Committees - Regular Meeting

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

The Shelter Island Committees discussed several capital requests, including funding for body-worn cameras for the police department, improvements to the Congdon Road boat ramp, and a new workboat. The committee also reviewed grant applications for a tot lot, a recycling facility loader, and Fresh Pond, and discussed reapplying for the Suffolk County Opioid program.

About this meeting

Government Body
Committees
Meeting Type
Committees
Location
Shelter Island, NY
Meeting Date
June 23, 2026

Transcript

173 sections

0:05 – 0:25Speaker 5

Okay. We'll open up this meeting. We have minutes. April or May? What is it? Did I print something nonsensical? It says May on the agenda and April on there.

0:26Speaker 4

Yeah, they're the last month. Yeah, the date.

0:28Speaker 5

Okay, they're May.

0:36 – 0:54Speaker 5

Let me just take a second here. We'll make a motion to approve it. Any minutes?

0:55Speaker 5

All in favor? Aye. It's an open meeting.

1:17Speaker 1

Anything wasn't made up, right?

1:20Speaker 5

Yes, we have an agenda.

1:23Speaker 4

Yeah, so it's incorrect.

1:35 – 2:06Speaker 5

Okay, so ferry flood hazard mitigation, Joe could not be here today and also prob from dishes could not be here today. So we have no report on that. So that item gets scratched from the agenda. And Jen Mezziano. If you're talking, we can't hear you. and we still don't hear you if you're talking.

2:08Speaker 7

You want me to text her? She can probably hear us.

2:16Speaker 4

It looks unmuted.

2:16Speaker 5

We can't, yeah, she does look unmuted, but.

2:39Speaker 6

Actually, I'll be back. Okay. Yeah.

2:45Speaker 5

We're waiting for her to come back on. We've got different capital requests that are in SharePoint. So we'll just bring them up one by one.

3:01 – 3:24Speaker 7

So hopefully that'll work. Our meeting's just going to be the story.

3:25Speaker 6

I feel like when it's quiet in here, all you're going to hear is the stories telling in the hallway.

3:35 – 5:17Speaker 1

Is that any better? Better. Hi, everybody. Sorry about that. Zoom is always it's like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get. So I know you have a packed agenda today. I'll give you some high level updates. We submitted the grant application for the tot lot that was submitted on June 15th. The grant request amount was $364,000 and change and the town match if it's awarded would be $91,000 and change. We expect to hear back from the state in August as to whether that is funded or not. We also have a decision point. We do have the option of applying under another state grant program that is currently open, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. They do traditionally support playgrounds with a 50% match requirement. So that is due at the end of July. So we do have the option of kind of repurposing everything we put together for the New York Plays application and putting our hat in the ring for this other funding source, which would be kind of a fallback if that tot lot, the New York Plays grant is not funded. So it might be a good idea just to be certain that we're looking at all available funding opportunities for that project.

5:19Speaker 5

I like that.

5:22Speaker 6

Yeah, it sounds like a good idea.

5:25Speaker 5

Yeah. What is the rest of this for? I'll mention it to the town board at next week's session.

5:37 – 5:59Speaker 1

Excellent. And if it's a go, there will be a little bit more documentation to collect around things like community support. But we have a really great amount of information already collected, so it shouldn't be too heavy a lift to put this together for the end of July. But I'll wait for your feedback.

6:00Speaker 5

If you could just shoot me an email with a little bit of the information so that I have it for next week, please.

6:05 – 6:16Speaker 1

Yeah, I will give you an overview of the grant as well as a summary of the application we've already put in and the key decision points for the town board.

6:16Speaker 4

Perfect agenda next week. Yes.

6:21Speaker 1

Okay. Okay. All right. I'm saving myself a note, so I don't forget.

6:31 – 7:19Speaker 1

There is another new grant opportunity where we've been planning towards with Ken and DPW. He is anticipating a need to purchase a new loader for the recycling facility. The state has a municipal waste reduction and recycling grant program for capital. So we're looking into submitting an application for that, which would support 50% of the eligible project costs. So that is also in the pipeline. It's from front loader for a loader for managing recyclables. On the grant administration front.

7:20Speaker 5

When is that 1 due?

7:22 – 7:36Speaker 1

It's not due until October of next year, but this is the program that takes about 3 years to process applications. So, the sooner we submit the earlier we can get on their wait list.

7:37Speaker 5

Okay, but it's not due until October 2027.

7:40Speaker 1

Yeah, it's a rolling deadline, so they process applications as they come in, but October of next year is the last date that they'll accept applications.

7:49Speaker 6

Okay, we can get that anytime. Yes.

7:52Speaker 1

Okay. Should I await feedback from the next town board meeting before proceeding with that?

8:01Speaker 5

Yeah, I just want and I think it's the pay loader that we just approved. No, what did we just approve?

8:10Speaker 1

It probably is. I think it was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think the idea is to offset that cost to reduce the town's outlay.

8:20Speaker 5

Yeah, don't foresee a problem, especially if we just update the purchase.

8:25Speaker 6

Yeah, I don't think it would be a problem.

8:27 – 9:38Speaker 1

Okay, great. On the grant administration side, we're processing the household hazardous waste contract. That's $7,957.40. That contract reimburses the town for its 2024 household hazardous waste expenses. So that contract is now executed and the state is processing the reimbursement. Next up, we have two grants for Fresh Pond. The New York State Water Quality Improvement Program contract for $260,000 is now executed as of last week. And we are finalizing the process to execute the Suffolk County contract for $65,000. Supervisor, I believe you signed the contract already, but after it was signed, the county got back to us and said that they had updated the terms and conditions and they wanted a new version signed. So that's with Judy. If you haven't already signed it, she'll have it ready for you.

9:38Speaker 5

Okay, thank you. I think she did give me something, a second signing.

9:43 – 11:02Speaker 1

Okay. In terms of other updates, in terms of upcoming opportunities, the Suffolk County Opioid program is currently accepting applications again. Their deadline is July 6. The town currently has an award from this program. The end date for that contract is January 31 of 2027. If the town were to reapply to renew that funding or for something else, the contract start date would be January 1 of 2027. The county's guidelines for this year are very similar to prior years. The activities that you're currently supporting for police and for social work appear to continue to be eligible project types. The county will entertain funding requests for up to three years of support. I don't know if we would like to have a discussion on that or if we should have a more in-depth conversation offline given the heavy agenda today.

11:04 – 11:32Speaker 5

yeah i mean if this has a july 6 deadline that only gives us two weeks move forward on the police side yeah i would do it i would continue using it if you wanted the social yeah definitely yeah it's just it's real value to it for us i was going to say it's worked out very well on the eastern drug task force And then some of the programming, so Anthony has some more ideas, you know, that side of it.

11:32Speaker 3

I think we should, I can't speak to the social work aside.

11:35Speaker 5

That's been the harder side. It's just we don't have that many people in the community for direct services, which is a good thing.

11:42 – 11:57Speaker 6

But I think some of the events she's done reimburse and those have gone well. So, I mean. I think especially for PD side, it's great, but I think it helps augment some of the events that social worker is doing for like programming. So I think that's okay.

11:57Speaker 7

But the seniors would be aware of this.

11:59Speaker 6

It's great. Yeah.

12:00Speaker 7

All right. Yeah.

12:01Speaker 3

So, so Jen, I spoke with Anthony today. He's in today and tomorrow and days. So I told him we should try to move forward for that deadline.

12:10 – 12:27Speaker 1

Okay, I will talk with him about the budget and scope of work and we can talk separately. Who should I talk to about the social work? Maybe there's a scope of work. That'll be a little bit different from what's currently in the budget. If you can reach out to Allah Allah. Okay.

12:28Speaker 5

Yeah, and just see what she's got and.

12:32 – 12:47Speaker 3

Anthony may be able to give some input on that too. Yeah. If it's more, you know, different workshops and stuff like that, we may be able to push that side of it a little more in that direction because those have been good.

12:48 – 13:09Speaker 5

It's a resolution for Monday then to approve applying for that grant. Because we have Yeah, we have our town board meeting on Monday work session on Tuesday at the latest if we had to do a special, but might as well do it for Monday because the 6th is a Monday. And we won't.

13:09Speaker 6

Yeah, it'll be July weekend. So I don't think we have a meeting on that.

13:13Speaker 3

Meeting on the 7th, right? Yeah.

13:16Speaker 4

Yeah. Jim, can you draft the resolution for this place?

13:20Speaker 1

Yes, absolutely. I'll touch base with Sergeant Rando and Alaa to come up with a budget figure that would be in the reso.

13:30Speaker 4

And can you please, when you will be sending it, can you please include Shelby just for the logistical reasons? Because I'm not in full time.

13:38Speaker 4

Thank you. Sure.

13:39Speaker 6

This one doesn't have a match.

13:44Speaker 5

So it's, yeah, if we don't do anything, we don't get the money. Right, no, yeah, so this is an easy 1. correct.

13:53 – 14:07Speaker 6

Because that's just going to be a question we're going to get asked. We're done in that area.

14:07 – 14:52Speaker 1

I distributed a number of other grant opportunities that are available through New York state with a deadline at the end of July. Rather than go through all of them in real time right now, I wanted to just ask a few high-level questions that I can then follow up with this group on in more detail. First, there's a special program called the New York Kicks program. which is geared solely for developing new soccer fields in New York State. I wanted to see if that was something that was on the town's radar for its parks.

14:53Speaker 6

No, I don't think so.

14:54 – 15:05Speaker 1

Okay, great. And is there a need for funding to support the comprehensive planning process, either from the planning standpoint or zoning?

15:10 – 15:39Speaker 5

We're trying to, we're trying to get that wrapped up. Okay, so we have money in the budget to cover the, you know, professional services fees that we need to get the council wrapped up to be the environmental piece. Once we do adopt it, then I would like to research something so that we could do like a code, a zoning code rewrite. My understanding is that there is money out there for that.

15:40 – 16:17Speaker 1

Yes, the grant that I sent around does have funding available for the code amendments to implement new comprehensive plans. There are some details that I think we should review together to make sure timing is aligned and that we're responding to the requirements in the grant. So I'd like to have a more in-depth conversation to to review those details with you. Okay. And I'll leave it there for now.

16:34Speaker 5

Yeah, so the rest of the meeting is devoted to looking at specific requests that have come in from different departments. So, I don't know Jen.

16:47 – 17:01Speaker 1

I'll hang on for a few minutes just to hear the conversation and to see if there's any association with the grants that are currently open and I'll make note of that. I can't stay for the whole meeting, but I'll stay on for as long as I can.

17:01Speaker 5

Yeah, that's I just wanted to give you the option that you didn't need to be here for everything. And did anyone text?

17:07Speaker 6

I did keep on his way. There was a situation. I'll explain later. Okay.

17:12 – 17:40Speaker 5

All right. So, the 1st capital request that we have is from Kelly senior services just pull up. Yeah, this is something that's sort of been on the list for. have spears and yeah you almost have it done yeah so let me just go down to the meat of it

17:47Speaker 3

Oh, yeah, I thought this was done.

17:50 – 18:01Speaker 5

Well, I was just about to say, like, so it's a 30,000 dollars. 20,000 is from the lions. 5,000 is from the senior citizen.

18:02Speaker 7

Oh, yeah. So I'm waiting to hear.

18:05 – 18:29Speaker 5

Okay. All right. And I wanted to sit down with you because I thought we could rearrange some budget lines. Like, we had, I think we used some of the rent that was saved this year. Towards the refrigerator over in the nutrition program, but there's also some, I think a little bit more rent saved. Because it took a little longer that we could use for the town's 5,000. so that we could get it covered in 2026. not 10,000, but I think 5,000. Okay. Okay.

18:29Speaker 7

Person on the foundation.

18:40 – 19:02Speaker 5

All right, okay, so we're going to need to carry over at least 1 of the items from today. Like, we're going to just listen to everybody. So we need to bring you back in next month and say, it's not working. You can't find extra money. Like. We'll figure it out before next month before this committee has to make a decision on what we're putting forward to the town board. Yeah, that's it.

19:12Speaker 6

No, I mean, if the town has their five, then the senior foundation will have their five. The Lions already gave the 20. So I think we're pretty much covered. We just have to figure out the detail.

19:23Speaker 5

Yeah, unless there's some other pickup. Right, which hopefully there is. But yeah, OK, good.

19:29Speaker 3

How soon are you trying to get the clock? The last three years.

19:34Speaker 7

Like in the next week or two? No.

19:36 – 19:50Speaker 3

Yes. You think so? Yeah. But for me, we've been talking about this for a long time. I just, yeah. How long will you take to hear from the foundation?

19:52Speaker 7

By this week, it wasn't like a done deal.

19:54Speaker 3

Great, okay.

19:55Speaker 7

I know it sounded like it was, but it wasn't a done deal. Right. I'm sorry if that was any miscommunication on my part. I think I told you about the fundraising things.

20:05 – 20:16Speaker 5

So, yeah, make an appointment, Judy, for tomorrow, Thursday, or Friday afternoon. Um, and you and I can sit down and talk about the money on the town end and work out the details.

20:17Speaker 2

Maybe reach out to Joanne too.

20:19Speaker 7

That's what I was asking. Yeah. She, she knows they're having a meeting. Okay. She does. You know, I don't want to speak again. Yeah.

20:27Speaker 5

And we'll, we'll, we'll get our piece worked out this week and then. Okay.

20:32Speaker 7

Thank you. Thank you.

20:34Speaker 3

Yeah, because maybe telling Joanne.

20:39 – 21:01Speaker 5

we've got yeah like we're ready yeah we've got the budget transfer because i wanted to put it on the budget transfer on for monday's meeting right so yeah that's my list of things to do by the end of this week am i going to put that car out the bid is that going to be on me to do that because there's probably one on state contract i thought we were getting it off of the state contract

21:01Speaker 2

Well, I figured, but I didn't know what kind of car they were getting. They didn't specify. That's why I'm wondering.

21:06Speaker 5

Yeah, I mean, the original request was a Subaru Crosstrek, Honda CR-V, or comparable vehicle.

21:14Speaker 2

So that's what I'm saying. You're going to have to find a comparable vehicle on the state contract.

21:19Speaker 3

The Equinox that I drive is a comparable vehicle. It's on state contract.

21:22 – 21:38Speaker 2

Yeah, right. Good. So then that's easy. Well, they got there and they got away from them because we were talking about an electric car for them originally, right? But they, they've, I think they've gotten away from the electric.

21:38Speaker 4

Yeah, they went to get it. Yeah.

21:41Speaker 2

Well, that's fine. It's good. Whatever. That's easy. Probably cheaper too, by the way.

21:45Speaker 2

That's why the Subaru and the Honda. That'd be a great car for them to have actually.

21:55 – 22:20Speaker 5

So. Stick a look the next on the list was a training to the building department for this 1, like, there's a couple on here. That came in under this, but I don't know if I really think that training. Is a capital item well, I mean, you feel like it's, it's maybe a 1 time expenditure. But I think it should be part of the regular budget.

22:21 – 22:52Speaker 6

I mean, it could be more than a 1 time expenditure if it leads to. Programs being adopted by the town and use long term contracts associated with them. You know, like, if we decide to use some form of AI to help evaluate building permit applications and plans, then that would probably come with some kind of subscription and, you know. Need to have a little bit more. I would say background to it because you're going to have to have more security on it and things like that. So. You know, it has the potential to become more of a capital request again.

22:52 – 23:14Speaker 3

I don't think you might be talking yourself back into. What we've come across in our operation is that. We contract out a lot of what we do now, so then it becomes budgetary for us because it's reoccurring contracts. And so, if that is the case, then it might be a contract item.

23:16Speaker 2

Do they give an indicator as to how many costs?

23:20Speaker 5

There's no cost. And actually, we have a meeting with the AI guy on Thursday.

23:25 – 23:38Speaker 4

Yeah. And we talked about this, Amber, whether we did website. And we did do a capital request for the website as well. I'm just looking at 2023. We ended up paying it differently. Right.

23:38 – 23:51Speaker 5

But we did go through the capital plan with this as well. Yeah, I think, you know, for my accounting background, I tend to think capital hard tangible asset that you can touch.

23:53Speaker 6

Right, right.

23:54 – 24:15Speaker 2

Yeah, if it's, I mean, I look at it as if it's a training, I think it's a department department. I mean, if I, when I send guys to get hazmat training, I don't, I budget for it. It happens every year. I mean, I'm not asking for a capital request to pay for hazmat training.

24:15 – 24:29Speaker 3

But I think they were looking at it if it was a one-off like they, you know, a wide format copy machine or whatever. Real big one-offs that are really expensive, you know. What was the number?

24:30Speaker 4

There's no number. He couldn't provide a number. I asked him when he comes today to give us at least estimate whether it's 5 or 15 or 50.

24:40Speaker 5

Although, I mean, since we're not having a conversation.

24:43Speaker 3

You review a request without a number.

24:45 – 25:32Speaker 5

Yeah. I think because we're having an initial meeting with this person on Thursday. Then we'll have a table this month. Yeah. Okay. On the next 1 HR software request again, this was another 1 where I was like, is this really a capital request or is this operating budget request? But. HR is out sick today, so we have to table this next month. Anyways. Chief body worn cameras is on the next 1 that you rolled over from last year. Yeah.

25:32 – 29:17Speaker 3

Yeah. And, you know, again. I'm going to continue to roll it over until we really do it. You know, and I would tell you that our goal is to complete the department's camera program. In 2021, we invested in vehicle-mounted cameras and body-worn cameras are really the next logical step to complete it. And when we did spend the time doing police reform and reinvention process, that was one of the, it's probably one of the last remaining things we have on that list to complete. I do feel like it's long overdue. We've been talking about it for a while. Most of the agencies, including Suffolk County and the surrounding agencies have all gone to this to a body worn camera system. It helps protect the officers and I had some notes here. Body worn cameras provide an objective record of events to protect officers from false claims and allegations. Many agencies report complaints going down against officers. We don't have that many complaints against them, but it can can help. But people both both sides to reflect on their memories of what actually happened as opposed to sometimes with the perception of what happened may have been increases public trust and transparency. You know, in all of our worlds, we hear about transparency frequently, you know, in our. Current task force that we sit on right now transparency is a part of that process and I think body worn cameras. enhance that transparency. It improves our ability to investigate and prosecute. So, when we're looking at things, no matter what scene we're on, if we have to investigate, then we'll follow through. We have video evidence. There's also, and sometimes this is understated, training value. We can use the camera and the footage to review how officers interacted with the public and with people and see how we can deliver that service better. Thank you. As you know, or Amber, at least you know, we have made some grant requests for this. We have a request into the Loader's Office for funding to support body-worn cameras. And I think we found out about that, I think, in the fall of this year. in the fall of this year, but again, I just don't know how we don't continue to push this forward if the capital planning and grants committee doesn't recognize it going forward, then obviously I'm gonna try to put it in my own budget going forward. And back to the context of our conversation that we were just talking about, It can be managed as contractual item and reoccurring. So, in fact, a lot of most agencies do it that way or they've gone to doing it that way where it's a reoccurring annual thing and it includes the equipment. So, but it would be would be a significant. A significant increase into our budget to do to do that. So. Again, I'm making this pitch to to the committee to try to move this forward. We're going 2027 will be 6 years out from that. And we were trying to have our goal of 5 years to have those things in place. So, I think that the body won't cameras that this time has come. Just have to move forward and it would interface with our car video system.

29:19 – 29:30Speaker 5

I'll see in the class projections, it looks like it's a total over from 2026 to 2030. About 375,000 roughly. No, I think the project was 250,000. I see axon 235,000. I have a question. Right.

29:30Speaker 3

And then the Motorola. That's a different, that's another vendor.

29:43Speaker 4

Oh, so there are options. Yes, those are options. Those are not right.

29:47 – 29:58Speaker 3

So, which 1 of you want to on the one or the yeah. So, if you don't buy it in general, it's 50,000 dollars a year for 5 years or 50,000 dollars.

29:59Speaker 5

Okay. And then what did you put in for the grant then?

30:03Speaker 3

250,000 dollars, but it would cover the full 5 years.

30:08Speaker 5

All right. I was.

30:10 – 30:27Speaker 3

misreading that is those were like axon might have been i have some they were they put in the motorola was the content two different different two different vendors does this cover all of the data managing the data data parts on that yep now no so so it doesn't include employee time

30:28 – 30:44Speaker 3

So, so, you know, that that part could expand to some ways for us. I don't want to pretend that there won't be, you know, if there's requests for videos, video redactions, release of videos, those things would all come into.

30:47 – 31:11Speaker 6

At the last East End Supervisors and Mayors meeting, Ray Cherney was there and they were talking about Trying to get more competitive bidding when it comes to managing the data side of bodyboard cameras and vehicle cameras. So, they're trying to come up with a way to make it a more competitive market. So that we're kind of not at the mercy of 1 or 2 vendors, because that's probably the whole East end in Suffolk County. So that's something to look.

31:11 – 31:33Speaker 3

Yeah, we've been working with our office and the Suffolk county. Uh, attorney's office, so the office, the county attorney's office, and the East end of all kind of been working on price planning together. So that vendors, you know, we have a sole source vendor or a primary vendor and that that has become problematic in person.

31:33Speaker 6

Right, you kind of get trapped.

31:36 – 33:40Speaker 3

But again, it's earmarking the money. We'll work through those things and it'll be on state contract anyways. And then the other project, you know, and look, I did the body of one camera first because that's really the priority. The other project that I have that I brought up this year was the Crescent Beach LPR and the camera project. And here's why it matters to us. especially during the summer season, one of the most heavily used locations in the town. Again, we're trying to enhance public safety regardless of where it may occur. And there's a lot of public use there. It improves our ability to do investigations when we have that kind of technological data. Again, we're trying to build on existing infrastructure. We have LPRs at both north and south ferries. We have camera systems at both ferries, and this would give us another site on the island where we would have both of those technologies. It's a force multiplier. Obviously, we could monitor that location from headquarters without having somebody down there and additional personnel. You know, I always just want to go down there and sometimes, you know, if anybody drives down there, you could see the number of vehicles, especially on the weekends and people that use that location. So as we look to the future and look to build out our system, that would probably be the next location that we would want to put cameras, camera systems into. And so in looking to the future, that's why we're putting this as a projected um location to provide that kind of technology to support our support our operation um and just kind of go into the grant application um no um no um we'll want it to the ground up do you want me to talk about that at all

33:41Speaker 5

Um, we'll finish with what you're talking.

33:42 – 35:07Speaker 3

I just make a notation. So the next 1 did go into the grant application. So I'm just reminding you that our patrol vessels are, you know, we've, we have 2 patrol vessels that are technically we don't own them. The state owns them. And we receive them on loan through a grant. And we've replaced the engines on 1 once and I believe the other 1 twice now. But we have looked at and explored getting a vessel for us that's purpose-built for our operation. So those vessels, one is well over 10 years, probably come up to 15 years, and the other one's a little older than that. So, I can get back to that with you, but this is really just a reminder. I've put in for this before. I'm not submitting it this year. We have it in a grant application. It's not on the list, but I don't want look. In capital planning, we're trying to plan for the future, right? And I don't want this to come off the radar. So it'll be incorporated into the minutes. And so I didn't want to let the patrol vessel fall by the wayside. In the Lolota grant, we made a $500,000 application for the patrol vessel that was included in that. There's no guarantee that that vessel will be acquired through that way. But we will need another vessel.

35:07Speaker 2

And the state could take those back, right? Yes, it's on.

35:10 – 36:31Speaker 3

Yeah, I don't see that. I don't want to pretend that they would. They've been very good by us, and we've been responsive to them in our public safety side and training people on safe borders, supporting the regional marine environment, whether it's in Greenport or the south side, South Hampton Town, East Hampton Town, we support our towns. But a vessel, especially for an island community, is really important. And then the last thing that I'm going to keep pushing until the day I go is the ADA compliance at headquarters. I don't know. I feel like the community just thinks it goes away, but it really hasn't. We're a largely senior community that people should have access to the police department and its operations. And I would just remind us that ADA compliance is still a factor and still out there. And I know You're working on the facilities master plan, so I'm assuming there'll be some ADA compatibility portions to that. So, but, but again, to keep it on, you know, as we look at a 5 year out or a 10 year out plan. Those things need to stay. Okay, that's my 2 pieces.

36:35Speaker 5

Condon road program.

36:38 – 39:07Speaker 2

Yeah. Uh, I wanted to, uh. Finally, when we did the common, uh. Uh, you know, 2 years ago was completed. Um, but there's been a, uh, in talking to both debate hospitals and a lot of the local payment that use that ramp a lot. Um, it definitely needs a, it needs to be upgraded in a sense that it's not, uh, it's not really pitched properly for, uh. at high tide, cars are pretty much submerged in there. So I spoke to Jack Costello because it's a bigger job than something that we could do. And I've also, when I put in the application or as a request to talk about it, I had it coming from the Water Waste Fund if it was possible. It seems like a perfect use for it. It's about, Jack said, I had him explore two different options for me, both doing either a concrete ramp, but he could also do a heavy duty constructed wooden ramp that may provide a little bit You know, it's a little less involved as far as having to barricade and dam things off. But either one, they're both around the same price point, which is around $150,000. So I'd like to just, you know, get it into the queue and see if we can... I mean, if if the waterways money is there, and it could be done sooner than later, I think that would it would complete what is a. What's better was a really good bulkhead project down there for us and then that would allow me to then also pave that road. uh accordingly to meet up to the new ramp so it would really it's it's honestly it's the most popular probably launch site for the public there's a town dock obviously right there too um and uh but i think it needs to be you know the last time those ramps were put in were i mean a long long time ago so and they're not broken but they're just not the way things have shifted down there it's not an easy place to drop a boat i mean without getting your car messed up, et cetera. So it's been talked about to my office a lot. So I thought, wow.

39:09Speaker 5

In the project description, you said relocate. So, where would you relocate it?

39:15 – 40:13Speaker 2

It's not it's not so much a complete relocation. It's just that it would be a. It has to be, it has to be shifted a little bit from where it is to align with what the allowed us to do with the ball kit. So currently. It's just a, it's just a minor angle shift. It's not major wouldn't be requiring like. Any more removal of the short front or heel grass, right? That kind of stuff. It would be just about. You know, making it align better with the road. So when people are able to turn and then back a trailer down, it just makes it an easier transition. Now. It's a little, it's a little off the way though. You know, if they, if the DC would have allowed this to complete the bulkhead. The whole distance that we requested, it would be a lot better, but this, it's doable, but it just needs to be shifted. It also needs to be done by a. You know, a professional dot building operation that does that.

40:13 – 40:39Speaker 5

Just related, but slightly off topic. Taylor's island foundation foundation committee was talking about. utilizing making slip for Taylor's Whaler on Condon Dock. And it was going to be like the slip closest to the ramp. So I don't know if they've reached out to you. They were going to go look at it. But I just want to put that on your radar because we're doing something with this.

40:39 – 41:20Speaker 2

They have talked about it. I think there is there is it's not a very big boat, so it could probably fit in there. But that's that's also one of the that's also part of of the shift in trying to move this because what you have a common dock is you have, you know, you have the floating dock down the middle and then all those slips and those dolphins that are out on the, you know, on the rears of those, after those boats that they tie up to, it's also about trying to shift the ramp away so that if a boat is in that nearest slip to the bulkhead, that this gives you a much clearer path to launch a boat without encountering another boat right there. You know, bumping into or something.

41:20Speaker 6

Yeah, that's in the slip.

41:21Speaker 5

Yeah. Okay. I just.

41:23Speaker 2

Yeah, no, I, I, I know about threats together.

41:25Speaker 6

Yeah. Just because historically, we haven't at least that slip because of the fact that right.

41:30Speaker 2

Because it's very close to the ramp. You couldn't get a very large vote in there. Anyway. It's gotta be kind of Taylor's way. I was about the size. I think they could fit in there.

41:42Speaker 5

And the other 1 is the work boat.

41:45Speaker 5

We are one of our papers.

41:47 – 44:12Speaker 2

Yeah. So I just thought I would, you know, I just wanted to put it in there because I think it's a it's a conversation. You know, I put in, you know, the work boat that we proposed last year was a two hundred and seventy thousand and talking to Bo and and Butch, both as our, you know, bay constables and actually the guys that utilize the work boat for our installs, you know, with the way Things are changing by the time it gets around. I think 300,000 dollars is a is a number. Again, I've requested that it comes out of the waterways fund because once again, I think this is. I think phone personally is. waterway related um then i would obviously my department because it does dpw stuff with swim lines and um you know some of the you know buoy retrievals and that kind of stuff and buoy implementation um you know there's going to be an annual an annual maintenance cost that we figured is around you know a thousand to fifteen hundred dollars which is kind of what i Factor in regularly anyway, and that's all done in house, butch and boat, both do the big hospitals both to the maintenance of those engines much like they do with with the police department and green fleet. So that would be, you know, an annual, an annual cost that's done in house with us. We did do a repair to the existing work boat this year, but I. I want to make it clear that it's just the repair and it's not it's not long for this world. It's better for, you know, it's at least we got some of it ironed out from a safety perspective that at least I can feel confident that I can send guys out there to do work and it's OK. But it's it's it's not the long term solution. So that's why I think it should this should keep coming up until we can hopefully get it. You know, because similar to what the chief has spoken about marine fleet. This is the same type of scenario that eventually we're going to need to. Do this, and I think that keeps the conversation.

44:12 – 45:25Speaker 5

So, for today, we have 4 items. Body-worn pants, $250,000. Crescent Beach cameras, $80,000. And then Congdon Road, $150,000. Workboat, $300,000. Those two, the request is from Waterways. Next month, we'll deal with the AI training and the HR software. And hopefully, the car for the seniors will be completely off this list next month. Let's go. The wrap for today, we have anything else? What's our next step? Meet next month because we still have the AI training to discuss as well as the HR request. And then we'll figure out what we want to do with these to make recommendations to the talent budget. And next month, it'll be July. August is when I start working on the budget in earnest. Department heads will be pulling together their stuff starting next month. Our timing is good to go to the town board to say, this is what we want to prioritize.

45:26Speaker 6

Okay, so anything else.

45:32Speaker 3

Okay, the meeting.

45:36Speaker 5

Yes, I forgot.

45:37Speaker 3

Jen is still on.

45:39Speaker 1

I've been multitasking with the opioid grant. I'm all good. Okay, great. Thank you. Thanks. Everybody. All right. See you next month. Bye.

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