Town Board - Regular Meeting

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Please remain standing for a moment of silence. I'd ask that you're keeping your thoughts and prayers, the brave servicemen and women serving our country, both here and abroad. Thank you. Please be seated.

Good morning. Would the clerk call the roll? Councilman Mineta?

Here.

Councilman Martinez?

Here.

Councilman McSweeney? Here. Councilman Gregory? Here. Supervisor Schaefer?

And I am here. So all five are present. We have a quorum. And this is the Wednesday, July 8th, 2026 meeting of the Babylon Town Board at 10 a.m. You can come in if you'd like. The meeting is divided up into three sections. The first is dedicated to the public hearings. There are six public hearings scheduled for today. So if you're interested in addressing the board on any of the public hearings, we ask you to fill out a card and file with our town clerk. Second portion is dedicated to the agenda and there are agendas on the table up front. So if you're interested in addressing the board on any of the items listed on the agenda for that, we also ask you to fill out a card up front And file with our town clerk. And the third portion is the open portion. And that's when residents can come forward and address the board on any matters concerning town government or town services that are not on today's agenda. If you're here in person, we ask you to come to the podium when your name is called and state your name and address for the stenographer's benefit. And we ask you to... Keep your comments to three minutes. If you are watching us on our YouTube channel, either on the 8th at 10 a.m., which is live, or at a future date and time, there's a link that'll take you to today's agenda. It'll also allow you access to send us a message question, comment, or concern, and one of us will get back to you. With that, we'll go into the public hearings, and the first public hearing is public hearing on the question of lifting covenants or restrictions for planning board job HPLN-63, 23-44AI, Inter-County Realty, LLC. Do we have any representative from, just come forward and state your name and address.

Jared Pressburg, 100 Corporate Plaza, Ilandia, New York, 11749.

Great, just if you can give us a brief description of what the request is.

Sure, so request is being made to lift certain historical covenants and restrictions that were imposed by the planning board that simply no longer relate to the property, its use or its future use. No intention of asking for relief from the proposed new CNRs that were requested for the project, just removal of the old one for the intended use.

Great. Are any questions from the board members? No? Thank you. Anybody here wishing to address the board on this public hearing? I don't have any cards, so I'll take a motion to close and reserve by Councilman Mineta, second by Councilman Martinez. All those in favor? Opposed? Hearing is closed. Decision reserved. And this is on the agenda for approval.

Thank you.

Thank you. Second public hearing is public hearing on the rezoning application of Stanley Gilpin, HPLN-36, planning board job 25-27AE. The premises identified as Suffolk County Tax Map number 0100-168-2-22, located on the northeast corner of Gilbert Place and Overland Avenue in Amityville.

Good morning, Mr. Supervisor. Members of the board, for the record, Nicole Blanda, 535 Broad Hollow Road in Melville. Mr. Supervisor, it's a very simple application. It's split zone business E and residence B. However, it really should be residential because it's on a residential block. The owner simply wants to build a single family home here and has agreed to all covenants and restrictions for the home.

we are excited about that good great any questions negative okay thank you uh take a motion to close and reserve by councilman martinez second by councilman mcsweeney all those in favor aye opposed hearing is closed decision reserve third public hearings public hearing reference submitting chapter 2 article 2 section 2-2 of the town of babling uniform code of traffic ordinances don't have any cards so take a motion councilman mcsweeney second by councilman gregory to close and reserve all those in favor

Aye.

Opposed? Hearing is closed. Decision reserved. Fourth public hearing is public hearing reference to amend in Chapter 2, Article 4, Section 2-8 of the Town of Babylon Uniform Code of Traffic Ordinances. I don't have any cards, so I will take a motion from Councilman Gregory. Second by Councilman Mineta to close and reserve. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Hearing is closed. Decision reserved. Fifth public hearing is public hearing reference to amend in the Code of the Town of Babylon, Chapter 13, Office of Controller. I don't have any cards, so I'll take a motion from Councilman Mineta, second by Councilman Martinez to close and reserve. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Hearing is closed. Decision reserved. Six public hearings. Public hearing reference amended in the Court of Town of Babylon, Chapter 213, Zoning. Article... me out here. 49. 49. County attorney is supposed to know that.

49.

I don't have any cards, so I'll take a motion from Councilman Martinez, seconded by Councilman McSweeney to close and reserve. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Hearing is closed. Decision is reserved. That's it for the public hearings. We'll go into the agenda. I don't have any cards. Anyone wishing to address the board on the agenda? You're on a resolution or open portion?

Resolution.

523. Oh, okay. Sure, let me, then I'll call you up. 523. Oh, Michael McCarthy. So come on up, Mike. So you're on for your speaker one, 523. So you want to address, you're the attorney for Milk and Things? Yes, I am. Great. So just give your name and address.

Michael McCarthy, 2150 Joshua's Path, Suite 202, Hoppog, New York, 11788.

We meet again. Yes, we do. How are you? I'm wonderful. How are you? I'm doing pretty good, thanks. How's your client? He's doing well, thanks. Oh, I can tell.

Yeah. Yeah, he's doing well. I can tell. He's been closed for over a week now.

Right. So why are you here, Mike?

Because the town closed my client. Right. I understand that there was a warrant.

Do you know why we closed your client?

I have not received any paperwork concerning it. I have spoken to the assistant town attorney, but I have not received any paperwork. So why don't we bring up the assistant town attorney?

Where is he? Yeah, Mike, why don't you have a seat there, and we'll have Mr. Rosario speak to the board. This is on Resolution 523. This is regarding a location called Milk and Things, and I assume that they sell milk. And things.

And things. For my appearance is Jorge Rosario, Senior Assistant Town Attorney, Town of Babylon. And I do have copies of the report by the town attorney's office. I'm going to provide one to council and provide... we were uh previously uh here back in october 2025 before the town board at that point uh there was a presentation that was made that uh concerning various arrests on february 7 2024 september 9 2024 both times the same individual ashish brum bat And then another arrest on September 6th, 2025, Chin Lu. All of these were unlawful dealing to a child, selling tobacco to minors. These arrests were made by the first precinct. There's also a list. I don't think it's necessary to read into the record. It'll be part of the record, but if you have at least a one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight arrests, similar issues go in 2024. OUR RECOMMENDATION IS TO.

AND THEN THE MOST RECENT IS A WARRANT THAT WAS EXECUTED BY THE FIRST PRECINCT ON JUNE 25th, 2026?

YES, SUPERVISOR, THAT WARRANT WAS OBTAINED, SIGNED BY JUDGE SACKS, WHERE ALLOWED US AND THE FIRST PRECINCT, FIRST PRECINCT EXECUTED IT, AND AS YOU CAN SEE TO THE BOARD'S RIGHT, MY LEFT, OVER 2,000 217 flavored vapes were confiscated at the location. These were after community complaints of selling flavored vapes, which are against the law in New York State. They were also against the town code that had been adopted. These flavored vapes were found on the property on that date. And what we find is that on the last date in October 2025, And as you can see, as you're pulling those out, supervisor, they're meant to attract younger folks. You got bright colored packaging, flavors of whether it's strawberry, banana, or anything you can think of. And these are meant to, which has been recognized by the state, and the town of Babylon that they're meant to attract younger folks into becoming addicted to nicotine. We, on the last occasion, October 2025, it was adjourned for compliance and furthering whether they were gonna begin to comply with the rules in terms of carding individuals, making sure that tobacco's being sold to only adults. but we found that that has not been abided by. In order to get the warrant, we had to send in a minor who did purchase a flavored vape from the location. The individual is under 21 years old, and that was attached to the warrant, which was shown to Judge Sachs, who then signed the warrant.

If I could just interrupt you for a second. So did you say that there was an agreement and then there was an adjournment because of the agreement to kind of comply with the law and then they violated the agreement which led to the warrant and here we are. Is that what you said? Correct, Councilman.

THAT IS CORRECT. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT OCCURRED. AND SO AS YOU CAN SEE, THEY HADN'T ABIDED BY THE AGREEMENT THAT THEY TOLD THE TOWN BOARD THAT THEY WERE GOING TO DO. SO THE WARRANT WAS EXECUTED AND ALL THIS WAS FOUND AND THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE TOWN ATTORNEY'S OFFICE IS TO KEEP THE PLACE CLOSED AS THEY HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO COMPLY. The business has shown to have been an example of what a public nuisance is. It's attracting young folks to something that's so dangerous and just leads them to a life of being addicted to nicotine. And again, it's unlawful in and of itself.

Any other comments or questions?

Just that when I was a county legislator, I sponsored the legislation with Kay Browning to expand the two-year, 48-month requirement to 36 months. So this is an issue that's been very important to me, that we get this nuisance, bad actors, and give localities the time frame to really capture these individuals and do what the law is intended to do. So.

Absolutely. And again, the intention is to protect our youth, our children, and make sure that it's not being sold. In addition to these items being sold, one of the complaints we got was that gummy worms type stuff with THC, and it was also being sold. And the email that we received months ago when we started our reinvestigation of the property was that that was being sold as well. And that was also found.

Would you be able to put a dollar amount value on that?

Yes, this is about close to, we estimate about $60,000. Six zero? 60,000. 60,000.

And then what would it be sold?

They go from, depending on the vape, Tyson vapes usually sell for about $30. Other vapes about $25.

What's the markup? What would he be making?

I actually don't have that answer, Supervisor. My apologies. But it's... I just do know that it's... It's more than milk. It's a lot more than milk. Right. And again, this property is a nuisance that's been complained. We've received numerous complaints from the community. Right, right.

Okay.

And if there's any other questions. Anybody else? Or Supervisor Hogan?

You vape?

All right. Thank you, Supervisor. Thank you.

Michael, did you want to say something? Because I'm going to make a suggestion, if you'd like, but you can come forward if you want to put anything on the record. But my suggestion is going to be, I just kind of sat over with Michael briefly and I told him that you know he's been here before representing his client he does a very good job representing his client it's important for his client to have representation here I told him that the town board is very upset in fact I've spoken to both school district superintendents who cover the area in Deer Park and North Babylon, and I'm sure if I spoke to the others, they'd have the same concerns of what they've seen over the last few months in schools. We've spent money through our ARPA program to have Lindenhurst and Wyandanch school districts purchase vape detection systems that have been installed in the bathrooms and locker rooms in various buildings in those school districts i know other districts have had to invest money to do that to do just that to deal with with this which has become a massive problem uh... and i told him at this point his client doesn't have in my eyes zero credibility but I would say there's really no credibility in terms of him being able to manage this business. He should go into maybe a legal business that sells products like this, but that it would be in his best interest, his clients, and he'll have to obviously speak to his client. But I think what I would recommend is that we have Michael work with the town attorney's office to hammer out an agreement that is going to allow him to sell the property in a very short period of time, and I'm sure a property on 231 in North Babylon is going to catch a bunch of people, because if it's run properly in legal fashion, it can do very well. People are going to want to run into what we've done over the years, run in quick to get the necessities or essentials that you need. So I would recommend that we allow him, that we table this today until August 5th. August 5th is the next meeting. That we table this today. That we have him meet with the town attorney's office either today or tomorrow and hammer out an agreement that is going to have him listing the property immediately for sale. providing the town attorney's office with that agreement, either through a broker or for sale by owner, not dictating how you do your commercial transaction. And then we put a time limit on when that sale's got to be consummated. We're going to have to, if we're going to allow him to open up, because obviously the Sale is going to be based on whether or not there's an operation going on there. So that operation's got to be strictly monitored, where we're going to have inspections almost daily as to what products are in the building, and he's going to have to agree to allow our people to go in there. and then get this thing sold right away because he needs to be out of this business. There's nothing else that we can talk about. And even though you're a great attorney, there's nothing else that you can come up with that's going to convince us that he can do this. So I think that that would be a reasonable compromise. And I think that we need to get that all hammered out so that the board can vote on that at the august 5th meeting i think that gives us more than enough time it's about a month to do that um does that sound reasonable to you yes it does we'll work on it okay so we'll we'll when we get to that resolution we'll we'll pull that off well no it's in the resolution section we'll table that to august 5th everybody good with that okay okay thank you very much okay i'm gonna put this yeah you don't want to take that home to the kids right now strawberry thank you michael i'm in the parking lot all right i don't have any other cards so i'll take a motion and you better listen to your attorney listen to him you didn't listen the last time please okay thank you 514. i'm sorry this card for 514. oh it's 523. Oh, got it. They're resolution agenda. Yep. So I'll bring up Julia D'Ameno from the New York League of Conservation Voters. Julia D'Ameno. Yes. There you go. And pull that down so you can get picked up. Yep. And just state your name and address.

Tiny bit short. My name is Julia Damiano. I work for the New York League of Conservation Voters, and I work out of the Citizens Campaign for the Environment Office in Farmingdale. So 225 Main Street A, Farmingdale.

Great.

So I'm speaking on behalf of the New York League of Conservation Voters to urge the town of Babylon to allow for the expiration of the current moratorium on battery energy storage systems and not extend it to support the responsible, appropriately sized deployment of these systems within the town. Battery storage is essential for storing and integrating excess energy from the grid, as well as for providing reliable power during extreme weather or periods of peak demand. These systems reduce reliance on fossil fuel plants, support New York Energy's clean energy goals, create good paying local jobs in the clean energy sector, and help tackle the growing affordability crisis by stabilizing the price of energy. We understand that local municipalities, including yourself, have had concerns over the safety of these deployments. However, modern best facilities are designed and operated under some of the strictest safety codes in the nation. The New York State Fire Prevention and Building Codes Council issued updated safety guidelines for best deployment in July of 2025, reflecting the latest best practices in fire safety, system design, and emergency response. In support, six former FDNY leaders, including retired Commissioner Thomas Van Essen, has affirmed that battery energy storage can and should be safely integrated into our communities. By either rejecting this clean and safe technology outright or creating overly restrictive codes, we are missing an opportunity to provide energy security, grid resilience, local construction jobs, and more stable utility bills for residents. Babylon has taken the time over the past six months to create a working group and study this issue closely. And now it is time for residents to see the results of this to allow for this technology to be safely and appropriately placed in their communities. We ask for you to take the necessary steps to update your codes and embrace this technology. We're open to providing education or discussing this topic further with your office in order to achieve cleaner, safer, and a healthier town of Babylon. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Thank you, Julia. Lauren Corcoran Doolin, Ace New York.

Hi, Supervisor and Board. Good morning. Good morning. I'm Lauren Corcoran-Doolin. I'm representing Alliance for Clean Energy, also known as ACE New York, this morning.

Is your voice sore from the soccer?

I am. I'm a World Cup fan, so I was just getting over my Knicks victory, and then my British husband is very excited England has advanced. There you go. Thank you, Supervisor. I'm just here to bring a few letters today. Because of my voice, I'm going to keep it short. But essentially, I want to thank you and your amazing team. I know you and your town board know you have an amazing team, but they've really worked to be thoughtful, meaningful, Of course, the public safety of the residents. I wanted to also let you know that we will, with a retired fire FDNY team, be meeting with fire leaders, anyone that the town board would like us to meet with over the course of the summer and the next few weeks in the town of Babylon, because we care too. There's no wrong question when it comes to community safety.

I think we're going to connect you with the Town Fire Chiefs Association.

That's wonderful. And for total disclosure, Rich is a mentor, so he's taught me that there's no wrong question with community safety. That means I'm old, so... I'm getting old, so it means he's really old. So essentially, I just wanted to bring this forward today. Your due diligence is great, but there's a overwhelming amount of support because of our grid just being, you know, hot weeks like last week have just made it that we have to come up with solutions and safe ones that protect our community. We're looking to be great partners with you guys because you guys are great partners. And there is overwhelming support on the ground from both residents as well as stakeholders who want to make sure that we can make an affordable, resilient grid this summer. The sooner, the better, because our grid is totally stressed, almost as stressed as my voice. So thank you so much. Thank you for the time, Supervisor.

And just hand up the letters, Lauren. Thank you. okay anyone else for the um agenda portion i don't see any so we'll go right into the agenda we've got the consensus resolution agenda for today are there any items that need to be removed negative negative so uh take a motion i offer the consensus resolution agenda second All those in favor? Opposed? Consensus resolution agenda is adopted as listed. Resolutions for today, resolution 507. Ayo for 507. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Resolutions approved. Resolution 508. Ayo for 508. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Resolutions approved. Resolution 509. I make a motion to approve. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Resolutions approved. Resolution 510. Ayo for 510. Second. All those in favor? Opposed? Resolutions approved. Resolution 511.

I offer to table resolution 511 to the August 5th board meeting. Second.

All those in favor of the tabling? Aye. Opposed? Resolution is tabled to August 5th. Offer resolution 512. Offer 512. SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MENETTA. SECOND, SORRY. ALL IN FAVOR? ALL RIGHT. RESOLUTIONS APPROVED. RESOLUTION 513. MOTION TO APPROVE. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? I'M SORRY.

513?

IS IT TOO LATE? 513. COME ON UP. JUST IF YOU WOULD STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.

This is regarding 15 Isles Place, correct? Yes. Okay. My appearance, Bernard J. Zimnach, Z like zebra, I like igloo, M like Mary, N like Nancy, OCH, 1909 Great Neck Road, Suite B, Copake, New York, 11726. Just to address the board briefly, my client is currently working with the town. We had filed a plumbing inspection report, a plumbing inspection, I believe it had occurred already. We're trying to diligently pursue this matter. I know the town had to come in an emergency basis to board up the location. I do have my client's husband here, so he was there, he was present during the times.

And just, what's his name?

Sure, Walter Ayala Mejia.

And he's the owner?

Well, he's the spouse of the owner. So the owner is Nicari Fernandez. She's officially the owner, but husband and wife, they work pretty much together. Got it, okay. Where I'm also handling the portion with the Town Adjudications Bureau, Administrative Adjudications Bureau, those tickets.

For the summonses?

For the summonses that were issued a couple months ago, correct.

And what's your client's intention with the property?

So he's working right now to fix it, to bring it back to the condition it was previously with the COs eventually.

So he just purchased it?

He purchased it, it was about, I don't recall. I think it was maybe two years ago or a year ago. Somewhere around that. Not too long ago.

Is this an investment property?

It's an investment, correct.

Okay. So they're going to repair it, bring it back to its original form.

To the original condition, correct. And then sell it. Yep. The only issues that we were... well, I just wanted to maybe make the record clear, is that if my client wants to enter the premises, who should he contact so we don't have any issues? I did speak with Mr. Rosario earlier this morning. He advised me that we should reach out and just possibly leave a message with the

Well, yeah, what we'll do is we'll get you in touch. Ron Klusner is here, right here in the front row. Okay. So he'll arrange for one of the inspectors who will have access so you can work directly through him. Okay, got it. And we appreciate you being here because it's always good to have someone to talk to when we're trying to deal with the property that impacts the neighborhood.

And then also the Suffolk County Police did arrest the squatters or the alleged squatters that were there. Okay, great. Back on May 16th, give or take.

okay so they were cleared out they were cleared out right good okay yeah so all we're going to do is we we just have to approve this resolution to give to approve the authority that we went in and did what we had to do and then we appreciate you because we know you're also a great attorney who does good work on behalf of your client and you'll be able to work with ron and the town attorney's office okay great as well thank you bernard thank you very much okay So 513, did I take a motion from Councilman Mineta? No. Motion to approve. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Resolutions approved. Resolution 514. I vote for 514. Second. All those in favor? Opposed? Resolutions approved. Resolution 515. I vote for 515. Second roll call, please.

Councilman Mineta.

Yes.

Councilman Martinez. Yes. Councilman McSweeney. Yes. Councilman Gregory. Yes. Supervisor Schaefer.

Yes. Resolutions approved. Five votes in favor. Zero opposed. Resolution 516. Motion to approve. Second. All in favor. Aye. Opposed. Resolutions approved. Resolution 517.

Make a motion to approve. Second. Would the clerk call the roll? Councilman Mineta? Yes. Councilman Martinez? Yes. Councilman McSweeney? Yes. Councilman Gregory? Yes. Supervisor Schaffer?

Yes. Resolutions approved, five votes in favor, zero opposed. Resolution 518. I vote for 518. Second. All those in favor? Opposed? Resolutions approved. Resolution 519. I O for 519. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Resolutions approved. Resolution 520. Motion to approve. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Resolutions approved. Resolution 521. Make a motion to approve.

Second.

All those in favor? Opposed? Resolutions approved. Resolution 522. I O for 522.

Second. All those in favor?

Opposed? Resolutions approved. And resolution 523. We're going to table that one.

I offer to table 523 until the August 5th. 5th. Yep.

Second. All those in favor of the tabling? Aye. Opposed? Resolutions tabled until August 5th. And tabled agenda, resolution 420. Motion to approve. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Resolutions approved. That's it for the resolutions. We'll go to the open portion and to the cards. We have Julie Verger.

Hi.

All right, just speak into the microphone and just state your name and address.

My name is Julie Verga. I live at 43 Tremont Road in Lindenhurst. And I'm here because I have a concern about the fireworks every night. It starts like mid to end of May. And it goes all the way into September. And two years ago, it was even into October. So in most cases, it's the firecrackers. But then we have those explosions. and starts between like 8 30 and 9 30 at night it goes till 11 30 or 12 and then occasionally at one o'clock in the morning it wakes me up with the two loud explosions so i don't know you know it's not my direct block but it's around so um jorge rosario is our assistant deputy town attorney jorge just raise your hand

He runs our quality of life task force. Okay. And we have town investigators who work different hours, including overnights. Oh, okay. So I'd like to have him introduce you to the investigator.

Okay.

And then we've had issues, actually, because you're off of Wellwood and Straypath. Yes. Okay. We had issues on Tremont and Sherbrooke on the 109 side by the precinct. So the investigators were able to work with several of the residents over there recently. And they were able to get information that the first precinct was able to act on. So if we could have, Jorge will just introduce you to the investigator. Their office is right here in the building. And then you'll have their number so that if there are issues, you're able to either text them or they'll cover your area and they'll be out at different hours. And it's mostly between the hours that you just mentioned.

Right.

Okay. Okay, thank you. You're welcome, Julie. Right there. And also, I just want to introduce into the record two submissions by Anthony Mignon of 886 County Line Road, Amityville. Submission mark number one was submitted for the July 8th, 2026 meeting. It was submitted to the town clerk's office on July 1st, 2026. And the second submission 886 COUNTY LINE ROAD AMENYVILLE WAS SUBMITTED FOR TODAY. THE JULY 8th MEETING WAS SUBMITTED TO THE TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE ON JULY 6th. SO WE'LL HAND THOSE UP. AND FINALLY, OH, JERRY, DID YOU?

YES.

I'M SORRY, MR. GARLAND.

GOOD MORNING, MR. SCHAEFER. I'VE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH ANTHONY. HE HAS FILED SEVERAL FOIL REQUESTS. OKAY. OUR I.T. DEPARTMENT CAME BACK TO US AND SAID IT WAS WAY TOO BROAD, WAY TOO VOLUMINOUS BECAUSE HE SAID COUNTY ROAD LINE ROAD. 10,000 E-MAILS AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO GO THROUGH THAT. I DO HAVE A MEETING SCHEDULED NEXT WEEK WITH ME AND ANDREW FROM THE I.T. DEPARTMENT. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE HIM REALLY BOIL DOWN THE TERMS THAT HE'S LOOKING FOR. I ASKED HIM TO GIVE ME HIS GOAL SO I CAN WORK BACKWARDS INSTEAD OF WORKING FORWARDS BECAUSE I HONESTLY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE WANTED. I HAVE A BETTER IDEA NOW SO I'M JUST LETTING YOU KNOW I DIDN'T WANT TO INTERRUPT. HE'S COMING IN NEXT WEEK AND WE'RE GOING TO WORK IT OUT.

WE APPRECIATE THAT. THANK YOU FOR LETTING THE BOARD KNOW. And finally, I want to welcome our Ujima interns who are here. Raise your hand. This is the 26th year of the program, and we want to thank Tracy Fonville and Marcus Duffin and all of the departments that are working directly with them. I know the interns have been assigned out to either a town department or an elected official who represents the Babylon area. And they're working in their individual offices. So I know they're having great experiences so far in getting to know a little bit about parts of the town. And then they're going to be working through the end of July where they'll be able to then celebrate at a wonderful dinner that will send them off their 11th graders going into 12th. And I think we pretty much have every school district represented within the town that are here today. So interns thank Tracy and Marcus for a job well done. And I know, I think we're gonna talk in a few minutes after we finish up. I do have one final speaker. So we have our supervisor for the day. So Nick, if you would just take the podium there. Introduce yourself and let the residents know why you're here. Excuse me? Right at the podium, just state your name and address. Whichever way you want.

You're the supervisor.

You're the supervisor, right? That's right.

I'm Nick Hogan. I'm going to be senior high school. I go to Hills West. You have to follow Hills West? Yeah. Okay. And why are you here? Why am I here? To be supervisor of the day. Because I see Rich in the gym every morning. And I was questioning his line of work. Just say that a little louder. You see Rich where? I see Rich in the gym every morning. In the gym. And I had a question.

By the way, Jim, Nick was not in the gym this morning, so I'll just note that for the record. Go on. I note for the record the guilt shaming comment. Good. No, tell them about yourself.

Oh. You're going to be a senior. I'm going to be a senior. I'm going to Bucknell to play lacrosse. And to study. To study. Don't know what yet. Probably something in the science field. And what have you learned so far today? What have I learned so far? Rich has to do with a lot of people every day.

No. Anything else?

No. Not yet. Not yet. There's still more.

That's right. He's going to spend the day with me going to the various meetings, visiting the different departments, and then we'll have him do a report at the end of the day. You didn't think you'd be doing that on the summer break, right? Very good. Thanks, Nick. All right. Anybody else wish to address the board? Seeing none, take a motion to adjourn by Councilman Mineta, second by Councilman Martinez. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Meeting is adjourned. Thank you.

Oh, Martinez and Mineta at the end?

Yeah. Okay. That's why I had you do that.

Of course.

Good. It's my first year with the soccer. I am addicted.

Everything about it is interesting.

Yeah.