleans, General Jackson

2055
02:20:41,710 --> 02:20:51,830
and it suspended it, and he went off the people, but the US Supreme Court found him guilty

2056
02:20:51,830 --> 02:20:54,950
and contempt of court for doing this and fined him.

2057
02:20:58,690 --> 02:21:07,610
World War I, SB Nides Sedition Acts, 1917, 1918, anybody was German, was a hot problem.

2058
02:21:08,170 --> 02:21:08,390
Okay.

2059
02:21:08,390 --> 02:21:15,550
The first red scare, Palmer Raids, 1919-1920, and now the biggest one here, you know,

2060
02:21:15,810 --> 02:21:22,710
when Pearl Habahab, old Japanese people on the island were held in detention from 1942

2061
02:21:22,710 --> 02:21:36,610
to 1944, and of course, 120,000 Japanese people were held in a determined and out west, you

2062
02:21:36,610 --> 02:21:45,970
Global Terrible at Guantanamo Bay, we had people from Pakistan, you name it, Afghanistan

2063
02:21:46,710 --> 02:21:54,930
that wound up in Cuba, you know, because they never had constitutional, you know, representation.

2064
02:21:56,170 --> 02:22:06,070
Now one of my best ones here is constitutional, in the case of Burmard vs. Bush 2008.

2065
02:22:06,070 --> 02:22:15,850
They said that constitutional habeas corpus, listen to this, extends to foreign detainees held in U.S.

2066
02:22:16,490 --> 02:22:24,850
territories. So everybody has a right, every little world, and the second thing is, as you know,

2067
02:22:25,030 --> 02:22:29,030
as a preacher, children are not a gift from God. It's what it says in a Bible, right?

2068
02:22:31,450 --> 02:22:33,390
And I have a

2069
02:22:33,390 --> 02:22:37,970
wanting to myself and everybody here, that the foundation

2070
02:22:37,970 --> 02:22:43,230
of our country. Mr. McKnight, I'm just going to ask you to

2071
02:22:43,230 --> 02:22:47,370
sum up. Okay, I'm going to sum up very definitely. The, the

2072
02:22:49,440 --> 02:22:54,000
ISIS, the secret police, Chinese have secret police,

2073
02:22:54,300 --> 02:22:57,520
Russians have secret police, North Korea has secret police.

2074
02:23:04,160 --> 02:23:04,720
We

2075
02:23:05,660 --> 02:23:07,480
Thank you for your comments.

2076
02:23:20,550 --> 02:23:24,050
John McAuliffe, Frono, Glanding in Riverhead.

2077
02:23:25,420 --> 02:23:33,730
This has been quite a civic education day and it emphasizes why I think we really need

2078
02:23:33,730 --> 02:23:40,410
a different kind of forum to go to all of the issues of immigration and race that have

2079
02:23:40,410 --> 02:23:42,390
bubbled up in the last six months.

2080
02:23:42,390 --> 02:23:49,990
I do want to note that I sent already three letters and I'm not going to repeat them,

2081
02:23:50,390 --> 02:23:57,410
but people will see it in the next agenda or they can look at the New York Times on Saturday.

2082
02:23:58,570 --> 02:24:08,830
And you will be able to be reminded of the legislation in 1924, which specifically was

2083
02:24:08,830 --> 02:24:16,970
targeting polls and detallions and Russians to keep them out of the United States. That's

2084
02:24:16,970 --> 02:24:24,790
when we really got immigration laws that we're now seeing the effects of. So I think everybody

2085
02:24:24,790 --> 02:24:30,350
has to recognize where we've come from and how we were able to be here and other people

2086
02:24:30,350 --> 02:24:35,530
are coming for exactly the same reasons that our ancestors came for. The other thing I want

2087
02:24:35,530 --> 02:24:43,310
What I want to say is it goes to, first I would repeat I found it a little bizarre that

2088
02:24:43,310 --> 02:24:51,210
we can't get the numbers of how much was involved in the legal settlement that we're all

2089
02:24:51,210 --> 02:24:54,070
going to have to pay for and exactly what it covers.

2090
02:24:54,310 --> 02:25:01,850
I mean that ought to have been in the first piece of paper not hidden behind some kind of

2091
02:25:01,850 --> 02:25:05,030
legal process that is not explained.

2092
02:25:05,030 --> 02:25:11,570
It's like when we, these kinds, this kind of data ought to be presented to people from the get-go.

2093
02:25:12,350 --> 02:25:17,490
The other thing, and I was a little disturbed when Mr. Rothwell was speaking about it.

2094
02:25:17,850 --> 02:25:24,630
First of all, the tone of his remarks were really the content of a supervisor's remarks,

2095
02:25:24,630 --> 02:25:30,630
not a council member's remarks, but they were spinning. They also didn't give us any information.

2096
02:25:31,450 --> 02:25:37,350
So, I hope that the supervisor will be able to get us all of that information, if not

2097
02:25:37,350 --> 02:25:42,250
now, than before the week is over, because it ought to be in his hands.

2098
02:25:42,910 --> 02:25:47,590
The last thing I want to talk about is the summer wind farm story that was just in the

2099
02:25:47,590 --> 02:25:47,910
local.

2100
02:25:49,370 --> 02:25:55,370
I don't, we are so lucky to have the local as part of our community.

2101
02:25:55,370 --> 02:26:03,070
The summer wind farms story, the owner of that property is a person named Vincent Calvosa,

2102
02:26:03,310 --> 02:26:10,450
who is from Holbrooke. Does anybody on the board know him? Has anyone on the board

2103
02:26:10,450 --> 02:26:15,510
or any political party in Riverhead received any campaign donations from him?

2104
02:26:16,110 --> 02:26:24,230
I would like that question answered hopefully no, because it, and then what will his punishment be?

2105
02:26:24,230 --> 02:26:28,070
Is he going to be forced to replant that area?

2106
02:26:28,610 --> 02:26:34,670
Is he going to just be thrown out of the town because he's obviously been totally dishonest

2107
02:26:34,670 --> 02:26:35,210
with us?

2108
02:26:35,770 --> 02:26:37,450
Or do we just sort of roll over?

2109
02:26:37,850 --> 02:26:46,590
I'm glad that you guys did the order to stop him, but what is going to happen to him

2110
02:26:46,590 --> 02:26:49,930
that discourages the next person from doing it?

2111
02:26:49,930 --> 02:26:57,850
When I drive on Sound Avenue, I see these large plots of land that are for sale, 60 acres,

2112
02:26:58,170 --> 02:27:06,290
70 acres living near the Boy Scout camp, I hope that that land is protected, but I think

2113
02:27:06,290 --> 02:27:13,330
there's lots of other pieces of land that are clearly about to be swallowed up and be

2114
02:27:13,330 --> 02:27:22,130
used for commercial purposes and so I would just finally wanted to say about Mr. Masood

2115
02:27:22,130 --> 02:27:31,770
I was at his, yeah I will just finish. I just want to note that I was at his vineyard

2116
02:27:32,090 --> 02:27:44,140
or his store a few days ago when he did a very nice benefit for the, I'm forthflinging

2117
02:27:44,140 --> 02:27:50,860
on the name of the project for girls, the butterfly project,

2118
02:27:51,040 --> 02:27:52,100
butterfly project.

2119
02:27:52,200 --> 02:27:52,540
Thank you.

2120
02:27:52,940 --> 02:27:55,100
He did a fundraising event for him,

2121
02:27:55,100 --> 02:27:59,560
and I think I take very seriously his concerns that he brought to us.

2122
02:28:00,100 --> 02:28:00,760
Thank you very much.

2123
02:28:00,760 --> 02:28:00,960
Thank you.

2124
02:28:08,180 --> 02:28:11,320
Oh, and Tucker, from Riverhead, I have one additional question,

2125
02:28:11,480 --> 02:28:14,020
and this question will be very familiar to all of you.

2126
02:28:14,460 --> 02:28:17,260
So I think we will be able to knock this out real quick.

2127
02:28:18,860 --> 02:28:24,440
Do you intend to abide by your oath to the U.S. Constitution and represent all residents

2128
02:28:24,440 --> 02:28:30,500
within the town's geographic boundaries, regardless of their citizenship or legal immigration status?

2129
02:28:31,500 --> 02:28:38,420
And I would request that each of you individually respond and Ms. Prudenti, I realize I am outside

2130
02:28:38,420 --> 02:28:39,280
the rules of order.

2131
02:28:39,660 --> 02:28:40,020
You are.

2132
02:28:40,160 --> 02:28:46,180
But I think this is a very important question that the town board has been avoiding answering.

2133
02:28:47,500 --> 02:28:54,460
This is public comment. We have rules and procedures which fully explain this public comment.

2134
02:28:54,460 --> 02:29:08,140
I understand. Do you intend to abide by your oath to the US Constitution and represent all residents within the town's geographic boundaries regardless of their citizenship or legal immigration status?

2135
02:29:12,120 --> 02:29:20,400
Do you intend to abide by your own US Constitution and represent all residents within the town's

2136
02:29:20,400 --> 02:29:25,660
geographic boundaries, regardless of their citizenship or legal immigration status?

2137
02:29:26,140 --> 02:29:27,920
Thank you for your comment and question.

2138
02:29:28,740 --> 02:29:34,260
No, actually under the rules, under the rules, you have three minutes.

2139
02:29:34,260 --> 02:29:39,920
I'm operating inside the rules, I am knowing we are hearing for a second time.

2140
02:29:40,280 --> 02:29:40,380
Yes.

2141
02:29:43,900 --> 02:29:52,100
We heard should comment and not be pulling teeth to get our elected town board to say that they will abide by their own

2142
02:29:52,100 --> 02:29:52,580
to the right.

2143
02:29:53,200 --> 02:29:54,460
This is a mistake.

2144
02:29:55,280 --> 02:29:56,220
This is a mistake.

2145
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:31,180
Thank you. I have a minute and seven seconds. No, you've already gone over to abide by your oath to the U.S. Constitution and represent all residents within the town's geographic boundaries regardless of their citizenship or legal immigration status. I request that each of you individually answer that question. Yes or no? Yes or no? I'm going to ask that you

2146
02:30:31,180 --> 02:30:33,020
yield the floor to the next.

2147
02:30:33,100 --> 02:30:34,960
I will in 35 seconds.

2148
02:30:35,400 --> 02:30:39,180
Do you intend to abide by your oath to the US Constitution

2149
02:30:39,720 --> 02:30:42,740
and represent all residents within the town's geographic

2150
02:30:42,740 --> 02:30:46,020
boundaries, regardless of their citizenship

2151
02:30:46,020 --> 02:30:47,840
or legal immigration status?

2152
02:30:55,870 --> 02:30:59,330
I'm going to say something now because,

2153
02:30:59,830 --> 02:31:02,290
and excuse me a second, I'm going to say something.

2154
02:31:03,010 --> 02:31:07,270
That's what we do every day of the week, seven days a week.

2155
02:31:07,270 --> 02:31:12,870
Is we address what is going on in this town? That's all I'm going to tell you day and night

2156
02:31:12,870 --> 02:31:13,730
Period

2157
02:31:14,330 --> 02:31:17,470
What do you think we do live in the basement and just show up here?

2158
02:31:17,910 --> 02:31:19,810
I would like on that

2159
02:31:23,450 --> 02:31:28,890
Ladies and gentlemen, if you're if you're in the audience, we ask that you do not yell out. This is our

2160
02:31:30,710 --> 02:31:32,570
Again, we're just asking that you

2161
02:31:33,990 --> 02:31:37,010
Thank you for if you'd like to comment you

2162
02:31:37,270 --> 02:31:41,130
have been given a second opportunity, you are welcome to come up and do that.

2163
02:31:41,350 --> 02:31:41,630
Thank you.

2164
02:31:41,650 --> 02:31:47,210
If we do have rules for our hard procedures, Ms. Prudente has gone over them.

2165
02:31:47,810 --> 02:31:49,430
We do ask that during comment period.

2166
02:31:50,090 --> 02:31:53,190
And so I would ask that everybody do that, and there is no reason for us.

2167
02:31:53,690 --> 02:31:54,950
This has been a great meeting.

2168
02:31:55,070 --> 02:32:00,250
We've had a great amount of comments, but appreciate those.

2169
02:32:01,870 --> 02:32:07,530
then once again I would ask that we all continue to understand where we are so

2170
02:32:07,530 --> 02:32:12,850
thank you. I also am at way waiting River again so Mr. Kern you said that you

2171
02:32:12,850 --> 02:32:16,450
are aware of what's going on in our town and that you do it seven days a week.

2172
02:32:17,450 --> 02:32:20,490
Do you know how many ice sightings there have been in Riverhead since the

2173
02:32:20,490 --> 02:32:22,690
beginning of January?

2174
02:32:24,730 --> 02:32:30,190
I know I'm not a town council member I am

2175
02:32:30,190 --> 02:32:35,190
I'm a taxpayer, I am a random citizen, and I know that there have been at least 21 ice

2176
02:32:35,190 --> 02:32:42,090
sightings in Riverhead since January of 2026. And I can tell you, on February 18th, there

2177
02:32:42,090 --> 02:32:50,470
were three. One on Arrowhead Avenue at 7am, one in Riverhead at 7.30am on Route 58.

2178
02:32:50,470 --> 02:33:02,090
1 on Lake Avenue at 10.22 a.m., 2.25, Flanders Road, 7.15 a.m., 8.00 a.m., Route 24, February 27th,

2179
02:33:02,110 --> 02:33:11,490
Harrison Avenue, 7.15 a.m., Pulaski Street, 7.45 a.m., Court Street, 8.00 a.m., Osborne Avenue,

2180
02:33:11,490 --> 02:33:23,090
815 AM. Now we get to May. Doctors pass 9 AM. May 13. May 18, Oakland Drive North 6 AM.

2181
02:33:23,690 --> 02:33:35,350
630 AM also Oakland Drive North. Oakland Drive South May 25th at 9 AM. Landers Oak Avenue 526-445 PM.

2182
02:33:35,350 --> 02:33:44,450
Osborne Avenue, 7.15 a.m. Riverhead, June 17th, Oak Avenue, 6.15 a.m. in Flanders.

2183
02:33:44,970 --> 02:33:52,910
7.2, Riverhead, Osborne Avenue, 7.am, 7.10, Riverhead, 7.am. Northville Turnpike,

2184
02:33:53,650 --> 02:34:01,170
7.16, Flanders, 9.15 a.m. Priscilla Avenue, July 30th, 7.30 p.m. Oak Avenue,

2185
02:34:01,170 --> 02:34:09,850
August 2, 7.45 a.m. Silver Brook Drive and today, Malene Avenue Riverhead 6.45 a.m.

2186
02:34:10,250 --> 02:34:16,450
There's no reason why I should know this information and you all shouldn't know this information.

2187
02:34:16,910 --> 02:34:22,890
And you would, if you would support and meet with us, we have been asking to meet with you.

2188
02:34:23,270 --> 02:34:27,990
We want to have a place where we can ask questions, where we can have it back and forth.

2189
02:34:27,990 --> 02:34:33,850
Instead of us coming here and getting stonewalled that we're out of order, that this is public

2190
02:34:33,850 --> 02:34:35,830
comments, we understand that, we're desperate.

2191
02:34:36,270 --> 02:34:38,150
We want a question and answer.

2192
02:34:38,250 --> 02:34:43,370
We want you guys to support people like the woman I described when I first stepped up

2193
02:34:43,370 --> 02:34:49,010
here, because she is afraid, and her eight-year-old son is afraid, and her four-year-old daughter

2194
02:34:49,010 --> 02:34:49,650
is afraid.

2195
02:34:50,210 --> 02:34:54,210
Everybody is afraid, but you all sit up there and don't answer our questions.

2196
02:34:54,210 --> 02:34:56,670
I shouldn't know this information alone.

2197
02:34:57,130 --> 02:34:58,030
You all should know it.

2198
02:34:58,210 --> 02:35:00,630
I carry a whistle with me everywhere I go.

2199
02:35:01,270 --> 02:35:02,270
None of you do.

2200
02:35:03,150 --> 02:35:04,150
You all should be.

2201
02:35:04,950 --> 02:35:07,050
This is what you all need to do.

2202
02:35:07,150 --> 02:35:11,850
This is what we elect you to do, is to protect and to serve all members of the community.

2203
02:35:12,230 --> 02:35:16,670
You will keep your police force safe as well by supporting all our legislation.

2204
02:35:17,350 --> 02:35:18,330
So meet with us.

2205
02:35:18,490 --> 02:35:19,110
That's all we ask.

2206
02:35:19,430 --> 02:35:19,810
Thank you.

2207
02:35:19,810 --> 02:35:20,470
There

2208
02:35:26,680 --> 02:35:28,080
are two people online.

2209
02:35:36,420 --> 02:35:39,100
Hey, Desmond Wong, Reads Park.

2210
02:35:39,400 --> 02:35:42,040
Just wanted to follow up Ms. Prudentie.

2211
02:35:42,920 --> 02:35:48,160
You suggested that I FOIL or put in another FOIL request.

2212
02:35:49,120 --> 02:35:52,120
That was the FOIL request that I put in.

2213
02:35:52,400 --> 02:36:01,260
It was from July 7 after Councilman Rockwell and supervisor Halpin had suggested that I put

2214
02:36:01,260 --> 02:36:04,500
in a folder request to get more information about this.

2215
02:36:04,840 --> 02:36:12,400
And so from that, the folder requests I put in, I got the two policy documents, the policy

2216
02:36:12,400 --> 02:36:21,460
4014 and the newer version of it and as well as the email thread between Chief Frost and

2217
02:36:21,460 --> 02:36:21,720
ICE.

2218
02:36:22,660 --> 02:36:31,240
And so my questions earlier and the ones that I posed in the letter are just basic facts

2219
02:36:31,240 --> 02:36:39,440
about those documents. I don't think they require an additional flood request, which by the way,

2220
02:36:39,440 --> 02:36:44,780
those have since been closed and those are the only documents that I received. So,

2221
02:36:45,820 --> 02:36:54,780
Town Attorney Office or anyone on the board, if you could just confirm maybe after the sufficient

2222
02:36:54,780 --> 02:37:02,920
research that you will respond to the written three questions in my August 14th letter.

2223
02:37:03,620 --> 02:37:09,740
If you can confirm that those will be responded to in writing by August 28th.

2224
02:37:17,290 --> 02:37:25,870
I haven't reviewed them so I can't definitively state. I don't know if all of those questions

2225
02:37:25,870 --> 02:37:36,870
are appropriate for response, legal response from the office of 10 attorney, but we will certainly look at them.

2226
02:37:37,410 --> 02:37:41,590
Anything I wrote that they can be responded to?

2227
02:37:41,950 --> 02:37:42,870
I wrote them down.

2228
02:37:43,350 --> 02:37:48,010
You stated it was recited in your August 14th communication.

2229
02:37:48,850 --> 02:37:49,090
Correct?

2230
02:37:49,630 --> 02:37:49,810
Okay.

2231
02:37:50,230 --> 02:37:50,350
Great.

2232
02:37:50,750 --> 02:37:50,930
Yes.

2233
02:37:51,570 --> 02:37:52,190
Thank you, Mr. Wong.

2234
02:37:53,670 --> 02:37:54,730
Thank you.

2235
02:38:00,900 --> 02:38:04,280
And then we have one more online and then I believe we'll be wrapping up on the same

2236
02:38:04,280 --> 02:38:04,920
way else online.

2237
02:38:05,180 --> 02:38:06,520
So, on it?

2238
02:38:06,960 --> 02:38:10,820
Oh, on it, if you can wait a second, that would be great since they already got it cute

2239
02:38:10,820 --> 02:38:10,960
up.

2240
02:38:14,980 --> 02:38:15,580
Very well.

2241
02:38:15,740 --> 02:38:20,120
First of all, I have to say I find it, you know, particularly interesting from Councillor

2242
02:38:21,060 --> 02:38:24,900
Prudenti to exfouse on the importance of rules and protocol.

2243
02:38:25,560 --> 02:38:33,780
This is the same 10 attorney that actually had developers write legislation for her.

2244
02:38:34,760 --> 02:38:40,680
And I think all of you know that I rarely have anything positive to say about anyone on

2245
02:38:40,680 --> 02:38:41,520
this town board.

2246
02:38:42,180 --> 02:38:51,300
But I want to take a moment to express my appreciation to Councilman Rothwell, who in my view

2247
02:38:51,300 --> 02:39:00,720
He was displayed a certain level of appreciation for the community and leadership in indicating

2248
02:39:00,720 --> 02:39:10,700
his willingness to have a dialogue regarding these complex issues in immigration and public

2249
02:39:10,700 --> 02:39:13,400
safety in our town.

2250
02:39:14,040 --> 02:39:21,280
We are not sagaponic. We are not East Hampton. That being said, there are very legitimate

2251
02:39:21,280 --> 02:39:30,140
concerns. So I applaud you, Councilman. I applaud Councilman Kern, for at least suggesting

2252
02:39:30,140 --> 02:39:37,860
that you may open the door to having that dialogue. And if I, okay, you'll pull up on this

2253
02:39:37,860 --> 02:39:52,760
Spaniol, Kumis Visinos and Riverhead, if I can be of any assistance in creating that dialogue that has the potential to be beneficial to all of us and protect all of our citizens in our town.

2254
02:39:53,420 --> 02:39:55,760
Please count me in. Thank you again, Councilman.

2255
02:40:01,000 --> 02:40:06,400
I wasn't going to speak tonight, but I think I need to share with you some information

2256
02:40:06,400 --> 02:40:10,260
and encourage you to do some real deep thinking.

2257
02:40:10,960 --> 02:40:16,860
I have a lifelong friend who was a Border Patrol agent who was murdered down in Arizona

2258
02:40:16,860 --> 02:40:20,120
right on the border many years ago.

2259
02:40:21,680 --> 02:40:28,460
When not against ice, ice has a purpose, we need ice, but the ice agents in the past

2260
02:40:28,460 --> 02:40:30,300
had extensive training.

2261
02:40:31,100 --> 02:40:31,780
They don't now.

2262
02:40:32,740 --> 02:40:36,460
They are not following regular protocol.

2263
02:40:37,540 --> 02:40:42,620
They are given a gun and a quota, and when that happens, you have chaos.

2264
02:40:42,620 --> 02:40:50,780
us. Chaos makes a very dangerous situation for anyone in the nearby vicinity, whether

2265
02:40:50,780 --> 02:40:57,040
they're involved or stand by watching, walking on the street. I encourage you. I've

2266
02:40:57,040 --> 02:41:02,300
not read that old presentation. I do not know what's in it. But if there's anything

2267
02:41:02,300 --> 02:41:13,360
in there that could be useful to you to prepare and protect the residents and taxpayers

2268
02:41:13,360 --> 02:41:14,180
in this town.

2269
02:41:14,640 --> 02:41:20,580
I encourage you to read it, meet with them, discuss it, and enact whatever you feel

2270
02:41:20,580 --> 02:41:21,200
necessary.

2271
02:41:21,420 --> 02:41:26,460
But if there's anything in there that could help the safety of the police department that's

2272
02:41:26,460 --> 02:41:29,640
wrapped up in this unintentionally.

2273
02:41:29,640 --> 02:41:33,880
And the safety of ICE and the safety of the people that they're going after.

2274
02:41:34,320 --> 02:41:35,640
And what they're doing is wrong.

2275
02:41:36,120 --> 02:41:41,440
They're not following protocol detention without to process is a concentration camp.

2276
02:41:41,800 --> 02:41:42,520
Thank you.

2277
02:41:54,450 --> 02:42:01,370
So I do believe that as their last person, for comment, in those statements and so does any

2278
02:42:01,370 --> 02:42:02,890
council person want to make a statement?

2279
02:42:03,050 --> 02:42:03,270
I don't know.

2280
02:42:03,890 --> 02:42:04,550
I know.

2281
02:42:04,930 --> 02:42:05,590
I know.

2282
02:42:05,730 --> 02:42:07,550
We do have another meeting following this.

2283
02:42:07,550 --> 02:42:13,710
who will ask for a second in an adjournment to go into a CDA meeting and have those resolutions.

2284
02:42:14,390 --> 02:42:19,210
Before we close and ask for an adjournment, you know, if said multiple times that no

2285
02:42:19,210 --> 02:42:25,150
one has met, I did have Minerva the head of Ola in my office and did meet with her.

2286
02:42:25,450 --> 02:42:29,890
So that just wanted to make that fact known that that has been there and for that.

2287
02:42:30,050 --> 02:42:32,010
So with that, I have a motion to close our meeting.

2288
02:42:32,010 --> 02:42:34,010
I mean, same as...

2289
02:42:34,810 --> 02:42:36,790
No, it's... it is actually...

2290
02:42:36,790 --> 02:42:37,350
It is my...

2291
02:42:37,350 --> 02:42:38,110
It is my...

2292
02:42:38,530 --> 02:42:39,990
Oh, no, I think it's...

2293
02:42:39,990 --> 02:42:42,350
I'm not my way here to stand up any way to talk about something else.

2294
02:42:46,510 --> 02:42:50,810
I'm sorry, I'm really sorry that you feel that way, it wasn't just a genius.

2295
02:42:51,210 --> 02:42:52,630
But we are closing our meeting for tonight.

2296
02:42:52,630 --> 02:42:53,470
We did have...

2297
02:42:53,470 --> 02:42:57,370
I'm in comments, so...

2298
02:42:58,270 --> 02:42:58,670
But...

2299
02:43:00,050 --> 02:43:00,450
So...

2300
02:43:07,600 --> 02:43:10,900
It's not about my remarks, it's about the fact that we...

2301
02:43:10,900 --> 02:43:13,060
said we're going to take a first and second to close right

2302
02:43:13,060 --> 02:43:15,100
me to something. I'm not going to argue with you about

2303
02:43:15,100 --> 02:43:23,440
this. So I understand that we have to open

2304
02:43:23,440 --> 02:43:26,300
a room for quite some time. The government said I'd be

2305
02:43:26,300 --> 02:43:29,980
closing it. I'm sorry that's disappointing to you. And we

2306
02:43:29,980 --> 02:43:33,360
will be more than happy to have that return. But if you

2307
02:43:33,360 --> 02:43:36,620
would like, Emory, again, we're not going to have it back

2308
02:43:36,620 --> 02:43:39,800
and forth with that. But Emory, if you believe that I should

2309
02:43:39,800 --> 02:43:46,320
all that. Yeah, so why don't we resolve it? Give her 30 seconds. Yeah, if you would like to speak,

2310
02:43:46,640 --> 02:43:55,040
I would like to. If you could give her comments brief because I did call for an injury. Thank you,

2311
02:43:55,200 --> 02:43:59,300
thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm sorry. I, you know, I wasn't, I was kind of surprised by that

2312
02:43:59,300 --> 02:44:04,200
last comment. I'll give it to one minute. I don't believe you were, but that's okay. Okay, thank you. Oh,

2313
02:44:04,240 --> 02:44:09,100
thank you for that. So I did the have a chance to meet with a supervisor helping because he,

2314
02:44:09,100 --> 02:44:10,960
I think felt pressured to do so.

2315
02:44:11,400 --> 02:44:13,040
He did not speak at all about the law.

2316
02:44:13,200 --> 02:44:15,400
At the very end of our conversation, it took quite a long time.

2317
02:44:15,780 --> 02:44:17,560
I asked him to please let speak about that.

2318
02:44:17,660 --> 02:44:19,960
He said he didn't want to because he thought the police were doing a great job.

2319
02:44:20,520 --> 02:44:22,760
Which definitely outlined the fact that he hadn't read the law.

2320
02:44:22,880 --> 02:44:25,180
And he doesn't understand that the police are doing a great job.

2321
02:44:25,580 --> 02:44:26,540
And we want to support that.

2322
02:44:26,840 --> 02:44:28,200
So it has nothing to do with our law.

2323
02:44:28,580 --> 02:44:30,300
You did not want to speak about the law at all.

2324
02:44:30,360 --> 02:44:34,280
Our meeting was about learning about what Ola did so that maybe we'd have a chance to work in Riverhead.

2325
02:44:34,520 --> 02:44:36,960
We've been working in serving Riverhead for 24 years.

2326
02:44:37,180 --> 02:44:38,180
I don't need your permission.

2327
02:44:38,180 --> 02:44:43,820
We do great work here. We work with families. We gave $1.9 million to schools across the

2328
02:44:43,820 --> 02:44:47,960
eastern of Long Island during COVID to make sure that they have remote learning capabilities

2329
02:44:47,960 --> 02:44:51,920
with their Chromebooks and the hotspots. We also work with Suffolk County to make sure

2330
02:44:51,920 --> 02:44:56,080
that ERAP funds went to landlords that were not getting their rent because people were

2331
02:44:56,080 --> 02:44:59,980
not paying it during COVID. We got almost $2 million to landlords.

2332
02:45:05,760 --> 02:45:07,360
Thank you.

2333
02:45:11,720 --> 02:45:13,260
Thank you.

2334
02:45:16,120 --> 02:45:29,820
Supervisor, can we make a motion to adjourn our meeting? Two. Second. All in favor? Two, aye. Our CDA motion?

2335
02:45:31,880 --> 02:45:33,520
Did you open the CDA meeting?

2336
02:45:34,080 --> 02:45:36,740
Yes, okay, so we have only...

2337
02:45:36,740 --> 02:45:38,540
No, we need to open the meeting, we just close our meeting.

2338
02:45:38,740 --> 02:45:40,120
Oh, okay, so we need a motion.

2339
02:45:41,120 --> 02:45:42,540
We're actually having another meeting.

2340
02:45:45,840 --> 02:45:47,900
Yeah, but you should do it.

2341
02:45:47,940 --> 02:45:48,540
I should come to you.

2342
02:45:49,900 --> 02:45:53,400
Quite the evening of...

2343
02:45:54,780 --> 02:45:58,200
Okay, we are having a CDA meeting, so...

2344
02:45:58,200 --> 02:45:59,420
I don't leave it anywhere.

2345
02:46:00,740 --> 02:46:02,300
I'll leave it by Debbie.

2346
02:46:02,740 --> 02:46:03,440
Thank you.

2347
02:46:05,540 --> 02:46:06,200
You too.

2348
02:46:09,240 --> 02:46:09,720
Okay.

2349
02:46:12,400 --> 02:46:14,520
Do you need me to make a motion to open up the motion?

2350
02:46:14,520 --> 02:46:14,840
She does.

2351
02:46:15,020 --> 02:46:17,380
We just need a motion and a second to open up the motion.

2352
02:46:17,380 --> 02:46:19,880
I make a motion to open up the meeting development.

2353
02:46:20,200 --> 02:46:20,640
Second.

2354
02:46:21,140 --> 02:46:21,480
Okay.

2355
02:46:21,800 --> 02:46:22,160
Wasky.

2356
02:46:22,800 --> 02:46:23,280
Yes.

2357
02:46:23,560 --> 02:46:23,960
Mary Shale.

2358
02:46:24,000 --> 02:46:24,160
Yes.

2359
02:46:24,540 --> 02:46:24,700
Kern.

2360
02:46:24,860 --> 02:46:25,100
Yes.

2361
02:46:25,280 --> 02:46:25,640
Rothwell.

2362
02:46:25,780 --> 02:46:25,960
Yes.

2363
02:46:26,360 --> 02:46:26,660
Helping.

2364
02:46:26,960 --> 02:46:27,280
Yes.

2365
02:46:27,520 --> 02:46:27,700
Okay.

2366
02:46:27,780 --> 02:46:28,940
See the meeting is open.

2367
02:46:29,120 --> 02:46:33,200
The items on the agenda are there are no resolutions.

2368
02:46:33,200 --> 02:46:40,320
So there would be only one matter for the board to deal with, which is open comments from the public on CDA matters only.

2369
02:46:43,230 --> 02:46:48,070
If anyone has a comment on a CDA matter, that's what she said. You may comment speak at this time.

2370
02:46:48,530 --> 02:46:51,170
And no one's online. No comments.

2371
02:46:51,430 --> 02:46:56,210
Okay, then, then we can entertain a motion in a second to close the CDA meeting.

2372
02:46:56,430 --> 02:46:58,330
Make a motion to close CDA meeting.

2373
02:46:58,330 --> 02:47:00,470
Oh, well, seconded. Wait.

2374
02:47:01,750 --> 02:47:03,110
You got to be quick, John.

2375
02:47:03,450 --> 02:47:04,670
You got to be quick, are you on it?

2376
02:47:05,170 --> 02:47:06,430
John, you only get a half hours.

2377
02:47:06,630 --> 02:47:08,050
Yeah, no, no, very quickly.

2378
02:47:08,230 --> 02:47:09,510
This is on the CD8.

2379
02:47:11,450 --> 02:47:16,650
I'd like some update and maybe unmarried and prepared to do it.

2380
02:47:16,750 --> 02:47:26,770
But we found out that $95,000 was moved into the, for more legal processing on the case

2381
02:47:27,810 --> 02:47:34,990
But we didn't ever get an explanation as to what that $95,000 was for.

2382
02:47:36,050 --> 02:47:40,070
And I would think that it would be also useful to get.

2383
02:47:40,430 --> 02:47:46,210
There was some reference that somehow we exceeded to the pendency still.

2384
02:47:47,130 --> 02:47:53,470
And I'd be interested in knowing, is the land clear now of the pendency?

2385
02:47:54,210 --> 02:48:02,370
what is the current state of the appeal and our response to the appeal. Again it's

2386
02:48:02,370 --> 02:48:06,470
something that if you can answer it and be helpful but I think my hope is that

2387
02:48:06,470 --> 02:48:10,490
those that kind of information could be regularly provided to the media.

2388
02:48:10,670 --> 02:48:16,810
It could be okay. So what I suggest John get up right you could send an email to

2389
02:48:16,810 --> 02:48:24,190
office. That's what those questions. Okay. All right. As long as it's a public that's

2390
02:48:24,190 --> 02:48:30,730
I think it's what to be public information. Not just between me and me. Got it.

2391
02:48:31,730 --> 02:48:33,690
Mason, we have one online.

2392
02:48:50,570 --> 02:48:58,690
The article about the developer that was shut down for operating

2393
02:48:58,690 --> 02:49:11,050
without proper permits, I noticed that his counsel was, Tillman Baelin, in the manner involving

2394
02:49:11,050 --> 02:49:15,770
the town, which is also- Mr. Erry, I think you would cut off in the beginning. Am I just

2395
02:49:15,770 --> 02:49:17,770
starting from- Yes, thank you.

2396
02:49:17,910 --> 02:49:19,150
Put me here in the beginning, please repeat.

2397
02:49:19,950 --> 02:49:24,770
Thank you. I appreciate it. In reading the article in River at

2398
02:49:24,770 --> 02:49:31,270
Again, I am so thankful to Denise Sivilletti, I hope she's feeling better.

2399
02:49:31,470 --> 02:49:38,370
I know she's had some issues with, at a certain age, you know, things don't work as well as they do.

2400
02:49:38,630 --> 02:49:40,090
But Denise, thanks for everything.

2401
02:49:40,690 --> 02:49:48,790
But in reading her piece on the developer who was shut down, I noted that its council was

2402
02:49:48,790 --> 02:49:57,430
Sir Tillman-Baelin, which is the same law firm that is representing the town in the

2403
02:49:58,030 --> 02:50:00,610
Gremisian Calvert Aviation lawsuit.

2404
02:50:01,370 --> 02:50:10,130
I also had noted that there are various allegations that that firm had previously represented the

2405
02:50:10,130 --> 02:50:16,490
alleged Ponzi scheme developer arrested on fraud charges by the Suffolk County DA.

2406
02:50:16,490 --> 02:50:23,510
There are also allegations of members that are from the partners of the alleged Ponji

2407
02:50:23,510 --> 02:50:24,290
Scheme developer.

2408
02:50:24,850 --> 02:50:30,890
I would say that those type of relationships were one is simultaneously adverse to the

2409
02:50:30,890 --> 02:50:39,530
town and representing the town creates serious concerns about potential conflict of interest.

2410
02:50:39,530 --> 02:50:47,390
and I would urge a council member of World Well and the town attorney and the supervisor

2411
02:50:47,390 --> 02:50:52,310
to look in whether that is even ethically proper under these circumstances.

2412
02:50:52,650 --> 02:50:56,350
The other thing that I would urge the CDA to look into,

2413
02:50:56,810 --> 02:51:03,650
and we're approaching the hundredth anniversary of the opening of the Empire State Building,

2414
02:51:03,650 --> 02:51:14,890
which was built in one year, forty days. It consists of something like three million square feet,

2415
02:51:15,470 --> 02:51:21,350
rentable square feet, built a hundred years ago on 34th and 5th Avenue in Manhattan.

2416
02:51:22,310 --> 02:51:30,730
What I was shocked about was that after 31 years of efforts to redevelop our downtown,

2417
02:51:32,150 --> 02:51:50,330
Your master developer has indicated that it may take three or four years to complete 70,000 square feet of hotel rooms, which by comparison is 3-100th of 1% of the size of the Empire State Building.

2418
02:51:50,330 --> 02:51:59,510
I think that coupled with the lack of a closing within the time specified, you owe it

2419
02:51:59,510 --> 02:52:05,950
to the members and taxpayers of our town, which to some extent is subsidizing this effort

2420
02:52:05,950 --> 02:52:12,390
and will be asked to subsidize it through ID benefits to insist that Mr. Petter-Salleys

2421
02:52:12,390 --> 02:52:14,230
be made available to the public.

2422
02:52:14,230 --> 02:52:23,920
Your time is up so if you could just add a closing sentence or two.

2423
02:52:24,240 --> 02:52:27,920
Again, you all have a fiduciary responsibility.

2424
02:52:28,660 --> 02:52:34,500
I think there are enough questions that make an incumbent upon you to make the financials

2425
02:52:34,500 --> 02:52:40,200
that would help from public scrutiny available for review, particularly given the time and

2426
02:52:40,200 --> 02:52:42,300
the circumstances and continued delay.

2427
02:52:42,880 --> 02:52:44,200
Thank you for your attention.

2428
02:52:44,640 --> 02:52:45,080
Thank you.

2429
02:52:49,570 --> 02:52:55,170
Any other comments and board can entertain a motion to close the meeting?

2430
02:52:55,970 --> 02:52:56,930
Motion in a second.

2431
02:52:57,370 --> 02:52:58,670
Thank you.

2432
02:52:58,710 --> 02:53:00,090
Motion to close CDA meeting.

2433
02:53:00,710 --> 02:53:01,190
Seconded.

2434
02:53:01,630 --> 02:53:01,890
Okay.

2435
02:53:02,470 --> 02:53:02,990
Lasky.

2436
02:53:03,170 --> 02:53:03,330
Yes.

2437
02:53:03,550 --> 02:53:03,910
Very shale.

2438
02:53:03,990 --> 02:53:04,170
Yes.

2439
02:53:04,450 --> 02:53:04,590
Turn.

2440
02:53:04,890 --> 02:53:05,050
Yes.

2441
02:53:05,370 --> 02:53:05,650
Off well.

2442
02:53:06,310 --> 02:53:06,910
I got time.

2443
02:53:07,950 --> 02:53:08,170
Help.

2444
02:53:08,470 --> 02:53:08,590
Sure.

2445
02:53:09,030 --> 02:53:09,250
Yes.

2446
02:53:10,070 --> 02:53:10,590
Yes.

2447
02:53:11,270 --> 02:53:11,550
Okay.

2448
02:53:11,910 --> 02:53:14,430
CDA meeting is closed and we'll see you next month.

2449
02:53:14,850 --> 02:53:15,330
Thank you everyone.

2450
02:53:15,330 --> 02:53:16,310
Would you have another meeting?