Ok, Jen, you
have the pledge.
Please join COUNCILWOMAN Hebert
for the Pledge of Allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United
States of the republic for
one nation under
GOD indivisible with liberty and
justice
for all. Thank you. All right,
thank you, everyone, we don't
have any presentations today, so
we will go right into
our public hearings. No, no, you
have to do a
resolution first. What do we got
here? Thank you. Mr
Supervisor, I make a motion to
offer
resolution 2026417 to schedule a
public hearing for
the execution of an agreement
with the village of Northport to
furnish
fire protection services for the
town of Huntington District
number one
non pro tunc. Second, Seconded
by the supervisor. All in favor
Any opposed? Resolution adopted
50. Ok.
Now we will go into our public
hearings. Please call the noes
for public hearing number one.
Thank you, MR. Supervisor. Good
day, everybody.
Hope you're all getting the most
out of your summer
uh, town board public hearings,
public hearing number one, the
town board
scheduled this public hearing to
consider executing an agreement
with the
incorporated village of
Northport to furnish fire
protection services for
the town of Huntington Fire
Protection District Number one.
This is by order
of the town board Andrew Rea
town clerk, I have the
affidavits of publication
and posting in the Long
Islander. Thank you. We have
several people signed
up for public hearing number
one, starting with Ryan Brown.
Him? For the
morning. Uh, just as public
hearing number one. Ok, board of
trustees, all
right. All right, there's
anybody here speaking on public
hearing number
one. All right. Yeah, this is
the fire department things. I
can't imagine. Ryan
you got a board of trustees?
Yeah that's updating
I'm sorry. Yes.
So, so it does.
It was the clerk's
fault. He sent it down the line
here. All right.
So we don't have anybody signed
up for the public hearing number
one for the
town board res uh agenda. Is
there anybody that would like to
speak on
fire district number one in
Northport. Ok, that concludes
public hearing
number one on the town board
public hearing agenda. Please
read the notice
for public hearing number 2.
Public hearing number 2, the
town board scheduled
this public hearing to consider
declaring the properties located
at 13 Plymouth
Road in Dix Hills, uh, 11 Jesse
Drive in Northport, 28 Derby
Avenue in Huntington
and 12 Turkey Lane in Cold
Spring Harbor as nuisances and
directing town personnel
to remedy the blight conditions
and change the charge the cost
thereof against
them. I order the town board
Andrew Ray, a town clerk. I have
the affidavit's publication
and posting in the Long
Islander. Ok, we have 2 speakers
signed up for public
hearing number 2, John Ruggiero,
followed by Robert Lamont. Yeah.
I'm sorry. Yes, you're up first.
Great.
Followed by Robert Lamont for
public hearing number 2.
All right, I'm talking about 13
Plymouth Road, Dick Chill's is
my mom's
house. Uh. Yeah, it's been a
disarray for
a while, I'm going to fix it up.
I'm her son.
And uh, I have some pictures
that we took before
and after. I have many of them
if you want, MR. Ruggiero, if
if, if you'd like, you can have
a conversation with the town
attorney's
office offline. You don't have
to do this publicly, and we can
come up with
a plan to remediate the house
and you know part of the, part
of this is
processes to what we want to do
is make sure the house is taken
care of
for the neighbor, for the
property and for the neighbors
in the neighborhood
and if there's a plan put
together to, to do that, we'd be
happy to work
I would suggest is is contact
the town
attorney's office and they'll
they'll work something out with
you. All right,
thank you Thank you so much for
your time. Thank you.
Robert Lamont.
He said on the clock, please.
Yeah. Uh
MR. Lamont, if, if you get
started, we'll, we'll take care
of
the clock for you. Thank
you, sir.
All right. I
thank you for letting me speak.
Um, you know.
I got kind of caught up in this
uh scenario unfortunately at
my residence, good news is it's
sold as
of today, so, uh, and we got a
good
uh, a good number, my brother
and I, so.
This is because of the hard
work of my mother and my father
and, uh. They Purchase
a piece of dirt back in 1965.
Father, the architect
my mom, a teacher, my father was
also involved in the aerospace
industry
I MISS Him. It's been
a year. My mom passed away
in DECEMBER of 2023.
However, my brother and I, um,
Inherited gold, um, that, you
know
now we can
live uh uh going forward, me at
63
my wife, Carolina and.
The nieces and nephews and
and such, so I, I
was very lucky my two parents
some of you here MAY
or MAY not have the same, but uh
they worked hard.
And and part of the scenario is,
you know
how does a young
couple afford a $1
million home with a, with a
mortgage that MAY
be somewhere between 7 or
$10,000 a month. So new homes
are being thought of or
developed the
45 off of Jericho Turnpike
the north side where the apple
farm is
Hopefully the apple trees don't
get destroyed. But
those homes are easily gonna go
for
1 point and it's projected, it's
probably gonna take a few years
to build those
45 homes, but they're projecting
$1.4 million of tax money and
that's 31 over $31,000 a
year, of course some of that
money is gonna go to
the state, probably 10 or 15,000
of it. The rest, you
know, the other 9 light items.
On your tax bill.
How does, how does somebody
afford that? I, so.
I do think there's a new concept
now and, and
I'm starting to agree with it,
you know, rent a place for, you
know, a
two bedroom, 3500, take that
other.
3500 a month and invest
it in the sp 500 or
whateverer you feel you want to
invest in.
Because $25,000 in 1965
became $11.7 million today.
Assuming The rule of 72
ok, thank you, MR. Lamont. Those
are
all the public speakers we have
signed up for public
hearing number 2. Is there
anybody else who'd like to weigh
in a public
hearing #2? Ok, that concludes
public hearing number 2. Please
call the
notice for public hearing number
3. Public hearing number 3, the
town board
scheduled this public hearing to
consider authorizing the
supervisor to
execute a license agreement for
the use of a portion of town
land and establishing
covenants and restrictions for
the property located at 602
McKinley Terrace
in Centerport. This is by order
of the town board and ray town
clerk. I
have the affidavits of
publication and posting in the
Long Islander. Thank
you. There's one speaker, Gerald
Blum. Ok There you go. I was not
referring
to McKinley Terrace right here.
It's to authorizes a supervisor
to execute a
license agreement proportion of
town land. That's number 3. It
doesn't say anything
about McKinley Terrace. Yeah,
this is, I believe me this is a
uh a retaining wall that is
encroaching on town land and in
the
PRESIDENT's streets, the
retaining walls are Plentiful
that's what
that's about and why wasn't it
specified in here? Because I've
been
you know. Suffolk County tax map
is, is specified.
Um, ok. Is there something, any
particular interest in this?
Yes, I was
wondering if you're obfuscating
by not
putting that down, exactly what
it was, because I don't know
what it is.
It says the town covenants
restrictions, property. I have
no
idea what it would be, so that's
why I'm asking. I think in
in the town attorney can correct
me if I'm wrong, but I think in,
in
in in, in simple terms, I think
there's a, a retaining wall that
encroaches
on town property and rather than
have the property owner demolish
the retaining
wall. We've come up with a uh a,
a, a covenant and restriction on
the property
and the license agreement
allowing the property owner to
keep their retaining
wall that encroaches on the
property and compensate the town
for whatever
the encroachment is. Ok, that's
what I was wondering, um, Could
have been
anything, so I'm just curious.
All right, thank you. You're
welcome.
Ok. Uh, there's nobody else
signed up for public hearing
number 3. Is there
anybody else that would like to
speak on public hearing #3? Ok
thank
you. That, I think, let's see,
we have public hearing number 4.
Please read
the notice for public hearing
number 4. Thank you, MR.
Supervisor. Just
a point of order, Cheryl, um,
the public hearing notice had it
and if you
read the actual resolution, it
would tell you all that. The
title is just that
it's just a snippet of what's in
the resolution, ok.
Public hearing number 4, the
town board scheduled this public
hearing to
consider adopting local law
introductory number 28-2026.
Amending the uniform
traffic code of the town of
Huntington Chapter 2, Article 4,
Section 27
Schedule g. By adding a stop
sign on Mill Lane at
the intersection of Prime Avenue
in Huntington. This is by order
of the
town board Andrew Ray, a town
clerk. I have the affidavits of
publication
and posting in the Long
Islander. Thank you. There's
nobody signed up for
public hearing #4. Would anybody
like to speak about the stop
sign on Mill
Lane. Other than the deputy town
supervisor, would anybody else
like to speak
I've already heard enough about
the stop sign from
you. Anybody like to speak on
public hearing number 4. Ok,
that concludes
public hearing number 4. He's
called the public hearing number
5
Public hearing number 5. The
town board scheduled this public
hearing to consider
adopting local law introductory
number 29-2026, amending
the uniform traffic code of the
town of Huntington chapter 2,
Article 4
Section 27, Schedule g. By
adding stop signs at
the following locations in
Comak. Everyone just settle
right in for
a little while and here we go,
Briar
Place at the Northwest
intersection of West Farms Lane.
Brio Place at the southeast
intersection of West Farms Lane.
Cornfield Lane at
the intersection of Hedgerow
Lane. Hedgerow Lane at the
Northwest intersection of West
Farms Lane. Leeward Lane at
the intersection of Wheatfield
Lane, Locksley Court at the
intersection of
Wheatfield Lane, Pasteur Court
at the intersection of Leeward
Lane, Shelburne Lane at the
intersection of Locksley
Court Windward lane at the
intersection of Wheatfield.
Lane. This is by
order of the town board Andrew
Ray, a town clerk. I have the
affidavits
of, uh, publication and posting
in the Long Islander. Ok,
there's nobody
signed up to speak on public
hearing number 5. Is there
anybody that would
like to speak on public hearing
number 5. Ok, that concludes
public hearing
number 5, and at this time I'll
entertain a motion to close our
town board
public hearings or town board
and open as our board of
trustees 2 motion
by COUNCILWOMAN Murray, seconded
by COUNCILWOMAN Hebert. All in
favor? Any
opposed? Ok, we're now seated as
our board of trustees, and there
are 2 public
hearings scheduled for the board
of trustees. And I believe they
pertain
to the same property, so MR.
Town clerk, if you is correct,
please read
both public hearing notices and
any speakers can speak about
both of them
simultaneously. It would be my
privilege board of trustees,
public hearings.
Public hearing number one. The
board of trustees scheduled this
public hearing
to consider the granting of
variances and the issuance of a
special use
permit pursuant permit pursuant
to the permit pursuant marine
conservation
law with Patrick and Janine
Tomlinson for the use of
underwater lands as
is necessary for the
construction and use of a
residential fixed pier slash
floating dock assembly consists
consisting of a 4 ft by 92.5 ft
fixed wood
pier connected by a 3 ft by 30
ft aluminum ramp to 2 6 ft by 30
ft wood
floating docks. Overall length
of the residential fixed pier
slash floating dock
assembly is to measure 164.5 ft
in length. The project
site is located at 271 Little
Neck Road in Centerport
This is by order of the board of
trustees, Andrew Ray, a town
clerk. I have
the affidavits of publication
and post. In the Long Islander.
I also have
the affidavit of mailing to all
property owners located within
500 ft of
the exterior boundaries of the
subject property. Public hearing
number 2.
The town board scheduled this
public hearing to consider the
execution of
a license agreement pursuant to
the Marine Conservation law with
Patrick
and Janine Tomlinson for the use
of underwater lands as is
necessary for
the construction and use of a
residential fixed pier slash
floating dock
assembly. Consisting of a 4 ft
by 92.5 ft fixed wood pier
connected by a
3 ft by 30 ft aluminum ramp to 2
6-foot by 30-foot
wood floating docks overall
length of the residential fixed
pier slash floating
dock assembly is to measure
164.5 ft in
length. The project site is
located at 271 Little Neck
Road in Centerport. This is by
order of the board of trustees,
Andrew Ray,
a town clerk. I have the
affidavits of publication and
posting in the Long
Islander. Thank you. There we
have several speakers signed up
for public
hearings number 1 and 2 on our
board of trustees agenda. The
first would
be Ryan Brown followed by Jeff
Bartels.
Good afternoon, I believe it's
MR. PRESIDENT on the board of
trustees. Everyone
else is still, unfortunately,
just board members, but I'm Ryan
Brown of
Breslin and Brown pc 44 Elm
Street, Suite 5, Huntington, New
York, 11743.
Trustees. The trustees. Ok. Uh
we're here today seeking to
construct a fixed pier
with a floating dock, uh, that
is the
clerk had stated, we require
2 variances as well as a, uh,
Special use permit
and licensing agreement, the
variances will be for the
overall length of
the pier, well as for the length
of the floats attached to the
end of the
pier. I'd just like to note for
the board that variances were
granted at 265
and 279 Little Neck Road. That's
the property directly to the
south of
this property, as well as the
property two houses to the north
um, those docks were 165 ft in
length and
170 ft in length respectively,
whereas this application is
164.5 ft, as the clerk stated.
It's part of this project, the
seawall and the ramp will also
be repaired, but there's no
relief that we're
requesting from the board at
this time for that. Uh, we've
already received
our present our approvals from
the dec and from the Army Corps
of Engineer.
And I have Dan Hall from Land
Use Ecological Services here
who's signed
up to speak, they can speak to
the technical aspects of the
application
itself, numbers as as far as
what the depth at the end of the
dock would
be, but the real reason that
we're here is the Board often
sees with these
applications is we need to have
the dock far enough out so the
boat can
float at low tide and won't be
sitting on the sea floor. I'd be
happy to
answer any questions that you
MAY have, but I think I just
covered the basics
and any of the specific aspects
that you MAY have questions for
MR. Hall
will be able to answer. Ok, any,
any questions from the board?
Ok. Thank
you, MR. Brown. Jeff Bartels.
Wow. Jeff Bartel's 10 Broad Path
a fraud
Lloyd Harbor, um, listen, uh.
Now the clock's running
That guy was just speaking that
whole time. The clock was still
3 minutes
the entire time. Ok, so. I, I,
once in a while
I watch the tv and, and see
your, it seems like you guys are
giving out dock permits, every
time
I tune in to the tv. So.
My questions are.
Do the, do these people have to
ensure the dock and.
The peer Because You
have these storms. Can come
through.
And Who's inspecting like
uh, the chains and stuff that go
around
the pilings that are fixed, you
know, and, and if
you have a dock break loose,
especially with a boat. Attached
to it, the windage. That
that creates So now, I worked at
Sawanica Corinthianian Yacht
Club for 15 years
and dealt with all
the moorings and everything else
and actually this watch was a
gift
ft boat broke loose off
its mooring and I was able
to rescue it, intercept and
rescue it before it's smashed
into the, the
docks at Fiddler at, um,
Sawanica Corinthian Yacht Club
saving GOD knows how much money,
so my question to
you is, is that you're setting
up all this liability.
And who, who is, who's gonna pay
if this, you know, does
this guy have to get insurance
not only on his boat
but on the dock and the pier,
because if you have like even in
winter storms. You, I've seen
pilings because of
tidal movement get pulled right
out of the bottom. And now
they're floating around and you,
and I remember Fred Uvina, the
harbor master for the town of
Huntington, he used to have to
go and
lassue them and tow them in to
get them properly disposed of.
So
you're setting up all this
possible. Damage and
everything else and yet and yet
where's the accountability?
Who's who's gonna actually pay
for that stuff. So you
know Mother Nature is for
instance, this, this
the sandbar going out to the old
original lighthouse of Lloyd
Harbor, which I was alluding to
last month has eroded away. But
if you
go onto that land. There is
Pilings and dock debris and
everything else, so you have
these derelict. Well, ok. On
Monday
I was at Britannia Boatyard.
They're
chopping up boats. Ok, I'll go
continue with
the 2nd thing. All right, thank
you I need
another 3 minutes, right, for
the next hearing? No, they're,
we called them
together. You can speak. You get
3 minutes. Thank you. Point well
made.
All right, uh, MR. Hall.
Dan Hall, good afternoon
Speaker #3 Dan Hall land use
ecological Services for
Dan Hall, good afternoon,
Speaker #3 Dan Hall land use
ecological Services
for the agent for the owner, MR.
Tomlinson. Um, I just wanted to
bring up
that, uh, for the stock, the
town is requiring that the owner
participate
in a, uh, licensing agreement
and part of our license
agreement as a whole
harmless. So, uh, that'll cover
the insurance and the, um,
aspects of the
floats and the floats are only
going to be installed during the
boating
season they'll be removed during
the winter and the offseason
when a lot
of the nor'easters and the bad
weather nights it occurs, which
is like 90%
of the time when floats and
piles get dislodged and cause
problems. So,
uh, majority of stock, that's
why the dock is designed the way
it is. And
the length is required. Uh, one
of the requirements, variants
will be needed
for the length because of the,
uh, Conditions encountered with
the water
depths. And the water depths
have to get out, you know, you
have to get
the dock to a certain water
depth, 2 ft at the landward end,
and it's almost
4 or 5 ft at the seaward end.
And as part of the dec and the
Army Corps
reviewed this extensively and
they've required that the dock
be chopped.
So that the flute does not hit
the bottom during tides that are
extremely
low and cause damage to, uh, The
bottom, the independent
community. And,
um That's pretty much all I got
to say at this point with the
dock. I mean,
we have all the permits. We did,
we did the. Do next door, the
Carrillo's
at, uh, 265 and we did the
design for this stock. It's the
exact same design,
the exact same length. The end
of the dock matches up to the
exact same
length as Tomlinson's proposed
doc. And, um, it's been reviewed
extensively
by all the federal and state
agencies, as well as the town
now. And I think
we're all set as far as, uh,
Meeting all the requirements and
the approvals.
Ok. Thank you very much. Any
questions? Ok, great. Thank you.
Ok, that concludes.
Our public hearings I'll intend
a motion to close our board of
trustees
and reopen as our town board
motion by
trustee Hebert, seconded by
Truste Marie
all in favor? Any opposed?
Motion carries. We are
now seated as our town board,
and at this time, we will go
straight into our public
portion, and we have several
speakers
signed up to speak. Starting
with Anna Finn
followed by Jeff Bartels.
Sorry.
Uh, good afternoon, thank you.
Good afternoon. I'm here to, uh,
speak about the
uh, property tax
cap being raised. I noticed it
was taken
off the agenda, but I'm here to
speak on it. Um,
I just wanna express my
opposition to it. Uh
Long Island already has some of
the highest property taxes in
the nation and
families and seniors are on
fixed incomes and cannot
easily absorb an above tax cap.
Uh, so
we are forced to tighten our
household belts every single day
we expect local government to do
the same
uh, rather than just taking the
easy way out and passing. A tax
cap override. The town should
be using cash reserves
before asking taxpayers for
more, uh, piercing the
tax cap sets a
dangerous precedent raise raises
baseline tax
uh, rate permanently,
compounding financial burden on
the homeowners for years to come
before
the board even considers voting
on the override
uh, the state limit
you should exhaust every single
dollar flexible, unassigned
surplus, um, you should.
Do internal efficiency reviews
audits, um. You know
such as um discretionary
spending
Recent retiree benefit
structures
developer tax breaks rather
than balancing the shortfalls on
the backs of the
resident taxpayers. So I'm just
asking that it be
a no on the tax cap override.
Thank you.
Thank you. Jeff Bartels
followed by Mayor Mark Dara. All
right, Jeff Bartel's 10 Broad
Path, Lloyd Freud Harbor
New York. All right, I'm back
and
um better photograph, uh, blown
up and guess what
Basically, it's um over 100
years
ago when they built the causeway
uh, they left out culverts. So
it's amazing, you
know, right here at this podium
years
ago I named, renamed the dec
Department of Environmental
Corruption or Department
of Environmental contamination,
the
epa is the Environmental
Poisoning Agency, blah
blah blah. So here it is, you're
you're, you, your parking
lot, since it's conception,
Dumps 2 football fields
right into the marsh. So I saw
one
of your great grand productions
about the
restoration of Crab Meadow Beach
Marsh. Well, let me
tell you something, you gotta
start working with the villager
lawyer at Harbor, and
you have to start restoring the
West
Neck Beach, uh, not only the To
the
town of Huntington, Lloyd
Harbor, your beaches
your estuaries, and your
marshlands, so
you see this is your property,
and I explained
how this estuary was filled in
in 2018. Guess what? This isn't
the bath Club. Yeah
it's the bath Club, but guess
who owns the land of the
Bath Club Lloyd Harbor. So you
see
between Lloyd Harbor, are you,
the town of Huntington?
You got to reopen that estuary
because
it's choking off. Now, the other
thing is that with the blessing
of dec, Gene Thatcher has been
filling in using the sand that
they're supposed to
put on roads. Well, she, she has
a truck to the beach and
you can actually see this bulge
here is where.
The sand is. Plugging off or
blocking it off.
That same estuary. So, if you
really want to do
something here, folks. You need
to put a stop
work order on the culverts for
the road going to the West Neck
Beach
and you gotta make sure that
they're gonna be big enough
to handle when Lloyd Harbor.
Puts in the
culverts underneath Lloyd Harbor
Road to act as a
pressure relief valve so that
the causeway does not flood
which prevents the fire
department, the ambulance
and everyone get into my house
but also my
property values. So you guys,
you know
I saw your big production about
the marsh
well, when do I get a chance to
do. My production
ok, my presentation with more
time.
Mayor Mark Dara, followed by
Eddie o'Brien Carroll.
Folks. Oh, ok.
Sorry. It's Uh
Hey Mark. It's a
tough act to follow, MR. Mayor
the best
I can. Uh, good afternoon,
Supervisor Smith and the
town board. I am Mayor Mark Mark
Daw of Huntington Bay. Prior to
reading
my statement today, I would like
to request the board's attention
to the
informational and graphic packet
that I have supplied to all
board members.
This packet is intended to
visually represent much of what
are the key points
in my statement. My hope that
the package contents will form a
basis for
a more lengthy graphic
presentation at a future town
board meeting. Um,
and this is all about the impact
of docks within the village of
Huntington
Bay. Uh, the recreational
aesthetics, the recent
installation of private
dock structures along the
Huntington Bay waterfront has
significantly impacted
recreational opportunities,
aesthetic, and scenic resources.
That are vitally
important to Huntington Bay and
the village's character. One of
the most
popular historic, uh, forms of
recreation for both village and
town residents
is and has been to walk along
the Huntington Bay shoreline to
place on a
private docks creates physical
impediments and degrades the
aesthetics of
the bayfront. Private dock
development has a potential
negatively impact
the village's waterfront in the
form of degraded views and
diminished view
and the enjoyment of waterfront
by residents and members and the
town's
public. The Bay is also used
extensively by village residents
as well as
town residents for recreational
water sports such as kayaks,
paddle boards,
kiteboards, as well as swimmers.
These stock structures pose a
safety issue,
and they can represent obstacles
both on the beach and the
waterfront and
the bay itself. In addition, An
extremely important they all
have the likely
potential to present obstacles
to emergency watercraft.
Environmental but
environmentally, the village of
Huntington Bay coastal area
includes the
southwest portion of Huntington
Bay, significant coastal
habitat. I'm watching
the clock and this area
important is waterfowl and
wintering area. It's
a feeding area for nearby
nesting colonies of shore birds
and sand City,
Eaton's neck, and is highly
productive area for marine
finfish and shellfish.
It's important in the village to
prevent the adverse impacts of
the biological
productivity of this area and
main a high high water quality
to protect
the shell fishery, including
efforts Controlled discharges of
vessel wastes,
sewage effluents, and upland
runoff. This includes minimizing
or preventing
the construction of shoreline
structures such as box piers,
bulkheads, and
resentments along the village
shoreline of Huntington Bay.
Such construction
actions MAY likely result in the
loss of productive areas. The
initial placement
of piles in the bottom impacts
beneath the habitat and as a
resultil disturbance
can create a long-term impact.
Long-term permanent multiple do
placements
will likely result in impacts to
the longshore deposition of
erosion and
sediment. It's important to
consider the impacts of multiple
docks and cumulative
impact rather than approval of a
single dock while accepting the
idea of
a homeowner's 100 ft plus long
pier into the bay is not a
significant structure.
As illustrated by the package
supplied to the board, are
resulting in significant
long-term negative. Impact.
Private docks along the Bayfront
generally need
to be relatively long to reach
areas where low tide water
depths will be
less than 4 ft. The docks
installed over the last 5 years
have extended
over 125 ft. With the fixed pier
sections reaching approximately
60 ft.
The town of Huntington has
repeatedly approved longer
period, even though
they exceeded, even though they
exceed the towns maximum code of
100 ft.
These recent docks have avoided,
uh, Bay Village jurisdiction,
the installation
of temporary ramps resting in
the shoreline, the claim being
the ramp is
resting, not a structure. The
central point of these private
docks. Or longer
than the town'szone code and
allows the method of access from
the shoreline
in questionable terms of
stability. As I there's a,
there's a potential,
you'll see it in one of my maps
to construct over 50 private
docks along
the Huntington Bay shoreline,
multiple single-family home
peers were totally
and permanently change the
shoreline of the village as
viewed from both
the land and the water would
clearly impact residents'
ability to walk the
intertidal area. Residents will
be walking under a pile
supported over floating
docks and anchor docks.
Huntington Bay is village.
Village is currently
working on an lwrt of Huntington
is working on its own lwrp in
the spirit
of full cooperation, I'm on the
town's Advisory board. Um, to
add my input.
That I MAY have since the
village is 2/3 into the lwrp
process, and it's
important to note that
Huntington Bay Village has an
executed contract and
at a stage somewhat ahead of the
town lwrp. Accordingly, as
mayor, I'm asking
that while these documents are
being drafted and approved, the
town grant
a temporary, and I repeat,
temporary easement to the
village encompassing
a 100 ft area from the mean high
water north out into the bay.
The easement
would be subject to renew
renewal by the town on a
two-year basis with full
termination. Renewal being based
upon the completion of the
village's lwrp
which is estimated to be about 2
years. Jointly, the two LWRPs
will establish
conditions. Um Which would
control the construction of new
docks and the
village Bay Shore. The village
does not oppose all current
historically
present bayfront docks. Docks
are not constructed, are
constructed and maintained
by Huntington Bay Beach
Association to access moorings
and function swimming
docks, in our opinion, are
reasonable. The town maintained
regulates. The
moorings and the number of
associated association peers out
into the bay
at PRESIDENT Limited. We think
that's a reasonable compromise
with respect
to dock construction along the
bayfront. The village is
generally supported
daca applications in the harbor
side. The ongoing lwrp process
should necessitate
the village and town to work
together. We cannot and should
not establish
new policies and separate
efforts as mayor, I want to work
with the town.
I believe we can jointly
establish lwrp policies which
are address waterfront
resident needs. While at the
same time respecting the
environment and recreational
residents of the Bay Area. The
village needs time for the lwrp
process to
come to completion. And the
creation of an of an easement
overlays ensures
that the time I provided. At the
time is provided. I understand
this is
a public comment portion, but
I'm asking the board consider my
request,
and I assume that it would have
to be presented at a public
hearing in the
nenext board meeting in a village
of 57575 homes. There are only
44 homes
requesting doc applications with
99 residents against it, um,
submitted,
The lwrp boundaries you see. And
the one thing I'll just finish
up, one
thing I'm very proud of since
becoming mayor is the improved
relationship
we've developed with the town of
Huntington. I made it a priority
to open
the lines of communication and
build a strong working
relationship with
town officials. We've been able
to communicate more directly,
work together,
and address issues in a
productive way. I think that
relationship has been
a real benefit to the village
and our residents. I thank you
for the. Um,
there's a lot to unpack there,
so why don't we make an
appointment? We'll
sit down. We'll, we'll go
through it at length. Sounds
good. Thank you very
much. Eddie o'Brien Carroll,
followed by Cheryl Blum. Eddie
o'Brien Carroll,
Huntington, I'd add a new
committeeman for the
Conservative Party here in
town. I am here again about the
African American museum. This
museum is
a patronage project. Veronique
Bailey was hired as a contractor
while she
was PRESIDENT Of the Huntington
naacp, the town board and the
anti-bias
task force put her in charge of
the social justice ambassador
program at
in schools. Now she has been
appointed to this museum
project. Bruce Segal,
appointed by the town board as
a. On to the anti-bias task
force is also
on the museum board. Kevin
Thorburn, the six-figure
salaried human services
director who oversees the
anti-bias task force and
minority Affairs division
has been made museum director
and serves as its treasurer.
Black Americans
are 4% of Huntington's
population. I do not buy that
the average black American
was demanding this museum
nonprofits, bureaucrats, and the
anti-bias task
force were. Now I mentioned that
the naacp has supported.
Reparations for
slavery since 1991, longer than
I've been alive. How
fascinating. Here's
another beauty, the group also
took political money from
Coca-Cola to brand
a soda tax racist, a campaign
which worked. So in addition to
its politics,
the organization has also had a
record of political blackmail,
as you are
ready to hand their pet
patronage project. After my last
speech, luckily
still circulating locally on
TikTok. I was banned from the
Huntington Community
Matters Facebook page. They
insist they are not the
government so they can.
Sensor. Is that healthy for free
speech in Huntington, however,
especially
when I'm trying to speak to
residents who I know exist, who
do not want
the character or politics of
this museum here. The Huntington
establishment
is on par with that attitude.
However, the Republican
supervisor slandered
my speech on JULY 14th as
abhorrent and repugnant. Tracy
Edwards, a national
naacp member and Hochel's la
chair came here last month and
has been insisting
we must accept the museum
because of. Huntington's
colonial sins and racist
Facebook posters, she believes
the one she's being silenced.
She thinks
she's being silenced. It's fake
news day fawns over her.
Meanwhile, the
school district is prepared to
bus children to the naacp
project. This project
is top-down cultural imperialism
against the character of
Huntington, pushed
by nonprofits, bureaucrats,
Republicans, Democrats, the
school district,
the anti-bias task force fake
news Day, and the CHAIRWOMAN Of
la. Thank
you. Cheryl Blom, followed by
David Weins. Weinstem. Westman.
I'm here to
speak in favor of the African
American museum. I can't wait to
see it up.
Ok. I have several points I just
want to bring up. I don't think
we're gonna
have time for a discussion, but
in, uh, 2026-436, we're
authorizing the
execution of an interim
settlement agreement with the
Long Island Power
Authority, um, some of us don't
know what this settlement
agreement is and
we're a little bit curious, so
that's something I wanted to
bring up. I
also wanted to ask about what's
going on with Manor Field. Manor
Farm, um,
because Starflower was kicked
out and we are awarding a
license agreement
for community or educational
proposals for the utilization of
the house
buildings, and Manor Farm Park
and we don't really know what's
going on
there, what kind of development
is going on. I mean, we have a
problem with
Fairmeadow Park and. We don't
know what's going on with Manor
Farm Park,
which was a um Which is a
delightful little piece of of
property, so we
want to know the other thing is
on 202-6447, um, we are.
Considering a special
use permit cornerstone Melville.
To allow the development of a
mixed-use
property located on the north
side of Bayliss Road. East of
Maxis Road.
In Melville and I'm just curious
if the cornerstone is going to
blend in
with the other one that we
agreed to last year, um, is
there going to be
It's supposed to look like a
community, it's supposed to look
like a little
town where you got the
cornerstone here and you have
the other one over
there still proper steal equity
properties there, cornerstone
here, just
wondering how they're gonna look
aesthetically. And also there is
a.
Amendment to the Town Code
regarding financial impact
agreements with
the school districts for certain
mixed-use developments
which probably relates to the
Melville Town Center
overlay district, but we don't
really know what those
financial impact agreements with
the school districts are
and I know this has come up
before and it was going to be
looked into, I think
Doctor Bernardo was gonna look
into it and Jen Hebert said
she'd look into
it. But you're gonna just adopt
it and we don't even know what
it's about.
So those are the ones that I
wanted people to be aware of and
ask
questions and, um, good luck.
Thank you, David
Westman, followed by Jim Darcy.
David Wessman, a longtime
resident. I want to talk about
tax pack, uh, you're hurting
uh, seniors and you're hurting
young people by doing this
test pack thing. Um, now I hear
you wanna, you
wanna put turf down in, in a
breezy park. I mean, what are
you getting
the money from. But that's steep
money. Ok, ok
fine. Anyway, you're hurting it,
hurting the
uh, excuse me, thank you, Steve
Stern, if you're
watching, and, and Carl Hastie
or the Speaker of the Assembly
111 each. Ok, I want to know
where it came from. Ok, thank
you. Anyway,
you're hurting the tag, you're
hurting the, you know, seniors.
I can't,
you know, you're living on a
pension. These guys are on a
pension. We are,
you know, and we don't have that
kind of money to jack up. I'm
sure there's
something else you can do, you
know, maybe you can find
something else,
find money somewhere else. I
don't know where, but you know,
maybe taking
that uh salary cut and some of
the, or some of your
administrators we didn't
like we did in the school
district, remember that? Ok, so
I mean you know
anything would help. I mean, you
know, these people, I lived here
71 years.
My family's been here over 100
years. My family, I have the
biggest family
in Henton. I mean, you know, I
don't wanna move out of here, so
you know,
please do something, ok? Thank
you. Thank you. Jim Darcy,
followed by Denise
Schwartz. It Good afternoon. My
name's James Darcy. Um, I
wanted to bring up about the
taxes, uh.
I'm like blown away that you're
planning on raising the cap.
I don't hear any talk about
what we can do to shrink it.
I pay about 23% of
my fixed income. On
town taxes and school, which I
think is Outrageous in its own.
But, uh, Are
we working on, you know,
reducing the taxes
I, I have to
uh, me and my wife were just
discussing about
moving of course we are on a
fixed income. And I have my
daughter and
my grandkids here. And I don't
want to move south. You know
so I could afford to live. I
grew up here, lived here all my
life.
So my thing is, you know. I
don't know if
you need like a, a Dodge, you
know
committee where not going after
not talking
about fraud, talking about how
to shrink it. Because to me I
think what you'll see over the
next, uh, several weeks is, is
you'll see
a budget that's going to be
under the tax cap. All right,
just, and I'll
tell you bluntly, I, I. It it
sounds like a great idea. I
don't think the
public's going to like it. But
we'll see. I mean, I, you know,
I have
the town tools. There's only 2
tools in my toolboxes. I, I, I
can either
cut services or, or raise taxes.
There's nothing, there's no
other to me
there's a lot of. I'm not gonna
call it waste but unnecessary
things like
I was just snooping around. We
have 8 libraries in the town of
Huntington.
That's not, that's not the town.
That's not the town? All right,
but I just
like, you know, everybody uses
the internet. I don't know
anybody who goes
to the library, you know, I'm
just going for instance, like
there's got
to be ways to be able to shrink
it and Oh, no, there's, there's
no question
there are ways to do it. I mean,
you know, it's but it, I think
we, we have
a, a very good track record of
being stewards of the public's
money. I think
that we have a great work
product to show out in the town
from what we've
done with the taxpayers' money
over the last several years, but
sooner or
later, you know, we, we have to
make some hard decisions and it
might be,
you know, if, if it comes down
to staying under the tax cap
then it will
have to be dramatic cut in
services and you know the
biggest one it's worth
saying I'll let you, I'll let
you finish your thoughts, but
You know, things
like that are uh that garbage
collection, for example, the
Covanta contract
that we have, which is renewing
it's, I think it's going to be
close to
$4 million. To renew that
contract annually. That's,
that's the entirety
of the tax cap right there.
That's 2% right there. So you
know, the, the
math doesn't math. I mean, it's,
it's a, you know, we're talking
services
like You know, a dramatic
reduction in services that the
public will notice
every single day. You know, I'm
not jumping on your skate, you
know, but
you know, I'd like to see you
work on trying to reduce it
because uh. I
don't wanna move, you know,
down. I'm looking at South
Carolina $400,000
house pay $2200 in taxes. And I,
you know, like what the hell,
you know,
that's all I just, you know, and
I don't wanna move, but I'm
gonna have
to just as an observation and
and brought up. It's important
to note how
much of your tax bill goes
actually to the town. It's about
7%, so there's
a, you know, there's a, uh,
something that should be looked
at by all the
residents to look actually at
the tax bill and you'll see that
the library
tax, the library has their own
board of trustees, just bring,
you know,
just thinking it, but you know.
So if, if your tax bill is
$10,000 we're
getting 7% of that, you know,
i'm on a fixed income, so when
everything
goes up around me, you know, in
the world. I have to make do. I
can't work
overtime anymore, you know, I
have a fixed income. And I have
to make do
and I have to do less with this
and that and that's pretty much
all I'm
and, and the town has done the
same over the last several years
and, you
know, we've been very proud of
the fact that our fleet of
vehicles has been
refurbished, for example, rather
than buying new ones, you know,
the new,
new truck is about $300,000.
There's 10 wheelers, and I think
Andre Sorrentino
at the highway department has
done a great job doing a heavy
refurbishment
of them, you know, that's just
one example we're doing, we're
refurbishing
for $30,000 to $50,000 as
opposed to buying new trucks,
you know the highest
property taxes. No question,
it's very expensive and the town
is not immune
from inflationary pressures also
our costs are going up to
operate the town,
so you know we pay for gas too
you're welcome. Denise Schwartz,
followed
by Margaret Roebuck. Denise
Schwartz East Northport. I was
glad to see that
the vote to potentially override
the tax levy limit was removed
from the
agenda. I think that was a very
wise decision on the part of the
town board.
Um, we, we don't only need to
talk about older people
struggling and younger
families trying to establish
themselves, you know, we need to
talk about
all of us and if each one of us
had an extra million dollars, it
doesn't
mean it should get paid to the
town in taxes. So I appreciate
people feeling.
Concern and compassion for, for
those who struggle more than
others but
it's really about every single
one of us. I also see on this
agenda as MS.
Bloom brought up, there is an
interim settlement agreement
with lippa. We
cannot forget lia we cannot
forget that horrible settlement
which should
never have happened, and you
disagree. Well, and I strongly
disagree, as
does most of the community.
Thank you. Ok, that should never
have happened
and it's digging us into a.
Bigger and bigger hole, and they
are looking
to remove the transmission and
distribution lines in the
substations. They're
gonna try to take that plant
totally off the tax rolls, then
where are we
and where is the Northport East
Northport School District, ok?
So the wise
thing to do, as other people
have mentioned, when we feel
hard times, you
know, we have to cut back we MAY
not want to take cut back you
have to tell
your kids I'm sorry you can't
have that. I'm sorry we can't
take that trip
this year we can't buy the new.
Car, every one of us has to make
those decisions
in our lives and anyone who
doesn't ever have to make those
choices, you
know, is very blessed and
fortunate and hopefully they've
worked hard for
that, so to talk about the
budget we have to be looking for
ways to reduce
the budget. There is plenty of
room. There are things you can
find in this
town budget and in the town
expenses. Of course, we can talk
about a $4
million contract, you know, gas
going up, we can discuss all
that, but there
is plenty of money you can. Find
to save money for the town and
the residents
it almost sounds like the school
district if you vote no for the
budget,
we're taking from the kids. We
don't really wanna hear that we
need creativity
we need hard work on the part of
the town board and anyone who
manages our
finances here at the town
because we are going to be in
big, big trouble
you know, to agree to do that, I
don't think anything's funny. Is
somebody
laughing here? Well, I'm, I'm,
I'm amused by the, the thought
that you don't
think we've even looked at a
budget. We've been working on
the budget now
for two months. Ok, I just we
don't do it here in this room,
we do it at
a conference. Stable and we're
going through the budget line
There's, there's
money to find, trust me, there's
money to find you. You're right,
you're
right, and you know, I'm, I'm
going to produce a budget that's
below the
Carter and and not play
games. Thank you. Ok. Ok.
Margaret Roebuck, followed
by Leslie Tullo. Hi
I'm Margaret Roebuck, uh, that's
a hard act to follow. She did
a great job. She almost said
everything that I wanted to say
but I also wanna my family's
been living here
for over 66 years in Huntington
and we've, I've seen a
lot of changes, ok, and one of
the biggest things
again, my question is why I'm
really here was why are you
going to.
Override the tax cap. What
reasons and
what's going to go for. Now I
heard some of the things that
you
said that it have gone up in
cost, but I
mean a person like me on a fixed
income is getting harder and
harder. And now, uh, when they
talk about oh let's build more
affordable housing
I don't see affordable housing
going up. All I see is more and
more stress on the
infrastructure. All I see is my
gas, my
electric, my car insurance,
everything. Things going on
because of more
people. I try to you try to get
a drive any place. It's
impossible
the amount of people on the
road, and it's like again,
everything's going
up and up and up. What about
these young people? How are they
going to afford these
million-dollar homes. When I see
across the street, ok, people
moving in and they got their
extended family, you know, 5 and
6
families in a single-family home
because they're the only ones
that can
afford and these are basically
foreigners, ok? And they're the
only ones
that are able to afford these
million-dollar homes that in my
opinion, it's
like my my house is nowhere near
a million dollars, ok
but this is what's going up for
sale. And people are buying them
but not
our young people. Not our young
people at all, and it's sad.
It's sad and
it's like. It's unbelievable and
it's like. How are we gonna live
here
I'm almost getting to the point
that I've lived here all my
life, just about
and I have to leave because I
can't afford to live here
anymore. And young people
can't even come in. On here.
It's
I mean, we've elected you
people. You should be
brainstorming for us. Please,
you You
know, do something and that
instead of letting us
struggle here. Well as I say,
well, this is going up. Well
why?
Ok. And the answer is, oh, we'll
do this and do that
and I'm going, look at the
consequences on everything
that's
happening. All right, thank you.
Leslie Tollop followed
by Samuel Ashkenazi.
Good afternoon Leslie Tollop
um, I first would like to read
into the record
uh, communication from the
school district. Uh, from MR.
O'Farrell
uh, said, good morning, thank
you for reaching out and sharing
your
concerns. I've been in touch
with COUNCILMAN Bernardo
with regards to the matter of
the mtcod and
he's indicated that he would
share these concerns with the
supervisor and
the council, um, as you know,
I've been both publicly and
privately
seeking clarification on the
pause. Now we all are seeking
clarification on
the pause. I've also stated
publicly that I believe most
people assume that
a pause would imply waiting
until after the 1st 400 units
occupied to evaluate the actual
real world impact.
Having said that, I understand
that my interpretation is not
how
developers and seemingly the
town interpret this codified
language
I can't speak to the exact
interpretation other than to say
that it seems very different
from my own. The resolution and
vote tomorrow is
to schedule a public hearing.
They are not voting to approve
or deny
the application at this point,
uh, and if they vote to approve
the resolution, i
would hope that there is mention
or consideration of the pause
when they
are scheduling the actual public
hearing, without clarification
or specifics,
this will be the most revealing
insight into how the town is
interpreting
this language in Sierra Lee,
John. And so this body approved
the
steel equities, uh,
construction, 400 units
and our understanding was that
those 400 units were to be
the test run to see how this
development of this
area would work. And that we
understood that the hospital
would be coming in and the
associated office
space and how that would impact
the trans
uh the um traffic, the
environment, the school district
and now, uh, I think the
um, we all are owed some sort of
an understanding
and explanation as to why 400
units
uh, is not a hard cap. I, I'll
be happy to address that. So the
400 units was, was
was decided on because that was
the sewer capacity
that the county had said to us
that there's a capacity
for 400 residential units. So
that's how that
number as far as what the, what
the, the pause was about
The pause, I was very clear with
every civic group I ever met
with that they
that this pause was not going to
be a stop and That
the buildings would have to get
built before we would move on to
the next
building. That that is never
been discussed. In fact, it was
very clear with
anybody that asked that that is
not what the pause was. The
pause was the
pause acted as a brake on
overdevelopment is really what
it came down to.
It was not a secondary
environmental impact study. It
was not a second seeker
review. All of those things are
things that the developers are
required
to do as part of the development
process. The the pause was our
break on
the. Process to make sure that
we didn't have a flood of new
applications
coming through the door where we
can stop that process and we
baked it into
the resolution to make sure that
we maintain control of the pace
of development.
Quite frankly, watching the pace
of development in Melville right
now, uh,
you know, we, we, we passed this
about a year and a half ago. We
got one
application in so far that has
gone through the approval. It
was approved
8 months ago. They're not even
close to breaking ground on it,
so you know,
the, the, the, the concerns that
were raised. And one of the
concerns that
that brought about this pause.
Was that we would enact the
Melville Town
Center overlay district and
there'd be a flood of
applications through the
door. The opposite has been
true. We, we, you know, the, the
applicant,
this is we're, we're scheduling
a public hearing for the 2nd
application,
a year and a half after we
enacted it. So, you know, the,
the, the, the
scaremongering that took place a
year and a half ago about
overdevelopment
of Melville has never
materialized. Yeah, so that, I
mean, that's the, the,
the pause was not a second
secret or a second environmental
review or a
second traffic study. It was, it
was our control over the pace of
development
in Melville. And frankly, I
think it's too slow. Uh, I
think, you know,
and I know my time is up, but,
um, if you don't see the impact
that the
400 units, once they are
developed, occupied and in use,
and plus the other
development from Northwell, um,
then you really have no way of
gauging whether
or not you could. Um, Extend
another 168 units or even more
if those applications
came in. Our understanding, and
maybe it was a misunderstanding
apparently
by the school district as well,
that there really was going to
be, uh, that
you were going to use this more
as a test case, so that we could
we could
develop that property and what
that would mean in terms of
reopening schools
and traffic up and down Route
110. So, um, you know, I guess
there are a
lot of people. Who did not quite
understand your interpretation
of that
400. Cap and uh what our
interpretation.
Was so maybe I, you know, a
little work before
that hearing, or you're gonna
get a lot more questions like
mine. Thank
you. Samuel Eskenazi, followed
by
Anthony Cacciato. Hello
everyone. Uh, my name is Samuel
Ashkenazi
I am a local small business
owner, political activist, and
performer, and the arts and
entertainment contributor for
the Long Islander
newspaper, but of course, Ed,
you know me from insulting me to
my face and
for just asking a basic question
about congressional leadership
and calling
me a crazy blue-haired liberal.
Anyway, today, I'm here to talk
about the
flat cameras. Uh, the town of
Huntington has been installing
flock cameras.
These cameras, otherwise known
as automatic license plate
readers, ALPRs,
or ShotSpotters are used to.
Photographs, every license plate
that drives
past it, the purpose is to be
able to track our movements on a
minute to
minute basis. This is a clear
government overreach, clearly
infringing on
our rights to privacy. And to
add insult to injury, anyone who
criticizes
this technology, the ceo of
Flock has called a terrorist.
Beyond that though,
it is a vastly flawed technology
across the country we have seen
misidentification
rates of 70 to 80%, which has
led to devastating consequences.
Police wrongly
pulling over families and cars,
traumatizing children in in
accidentally
injuring the drivers, many, many
instances where, frankly, it's
wrongly
thinning out our police
resources. One examination found
that out of 8500
calls for police to respond to
Flat cameras or shots. Otters
only 20% were
legitimately worthy of their
calls. These citizens that are
at the mercy
of these misidentifications,
also have to hire lawyers. We
are already at
the mercy of a Republican
administration bringing us into
an unnecessary
war, raising our gas prices and
energy prices, and we can't find
housing
or healthcare. I'm here during
my job to speak right now. I
should not have
to leave work to protect our
freedoms and privacy because you
guys want
to find us into infinitum. Our
police are also already stressed
as is. I
know people in this office so
avidly defend the police, and
yet by giving
them flawed technology, you are
making their jobs harder,
allowing real
criminals to escape in moments
when they're responding to flock
camera calls
that are illegitimate. This is
wrong for the public. It is a
dangerous invasion
of our privacy, and it has
bipartisan support. Republicans
and Democrats
do not want to be surveilled in
our town that we already have so
much pride
in keeping safe. Our tax dollars
also should not be going to
this. I don't
I didn't see any ruling. I
didn't see any.
At any vote as to making my tax
dollars pay
for these cameras. Considering
all of
the flaws with them, considering
the ceo has said
such vastly damaging things. Is
this really the
tytytype of technology we want to be
installing in, in, in
Huntington. That's, that's
what I had to say for it today.
Thank you. You're welcome.
Anthony Cacchiato, followed by
Robert Lamont.
Good afternoon, MR. Supervisor
and the rest of the board. Uh,
my name's
Anthony Cachado. I'm a proud
Huntington Village resident and
a law student
over at Tre Law Center. Uh, I'm
rising today just to commend the
board on
taking the next step on, uh, the
Melville Town Overlay District
by scheduling a
public hearing, uh, for the next
mixed use project over there,
um, you know
I've come before the board many
times on this issue of housing
in Huntington. It's an issue
that affects everybody, but
also, you know,
especially impacts young Long
Islanders who are. Concerned
about whether
or not we can afford to stay on
Long Island. So I mean the
median home price
right now last JUNE was around
$750,000. Um, but you know, in a
lot of ways
what is happening in Melviville
right now is, is a bold and
necessary step
that Huntington is pioneering on
right now, and I think that
that's going
to be something that, as it
develops and, you know, I, I
agree is not developing,
uh, you know, at the speed that
we thought it would, but, um,
you know,
when it does, we'll not only
provide us the opportunity to uh
give options
to. You know, young, uh young
individuals in this town to
afford to live
here, but, uh, provide
opportunities for new
businesses, uh, to help, you
know, increase our tax levy,
tried to use that to, you know,
help improve
our infrastructure and address
those concerns. It's something
that I'm very
heartened to see, and you know,
I look forward to seeing how
this project
really kind of pans out going
forward because I, I think that
young people
really are struggling with
housing right now, and it's,
it's heartening
to see that there's, you know,
this sort of bold and actions
being taken
by the town board. So thank you
for, for really taking that
necessary step,
and I look forward to seeing how
it develops going forward. Thank
you. Thank
you. Robert Lamont, followed by
Gail Jasper. Right, so, uh, the
question
is affordability unfortunately,
and you know we talked about
this before
and the beauty now we're gonna
have a hospital in Melville
thanks to Kenneth
and you know he's gonna. He, he
bought the land for
approximately $10035.5
million and it's a 45 acre
parcel and he's gonna put a
billion dollars hospital on it,
but you know these things are
gonna
take years, probably 10 at
least. Same with the
the little 45 houses at the
at the Apple stand there on the
north side of
Jericho Turnpike and also you
know
this uh steel equities project.
So go to
a News, um, 3 and 4, I believe
have been purchased.
Oh he is. I believe
um, and I forget the name of the
company. I didn't
do that research. I had some
other things working on this
afternoon, so. Salsa
Sal Fero's, uh, um, you know
prediction has, has been, you
know
do nothing, and the property
taxes are gonna
go up anyway, right? So, so how
are we gonna better spend
the money. You're Republicans
minus.
One, sorry, but you know, still,
you got, you know
fiscal responsibility. It's, you
know, it's easy
when it's opm. Other people's
money. But you
have to. And true, you know
maybe it's 10% because when
you look at the tax bill, right,
the number one thing is
the money that we are paying to
the state of
New York for. You know, is it a
quality education compared
to other, other areas. I don't
know. I, I.
I guess uh you know, there were
some great schools in the New
York City system, but, uh, you
know, there's some rough ones
and tough
ones also. I was lucky again. My
parents
school district 5, you know, a
1.37 acre plot, Dick Hills.
Good people in the neighborhood
that I knew were
uh, engaged with, you know, I'm
thinking of Joseph Ford
the 3rd and Mike. Uh, I can't
remember his last name
um, but, uh, these are two
beautiful African
American people that that
uh and and and others, I mean,
hey
uh, you know, the, the
predominance in Half Hollow
Hills
it's, uh, it's. You know, 80%
if not 90% uh uh uh Caucasian,
so.
Oh, all right
uh, I think we need to think
about
some type of traffic light near
that pizza place
on Rutland Road and Max's Road,
uh, making a left around 4:30
5 o'clock is quite difficult.
Um, it's only gonna get worse.
Thank you, Gaily Jasper,
followed by Daniel Carpen. At
the
Trinity.
Gail Jasper residence in Dix
Hills
um, on your you number
198.3-34-1 mtcod Melville Town
Center Olay District was adopted
on DECEMBER 10, 2024
The town and I quoted, the
The town board will pause the
acceptance
of new applications after the
submission of
the first application totaling
400 residential units in the.
Melville
Town Center and thereafter each
successive submission of
applications totaling 400 units
in Melville town center to
assess the cumulative impact of
the development on traffic
conditions
fire emergency, and educational
services. The total number
of residential units in the
Melville town center shall
not exceed 1500 units. I bespoke
before you many
many times, and one of my prime.
Question was how long is
this pause going to be for? Is
it gonna be for a minute while
the next guy
in line comes up to the podium,
or is it going to be a
meaningful.
Cause so that we could see what
happened. Doctor Bernardo
you said that you had a
community awareness meeting in
Dix Hills.
That you would protect the
school district regardless
and that's how you would vote
and Jen, we.
Supported your run for this
office based on what you said
you had said about protecting
the residents. I'm sorry
I heard what I heard, we heard
what I heard, and
uh the superintendents heard
what I heard. Thank you very
much. We are sorely
disappointed. Daniel Carpin
followed by Lisa Bloomstein. A
great job protecting us. Welcome
to
the Daniel Carppe show direct
from Town Hall
your best value for your tax
dollar paid for and produced by
a town
of Heineken. My name is Daniel
Carpin. I reside at
Three Harbor Hill Drive,
Huntington, New York.
I am speaking today about the
African American
Museum that is supposed to be
planned at Fairmeadow Park at
the northwest corner of Pulaski
Road and Park Avenue.
This is not the proper place for
this museum. It
is alienation of parkland, and
when you in MAY
uh, had a special town board
meeting to ask the town, the
state legislature to alienate
the park land the town board
meeting was a
special one. Hardly anybody knew
about it. It was done in what
I call semi-secrecy at the last
minute and
the people in the neighborhood
to the west found out. About
this after
the fact, and they are angry.
What you have done
supervisor, you've clearly
earned your proclamation of
the mba award make voters angry.
They are angry
They do not want their park used
for the African American Museum.
There
are other locations you could
take the old
bank building on the east side
of Park Avenue north
of Pulaski north of Pulaski
Road, the buildings are already
there. Oh yeah.
News by the property and make it
into a museum. Uh, the building
it's
a museum. The other option is to
take the armory
on East 5th Street an existing
building and put the museum
there
It would cost virtually nothing
for the tax for the for the
for the town to do that, you
wouldn't have to build a new
building. You
wouldn't have to acquire land.
You wouldn't have to go through
expensive
architects. You could easily
convert that and put the African
museum there.
Within a month or two of just an
architect or a space planner to
It could be done at very, very
low cost without breaking
the tax cap and the other thing
I'm going to ask you, and I
don't know
you don't seem to answer
questions very much is the
exhibit at
the Huntington Railroad Station,
a very well done exhibit of the
role
of African Americans in the town
of Huntington, is that exhibit
going to
be taken down and moved? In the
museum.
No answer. I don't, I don't
know. I think it's
a great don't know. Well, you
should know. You, you should be,
you should
be ashamed of yourself for not
knowing. Thank you.
Ok. Lisa Bloomstein
followed by Andrew King
It's also a difficult role to
follow to follow today
Seriously, uh, good, good
afternoon
supervisor and town board. Um,
I'm here
today because I believe the town
is at a critical point where it
needs to decide whether the
promised promises made to this
community
actually means something. We
were told there would be a pause
after the
1st 400 residential units in the
Melville Town Center overlay
district so
the town could evaluate. The
real world impacts of this
development. That
is not something residents
imagines. It's in your own town
code that was
just read to you, 198341. The
code says the town board will
pause acceptance
of new applications after the
first applications totaling 400
residential
units in order to assess
cumulative impacts, traffic,
fire, emergency
services, and education. And
here is what makes this meeting
so troubling
The town's own website currently
states that. Applications are on
hold pursuant to that exact
provision. So I have a very
straightforward
question. What changed? If the
pause has been lifted, when was
it lifted
Who authorized it? What
resolution or action lifted it,
and where
was that decision communicated
to the public because if the
pause has not
been lifted, then why are we
discussing another 167
8 apartment project. We were
told repeatedly that the purpose
of the pause was
to determine what the 1st 400
units would do to the
community. Nothing has been
built yet. We don't know
the actual number of children
those units will send to the
Half Hollow Hill
School District. We don't know
the traffic impact. We don't
know the impact
on emergency services. We don't
know the cumulative impact on
our sewage
and drainage infrastructure. And
last night we got another very
real reminder
of why infrastructure matters
after heavy rain, both the
northbound and
southbound lanes of 110 at the
Huntington Quadrangle completely
flooded,
overwhelming cars on both sides
trying to get through. That is
not a theoretical
future impact that is
infrastructure. Which is
struggling today. So why
would we add hundreds more
residential units before we have
determined whether the
existing infrastructure can
handle what we already have
here. The town's
own environmental review
recognized that future
development would be dependent
upon access to public sewers and
that the 400 unit pause
was intended to allow the town
to evaluate commute commu
cumulative
impacts, and we still need a
comprehensive current assessment
of sewer capacity.
Capacity. The same is true for
our schools. If newer and more
comprehensive demographic
information indicates that these
developments
could generate more students
than the town's older studies
anticipate, then
we should use the best available
information, not outdated
assumptions.
The responsible thing to do is
simple stop, measure, and then
decide. Let the
1st 400 units actually be built,
determine how many children they
generate
determine what happens to
traffic, determine what. Happens
to our sewer
system, drainage, roads, police,
fire, emergency services, then
and only then
decide whether the community can
responsibly absorb another wave
of apartments. I'm not asking
this board to deny these
projects
I'm asking you to follow your
own law and keep your words the
residents
of Huntington. Do not schedule
another public hearing simply
because
an application is waiting. I'll
Put in the rest of my comments
Andrew King. Followed by Dom
Feeney.
Andrew King. Ok
If MR. King returns, let me
know.
Dom Feeney, followed by Johanna
Suchow. Scar.
I thought I saw him
briefly, but all right, uh,
Joanna, if if
Dom let me know.
Good afternoon everyone. Yeah.
I did not come prepared to talk
about the
mtcod or even the tax cap.
Because I noticed it was pulled
from the agenda, but as far as
the mtcod I think you know, I
generally supported it, much to
the chagrin of many people in my
community. However, I was always
emphatic
about we should do a cumulative
sequel so that we would have an
idea even
at this 0.400 generates this
much, we could project 168, but
we didn't do
that, so we're not there. Um, as
far as the tax cap, I'd like,
uh, the transparency.
It would be great if we can do,
we would like to review a line
by line on
the budget, and that would
include, I'm sorry, I know it's
a sore issue
for you guys, but the 6-year
lifetime medical benefits. I'd
like to know
a projection of what that will
cost us as, you know, as a town
into the
future, because it, it's one of
the line items. You, you've got
many. Um,
but my main reason for stepping
up today was to ask, I don't
know if Andrew
Ray is the person that knows the
answer to this question. When is
the public,
you know, able to get online to
look at the text of preliminary
resolutions.
It, the agenda gets posted, I
think on a Friday. And this is
now the 2nd
or whatever meeting that I am
looking to see what the text is
other than
me getting in my car and driving
up here and nobody should really
have to.
Why can't, when should that be
posted because it's been being
posted Monday,
basically in the afternoon that
we can go online and look at the
text of
resolutions. Is there a problem
with putting it up sooner. I
know in the
past, it's been a policy issue
with the board as to, you know,
setting a
goal for public disclosure. I
just was wondering, What is the
policy if
there is one? Yes, please,
because 24 hours, but we don't
post at the town
attorney asks it to post it. So
the town clerk isn't really
necessarily
involved in the posting is what
you're saying, ok, and 24 hours
is the policy
of this board. You're gonna sit
there and say that it's ok for
us to get
a look at things 24 hours. The
text of resolutions. I, I just
think it,
I think you could do a little
better in that regard because,
well, I know
it MAY be state law, it doesn't
mean you have to, you can't
exceed that.
You can't provide more
information to the public
sooner. I just think it's
hard for us. We see the
headings, we don't know what's
in the body of. The
resolution. And if you have the
headings, I worked here 11.5
years. You
have the resolutions. I don't
know why you can't post them, so
I'll chime
in on that. I, I, several years
ago I tried to get a 10 day. I
know and
I got a lot of pushback from
everybody, you know, well,
everybody's up there
now. I'd love to know if any of
the people up there now will
push back because
I don't we, we could experiment
with that, the one thing I will
tell you,
you'll see the, the, the only,
the only credible argument I've
heard against
it, you're gonna see a lot of
late starters because anything
that comes
in after we, I know I see them
anyway. It's ministerial. I have
no, uh,
you know. I, I have no problem,
you know, you know, getting them
out there.
Ok, I'll look forward to seeing
them next time we're in on
Friday would
You, you MAY see a chaotic, a
lot of housekeeping
done after that, and I'm sure
the public would understand.
That, but it
would be preferable to have it.
That's all. Thank you.
Did Dom Feeney or Andrew King
return?
No, ok. That concludes our
public portion. At this time
we will go straight into our
agenda.
And let's see, do we have any
housekeeping to do on that front
Let's got the resolution force,
yeah.
Ok ok, public hearing, public
works and that
concludes. All right. You.
Ok, so, uh, just housekeeping
uh, resolution 2026418
was removed from the agenda at
workshop
and there's a one late starter,
and I'll entertain a motion to
add the following
late starter resolution to the
agenda. It's a resolution
authorizing the supervisor
to execute an inter-municipal
agreement with the South
Huntington Union
Free School District for the
purchase and installation of a
traffic signal
device and authorizing the
controller to amend the 2026
operating budget
and capital budget for the town
of Huntington and its special.
District's
transportation and traffic
safety motion by COUNCILMAN
Bernardo, seconded
by me. All in favor? Any
opposed? Ok, that resolution as
read is
added as resolution number
2026-452
but, uh, we need to do one
little extra piece here
because I noticed this is going
to be added to the
consent calendar, so somebody
should. Take possession
of it. Ok, uh, would you like to
sponsor it, COUNCILMAN? I would
like
to sponsor you're a wildcat. You
can have life for the wildcats,
yes, and
thank you, Scott Spittle. I know
you, you moved heaven and earth
to make
this happen. So thank you for
doing the right thing. All
right, so 452 will
be offered by Doctor Bernardo as
part of the consent calendar.
Ok. Ok.
Let's see, can't spend a second
on the agenda. All right
uh, 419 419 to make a motion to
offer resolution 419, a
resolution authorizing the
supervisor
to apply for and receive grant
funding under the New York State
Division of Criminal Justice
Services Law Enforcement
Technology grant for
public safety equipment. You're
not, it's here seconded by
COUNCILWOMAN
Luinacci. All in favor? Any
opposed resolution adopted 50.
All right, supervisor, I wait,
am I in the
right place? Yes, 4:20, 4:20. So
I
schedule a public hearing on
SEPTEMBER
15, 2026 at 6 P.M. To
consider adopting a local law
introductory
number 0, sorry, everybody, I'm
a beginner. I
offer this. Oh, is that it? You
could do that at the end. Oh, ok
so basically I'm offering this
with COUNCILWOMAN Louinacci and
COUNCILWOMAN
Maurie, thank you. And to
consider adopting local law
introductory
number 30-2026, amending the
code of the town of Huntington,
Chapter 178
taxation as to add Article 18. I
don't have my glasses
on exemption for permanently and
totally disabled veterans. 2nd
seconded by the supervisor. All
in favor? Any opposed resolution
adopted.
50. Thank you
Tourists. MR. Supervisor
I offer a resolution
2026-421 to designate OCTOBER as
Italian Month in the town of
Huntington.
2nd, seconded by the supervisor,
all in favor
Any opposed resolution adopted
50.
MR. Supervisor. Yeah
I offer a resolution 2026
422 to authorize a supervisor to
execute an
agreement with the village of
Northport to furnish fire
protection services for
the town of Huntington Fire
Protection District one, non pro
tunc 2nd, seconded
by the supervisor. All in favor?
Any opposed? Resolution
adopted 50. I resolution
2026-423
Resolution authorizing the
supervisor to execute an
agreement with
the New York Islanders Hockey
Club, lp to conduct a learn to
play youth
hockey program at The Clark
Gillies Arena at Dix Hills Park.
2nd, seconded by
the supervisor. All in favor?
Any opposed resolution
adopted 50. Supervisor, I make
motion, I make a motion to offer
resolution 2026-424, along with
a COUNCILWOMAN
Luinacci resolution authorizing
the supervisor to execute a
license agreement
with the Green Lawn Centerport
Historical Association for the
use of a portion
of Little Plains Road between
Brand Drive and Park Avenue in
Huntington.
In conjunction with its annual
pickle festival on Saturday,
SEPTEMBER 19
2026. 2nd, seconded by the
supervisor. All in favor? Any
opposed.
Resolution adopted 50. I
resolution
425 authorizing the supervisor
to execute a license agreement
with the
Hecker Museum of Art to host
museum plate cafe to promote
the cafe at the Hexton Museum of
Art and to further authorize the
town of Huntington
to co-sponsor museum Palate
Cafe. Uh, seconded
by COUNCILWOMAN Hebert. All in
favor? Any opposed? Resolution
adopted 50. MR. Supervisor, I
make motion, I, I make a motion
to offer
a resolution 2026-426, a
resolution authorizing the
supervisor
to execute a license agreement
with the Northport Centerport
Lions Club
for the use of Hexha Park for
the annual Robert j Bohati
Classic
Car Show on Sunday, AUGUST 30,
2026. That's
seconded by supervisor, but it's
also. Offered in conjunction
with
COUNCILWOMAN Luinacci, uh, all
in favor. Any opposed
Resolution adopted 50. I
resolution 2026-432 authorizing
the Comptroller
to amend the 2026 operating
budget for the town of
Huntington and its special
districts Department of General
Services. 2nd,
seconded by the supervisor. All
in favor. Any opposed?
Resolution
adopted 50. I resolution, uh,
2026-435.
Along with COUNCILWOMAN Maury to
authorize appropriate actions
in accordance with the
Huntington Town Code
chapter 156, property
maintenance nuisances Article 7,
blighted property
section 156-67. Action by the
town board for failure to comply
or abate violations. 2nd on the
motion on the motion, I'd also
uh, make a motion please to edit
this resolution as
currently written so on the
attachment
the property referenced as. 13
Plymouth Road in light of the
gentleman
that spoke today 2nd. On
the motion we have a 2nd, all
in favor. Motion to amend, yes,
correct, the motion
to amend. All in favor of the
motion
to amend 50, motion is granted.
Now
all the resolution so now at
this time I offer this
same resolution as amended
uh, which is to authorize
appropriate actions in
accordance
with Huntington Town Code
chapter 156 property maintenance
nuisances, Article 7, blighted
property
Section 156-67. Action by the
town board for failure to comply
or abate violations
Motion. I've seconded by, uh,
COUNCILWOMAN Hebert.
All in favor. Any opposed
Resolution adopted 50 as
amended. Mr
Supervisor, I make a motion to
offer
resolution 2026-438. Resolution
authorizing the issuance of
permits to
extend to extend the operation
of the
Luminosity Inc. Dino Safari at
the Walt Whitman shops
160 Walt Whitman Road in
Huntington Station. Second,
seconded by the supervisor.
All in favor? Any opposed?
Resolution adopted 50. Mr
Supervisor, I make a motion to
offer resolution 2026-439
along with COUNCILWOMAN Hebert,
resolution accepting a donation
of 2 vehicles from
the Huntington Youth Bureau of
Youth Development Research
Institute Inc. To
be used by the Department of
General Services. 2nd, seconded
by the
supervisor. All in favor? Any
opposed? The resolution adopted
50
I resolution 441 declaring
certain equipment and vehicles
as surplus
and or obsolete and authorize
the disposal by sale at auction.
Trade in
donation or disposal for scrap
of same. 2nd. Seconded by the
supervisor and COUNCILWOMAN
Maury, all in favor? Any opposed
Resolution adopted 50. I offer
resolution
444 along with COUNCILMAN Murray
to schedule a public
hearing considering authorizing
various actions be taken
upon certain properties
designated as blighted in
accordance with
chapter 156 of the Huntington
Town Code. Second, seconded by
the supervisor.
All in favor? Any opposed?
Resolution adopted 50
MR. Supervisor, I make a motion
to offer
resolution 2026-445. Resolution
scheduling a public hearing
to consider awarding a license
agreement for community or
educational proposals for the
utilization of the house,
buildings, and
Manor Farm Park located at 210
Manor Road in Huntington
2nd, seconded by the supervisor.
All in favor. Any opposed?
Resolution adopted 50. I
offer resolution 2026-446
scheduling
a public hearing to consider
adopting local law introductory
number 31-2026, amending the
uniform traffic
traffic code of the town of
Huntington, Chapter 5
section 5-1, Schedule m
regarding Barker Lane
and Huntington Station truck
exclusion 2nd seconded by
COUNCILWOMAN Luinacci. All in
favor
Any opposed resolution adopted
50. Supervisor, I
will make a motion to offer
resolution. 2026, 447, and I'm
not sure when it
is appropriate to say so, but I
offer this public hearing based
on the
understanding that, although I
think we might end up voting
differently
at some point in the next moment
or two, will be a water
committee established
to study a particular area, um,
by my colleague to the right.
So, um, a
public hearing to reconsider
special use permit application.
Mtcc 25-2, The Cornerstone
Melville to allow the
development of mixed-use
property located on the north
side of Bayliss Road east of
Mass Road, Melville.
2nd, seconded by the supervisor.
All in favor. And he opposed
opposed, opposed.
All right, what do we have? Uh,
2, ok, uh, resolution is
adopted, uh, 3 y, 2
nos by COUNCILWOMAN, uh,
Luinacci and
COUNCILWOMAN Hebert. Resolutions
adopted
you know what, if it's ok, can I
just make a
a comment on the motion. Ok, so
first of all, I just
wanna say that um.
You know this vote of mine, it's
not because
I don't think that the project
potentially is good, just like
Gail had said, I
think before, but I, I believe
as you do that the pause was not
well defined and I'm not really
clear on the parameters of it
and therefore that's reflected
in my vote today, but what I do
want to
say, and I wanna, you know,
thank my colleague, um, all of
my colleagues
but particularly Doctor Bernardo
is we have formed this water
advisory committee.
And uh and it's not just fluff
we are going to have the
ability to come up with the
parameters of what we want
studied in terms of
water quality and quantity and
how it is affecting or
affected by development in the
Melville area. It's going to be
particularly
important given that when you
know the project by nyu Langone
if that comes to
fruition, we'll also be, you
know, utilizing quite a bit of
water and but
what I will say is that not only
have we come up I. I think with
a very
good advisory committee that's
going to put together these
parameters, but
we've actually found the funding
for it, so it's not going to be
costing
the town anything. We have some
funding to do it outside of town
budget
and therefore we are moving
forward full speed ahead, and i
just wanted
you to know for those who might
have thought that that was just
a lot of
smoke. It's not. We we're
actually going ahead with this
advisory committee.
We just wanted to do it
thoughtfully and carefully.
Thank you. Thank you,
and you have resolution 449 now.
That is correct. Keep, keep
reading and
here I was done talking. Ok, so
I offer resolution 2026-449,
authorizing
the supervisor to execute
agreements with the uh, and this
is with COUNCILMAN
Murray too, again, for the
provision of uh paper shredding
services at the
town of Huntington Senior Center
parking lot on AUGUST 18, 2026,
and OCTOBER 27th
2026, I offer this with
Councilorman Murray. 2nd 2nd
above
the supervisor. All in favor of
shredding
ok, any opposed to shredding,
uh, resolution
adopted 50. Uh, Mr
Supervisor, I make a motion to
offer
resolutions 2026-427 through
2026-452
as published on consent,
excluding those resolutions
we had already voted on 2nd,
seconded by the supervisor. All
in
favor of the consent calendar.
Uh, any
opposed res uh all the mentioned
resolutions are
adopted 50. Ok, that concludes
the business of the town board
and I'll entertain a motion to
close the town board and open as
our
community development agency
board. Motion motion by
COUNCILWOMAN Luinacci
seconded by COUNCILWOMAN Hebert.
All in favor? Any opposed? Ok
motion carriers. We're now
seated as our Community
Development Agency board, and
I believe there is one agenda
item Yes, so I make
a motion to offer resolution
2026-cd-4. It's a resolution
authorizing the transfer of
funds from
the Huntington Community
Development Agency to the town
of Huntington Highway
Department. 2nd, seconded by the
CHAIRMAN. All in favor
Any opposed resolution adopted
50. Ok, that concludes the
business of
the Community Development Agency
and uh before we close
Councilor. Member Luinacci, any
closing comments? Thank you. I
would have said
it earlier in the meeting. I
just want to give a warm welcome
to the scoutmaster
here and all the young scouts
that I believe are here today,
um, in an effort
to earn a merit badge. So
welcome. Nice to have you here.
Come on, yep, and I want to
thank you also for allowing me
to come speak
to your scouts last week it was
really fun and I think I
recognized one
of them here as well. So, you
know, thanks, and I'm glad
you're all here.
COUNCILWOMAN Mari, any closing
comments? And just, just
briefly, um, just so
everyone knows, I the town and
my board members concurred
in removing the tax cap agenda
from the item today. I just want
to assure
you that none e e e e e e e xeraise tae have to take
a good look atatat
what's happening in our
community and how and, and how
it affects us and
if there's programs that we have
to cut. And so we are committed
to doing that
We have all been very committed
to making sure that we do what
is right and fiscally sound for
our town, so please keep that in
mind
That's all. Thank you. Thank
you. Doctor Bernardo.
COUNCILWOMAN Hebert, anything?
All done. All right, thank you,
and I'll
just close by saying we'll,
we'll do our best to get this
out. I, I don't
know that we can do it the first
time around getting uh agenda
out 10 days
in advance, but I would tell all
the uh department heads, get
your, uh,
resolutions in early because,
uh, we're going to try to get
this out, uh,
well before 24 hours in advance.
So, uh, with that, I would say,
uh, enjoy
the remainder of the summer,
everyone, and, uh, enjoy the
rest of today.