Town Board - Regular Meeting

just a couple of quick things. Ben is not here but for medical reasons and therefore he is able to participate fully in votes and discussions today and then also i've moved the public comment section to the end because we have a lot of invited guests who have short timetables to be with us this morning so we'll have public comments later so jumping right into the agenda outdoor assembly application for the shelf island 10k run and we've got i saw brendan here Yeah, Brendan Reagan and also Marielena Pietro to go over the application with us. So Brendan, do you want to give us a quick overview?

Of course. Thank you for the opportunity to present the Shelter Island 10K run. We're going to be using the same event scheme and run a show as we have in years past. Setup will begin the day prior. On race day, we'll be setting up starting in the morning with full breakdown schedule. At 8 o'clock, we'll be starting corralling the people on School Street, checking in outside of the school, using the run of show that we've worked with the Police Chief Reid on reopening the roads for transparency for people that are attending the event at the Rams Head Inn. And we will need, we'll be serving beer donated by the same organization that we've had in the past at the American Legion. We would like a, I think we need to apply for the noise exemption, if I'm correct. But I think that is sort of the broad strokes I have on my end.

Okay. Christina, do you have the, The map that we could just bring up to show everybody where the race route is Give me one second and get that for you.

Oh, okay.

You know what I think, you know, besides the route itself, I also would like, if you can go through the times for road closures. Road closures, yeah, it's just an opportunity for us to.

Generally, the police department, we refer people to this department for the exact. Oh, if you could come up. You know, much of putting just so you're closer to the mics, so we're not conflicting with any times because they are the ones that actually dictate that. So when we have weddings call us or. other events um we've referred to this one so we're not incorrect and for that beer um we have uh somebody that will keep people on the property of the legion so they don't go over to school property with the alcohol we have signage and we have somebody that monitors it

And what we've got showing is the map. And so we've got the red square, which is where the elite runners get ready at the start of the race. Then the 10K corral is the blue square. And then the yellow gold square is the 5K corral.

The race starts at 530. The 5K portion starts at 550.

and we did have a pre-meeting to go over um the race and just to make sure highway pd um all interested um parties knew what their their responsibilities were and that ems so It is a well oil machine.

This is the 47th year. But we've done the post-race party in the last five years the same exact way. We're trying to keep everything contained since COVID. We don't use the school building. Outside we have a lightning plan. We have a medical plan. We're pretty concise about all that. And then the signs, I mean, the signs I did put a request in, but there are 10 signs up right now and the banner we were approved on. So we don't really overdo it with signs anymore since the banners.

That's great. Yeah. Cause I did, we have that later in the agenda, but if we can incorporate that.

Telephone calls years ago. I said, I guess it's fine.

Does the board have any questions?

Were you interested in seeing the actual route or anything like that? Or are we good there?

If you could just bring it up, that would be good. Just that way it'll be on TV when this gets brought up.

Is it all right if I do a screen share?

Yes.

It just says that the share has been disabled.

Christina's on it.

Okay.

Try now.

Can you see my screen?

Yeah. Oh, good. And this, you do have the... The approximate clear times. That's great.

And this was also worked with alongside the police department, which matches the timelines that they have had from historic data. But essentially, we have this clear at 6.50, about 10 minutes after the 5K starts. Then the route at this point will be clear at 6.20 because the 5K participants are still running along here. We'll actually clear this earlier at 6 because all the 10K participants will have cleared through here. And then at this point, 6.40, 7 o'clock, and then, of course, by the end of the event, it's all cleared here. And this is what, you know, we've worked alongside the police department and Chief Reed making sure that this aligned with their expectations so they could use this as a forward-facing for residents or people inquiring about About the impact and egress that's going to be needed to plan around the event.

And we will make sure that this gets posted on the website. So if people do have questions today of the rates. They can go to the town website and look for this. There's no word questions. Is there any questions from the public? All right, I think, and then I don't have any problem with the road slides.

No, neither do I. And you guys have the whole system of cleaning up the water stations and everything pretty much down pretty much down in the next morning.

I'm usually out there for a couple of hours. Make sure the town is back to.

Yeah, but it should be, and I know that in our discussion, we spoke to a highway about. Cleaning up all of the road barriers as the race is completing so that there's really.

minimal to no cleanup the next day so we'll see how that works so later in this meeting we will do um a special meeting and so we'll do the resolution for the signs since they are already up um you know there's a little confusion like there wasn't something you historically had to do and it's something new that we instituted last year and then on monday night we have our town board meeting and we will go ahead and approve the outdoor assembly permit excellent thank you so much

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks, Brendan. All right. Next in outdoor assembly applications, we have the Chamber of Commerce. And I think I saw Vanessa on. So Vanessa, you could show your video if you wish. You're muted.

Trying to unmute. OK. There we go. Sorry about that, trying to unmute. Hi. Hi. Yes.

OK. Do you want to just give us the overview of the event?

Yes, we will. We'll actually be running from 10 to 4 instead of 10 to 5, as we have in the past. So breakdown will be at 4 o'clock, and most vendors should be off the grounds by 5, 5.30, which will be a little earlier than usual. And we are usually there as early as 6 a.m. There will be, I think as usual, three barrels from the highway department the morning of, which also get collected that evening. And we'll have three, porta potties with a wash station that also get picked up day of. We will be putting up the sign that we usually put between on, Highway on 114 between the church and the school side, which I have already talked to the church about. And the usual placement of signs along School Street and 114.

I don't know if there's any other questions. I just want to, when you're getting ready to put the banner up, We would coordinate with the town clerk's office because we do have the historical society wants to use the banner for a period of time. The 10K uses it for a period of time. So we just need to coordinate the get up and take downs to coincide with each of those events. I think there's time for everybody to have it up for a period of time.

Last year, it was just a week. So it was really just the week of basically. So-

Okay.

But I will, yeah, I will let you, I will, should I just email about that? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Thank you.

And then as far as the yard signs go, I hadn't put that on the agenda for later, but since we have you here, we can talk about this. When do you want to put those up?

That would also be, so the week prior.

okay all right because we have our town board meeting on monday so we can do resolutions for that approval next weekend okay thank you any other board questions no it's pretty consistent with the years past and it's always been a well-run event and i think pd and highway are prepared to work with them so i don't have any concerns any questions from the public

this about excuse me just about the craft here yes yes yes i just want to add that the green community state your name for the record oh i'm sorry tim purtell um also chair of the green options committee i just want to add that we are both going to have our expo issued also on the same day and if we need to do anything in terms of getting a permit we just need to know that so we can do it okay um on the um the

child map drawing that we have um it does look like there are vendor booths so i'm in the same place where we were before yeah so in that in that c area is usually where the green expo is okay all right so you've incorporated that into your plan yes we've kept in touch okay perfect okay i just want to make sure we didn't have any okay good thank you okay um any other public comments All right, and we will go ahead and get this on for next week's approvals.

Thank you. Thank you.

Yes, we have music it read speech and I think we've got Tom has taken here to. It's on that. Yep. So if you could come on. Good morning. State name for the record. So this year, I don't remember, we've got four dates, Wednesdays, July 8th, 22nd.

Every two weeks starting July 8th. The reason for that is that we've built in a rain date for the following week.

So if it's raining on the 8th, then we go to the 15th. And if it rains on the 15th, the event goes away.

So we're not going to extend it into Halloween.

Yeah, and it looks like you're set up is the same location that you were last year. The bath house, the stage close in front of that. And I talked to Bethany and she is actively working on Bethany from the recreation department, working on sponsors for the event.

Right. We already got a couple of lined up. We're endeavoring to get everything. You know, paid up by July 1, which makes me a little ambitious, but. You know, we're getting there.

Yeah. What is the time? What time does your music start? It's not on you.

The music starts at 4.30 and ends at 7.30 approximately, not counting the 18 on course. Right. But we get there at noon to start to set up.

And it's free to the public, it's in coordination with direct department. That's correct.

Yeah.

Just so everybody knows.

Yeah, it's a town sponsored event. Yeah.

And I got to give a shout out to the highway department, you know, and. Just every, every time it's just perfect. Plenty of barrels helps out with attention and everything else and we really appreciate it.

Thank you for that any questions from the public.

I have a question. Okay. Um, regarding, uh, fundraising, like, for different, like, let's say the chamber of commerce, most of them table up, uh, or the top lot, you know, wants to not necessarily to raise funds, but to raise awareness for what's, you know, being done on a down level. Um. The board have any problem with that?

Thomas, do we have any legal concerns on that?

So, it's town sponsored of that.

It's a town sponsored event.

Okay.

And people that would be putting up tables. Or fundraising off of it, are they.

There'd be private individuals for, like, raising money for the playground that we've been talking about, right? Are we going for granted on my last 4? Okay, yes. Yes.

All right. I mean, it's a low impact. Then we're not going to be walking around with cans for, you know, asking for information and everything. That's not what I'm doing. It's just more or less to say, oh, this is what's happening. Maybe we'll tell someone. Other than that, I can't think of any. Any issues.

The come up and sorry for the record directed to before the vendor sponsors.

Is that a tax deductible concerted tax deductible donation?

It will depend on who's.

Oh, you all for the, I'm not asking for me for this sponsor. Yeah. Yeah. Sponsors will be event.

But I believe, I don't remember, donations to municipalities are considered tax deductible. I'm not sure. Yeah.

I can't remember if any clients ever . The resolution so they can write in their records. Yeah.

Yeah. We're not limited to businesses. business or not, the donates gets their name on the banner and it's there for the entire series.

Well, according to Google, yes, they are, but we'll get an official answer for you.

And if they're not for businesses, it's advertising. Any questions? All right, we can put this on for Monday. Next on the agenda, we have graduation celebration, Ron Anderson.

Good morning. Can I answer any questions?

I was going to say, state your name for the record.

My name is Ron Anderson.

What we have in the application is on Saturday, July 11th, the graduation celebration, I believe this would come from.

It says 430 AM to basically, it's an old Indian style plan bake and you got to set the fire early and. The morning of the event was all night long. Yeah, it started at 430. You know, Saturday morning, early Saturday morning and then. We put the food on it like nines on the hot stones, take it off at three, eat, clean up, and go home.

And then it also had set up the night before, and I'm just thinking like we're in the height of the summer season.

Friday afternoon, yeah.

It had set up 9am to 5pm on Friday.

I'm allowing time to get things down to the parking lot area at least. But the stones, it's a grounded circle you got to set up down there. And it's, you know, six foot, five foot diameter, something like that. And it takes a while to do it. So I'm planning on it being, say, 4, 4.30 in the afternoon, Friday afternoon, when most of the crowd will be exiting the beach. I would hope. And we have a spot that I've selected numerous times down there to the right or to the left of the bathhouse, if you're looking at the bathhouse. And away from the reeds and anything that's exposed to flame. We've done it probably six, eight times down there before and never had a problem. And of course, you can't remove hot rocks that say, oh, you got to come back the next day. The next day is pretty pivotal to us. We'll mark off the area with cones to make sure nobody gets into it and remove the rocks and debris the next morning.

My recommendation would be for Friday to start like later in the day for setting up, like set up like after 5 o'clock, like 5 p.m. on when beach is minimal.

Right, when most people are gone.

Right, yeah.

Where exactly is the fire set up?

About 15 feet, 20 feet off the grass line. Next to the bathrooms. so if you're looking at the bathroom to the left of that from maybe uh 50 60 feet away okay away from the bathroom area yeah christina's going to pull up the uh diagram there's a little cut in the in the grass line there that we've always kind of lined up to um i don't know if you can see it from that picture but oh yeah okay away from public great All right. And a couple of tents and maybe a couple of picnic tables if they're available.

Okay. Got it.

And it's not as far down as where... No, not way down.

You got to transfer it down there.

Yeah.

Okay.

Any other board questions? No, I don't have any of that expected number of people, 80.

I have secured insurance from State Farm today and the day after the rain event, because of the rain the next day. And they've insured this for $1 million, $2 million aggregate. If you want that, I'll put out and send that electronically to the secretary here.

Thomas, do you think that the insurance should cover the cleanup day as well?

Um, probably ask that question of our insurance broker insurance broker.

Well, I understood the deposit of 100 dollars non fundable was to cover any damages left behind. So, would that answer your question?

Well, I don't know if the crew that's coming to clean up, if somebody gets hurt. It's just a question. I'm not sure there's a big risk there.

Well, it's only members of my immediate family that are really setting up and cleaning up. There's no strange personnel involved. like i said there's there's not a huge risk there it's more when the 80 kids come down that's yeah well 80 is a figure that i i could see happening but i think it's more going to be like 60. um and not that many kids my daughter's friends with maybe you know eight girls that will show up okay it's really not going to be that big i just want to plan plan for the biggest if it doesn't get there i just want to confirm that this is like a family event you're not having it yeah it's not a business we're not doing anything every other year every two or three years and uh this is sort of like a final hurrah she just graduated from college at umass and uh she asked me to do one for her and i'm kind of out of that zone this age doesn't really it's not conducive to all that work but i said i'll do it for you so this is the last one for us right sounds good to me any questions from the public

Yeah, Amber, just to affirm what Councilwoman Lawson had said was, you know, we normally don't. Ron has done this a couple of times for specific family things, and Ron has been zero problems. You know, I fully support it. But I just want to be clear with other commercial enterprises and things on our beaches that this isn't something that we normally allow during this time of year. But we do make exceptions for, you know, one-shot family events, those kind of things, because as you know, this can lead into other enterprises wanting to use that space.

Yeah. Right.

Congratulations, Rob.

Well, I appreciate your confidence. Thank you very much.

Good. We can put this on for Monday. We're good?

Yeah. Thank you.

All right. Um, next on your agenda, we have, um, the, uh, a draft of the wireless communications master plan, and we have Susan Rappold here, um, from our consultants who've been working on this. Good morning.

Thank you for having me on the, on the meeting agenda this morning. Also from Cityscape is Elizabeth Harrington Smith. So we're here today and. I will share my screen. Let's see. Get started. There we go. All enabled. Great. Can you see my screen all right? Yes, we can.

There we go. I bet you can see it better now.

So just a little rundown about Cityscape Consultants. This is a company that works strictly for local government nationwide on the issues and concerns and public policies related to wireless telecommunications. The project team includes engineering, legal and planning professionals, and they have been working with local governments since the late 1990s. This particular project is a four community project endeavor that is what we call the North Fork Group, and it includes the communities of Shelter Island, North Haven, Sag Harbor, and South Hold. Greenport Village and Village of Daring Harbor are accepted, although their jurisdictional boundaries are shown on the maps, but they were not part of this particular group. contract that we have with each of the four communities that I mentioned. And the project takes into consideration the individual community characteristics of each community, the actual infrastructure for wireless telecommunications that services each jurisdiction. We do an assessment of those sites. We map the sites. We show you your gaps and And then we put together the master plan. Excuse me. So just to be very clear, this is wireless telecommunications. This is not about broadband or wired services. So when we talk about wireless, we're talking about your cell phones. And a lot has happened in the industry from first generation to 5G and really what they're preparing for, which is 6G and beyond. with regards to speed and capacity of the network in order to maximize and provide seamless coverage and connectivity. Most of your wireless communications when it was first launched was these antennas, what we call macro cells. They're the backbone of the wireless network. They have typically been mounted on towers And they serve large areas and handle great capacity. However, as more and more people use and transition to their cell phones as their primary source of communications and add other features and other devices to their subscriptions, such as tablets and smartwatches and other smart devices, the capacity of that network shrinks. And the only way you can improve the capacity is to either add more macro cells or small wireless facilities, which are substantially more, they're smaller in size compared to the macro tower. They also serve a much smaller geographic area. So for example, this macro cell that, are pretty typical, you would see these maybe a mile to three miles apart, depending on the community characteristics, whether it's more densely populated or whether it's very rural. And in more densified communities or along major traffic corridors, we see, or in areas that are very hard to get zoning, we see these small wireless facilities go in. And these areas cover from, well, I was recently in New Orleans, and they were almost every corner, which was barely 400 feet apart. And their geographic area can cover up to three-quarters of a mile, but generally they're between 300 and 600 feet that they provide coverage for. But taking a closer look at the antennas that are on these macro cells and the type of other infrastructure that you might be accustomed to seeing are these panel array, these panel antennas. These small boxes are actually remote radio units, and they help to boost power to these signals. It was something the industry added a number of years ago to the panel antennas to increase power and cover and increase capacity. You may also see these round microwave dishes where fiber is maybe not available. These help with getting more signal out, and you also have public safety that go on towers, and they are typically these omni-type looking antennas. The ground equipment is necessary for those antennas above ground to work. And those above ground antennas need to be above the ambient tree height. They cannot be blocked by buildings or terrain in order to communicate effectively. And for those to communicate effectively, you have to have the ground equipment. The low frequency antennas, antennas that operate in the low frequency spectrum need a much larger ground space equipment cabinet or shelter to accommodate the heat that's generated. The higher frequency antennas use a much smaller ground space footprint. A lot of the industry is now using a combination of low and high frequency. It used to be that they either operated in low or high, but now they use a blend of frequencies to accommodate their network planning. The macro cells are typically mounted on towers that could either be a monopole, which is this tall-looking utility pole. This is a self-support lattice tower with the crisscross brackets. And then the guide tower is not a freestanding tower because it's supported by these guide wires. The guide tower uses the largest amount of land for the footprint, and these two towers use less ground space. Now, the macro cell towers can be concealed. We've seen them concealed in faux or actually working clock towers. They can be surrounded by fiberglass shields that can have any kind of emblem or city seal on them or just be plain or they can be painted. And then we've seen some good examples of some monopines. which are a faux tree, and this happens to be one that we think is a pretty good example because it has a lot of densification of faux branches throughout the shaft of the monocline. Now, when the wireless antenna go on a structure that is not a tower, it's called a base station. So water tanks are referred to as base stations, and you can see this one is in This particular water tank is in East Hampton. And you can see the antenna mounted, and they've been painted to match the color of the water tank. This particular water tank is in the village of Greenport. And you can see the antenna up here at the top. And these are antennas that are mounted on top of a rooftop. So these are all non-towers, and so they're called base stations. The base stations can also be concealed or semi-concealed. And these, again, are examples in East Hampton where these antennas have been painted to match the facade of the building. You also have a faux facade extended here around the antennas. At this religious institution, this is a faux dormer, and the antennae are behind here. And this is the extension on this rooftop. This is a faux extension with the antenna behind the panels there. Now, the small wireless facilities, by definition, cannot exceed three cubic feet in volume. Their definition is that they are generally 50 feet or less in height. Although, if you have, excuse me, If you have existing utility poles in your right subways that are taller than 50 feet, then they are allowed to extend 10 feet above that elevation of what you have in your current right-of-way. Because these structures typically go on utility poles or on new utility poles in the right-of-way. So you can see these antennas are much smaller than the ones I showed you previously. Their remote units, remote radio heads and meters are typically also put on the utility pole. These are some examples of existing sites in the New York Department of Transportation right-of-way along the highway in the town of East Hampton. So you can see that they don't all look the same. Some have these panel antennas. And some have what they call a can antenna. It looks like a can on top of the pole. These are more examples. And what we have also seen is that because they transmit such a small area to a small area, we see that different providers who want to service the same area will start putting up additional poles sometimes right next to another one. So like, for example, this might be AT&T's pole and this might be Verizon's pole or vice versa. But because they don't typically share the pole, you end up having multiple poles in the same right-of-way to enhance coverage for that particular network. The ground equipment at the base of the tower or on the tower is also much smaller. These show you some ground space or ground-based antenna support facilities. And if they're not mounted on a tower, they are in the right of way, typically next to the tower. We've seen them in a rectangular shape and some in a square shape. The small wireless facilities can also be somewhat concealed. These images contain all of the remote radio units and all of the cabling that goes to the antenna inside the pole or buried next to the pole in a vault. The poles that are built can have operating light fixtures. Some communities choose to have non-operation light fixtures, but they have the lights. for decorative purposes, but the lights don't get turned on so that they don't have a lot of increased light in residential areas. There are a lot of design options with these small wireless facilities. You can see there's different bases, then there's different size diameters of the poles, different lighting fixtures, different tops. These are just to sort of let your imagination go with you know, what these facilities could look like in the future if you get small wireless facilities on the island. So I'm going to move now into the infrastructure survey that we did. Well, let me pause and ask, do you have any questions about the wireless network and how it works and what it looks like? No. Okay. So we start our project with Shelter Island by going and visiting each of your existing towers and wireless facilities. Your study area, however, extends a mile around the island. And actually we found that some of these sites over here in Greenport and in South Hold do have an influence on the coverage and capacity along the shoreline. So we did include these, even though they were outside the one mile perimeter. And within your perimeter or within your jurisdictional boundary, you have three wireless facilities. They are all towers. And then outside, you have five sites that are actually providing some coverage to Shelter Island, like I said, from off-island locations. All of your towers are macro cells. You don't have any small wireless facilities on the island or within your one-mile perimeter at this time. And two of your facilities are used for public safety and macro cell sites. And you have one site on the island that is just for public safety. These are the images of your four facilities that are on the island. You have, we call this site Shelter Island 01, SIO1. This is at the Potato Barn at the Volunteer Fire Department. It is a concealed facility, so you don't see the antenna and the coax. They're internal to the shaft. This particular facility, SIO2, is at the Solid Waste Management Recycling Center, and it's a macro cell and public safety site as well, and it has multiple tenants on it, and it's not concealed, so you see those antennas. At SIO3, at the fire department, you have a public safety only wireless facility. And you also have the police tower, which is a much shorter facility on a much smaller piece of property. So we did not map this particular site because we wanted to focus on these three since they are the ones that have macro cells on them or could potentially accommodate macro cells or had room on the property to accommodate future macro cells. And the police department tower is a very small site. And we didn't see that there was really any room for an additional facility. So we did not map that one. But you do have that fourth facility on the island. So once we have looked at each of these sites and we've looked at the community characteristics around the area, We then get into mapping the theoretical coverage from these properties and then show you potential solutions on how to improve your wireless connectivity. We use a color gradation of yellow to blue to show signal strength. So, for example, areas that are the closest to the wireless antenna have yellow coverage, meaning that these areas have indoor and outdoor coverage, provided the person's subscriber provider is on that structure. So, for example, at SIO1, AT&T is on that tower. And so if you have an AT&T subscription, you would likely have this type of coverage. However, if your provider is not on this tower, you might not have any coverage at all. So we do these maps assuming that since the tower is there, all providers could go at that site. And if all the providers were on that site, this is the general coverage footprint that you would expect. Areas in green are where the signal is strong enough, perhaps in the vehicle and outside, but not necessarily strong enough for indoor coverage. The areas in blue are predominantly outside and perhaps in vehicle, but really not indoor. And then the areas where there is no coverage at all, those are your obvious gap areas. So We show the coverage from your two towers that have existing personal wireless service facilities on them. The fire station site is not shown because it does not have any other equipment other than public safety on it. Next, we want to get an idea of what the in-building coverage might look like. So each of these dots represent an address point. And this really helps us to zero in and see where you may have coverage that needs improvement because so many people are moving from their landlines to their handheld cell phones. If you had an emergency in some of these areas and they don't have a landline, if they don't have in-building coverage, then they may be restricted to just outdoor coverage, and that might be a barrier to connectivity for a public safety call. And we also find that even though you might be in an area where there's a lot of yellow, you may still have address points that show up as green or blue or black. And the reason for that is terrain or it could be extensive tree canopies. And so this helps us see not only from a flat surface but from a multidimensional view what's going on at these address points. So in planning for new wireless infrastructure, we start with looking at your existing policy. And we find that in your comprehensive plan update, you have goal 10-6. that specifically pertains to improvement for broadband and cellular services to the community, which is awesome. It's really great that you included this in your comprehensive plan update because it helps to guide the community on being proactive on regulating future wireless infrastructure. Your town code is also very proactive in regulating and you have a preferred placement list in your code that identifies the location of future sites primarily to go on existing publicly owned property. And then to look at using public utility structures such as utility poles and water towers, water tanks. So with this in mind, when we looked at these gap areas on this previous map, we first got a list of your town-owned properties. We started with a list of 142 sites. However, a lot of those are in the Community Preservation Fund and were not acceptable because of that designation to be used for new tower sites. So that reduced the number of town-owned properties from 142 to 62 town-owned sites. So the next layer that we looked at was environmental and community characteristics around those 62 sites. We removed properties that were in flood zones or were in large part wetland lands or that were close to the existing towers and not in the gap areas. And we ended up with 19 properties that could potentially be used. And from those 19 properties, we did a deeper dive and we came up with four properties that would help identify or would help fill in these areas. So these were some of the sites that we looked at and vetted. by size, land use, historic places, deed restrictions, access to environmental conditions. And what we came up with were two scenarios whereby adding a new 120-foot tower at these three general locations would help improve the outdoor and in-building coverage significantly. PM 01, which we can call potential. I just want to reiterate at this point, Cityscape does not own towers. We do not build towers. We do not sell towers. We only plan and help you get information so that you can proactively plan for the industry to come in. We're not hired by the industry to come and find sites for them. This is information for you to have so that you can be forward thinking about how to improve your wireless connectivity. So PM01 is the golf course. It's a 42 acre parcel and really any type of facility around 120 feet tall in this area would help improve the in-building coverage in this geographic area. And then PM02 is over here on the east side of the island. This is a 1.3 acre parcel that is wooded that would help improve connectivity in this area of the island. And then PM03 is a vacant parcel on Heritage Drive. Now, scenario number two, utilizes PM01 and PM02, but changes out PM03 with PM04, which is farther to the south. And it's also vacant land, and it's on Osprey Road. So to sort of give you some visuals about where these properties are and what they look like, this is a visual into the golf course for PM01. Again, anywhere on the course would work. PM02 is a wooded area. PM03 is a wooded area. And PM04 is also a wooded area. This map shows you the address point, the potential address point improvement. Right now, you have 1,679. address points that show pretty good in building coverage and 68 address points that have poor or no in building coverage. Scenario one would reduce that number to one and scenario two would also reduce that number to one. Scenario one and scenario two are very similar. The properties are kind of close to each other and the results are somewhat the same. So our next step is to put this out to the community. And so we have prepared a poll and survey for the community to participate in, whereby we show these maps, we show different types of infrastructure, we show the locations of these properties, and we ask that the community tell us which sites they would prefer most.

for infrastructure or not at all.

And what type of infrastructure on those properties might be acceptable by the community. And if you were to use the small wireless facilities and the rights of ways, what would you want them to look like? And I want to just mention that with regards to the small wireless facilities, the federal law has changed to where you have to allow them in your right of way. And your code right now doesn't address small wireless facilities in the right of ways, but your code does prioritize using publicly owned land. So that was the route that we went in showing you the use of those sites. If you wanted to try and provide equal or similar coverage of small wireless facilities, only for those three macro cell sites that we're showing you, you would end up with probably 20 to 30 small wireless facilities to compensate for removing those macros and putting in small. But we have that question in the poll to see if community would prefer the small wireless facilities over the macro cells. So after this, I'm sure the poll will be launched. We've provided a QR code and a web link to the poll, which you can start participating in the poll now or as soon as it's shared. And then our next presentation will be to provide you the results of that poll and a final document for your wireless master plan. That was a lot of information.

Any questions from the audience person? Anyone on Zoom? Yes.

I don't have any questions.

The plan would be to launch the survey this afternoon. So we would get it up on our website, push it out on social media. And then Susan, you recommend running it for two weeks.

Yes, a minimum of two weeks and really not more than three.

OK. So we'd get that started today and then give Cityscape an opportunity to collate all of the results and come back to us in three to four weeks to present the results of the survey and what we want to do.

Well, one question is, okay, we do the survey, it comes back and says, let's build the three that are suggested. Do we then go to the cell phone companies to rally them to get these built and paid for? Or is this something that town's supposed to pay for?

Oh, no, the town doesn't pay for these sites. What we would recommend for your consideration is if And this is all speculative. If the town supports, let's hypothetically say they support scenario number one, then we would recommend that you go and amend your code to actually list those three properties in your code as preferred locations. because they would have been vetted by the community. You would have a design type that you would like to see on that site. And then when they come in and they look at your code, they already know, okay, these are sites that they want us to focus on for our new facility. And then that, if they wanted to do something different than that, you know, they'd have to come in and demonstrate why those three sites, one of those sites wouldn't work. But these sites are built by the industry and, similarly to what you had on the public waste facility property is that they would pay you rent. And I think, so you're familiar with that model. You've done that model before. So this would be very similar to that model.

we also have to go through as a town board the special permitting process for cell towers i recall when the fire district erected the tower on cobbett's lane it had to go through that process and maybe also site plan review so yeah yeah so there's a few few steps before we'd actually get to allowing somebody to build something

But I will tell you this, the industry is watching. They know about this project. They are anxious to see how the communities, you know, the direction that the communities would like to go. We're seeing a lot of activity, or I should say, Cityscape's seeing a lot of activity in South Holt and in Sag Harbor, both from macro cell and small wireless facility developments. And Cityscapes received a lot of phone calls from the industry about what North Haven's going to do. And so, you know, I know that they're watching you from the north and from the south to see how this plan materializes and progresses.

Okay. Any other questions? No.

And I live at 57 Peconic, where I look at the giant cell tower in Washington. It doesn't provide me with cell service all summer long, which is very frustrating. So while I'm a fan of enhancing cell coverage on Shelter Island, the consultant said, if I am not mistaken, that a poll would be sufficient to have gotten public betting in order for you to change That can't be true.

No, it'll inform us as to how we want to move forward with changing the code. Then the code change would have public hearings associated with it. And then if we were to move forward with trying to construct a cell tower, there'd be a special permit and site plan review as well.

Thank you. Yes. Anyone else?

All right, we will get this poll on the survey launched later today, and we invite everybody to weigh in. The more information we can get, the better.

Thank you, Susan. Thank you very much. Have a good day.

Amber, you point people to where the survey is going to be?

Yeah, we'll have it on the front page of the town website. It'll be on Facebook, Instagram as well. and maybe some flyers in town with the QR code. Great. And we'll keep bringing it up at the next couple of town board work sessions. Thank you. Next, we have permit applications. And the first one that we have is Jonathan Bang, who I believe is on, yes, from the New York Times. And this one is for, well, I guess actually originally it was going to be for June 8th, June 9th, but you did send a request yesterday to change the dates. But if you would tell us a little bit about it, please.

Yes, good morning, everyone. I'm Jonathan Bang with New York Times Cooking, joined with my production coordinator, Gina Fernandez, who is also on the call. Thank you for having us today. A little background on the application we submitted. It's a small documentary style video centered around recreational clamming at Crab Creek, joined with our food writer, Melissa Clark, with an educational focus on responsible shellfishing and cooking a recipe with the freshly harvested clams. Our crew footprint is small, seven people with small handheld cameras and mobile audio gear. And we're planning to film around two to three hours around the low tide period.

You also noted that there was going to be a cooking segment at a nearby private residence, but that location was not disclosed. Have you settled on that or spoken to somebody? Yes.

Let me see if I can share my screen really quick. Okay, so the private residence is on Crab Creek Road. For Crab Creek Road to be more specific, the entryway to the crab location, the clamming location is down Peconic Avenue through a public access point right around here. Can you guys see that?

Yes.

So it'll be around here for Crab Creek Road, and then we'll walk to the location to go clamming for about two to three hours around the Tide.

Okay. And what we had, we had a different location.

Yeah, that one. That's an old location. This is the most up to date. The one on Peconic Avenue.

What's the end of Peconic Avenue with the town landing?

Yeah. Okay, good work there just because the other location was on silver beach association property. i'm just making sure that's property not private property okay.

end of the connect there yes yeah because we've seeded clams okay all right and then you've changed the dates to is it june 15th

Those were my questions. Any board member questions?

Yeah, just make sure that the person doing the clamming actually has their clamming permit. So they can come into town hall and get it. And then do you have an idea how many clams you're looking to harvest?

I believe the clamming limits are 100, but we would be using much less than that. I'm assuming around 30. It's a white clam pasta recipe, so it shouldn't be using too many clams.

Okay.

Thank you. And then I think also for the filming of the private residents, just if we could get a letter from them to know that you have permission to be there.

Okay.

There's no other board questions. I'll open it up to the public. Anyone online. Okay, we're going to take this. We had this initially for approval on today's special meeting, but because it's a change location, and I'd like to see the. The address of the private residence incorporated plus a letter granting permission we're going to pull it from today and put it on from Monday, which still is ahead of the event. there's no one else. Thank you. Thank you so much.

Hi, good morning. I'm here for Gray Malin.

Hi, Carolina.

Am I saying that correctly? Yes, Carolina. Carolina. If you want to just tell us a little bit about this application. Yes. So Gray Malin is a photographer and we want it. We're doing a Hamptons photo shoot across the different towns. He's shot in the Hamptons before about eight years ago, but it was an aerial photography, which is what he's known for. He shot out of a helicopter and did some of the like. overhead shots of the beaches in the Hamptons, but this year we wanted to come back and do an on the ground shoot. We're looking to just capture one photo on Shelter Island Beach, Sunset Beach, where the Sunset Hotel is. It's just one photo, there's no actual recording or filming that would be happening, and it's a four person crew. It's very quick. We'd be there maybe one hour total. And we just wanted to capture one photo on the beach.

You didn't submit anything that had like the location itself. Is it directly across from the hotel?

Yes, it's directly across from the hotel. I spoke with the general manager and he said we could borrow a couple chairs and an umbrella for the photo. Okay.

And you're going to have dogs in the photo shoot?

Yes. So they're trained dogs. They're, I guess, what we refer to as working dogs. So during the pandemic, he started shooting, photographing dogs versus humans because models weren't available, obviously. And the dog photography is now one of his most popular series. And so it would be three dogs that are laying each one on a chair, basically under the umbrella. And they are trained dogs and we'll have a dog trainer, their dog trainer there with them.

Okay, so what we need to do is give an exception to the no dogs on the beach rule. Yeah, definitely. Memorial Day to Labor Day is no dogs on the beach. Yes. And then I see that you have two personal vehicles that'll be there. So the other thing is you'll need beach stickers for the day so you can park.

Okay. Actually, I'll confirm that with Gray. We were going to take the ferry over, so I don't actually think we're going to have vehicles. Yeah.

It's not a short walk.

Okay. Further than it looks. Good to know. The one thing that we were hoping I wanted to ask today is we're a really small company. We're less than 10 people. And we're only going to be there an hour. When I called about a month or so ago about the permitting process, I didn't learn at the time that this had to be submitted 30 days in advance. I was told that as long as it was before the weekly meeting, it would be fine. And so we were hoping if the rush fee could be waived just because we didn't know about it. And this is a relatively simple photo in that sense. We won't be there very long.

Not inclined to waive it just because we did last year, we changed it from 14 to 30 days just because we do have to scramble and we did have to scramble. I'm pulling in highway to make sure they're okay with it. They're okay with it. The town clerk's office, the town board. Like, just all like, the review process. It reprioritizes what we are doing on a daily basis. So we try and encourage people to. to get the applications in earlier. And it is on the application as well as on the town website.

Okay. Okay. I will then, I guess I'll just speak to Gray about just the financial aspect of it because we may not move forward just because it's for one photo. The whole cost may not make sense for the business in that sense. But I will speak to him right after this call.

Yeah, that's my opinion on how the rest of the board feels.

Yeah, I don't have a problem with it.

It's kind of what it is now.

Yeah, you mean not keeping it the Russian way. Where we are, yes.

Benjamin, you're mute.

Yeah, I agree. It kind of is what it is. So I would stick with it.

We're trying to encourage people to. give us some forewarning so yes i understand okay we i do believe because this is supposed to happen on monday um we will at the after this meeting go into our special meeting so we will approve it um you know pending receipt of fees and things like that so okay thank you okay um if the public doesn't have any questions

Okay. Thank you, Karen. Thank you. Bye.

Bye. Bye. Okay, sign requests. Hilltree Island History Museum. We had started to talk about this a number of weeks ago, but we were trying to figure out placement. So I don't know if you know that you want to come up and just speak to where we landed in your conversations with

We landed after consulting with police department, with highway department, Heights, that we would like to have the banner installed across the street from the Presbyterian church with a 10 feet banner, it's the same location, same size banner.

And what's the date of the event that you're putting?

July 18th.

July 18th.

And the banner itself, it's an image would basically be our logo, the name of the event, red, white, blue, and the date.

That's about it. Okay.

Right, that timing kind of works out perfectly because we can do the 10K banner, you can do your banner, and then we can do the Chamber of Commerce banner.

I think it'll work just fine. It'll work just right. Yes. communicate with about the actual install and takedown?

I actually don't know the answer to that question. Ken? Hi.

Come on. I didn't see you.

Yes.

Okay.

All right. Perfect.

Okay. So we're good with that. We'll go with that. Yes. Awesome. Thank you.

Any other questions from anyone on board audience? Okay. All right. Thank you. All right, we had already talked about the 10K road signs at the earlier part of the meeting, so I think we're good there.

Yep.

And the WEC Know Your Water Weekend, I understand you've got the information on that.

Yes, I do. So the Water Advisory Committee, it's a town committee, is working on an information and outreach weekend about knowing your water, getting your water tested, just promoting people's understanding of our groundwater and how it works and how our wells work. And so what they would like to do, the Know Your Water Weekend is the weekend of July 25th. And what they'd like to do is place some signs around town, approximately 12 signs. And they gave us a list of the locations. One is by South Ferry. One is by South Ferry and North Cartwright by the circle. One is South Ferry and School Street by the circle, one on the corner of the IGA, West Neck, North Ferry Road. So they gave us a list for 12 signs. And the signs just say, know your water, test your well. And it has a QR code that leads you to an informational page on the town website, just sharing information about your well water, how you can get it tested. And it's part of their ongoing education program. And so they're asking permission to put up the 12 signs around town. And they're going to talk to local businesses to get permission to put them in front of properties there and things like that. Flyers and windows and that kind of thing.

That's a good thing.

Yes.

Yes, it is. Actually... All four. Yes, me too. One thing is we're approving a lot of signage in the last two weeks. And it just makes me a little nervous because I hate to see the signs when we've gone through a nice period of time where we've had no signs. I think one of the things we should start to try and convey to people making these requests is to keep it to the basic information, like event, date, time, maybe a QR code. Because I know some of the signs that are passing by, they're hard to read. And so if we're going to have the signage, let's make it readable without causing accidents.

Yeah, the QR code is a little troubling because if you're driving and you're supposed to stop and scan the QR code.

True, true. Although it's an intersection. But I mean, at least like if we can keep the visual to minimal information, at least it's an opportunity to get more information.

And I assume we also add a restriction on how long the sign can stay up after the event, you know, 24 hours.

Yes. Yes, exactly.

The request is for the two weeks leading up to the event, and then it'll come down after the event.

Okay.

Good.

Yeah, we may want to also think about that, like starting to put time limits when they can be put up so that we don't have so many.

Yeah. I think we've been around two weeks, giving people two weeks. Yeah.

OK. All righty. So we'll put that on Monday. OK. And then the Chamber of Commerce, in their application, they had asked for yard signs, too. So we'll include that into the banner and the yard signs. OK. All right. next time oh it's oh i'm sorry come on up tim sorry um so for the green expo in the past i've always put up road signs so going forward do i need to come to the town board yes okay yeah yeah so just like how far in advance um the sooner the better and then we can get because we you know work sessions are i mean town board meetings are every three weeks so like obviously it won't be for this week so june 29th is our next town board meeting so if you want

Yeah, so number of sites and locations.

Roughly. Okay. Yeah, we don't, we're not that specific, but and if there's any issues. Ken Lewis highway, superintendent will let, you know, some are bad. Good to know.

I can share the list that we got from water advisory committee with you. It might be easy. So just. Thank you.

Thanks. There's no further questions on that.

We'll go on to.

The Cornell Cooperative Extension Marine Program. State your name for the record, Kate.

Kate Rossi-Snook, Cornell Cooperative Extension Marine Program.

We got your letter, and the ask is permission to access underwater lands for the purposes of deploying cured recycled shell material as part of a trial for improving subtitle and intertitle of substrate for passive oyster reef restoration.

You want me to do it? In English. So actually, this is very exciting. So just to be clear, first, this is just for permission. It's just part of the DEC permitting process. We may not even need a permit for putting down this blank shell, which I'll explain in a minute, but I'm just kind of covering all the bases. So this is actually part of now a broader project. The South town trustees asked us to investigate putting down blank recycled shell versus our spat on shell, our baby oysters set on shell, and to see in certain areas if it's enough to just put down the blank shell to improve the substrate at the bottom. If there's already existing oyster populations and maybe it's just too mucky for the wild spawning to set, maybe we could just put down a shell and could be enough to passively build up oyster reefs. So we're doing a few, like three sites within Southampton Waters and then also in Monanta Creek. And we're gonna be comparing, it's gonna be actually a proper study now. So yeah, the concept, like I said, normally for our oyster reef restoration, we would put down Typically a pilot planting would be 15 cubic feet of recycled shell with the spat, the baby oysters attached to it. So for this study comparison study, we're going to be doing, at least for the Southampton sites, just full information, we're going to be doing 15 cubic feet of loose recycled shell, cured, meaning out in the in the elements for a year for DEC regulations. So 15 cubic feet of shell loosely put down, like we would normally like just do our reef plantings with communities, community members, and then adjacent We are going to be doing 15 cubic feet of the recycled shell in biodegradable mesh bags to see if, also compare whether it makes a difference loose versus in bags. I'm not sure about our Monanta Creek site having the biodegradable bags because technically Southampton trustees purchased that material and I still need to convince them to donate some for this site. I feel like they will as part of that bigger study. Greater good kind of a thing.

So yeah, I actually got in the water at Monanta Creek yesterday.

It was really encouraging. Every time I go in there, I'm pleasantly surprised because I keep expecting it, especially our original like little reef site that we planted only two years ago. It was like the end of August 2024. Way up at the head of Monanta Creek. on the left, if you're facing north. It's very mucky there, but when I first snorkeled on that original reef site, I couldn't see the oysters because there was actually this incredible mat of early season oboe, sea lettuce, macroalgae. But once I just parted the mat, you could see all these oysters were thriving despite the mud, despite the macroalgae.

Most of them that I brought up were like this big.

So like a hundred millimeters, give or take, which is crazy for just two, not even two years, right? It's a year and a half. So they're thriving. Went down to the other site where I'm going to be doing my blank shell location. And that is looking very promising. And then also part of this map that I shared with my letter, and I kind of put in additional wording in this letter. So it's not just the blank shell study, but kind of also covering continued reef restoration, shell restoration, just kind of a blanket permission to let me do my thing. But this last site, so the Monanta Creek keepers successfully raised funds to sponsor a second oyster reef restoration like pilot reef in Monantic, but lower down. I had identified a possible site of, you know, just kind of hearing from community members where they think they would be good. Yesterday got my face in the water and I believe the map identifies the point at which the creek kind of narrows, but there's actually a little bit of a I guess cove-ish if you could call it that so small though it's on the north side of that point is actually really looks super promising for a very successful reef restoration. Wanting to put down that would be the spat on shell as opposed to the blank shell and yeah.

Can I do a screen share?

Just so that way we can get a visual for everybody else.

So, yeah, where it says, um, new site, zoom in there. So, um. I'm not going to do me. Okay. That's weird. Um, anyway, just just on the inside of that point, um, I actually saw, um.

one wild set oyster, like large wild set oyster, which is another sign that it could be a great spot if they're already existing. Not too much mucky down there.

It's like almost like completely different creek system compared to like that upper reef site and this deep site that I'm proposing. So it'll be, that will also be an interesting comparison to see how they grow. So basically that's it, just looking to get permission to keep, to restore oyster populations.

I know that the Monanic Creek keepers are very excited about these projects. Yes. And I think that the blank shell trial will be very interesting because there are a lot of homeowners who do have oyster cages and they're, you know,

of the spat program yeah which the dec specifically um said they would love to see me target um these areas where you have community spat members like clusters of these you know their oysters are likely spawning so just offering the appropriate substrate could be enough yeah and i can see how the very silty organic sludgy stuff would not allow the oysters to actually settle somewhere they could grow instead they'll sink and sort of get suffocated in the mud so i think

giving them the opportunity to have something to grow on, it has potential. So I think it's exciting.

Does anyone have any questions? Okay. Okay. All right. Thank you.

Thank you.

We'll get this all for the resolution and then we can issue a letter for your GEC permit. The next item on the agenda, just looking at Joe, is the fresh pond, solitude lake management. And I'll let Joe speak to this one. Joe is available. You're muted. and it's possible he stepped away for a moment anyways um i can i can speak to it um every year for the past couple of years fresh pond neighbors association has um or This is the freshman freshman neighbors association has paid for this aquatic weed harvester service that cuts down on the collects the nuisance growth, and so we have in hand a copy of an agreement to do the same for this year, I believe it would happen sometime in. mid to late July. And the cost would be up to 15,000, we have a letter from the freshman neighbors association that says that they would cover the cost of this. And so I'd like to put on the resolution what we've done every year, which is. You know, allow me to sign the contract and then also recognizes the. The reimbursement by the freshman neighbors association. Joe, I've covered the basics about the authorizing the contract and the reimbursement, but if you want to talk about how the harvesting has gone the past couple of years and why we want to continue doing it.

Yes. So then you covered, I'm sure, that the cost of this project is through the reimbursement from the Fresh Bond Neighborhoods Association. They provided a letter of commitment, as they've done in the past, to reimburse the county expenses. We contract directly between the town and the contractor for the work. It's the same contractor that we've used now for three years in a row. And the concept is fairly simple. These different vegetative species absorb nutrients from the bottom, the same nutrients that are in overabundance in the pond. By harvesting them and removing them from the pond system, we're taking those nutrients with them and or allergic reactions. So there's the public access and safety angle to it. And then they also tend to congregate in the area right by the public access point at the end of Fresh Pond Road. So they can irritate you and they also happen to be in the area where most people would come in contact with them. So we take the material to the dump and it's mixed in with our other organic organic items, so it doesn't require any specialized

Any questions? No, it's pretty cool to watch, because it's like a floating thresher. So it's fun.

It's a weird-looking machine. It's weird.

I like it.

It's not noisy. It just has a regular small gas engine, similar to a lawnmower. And it's a three-day proposal. So it will make its way around the perimeter of the pond. That's where most of these things tend to stay in the shallower waters, so the roots at the bottom and the restructures and we've arranged for the ideal schedule with the contractor to make sure

Great. And once again, I want to thank the Fresh Pond Association for, you know, stepping up and being good community citizens. You know, this whole thing got a rough start a couple of years ago, but it's going so smoothly and it's so great that they are getting it done. So thanks to them.

like has there been any investigation this is just the science nerd in me on looking at the nutrient uptake like doing any like dry weight or any kind of like processing to see like how much nitrogen is that plant is removing and you physically yes

As what you said, we've done a study, a thorough investigation of the of the pond itself with sediment sampling. So we know the average concentrations of nutrients throughout the symmetry. And we know that the nutrient which is causing the off the long balloons is an excess of phosphorus. The long term plan for immediate that is through a different project. But we know that the vegetation removal aids in that. And so because we have a number of different species of vegetation that come out, we haven't broken down the nutrient load to be a little bit different for every plant species.

But we do measure and record

Yes, and I think at Georgia Capon, this is the long-term remediation project because the whole pond is fairly shallow, and there's a lot more vegetation. And so they just do this at a much grander scale as a way to permanently remove those nutrients. But not for us. OK, thank you.

Thank you, Joe.

We'll put that on for Monday. The Green Options Committee would like to talk about a request for proposal for solar recycling center.

Chairman Powell, Chair of the Green Options Committee. We're here today to follow up the previous presentations about pursuing the concept of having a solar array on one of the recycling center roofs. Since then, with suggestions from the town board and our liaisons, Ben and Meg, to pursue an RFP to be put out on July 1st for 30 days.

We're here today to seek your support to put out the actual RFP. We've put together a draft RFP, which we've shared with Joe, our town engineer. solar united neighbors, which is a nonprofit that provides expertise for municipalities and homeowners to sell solar.

So today, I did send it out yesterday from SharePoint.

So Don D'Amato is here just to answer any questions you have about the RFP. Rob Pappas is here in the building. I think he's upstairs on a Zoom call. So I'm going to take it to Don.

And again, just the goal for today is to get the town board approval to send out an RFP.

Thank you, Tim. Donald D'Amato, a member of the Green Options Committee. So yes, as Tim said, you have the one pager, which is the short, sweet way to look at this. And just as a refresher, we are limited to 50 kilowatts AC before we incur what's called a CSER process, which is an in-depth review by the utility, by PSEG. So we wanted to avoid that in the interest of time. Because there are inherent losses in the process of conversion from DC to AC, we actually believe that we can mount a 60 kilowatt DC panel on the roof of the recycling shed. And this will produce some numbers that I didn't give you before, a little bit higher than what we talked about before, roughly 71,000 kilowatt hours per year. And just to convert that to something meaningful for you, my house very roughly uses something like 500 kilowatt hours per year, half a megawatt. Here we're talking about 70 megawatts. So well over 100 times more than my house would be using, could be generated by the roof of the recycling shed. And it would largely offset some of the costs. We talked about this before, that the rate structure for PSEG, a commercial rate structure, limits the effect of payback, if you will, compared, say, to a residence. But given that still, the payback can be used to offset charges at other town meters. And so that is what we are proposing. Tim mentioned that this person at Solar United Neighbors had reviewed the document and he's provided some very helpful comments. on our RFP. We don't think his comments in any way change the structure, but they do help the potential bidders to understand what we're trying to do. And I like this last comment right at the end of his note that was sent out late last night. I'll just read it to you. Overall, I think you've covered your bases. If I were a solar installer, I'd be excited about the opportunity to have the town as a client. it's cute it's encouraging so that is it and uh i'll be glad to answer any questions about it but we hope the town uh canada proceeds with the release of the rfp and obviously as we've said sooner the better any questions um

now i think there's my one comment for the board and the public is we would put out this rfp get an estimate as to what this cost would be and then figure out how to pay for it from there so we'd have them in hand and that would allow us to go for grant funding and talking about how to finance nothing ventured nothing exactly exactly and the questions that we receive from potential bidders i think would help us understand also because we have many questions

About the nature of the AC power there and the utility rate, et cetera. Thank you.

Thank you.

Um, Tim, if I'm here, I might as well be engaged.

Thanks, Tim. As a resident, I love this. Love to hear this. As a Cornell employee, CC Suffolk has a whole clean energy division. So speaking on that after the RFP question of funding, that I would be very happy to can connect you and that's what the liaison we tried a little while ago. Sorry. A little while ago, Tim kind of started speaking about maybe the possibility of getting the school to do some solar, but now there's a more actionable item. So yeah, we'd love to connect you guys with the people who lead the United Revenue Division at Cornell. It's like kind of they serve as a clearinghouse to help fund these kinds of programs. And they were very excited about getting Shelter Allen more actively involved in these efforts. Sounds good. So yeah.

You can send me the information. Yeah. Great. Happy to do it.

Thanks, Kate. Any questions from the public on this? We will take a look at this and take steps so we can continue moving forward on issuing that RFP. All right. Next is the Equipment Reserve Fund. We need to look at whether how we can afford and pay for a Hyundai loader purchase that is needed. So, Ken, do you want to brief everyone on where we stand?

Sure. So, I think as we've seen in the past when I was discussing equipment reserve funds in these last couple of years, I identified three pieces of equipment that we definitely were going to need to in the order of the walking floor trailer, which we finally got underway and is due to us probably middle of this month, middle to end of this month, finally.

So that's back in service. And then I identified a new loader. And looking at the reserve fund, we do have the money in the reserve fund to purchase a new payloader.

Currently, we have three loaders. The newest is the current Hyundai loader that we have, and the next oldest is a Caterpillar loader. And then we had an older caterpillar loader that's almost 20 years old that sits as our sort of reserve loader. The main caterpillar loader is used primarily at the recycling center and the transfer facility. So not only for loading construction debris, but also does a lot with the loading of mulch, et cetera, and topsoil, screening topsoil. So the idea would be to, as it is with some loader becomes our sort of reserve loader. And then we have purchased a new loader to take its place. So now we'll have two loaders that will probably be within, you know, they're about five years age-wise. The idea behind this Hyundai loader is it's one that we've utilized in these past years. We wouldn't have to change any of the attachments that we currently have on the current Hyundai loader.

That saves a tremendous amount of money. It's about a 51% savings on the cost.

So in order to, I'd like to start to facilitate the process because as we know, we have to go to a 30-day, there's got to be a 30-day for the permissive breath random. So for any questions, the loader, after we will be able to trade in the oldest thousand dollars of trade in so uh it's a it's a total after trade is 212 626 dollars 60 cents um there is a financing we will finance it obviously over four years so that the uh the dollar amount for four years the annual payments like we've done for we did for the excavator uh and the grinder, et cetera, will be four payments of $58,431. It should be noted, too, that in talking to Jen Messiano, our grant writer, this piece of equipment, because of its use, we would be able to apply to DEC for some form of reimbursement on the total cost of this. and the grinder, but we did get the money back. And that money can go into the fund. How much that is, I'm not sure. Jen, we'd have to go through the application process. And they like to weigh it out because obviously this loader gets used at the transfer facility they like to know the percentages. So if we say, hey, we use it 80% of the time at the recycling facility, transfer facility, then they base their dollar amount that they'll give us off of that usage. So anyway, so that's pretty much it in a nutshell. I think this also comes, I mean, I do have concerns about these older machines. I don't know if any of you realize, but just recently in the last two weeks, by my friend and counterpart over in South Hold, the waste management director, Nick Krupski. They had a bad fire where one of their loaders, you know, uh it was we were having some electrical issues today is that the one turning on yes it was turning on by itself um and then the joystick controls were not uh manageable and so i thought uh after looking at the fund uh i thought this was a good uh time to think about doing this and that they're still available on state contract i thought that was also the timing right so it doesn't happen to be the same model as the one in southwold does it i don't know i don't know let's park it in a corner by itself yes i do all right it stands alone yes yeah um just a quick question just to be clear so the one that you're trading in and that's going away is the 20 year old one yeah that's the that's the old the oldest one but which is still operational but you know it's uh to load the salts and do some minor snow removal around the property itself, parking lots, et cetera. at their cycling center. It's a key part of the operation. The amount of use it gets is tremendous for both loading customers as well as helping get rid of our construction to bring them out.

And have we yet received the grant reimbursement for the grinder and the other thing?

Yes. It took a while. I mean, I think we just...

two ago that we got the money finally for the excavator in 2025 right so the grinder was back in 2021 right the grinder came faster for some reason than the excavator but the whole process takes like a year and a half no the grinder took three years because we did we purchased the grinder first in 2018 and then um we received the reimbursement in 2021. the excavator was purchased in 2017, and we got the reimbursement in 2025. So that one took eight years.

Oh my god.

They did not allow us to get 100%, because they wanted to know how it gets used, and so the various uses factor into the grant reimbursement.

Gotcha.

OK. And I'll do a screen share of the Equipment Reserve Fund analysis.

Yeah.

Yes.

Okay, good.

So originally we were looking to buy the Hyundai loader in 2027, and this isn't my most up-to-date one. I just, I realized I got a new computer last week to replace the one that was dying. And my most up-to-date one was on my old computer. I have to get that file copied over. I didn't realize not everything made it over, but this one, which shall be found for me just now, had us purchasing it in 2027 over time so that we would have been paying it off in 27 28 and 29. so we'd be bumping that schedule up a little bit um 30. by another year yeah yeah so we'd be moving that um into our 2026 year so we had the walking floor trailer which We paid that off. Yeah, we paid that off.

And yeah, so I have to.

Yeah, so that was a bigger.

What was that?

117,114 in this year.

Yeah, yeah.

Do you recall if it was last year or this year?

Is we haven't. Oh, yeah.

Oh, let me stop sharing. So you bring that 1 up.

You've got what I'm going to say this year.

Tell us, okay, I just, yeah. There you go.

Okay, yeah, so it was earlier this year. So if we do the Hyundai loader and depending on the pricing, 58,431, it would still leave us 73,836 in the fund at the end of the year. And then we start to rebuild it. And one of the things that, want to do in capital planning is just blow out any more um equipment purchases in the 28 29 30 years because you can see by 2030 the balance is up to 298 000 but that doesn't take into account the sweeper i was going to say the sweeper is not in this yeah we have to add the sweeper and i think was there one other thing that needed i think long term we have to plan for the grinder right long term plan for the grinder right it's still very

and the walking floor trailer the new one that is on its way is fully paid for now

okay but that schedule has it taken into account yeah so okay yeah we would have hoped to have tried to pay that much if we do these other ones you know across time so we could do it with the manufacturer but i was also able to

So by building one for East Hampton and one for us, they gave us a discount?

Yes. When you're able to piggyback off, that's why. on regularly for a lot of other things so once if we get to you know we get to 30 days and we get into july i'm pretty certain so that that discount is that reflected in this 230 grand or not yet yes okay yeah the load the loader retails for 445 000. geez That's why the, that's why the, the, the piggyback opportunities and come off state contracts. Um, and with, you know, because we're such a small because of our size.

You know, it's helpful when we were able to couple with, you know, like, a larger town, like, East Hampton.

The last loaner that we purchased came off the isolate town contract where they're buying, they might buy 5 or 6 of these things. You know, on a clip, so we're able to, you know, add 1 into the mix for us.

Oh, the only caveat I saw something come through from association towns yesterday, I believe it was and there was a case about piggybacking off of contracts. And so I just want to have you Thomas take a look at that.

Yeah.

You seem like there might be a delay in implementation, but association, this is this 1 isn't so much a fee.

This isn't really. I think it's the Office of General Services or something.

Amber, what was the case? It was to not allow piggybacking?

Yeah, there was some challenge.

There was a case of a piggyback that took place

or something i think thomas i talked about yeah you basically if you're going to piggyback off of another state or the federal government you have to prove that their procurement procedures are the same as required in new york but yeah i don't know anything about a recent case i'll pick it up yeah i'll i'll find it and circulate it to everybody which is something we need to keep in mind especially ken who does the most procurement

Big torts. Yes. The big equipment. All right. So then if we have all of the information numbers-wise, we can work on pulling that resolution for Monday to start the premise of the process. Thank you. Any other questions? I found the next section is public comments. Mr. Gaynor, before I call you up here, are you here to talk about something other than Sylvester Manor?

I'm here to speak about Sylvester Manor having a, their Farm to Cable party on the 28th of June, and they have none of the permits for that. So I'm not here to talk about their application. I'm here to talk about specifically that unpermitted event.

If you can stick strictly to that topic, because the right now, the public hearing on their site plan review flows reopening within special safety, no conversation. So please keep it to just left on table.

Thank you for the guidance. Today, in just in this work session, I counted, I lost somewhere around 10 people asked for permission to do things. Everything from the 5K race, the Chamber of Commerce, music at Wade's Beach, Ron Anderson wants to have a family party, got from the New York Times, Oyster Lady, you name it, Shelter Island, on June 28th, approximately 20 days from today. Is that right? 20 days from today, Sylvester Manor Educational Farm is going to be having their 13th Farm to Table Party. It's going to be the 13th time they've had it. And every single one of those has been illegal. All of the things that are taking place at that event, 500 people are expected to attend. On average, every year, 500 people. That's approximately 250 cars. They're going to have amplified music. All the things that we're supposed to be discussing on June 8 at a hearing, which is when we will discuss them, all those things that they're supposed to be getting a permit for, like these people had to get permission for, They're going to do them already. It's already done. It's illegal. Why are you letting them do illegal things? They've had 16 years to get their permits in place so they can have events like these, and they haven't done it. So why are you allowing them to have that event? There's a structure in place inside of the town code that says if people do things that they don't have site plan approval for, they get penalized. There's all sorts of penalties. You're not taking any action to stop them. All the things they're going to do that night. 250 cars. Where are they going to park? The Department of Transportation has told you that the entrance to that property is dangerous and you're going to allow them to do that. Some lady wanted to take a picture on the beach, and we spent, what, 15 minutes talking about it, about taking one photograph? These people are going to have a massive party over there that they do not have approval for. Why are you allowing them to do illegal things? I've confronted you on this on multiple occasions. I don't want to, on Monday night, have to call you a liar, Amber. I want an explanation for it. You're an elected official. You are one of the five supervisors for the East End of Long Island. And you're making up stories here that are not true. And it undermines people's faith in government. You've got to stop doing it. I want an explanation because it doesn't exist. There's nothing inside of the code that says these people can go have an event that's required to have a permit and do that legally. I want an answer. So I'm giving you fair notice on Monday. You can explain to me and I want a truthful answer. And I'm not going to leave here until I get a truthful one because there is nothing inside of the town code that allows them to have that event until they've received site plan approval. Thank you very much. Have a great day.

Thank you.

Any other public comment? Around the table. Let's see. It's been three weeks since our last work session, so let's see. Not a lot, I was going to say. We had capital planning on May 12.

We had green options since then. Mostly it was about the RFP, which we heard directly from them today. The other thing is there are a couple of vacancies on that committee that I think it would be a good idea to reach out to the public again. If anyone's interested, please contact Town Hall. And that's kind of it. Anything else, Meg?

um i think for green options you've kind of got that covered uh the subcommittee met to go over the site plan review legislation and we did make it through the entire document So, the attorneys working on revisions, and we'll get that back to us so that we can share it with the board. And then we also week after that worked on the wetlands code. We did not make it all the way through that code yet. So we're going to have another follow up meeting in the weeks to come to address the rest of the codes that the revisions can be made. So it can come back to the board. So we're working on both of those. Amendments we had. so pep came to talk to us about um sort of to talk to like a subcommittee of committees so um they came to speak to the wmac the cac the planning board town board and um reed karen who actually couldn't make it and Joe Fenora about wetlands code, wetlands processes, how the DEC, the Army Corps, and the town permitting processes work together or don't work together to help give us some guidance and recommendations on possible changes we can make to our code that would allow homeowners to come to us for approval before they went to the Army Corps and the DEC to get approvals so that if we had any you know, recommendations or conditions, then it would go with the application to the DEC and Army Corps. So they're actually going to come back next week for a follow-up because we didn't get through the entire presentation. And I'll have, there's a whole book, like a manual they put together for all the East End towns. This is part of a study that started, I want to say two or three years ago when Jim Colligan and I were working with, Jade and they had an attorney who was doing her internship with them and look through all the codes of the East End and Suffolk County wetlands codes for all the different towns and kind of compared and contrasted them. and took best practices from each one and kind of gave us an outline of what everybody around us was doing because PEP is trying to come up with recommendations for all the towns so the codes sort of work together from jurisdiction to jurisdiction so you don't have a significantly different rule from East Hampton to South Hampton when they kind of share borders or And so from all those recommendations and then from talking to the DEC and Army Corps and the state and the feds, they're putting together kind of an outline of the process for each jurisdiction so everyone can have a better understanding of how the permitting flow works. And then changes or modifications that can be made at a local level to either streamline the process or make it so that we kind of have first say before it goes to DEC. So also they're working to create a clear path of communication between the town and the DEC about different applications and things like that. So there are some recommendations that are coming from this that we might want to include in the wetlands code revision. When jade comes out on Thursday, the 4th is when we're having our follow up. I'll ask for extra books that I can share with the board. So you can all see the process and how it currently works, which is sort of chaotic and some of the recommendations on how we could maybe streamline it, make it more understandable, but also kind of give us more say in the process. So I'll bring those forward probably next. Well, the week after next, because the 4th is after. Oh, no, for next week, I can bring it in next week. So that's something that we did that went on for 1, 2, 3 hours. That's a 3 hour. It was good meeting. It's very informational, but it was long. So, I think that's all I have for now.

I have a question I was looking through. Some note on March 17, at a town board work session, you said that we're going to start going through the comp plan the next time. And then at that time, you said possibly having a public hearing May 27.

i'm waiting for everyone to get me all of their comments on latest draft and Liz so far as the only one who responded with some overriding things and leaving.

I thought we were going to go through the draft.

I thought. Like rather than sit there, because I mean some of my comments are this like the bottom of this paragraph in the pulling together and getting it back and just usable software fell off the page. So rather than like driving the public through that I was going to I was waiting for everybody to just like what have you got what have you got like megan I had some of the same ones, so. If you can either get me or we can schedule a time for like you and I to sit down so we're not breaking forum. Like if everyone gives me there's then i'm marking up the draft, we can get it back to Emily the. After um but yeah it's just.

I was under the impression that we're going to go through.

Oh no, no i'm sorry I hit the draft like we have. yeah I thought I put something out in the email like a month and a half ago saying let's schedule some time and it just. meant to reach out like the past couple of weeks, but. With some other stuff going on it's yeah yeah so yeah so like later this week or next week you and I can sit down, I can show you what i've got and I can like do the accumulation since we can't do a red line copy. So we have on the website, we have the latest draft. What I would do is take down that draft that we put out there, put in my handwritten notes, because that's the best we're going to have for a red line copy, is that like once we've taken that and then the clean copy. So we'll have like the original public hearing one, ours with, you know, notes on it and then that. Yeah, so that was my plan. And yeah, I apologize. Yeah.

Some trips to visit my mother.

It's been a little. Little tactics, but yeah, but this summer we will have a public. Yes. Yes, exactly. So capital planning had met on May 12th. We talked about the Hyundai motor, which was a topic of conversation in the top lot. We want to proceed with the state. The. Community block development grant made their numbers assessments and they actually came back because they're dependent on how much money HUD gives them. So they actually, we had put in, well, we were going to change it to $195,000. I think it was at 105,000, they actually took us down to 65,000 for the playground piece and they would like it to be, you know, for like, paving the parking or like a specific component. So we're going to work with them on that. Which means that our ask of the state will be higher and the fundraising that the community does will be important if we want to get the biggest, you know. the Cadillac project done. We may have to, depending on what comes back from the state, scale it back to something smaller, more manageable. So that was a little bit of bad news in the past couple of weeks. Let's see, a lot of advisory. You were there? One of the topics was where to, and I sat in, the extreme drought conditions. So they have upped based upon the well heights because I think the big four wells are less than 10% of where like the norm is. So they moved to extreme drought condition they didn't put into place if you go to the website it has like what are the benchmarks for the different um classifications and then what we do like do we you know irrigating every other day no you know washing your cars things like that they left that to the town board to implement based upon the um the rains that we've got in the past couple of weekends we don't like kind of wondering what the next well level reports are, but depending on where those come, I think, and because we didn't have, you know, in the town board work session for the past two weeks since WAC met, once they have their next meeting, which is June 15th, we should take a look and see whether or not, if we're still at severe or extreme drought, we institute some measures because we are heading into a higher use season. So I did want to bring that to everybody's attention. And we may have to, you know, take a hard line on, you know, allowing people to do certain things and enforcing it. As of that meeting, there were 28 people I think so far who had signed up for the center triangle private well testing. So I think Joe Finora and the committee were going to do some further reach out to try and help the number of people who are interested in having well tests and sharing that information. Joe's been working with the USGS to get what we need as a quote from USGS so that we can look at the baseline study, the saltwater intrusion, and figure out where we are in our budget and what we might want to apply to WQI to help pay for it.

Yeah, with the triangle study, they were hoping to get three times that many responses. I believe last weekend, the Memorial Day weekend, that was the weekend before, I don't know. They were actually going to go out on foot and kind of canvas the neighborhood and put flyers on people's doors so that they knew that they were in, you know, they had the opportunity because we did have like an opportunity for people to come and ask questions and nobody showed. So it was also before the summer season started. So a lot of second homeowners may not have been out. So they used the holiday weekend to try to drum up some,

interest. As noted earlier, we're looking for green options committee members. We're looking for water quality improvement advisory board members. We are looking for a clerk in the building department. So if anyone wants to go online to the town website, you can see what job openings there are. So just wanted to put that out there. That's it. Unless anybody else has anything else. Okay. We will adjourn the work session so that we can go into a special meeting. Your resolutions like to start.

Whereas an application for site plan approval was submitted by Sylvester Manor Educational Farm, the applicant, on August 8, 2025, to make certain improvements to the existing facilities. And whereas the project is located at 80 Northbury Road, Southern County Tax Map 700-8-1-5.10, Shelter Island, a 138 acre property located within a residential AA and business D zoning district. Whereas the public hearing is closed on April 6, 2026, and whereas the town board wishes to reopen the hearing in order to review additional information necessary for the town board's determination of significance under the State Environmental Quality Review Act. Now, therefore, be it resolved that a public hearing will be held at 6 PM or as soon thereafter prevailing time on June 29, 2026 in the Shelter Island Town Hall. All interested persons to be heard in favor of or in opposition to the application, so moved. Second.

All in favor? Aye. Benjamin, you should abstain.

Oh, sorry about that. I abstain.

OK, perfect. Motion carried. OK, sure. um whereas chad pike six bluff avenue suffolk county tax map 700-5-4-1 has applied to the town of shelter island for a permit to construct a five foot by 30 foot ramp up to five feet by a hundred foot dock with a five foot by 27 foot l section at seaward end 70 foot splashboard system one two pile dolphin three ladders and one bench for plans submitted by costello marine dated january 9th 2024 and stamped in new york state dec approved on January 18 2024 and amended to a five foot and 88 and a half foot down with a five foot by 27 foot l extension at seaward and 70 foot splashboard system. one two pile dolphin three ladders and one bench for plans submitted by costello marine dated december 23rd 2025 and whereas on june 9th june 30th july 21st september 8th september 29th october 20th and december 1st 2025 and march 16th and april 27th 2026 a public hearing or public hearings were held on the subject application where public comments were received and taken under consideration and whereas the subject application was referred to the waterways management advisory council And the report was taken into consideration now, therefore, be it resolved that pursuant to NYC RR 617.5 of the State Environmental Quality Review Act, this application is deemed a Type 2 action and be it further resolved that the Town Board hereby denies the subject application for the following reasons. One, the proposed doc would violate the town zoning code chapter 133 of the town code, specifically section 133-7E1B of the town code states that a private doc is permitted accessory structure on a property within the district AA residential zone. Under section 133-1, accessory structures are defined as a subordinate use building or structure incidental to and located on the same lot occupied by the principal use. building or structure. As such, a lot with an accessory structure must include a principal structure under Chapter 133 of the Town Code. The subject property, however, is a vacant law and does not include a principal structure. Therefore chapter 133 of the town code prohibits the construction of a private doc on vacant land without a principal structure. The applicant submitted examples of private docs on vacant lots approved in the past by the town board and upon request from the town board, the building inspector prepared a list of both pre-existing and approved by it that docs on vacant locks lots. However, a municipality is not as stopped. from enforcement of the zoning code by these prior approvals for private docks on vacant lots see merino versus the town of southampton 61 ad 3d 761 second department 2009 and Barris Shoe Company Inc. v. The Town of Oyster Bay et al., 234 A.D., 2D, 245, 2nd Department, 1996. Because the plain language of Chapter 133 of the Town Code prohibits a private dock in the location proposed by the applicant, the Town Board must enforce the zoning code as written, and the prior approvals for private docks on vacant lands are not determinative. Further, the town board finds that the proposed location of the dock is against the public health, safety, and general welfare for the nearby swimming beach maintained by the Shelter Island Heights Property Owners Corporation under Section 53-15 of the applicable Town Code. Because the applicant applied to the New York State DEC prior to February 13, 2024, Chapter 53-2B of the Town Code mandates that the prior version of Chapter 53 applies to the subject application. the town board has the authority to modify any provisions of this chapter as in its judgment is not requisite to the interests of the public health safety and general welfare here the town board finds that the boat stopping at the proposed dock would be a safety hazard for the swimmers and therefore finds that the proposed location is not acceptable under its authority under chapter 53-15 of the applicable town code so moved second i'll take a roll call vote i vote yes aye

benjamin aye albert aye and elizabeth hanley is absent motion carried whereas the vacancy exists on the community preservation fund advisory board and whereas town board has advertised for interviewed applicants now therefore Be resolved that Mark Mobius is hereby appointed to serve as a member of the Community Preservation Fund Advisory Board for a term to expire on February 2nd, 2029. So move.

Second. Discussion. Albert, I know I was at the last town board meeting and therefore this got tabled. Were you able to reach out and have a discussion with the applicant or the chair of the committee? We had two applicants and, you know, well, we had, you know, like, by applicants, or if it's a choice of the town board team that interviewed that day, as well as the community preservation fund advisory board, if that helps.

I just wasn't, I wasn't able to be. for the interview process, that's all. So I did abstain.

Okay. Oh, I thought it got pulled. Yeah, it got pulled. Yeah, the resolution got pulled that day. So I just wasn't sure if we were going to run into a gridlock for today.

No, it was also me, too, because I missed that interview. But I have gone back and looked at the applicant's Resume history and I'm okay. I'm okay to move forward.

Okay. Okay. There's no further discussion all in favor. Aye. Aye. Abstentions?

Abstentions.

Motion carried. Thank you. Skipping over the Jonathan.

Whereas Misha Jenkins, on behalf of Gray Mallon, 76 Springy Banks Road, East Hampton, New York, 11937 has requested a filming permit for June 8th, 2026 for permission to have a photo shoot on Crescent Beach. And whereas the filming cruise consists of eight persons and two personal cars, and whereas that application has been reviewed by the Police Department, Highway Department, Town Board, now therefore be it resolved But the town clerk is hereby authorized and directed to issue the aforementioned filming permit upon receipt of the following fees. Minor filming fee application, $500. Rush fee, $1,000. Daily minor filming fee, $1,000. And refundable cleanup deposit of $1,000. So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Motion carried.

Where is Mary Ellen on behalf of the shelter island and Ron has requested permission place signage to promote advertising for their 2026 self filing 10 K and 5 K run slash walk that will take place on June 20th, 2026. And whereas the town board discussed the request at the June 2nd, 2026 work session now, therefore, be it resolved that the. Here's all that the town board hereby approve sub request with the conditions that all signs be placed in a manner that does not obstruct line of sight for motorists or create any roadway safety hazard and that all signs be removed within 24 hours after the event. So moved.

Thank you.

All in favor? Aye. Motion carried.

Whereas the Shelter Island History Museum has requested permission to place a banner over 114 across the street and in front of the Presbyterian church to advertise their red, white and blue 250th gala that will take place on July 18th, 2026. And whereas the town board police department and highway superintendent. have reviewed the said request now therefore be a result of the town board hereby approved said banner request with the condition that it be removed within 24 hours after the event so move second all in favor aye aye motion carried um i'll make a motion to close the special meeting and go back into the work session second all in favor aye aye

And now we'll make a motion to go into executive section to the subcontract negotiations and the employment history of an employee.

Second.

All in favor? Aye. Motion carried. Thank you everyone.