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Agenda

[0:06] Pledge of Allegiance

[0:35] 2026-417 SCHEDULE A PUBLIC HEARING: To consider the execution of an agreement with the Incorporated Village of Northport to furnish fire protection services for the Town of Huntington Fire Protection District No. 1, nunc pro tunc. ____ ____ ____

[1:01] Public Hearing #1 Consider executing an agreement with the Incorporated Village of Northport to furnish fire protection services for the Town of Huntington Fire Protection District No. 1. (2026-M-38) Scheduled as per Public Hearing Notice of 7-28-2026

[2:40] Public Hearing #2 Consider authorizing various actions be taken upon certain properties designated as Blighted in accordance with Chapter 156 of the Huntington Town Code (Property Maintenance: Nuisances) (SCTM #’S: 0400-244.00-03.00-082.000; 0400-127.00-01.00-132.000; 0400-161.00-02.00-027.000; 0400-063.00-05.00-024.000) (2026-M-35) Scheduled as per Resolution 2026-407 at 7-14-2026 Town Board Meeting

[8:17] Public Hearing #3 Consider authorizing the Supervisor to execute a license agreement for the use of a portion of Town land and establishing Covenants and Restrictions on property identified by SCTM #: 0400-038.00-04.00- 005.000. (2026-M-36) Scheduled as per Resolution 2026-414 at 7-14-2026 Town Board Meeting

[10:31] Public Hearing #4 Consider adopting Local Law Introductory No. 28-2026, amending the Uniform Traffic Code of the Town of Huntington, Chapter 2, Article IV, §2-7, Schedule G. re: Mill Lane – Huntington – Stop Signs. (Local Law Introductory No. 28-2026) Scheduled as per Resolution 2026-408 at 7-14-2026 Town Board Meeting

[11:49] Public Hearing #5 Consider adopting Local Law Introductory No. 29-2026, amending the the Uniform Traffic Code of the Town of Huntington, Chapter 2, Article IV, §2-7, Schedule G. re: Byre Place, Cornfield Lane, Hedgerow Lane, Leeward Lane, Locksley Court, Pasture Court, Shelbourne Lane, Windward Lane – Commack – Stop Signs. (Local Law Introductory No. 29-2026) Scheduled as per Resolution 2026-409 at 7-14-2026 Town Board Meeting

[13:34] BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ HEARING #1 Consider the granting of variances and the issuance of a Special Use Permit pursuant to the Marine Conservation Law, Town Code Chapter 137 for the construction and use of a residential fixed pier/floating dock assembly. Applicant: Patrick & Jeanne Tomlinson Location: 271 Little Neck Road, Centerport, NY SCTM #: 0400-049.00-01.00-012.004 (2026-BT-9-Ch. 137) Scheduled as per Resolution 2026-BT-9 at 7-14-2026 Town Board Meeting

[13:34] BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ HEARING #2 Consider the execution of a license agreement pursuant to the Marine Conservation Law, Town Code Chapter 137, for the construction and use of a residential fixed pier/floating dock assembly. Applicant: Patrick & Jeanne Tomlinson Location: 271 Little Neck Road, Centerport, NY SCTM #: 0400-049.00-01.00-012.004 (2026-BT-10-Ch. 137) Scheduled as per Resolution 2026-10 at 7-14-2026 Town Board Meeting

[23:26] Public Portion

[1:23:29] 2026-419 AUTHORIZE the Supervisor to apply for and receive grant funding under the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) Law Enforcement Technology Grant for public safety equipment. ____ ____ ____

[1:23:52] 2026-420 SCHEDULE A PUBLIC HEARING: To consider adopting Local Law Introductory No.______-2026 amending the Code of the Town of Huntington, Chapter 178 (Taxation) as to add Article XVIII (Exemption for Permanently and Totally Disabled Veterans). ____ ____ ____

[1:24:49] 2026-421 DESIGNATE October as “Italian-American Heritage Month” in the Town of Huntington. ____ ____ ____

[1:25:10] 2026-422 AUTHORIZE the Supervisor to execute an agreement with the Incorporated Village of Northport to furnish fire protection services for the Town of Huntington Fire Protection District No. 1, nunc pro tunc. ____ ____ ____

[1:25:30] 2026-423 AUTHORIZE 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. ____ ____ ____

[1:25:50] 2026-424 AUTHORIZE the Supervisor to execute a License Agreement with the Greenlawn-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. ____ ____ ____

[1:26:20] 2026-425 AUTHORIZE the Supervisor to execute a License Agreement with the Heckscher Museum of Art to host Museum Palette Café to promote the Café at the Heckscher Museum of Art and to further authorize the Town of Huntington to co-sponsor Museum Palette Café. ____ ____ ____

[1:26:47] 2026-426 AUTHORIZE the Supervisor to execute a License Agreement with the Northport-Centerport Lions Club for the use of Heckscher Park for the Annual Robert J. Bohaty Classic Car Show on Sunday, August 30, 2026. ____ ____ ____

[1:27:19] 2026-432 AUTHORIZE the Comptroller to amend the 2026 Operating Budget for the Town of Huntington and its special districts – Department of General Services. ____ ____ ____

[1:27:36] 2026-435 AUTHORIZE appropriate actions(s) in accordance with Huntington Town Code Chapter 156, Property Maintenance; Nuisances, Article VII, Blighted Property, §156-67, action by Town Board for failure to comply or abate violations. ____ ____ ____

[1:29:04] 2026-438 AUTHORIZE the issuance of permits to extend the operation of the Luminocity, Inc. Dino Safari at the Walt Whitman Shops, 160 Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station. ____ ____ ____

[1:29:27] 2026-439 ACCEPT a donation of two vehicles from the Huntington Youth Bureau Youth Development Research Institute, Inc. to be used by the Department of General Services. ____ ____ ____

[1:29:48] 2026-441 DECLARE certain equipment and vehicles as surplus and/or obsolete and authorizes disposal by sale at auction, trade-in, donation or disposal for scrap of the same. ____ ____ ____

[1:30:09] 2026-444 SCHEDULE A PUBLIC HEARING: To consider authorizing various actions be taken upon certain properties designated as blighted in accordance with Chapter 156 of the Huntington Town Code (Property Maintenance: Nuisances). ____ ____ ____

[1:30:33] 2026-445 SCHEDULE 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, Huntington. ____ ____ ____

[1:30:59] 2026-446 SCHEDULE A PUBLIC HEARING: To consider adopting Local Law Introductory No.______________-2026 amending the Uniform Traffic Code of the Town of Huntington, Chapter 5, §5-1, Schedule M. Re: Barkers Lane – Huntington Station – Truck Exclusions. ____ ____ ____

[1:31:27] 2026-447 SCHEDULE A PUBLIC HEARING: To consider special use permit application #MTCO-25-2, The Cornerstone Melville, to allow the development of a mixed-use property located on the north side of Baylis Road, east of Maxess Road, Melville, SCTM#0400-268-02-018. ____ ____ ____

[1:34:12] 2026-449

[1:34:49] 2026-427 AUTHORIZE the Supervisor to execute a License Agreement with PACOLI to host the Pakistan Independence Day Celebration Community Event at Dix Hills Park on August 23, 2026.

[1:34:50] 2026-428 AUTHORIZE the Supervisor to execute a Memorandum of Understanding with Island Harvest LTD. ____ ____ ____

[1:34:51] 2026-429 AUTHORIZE the Supervisor to submit an application for an entitlement grant of Community Development Block Grant funds under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 and authorizing all assurances connected with said application, nunc pro tunc. ____ ____ ____

[1:34:52] 2026-430 AUTHORIZE the Comptroller to amend the Capital Budget for the Town of Huntington and its special districts-Highway Department. ____ ____ ____

[1:34:53] 2026-431 AUTHORIZE the Comptroller to amend the 2026 Operating Budget for the Town of Huntington and its special districts-various departments. ____ ____ ____

[1:34:53] 2026-433 AUTHORIZE the Comptroller to amend the 2026 Operating and Capital Budget for the Town of Huntington and its special districts – Dix Hills Water District. ____ ____ ____

[1:34:54] 2026-434 AUTHORIZE the Comptroller to transfer foreign fire insurance taxes to the Northport Fire Department to be used for the benefit of the Fire Department – Fire Protection District #1. ____ ____ ____

[1:34:55] 2026-436 AUTHORIZE the execution of an interim settlement agreement with the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA). ____ ____ ____

[1:34:56] 2026-437 AUTHORIZE the formal termination of the Town of Huntington’s status as an active DECALS vendor for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). ____ ____ ____

[1:34:57] 2026-440 AMEND Resolution 2026-390 authorizing the Comptroller to amend the 2026 Operating Budget for the Town of Huntington and its special districts- Highway Department. ____ ____ ____

[1:34:58] 2026-442 ENACTMENT: ADOPT Local Law Introductory Number 24-2026 amending the Uniform Traffic Code of the Town of Huntington, Chapter 2, Article IV, §2-7, Schedule G. Re: Audrey Lane, Carmela Lane, Romeo Lane – Commack, Phaetons Drive, Phaetons Gate – Melville – stop signs. ____ ____ ____

[1:34:58] 2026-443 ENACTMENT: AUTHORIZE the Supervisor to execute a License Agreement for the use of a portion of Town land and establishing Covenants and Restrictions on property identified by SCTM No.: 0400-038.00-04.00-005.000. ____ ____ ____

[1:35:01] 2026-448 AUTHORIZE the Supervisor to execute a License Agreement with Soft Pros Inc. to host the USA 250th/Pakistan 79th Birthday Celebration Event at Dix Hills Park on August 29, 2026. ____ ____ ____

[1:35:02] 2026-450

[1:35:02] 2026-451

[1:35:03] 2026-452

[1:35:35] 2026-CD-4 AUTHORIZE the transfer of funds from the Huntington Community Development Agency to the Town of Huntington Highway Department. ____ ____ ____

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[0:03] Ok, Jen, you

[0:07] have the pledge.

[0:11] Please join COUNCILWOMAN Hebert

[0:11] for the Pledge of Allegiance.

[0:14] I pledge allegiance to the flag

[0:15] of the United

[0:18] States of the republic for

[0:21] one nation under

[0:23] GOD indivisible with liberty and

[0:24] justice

[0:28] for all. Thank you. All right,

[0:28] thank you, everyone, we don't

[0:32] have any presentations today, so

[0:32] we will go right into

[0:37] our public hearings. No, no, you

[0:37] have to do a

[0:42] resolution first. What do we got

[0:42] here? Thank you. Mr

[0:46] Supervisor, I make a motion to

[0:46] offer

[0:49] resolution 2026417 to schedule a

[0:49] public hearing for

[0:52] the execution of an agreement

[0:53] with the village of Northport to

[0:53] furnish

[0:57] fire protection services for the

[0:57] town of Huntington District

[0:58] number one

[1:01] non pro tunc. Second, Seconded

[1:02] by the supervisor. All in favor

[1:07] Any opposed? Resolution adopted

[1:07] 50. Ok.

[1:10] Now we will go into our public

[1:11] hearings. Please call the noes

[1:15] for public hearing number one.

[1:15] Thank you, MR. Supervisor. Good

[1:16] day, everybody.

[1:20] Hope you're all getting the most

[1:20] out of your summer

[1:24] uh, town board public hearings,

[1:24] public hearing number one, the

[1:25] town board

[1:29] scheduled this public hearing to

[1:29] consider executing an agreement

[1:29] with the

[1:33] incorporated village of

[1:34] Northport to furnish fire

[1:34] protection services for

[1:37] the town of Huntington Fire

[1:38] Protection District Number one.

[1:38] This is by order

[1:42] of the town board Andrew Rea

[1:42] town clerk, I have the

[1:43] affidavits of publication

[1:47] and posting in the Long

[1:47] Islander. Thank you. We have

[1:47] several people signed

[1:52] up for public hearing number

[1:52] one, starting with Ryan Brown.

[1:52] Him? For the

[1:58] morning. Uh, just as public

[1:59] hearing number one. Ok, board of

[1:59] trustees, all

[2:03] right. All right, there's

[2:03] anybody here speaking on public

[2:03] hearing number

[2:07] one. All right. Yeah, this is

[2:08] the fire department things. I

[2:08] can't imagine. Ryan

[2:12] you got a board of trustees?

[2:12] Yeah that's updating

[2:18] I'm sorry. Yes.

[2:20] So, so it does.

[2:25] It was the clerk's

[2:28] fault. He sent it down the line

[2:28] here. All right.

[2:31] So we don't have anybody signed

[2:34] up for the public hearing number

[2:34] one for the

[2:38] town board res uh agenda. Is

[2:39] there anybody that would like to

[2:39] speak on

[2:43] fire district number one in

[2:43] Northport. Ok, that concludes

[2:43] public hearing

[2:47] number one on the town board

[2:48] public hearing agenda. Please

[2:48] read the notice

[2:52] for public hearing number 2.

[2:52] Public hearing number 2, the

[2:53] town board scheduled

[2:56] this public hearing to consider

[2:57] declaring the properties located

[2:57] at 13 Plymouth

[3:01] Road in Dix Hills, uh, 11 Jesse

[3:01] Drive in Northport, 28 Derby

[3:02] Avenue in Huntington

[3:05] and 12 Turkey Lane in Cold

[3:06] Spring Harbor as nuisances and

[3:06] directing town personnel

[3:10] to remedy the blight conditions

[3:10] and change the charge the cost

[3:11] thereof against

[3:14] them. I order the town board

[3:15] Andrew Ray, a town clerk. I have

[3:16] the affidavit's publication

[3:19] and posting in the Long

[3:20] Islander. Ok, we have 2 speakers

[3:20] signed up for public

[3:26] hearing number 2, John Ruggiero,

[3:26] followed by Robert Lamont. Yeah.

[3:31] I'm sorry. Yes, you're up first.

[3:31] Great.

[3:37] Followed by Robert Lamont for

[3:37] public hearing number 2.

[3:42] All right, I'm talking about 13

[3:42] Plymouth Road, Dick Chill's is

[3:43] my mom's

[3:46] house. Uh. Yeah, it's been a

[3:46] disarray for

[3:51] a while, I'm going to fix it up.

[3:51] I'm her son.

[3:55] And uh, I have some pictures

[3:55] that we took before

[3:58] and after. I have many of them

[3:59] if you want, MR. Ruggiero, if

[4:02] if, if you'd like, you can have

[4:02] a conversation with the town

[4:03] attorney's

[4:06] office offline. You don't have

[4:07] to do this publicly, and we can

[4:07] come up with

[4:11] a plan to remediate the house

[4:11] and you know part of the, part

[4:11] of this is

[4:15] processes to what we want to do

[4:16] is make sure the house is taken

[4:16] care of

[4:20] for the neighbor, for the

[4:20] property and for the neighbors

[4:21] in the neighborhood

[4:24] and if there's a plan put

[4:25] together to, to do that, we'd be

[4:25] happy to work

[4:28] I would suggest is is contact

[4:29] the town

[4:31] attorney's office and they'll

[4:32] they'll work something out with

[4:32] you. All right,

[4:36] thank you Thank you so much for

[4:36] your time. Thank you.

[4:45] Robert Lamont.

[4:49] He said on the clock, please.

[4:49] Yeah. Uh

[4:52] MR. Lamont, if, if you get

[4:52] started, we'll, we'll take care

[4:53] of

[4:56] the clock for you. Thank

[5:06] you, sir.

[5:10] All right. I

[5:14] thank you for letting me speak.

[5:14] Um, you know.

[5:18] I got kind of caught up in this

[5:21] uh scenario unfortunately at

[5:23] my residence, good news is it's

[5:23] sold as

[5:27] of today, so, uh, and we got a

[5:27] good

[5:30] uh, a good number, my brother

[5:30] and I, so.

[5:34] This is because of the hard

[5:36] work of my mother and my father

[5:39] and, uh. They Purchase

[5:41] a piece of dirt back in 1965.

[5:45] Father, the architect

[5:48] my mom, a teacher, my father was

[5:51] also involved in the aerospace

[5:51] industry

[5:54] I MISS Him. It's been

[5:57] a year. My mom passed away

[5:59] in DECEMBER of 2023.

[6:04] However, my brother and I, um,

[6:06] Inherited gold, um, that, you

[6:06] know

[6:10] now we can

[6:13] live uh uh going forward, me at

[6:13] 63

[6:15] my wife, Carolina and.

[6:20] The nieces and nephews and

[6:23] and such, so I, I

[6:26] was very lucky my two parents

[6:28] some of you here MAY

[6:32] or MAY not have the same, but uh

[6:33] they worked hard.

[6:36] And and part of the scenario is,

[6:36] you know

[6:39] how does a young

[6:41] couple afford a $1

[6:44] million home with a, with a

[6:45] mortgage that MAY

[6:48] be somewhere between 7 or

[6:51] $10,000 a month. So new homes

[6:53] are being thought of or

[6:54] developed the

[6:57] 45 off of Jericho Turnpike

[7:00] the north side where the apple

[7:00] farm is

[7:02] Hopefully the apple trees don't

[7:03] get destroyed. But

[7:06] those homes are easily gonna go

[7:06] for

[7:09] 1 point and it's projected, it's

[7:13] probably gonna take a few years

[7:13] to build those

[7:16] 45 homes, but they're projecting

[7:20] $1.4 million of tax money and

[7:23] that's 31 over $31,000 a

[7:27] year, of course some of that

[7:27] money is gonna go to

[7:31] the state, probably 10 or 15,000

[7:32] of it. The rest, you

[7:36] know, the other 9 light items.

[7:36] On your tax bill.

[7:40] How does, how does somebody

[7:41] afford that? I, so.

[7:44] I do think there's a new concept

[7:45] now and, and

[7:48] I'm starting to agree with it,

[7:48] you know, rent a place for, you

[7:48] know, a

[7:52] two bedroom, 3500, take that

[7:52] other.

[7:56] 3500 a month and invest

[7:58] it in the sp 500 or

[8:01] whateverer you feel you want to

[8:01] invest in.

[8:05] Because $25,000 in 1965

[8:08] became $11.7 million today.

[8:12] Assuming The rule of 72

[8:17] ok, thank you, MR. Lamont. Those

[8:17] are

[8:21] all the public speakers we have

[8:21] signed up for public

[8:25] hearing number 2. Is there

[8:26] anybody else who'd like to weigh

[8:26] in a public

[8:30] hearing #2? Ok, that concludes

[8:30] public hearing number 2. Please

[8:30] call the

[8:34] notice for public hearing number

[8:35] 3. Public hearing number 3, the

[8:35] town board

[8:39] scheduled this public hearing to

[8:39] consider authorizing the

[8:39] supervisor to

[8:43] execute a license agreement for

[8:43] the use of a portion of town

[8:44] land and establishing

[8:48] covenants and restrictions for

[8:48] the property located at 602

[8:48] McKinley Terrace

[8:53] in Centerport. This is by order

[8:53] of the town board and ray town

[8:53] clerk. I

[9:04] have the affidavits of

[9:05] publication and posting in the

[9:05] Long Islander. Thank

[9:08] you. There's one speaker, Gerald

[9:09] Blum. Ok There you go. I was not

[9:09] referring

[9:13] to McKinley Terrace right here.

[9:13] It's to authorizes a supervisor

[9:14] to execute a

[9:17] license agreement proportion of

[9:18] town land. That's number 3. It

[9:18] doesn't say anything

[9:22] about McKinley Terrace. Yeah,

[9:22] this is, I believe me this is a

[9:26] uh a retaining wall that is

[9:26] encroaching on town land and in

[9:26] the

[9:30] PRESIDENT's streets, the

[9:31] retaining walls are Plentiful

[9:31] that's what

[9:35] that's about and why wasn't it

[9:35] specified in here? Because I've

[9:36] been

[9:40] you know. Suffolk County tax map

[9:40] is, is specified.

[9:44] Um, ok. Is there something, any

[9:44] particular interest in this?

[9:45] Yes, I was

[9:48] wondering if you're obfuscating

[9:49] by not

[9:51] putting that down, exactly what

[9:52] it was, because I don't know

[9:52] what it is.

[9:55] It says the town covenants

[9:56] restrictions, property. I have

[9:56] no

[10:00] idea what it would be, so that's

[10:00] why I'm asking. I think in

[10:04] in the town attorney can correct

[10:04] me if I'm wrong, but I think in,

[10:05] in

[10:09] in in, in simple terms, I think

[10:09] there's a, a retaining wall that

[10:09] encroaches

[10:13] on town property and rather than

[10:14] have the property owner demolish

[10:14] the retaining

[10:18] wall. We've come up with a uh a,

[10:18] a, a covenant and restriction on

[10:18] the property

[10:22] and the license agreement

[10:23] allowing the property owner to

[10:23] keep their retaining

[10:27] wall that encroaches on the

[10:27] property and compensate the town

[10:27] for whatever

[10:31] the encroachment is. Ok, that's

[10:32] what I was wondering, um, Could

[10:32] have been

[10:35] anything, so I'm just curious.

[10:36] All right, thank you. You're

[10:36] welcome.

[10:40] Ok. Uh, there's nobody else

[10:41] signed up for public hearing

[10:41] number 3. Is there

[10:44] anybody else that would like to

[10:45] speak on public hearing #3? Ok

[10:45] thank

[10:49] you. That, I think, let's see,

[10:50] we have public hearing number 4.

[10:50] Please read

[10:54] the notice for public hearing

[10:54] number 4. Thank you, MR.

[10:54] Supervisor. Just

[10:58] a point of order, Cheryl, um,

[10:59] the public hearing notice had it

[10:59] and if you

[11:03] read the actual resolution, it

[11:03] would tell you all that. The

[11:03] title is just that

[11:07] it's just a snippet of what's in

[11:07] the resolution, ok.

[11:12] Public hearing number 4, the

[11:13] town board scheduled this public

[11:13] hearing to

[11:16] consider adopting local law

[11:17] introductory number 28-2026.

[11:17] Amending the uniform

[11:21] traffic code of the town of

[11:21] Huntington Chapter 2, Article 4,

[11:22] Section 27

[11:25] Schedule g. By adding a stop

[11:25] sign on Mill Lane at

[11:28] the intersection of Prime Avenue

[11:29] in Huntington. This is by order

[11:29] of the

[11:32] town board Andrew Ray, a town

[11:33] clerk. I have the affidavits of

[11:33] publication

[11:36] and posting in the Long

[11:37] Islander. Thank you. There's

[11:37] nobody signed up for

[11:44] public hearing #4. Would anybody

[11:44] like to speak about the stop

[11:44] sign on Mill

[11:48] Lane. Other than the deputy town

[11:48] supervisor, would anybody else

[11:49] like to speak

[11:52] I've already heard enough about

[11:53] the stop sign from

[11:57] you. Anybody like to speak on

[11:57] public hearing number 4. Ok,

[11:57] that concludes

[12:01] public hearing number 4. He's

[12:02] called the public hearing number

[12:02] 5

[12:06] Public hearing number 5. The

[12:06] town board scheduled this public

[12:06] hearing to consider

[12:10] adopting local law introductory

[12:11] number 29-2026, amending

[12:15] the uniform traffic code of the

[12:15] town of Huntington chapter 2,

[12:15] Article 4

[12:19] Section 27, Schedule g. By

[12:19] adding stop signs at

[12:22] the following locations in

[12:23] Comak. Everyone just settle

[12:23] right in for

[12:26] a little while and here we go,

[12:26] Briar

[12:30] Place at the Northwest

[12:31] intersection of West Farms Lane.

[12:35] Brio Place at the southeast

[12:36] intersection of West Farms Lane.

[12:36] Cornfield Lane at

[12:40] the intersection of Hedgerow

[12:40] Lane. Hedgerow Lane at the

[12:44] Northwest intersection of West

[12:44] Farms Lane. Leeward Lane at

[12:48] the intersection of Wheatfield

[12:49] Lane, Locksley Court at the

[12:49] intersection of

[12:53] Wheatfield Lane, Pasteur Court

[12:53] at the intersection of Leeward

[12:57] Lane, Shelburne Lane at the

[12:58] intersection of Locksley

[13:02] Court Windward lane at the

[13:02] intersection of Wheatfield.

[13:03] Lane. This is by

[13:06] order of the town board Andrew

[13:07] Ray, a town clerk. I have the

[13:07] affidavits

[13:11] of, uh, publication and posting

[13:11] in the Long Islander. Ok,

[13:12] there's nobody

[13:16] signed up to speak on public

[13:16] hearing number 5. Is there

[13:16] anybody that would

[13:20] like to speak on public hearing

[13:21] number 5. Ok, that concludes

[13:21] public hearing

[13:25] number 5, and at this time I'll

[13:25] entertain a motion to close our

[13:25] town board

[13:29] public hearings or town board

[13:29] and open as our board of

[13:29] trustees 2 motion

[13:33] by COUNCILWOMAN Murray, seconded

[13:34] by COUNCILWOMAN Hebert. All in

[13:34] favor? Any

[13:38] opposed? Ok, we're now seated as

[13:38] our board of trustees, and there

[13:39] are 2 public

[13:42] hearings scheduled for the board

[13:43] of trustees. And I believe they

[13:43] pertain

[13:47] to the same property, so MR.

[13:47] Town clerk, if you is correct,

[13:47] please read

[13:51] both public hearing notices and

[13:52] any speakers can speak about

[13:52] both of them

[13:56] simultaneously. It would be my

[13:56] privilege board of trustees,

[13:56] public hearings.

[14:00] Public hearing number one. The

[14:01] board of trustees scheduled this

[14:01] public hearing

[14:05] to consider the granting of

[14:05] variances and the issuance of a

[14:06] special use

[14:09] permit pursuant permit pursuant

[14:10] to the permit pursuant marine

[14:10] conservation

[14:14] law with Patrick and Janine

[14:14] Tomlinson for the use of

[14:15] underwater lands as

[14:18] is necessary for the

[14:19] construction and use of a

[14:19] residential fixed pier slash

[14:23] floating dock assembly consists

[14:23] consisting of a 4 ft by 92.5 ft

[14:24] fixed wood

[14:27] pier connected by a 3 ft by 30

[14:28] ft aluminum ramp to 2 6 ft by 30

[14:28] ft wood

[14:32] floating docks. Overall length

[14:32] of the residential fixed pier

[14:33] slash floating dock

[14:37] assembly is to measure 164.5 ft

[14:37] in length. The project

[14:41] site is located at 271 Little

[14:41] Neck Road in Centerport

[14:46] This is by order of the board of

[14:46] trustees, Andrew Ray, a town

[14:46] clerk. I have

[14:50] the affidavits of publication

[14:50] and post. In the Long Islander.

[14:51] I also have

[14:54] the affidavit of mailing to all

[14:55] property owners located within

[14:55] 500 ft of

[14:59] the exterior boundaries of the

[14:59] subject property. Public hearing

[14:59] number 2.

[15:03] The town board scheduled this

[15:04] public hearing to consider the

[15:04] execution of

[15:08] a license agreement pursuant to

[15:09] the Marine Conservation law with

[15:09] Patrick

[15:13] and Janine Tomlinson for the use

[15:13] of underwater lands as is

[15:13] necessary for

[15:17] the construction and use of a

[15:17] residential fixed pier slash

[15:17] floating dock

[15:21] assembly. Consisting of a 4 ft

[15:22] by 92.5 ft fixed wood pier

[15:22] connected by a

[15:26] 3 ft by 30 ft aluminum ramp to 2

[15:26] 6-foot by 30-foot

[15:29] wood floating docks overall

[15:30] length of the residential fixed

[15:30] pier slash floating

[15:33] dock assembly is to measure

[15:34] 164.5 ft in

[15:37] length. The project site is

[15:38] located at 271 Little Neck

[15:42] Road in Centerport. This is by

[15:42] order of the board of trustees,

[15:42] Andrew Ray,

[15:46] a town clerk. I have the

[15:47] affidavits of publication and

[15:47] posting in the Long

[15:51] Islander. Thank you. There we

[15:51] have several speakers signed up

[15:51] for public

[15:55] hearings number 1 and 2 on our

[15:56] board of trustees agenda. The

[15:56] first would

[16:00] be Ryan Brown followed by Jeff

[16:00] Bartels.

[16:03] Good afternoon, I believe it's

[16:03] MR. PRESIDENT on the board of

[16:03] trustees. Everyone

[16:07] else is still, unfortunately,

[16:08] just board members, but I'm Ryan

[16:08] Brown of

[16:11] Breslin and Brown pc 44 Elm

[16:12] Street, Suite 5, Huntington, New

[16:12] York, 11743.

[16:16] Trustees. The trustees. Ok. Uh

[16:18] we're here today seeking to

[16:19] construct a fixed pier

[16:22] with a floating dock, uh, that

[16:22] is the

[16:25] clerk had stated, we require

[16:29] 2 variances as well as a, uh,

[16:29] Special use permit

[16:32] and licensing agreement, the

[16:33] variances will be for the

[16:33] overall length of

[16:36] the pier, well as for the length

[16:37] of the floats attached to the

[16:37] end of the

[16:41] pier. I'd just like to note for

[16:41] the board that variances were

[16:41] granted at 265

[16:45] and 279 Little Neck Road. That's

[16:45] the property directly to the

[16:46] south of

[16:49] this property, as well as the

[16:50] property two houses to the north

[16:54] um, those docks were 165 ft in

[16:54] length and

[16:57] 170 ft in length respectively,

[16:57] whereas this application is

[17:00] 164.5 ft, as the clerk stated.

[17:01] It's part of this project, the

[17:05] seawall and the ramp will also

[17:05] be repaired, but there's no

[17:06] relief that we're

[17:09] requesting from the board at

[17:10] this time for that. Uh, we've

[17:10] already received

[17:14] our present our approvals from

[17:15] the dec and from the Army Corps

[17:15] of Engineer.

[17:18] And I have Dan Hall from Land

[17:19] Use Ecological Services here

[17:19] who's signed

[17:23] up to speak, they can speak to

[17:23] the technical aspects of the

[17:24] application

[17:27] itself, numbers as as far as

[17:28] what the depth at the end of the

[17:28] dock would

[17:32] be, but the real reason that

[17:32] we're here is the Board often

[17:33] sees with these

[17:36] applications is we need to have

[17:37] the dock far enough out so the

[17:37] boat can

[17:41] float at low tide and won't be

[17:41] sitting on the sea floor. I'd be

[17:42] happy to

[17:45] answer any questions that you

[17:46] MAY have, but I think I just

[17:46] covered the basics

[17:50] and any of the specific aspects

[17:50] that you MAY have questions for

[17:51] MR. Hall

[17:55] will be able to answer. Ok, any,

[17:55] any questions from the board?

[17:56] Ok. Thank

[17:59] you, MR. Brown. Jeff Bartels.

[18:00] Wow. Jeff Bartel's 10 Broad Path

[18:00] a fraud

[18:04] Lloyd Harbor, um, listen, uh.

[18:04] Now the clock's running

[18:08] That guy was just speaking that

[18:08] whole time. The clock was still

[18:09] 3 minutes

[18:12] the entire time. Ok, so. I, I,

[18:13] once in a while

[18:16] I watch the tv and, and see

[18:16] your, it seems like you guys are

[18:19] giving out dock permits, every

[18:19] time

[18:22] I tune in to the tv. So.

[18:26] My questions are.

[18:29] Do the, do these people have to

[18:31] ensure the dock and.

[18:35] The peer Because You

[18:38] have these storms. Can come

[18:38] through.

[18:42] And Who's inspecting like

[18:45] uh, the chains and stuff that go

[18:45] around

[18:49] the pilings that are fixed, you

[18:49] know, and, and if

[18:53] you have a dock break loose,

[18:54] especially with a boat. Attached

[18:57] to it, the windage. That

[19:00] that creates So now, I worked at

[19:03] Sawanica Corinthianian Yacht

[19:03] Club for 15 years

[19:06] and dealt with all

[19:09] the moorings and everything else

[19:12] and actually this watch was a

[19:12] gift

[19:15] ft boat broke loose off

[19:18] its mooring and I was able

[19:20] to rescue it, intercept and

[19:23] rescue it before it's smashed

[19:23] into the, the

[19:26] docks at Fiddler at, um,

[19:27] Sawanica Corinthian Yacht Club

[19:32] saving GOD knows how much money,

[19:32] so my question to

[19:36] you is, is that you're setting

[19:36] up all this liability.

[19:40] And who, who is, who's gonna pay

[19:41] if this, you know, does

[19:45] this guy have to get insurance

[19:45] not only on his boat

[19:49] but on the dock and the pier,

[19:50] because if you have like even in

[19:54] winter storms. You, I've seen

[19:54] pilings because of

[19:58] tidal movement get pulled right

[19:59] out of the bottom. And now

[20:03] they're floating around and you,

[20:03] and I remember Fred Uvina, the

[20:07] harbor master for the town of

[20:08] Huntington, he used to have to

[20:08] go and

[20:12] lassue them and tow them in to

[20:12] get them properly disposed of.

[20:12] So

[20:16] you're setting up all this

[20:16] possible. Damage and

[20:21] everything else and yet and yet

[20:21] where's the accountability?

[20:25] Who's who's gonna actually pay

[20:26] for that stuff. So you

[20:30] know Mother Nature is for

[20:30] instance, this, this

[20:34] the sandbar going out to the old

[20:35] original lighthouse of Lloyd

[20:39] Harbor, which I was alluding to

[20:40] last month has eroded away. But

[20:40] if you

[20:43] go onto that land. There is

[20:46] Pilings and dock debris and

[20:48] everything else, so you have

[20:52] these derelict. Well, ok. On

[20:53] Monday

[20:55] I was at Britannia Boatyard.

[20:55] They're

[20:59] chopping up boats. Ok, I'll go

[20:59] continue with

[21:04] the 2nd thing. All right, thank

[21:04] you I need

[21:07] another 3 minutes, right, for

[21:07] the next hearing? No, they're,

[21:08] we called them

[21:11] together. You can speak. You get

[21:12] 3 minutes. Thank you. Point well

[21:12] made.

[21:15] All right, uh, MR. Hall.

[21:18] Dan Hall, good afternoon

[21:20] Speaker #3 Dan Hall land use

[21:21] ecological Services for

[21:24] Dan Hall, good afternoon,

[21:25] Speaker #3 Dan Hall land use

[21:25] ecological Services

[21:29] for the agent for the owner, MR.

[21:29] Tomlinson. Um, I just wanted to

[21:30] bring up

[21:33] that, uh, for the stock, the

[21:33] town is requiring that the owner

[21:34] participate

[21:37] in a, uh, licensing agreement

[21:38] and part of our license

[21:38] agreement as a whole

[21:42] harmless. So, uh, that'll cover

[21:42] the insurance and the, um,

[21:43] aspects of the

[21:46] floats and the floats are only

[21:47] going to be installed during the

[21:47] boating

[21:51] season they'll be removed during

[21:51] the winter and the offseason

[21:52] when a lot

[21:55] of the nor'easters and the bad

[21:56] weather nights it occurs, which

[21:56] is like 90%

[22:00] of the time when floats and

[22:00] piles get dislodged and cause

[22:01] problems. So,

[22:04] uh, majority of stock, that's

[22:05] why the dock is designed the way

[22:05] it is. And

[22:09] the length is required. Uh, one

[22:09] of the requirements, variants

[22:10] will be needed

[22:13] for the length because of the,

[22:14] uh, Conditions encountered with

[22:14] the water

[22:18] depths. And the water depths

[22:18] have to get out, you know, you

[22:19] have to get

[22:22] the dock to a certain water

[22:23] depth, 2 ft at the landward end,

[22:23] and it's almost

[22:27] 4 or 5 ft at the seaward end.

[22:27] And as part of the dec and the

[22:27] Army Corps

[22:32] reviewed this extensively and

[22:32] they've required that the dock

[22:33] be chopped.

[22:36] So that the flute does not hit

[22:37] the bottom during tides that are

[22:37] extremely

[22:40] low and cause damage to, uh, The

[22:41] bottom, the independent

[22:41] community. And,

[22:45] um That's pretty much all I got

[22:45] to say at this point with the

[22:46] dock. I mean,

[22:49] we have all the permits. We did,

[22:50] we did the. Do next door, the

[22:50] Carrillo's

[22:54] at, uh, 265 and we did the

[22:54] design for this stock. It's the

[22:55] exact same design,

[22:58] the exact same length. The end

[22:59] of the dock matches up to the

[22:59] exact same

[23:03] length as Tomlinson's proposed

[23:03] doc. And, um, it's been reviewed

[23:04] extensively

[23:07] by all the federal and state

[23:08] agencies, as well as the town

[23:08] now. And I think

[23:12] we're all set as far as, uh,

[23:13] Meeting all the requirements and

[23:13] the approvals.

[23:16] Ok. Thank you very much. Any

[23:17] questions? Ok, great. Thank you.

[23:17] Ok, that concludes.

[23:21] Our public hearings I'll intend

[23:21] a motion to close our board of

[23:22] trustees

[23:25] and reopen as our town board

[23:25] motion by

[23:28] trustee Hebert, seconded by

[23:28] Truste Marie

[23:32] all in favor? Any opposed?

[23:32] Motion carries. We are

[23:35] now seated as our town board,

[23:36] and at this time, we will go

[23:39] straight into our public

[23:40] portion, and we have several

[23:40] speakers

[23:43] signed up to speak. Starting

[23:44] with Anna Finn

[23:54] followed by Jeff Bartels.

[24:01] Sorry.

[24:04] Uh, good afternoon, thank you.

[24:07] Good afternoon. I'm here to, uh,

[24:07] speak about the

[24:10] uh, property tax

[24:13] cap being raised. I noticed it

[24:13] was taken

[24:18] off the agenda, but I'm here to

[24:18] speak on it. Um,

[24:22] I just wanna express my

[24:22] opposition to it. Uh

[24:26] Long Island already has some of

[24:27] the highest property taxes in

[24:27] the nation and

[24:31] families and seniors are on

[24:31] fixed incomes and cannot

[24:35] easily absorb an above tax cap.

[24:35] Uh, so

[24:38] we are forced to tighten our

[24:41] household belts every single day

[24:44] we expect local government to do

[24:44] the same

[24:47] uh, rather than just taking the

[24:48] easy way out and passing. A tax

[24:51] cap override. The town should

[24:54] be using cash reserves

[24:56] before asking taxpayers for

[24:57] more, uh, piercing the

[25:00] tax cap sets a

[25:02] dangerous precedent raise raises

[25:03] baseline tax

[25:07] uh, rate permanently,

[25:07] compounding financial burden on

[25:11] the homeowners for years to come

[25:11] before

[25:14] the board even considers voting

[25:15] on the override

[25:18] uh, the state limit

[25:21] you should exhaust every single

[25:23] dollar flexible, unassigned

[25:27] surplus, um, you should.

[25:29] Do internal efficiency reviews

[25:32] audits, um. You know

[25:36] such as um discretionary

[25:36] spending

[25:39] Recent retiree benefit

[25:39] structures

[25:43] developer tax breaks rather

[25:45] than balancing the shortfalls on

[25:45] the backs of the

[25:50] resident taxpayers. So I'm just

[25:50] asking that it be

[25:54] a no on the tax cap override.

[25:54] Thank you.

[25:57] Thank you. Jeff Bartels

[26:01] followed by Mayor Mark Dara. All

[26:05] right, Jeff Bartel's 10 Broad

[26:06] Path, Lloyd Freud Harbor

[26:09] New York. All right, I'm back

[26:09] and

[26:12] um better photograph, uh, blown

[26:12] up and guess what

[26:16] Basically, it's um over 100

[26:17] years

[26:19] ago when they built the causeway

[26:22] uh, they left out culverts. So

[26:22] it's amazing, you

[26:26] know, right here at this podium

[26:26] years

[26:28] ago I named, renamed the dec

[26:31] Department of Environmental

[26:31] Corruption or Department

[26:35] of Environmental contamination,

[26:35] the

[26:38] epa is the Environmental

[26:38] Poisoning Agency, blah

[26:41] blah blah. So here it is, you're

[26:44] you're, you, your parking

[26:47] lot, since it's conception,

[26:50] Dumps 2 football fields

[26:53] right into the marsh. So I saw

[26:53] one

[26:57] of your great grand productions

[26:57] about the

[27:00] restoration of Crab Meadow Beach

[27:01] Marsh. Well, let me

[27:04] tell you something, you gotta

[27:06] start working with the villager

[27:07] lawyer at Harbor, and

[27:11] you have to start restoring the

[27:11] West

[27:13] Neck Beach, uh, not only the To

[27:13] the

[27:17] town of Huntington, Lloyd

[27:18] Harbor, your beaches

[27:22] your estuaries, and your

[27:22] marshlands, so

[27:25] you see this is your property,

[27:25] and I explained

[27:29] how this estuary was filled in

[27:31] in 2018. Guess what? This isn't

[27:32] the bath Club. Yeah

[27:35] it's the bath Club, but guess

[27:36] who owns the land of the

[27:40] Bath Club Lloyd Harbor. So you

[27:40] see

[27:42] between Lloyd Harbor, are you,

[27:43] the town of Huntington?

[27:46] You got to reopen that estuary

[27:47] because

[27:49] it's choking off. Now, the other

[27:50] thing is that with the blessing

[27:53] of dec, Gene Thatcher has been

[27:56] filling in using the sand that

[27:56] they're supposed to

[28:00] put on roads. Well, she, she has

[28:01] a truck to the beach and

[28:05] you can actually see this bulge

[28:05] here is where.

[28:09] The sand is. Plugging off or

[28:09] blocking it off.

[28:14] That same estuary. So, if you

[28:14] really want to do

[28:17] something here, folks. You need

[28:17] to put a stop

[28:20] work order on the culverts for

[28:23] the road going to the West Neck

[28:23] Beach

[28:27] and you gotta make sure that

[28:28] they're gonna be big enough

[28:32] to handle when Lloyd Harbor.

[28:32] Puts in the

[28:35] culverts underneath Lloyd Harbor

[28:35] Road to act as a

[28:38] pressure relief valve so that

[28:41] the causeway does not flood

[28:44] which prevents the fire

[28:44] department, the ambulance

[28:47] and everyone get into my house

[28:50] but also my

[28:52] property values. So you guys,

[28:53] you know

[28:56] I saw your big production about

[28:57] the marsh

[29:01] well, when do I get a chance to

[29:02] do. My production

[29:08] ok, my presentation with more

[29:08] time.

[29:11] Mayor Mark Dara, followed by

[29:11] Eddie o'Brien Carroll.

[29:16] Folks. Oh, ok.

[29:30] Sorry. It's Uh

[29:35] Hey Mark. It's a

[29:38] tough act to follow, MR. Mayor

[29:38] the best

[29:41] I can. Uh, good afternoon,

[29:42] Supervisor Smith and the

[29:45] town board. I am Mayor Mark Mark

[29:45] Daw of Huntington Bay. Prior to

[29:45] reading

[29:49] my statement today, I would like

[29:49] to request the board's attention

[29:50] to the

[29:53] informational and graphic packet

[29:53] that I have supplied to all

[29:54] board members.

[29:57] This packet is intended to

[29:58] visually represent much of what

[29:58] are the key points

[30:02] in my statement. My hope that

[30:02] the package contents will form a

[30:02] basis for

[30:06] a more lengthy graphic

[30:06] presentation at a future town

[30:07] board meeting. Um,

[30:11] and this is all about the impact

[30:11] of docks within the village of

[30:12] Huntington

[30:15] Bay. Uh, the recreational

[30:16] aesthetics, the recent

[30:16] installation of private

[30:20] dock structures along the

[30:20] Huntington Bay waterfront has

[30:20] significantly impacted

[30:24] recreational opportunities,

[30:25] aesthetic, and scenic resources.

[30:25] That are vitally

[30:29] important to Huntington Bay and

[30:29] the village's character. One of

[30:29] the most

[30:33] popular historic, uh, forms of

[30:34] recreation for both village and

[30:34] town residents

[30:38] is and has been to walk along

[30:38] the Huntington Bay shoreline to

[30:39] place on a

[30:42] private docks creates physical

[30:43] impediments and degrades the

[30:43] aesthetics of

[30:47] the bayfront. Private dock

[30:47] development has a potential

[30:48] negatively impact

[30:51] the village's waterfront in the

[30:52] form of degraded views and

[30:52] diminished view

[30:56] and the enjoyment of waterfront

[30:56] by residents and members and the

[30:56] town's

[31:00] public. The Bay is also used

[31:01] extensively by village residents

[31:01] as well as

[31:05] town residents for recreational

[31:05] water sports such as kayaks,

[31:06] paddle boards,

[31:09] kiteboards, as well as swimmers.

[31:10] These stock structures pose a

[31:10] safety issue,

[31:14] and they can represent obstacles

[31:14] both on the beach and the

[31:14] waterfront and

[31:18] the bay itself. In addition, An

[31:19] extremely important they all

[31:19] have the likely

[31:23] potential to present obstacles

[31:23] to emergency watercraft.

[31:24] Environmental but

[31:27] environmentally, the village of

[31:28] Huntington Bay coastal area

[31:28] includes the

[31:32] southwest portion of Huntington

[31:32] Bay, significant coastal

[31:33] habitat. I'm watching

[31:36] the clock and this area

[31:37] important is waterfowl and

[31:37] wintering area. It's

[31:41] a feeding area for nearby

[31:42] nesting colonies of shore birds

[31:42] and sand City,

[31:45] Eaton's neck, and is highly

[31:46] productive area for marine

[31:46] finfish and shellfish.

[31:50] It's important in the village to

[31:50] prevent the adverse impacts of

[31:51] the biological

[31:55] productivity of this area and

[31:55] main a high high water quality

[31:55] to protect

[31:59] the shell fishery, including

[31:59] efforts Controlled discharges of

[32:00] vessel wastes,

[32:03] sewage effluents, and upland

[32:04] runoff. This includes minimizing

[32:04] or preventing

[32:08] the construction of shoreline

[32:08] structures such as box piers,

[32:09] bulkheads, and

[32:12] resentments along the village

[32:13] shoreline of Huntington Bay.

[32:13] Such construction

[32:17] actions MAY likely result in the

[32:18] loss of productive areas. The

[32:18] initial placement

[32:22] of piles in the bottom impacts

[32:22] beneath the habitat and as a

[32:22] resultil disturbance

[32:26] can create a long-term impact.

[32:26] Long-term permanent multiple do

[32:27] placements

[32:30] will likely result in impacts to

[32:31] the longshore deposition of

[32:31] erosion and

[32:35] sediment. It's important to

[32:35] consider the impacts of multiple

[32:36] docks and cumulative

[32:40] impact rather than approval of a

[32:40] single dock while accepting the

[32:40] idea of

[32:44] a homeowner's 100 ft plus long

[32:45] pier into the bay is not a

[32:45] significant structure.

[32:49] As illustrated by the package

[32:49] supplied to the board, are

[32:49] resulting in significant

[32:53] long-term negative. Impact.

[32:54] Private docks along the Bayfront

[32:54] generally need

[32:58] to be relatively long to reach

[32:58] areas where low tide water

[32:58] depths will be

[33:02] less than 4 ft. The docks

[33:02] installed over the last 5 years

[33:03] have extended

[33:07] over 125 ft. With the fixed pier

[33:07] sections reaching approximately

[33:07] 60 ft.

[33:11] The town of Huntington has

[33:11] repeatedly approved longer

[33:12] period, even though

[33:15] they exceeded, even though they

[33:16] exceed the towns maximum code of

[33:16] 100 ft.

[33:20] These recent docks have avoided,

[33:20] uh, Bay Village jurisdiction,

[33:21] the installation

[33:24] of temporary ramps resting in

[33:25] the shoreline, the claim being

[33:25] the ramp is

[33:29] resting, not a structure. The

[33:29] central point of these private

[33:30] docks. Or longer

[33:34] than the town'szone code and

[33:34] allows the method of access from

[33:34] the shoreline

[33:38] in questionable terms of

[33:38] stability. As I there's a,

[33:39] there's a potential,

[33:43] you'll see it in one of my maps

[33:43] to construct over 50 private

[33:43] docks along

[33:47] the Huntington Bay shoreline,

[33:47] multiple single-family home

[33:48] peers were totally

[33:51] and permanently change the

[33:52] shoreline of the village as

[33:52] viewed from both

[33:56] the land and the water would

[33:56] clearly impact residents'

[33:57] ability to walk the

[34:01] intertidal area. Residents will

[34:01] be walking under a pile

[34:02] supported over floating

[34:05] docks and anchor docks.

[34:06] Huntington Bay is village.

[34:06] Village is currently

[34:09] working on an lwrt of Huntington

[34:10] is working on its own lwrp in

[34:10] the spirit

[34:14] of full cooperation, I'm on the

[34:15] town's Advisory board. Um, to

[34:15] add my input.

[34:18] That I MAY have since the

[34:19] village is 2/3 into the lwrp

[34:19] process, and it's

[34:23] important to note that

[34:24] Huntington Bay Village has an

[34:24] executed contract and

[34:28] at a stage somewhat ahead of the

[34:28] town lwrp. Accordingly, as

[34:29] mayor, I'm asking

[34:32] that while these documents are

[34:33] being drafted and approved, the

[34:33] town grant

[34:36] a temporary, and I repeat,

[34:37] temporary easement to the

[34:37] village encompassing

[34:41] a 100 ft area from the mean high

[34:42] water north out into the bay.

[34:42] The easement

[34:46] would be subject to renew

[34:46] renewal by the town on a

[34:46] two-year basis with full

[34:50] termination. Renewal being based

[34:51] upon the completion of the

[34:51] village's lwrp

[34:55] which is estimated to be about 2

[34:55] years. Jointly, the two LWRPs

[34:55] will establish

[34:59] conditions. Um Which would

[34:59] control the construction of new

[35:00] docks and the

[35:03] village Bay Shore. The village

[35:04] does not oppose all current

[35:04] historically

[35:08] present bayfront docks. Docks

[35:08] are not constructed, are

[35:09] constructed and maintained

[35:12] by Huntington Bay Beach

[35:13] Association to access moorings

[35:13] and function swimming

[35:17] docks, in our opinion, are

[35:18] reasonable. The town maintained

[35:18] regulates. The

[35:22] moorings and the number of

[35:22] associated association peers out

[35:22] into the bay

[35:26] at PRESIDENT Limited. We think

[35:26] that's a reasonable compromise

[35:27] with respect

[35:31] to dock construction along the

[35:31] bayfront. The village is

[35:31] generally supported

[35:35] daca applications in the harbor

[35:36] side. The ongoing lwrp process

[35:36] should necessitate

[35:39] the village and town to work

[35:40] together. We cannot and should

[35:40] not establish

[35:44] new policies and separate

[35:44] efforts as mayor, I want to work

[35:45] with the town.

[35:48] I believe we can jointly

[35:49] establish lwrp policies which

[35:49] are address waterfront

[35:53] resident needs. While at the

[35:54] same time respecting the

[35:54] environment and recreational

[35:58] residents of the Bay Area. The

[35:58] village needs time for the lwrp

[35:59] process to

[36:02] come to completion. And the

[36:02] creation of an of an easement

[36:03] overlays ensures

[36:07] that the time I provided. At the

[36:07] time is provided. I understand

[36:07] this is

[36:11] a public comment portion, but

[36:12] I'm asking the board consider my

[36:12] request,

[36:15] and I assume that it would have

[36:16] to be presented at a public

[36:16] hearing in the

[36:20] nenext board meeting in a village

[36:21] of 57575 homes. There are only

[36:21] 44 homes

[36:24] requesting doc applications with

[36:25] 99 residents against it, um,

[36:25] submitted,

[36:31] The lwrp boundaries you see. And

[36:32] the one thing I'll just finish

[36:32] up, one

[36:36] thing I'm very proud of since

[36:36] becoming mayor is the improved

[36:36] relationship

[36:40] we've developed with the town of

[36:41] Huntington. I made it a priority

[36:41] to open

[36:45] the lines of communication and

[36:45] build a strong working

[36:46] relationship with

[36:49] town officials. We've been able

[36:50] to communicate more directly,

[36:50] work together,

[36:54] and address issues in a

[36:54] productive way. I think that

[36:55] relationship has been

[36:58] a real benefit to the village

[36:59] and our residents. I thank you

[36:59] for the. Um,

[37:03] there's a lot to unpack there,

[37:03] so why don't we make an

[37:04] appointment? We'll

[37:07] sit down. We'll, we'll go

[37:08] through it at length. Sounds

[37:08] good. Thank you very

[37:12] much. Eddie o'Brien Carroll,

[37:12] followed by Cheryl Blum. Eddie

[37:13] o'Brien Carroll,

[37:16] Huntington, I'd add a new

[37:17] committeeman for the

[37:17] Conservative Party here in

[37:21] town. I am here again about the

[37:21] African American museum. This

[37:21] museum is

[37:26] a patronage project. Veronique

[37:26] Bailey was hired as a contractor

[37:26] while she

[37:30] was PRESIDENT Of the Huntington

[37:30] naacp, the town board and the

[37:31] anti-bias

[37:34] task force put her in charge of

[37:35] the social justice ambassador

[37:35] program at

[37:39] in schools. Now she has been

[37:39] appointed to this museum

[37:40] project. Bruce Segal,

[37:43] appointed by the town board as

[37:44] a. On to the anti-bias task

[37:44] force is also

[37:48] on the museum board. Kevin

[37:48] Thorburn, the six-figure

[37:49] salaried human services

[37:52] director who oversees the

[37:53] anti-bias task force and

[37:53] minority Affairs division

[37:57] has been made museum director

[37:57] and serves as its treasurer.

[37:58] Black Americans

[38:01] are 4% of Huntington's

[38:02] population. I do not buy that

[38:02] the average black American

[38:06] was demanding this museum

[38:06] nonprofits, bureaucrats, and the

[38:07] anti-bias task

[38:10] force were. Now I mentioned that

[38:11] the naacp has supported.

[38:11] Reparations for

[38:15] slavery since 1991, longer than

[38:15] I've been alive. How

[38:16] fascinating. Here's

[38:19] another beauty, the group also

[38:20] took political money from

[38:20] Coca-Cola to brand

[38:24] a soda tax racist, a campaign

[38:24] which worked. So in addition to

[38:25] its politics,

[38:28] the organization has also had a

[38:29] record of political blackmail,

[38:29] as you are

[38:33] ready to hand their pet

[38:33] patronage project. After my last

[38:34] speech, luckily

[38:37] still circulating locally on

[38:38] TikTok. I was banned from the

[38:38] Huntington Community

[38:42] Matters Facebook page. They

[38:42] insist they are not the

[38:43] government so they can.

[38:46] Sensor. Is that healthy for free

[38:47] speech in Huntington, however,

[38:47] especially

[38:51] when I'm trying to speak to

[38:51] residents who I know exist, who

[38:52] do not want

[38:55] the character or politics of

[38:56] this museum here. The Huntington

[38:56] establishment

[39:00] is on par with that attitude.

[39:00] However, the Republican

[39:01] supervisor slandered

[39:05] my speech on JULY 14th as

[39:05] abhorrent and repugnant. Tracy

[39:06] Edwards, a national

[39:09] naacp member and Hochel's la

[39:10] chair came here last month and

[39:10] has been insisting

[39:16] we must accept the museum

[39:16] because of. Huntington's

[39:17] colonial sins and racist

[39:25] Facebook posters, she believes

[39:25] the one she's being silenced.

[39:25] She thinks

[39:29] she's being silenced. It's fake

[39:30] news day fawns over her.

[39:30] Meanwhile, the

[39:34] school district is prepared to

[39:34] bus children to the naacp

[39:35] project. This project

[39:38] is top-down cultural imperialism

[39:39] against the character of

[39:39] Huntington, pushed

[39:43] by nonprofits, bureaucrats,

[39:43] Republicans, Democrats, the

[39:43] school district,

[39:47] the anti-bias task force fake

[39:48] news Day, and the CHAIRWOMAN Of

[39:48] la. Thank

[39:52] you. Cheryl Blom, followed by

[39:52] David Weins. Weinstem. Westman.

[39:52] I'm here to

[39:56] speak in favor of the African

[39:57] American museum. I can't wait to

[39:57] see it up.

[40:01] Ok. I have several points I just

[40:01] want to bring up. I don't think

[40:01] we're gonna

[40:05] have time for a discussion, but

[40:06] in, uh, 2026-436, we're

[40:06] authorizing the

[40:10] execution of an interim

[40:10] settlement agreement with the

[40:11] Long Island Power

[40:14] Authority, um, some of us don't

[40:15] know what this settlement

[40:15] agreement is and

[40:19] we're a little bit curious, so

[40:19] that's something I wanted to

[40:19] bring up. I

[40:23] also wanted to ask about what's

[40:24] going on with Manor Field. Manor

[40:24] Farm, um,

[40:28] because Starflower was kicked

[40:28] out and we are awarding a

[40:29] license agreement

[40:32] for community or educational

[40:33] proposals for the utilization of

[40:33] the house

[40:37] buildings, and Manor Farm Park

[40:37] and we don't really know what's

[40:37] going on

[40:41] there, what kind of development

[40:42] is going on. I mean, we have a

[40:42] problem with

[40:46] Fairmeadow Park and. We don't

[40:46] know what's going on with Manor

[40:46] Farm Park,

[40:50] which was a um Which is a

[40:51] delightful little piece of of

[40:51] property, so we

[40:55] want to know the other thing is

[40:55] on 202-6447, um, we are.

[40:55] Considering a special

[40:59] use permit cornerstone Melville.

[41:00] To allow the development of a

[41:00] mixed-use

[41:04] property located on the north

[41:04] side of Bayliss Road. East of

[41:04] Maxis Road.

[41:08] In Melville and I'm just curious

[41:09] if the cornerstone is going to

[41:09] blend in

[41:13] with the other one that we

[41:13] agreed to last year, um, is

[41:13] there going to be

[41:17] It's supposed to look like a

[41:18] community, it's supposed to look

[41:18] like a little

[41:22] town where you got the

[41:22] cornerstone here and you have

[41:22] the other one over

[41:26] there still proper steal equity

[41:27] properties there, cornerstone

[41:27] here, just

[41:31] wondering how they're gonna look

[41:31] aesthetically. And also there is

[41:31] a.

[41:35] Amendment to the Town Code

[41:36] regarding financial impact

[41:36] agreements with

[41:40] the school districts for certain

[41:40] mixed-use developments

[41:44] which probably relates to the

[41:44] Melville Town Center

[41:47] overlay district, but we don't

[41:48] really know what those

[41:51] financial impact agreements with

[41:52] the school districts are

[41:55] and I know this has come up

[41:56] before and it was going to be

[41:56] looked into, I think

[42:00] Doctor Bernardo was gonna look

[42:01] into it and Jen Hebert said

[42:01] she'd look into

[42:05] it. But you're gonna just adopt

[42:05] it and we don't even know what

[42:06] it's about.

[42:09] So those are the ones that I

[42:09] wanted people to be aware of and

[42:10] ask

[42:14] questions and, um, good luck.

[42:14] Thank you, David

[42:21] Westman, followed by Jim Darcy.

[42:23] David Wessman, a longtime

[42:24] resident. I want to talk about

[42:27] tax pack, uh, you're hurting

[42:30] uh, seniors and you're hurting

[42:30] young people by doing this

[42:34] test pack thing. Um, now I hear

[42:34] you wanna, you

[42:38] wanna put turf down in, in a

[42:39] breezy park. I mean, what are

[42:39] you getting

[42:43] the money from. But that's steep

[42:43] money. Ok, ok

[42:46] fine. Anyway, you're hurting it,

[42:46] hurting the

[42:50] uh, excuse me, thank you, Steve

[42:50] Stern, if you're

[42:54] watching, and, and Carl Hastie

[42:55] or the Speaker of the Assembly

[42:59] 111 each. Ok, I want to know

[42:59] where it came from. Ok, thank

[42:59] you. Anyway,

[43:03] you're hurting the tag, you're

[43:04] hurting the, you know, seniors.

[43:04] I can't,

[43:08] you know, you're living on a

[43:08] pension. These guys are on a

[43:08] pension. We are,

[43:12] you know, and we don't have that

[43:12] kind of money to jack up. I'm

[43:13] sure there's

[43:17] something else you can do, you

[43:17] know, maybe you can find

[43:17] something else,

[43:21] find money somewhere else. I

[43:22] don't know where, but you know,

[43:22] maybe taking

[43:25] that uh salary cut and some of

[43:26] the, or some of your

[43:26] administrators we didn't

[43:30] like we did in the school

[43:31] district, remember that? Ok, so

[43:31] I mean you know

[43:35] anything would help. I mean, you

[43:35] know, these people, I lived here

[43:35] 71 years.

[43:39] My family's been here over 100

[43:39] years. My family, I have the

[43:40] biggest family

[43:48] in Henton. I mean, you know, I

[43:49] don't wanna move out of here, so

[43:49] you know,

[43:58] please do something, ok? Thank

[43:59] you. Thank you. Jim Darcy,

[43:59] followed by Denise

[44:03] Schwartz. It Good afternoon. My

[44:03] name's James Darcy. Um, I

[44:08] wanted to bring up about the

[44:08] taxes, uh.

[44:11] I'm like blown away that you're

[44:12] planning on raising the cap.

[44:15] I don't hear any talk about

[44:18] what we can do to shrink it.

[44:20] I pay about 23% of

[44:23] my fixed income. On

[44:26] town taxes and school, which I

[44:29] think is Outrageous in its own.

[44:31] But, uh, Are

[44:34] we working on, you know,

[44:34] reducing the taxes

[44:37] I, I have to

[44:40] uh, me and my wife were just

[44:40] discussing about

[44:44] moving of course we are on a

[44:45] fixed income. And I have my

[44:45] daughter and

[44:49] my grandkids here. And I don't

[44:50] want to move south. You know

[44:53] so I could afford to live. I

[44:54] grew up here, lived here all my

[44:54] life.

[44:58] So my thing is, you know. I

[44:58] don't know if

[45:01] you need like a, a Dodge, you

[45:01] know

[45:05] committee where not going after

[45:05] not talking

[45:09] about fraud, talking about how

[45:10] to shrink it. Because to me I

[45:15] think what you'll see over the

[45:15] next, uh, several weeks is, is

[45:15] you'll see

[45:19] a budget that's going to be

[45:19] under the tax cap. All right,

[45:19] just, and I'll

[45:23] tell you bluntly, I, I. It it

[45:23] sounds like a great idea. I

[45:24] don't think the

[45:27] public's going to like it. But

[45:28] we'll see. I mean, I, you know,

[45:28] I have

[45:32] the town tools. There's only 2

[45:32] tools in my toolboxes. I, I, I

[45:32] can either

[45:36] cut services or, or raise taxes.

[45:37] There's nothing, there's no

[45:37] other to me

[45:41] there's a lot of. I'm not gonna

[45:41] call it waste but unnecessary

[45:41] things like

[45:45] I was just snooping around. We

[45:46] have 8 libraries in the town of

[45:46] Huntington.

[45:50] That's not, that's not the town.

[45:50] That's not the town? All right,

[45:50] but I just

[45:54] like, you know, everybody uses

[45:54] the internet. I don't know

[45:55] anybody who goes

[45:59] to the library, you know, I'm

[45:59] just going for instance, like

[45:59] there's got

[46:03] to be ways to be able to shrink

[46:04] it and Oh, no, there's, there's

[46:04] no question

[46:08] there are ways to do it. I mean,

[46:08] you know, it's but it, I think

[46:08] we, we have

[46:12] a, a very good track record of

[46:13] being stewards of the public's

[46:13] money. I think

[46:17] that we have a great work

[46:17] product to show out in the town

[46:18] from what we've

[46:21] done with the taxpayers' money

[46:22] over the last several years, but

[46:22] sooner or

[46:26] later, you know, we, we have to

[46:26] make some hard decisions and it

[46:27] might be,

[46:30] you know, if, if it comes down

[46:31] to staying under the tax cap

[46:31] then it will

[46:35] have to be dramatic cut in

[46:35] services and you know the

[46:35] biggest one it's worth

[46:39] saying I'll let you, I'll let

[46:40] you finish your thoughts, but

[46:40] You know, things

[46:44] like that are uh that garbage

[46:44] collection, for example, the

[46:44] Covanta contract

[46:48] that we have, which is renewing

[46:49] it's, I think it's going to be

[46:49] close to

[46:53] $4 million. To renew that

[46:53] contract annually. That's,

[46:53] that's the entirety

[46:57] of the tax cap right there.

[46:58] That's 2% right there. So you

[46:58] know, the, the

[47:02] math doesn't math. I mean, it's,

[47:02] it's a, you know, we're talking

[47:02] services

[47:06] like You know, a dramatic

[47:07] reduction in services that the

[47:07] public will notice

[47:11] every single day. You know, I'm

[47:11] not jumping on your skate, you

[47:11] know, but

[47:15] you know, I'd like to see you

[47:16] work on trying to reduce it

[47:16] because uh. I

[47:20] don't wanna move, you know,

[47:20] down. I'm looking at South

[47:20] Carolina $400,000

[47:24] house pay $2200 in taxes. And I,

[47:25] you know, like what the hell,

[47:25] you know,

[47:29] that's all I just, you know, and

[47:29] I don't wanna move, but I'm

[47:29] gonna have

[47:33] to just as an observation and

[47:34] and brought up. It's important

[47:34] to note how

[47:37] much of your tax bill goes

[47:38] actually to the town. It's about

[47:38] 7%, so there's

[47:42] a, you know, there's a, uh,

[47:43] something that should be looked

[47:43] at by all the

[47:47] residents to look actually at

[47:47] the tax bill and you'll see that

[47:48] the library

[47:51] tax, the library has their own

[47:52] board of trustees, just bring,

[47:52] you know,

[47:56] just thinking it, but you know.

[47:56] So if, if your tax bill is

[47:56] $10,000 we're

[48:00] getting 7% of that, you know,

[48:01] i'm on a fixed income, so when

[48:01] everything

[48:05] goes up around me, you know, in

[48:05] the world. I have to make do. I

[48:05] can't work

[48:09] overtime anymore, you know, I

[48:10] have a fixed income. And I have

[48:10] to make do

[48:14] and I have to do less with this

[48:14] and that and that's pretty much

[48:15] all I'm

[48:18] and, and the town has done the

[48:19] same over the last several years

[48:19] and, you

[48:23] know, we've been very proud of

[48:23] the fact that our fleet of

[48:23] vehicles has been

[48:27] refurbished, for example, rather

[48:28] than buying new ones, you know,

[48:28] the new,

[48:32] new truck is about $300,000.

[48:32] There's 10 wheelers, and I think

[48:32] Andre Sorrentino

[48:36] at the highway department has

[48:37] done a great job doing a heavy

[48:37] refurbishment

[48:41] of them, you know, that's just

[48:41] one example we're doing, we're

[48:41] refurbishing

[48:45] for $30,000 to $50,000 as

[48:46] opposed to buying new trucks,

[48:46] you know the highest

[48:50] property taxes. No question,

[48:50] it's very expensive and the town

[48:50] is not immune

[48:54] from inflationary pressures also

[48:55] our costs are going up to

[48:55] operate the town,

[48:59] so you know we pay for gas too

[48:59] you're welcome. Denise Schwartz,

[48:59] followed

[49:03] by Margaret Roebuck. Denise

[49:04] Schwartz East Northport. I was

[49:04] glad to see that

[49:08] the vote to potentially override

[49:08] the tax levy limit was removed

[49:08] from the

[49:12] agenda. I think that was a very

[49:13] wise decision on the part of the

[49:13] town board.

[49:17] Um, we, we don't only need to

[49:17] talk about older people

[49:18] struggling and younger

[49:21] families trying to establish

[49:22] themselves, you know, we need to

[49:22] talk about

[49:26] all of us and if each one of us

[49:26] had an extra million dollars, it

[49:26] doesn't

[49:30] mean it should get paid to the

[49:31] town in taxes. So I appreciate

[49:31] people feeling.

[49:35] Concern and compassion for, for

[49:35] those who struggle more than

[49:36] others but

[49:39] it's really about every single

[49:40] one of us. I also see on this

[49:40] agenda as MS.

[49:44] Bloom brought up, there is an

[49:45] interim settlement agreement

[49:45] with lippa. We

[49:48] cannot forget lia we cannot

[49:49] forget that horrible settlement

[49:49] which should

[49:53] never have happened, and you

[49:53] disagree. Well, and I strongly

[49:53] disagree, as

[49:57] does most of the community.

[49:58] Thank you. Ok, that should never

[49:58] have happened

[50:02] and it's digging us into a.

[50:02] Bigger and bigger hole, and they

[50:02] are looking

[50:06] to remove the transmission and

[50:07] distribution lines in the

[50:07] substations. They're

[50:11] gonna try to take that plant

[50:11] totally off the tax rolls, then

[50:12] where are we

[50:15] and where is the Northport East

[50:16] Northport School District, ok?

[50:16] So the wise

[50:20] thing to do, as other people

[50:20] have mentioned, when we feel

[50:20] hard times, you

[50:24] know, we have to cut back we MAY

[50:25] not want to take cut back you

[50:25] have to tell

[50:29] your kids I'm sorry you can't

[50:29] have that. I'm sorry we can't

[50:30] take that trip

[50:33] this year we can't buy the new.

[50:34] Car, every one of us has to make

[50:34] those decisions

[50:38] in our lives and anyone who

[50:38] doesn't ever have to make those

[50:39] choices, you

[50:42] know, is very blessed and

[50:43] fortunate and hopefully they've

[50:43] worked hard for

[50:47] that, so to talk about the

[50:47] budget we have to be looking for

[50:48] ways to reduce

[50:51] the budget. There is plenty of

[50:52] room. There are things you can

[50:52] find in this

[50:56] town budget and in the town

[50:56] expenses. Of course, we can talk

[50:57] about a $4

[51:00] million contract, you know, gas

[51:01] going up, we can discuss all

[51:01] that, but there

[51:05] is plenty of money you can. Find

[51:05] to save money for the town and

[51:05] the residents

[51:09] it almost sounds like the school

[51:10] district if you vote no for the

[51:10] budget,

[51:14] we're taking from the kids. We

[51:15] don't really wanna hear that we

[51:15] need creativity

[51:19] we need hard work on the part of

[51:19] the town board and anyone who

[51:19] manages our

[51:23] finances here at the town

[51:23] because we are going to be in

[51:24] big, big trouble

[51:27] you know, to agree to do that, I

[51:28] don't think anything's funny. Is

[51:28] somebody

[51:32] laughing here? Well, I'm, I'm,

[51:32] I'm amused by the, the thought

[51:33] that you don't

[51:36] think we've even looked at a

[51:37] budget. We've been working on

[51:37] the budget now

[51:41] for two months. Ok, I just we

[51:41] don't do it here in this room,

[51:42] we do it at

[51:45] a conference. Stable and we're

[51:46] going through the budget line

[51:46] There's, there's

[51:50] money to find, trust me, there's

[51:50] money to find you. You're right,

[51:50] you're

[51:54] right, and you know, I'm, I'm

[51:55] going to produce a budget that's

[51:55] below the

[51:59] Carter and and not play

[52:02] games. Thank you. Ok. Ok.

[52:06] Margaret Roebuck, followed

[52:13] by Leslie Tullo. Hi

[52:16] I'm Margaret Roebuck, uh, that's

[52:19] a hard act to follow. She did

[52:21] a great job. She almost said

[52:22] everything that I wanted to say

[52:26] but I also wanna my family's

[52:26] been living here

[52:29] for over 66 years in Huntington

[52:29] and we've, I've seen a

[52:32] lot of changes, ok, and one of

[52:33] the biggest things

[52:37] again, my question is why I'm

[52:38] really here was why are you

[52:38] going to.

[52:42] Override the tax cap. What

[52:42] reasons and

[52:45] what's going to go for. Now I

[52:45] heard some of the things that

[52:45] you

[52:49] said that it have gone up in

[52:49] cost, but I

[52:53] mean a person like me on a fixed

[52:54] income is getting harder and

[52:57] harder. And now, uh, when they

[52:58] talk about oh let's build more

[52:58] affordable housing

[53:02] I don't see affordable housing

[53:02] going up. All I see is more and

[53:06] more stress on the

[53:07] infrastructure. All I see is my

[53:07] gas, my

[53:11] electric, my car insurance,

[53:11] everything. Things going on

[53:12] because of more

[53:15] people. I try to you try to get

[53:16] a drive any place. It's

[53:16] impossible

[53:20] the amount of people on the

[53:20] road, and it's like again,

[53:21] everything's going

[53:24] up and up and up. What about

[53:25] these young people? How are they

[53:25] going to afford these

[53:29] million-dollar homes. When I see

[53:30] across the street, ok, people

[53:33] moving in and they got their

[53:34] extended family, you know, 5 and

[53:34] 6

[53:38] families in a single-family home

[53:38] because they're the only ones

[53:39] that can

[53:43] afford and these are basically

[53:43] foreigners, ok? And they're the

[53:43] only ones

[53:47] that are able to afford these

[53:48] million-dollar homes that in my

[53:48] opinion, it's

[53:51] like my my house is nowhere near

[53:52] a million dollars, ok

[53:56] but this is what's going up for

[53:57] sale. And people are buying them

[53:57] but not

[54:01] our young people. Not our young

[54:01] people at all, and it's sad.

[54:01] It's sad and

[54:05] it's like. It's unbelievable and

[54:06] it's like. How are we gonna live

[54:06] here

[54:09] I'm almost getting to the point

[54:10] that I've lived here all my

[54:10] life, just about

[54:14] and I have to leave because I

[54:14] can't afford to live here

[54:15] anymore. And young people

[54:19] can't even come in. On here.

[54:19] It's

[54:21] I mean, we've elected you

[54:22] people. You should be

[54:25] brainstorming for us. Please,

[54:25] you You

[54:28] know, do something and that

[54:28] instead of letting us

[54:32] struggle here. Well as I say,

[54:33] well, this is going up. Well

[54:33] why?

[54:36] Ok. And the answer is, oh, we'll

[54:37] do this and do that

[54:41] and I'm going, look at the

[54:41] consequences on everything

[54:41] that's

[54:46] happening. All right, thank you.

[54:46] Leslie Tollop followed

[54:56] by Samuel Ashkenazi.

[55:02] Good afternoon Leslie Tollop

[55:06] um, I first would like to read

[55:06] into the record

[55:10] uh, communication from the

[55:11] school district. Uh, from MR.

[55:11] O'Farrell

[55:15] uh, said, good morning, thank

[55:15] you for reaching out and sharing

[55:15] your

[55:19] concerns. I've been in touch

[55:20] with COUNCILMAN Bernardo

[55:24] with regards to the matter of

[55:24] the mtcod and

[55:28] he's indicated that he would

[55:29] share these concerns with the

[55:29] supervisor and

[55:33] the council, um, as you know,

[55:33] I've been both publicly and

[55:33] privately

[55:37] seeking clarification on the

[55:38] pause. Now we all are seeking

[55:38] clarification on

[55:42] the pause. I've also stated

[55:42] publicly that I believe most

[55:42] people assume that

[55:46] a pause would imply waiting

[55:47] until after the 1st 400 units

[55:51] occupied to evaluate the actual

[55:51] real world impact.

[55:55] Having said that, I understand

[55:56] that my interpretation is not

[55:56] how

[56:00] developers and seemingly the

[56:00] town interpret this codified

[56:00] language

[56:04] I can't speak to the exact

[56:05] interpretation other than to say

[56:09] that it seems very different

[56:09] from my own. The resolution and

[56:09] vote tomorrow is

[56:13] to schedule a public hearing.

[56:14] They are not voting to approve

[56:14] or deny

[56:18] the application at this point,

[56:18] uh, and if they vote to approve

[56:19] the resolution, i

[56:22] would hope that there is mention

[56:23] or consideration of the pause

[56:23] when they

[56:27] are scheduling the actual public

[56:27] hearing, without clarification

[56:28] or specifics,

[56:31] this will be the most revealing

[56:32] insight into how the town is

[56:32] interpreting

[56:36] this language in Sierra Lee,

[56:36] John. And so this body approved

[56:36] the

[56:40] steel equities, uh,

[56:41] construction, 400 units

[56:45] and our understanding was that

[56:45] those 400 units were to be

[56:49] the test run to see how this

[56:49] development of this

[56:52] area would work. And that we

[56:53] understood that the hospital

[56:56] would be coming in and the

[56:56] associated office

[56:59] space and how that would impact

[56:59] the trans

[57:03] uh the um traffic, the

[57:06] environment, the school district

[57:09] and now, uh, I think the

[57:12] um, we all are owed some sort of

[57:12] an understanding

[57:16] and explanation as to why 400

[57:16] units

[57:19] uh, is not a hard cap. I, I'll

[57:23] be happy to address that. So the

[57:23] 400 units was, was

[57:27] was decided on because that was

[57:28] the sewer capacity

[57:31] that the county had said to us

[57:31] that there's a capacity

[57:34] for 400 residential units. So

[57:35] that's how that

[57:39] number as far as what the, what

[57:39] the, the pause was about

[57:43] The pause, I was very clear with

[57:44] every civic group I ever met

[57:44] with that they

[57:48] that this pause was not going to

[57:48] be a stop and That

[57:52] the buildings would have to get

[57:53] built before we would move on to

[57:53] the next

[57:57] building. That that is never

[57:57] been discussed. In fact, it was

[57:58] very clear with

[58:01] anybody that asked that that is

[58:02] not what the pause was. The

[58:02] pause was the

[58:06] pause acted as a brake on

[58:06] overdevelopment is really what

[58:07] it came down to.

[58:10] It was not a secondary

[58:11] environmental impact study. It

[58:11] was not a second seeker

[58:15] review. All of those things are

[58:15] things that the developers are

[58:16] required

[58:20] to do as part of the development

[58:20] process. The the pause was our

[58:20] break on

[58:24] the. Process to make sure that

[58:24] we didn't have a flood of new

[58:24] applications

[58:28] coming through the door where we

[58:29] can stop that process and we

[58:29] baked it into

[58:33] the resolution to make sure that

[58:33] we maintain control of the pace

[58:34] of development.

[58:37] Quite frankly, watching the pace

[58:38] of development in Melville right

[58:38] now, uh,

[58:42] you know, we, we, we passed this

[58:42] about a year and a half ago. We

[58:43] got one

[58:47] application in so far that has

[58:47] gone through the approval. It

[58:47] was approved

[58:51] 8 months ago. They're not even

[58:52] close to breaking ground on it,

[58:52] so you know,

[58:55] the, the, the, the concerns that

[58:56] were raised. And one of the

[58:56] concerns that

[59:00] that brought about this pause.

[59:00] Was that we would enact the

[59:01] Melville Town

[59:04] Center overlay district and

[59:05] there'd be a flood of

[59:05] applications through the

[59:09] door. The opposite has been

[59:09] true. We, we, you know, the, the

[59:10] applicant,

[59:14] this is we're, we're scheduling

[59:14] a public hearing for the 2nd

[59:14] application,

[59:18] a year and a half after we

[59:18] enacted it. So, you know, the,

[59:19] the, the, the

[59:22] scaremongering that took place a

[59:23] year and a half ago about

[59:23] overdevelopment

[59:27] of Melville has never

[59:27] materialized. Yeah, so that, I

[59:28] mean, that's the, the,

[59:31] the pause was not a second

[59:32] secret or a second environmental

[59:32] review or a

[59:36] second traffic study. It was, it

[59:36] was our control over the pace of

[59:37] development

[59:40] in Melville. And frankly, I

[59:41] think it's too slow. Uh, I

[59:41] think, you know,

[59:45] and I know my time is up, but,

[59:45] um, if you don't see the impact

[59:46] that the

[59:49] 400 units, once they are

[59:50] developed, occupied and in use,

[59:50] and plus the other

[59:54] development from Northwell, um,

[59:55] then you really have no way of

[59:55] gauging whether

[59:58] or not you could. Um, Extend

[59:59] another 168 units or even more

[59:59] if those applications

[1:00:03] came in. Our understanding, and

[1:00:04] maybe it was a misunderstanding

[1:00:04] apparently

[1:00:07] by the school district as well,

[1:00:08] that there really was going to

[1:00:08] be, uh, that

[1:00:12] you were going to use this more

[1:00:12] as a test case, so that we could

[1:00:13] we could

[1:00:17] develop that property and what

[1:00:17] that would mean in terms of

[1:00:17] reopening schools

[1:00:21] and traffic up and down Route

[1:00:21] 110. So, um, you know, I guess

[1:00:22] there are a

[1:00:26] lot of people. Who did not quite

[1:00:27] understand your interpretation

[1:00:27] of that

[1:00:30] 400. Cap and uh what our

[1:00:31] interpretation.

[1:00:34] Was so maybe I, you know, a

[1:00:35] little work before

[1:00:40] that hearing, or you're gonna

[1:00:40] get a lot more questions like

[1:00:41] mine. Thank

[1:00:44] you. Samuel Eskenazi, followed

[1:00:44] by

[1:00:48] Anthony Cacciato. Hello

[1:00:51] everyone. Uh, my name is Samuel

[1:00:51] Ashkenazi

[1:00:55] I am a local small business

[1:00:55] owner, political activist, and

[1:00:59] performer, and the arts and

[1:01:00] entertainment contributor for

[1:01:00] the Long Islander

[1:01:04] newspaper, but of course, Ed,

[1:01:04] you know me from insulting me to

[1:01:04] my face and

[1:01:08] for just asking a basic question

[1:01:09] about congressional leadership

[1:01:09] and calling

[1:01:13] me a crazy blue-haired liberal.

[1:01:13] Anyway, today, I'm here to talk

[1:01:13] about the

[1:01:17] flat cameras. Uh, the town of

[1:01:18] Huntington has been installing

[1:01:18] flock cameras.

[1:01:22] These cameras, otherwise known

[1:01:22] as automatic license plate

[1:01:23] readers, ALPRs,

[1:01:26] or ShotSpotters are used to.

[1:01:27] Photographs, every license plate

[1:01:27] that drives

[1:01:31] past it, the purpose is to be

[1:01:31] able to track our movements on a

[1:01:31] minute to

[1:01:35] minute basis. This is a clear

[1:01:36] government overreach, clearly

[1:01:36] infringing on

[1:01:40] our rights to privacy. And to

[1:01:40] add insult to injury, anyone who

[1:01:40] criticizes

[1:01:44] this technology, the ceo of

[1:01:45] Flock has called a terrorist.

[1:01:45] Beyond that though,

[1:01:49] it is a vastly flawed technology

[1:01:49] across the country we have seen

[1:01:50] misidentification

[1:01:53] rates of 70 to 80%, which has

[1:01:54] led to devastating consequences.

[1:01:54] Police wrongly

[1:01:58] pulling over families and cars,

[1:01:58] traumatizing children in in

[1:01:59] accidentally

[1:02:02] injuring the drivers, many, many

[1:02:03] instances where, frankly, it's

[1:02:03] wrongly

[1:02:07] thinning out our police

[1:02:07] resources. One examination found

[1:02:07] that out of 8500

[1:02:11] calls for police to respond to

[1:02:12] Flat cameras or shots. Otters

[1:02:12] only 20% were

[1:02:16] legitimately worthy of their

[1:02:16] calls. These citizens that are

[1:02:16] at the mercy

[1:02:20] of these misidentifications,

[1:02:21] also have to hire lawyers. We

[1:02:21] are already at

[1:02:25] the mercy of a Republican

[1:02:25] administration bringing us into

[1:02:25] an unnecessary

[1:02:29] war, raising our gas prices and

[1:02:30] energy prices, and we can't find

[1:02:30] housing

[1:02:34] or healthcare. I'm here during

[1:02:34] my job to speak right now. I

[1:02:35] should not have

[1:02:38] to leave work to protect our

[1:02:39] freedoms and privacy because you

[1:02:39] guys want

[1:02:43] to find us into infinitum. Our

[1:02:43] police are also already stressed

[1:02:44] as is. I

[1:02:47] know people in this office so

[1:02:48] avidly defend the police, and

[1:02:48] yet by giving

[1:02:52] them flawed technology, you are

[1:02:52] making their jobs harder,

[1:02:52] allowing real

[1:02:56] criminals to escape in moments

[1:02:57] when they're responding to flock

[1:02:57] camera calls

[1:03:01] that are illegitimate. This is

[1:03:01] wrong for the public. It is a

[1:03:02] dangerous invasion

[1:03:05] of our privacy, and it has

[1:03:06] bipartisan support. Republicans

[1:03:06] and Democrats

[1:03:10] do not want to be surveilled in

[1:03:10] our town that we already have so

[1:03:11] much pride

[1:03:14] in keeping safe. Our tax dollars

[1:03:15] also should not be going to

[1:03:15] this. I don't

[1:03:19] I didn't see any ruling. I

[1:03:19] didn't see any.

[1:03:22] At any vote as to making my tax

[1:03:22] dollars pay

[1:03:25] for these cameras. Considering

[1:03:26] all of

[1:03:28] the flaws with them, considering

[1:03:29] the ceo has said

[1:03:32] such vastly damaging things. Is

[1:03:33] this really the

[1:03:37] tytytype of technology we want to be

[1:03:37] installing in, in, in

[1:03:38] Huntington. That's, that's

[1:03:41] what I had to say for it today.

[1:03:42] Thank you. You're welcome.

[1:03:50] Anthony Cacchiato, followed by

[1:03:50] Robert Lamont.

[1:03:53] Good afternoon, MR. Supervisor

[1:03:54] and the rest of the board. Uh,

[1:03:54] my name's

[1:03:57] Anthony Cachado. I'm a proud

[1:03:58] Huntington Village resident and

[1:03:58] a law student

[1:04:02] over at Tre Law Center. Uh, I'm

[1:04:02] rising today just to commend the

[1:04:03] board on

[1:04:06] taking the next step on, uh, the

[1:04:07] Melville Town Overlay District

[1:04:07] by scheduling a

[1:04:11] public hearing, uh, for the next

[1:04:11] mixed use project over there,

[1:04:11] um, you know

[1:04:15] I've come before the board many

[1:04:15] times on this issue of housing

[1:04:20] in Huntington. It's an issue

[1:04:20] that affects everybody, but

[1:04:20] also, you know,

[1:04:24] especially impacts young Long

[1:04:24] Islanders who are. Concerned

[1:04:25] about whether

[1:04:29] or not we can afford to stay on

[1:04:29] Long Island. So I mean the

[1:04:29] median home price

[1:04:33] right now last JUNE was around

[1:04:34] $750,000. Um, but you know, in a

[1:04:34] lot of ways

[1:04:37] what is happening in Melviville

[1:04:38] right now is, is a bold and

[1:04:38] necessary step

[1:04:42] that Huntington is pioneering on

[1:04:43] right now, and I think that

[1:04:43] that's going

[1:04:46] to be something that, as it

[1:04:47] develops and, you know, I, I

[1:04:47] agree is not developing,

[1:04:51] uh, you know, at the speed that

[1:04:52] we thought it would, but, um,

[1:04:52] you know,

[1:04:56] when it does, we'll not only

[1:04:56] provide us the opportunity to uh

[1:04:56] give options

[1:05:00] to. You know, young, uh young

[1:05:01] individuals in this town to

[1:05:01] afford to live

[1:05:04] here, but, uh, provide

[1:05:05] opportunities for new

[1:05:05] businesses, uh, to help, you

[1:05:09] know, increase our tax levy,

[1:05:10] tried to use that to, you know,

[1:05:10] help improve

[1:05:14] our infrastructure and address

[1:05:14] those concerns. It's something

[1:05:14] that I'm very

[1:05:18] heartened to see, and you know,

[1:05:18] I look forward to seeing how

[1:05:19] this project

[1:05:23] really kind of pans out going

[1:05:23] forward because I, I think that

[1:05:23] young people

[1:05:27] really are struggling with

[1:05:28] housing right now, and it's,

[1:05:28] it's heartening

[1:05:31] to see that there's, you know,

[1:05:32] this sort of bold and actions

[1:05:32] being taken

[1:05:42] by the town board. So thank you

[1:05:42] for, for really taking that

[1:05:43] necessary step,

[1:05:46] and I look forward to seeing how

[1:05:47] it develops going forward. Thank

[1:05:47] you. Thank

[1:05:52] you. Robert Lamont, followed by

[1:05:52] Gail Jasper. Right, so, uh, the

[1:05:53] question

[1:05:56] is affordability unfortunately,

[1:05:57] and you know we talked about

[1:05:57] this before

[1:06:01] and the beauty now we're gonna

[1:06:01] have a hospital in Melville

[1:06:02] thanks to Kenneth

[1:06:05] and you know he's gonna. He, he

[1:06:06] bought the land for

[1:06:06] approximately $10035.5

[1:06:10] million and it's a 45 acre

[1:06:10] parcel and he's gonna put a

[1:06:14] billion dollars hospital on it,

[1:06:15] but you know these things are

[1:06:15] gonna

[1:06:19] take years, probably 10 at

[1:06:19] least. Same with the

[1:06:23] the little 45 houses at the

[1:06:26] at the Apple stand there on the

[1:06:26] north side of

[1:06:30] Jericho Turnpike and also you

[1:06:30] know

[1:06:33] this uh steel equities project.

[1:06:33] So go to

[1:06:37] a News, um, 3 and 4, I believe

[1:06:40] have been purchased.

[1:06:42] Oh he is. I believe

[1:06:46] um, and I forget the name of the

[1:06:46] company. I didn't

[1:06:50] do that research. I had some

[1:06:51] other things working on this

[1:06:55] afternoon, so. Salsa

[1:06:57] Sal Fero's, uh, um, you know

[1:07:00] prediction has, has been, you

[1:07:00] know

[1:07:04] do nothing, and the property

[1:07:04] taxes are gonna

[1:07:07] go up anyway, right? So, so how

[1:07:08] are we gonna better spend

[1:07:11] the money. You're Republicans

[1:07:11] minus.

[1:07:14] One, sorry, but you know, still,

[1:07:14] you got, you know

[1:07:18] fiscal responsibility. It's, you

[1:07:18] know, it's easy

[1:07:22] when it's opm. Other people's

[1:07:22] money. But you

[1:07:26] have to. And true, you know

[1:07:29] maybe it's 10% because when

[1:07:31] you look at the tax bill, right,

[1:07:32] the number one thing is

[1:07:35] the money that we are paying to

[1:07:35] the state of

[1:07:40] New York for. You know, is it a

[1:07:40] quality education compared

[1:07:45] to other, other areas. I don't

[1:07:45] know. I, I.

[1:07:49] I guess uh you know, there were

[1:07:49] some great schools in the New

[1:07:53] York City system, but, uh, you

[1:07:54] know, there's some rough ones

[1:07:54] and tough

[1:07:58] ones also. I was lucky again. My

[1:07:58] parents

[1:08:01] school district 5, you know, a

[1:08:05] 1.37 acre plot, Dick Hills.

[1:08:07] Good people in the neighborhood

[1:08:07] that I knew were

[1:08:11] uh, engaged with, you know, I'm

[1:08:12] thinking of Joseph Ford

[1:08:16] the 3rd and Mike. Uh, I can't

[1:08:16] remember his last name

[1:08:19] um, but, uh, these are two

[1:08:20] beautiful African

[1:08:22] American people that that

[1:08:25] uh and and and others, I mean,

[1:08:25] hey

[1:08:28] uh, you know, the, the

[1:08:28] predominance in Half Hollow

[1:08:28] Hills

[1:08:32] it's, uh, it's. You know, 80%

[1:08:35] if not 90% uh uh uh Caucasian,

[1:08:35] so.

[1:08:39] Oh, all right

[1:08:41] uh, I think we need to think

[1:08:41] about

[1:08:45] some type of traffic light near

[1:08:46] that pizza place

[1:08:50] on Rutland Road and Max's Road,

[1:08:50] uh, making a left around 4:30

[1:08:55] 5 o'clock is quite difficult.

[1:08:55] Um, it's only gonna get worse.

[1:08:59] Thank you, Gaily Jasper,

[1:08:59] followed by Daniel Carpen. At

[1:08:59] the

[1:09:10] Trinity.

[1:09:13] Gail Jasper residence in Dix

[1:09:13] Hills

[1:09:16] um, on your you number

[1:09:22] 198.3-34-1 mtcod Melville Town

[1:09:24] Center Olay District was adopted

[1:09:28] on DECEMBER 10, 2024

[1:09:30] The town and I quoted, the

[1:09:33] The town board will pause the

[1:09:33] acceptance

[1:09:37] of new applications after the

[1:09:37] submission of

[1:09:41] the first application totaling

[1:09:42] 400 residential units in the.

[1:09:42] Melville

[1:09:46] Town Center and thereafter each

[1:09:46] successive submission of

[1:09:51] applications totaling 400 units

[1:09:51] in Melville town center to

[1:09:55] assess the cumulative impact of

[1:09:55] the development on traffic

[1:09:56] conditions

[1:09:59] fire emergency, and educational

[1:10:00] services. The total number

[1:10:04] of residential units in the

[1:10:04] Melville town center shall

[1:10:09] not exceed 1500 units. I bespoke

[1:10:09] before you many

[1:10:13] many times, and one of my prime.

[1:10:13] Question was how long is

[1:10:17] this pause going to be for? Is

[1:10:18] it gonna be for a minute while

[1:10:18] the next guy

[1:10:22] in line comes up to the podium,

[1:10:23] or is it going to be a

[1:10:23] meaningful.

[1:10:27] Cause so that we could see what

[1:10:27] happened. Doctor Bernardo

[1:10:31] you said that you had a

[1:10:32] community awareness meeting in

[1:10:32] Dix Hills.

[1:10:35] That you would protect the

[1:10:36] school district regardless

[1:10:40] and that's how you would vote

[1:10:40] and Jen, we.

[1:10:44] Supported your run for this

[1:10:45] office based on what you said

[1:10:49] you had said about protecting

[1:10:49] the residents. I'm sorry

[1:10:54] I heard what I heard, we heard

[1:10:54] what I heard, and

[1:11:00] uh the superintendents heard

[1:11:01] what I heard. Thank you very

[1:11:01] much. We are sorely

[1:11:05] disappointed. Daniel Carpin

[1:11:05] followed by Lisa Bloomstein. A

[1:11:09] great job protecting us. Welcome

[1:11:09] to

[1:11:12] the Daniel Carppe show direct

[1:11:12] from Town Hall

[1:11:16] your best value for your tax

[1:11:19] dollar paid for and produced by

[1:11:19] a town

[1:11:21] of Heineken. My name is Daniel

[1:11:22] Carpin. I reside at

[1:11:25] Three Harbor Hill Drive,

[1:11:25] Huntington, New York.

[1:11:29] I am speaking today about the

[1:11:30] African American

[1:11:34] Museum that is supposed to be

[1:11:34] planned at Fairmeadow Park at

[1:11:38] the northwest corner of Pulaski

[1:11:39] Road and Park Avenue.

[1:11:43] This is not the proper place for

[1:11:43] this museum. It

[1:11:47] is alienation of parkland, and

[1:11:48] when you in MAY

[1:11:52] uh, had a special town board

[1:11:53] meeting to ask the town, the

[1:11:57] state legislature to alienate

[1:11:57] the park land the town board

[1:11:58] meeting was a

[1:12:01] special one. Hardly anybody knew

[1:12:02] about it. It was done in what

[1:12:06] I call semi-secrecy at the last

[1:12:06] minute and

[1:12:10] the people in the neighborhood

[1:12:11] to the west found out. About

[1:12:11] this after

[1:12:15] the fact, and they are angry.

[1:12:15] What you have done

[1:12:19] supervisor, you've clearly

[1:12:19] earned your proclamation of

[1:12:23] the mba award make voters angry.

[1:12:23] They are angry

[1:12:26] They do not want their park used

[1:12:29] for the African American Museum.

[1:12:29] There

[1:12:32] are other locations you could

[1:12:33] take the old

[1:12:35] bank building on the east side

[1:12:36] of Park Avenue north

[1:12:39] of Pulaski north of Pulaski

[1:12:40] Road, the buildings are already

[1:12:40] there. Oh yeah.

[1:12:44] News by the property and make it

[1:12:44] into a museum. Uh, the building

[1:12:44] it's

[1:12:48] a museum. The other option is to

[1:12:49] take the armory

[1:12:53] on East 5th Street an existing

[1:12:53] building and put the museum

[1:12:53] there

[1:12:57] It would cost virtually nothing

[1:12:58] for the tax for the for the

[1:13:02] for the town to do that, you

[1:13:02] wouldn't have to build a new

[1:13:03] building. You

[1:13:06] wouldn't have to acquire land.

[1:13:07] You wouldn't have to go through

[1:13:07] expensive

[1:13:11] architects. You could easily

[1:13:12] convert that and put the African

[1:13:12] museum there.

[1:13:15] Within a month or two of just an

[1:13:16] architect or a space planner to

[1:13:20] It could be done at very, very

[1:13:20] low cost without breaking

[1:13:24] the tax cap and the other thing

[1:13:25] I'm going to ask you, and I

[1:13:25] don't know

[1:13:29] you don't seem to answer

[1:13:29] questions very much is the

[1:13:29] exhibit at

[1:13:33] the Huntington Railroad Station,

[1:13:34] a very well done exhibit of the

[1:13:34] role

[1:13:38] of African Americans in the town

[1:13:39] of Huntington, is that exhibit

[1:13:39] going to

[1:13:43] be taken down and moved? In the

[1:13:43] museum.

[1:13:47] No answer. I don't, I don't

[1:13:47] know. I think it's

[1:13:50] a great don't know. Well, you

[1:13:51] should know. You, you should be,

[1:13:51] you should

[1:13:58] be ashamed of yourself for not

[1:13:58] knowing. Thank you.

[1:14:03] Ok. Lisa Bloomstein

[1:14:05] followed by Andrew King

[1:14:08] It's also a difficult role to

[1:14:08] follow to follow today

[1:14:11] Seriously, uh, good, good

[1:14:12] afternoon

[1:14:14] supervisor and town board. Um,

[1:14:15] I'm here

[1:14:18] today because I believe the town

[1:14:19] is at a critical point where it

[1:14:23] needs to decide whether the

[1:14:23] promised promises made to this

[1:14:24] community

[1:14:27] actually means something. We

[1:14:28] were told there would be a pause

[1:14:28] after the

[1:14:32] 1st 400 residential units in the

[1:14:32] Melville Town Center overlay

[1:14:33] district so

[1:14:37] the town could evaluate. The

[1:14:37] real world impacts of this

[1:14:37] development. That

[1:14:41] is not something residents

[1:14:41] imagines. It's in your own town

[1:14:42] code that was

[1:14:45] just read to you, 198341. The

[1:14:46] code says the town board will

[1:14:46] pause acceptance

[1:14:50] of new applications after the

[1:14:51] first applications totaling 400

[1:14:51] residential

[1:14:54] units in order to assess

[1:14:55] cumulative impacts, traffic,

[1:14:55] fire, emergency

[1:14:59] services, and education. And

[1:14:59] here is what makes this meeting

[1:15:00] so troubling

[1:15:03] The town's own website currently

[1:15:04] states that. Applications are on

[1:15:08] hold pursuant to that exact

[1:15:08] provision. So I have a very

[1:15:09] straightforward

[1:15:12] question. What changed? If the

[1:15:13] pause has been lifted, when was

[1:15:13] it lifted

[1:15:17] Who authorized it? What

[1:15:17] resolution or action lifted it,

[1:15:17] and where

[1:15:22] was that decision communicated

[1:15:22] to the public because if the

[1:15:22] pause has not

[1:15:26] been lifted, then why are we

[1:15:26] discussing another 167

[1:15:29] 8 apartment project. We were

[1:15:30] told repeatedly that the purpose

[1:15:30] of the pause was

[1:15:34] to determine what the 1st 400

[1:15:34] units would do to the

[1:15:37] community. Nothing has been

[1:15:38] built yet. We don't know

[1:15:42] the actual number of children

[1:15:42] those units will send to the

[1:15:43] Half Hollow Hill

[1:15:46] School District. We don't know

[1:15:47] the traffic impact. We don't

[1:15:47] know the impact

[1:15:51] on emergency services. We don't

[1:15:51] know the cumulative impact on

[1:15:51] our sewage

[1:15:55] and drainage infrastructure. And

[1:15:56] last night we got another very

[1:15:56] real reminder

[1:16:00] of why infrastructure matters

[1:16:00] after heavy rain, both the

[1:16:01] northbound and

[1:16:04] southbound lanes of 110 at the

[1:16:05] Huntington Quadrangle completely

[1:16:05] flooded,

[1:16:09] overwhelming cars on both sides

[1:16:09] trying to get through. That is

[1:16:10] not a theoretical

[1:16:13] future impact that is

[1:16:14] infrastructure. Which is

[1:16:14] struggling today. So why

[1:16:18] would we add hundreds more

[1:16:18] residential units before we have

[1:16:19] determined whether the

[1:16:22] existing infrastructure can

[1:16:23] handle what we already have

[1:16:23] here. The town's

[1:16:27] own environmental review

[1:16:27] recognized that future

[1:16:28] development would be dependent

[1:16:31] upon access to public sewers and

[1:16:32] that the 400 unit pause

[1:16:36] was intended to allow the town

[1:16:36] to evaluate commute commu

[1:16:36] cumulative

[1:16:40] impacts, and we still need a

[1:16:41] comprehensive current assessment

[1:16:41] of sewer capacity.

[1:16:45] Capacity. The same is true for

[1:16:45] our schools. If newer and more

[1:16:49] comprehensive demographic

[1:16:50] information indicates that these

[1:16:50] developments

[1:16:54] could generate more students

[1:16:54] than the town's older studies

[1:16:55] anticipate, then

[1:16:58] we should use the best available

[1:16:59] information, not outdated

[1:16:59] assumptions.

[1:17:03] The responsible thing to do is

[1:17:03] simple stop, measure, and then

[1:17:03] decide. Let the

[1:17:07] 1st 400 units actually be built,

[1:17:08] determine how many children they

[1:17:08] generate

[1:17:12] determine what happens to

[1:17:12] traffic, determine what. Happens

[1:17:13] to our sewer

[1:17:16] system, drainage, roads, police,

[1:17:17] fire, emergency services, then

[1:17:17] and only then

[1:17:21] decide whether the community can

[1:17:21] responsibly absorb another wave

[1:17:25] of apartments. I'm not asking

[1:17:26] this board to deny these

[1:17:26] projects

[1:17:30] I'm asking you to follow your

[1:17:30] own law and keep your words the

[1:17:31] residents

[1:17:34] of Huntington. Do not schedule

[1:17:35] another public hearing simply

[1:17:35] because

[1:17:39] an application is waiting. I'll

[1:17:39] Put in the rest of my comments

[1:17:46] Andrew King. Followed by Dom

[1:17:46] Feeney.

[1:17:50] Andrew King. Ok

[1:17:53] If MR. King returns, let me

[1:17:53] know.

[1:17:55] Dom Feeney, followed by Johanna

[1:17:56] Suchow. Scar.

[1:17:59] I thought I saw him

[1:18:02] briefly, but all right, uh,

[1:18:02] Joanna, if if

[1:18:08] Dom let me know.

[1:18:11] Good afternoon everyone. Yeah.

[1:18:14] I did not come prepared to talk

[1:18:14] about the

[1:18:17] mtcod or even the tax cap.

[1:18:20] Because I noticed it was pulled

[1:18:20] from the agenda, but as far as

[1:18:24] the mtcod I think you know, I

[1:18:24] generally supported it, much to

[1:18:28] the chagrin of many people in my

[1:18:29] community. However, I was always

[1:18:29] emphatic

[1:18:33] about we should do a cumulative

[1:18:34] sequel so that we would have an

[1:18:34] idea even

[1:18:37] at this 0.400 generates this

[1:18:38] much, we could project 168, but

[1:18:38] we didn't do

[1:18:42] that, so we're not there. Um, as

[1:18:42] far as the tax cap, I'd like,

[1:18:43] uh, the transparency.

[1:18:47] It would be great if we can do,

[1:18:47] we would like to review a line

[1:18:47] by line on

[1:18:51] the budget, and that would

[1:18:51] include, I'm sorry, I know it's

[1:18:51] a sore issue

[1:18:56] for you guys, but the 6-year

[1:18:56] lifetime medical benefits. I'd

[1:18:56] like to know

[1:19:00] a projection of what that will

[1:19:00] cost us as, you know, as a town

[1:19:00] into the

[1:19:04] future, because it, it's one of

[1:19:05] the line items. You, you've got

[1:19:05] many. Um,

[1:19:09] but my main reason for stepping

[1:19:10] up today was to ask, I don't

[1:19:10] know if Andrew

[1:19:13] Ray is the person that knows the

[1:19:14] answer to this question. When is

[1:19:14] the public,

[1:19:18] you know, able to get online to

[1:19:18] look at the text of preliminary

[1:19:19] resolutions.

[1:19:23] It, the agenda gets posted, I

[1:19:23] think on a Friday. And this is

[1:19:23] now the 2nd

[1:19:27] or whatever meeting that I am

[1:19:27] looking to see what the text is

[1:19:27] other than

[1:19:31] me getting in my car and driving

[1:19:32] up here and nobody should really

[1:19:32] have to.

[1:19:36] Why can't, when should that be

[1:19:37] posted because it's been being

[1:19:37] posted Monday,

[1:19:41] basically in the afternoon that

[1:19:41] we can go online and look at the

[1:19:41] text of

[1:19:45] resolutions. Is there a problem

[1:19:46] with putting it up sooner. I

[1:19:46] know in the

[1:19:50] past, it's been a policy issue

[1:19:50] with the board as to, you know,

[1:19:50] setting a

[1:19:54] goal for public disclosure. I

[1:19:54] just was wondering, What is the

[1:19:54] policy if

[1:19:58] there is one? Yes, please,

[1:19:59] because 24 hours, but we don't

[1:19:59] post at the town

[1:20:03] attorney asks it to post it. So

[1:20:03] the town clerk isn't really

[1:20:03] necessarily

[1:20:07] involved in the posting is what

[1:20:08] you're saying, ok, and 24 hours

[1:20:08] is the policy

[1:20:12] of this board. You're gonna sit

[1:20:12] there and say that it's ok for

[1:20:13] us to get

[1:20:16] a look at things 24 hours. The

[1:20:17] text of resolutions. I, I just

[1:20:17] think it,

[1:20:21] I think you could do a little

[1:20:21] better in that regard because,

[1:20:22] well, I know

[1:20:25] it MAY be state law, it doesn't

[1:20:26] mean you have to, you can't

[1:20:26] exceed that.

[1:20:30] You can't provide more

[1:20:30] information to the public

[1:20:31] sooner. I just think it's

[1:20:34] hard for us. We see the

[1:20:35] headings, we don't know what's

[1:20:35] in the body of. The

[1:20:39] resolution. And if you have the

[1:20:40] headings, I worked here 11.5

[1:20:40] years. You

[1:20:43] have the resolutions. I don't

[1:20:44] know why you can't post them, so

[1:20:44] I'll chime

[1:20:48] in on that. I, I, several years

[1:20:48] ago I tried to get a 10 day. I

[1:20:49] know and

[1:20:52] I got a lot of pushback from

[1:20:53] everybody, you know, well,

[1:20:53] everybody's up there

[1:20:57] now. I'd love to know if any of

[1:20:57] the people up there now will

[1:20:58] push back because

[1:21:01] I don't we, we could experiment

[1:21:02] with that, the one thing I will

[1:21:02] tell you,

[1:21:06] you'll see the, the, the only,

[1:21:06] the only credible argument I've

[1:21:06] heard against

[1:21:10] it, you're gonna see a lot of

[1:21:11] late starters because anything

[1:21:11] that comes

[1:21:15] in after we, I know I see them

[1:21:16] anyway. It's ministerial. I have

[1:21:16] no, uh,

[1:21:19] you know. I, I have no problem,

[1:21:20] you know, you know, getting them

[1:21:20] out there.

[1:21:24] Ok, I'll look forward to seeing

[1:21:25] them next time we're in on

[1:21:25] Friday would

[1:21:28] You, you MAY see a chaotic, a

[1:21:29] lot of housekeeping

[1:21:32] done after that, and I'm sure

[1:21:32] the public would understand.

[1:21:32] That, but it

[1:21:38] would be preferable to have it.

[1:21:38] That's all. Thank you.

[1:21:42] Did Dom Feeney or Andrew King

[1:21:42] return?

[1:21:45] No, ok. That concludes our

[1:21:45] public portion. At this time

[1:21:49] we will go straight into our

[1:21:49] agenda.

[1:21:53] And let's see, do we have any

[1:21:54] housekeeping to do on that front

[1:21:58] Let's got the resolution force,

[1:21:58] yeah.

[1:22:01] Ok ok, public hearing, public

[1:22:01] works and that

[1:22:04] concludes. All right. You.

[1:22:07] Ok, so, uh, just housekeeping

[1:22:10] uh, resolution 2026418

[1:22:13] was removed from the agenda at

[1:22:14] workshop

[1:22:16] and there's a one late starter,

[1:22:17] and I'll entertain a motion to

[1:22:17] add the following

[1:22:21] late starter resolution to the

[1:22:21] agenda. It's a resolution

[1:22:22] authorizing the supervisor

[1:22:25] to execute an inter-municipal

[1:22:26] agreement with the South

[1:22:26] Huntington Union

[1:22:29] Free School District for the

[1:22:30] purchase and installation of a

[1:22:30] traffic signal

[1:22:34] device and authorizing the

[1:22:34] controller to amend the 2026

[1:22:35] operating budget

[1:22:38] and capital budget for the town

[1:22:39] of Huntington and its special.

[1:22:39] District's

[1:22:42] transportation and traffic

[1:22:43] safety motion by COUNCILMAN

[1:22:43] Bernardo, seconded

[1:22:47] by me. All in favor? Any

[1:22:48] opposed? Ok, that resolution as

[1:22:48] read is

[1:22:52] added as resolution number

[1:22:52] 2026-452

[1:22:55] but, uh, we need to do one

[1:22:55] little extra piece here

[1:22:59] because I noticed this is going

[1:22:59] to be added to the

[1:23:03] consent calendar, so somebody

[1:23:03] should. Take possession

[1:23:07] of it. Ok, uh, would you like to

[1:23:08] sponsor it, COUNCILMAN? I would

[1:23:08] like

[1:23:12] to sponsor you're a wildcat. You

[1:23:12] can have life for the wildcats,

[1:23:13] yes, and

[1:23:17] thank you, Scott Spittle. I know

[1:23:17] you, you moved heaven and earth

[1:23:17] to make

[1:23:21] this happen. So thank you for

[1:23:22] doing the right thing. All

[1:23:22] right, so 452 will

[1:23:26] be offered by Doctor Bernardo as

[1:23:26] part of the consent calendar.

[1:23:27] Ok. Ok.

[1:23:30] Let's see, can't spend a second

[1:23:30] on the agenda. All right

[1:23:35] uh, 419 419 to make a motion to

[1:23:37] offer resolution 419, a

[1:23:38] resolution authorizing the

[1:23:38] supervisor

[1:23:41] to apply for and receive grant

[1:23:42] funding under the New York State

[1:23:48] Division of Criminal Justice

[1:23:48] Services Law Enforcement

[1:23:49] Technology grant for

[1:23:52] public safety equipment. You're

[1:23:53] not, it's here seconded by

[1:23:53] COUNCILWOMAN

[1:23:57] Luinacci. All in favor? Any

[1:23:57] opposed resolution adopted 50.

[1:24:01] All right, supervisor, I wait,

[1:24:02] am I in the

[1:24:05] right place? Yes, 4:20, 4:20. So

[1:24:05] I

[1:24:08] schedule a public hearing on

[1:24:08] SEPTEMBER

[1:24:11] 15, 2026 at 6 P.M. To

[1:24:13] consider adopting a local law

[1:24:14] introductory

[1:24:17] number 0, sorry, everybody, I'm

[1:24:18] a beginner. I

[1:24:22] offer this. Oh, is that it? You

[1:24:22] could do that at the end. Oh, ok

[1:24:26] so basically I'm offering this

[1:24:27] with COUNCILWOMAN Louinacci and

[1:24:27] COUNCILWOMAN

[1:24:31] Maurie, thank you. And to

[1:24:31] consider adopting local law

[1:24:31] introductory

[1:24:35] number 30-2026, amending the

[1:24:36] code of the town of Huntington,

[1:24:36] Chapter 178

[1:24:40] taxation as to add Article 18. I

[1:24:40] don't have my glasses

[1:24:44] on exemption for permanently and

[1:24:45] totally disabled veterans. 2nd

[1:24:49] seconded by the supervisor. All

[1:24:49] in favor? Any opposed resolution

[1:24:49] adopted.

[1:24:53] 50. Thank you

[1:24:56] Tourists. MR. Supervisor

[1:24:58] I offer a resolution

[1:25:02] 2026-421 to designate OCTOBER as

[1:25:05] Italian Month in the town of

[1:25:05] Huntington.

[1:25:09] 2nd, seconded by the supervisor,

[1:25:09] all in favor

[1:25:14] Any opposed resolution adopted

[1:25:14] 50.

[1:25:17] MR. Supervisor. Yeah

[1:25:20] I offer a resolution 2026

[1:25:23] 422 to authorize a supervisor to

[1:25:23] execute an

[1:25:27] agreement with the village of

[1:25:27] Northport to furnish fire

[1:25:28] protection services for

[1:25:32] the town of Huntington Fire

[1:25:32] Protection District one, non pro

[1:25:33] tunc 2nd, seconded

[1:25:36] by the supervisor. All in favor?

[1:25:37] Any opposed? Resolution

[1:25:40] adopted 50. I resolution

[1:25:40] 2026-423

[1:25:43] Resolution authorizing the

[1:25:44] supervisor to execute an

[1:25:44] agreement with

[1:25:47] the New York Islanders Hockey

[1:25:48] Club, lp to conduct a learn to

[1:25:48] play youth

[1:25:52] hockey program at The Clark

[1:25:52] Gillies Arena at Dix Hills Park.

[1:25:52] 2nd, seconded by

[1:25:56] the supervisor. All in favor?

[1:25:57] Any opposed resolution

[1:26:01] adopted 50. Supervisor, I make

[1:26:01] motion, I make a motion to offer

[1:26:05] resolution 2026-424, along with

[1:26:06] a COUNCILWOMAN

[1:26:10] Luinacci resolution authorizing

[1:26:10] the supervisor to execute a

[1:26:11] license agreement

[1:26:14] with the Green Lawn Centerport

[1:26:15] Historical Association for the

[1:26:15] use of a portion

[1:26:19] of Little Plains Road between

[1:26:19] Brand Drive and Park Avenue in

[1:26:19] Huntington.

[1:26:23] In conjunction with its annual

[1:26:24] pickle festival on Saturday,

[1:26:24] SEPTEMBER 19

[1:26:28] 2026. 2nd, seconded by the

[1:26:28] supervisor. All in favor? Any

[1:26:29] opposed.

[1:26:32] Resolution adopted 50. I

[1:26:32] resolution

[1:26:35] 425 authorizing the supervisor

[1:26:36] to execute a license agreement

[1:26:36] with the

[1:26:39] Hecker Museum of Art to host

[1:26:40] museum plate cafe to promote

[1:26:43] the cafe at the Hexton Museum of

[1:26:44] Art and to further authorize the

[1:26:44] town of Huntington

[1:26:48] to co-sponsor museum Palate

[1:26:48] Cafe. Uh, seconded

[1:26:52] by COUNCILWOMAN Hebert. All in

[1:26:53] favor? Any opposed? Resolution

[1:26:57] adopted 50. MR. Supervisor, I

[1:26:58] make motion, I, I make a motion

[1:26:58] to offer

[1:27:02] a resolution 2026-426, a

[1:27:02] resolution authorizing the

[1:27:02] supervisor

[1:27:06] to execute a license agreement

[1:27:06] with the Northport Centerport

[1:27:07] Lions Club

[1:27:10] for the use of Hexha Park for

[1:27:11] the annual Robert j Bohati

[1:27:11] Classic

[1:27:15] Car Show on Sunday, AUGUST 30,

[1:27:16] 2026. That's

[1:27:18] seconded by supervisor, but it's

[1:27:19] also. Offered in conjunction

[1:27:19] with

[1:27:22] COUNCILWOMAN Luinacci, uh, all

[1:27:23] in favor. Any opposed

[1:27:26] Resolution adopted 50. I

[1:27:29] resolution 2026-432 authorizing

[1:27:29] the Comptroller

[1:27:33] to amend the 2026 operating

[1:27:34] budget for the town of

[1:27:38] Huntington and its special

[1:27:38] districts Department of General

[1:27:38] Services. 2nd,

[1:27:42] seconded by the supervisor. All

[1:27:43] in favor. Any opposed?

[1:27:43] Resolution

[1:27:47] adopted 50. I resolution, uh,

[1:27:47] 2026-435.

[1:27:50] Along with COUNCILWOMAN Maury to

[1:27:50] authorize appropriate actions

[1:27:53] in accordance with the

[1:27:54] Huntington Town Code

[1:27:58] chapter 156, property

[1:27:58] maintenance nuisances Article 7,

[1:27:59] blighted property

[1:28:02] section 156-67. Action by the

[1:28:03] town board for failure to comply

[1:28:07] or abate violations. 2nd on the

[1:28:08] motion on the motion, I'd also

[1:28:11] uh, make a motion please to edit

[1:28:12] this resolution as

[1:28:16] currently written so on the

[1:28:16] attachment

[1:28:19] the property referenced as. 13

[1:28:19] Plymouth Road in light of the

[1:28:20] gentleman

[1:28:23] that spoke today 2nd. On

[1:28:25] the motion we have a 2nd, all

[1:28:29] in favor. Motion to amend, yes,

[1:28:30] correct, the motion

[1:28:33] to amend. All in favor of the

[1:28:33] motion

[1:28:36] to amend 50, motion is granted.

[1:28:36] Now

[1:28:39] all the resolution so now at

[1:28:39] this time I offer this

[1:28:43] same resolution as amended

[1:28:46] uh, which is to authorize

[1:28:46] appropriate actions in

[1:28:46] accordance

[1:28:49] with Huntington Town Code

[1:28:50] chapter 156 property maintenance

[1:28:54] nuisances, Article 7, blighted

[1:28:54] property

[1:28:57] Section 156-67. Action by the

[1:28:58] town board for failure to comply

[1:28:58] or abate violations

[1:29:03] Motion. I've seconded by, uh,

[1:29:04] COUNCILWOMAN Hebert.

[1:29:08] All in favor. Any opposed

[1:29:10] Resolution adopted 50 as

[1:29:11] amended. Mr

[1:29:15] Supervisor, I make a motion to

[1:29:15] offer

[1:29:18] resolution 2026-438. Resolution

[1:29:18] authorizing the issuance of

[1:29:18] permits to

[1:29:22] extend to extend the operation

[1:29:22] of the

[1:29:25] Luminosity Inc. Dino Safari at

[1:29:26] the Walt Whitman shops

[1:29:30] 160 Walt Whitman Road in

[1:29:31] Huntington Station. Second,

[1:29:31] seconded by the supervisor.

[1:29:35] All in favor? Any opposed?

[1:29:35] Resolution adopted 50. Mr

[1:29:39] Supervisor, I make a motion to

[1:29:40] offer resolution 2026-439

[1:29:44] along with COUNCILWOMAN Hebert,

[1:29:44] resolution accepting a donation

[1:29:45] of 2 vehicles from

[1:29:48] the Huntington Youth Bureau of

[1:29:49] Youth Development Research

[1:29:49] Institute Inc. To

[1:29:52] be used by the Department of

[1:29:53] General Services. 2nd, seconded

[1:29:53] by the

[1:29:57] supervisor. All in favor? Any

[1:29:58] opposed? The resolution adopted

[1:29:58] 50

[1:30:02] I resolution 441 declaring

[1:30:02] certain equipment and vehicles

[1:30:02] as surplus

[1:30:06] and or obsolete and authorize

[1:30:07] the disposal by sale at auction.

[1:30:07] Trade in

[1:30:11] donation or disposal for scrap

[1:30:11] of same. 2nd. Seconded by the

[1:30:15] supervisor and COUNCILWOMAN

[1:30:16] Maury, all in favor? Any opposed

[1:30:20] Resolution adopted 50. I offer

[1:30:20] resolution

[1:30:23] 444 along with COUNCILMAN Murray

[1:30:23] to schedule a public

[1:30:27] hearing considering authorizing

[1:30:27] various actions be taken

[1:30:31] upon certain properties

[1:30:31] designated as blighted in

[1:30:32] accordance with

[1:30:35] chapter 156 of the Huntington

[1:30:36] Town Code. Second, seconded by

[1:30:36] the supervisor.

[1:30:40] All in favor? Any opposed?

[1:30:40] Resolution adopted 50

[1:30:43] MR. Supervisor, I make a motion

[1:30:43] to offer

[1:30:47] resolution 2026-445. Resolution

[1:30:47] scheduling a public hearing

[1:30:51] to consider awarding a license

[1:30:52] agreement for community or

[1:30:56] educational proposals for the

[1:30:56] utilization of the house,

[1:30:56] buildings, and

[1:31:00] Manor Farm Park located at 210

[1:31:00] Manor Road in Huntington

[1:31:04] 2nd, seconded by the supervisor.

[1:31:04] All in favor. Any opposed?

[1:31:07] Resolution adopted 50. I

[1:31:11] offer resolution 2026-446

[1:31:11] scheduling

[1:31:14] a public hearing to consider

[1:31:15] adopting local law introductory

[1:31:18] number 31-2026, amending the

[1:31:19] uniform traffic

[1:31:21] traffic code of the town of

[1:31:22] Huntington, Chapter 5

[1:31:25] section 5-1, Schedule m

[1:31:25] regarding Barker Lane

[1:31:28] and Huntington Station truck

[1:31:32] exclusion 2nd seconded by

[1:31:32] COUNCILWOMAN Luinacci. All in

[1:31:32] favor

[1:31:36] Any opposed resolution adopted

[1:31:37] 50. Supervisor, I

[1:31:40] will make a motion to offer

[1:31:40] resolution. 2026, 447, and I'm

[1:31:40] not sure when it

[1:31:45] is appropriate to say so, but I

[1:31:46] offer this public hearing based

[1:31:46] on the

[1:31:50] understanding that, although I

[1:31:50] think we might end up voting

[1:31:51] differently

[1:31:54] at some point in the next moment

[1:31:55] or two, will be a water

[1:31:55] committee established

[1:31:59] to study a particular area, um,

[1:31:59] by my colleague to the right.

[1:32:00] So, um, a

[1:32:03] public hearing to reconsider

[1:32:04] special use permit application.

[1:32:08] Mtcc 25-2, The Cornerstone

[1:32:08] Melville to allow the

[1:32:09] development of mixed-use

[1:32:12] property located on the north

[1:32:13] side of Bayliss Road east of

[1:32:13] Mass Road, Melville.

[1:32:17] 2nd, seconded by the supervisor.

[1:32:18] All in favor. And he opposed

[1:32:18] opposed, opposed.

[1:32:22] All right, what do we have? Uh,

[1:32:22] 2, ok, uh, resolution is

[1:32:26] adopted, uh, 3 y, 2

[1:32:28] nos by COUNCILWOMAN, uh,

[1:32:28] Luinacci and

[1:32:33] COUNCILWOMAN Hebert. Resolutions

[1:32:33] adopted

[1:32:37] you know what, if it's ok, can I

[1:32:37] just make a

[1:32:40] a comment on the motion. Ok, so

[1:32:41] first of all, I just

[1:32:43] wanna say that um.

[1:32:46] You know this vote of mine, it's

[1:32:47] not because

[1:32:50] I don't think that the project

[1:32:51] potentially is good, just like

[1:32:51] Gail had said, I

[1:32:55] think before, but I, I believe

[1:32:56] as you do that the pause was not

[1:33:00] well defined and I'm not really

[1:33:00] clear on the parameters of it

[1:33:04] and therefore that's reflected

[1:33:05] in my vote today, but what I do

[1:33:05] want to

[1:33:09] say, and I wanna, you know,

[1:33:09] thank my colleague, um, all of

[1:33:09] my colleagues

[1:33:13] but particularly Doctor Bernardo

[1:33:14] is we have formed this water

[1:33:14] advisory committee.

[1:33:18] And uh and it's not just fluff

[1:33:18] we are going to have the

[1:33:22] ability to come up with the

[1:33:23] parameters of what we want

[1:33:23] studied in terms of

[1:33:27] water quality and quantity and

[1:33:27] how it is affecting or

[1:33:31] affected by development in the

[1:33:32] Melville area. It's going to be

[1:33:32] particularly

[1:33:35] important given that when you

[1:33:36] know the project by nyu Langone

[1:33:36] if that comes to

[1:33:40] fruition, we'll also be, you

[1:33:41] know, utilizing quite a bit of

[1:33:41] water and but

[1:33:45] what I will say is that not only

[1:33:45] have we come up I. I think with

[1:33:45] a very

[1:33:49] good advisory committee that's

[1:33:49] going to put together these

[1:33:50] parameters, but

[1:33:54] we've actually found the funding

[1:33:54] for it, so it's not going to be

[1:33:54] costing

[1:33:58] the town anything. We have some

[1:33:59] funding to do it outside of town

[1:33:59] budget

[1:34:03] and therefore we are moving

[1:34:03] forward full speed ahead, and i

[1:34:03] just wanted

[1:34:07] you to know for those who might

[1:34:08] have thought that that was just

[1:34:08] a lot of

[1:34:11] smoke. It's not. We we're

[1:34:12] actually going ahead with this

[1:34:12] advisory committee.

[1:34:16] We just wanted to do it

[1:34:16] thoughtfully and carefully.

[1:34:17] Thank you. Thank you,

[1:34:21] and you have resolution 449 now.

[1:34:21] That is correct. Keep, keep

[1:34:21] reading and

[1:34:25] here I was done talking. Ok, so

[1:34:26] I offer resolution 2026-449,

[1:34:26] authorizing

[1:34:29] the supervisor to execute

[1:34:30] agreements with the uh, and this

[1:34:30] is with COUNCILMAN

[1:34:34] Murray too, again, for the

[1:34:34] provision of uh paper shredding

[1:34:35] services at the

[1:34:39] town of Huntington Senior Center

[1:34:39] parking lot on AUGUST 18, 2026,

[1:34:40] and OCTOBER 27th

[1:34:43] 2026, I offer this with

[1:34:44] Councilorman Murray. 2nd 2nd

[1:34:44] above

[1:34:48] the supervisor. All in favor of

[1:34:48] shredding

[1:34:51] ok, any opposed to shredding,

[1:34:51] uh, resolution

[1:34:54] adopted 50. Uh, Mr

[1:34:57] Supervisor, I make a motion to

[1:34:57] offer

[1:35:02] resolutions 2026-427 through

[1:35:02] 2026-452

[1:35:05] as published on consent,

[1:35:06] excluding those resolutions

[1:35:10] we had already voted on 2nd,

[1:35:11] seconded by the supervisor. All

[1:35:11] in

[1:35:15] favor of the consent calendar.

[1:35:15] Uh, any

[1:35:18] opposed res uh all the mentioned

[1:35:18] resolutions are

[1:35:21] adopted 50. Ok, that concludes

[1:35:22] the business of the town board

[1:35:26] and I'll entertain a motion to

[1:35:26] close the town board and open as

[1:35:27] our

[1:35:31] community development agency

[1:35:31] board. Motion motion by

[1:35:31] COUNCILWOMAN Luinacci

[1:35:35] seconded by COUNCILWOMAN Hebert.

[1:35:35] All in favor? Any opposed? Ok

[1:35:39] motion carriers. We're now

[1:35:40] seated as our Community

[1:35:40] Development Agency board, and

[1:35:44] I believe there is one agenda

[1:35:45] item Yes, so I make

[1:35:48] a motion to offer resolution

[1:35:51] 2026-cd-4. It's a resolution

[1:35:51] authorizing the transfer of

[1:35:52] funds from

[1:35:55] the Huntington Community

[1:35:56] Development Agency to the town

[1:35:56] of Huntington Highway

[1:36:00] Department. 2nd, seconded by the

[1:36:00] CHAIRMAN. All in favor

[1:36:04] Any opposed resolution adopted

[1:36:05] 50. Ok, that concludes the

[1:36:05] business of

[1:36:09] the Community Development Agency

[1:36:09] and uh before we close

[1:36:13] Councilor. Member Luinacci, any

[1:36:14] closing comments? Thank you. I

[1:36:14] would have said

[1:36:17] it earlier in the meeting. I

[1:36:18] just want to give a warm welcome

[1:36:18] to the scoutmaster

[1:36:22] here and all the young scouts

[1:36:23] that I believe are here today,

[1:36:23] um, in an effort

[1:36:27] to earn a merit badge. So

[1:36:27] welcome. Nice to have you here.

[1:36:31] Come on, yep, and I want to

[1:36:32] thank you also for allowing me

[1:36:32] to come speak

[1:36:36] to your scouts last week it was

[1:36:36] really fun and I think I

[1:36:37] recognized one

[1:36:40] of them here as well. So, you

[1:36:41] know, thanks, and I'm glad

[1:36:41] you're all here.

[1:36:45] COUNCILWOMAN Mari, any closing

[1:36:45] comments? And just, just

[1:36:45] briefly, um, just so

[1:36:49] everyone knows, I the town and

[1:36:50] my board members concurred

[1:36:54] in removing the tax cap agenda

[1:36:54] from the item today. I just want

[1:36:55] to assure

[1:36:59] you that none e e e e e e e xeraise tae have to take

[1:36:59] a good look atatat

[1:37:03] what's happening in our

[1:37:03] community and how and, and how

[1:37:03] it affects us and

[1:37:07] if there's programs that we have

[1:37:08] to cut. And so we are committed

[1:37:08] to doing that

[1:37:11] We have all been very committed

[1:37:12] to making sure that we do what

[1:37:16] is right and fiscally sound for

[1:37:17] our town, so please keep that in

[1:37:17] mind

[1:37:21] That's all. Thank you. Thank

[1:37:21] you. Doctor Bernardo.

[1:37:25] COUNCILWOMAN Hebert, anything?

[1:37:26] All done. All right, thank you,

[1:37:26] and I'll

[1:37:30] just close by saying we'll,

[1:37:30] we'll do our best to get this

[1:37:30] out. I, I don't

[1:37:34] know that we can do it the first

[1:37:35] time around getting uh agenda

[1:37:35] out 10 days

[1:37:39] in advance, but I would tell all

[1:37:39] the uh department heads, get

[1:37:39] your, uh,

[1:37:43] resolutions in early because,

[1:37:44] uh, we're going to try to get

[1:37:44] this out, uh,

[1:37:48] well before 24 hours in advance.

[1:37:48] So, uh, with that, I would say,

[1:37:48] uh, enjoy

[1:37:52] the remainder of the summer,

[1:37:53] everyone, and, uh, enjoy the

[1:37:53] rest of today.