Town Board - Regular Meeting

Suffolk County
Tuesday, August 25, 2026Official site

The Shelter Island Town Board reviewed several film permits, set fees for a Netflix production, and introduced a comprehensive rewrite of the local wetlands code.

About this meeting

Government Body
Town Board
Meeting Type
Town Board
Location
Shelter Island, NY
Meeting Date
August 25, 2026

Published excerpts

Only published remarks appear here. The full transcript is not published.

11 sections (from 13 segments)

3:16 – 3:44•Elizabeth Hanley

why don't we start by the working on the daily rate so the daily rate for filming yeah so i know we had kind of discussed this earlier because of the size of of the production and just like the town resources i know we had kind of thrown around maybe doing about five does that seem right yeah it um i had considered five thousand per day um i know someone said

4:15•Elizabeth Hanley

Yeah, I mean, to be involved. Yeah, I just think just like to make sure that we're, you know, yeah. Okay, cool.

4:45 – 5:05•Elizabeth Hanley

yeah and I liked your metrics that you came up with was just like because at first I had a really hard time like wrapping my mind around it and I was like okay well what do we charge for daily parking and just thinking about that times however many spots that are there yeah so that just seemed fair and then also. I didn't even know how to approach it. That's a great idea.

5:25 – 5:58•Elizabeth Hanley

Yeah. Yeah. right is there any other part of it i know we had talked about no we already have a set structure for how we do the police fee right that was the other thing so that's all sorted that's sorted so we're doing a deposit and then we do a deposit and that goes against direct cost and then we'll just refund the rest anything that's not used great um and then there's also a deposit like a cleaning deposit uh-huh so but

6:04 – 6:18•Elizabeth Hanley

Yeah. I'm not worried about that. I'm not worried about that. Read, agreed. I don't think that's needed. Yeah. Yeah. You guys take care of yourselves. I'm not worried.

8:46 – 9:03•Elizabeth Hanley

So I appreciate them. Like, yeah. Going through the motions and I feel like we'll tighten it up next year and yeah. Well, it's also because it's like a town committee doing it. Permission, but we're just from ourselves to it. Yeah, it's good. It's good.

12:55•Elizabeth Hanley

And then we'll come back and discuss it when we have it on the schedule.

13:08•Elizabeth Hanley

I think I'm like, I actually don't think I'm missing a meeting. You're not because I did. I didn't plan it.

13:20•Elizabeth Hanley

All your work and all the subcommittees work on this. It should be good.

13:40 – 15:39•Elizabeth Hanley

Liz, do you want to read from it? I'd love to. Whereas Lee Productions on behalf of Anthropology applicant has applied for a filming permit for commercial filming at 60 Peconic Avenue on August 31st and September 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, 2026 and has secured permission from the owner of said premises, permission from the owner of 56 Peconic Avenue for overflow parking and production setup, permission from South Ferry Company owner of 127 South Ferry Road for filming activities at said locations and whereas the production is expected to involve fewer than 25 persons per day on August 31st and Septemb

16:41 – 16:53•Elizabeth Hanley

over yeah in september yeah i think so and also ken has been for housing been cleaning up the back of the lot so they can be back there if there's anything that they need to leave jeep i see you just hopped on oh

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