Committees - Regular Meeting

Monday, September 14, 2026

The Shelter Island committee discussed financial reports, property management, volunteer programs, and proposed bridge installations.

About this meeting

Government Body
Committees
Meeting Type
Committees
Location
Shelter Island, NY
Meeting Date
September 14, 2026

Transcript

62 sections

0:00Speaker 3

Avant la réunion, on lançait cet enregistrement.

0:03Speaker 1

Deux nourritures.

0:05 – 1:16Speaker 3

Des commentaires. Qui est pour ? Rapport financier. Euh... Le compte Chase, vous remarquerez, contient une somme d'argent nettement plus importante car nous avons viré le paiement pour l'acquisition Bedford. It's at 88 Abbott Lane. And you will then notice the corresponding takeover on the class account. So we have 2, 753, 0 to 87, 64 on the Chase and 795, 0 to 25, 0 to 24, 32 on the other with 185, 0 to 1000 in tax transfer. Interesting. There should be interest payments. Where is the interest payment? The interest payment, I think, is $30,000.

1:16Speaker 1

On the last account.

1:18 – 1:31Speaker 3

A total of $10,707,000 minus the $2,500,000. So, there are $8,200,000. Is that right? Accountable. I think so.

1:31Speaker 2

You're right.

1:34 – 2:37Speaker 3

That's right. And our revenue to this day is 1,627,000, which is very close to what we had last year. So let's hope that we will exceed this amount this year. Questions on the subject? Before we start here. Parties on management. Well, for that, I found myself circling in the corner and I took some photos just to remind us what we are doing and why we are doing it. I don't have these hummingbirds in my garden.

2:40Speaker 1

I have a lot of them, but I don't have this one.

2:46 – 7:16Speaker 3

You know, here it is. Josephson property. It's just beautiful. It's spectacular. Incredible. And here is Artist Lane. And the next one is also Artist Lane. Going towards the stream. Simply wonderful. Kix is not here. I can make a report on the volunteer management program. We actually have a certain number of volunteers at the moment. Cathy Kenny found someone from Silver Beach whose name escapes me and whose file I lost during the last meeting. John Diffley from Silver Beach who wants to take care of West Neck and Crab Creek. So you have Julie who is sitting there. John Diffley from Silver Beach. I am a volunteer. He is ready to work on West Neck and Crab Creek. We also have Julia Weisenberg who volunteered for Limabine, Mildred Heard East and West Coast. That's where she's hunting. She also said she's constantly at Crab Creek. And the good news is that being at Crab Creek the other week, she found a tree about to fall on someone's head just near the entrance. So we warned Canon and it was cleaned immediately. So it really works. And then, James Eklund has been informed that he will take care of Tuttle and Turcom's rest. So, I don't know if we have anyone else for the moment, but we're progressing. Do you have a report? West Neuilly, I'm not in the mood. Park me before. Well, let's do what we have to do. I imagine that on my side, we have the project of restoring the vegetation near the parking lot with Matt Daly and an arbustive area on Nosecone Parkway SO. The first step will be to spray vinegar. The sprayer and the vinegar have both been ordered. The sprayer and the vinegar not yet. As soon as we have all that, I could go there and, you know, take a few steps before Matt intervenes. That's it. Regarding the auction, it's not that urgent. I haven't really invested in it yet. Okay. Yes, I talked to Matt about the calendar for all that. So we spray. I don't know if there will be a lot, but we spray. We spray once. If we receive, say, the vinegar this week, and we have a nice sunny day with a lot of wind, we can spray the two sections this week. And we wait two weeks before spraying. Again. And I asked Matt about the fact that he wanted to do that around the first week of September. He says it's not a problem if we overflow until the beginning of October. I just want to try to avoid the rain, which will probably end up stopping. In the middle of the night, will something happen? It will rain the day after the pulverization. It will rinse everything. And then Matt also said that he could help us for the downfall.

7:19Speaker 2

He's using a type of hoe.

7:23 – 8:52Speaker 3

I think he gave me the price. It's not that expensive. And I would share this price. We could do that. I think that to hoe, you have to cut the shrubs first. We can pulverize them. A question I asked him, and there are a lot of these lands that grow there at the moment, which looks like a pretty pretty grass. In fact, it supplants the armoise. Well, which is interesting in fact. So I asked Matt if we had to cut to these lands to reach the armoise. He said no, it's pulverized. And as for the bache, I suppose that we could either pulverize to contain the rest, which does a lot, and then bache, or ... Why not fogey? I know. I mean, yes, I think, in fact, I think that for the cow, there is no need for that. I mean, we're going to leave it there for what will take 18 months to two years. So fogey is really just the physical contact that we should worry about. If you just put it on what it is, it's going to be all frosty and... But it won't be, you know, ideal. But cut all that, it has to be mowed. Yes, mow it, I think. I don't know. Pulverizing seems to be an additional expense, in my opinion. It doesn't seem justified. Just mowing? Yes, mowing. I just leave it there. Okay.

8:52Speaker 1

To mow. Like life.

8:56 – 9:41Speaker 3

And then I think Marc was thinking about the shrub area. I think you found that it was too planted. I think so too. I mean, it seemed to do a lot. It was a very strong density. It doesn't leave much room for these things to grow and develop. You will get a phenomenal cover, you know, and you will supplant the bad weeds and this would allow some losses while keeping a decent cover. But I still don't think so. You put them every 80 centimeters. Yes, it's very dense. I don't know, maybe he has something in mind that I don't understand, but you know what I mean. I'm trying to talk about it. Okay.

9:41Speaker 1

And then, for the Renové Père Folier, did we bring Dan?

9:43 – 10:18Speaker 3

So, Dan came the day after I met him, and everything disappeared. Did you see the Piquets? I didn't go there. I walked around everything before leaving last spring. To go back to the volunteer attendants, I hate to forget Howard, who is a volunteer attendant at Artist Lane with Bird White. In short, everything is fine.

10:19Speaker 1

Have you already filled out the forms, Howard?

10:22Speaker 2

I don't think so.

10:23Speaker 1

Maybe Jessica, you could, Jessica could pass them to you and... Well, it's the one I told you about, if he's exact.

10:30Speaker 3

Okay. Yes. Very good.

10:33Speaker 2

I have these few copies up there, just in case.

10:38 – 12:23Speaker 3

Can I come back for a second to the verbal trial? Yes. In the Creek Creek reserve, when Marc talked about it during the last meeting, the last sentence also emphasized the importance of protecting the wild ant massif from the reserve against the deer. But in fact, Marc, I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I don't think it was the deer. Yes, it was not due to trampling or... It was a trail. I, in my opinion, it was not a trail of wax or a problem linked to wax, linked to wax. Were you saying that was the case or not? Not at all. But I do not think that someone was going to clear it. I mean, it was faked, that's for sure. Okay. I mean, it was not faked in Ra, but a path was paved. Unless the waxes are paving, that is to say that they eat exactly Probably something that depended on the road. It could be that, or there might be... I know we talked about doing it. I'd say two widths of a saw. Like 120 cm, something like that. I wonder who did that. Maybe more. I should have measured, but... It's absolutely not a surf path. There's no doubt about it. C'est dans la section de la péninsule qui descend, c'est ça ? Oui, ça commence là où il y a ce petit endroit, au milieu de la péninsule. On dirait presque un ancien camping. Ça se ramifie, forme une boucle et revient vers le périmètre extérieur. C'est un joli sentier. D'accord, je sais qu'on avait parlé.

12:25Speaker 1

C'est juste quelque chose à noter. C'est tout.

12:32 – 13:37Speaker 3

Autre chose concernant l'entretien. Ça a été soulevé, mais ça a été réglé le lendemain. Probablement une déchiqueteuse ou quelque chose comme ça. Oui, il y avait l'année dernière. Oh, ils ont besoin d'être tendus. C'était... Something like that. Yes, yes. Yes, I sent a text message to Canon. He said that the guys were gone for like two or three days. Ah, he took care of it. We haven't made the management plans yet. Turtle Creek is waiting for a while. And the Sedars, well, next time. We'll see. I'll take care of it. In the news, I don't know if everyone has seen this beautiful article. And a surprisingly interesting article on, yeah, the bank, the bank. It's interesting. I saw. Yes, it was great.

13:38Speaker 1

Thank you, Julie.

13:38Speaker 3

And I don't know how he read this story, but it's great.

13:48Speaker 1

It's incredible. There, and I liked doing it because it's so nice to be there.

13:55 – 14:27Speaker 3

Yes, it's true. Yes, it's true. Yeah, it was a great, a good story. So let's hope that more people will get on the train. As long as we feel like it. Pont de Hardestilène. Yes, so Joe sent me an email to try to avoid, to avoid, to avoid the DDC. Well, Nic du Comté de Saratoga And he asked if there was another way to bypass the property.

14:30 – 15:08Speaker 3

No. The question is that Nick thinks that if we just did one, I'm going to call it a set bridge rather than a buried bridge, we wouldn't need the approval of the DDC. And I don't know if you want to call him. I can give you his number to see that with him. Set as set on what? Well, on the marsh, I suppose. He thought. I mean, I don't know. He is in charge of all the parks in the county of Suffolk. I would think he has an idea in mind. So do you want to call him directly? I would call him directly.

15:09 – 17:39Speaker 3

Yes, because the way I see things, there is no way. We can't bypass it. I know that. Nor cross it. We would have to walk on something. A particular part. Very good. Anything else? Can I explain to you? Yes, but I'll try. I'm here. I don't think we should, in my opinion, install a bridge there. First of all, we are developing the property and I think we should preserve it. In addition, you can access, you know, like 60 meters. Go to the other side, you can see the surroundings. It's just that we can't cross the property. Okay. And it's a responsibility? I think. And the CPF cannot ensure the property, so it would be a municipal responsibility. Well, everything is covered by the city's insurance. Okay. So I simply think that we should not move this area and that the construction of the bridge would pose a problem. I shouldn't do that. I advise against it. So you were saying that we can walk 60 meters and reach your... Well, there is the entrance to Simpson that allows you to pass. Et si vous remontez par Manantique, vous pouvez revenir par là. Mais on ne peut pas traverser, mais on peut... Entrer sur la propriété par deux chemins différents. Parlez de l'entrée sur Manantique. Où est-ce la deuxième entrée qui vient d'être créée par le lot numéro 7 ? Je n'ai pas. Not the second lot. More than... Are you talking about the main entrance? Yes, the main entrance on the Atlantic. Yes, you should go to the main entrance. You're going to do 400m. No. Anyway, the goal of these reservations is to walk there and enjoy it. So doing 400m more is nothing. For me, it doesn't make any difference.

17:39Speaker 1

You know, I can leave that on the main road.

17:44 – 18:03Speaker 3

But I think it's a mistake for this area or for any natural reserve to build anything. Remove things from there. As you said, the main objective is to take advantage of the walk. To go from one to the other.

18:03Speaker 2

You know, my cell phone. Well, that's my opinion.

18:14 – 18:34Speaker 3

And secondly, when are we going to install the signage of the perimeter? Well, that's a good question. With the order? Yes. So Joe and I have put some marks. Did you do the perimeter or the signage of the path? The perimeter and the path.

18:34Speaker 2

Well, we installed the signage.

18:38 – 18:51Speaker 3

The great concern about the neighbor's way, the white house under construction, And if I'm not mistaken, they closed it all the way. I don't know. I think they did it, right? You should know. I thought, however, that the marks were in place.

18:51Speaker 1

Isn't that how it is?

18:53 – 19:13Speaker 3

That we knew where to stop, uh... Uh, the... There. The geometer put some spikes. Yes. But... We were talking about... Panels. Permanent, green and white. Huh? Yes, we have some. They're in the garage. All this material was at my place. I moved them in Joseph's garage.

19:13Speaker 1

So we put them right where the geometry spikes are.

19:18 – 19:29Speaker 3

And anywhere along a limit, you know, where it seems appropriate so that people don't venture into someone else's property, but... without... Very good.

19:29Speaker 2

Well, we could do that.

19:31 – 19:46Speaker 3

Technically, the part of the association of owners in the middle, if you can, park your car and walk along this path. To the right of the beginning of the path, n'est pas notre propriété. Et puis, il y a le grand cercle de l'association au milieu.

19:47 – 20:27Speaker 3

Ce n'est pas nous. Et j'ai sur mon téléphone cette application qui me donne la ligne de bordure. Oui, c'est vrai, c'est vrai. Tout ça, c'est très bien. C'est assez pratique. À part ça, oui, ça l'est. Mais allons voir ça. Non, je n'ai rien vu du tout. J'y vais genre deux fois par mois. Oui, juste pour voir ce qu'il y a à eux. Je n'ai jamais vu personne, là-bas. You know, it's a good thing on the one hand, but the perimeter mapping hasn't seen that yet. I don't know. We seem to have a lot of money in there. We could use it for the interview or something like that. Did someone? We've used everything.

20:27Speaker 2

We spent a lot of money on the interview.

20:29 – 21:28Speaker 3

We use it for a bridge. The bridge is something that must be conceived with all kinds of security rules. It's not something to install on a protected property. I don't... It's my feeling, but... It's... You're the committee, so you know. Good return of... Uh... This point, is it the police? The police. Does she live in this neighborhood? Yes, she's my neighbor. Ah, she saw him. I totally support this idea. So the signs we have, do they need a pickaxe or something? Yes, like metal lockpicks. Do we have all of that? We'll have them. Okay, so we have to get the pickaxes. We can order them for you. When you want to take a walk, call me. I'll go with you.

21:31 – 22:05Speaker 3

I also noticed that there are no more brochures in the presentation room at the entrance. Very well, I'll put them in. Last Wednesday or something like that. Okay. I don't know anymore. I'm going to send some of them. Well, that means that people are really going to take the brochures and they're going to do the impression. I was there the other day. I took a picture. I sent it to you and Jess. This place for Michael last year. It was super nice. I ride a bike there. Thank you. Speaking of which, I wanted to ask you about the bench.

22:05Speaker 2

I wonder what's in it.

22:07Speaker 3

But it's not here. But you have the picture of the place that was sent. I sent it. I have it here.

22:18Speaker 1

Let me see the file here.

22:36Speaker 3

Yes, you know where it is Jo, because we chose this place together. You sent it to me?

22:44 – 22:55Speaker 2

It wasn't an email or not, Sanas?

22:56 – 23:17Speaker 3

It wasn't an email. Anyway, here it is. Oh yes, show it. Where is it?

23:17Speaker 2

Out of Charlayne.

23:19Speaker 3

I looked on the side of Manhattan. Yeah, I just... Yeah, what do you mean?

23:25 – 25:27Speaker 3

I think we're... Can someone see me? Uh, what are we looking at? This is where we're going. Out of Charlayne, so we have... And that's what I'm talking about. Yes, great place. Okay, excellent. Ah yes, it's a good place. Very good. We are very happy. So, we have the policy of the volunteer program for community preservation, FUERA. Before we... l'établissons et l'envoyons à nos nombreux bénévoles. Est-ce que tout le monde pourrait le relire, l'examiner et faire part de ses commentaires à Jessica et moi? Et ensuite, nous allons... Juste l'envoyer par email à tout le monde. D'accord. Je vois. There's a lot of things about training that we're not really going to do a lot of training on. I think we need to simplify that. Make sure it works. Now they said they were asking for a back signature. So that's how it should be sent. That's true. Well, there you go. But politics, everything, everything... The document was written by a lawyer, so... Are you going to send it to everyone?

25:28Speaker 2

I'm going to send it to everyone.

25:29 – 26:09Speaker 3

I'll bring you another one. It's just so I can make changes or something. autre chose. Donc, nous allons passer en session exécutive. Monsieur a-t-il quelque chose à dire? Il en a, mais il fait partie de la session exécutive. Bon, c'est bon. Merci, au revoir.

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