Town Board - Regular Meeting

Yeah, but I'm not Ben. I don't know what that is. Are you not Ben? Well, I am Ben.

I need more coffee. Coco, ask them to rename themselves.

People ready? Coco, ready? Yeah. Okay, great.

And we will open the work on board work session for July 7th. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. Thank you everybody for coming. We're going to rejigger the agenda just a little bit. The fireworks is number 2 on the agenda. We're going to move that down to closer to 10 o'clock. We're just still working out a couple of things there. Oh, hell yes. Yeah. Right. Do you want to stick with 10 or should we do it now?

You can stick with whatever you just, I mean, did you see we got the new.

Yes, she's checking with, I think, Brett to just a couple of questions, but. Okay, let's see, is he on yet? He is on. Okay, good. All right. Well, 1st, we'll start with public comments. If there's any comments that anyone has that are not subject to a public hearing. Audience is here for something anyone on zoom. Okay, chief, let me just call on you if we can. Are you ready to share your screen? sure and and i'm going to work if they give me permissions to share i'll go off of kelly's in the room correct yeah yes yes exactly okay so um i'll go ahead and go to that agenda item then i'll go if you could allow chief so um the fireworks is on the agenda this morning we have a special meeting um for a couple of items and the reason for the change is the where the barge for the fire um works it's supposed to be um we have an issue with hiking clover nest or at least we did last week and so just to play it safe and make sure that we're covered insurance-wise we um have a couple of alternate locations and kelly sararis is here so i'll turn it over to you to just go into a little bit so um just your name for the record yeah oh thank you um wonderful southberry

um so based on the initial report that we had um clovers in the area um we worked with the dec and ruchi to um go with their first recommendation which was to be three quarters of a mile away from the fledgling nest And then yesterday we were able to have further conversation with the local monitor and we tried to drill down on where that 1500 feet slash 3 quarters of a mile comes from. And it is, in fact, an arbitrary. Distance, so we spoke with the local monitor, who is our resident expert from South holds and she actually advises the DC on. the nest. So she actually said that they usually do, they will reduce it down to a half a mile. So just in an effort to get everything approved with this time constraint, we were able to plot out and Gucci helped us with that newer just half mile designation from the nest. So Just last night we were able to end the slash this morning. We were able to put so we just with this addendum we added in a third location in the event that the nest is still there. Unfortunately, we've had such bad weather since they found the nest last week. So Jen Murray, who is the local monitor, is going there this afternoon herself to go see if the one Silver is still there. The baby is still there. So we will have an actual update from her own eyes this afternoon. And they are going to actually use it as a research opportunity and send volunteers out there the night with fireworks. So we're all going to kind of work together to keep it safe for the wildlife there and our viewers so that everyone can stay where they are and still enjoy a good field.

So Kelly, let's just go back a step right for the town board so we can bring them up to speed because I've had some conversations with you and trying to do the planning side. So I'm going to try to put up the initial barge location that we had. Let me just go to the... It's probably easier for me to go to the packet. So if we go to the packet, we can talk about the initial barge location. I'm just bringing it up on my screen now. And let me share that. Okay. So, so the board, the board sees the initial site right so if Kelly and tell me if tell me if i'm wrong if if the birds are gone and there's no issues we're going to use this as our primary site yeah so this is our traditional location. Okay. So now the next site that I had up before was the one that was just sent to me by Brett. Do you want to look at that site next or do you want to go to another site?

Whatever is easiest for you to pull up is fine. I'd say go to the second site.

Okay. This, Amber?

That's the third site.

Okay. Yeah. So just give me a second. I just have to pull up another site. OK, can you can you see this slide?

Yes. Yeah, so there's two circles here, the one to the right, for lack of a better is completely outside of that white circle that we're seeing the corner of there delineates the three quarters of a mile. They were okay with a little bit of intrusion on it, so they were okay with either spot in an effort to be completely compliant. We would be going with the one that's completely outside of that. And that spot, after just doing a lot of research and going out and then standing at all points on the beach was the most unobstructed view from. Sunset beach, the and all of Crescent beach.

Yeah, and this said this, the nearest, the circle that has the barge location, the white line, that's the 3 quarter mile mark. So we do have that in the resolution just in case the doesn't allow us to go. you know, less than three quarters of a mile.

So when she found it out, we were like, why are we in the inside of this three quarters of a mile? And they were like, we think it's okay if we're on the line. I was like, but if it's that we have to be outside of the line, we have to be outside of the line. So.

So then, Chief, you can go to the third one. Okay. So that location brings us much closer to the beach and that's within the half mile.

Yeah. So this is much closer to our traditional location and this satisfies what the local monitor believes is a safe distance and what they've generally done in the past when asked to reconsider is the half mile distance much closer and much closer to our beach, much closer to our viewers, and much closer to our traditional location. And so I have a call pending tomorrow morning with Jen Murray, who's our local monitor, the DEC, and they've asked that I add fish and wildlife to it. And she is the 1 again, she is the 1 that informs them and ideally we would just be asking for an addendum to our permit that changes the location that changes the designation from 1500 feet to half a mile.

So, because we won't know until after today's meeting, we don't have another meeting before the fireworks. We're going to amend our original resolution to include all 3 locations. So hopefully we end up back there. Original, and this is all or not, but just to play it safe. So that we're covered for insurance purposes and things like that.

Okay. So we have to specify exactly the location, the resolution. We can't just say the health or the. Dec approved location for the barge that way if there's variability and for some reason, there's a 4th location that comes up. We're approved no matter what can we keep it.

I was like, I'd love to keep it loose because, you know, because she was like, well, there's turns too. And I was like, well, I would love to keep everyone and all of your beings that you're working to save. I was like, so if you can do something because they're right next to the flovers, I'm so happy for you. But he's overstrung me for those.

Amber, just to chime in from an emergency management perspective and our normal team. So for us, we have a marine management plan for this and with our emergency service partners, and really we can move that plan regardless of location. So we're comfortable shifting our marine assets to any of the three locations working with this group. So the primary message to our community is that the viewing location is the same regardless of where the barge ends up because that's where we need our public and our community to go to view these fireworks. Actually, if it's in the one that I just most recently shared, the one that's within a half mile radius, that viewing location will be very good. So I don't see that being an issue at all. But from a public safety standpoint, we want everybody to go where they normally go. And we're going to make some adjustments on the barge location based on approvals from Fish and Wildlife and the DEC.

When it gets back to your point, I guess if we added language set or any slight modifications prescribed by the DPC.

Yeah, I mean, I would, I would actually make it so much shorter. I would just be that the approved fireworks launch bar shall be anchored at the location approved by Fish and Wildlife and then DEC. And just a little thought. Tom's going to do that.

Yeah, I don't. I mean, we've got three different, at least the resolution I have has three different possible locations. Yeah. Either leave that as it is and say, or any location.

Location approved by Fish and Wildlife Department of Environmental Conservation.

Yeah, that's probably what I would do.

Yeah. So we'll just do that. Great. That way, if there is something important, whatever, it's still good to go.

The turns come out and I have to move 5 feet to the left. All of a sudden, sea otters become a problem.

Who knows? Since this has been a moving target.

I will be chasing people down at 5 o'clock at night. Another latitude and longitude to plot somewhere, that would be wonderful. Exactly.

Since it's been a moving target for the past 24 hours. Good idea. And thank you all for your patience with this.

I was like, I'm now an expert on piping clovers. If anyone has any questions.

Good to know. Good to know.

Shelby, you got the language on that or Thomas? So when we get to the special meeting, we can.

Kelly, please keep me posted and I'll work with the board on that side.

Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. And lastly, we hope everyone will join us at salt on Friday as our final fundraiser to push us over. So we can actually important to shoot them off on Saturday. So, 6 PM, enjoy the realm. Thank you guys for all your help.

Thank you. Thank you. Are there any questions from the public before I move to the next one next agenda?

Okay, good.

Next we have, oh, this is the past an easy 1, the top grant application. We have applied for a New York state place grant. which is a 80-20 match. So the project cost is projected to be $455,000 roughly. So we have applied for the New York Plays grant, which we should hear back in August, but there's another grant from the Environmental Protection Fund That's a 50 50 grant that we brought our grant writer brought to our attention. So I wanted to have her work on that and do a resolution on the 20th. That we can apply for that grant just as a backup so that we've got the 1st grant. If it's, you know, if we get it great, then we're only looking for 20% match. This could be if we can get this 1 on top of it, the 50% could be the 20% that we need.

So you can combine them?

Yes. Yeah. Really? And then fundraising for if we don't get either one grant or the other. If we don't get either grant, then the project, there's a lot of fundraising that needs to be done. But I just wanted to bring it to the board's attention so that when it shows up on the agenda, I can first get on a working on the grant application as well as.

The amount of this new grant?

It would be for the 5th. Yeah, so we'd be applying for a grant of 227,000. And of course, if we don't need it, because we get the 8021, we'll only take 20%. I just wanted to let everybody know. Right, so any questions on that?

Sounds like a plan.

Okay. All right, next is Sylvester Manor outdoor assembly permit for the Creekside Concert.

We can just sit here and be quiet, right?

Promise, yeah, I don't if you vote abstain and don't discuss it at all. We'll speak by. Okay.

Yeah. So, so that's the manner has submitted an outdoor assembly permit for an event on. August 8, I was going to say, can it take us for 30 P. M. but now that I'm looking at this. And it's from 430 to 730. Okay, they're sort of getting disconnected. And the reason for this application is because they are requesting a noise exemption. It's otherwise self-contained on the property. And any questions from Meg or Oliver? I didn't either. Anyone in the public? Okay, let me put that on the agenda for July 20th. Okay, thank you.

When is the announcement? August 8th. August 8th.

Alright, the next outdoor assembly permit we have is from Sunset Beach, and they want to hold a World Cup viewing event on Crescent Beach across from the hotel and restaurant on Sunday, July 19th from 3 to 6 PM. And Manolo, since this is a new, not an annual event, if you could just speak to it a little bit, like what you're planning in terms of setup and managing the event. Good morning, everyone. Just say your name for the record. Manolo Sons.

Thank you. Well, basically, it's just an idea of showing your work up. This is an event. Historically, Sunset Beach used to host a soccer tournament where we were raising funds for the local youth soccer. And in a way, in that spirit, we just want to show the final on Saturday the 19th. The intention is for us to show it on a screen that would more or less be in the area where we currently have the beach volleyball net. And it's a non-ticketed event, a just monitored event where beat-scorers, fanatics of supporters, whoever it wants, are more than welcome to stop by. If it should turn out to be a rainy day, then we'll not do it. But it's just to give everyone the ability to follow the game if it has any interest.

And actually they have i've gotten a couple of calls or emails from people saying the town should do some sort of viewing event, so you you're providing them. The department is busy with the summer kid programs.

Any questions from the board.

I know that Highway Superintendent weighed in and just asked that the beach be cleaned up of any garbage on the day of and put into proper receptacles. So that was his one observation. Chief, I'm just looking to see.

It's like the Skyrush team cleaned up Boston.

Yes, if only Japan had made it to the final, we wouldn't have any cleanup to do. Yeah. But yeah, I will ensure that

The only thing that Chief, well, Chief had a few things, but most of them were just managing the traffic and congestion to make sure that emergency vehicles can always get through, to make sure that people are parking responsibly and correctly.

If people are parking at the beach, they need proper parking sticker permits.

And to that, I've committed to also having a full valet team. That means that everyone who's parking on our property

It was no alcoholic beverages sold on the beach.

Yes. Did we miss anything cheap.

No, and I had gone down there for a site visit with Manolo and looking at his plan, and I reiterated that last comment regarding alcohol. The liquor license is on premise, and we don't prohibit people from bringing alcohol to the beach as long as it's not in glass, but they can't sell alcohol and bring it to the beach unless they get a special license.

No, that's not our intention.

I did see Stella turn her video on, but I don't see her on anymore. She had a question.

But is there any questions from either the board or the public?

Oh, here comes Kat.

I have the site map up, Amber, if you want to look at it.

Yeah, that would be good.

Thank you. Yeah, let me share. So Manolo, this is the volleyball net. Can you see my cursor?

Yes.

Yep. And then the viewing would be here. So there's no obstruction to the traffic flow. Parking in here in an unnormal parking spot. So I don't see it being an issue at all as long as public has access to their regular spots.

Okay. If there's no Questions from anybody? We are going to have a special meeting after the work session so that we can prove this just because this is happening the day before our next board meeting. So we need to do it today so that you have the opportunity to do this.

Thank you.

And the last of the outdoor assembly permits on the agenda today is the Showtime Alliance Foundation. They have a Rocking the Rock event. at Gardener's Bay Country Club on July 25th. And the reason this application is before us is because they are looking for a noise exemption since the Lions Foundation is not eligible. So Mary, I see you're in the office, in the audience. Did you want to say anything about it or just field questions?

Just quickly.

Um, this is a for profit event, all proceeds will be going to shelter on specifically no money raised will be going anywhere else. Um, and we just asked for the North North, so it'll be going a little bit later. Any questions from the board.

I'm going to stay out of this only because I played a minor role in organizing it, and the Shelter on the Yacht Club is a supporting organization. So I'm out. OK.

I don't have a problem with it. I think it sounds like fun.

Anyone from the audience or Zoom audience? Okay, we'll put that on for approval at the July 20th meeting. Sounds like it's not.

Thank you.

Next item on the agenda is Suffolk County Water Authority, West Neck Water District, the operating agreement. That agreement for past due accounts.

Yes. Yes. Um. So, yeah, I've been in discussion with the water authority about. Who has the authority to. You know, deal with past due accounts for whatever reason as drafted. The water authority contains, you know, retains that ability. The way they typically do it with a managed district is that the district is the one or the town is the one that has that. You know, capability of dealing with past due accounts, turning off the water. So they're open to amending our agreement with. uh, our operating agreement with the water authority to, to give that ability back to the town. Um, and so, I mean, I've had a short discussion with them. Um, so I think, you know, if you give me the, uh, the, you know, confirmation, you want to move forward with it, then I'll, you know, we'll circulate it to the board and everything, but yeah.

Any questions from the board? No, not until we get the exact.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah.

Any questions from the public. The room is empty, so it's only on zoom.

Okay, moving right along.

Next on the agenda is. a potential memorandum of understanding for clear medical practice. And while it's a memorandum of understanding that needs to be negotiated, and that would happen in an executive session, we thought it would be a good idea to just let the public know that we haven't turned a blind eye to the fact that we still don't have a pharmacy on the island. And so there is a group that has been working on trying to, so Meg and Liz have been working on this.

So what this is about is, essentially, when the pharmacy shut down, I don't remember how long ago, because it feels like a millennial time ago, at this point. Yeah, that is, I think it's been working on it for so long, it feels like it's been forever. So when that first happened, a group of people got together to start to figure out and brainstorm some solutions. And when that group out together and we started looking into the costs, the complications, the permitting, everything else associated with starting a pharmacy. It also came to our attention that there are deficits in other aspects of our healthcare, like a shortage of doctors at the medical center and things like that. So we started to come up with the idea that we might be able to solve multiple problems At 1 time, and so we started working with. Someone who has 20 years of experience in health care administration and. They're looking to actually start a new practice that could help fill some of the gaps that we currently have something that would do more home care. That would work with Medicare and Medicaid, and it would really kind of cater more to the shelter island population. So, the idea is that we'd start by adding in more health care needs why we can build up to the pharmacy. The pharmacy itself is about a year long process of permitting and licensing and. takes a lot of money to get up and running, and in order to even start the process, you need a location and a pharmacist on staff already. So it's a big lift. So we're hoping that we can start by bringing some other medical services to the island and sort of back into a pharmacy. And so the MOU is really just a It's a non-binding with zero financial requirements. It's really just saying that we want to work in good faith with groups who want to bring additional services to the island. So that's kind of where it's, that's where it is now, because in order to actually go and file all the permitting applications for federal and state entities, we also kind of need some understanding that the communities want the medical services in their area. So this is sort of just the next step to actually beginning the process of getting licensed and starting a practice and being able to even Think about bringing services in, so there's still so many steps to go, but this is like, the 1st step in opening the door and saying, we're going to welcome the opportunity for additional services to the island. And hopefully we can build it into something that's more comprehensive. You know, at some point in the future, we're also going to try to work with a not for profit to kind of. like really build a stronger framework, but this is the first step is just seeing if we can get licensed and permitted. So that's where we're at now. And so the MOU is just saying that the town is a willing partner in welcoming new practices to the island to help fill the gaps that we currently have. And like I said, it's non-binding and it's not financially obligating us to anything. There's zero cost to the town, just, you know, people who are investing and putting money into trying to organize this and get it going want to know that we actually want them here. So that's really what this is about. But it's that next step in trying to move things forward.

And it's a lot. It's complicated. And I think like that, you know, I'm kind of just like circling back to where we started with this whole thing with the pharmacy is like one of the big financial challenges is basically it's almost impossible to make the At pharmacy cash flow right like the math just doesn't work, and so you have to kind of think of something that's a companion. service or business to kind of help offset that and so obviously with the pharmacy that we had they had like a retail operation, and you know the lunch counter and stuff like that that was offsetting it. So when we started to look at this, we were like, OK, well, we have to have something that's a companion. We thought through so many different things like, oh, would this potential pharmacy also do retail? What could we, you know, all these different things. And then we thought, oh, actually, maybe that companion, right, that companion business actually could solve other health care problems. and it just made more sense for them to be more related um than doing something that like i said was like potentially like a retail operation um so i think it could like couldn't solve multiple multiple things but like i think that's just like important to say i'm just like well how did we get to like this from a pharmacy but really we need just like the financial modeling like this is something that could potentially, like I said, cashflow that could support later on a pharmacy, but it's like a little chicken or egg. So best to start with this is kind of where we eventually landed because the initial, like, first of all, there's like the regulatory hurdles and just like the logistics, but they like the cash needed to just start from a full stop for a pharmacy is like, approximately three quarters of a million dollars. Yeah. So, yeah. And so, you know, like, you know, and the, this partner that we're, we're, you know, considering, you know, working with, obviously it was, you know, willing to like raise capital and get investors, but the threshold to just start, that was just like, we kept going through, it was just like too high, too high, too high. So it's like, okay, let's build some of the infrastructure. and then expand from there. And the regulatory process is just breathtaking, so.

can start a new practice faster than you can start a new pharmacy. So we're like, okay, if we can put this piece in place and sort of try to get it rolling, then we can build out the pharmacy as part of the overall vision. It's just going to take a little time and it's complicated. So we appreciate everyone's patience, but we are working on it and it's not something we've left dead in the water.

So for the town board, we'll pick up looking at the MOU in executive section, but just wanted to let the public know what was going on. So any comments from the public? Okay, we are just flying through the agenda, which is good because we have a 1030 and 11 o'clock interviews today. Next on the agenda was just I wanted to give everybody an update on the comprehensive plan. I have known that the entire town board and have to finish synthesizing the comments into the draft that I'm working on. And this draft is getting well worn and I've got paper clips all over the place where there's edits that need to be made. So the plan is I should say the high water piece is to get all of that synthesized in the next couple of days and get it back to our InDesign subcontractor who will make these edits. I will then get this back out. I'm going to make a copy of what I took to her. to all of you and have it posted on the website. So it's like InDesign doesn't have a red line version. So this will be the red line version. So hopefully people can read my handwriting, but at least we'll post it on the website. So it's faster and easier for the next steps for people to review to say, okay, what changed in this draft? You can look at this and then see what was changed and look at the cleaned up version that we will get back. Um, just to make sure that the board before we move forward with this to setting a public hearing in the future, I'll put it on the agenda for work session. So we can go through and be like, wait, you change this or like, I like, why did why is this in here? Who whose idea was it to take out this wording or add this section? So we'll review it. I'll try and have like a. a hit list of things that I feel like may need discussion, but I'll also rely on all of you once you have the red line and the cleaned up version to tell me what you want to discuss in work session. And then, so that's like trying to get it so we can get this turned around in a clean draft by the end of July. I know Thomas, you were working on drafting an RFP for the secret review.

Yeah, right.

So hopefully we'll get that finished up maybe by the end of this week so that we can issue the RFP with a submission deadline of August 14th. Because I was hoping at the August 10th town board meeting, we will set the public hearing for reviewing comprehensive plan. For a September 21st, which is a normal Monday night meeting and then again October 10th, which is a Saturday in Columbus day weekend for another public hearing so that we can capture as many people in a couple of sessions. We'll see at that point, whether or not at the October 10th, if we've gotten everyone's comments, or if we need more time, but we'll make that determination. in October as to whether or not two public hearings is sufficient or if we need more. But we will, by the end of August, award the secret secret consultant, you know, pick them so that they will be present for the September 21st and October 10th public hearings because they need to be a participant or a listener, an observer in that so that they can capture everything. Then let's see if there's anything else. So that's kind of the rough timeline always subject to change because earlier in the year I thought we'd be. like having public hearings in the summer um but just getting getting everyone to read through the comments and like i like as you can see from my paper clips like those are all at least one comment per page so and it's lots of nits in that so and just making sure things cross reference correctly so it's just taken longer so but we have a plan and we don't have a timeline we can't adhere to a timeline so at least I've got, this is the current timeline, so hopefully it continues out in this fashion. I really would like to try and do that. So I've been prioritizing the comp plan and ignoring other things coming down the pike, unless it's like the fireworks has a piping plover problem, in which case I didn't work on the comp plan at all yesterday. So, yeah, I may actually, if you could cover CAC tonight, and maybe tomorrow is Taylor's Island. I got, I gotcha. Yeah. Just so that way, if I can take off. Yeah, tell me, you know, committee liaison stuff just so I can get this done.

Any questions. I'm excited to have tentative dates. Yeah, that's awesome. Anyone from the public with questions about the timeline.

The 1 thing I would mention about the public hearings is this room is the best room for having public hearings because if we move to the school, we can't make it a hybrid meeting. It can only be if you come in person or observe if we are able to project out. A YouTube or a zoom link, but there's not, we don't have a good set up the same with the community center. We can't do a hybrid. So we're going to. Suggest when we come to the public hearings that as many people as possible attend via zoom and we'll set up a mechanism ahead of time to, you know, like, if you wish to speak to sign up for that, so that we can make sure we get everyone covered and call on people. So technically challenged. Then, yes, come in person, but if you can manage to attend virtually, that's going to be the preference just so we can accommodate. When you think back to the 1st, the last public hearing that we had in the community center, we had 120 people. I think we can accommodate that here. The, what does it say?

Yeah, 80 and that's pushing it. That's tight. Yeah. That's like, standing remotely.

So, anyways, that's that's that and that was the last agenda item. So. I'm bored on reports. I can kick off with water quality improvement advisory board. We're looking, there was 1 application that just needs to be looked at. little bit closer to see whether or not they qualify because of construction and having Suffolk County Department of Health waiting to upgrade. They have to upgrade their septic before they can continue and so it's a mandatory upgrade. We don't allow for a town grant. The Peconic Bay Regional Advisory Committee did not meet last month. We are meeting this month. I can't remember the exact date, but we're hoping to adopt the rules of operation so that we can start taking in questions from the area sometimes especially sometimes so exactly so i'll keep you posted on that um yeah and then we had one um one resident in one westmoreland area taught them asking about saltwater intrusion so they have been the building department's going to reach out to them to go over that so um

I just had Amber Ming and I went on a hardhat tour of the library last week. So exciting. So exciting. It looks like it's going to be ready to fall. I am so excited for the community. And I was just even thinking as you were talking about the comp plan, like in some future life or if they get it ready, the media room, I forget what they're calling it, is going to be the perfect space to have events like that. So the children's section is amazing. Anyway, it's just the other thing that I just wanted to say that I loved as we were touring it was Terry, the director, was talking about just like how multipurpose a lot of the spaces were and something that really stuck with me. And she said, well, you know, how we really thought of it is that it has to last another 60 years. So who knows what, you know, in 30 years they'll need this room for. And I was like, great. Like, that's exactly what we're looking for. So, anyway, just really excited for that. I can't wait to see the, the open date. The other thing is, is I just, the parade on the 4th of July was amazing and I just wanted to do really a public thank you to the whole committee. So, Linda Springer, PD, Fire Department, EMS, Highway, and then just Chamber of Commerce, the Legion, and just like all the individuals who put together like so fun with all those floats. Thank you for everybody for coming out.

The next day also had the Voices of Valor. There were probably 170 people in attendance for that, Benjamin and I. We're in it. It's interesting. Yes, but another nice, really nice thing.

This is such a great community weekend. I feel like I saw the whole town by the end of the weekend. So it was just, anyway, it was just great.

It was very active. I mean, for the July 4th barbecue at the Yacht Club, we had 300 people. Everybody was out.

Right. Everybody seemed to love the parade. I had a lot of people asking if we were going to do it again. And in that moment, I was like, I don't know. Years from now. but i think that um the community appreciated having something that was just genuinely fun and yeah oriented and just like a it was just a fun experience i think everybody had a great time people got very creative with the floats and how about the ferry in the north yeah yeah yeah and the library yeah oh yeah yeah i mean there was just some great ones it was just a lot of fun and it was nice to have just a fun event for the whole community yeah you know the world day parade is beautiful but it's more somber you know we you know we don't have too many super fun events and i think this was just a great one yeah so just i mean just thank you to everybody who worked to put it together

And then the last thing I have is I do I always have signs up for I do office hours a couple times a month and so starting this so I just am here at town hall and if any resident wants to come and talk to me about anything you're welcome to come in for reservation. i'm starting to do them in the summer so i will be here this saturday from 11 to 1. i will also i used to do one in the morning so i will be here thursday morning of the 23rd it's a thursday from 10 to noon and wednesday at the 29th in the evening from five to seven so if you got something on your mind don't stop me at the iga but come and visit me so that's all i got

I actually don't have a ton of meetings, but the one thing I did want to remind everybody is that we are still in a severe drought despite the rain. I know people feel like, oh, it rained, we're good, but we're not. It's still a high drawdown season, which means that the plants are demanding a lot of water. And there are more people on the island using water, which means that the level of the aquifer will continue to drop as people use it. And as we still continue to get less rainfall than average. So there are some areas of the island that are going to be far more susceptible to salt water intrusion like Westmoreland, for example. Very sensitive area. I would highly recommend not irrigating if you have a well that you're irrigating with. Montclair, Silver Beach, all the typical places that struggle with saltwater intrusion will be far more susceptible right now. That includes Big and Little Ram and places that are waterfront properties should all be very conscientious about watering and irrigating, especially if it's well-drawn irrigation. That's where you will cause a problem. So that's just my PSA for the day.

That includes, you know, when the weather gets as hot as it has been, there's a lot of pool evaporation and topping up your pool is a difficult thing to do.

So be smart and responsible with your water. um there's also uh on thursday night at the presbyterian church there is a forum on invasive plants and how to control them and how to recognize them in your garden and your yard so that's a fun educational experience it also will go into how to create native planting gardens and things like that so you can have environmentally friendly gardens that don't require so much irrigation and watering or fertilizer and pesticides. So that is Thursday, July 9th at 530 at the Presbyterian Church. So highly recommend people check it out. It was a lot of fun last year. They did something similar. Anything else? Just fireworks on Saturday and the fireworks fundraiser on Friday. And I think that's everything.

Yeah, I was going to say, I was going to say, we've got tonight at 7 tomorrow at 9 community housing board on Thursday at 7. P. M. helping wellness at 130 on Friday. Music of Wade speech on Wednesday. Oh, yes.

Yes. Yes.

Although it has cooled it down. So I was like, exactly. Yeah.

Okay. Cool. Then we will adjourn the work session and go into a special meeting for three resolutions. Okay.

I think the wording down for fireworks, which is great because she's going to read it.

Or you can get it from Shelby.

Whereas Manila Sorensen on behalf of Sunset Beach Hotel 35 Shore Road has submitted an outdoor application requesting permission to set up an elevated projection screen on Crescent Beach in front of Sunset Beach Hotel to broadcast the final match of the World Cup on Sunday, July 19th from 3 to 6 p.m., and whereas this will be a free event for all who attend and the event parking will be at the Sunset Beach Hotel parking lot, and whereas the said application has been reviewed by the police department, highway department, and town board with recommendations that emergency vehicle access be maintained, parking and event activities be managed to avoid congestion and any safety hazards, no alcoholic beverages will be sold or served on crescent crescent beach and that the beach will be cleaned following the event now therefore be it resolved that the town board does hereby approve the outdoor assembly application submitted by manlo soren sorenson on behalf of sunset beach hotel so a subject to the aforementioned recommendation so moved second all in favor aye motion carried

Whereas the town board adopted resolution number 2026 dash 325 approving an outdoor assembly application submitted by Shelter Island Fireworks Inc. for a fireworks display at Crescent Beach by fireworks by Grouchy Inc. And whereas resolution of the 2026 dash 325 states of fireworks will be launched from a barge anchored approximately 800 feet from the low tide mark. it does not specify the approved geographical coordinates of the barge location and whereas in order to clarify the approved launch location and to provide for an alternate location should it be required by the new york state department of environmental conservation due to piping clover nesting and or applicable wildlife protection requirements the town board wishes to amend resolution number 2026-325 now therefore be resolved that resolution number 2026-325 is hereby amended to provide that approved fireworks launch barge shall be anchored at the following coordinates 31 degrees or be 27 inches North and 27 degrees 22 feet 13.50 degrees West and be a further resolve that New York state determines that the presence of nesting piping clovers or other applicable wildlife protections. protection requirements prohibit the use of the approved launch location. The fireworks launch barge is authorized to be relocated to the following alternate coordinates in compliance with all applicable New York State DEC requirements and conditions. 41 degrees, 4105.080 North and 7221907 West or 410443 North and 72221 586 West or any other alternate location approved by the DEC and Fish and Wildlife. And be it further resolved that all other provisions, approvals, terms and conditions contained in resolution number 2026-325 shall remain unchanged under full force and effect. So moved.

2nd, all in favor motion carried. Results of the supervisors hereby authorized to sign the statement of work between John of empire nexus systems and the town shelter for workflow automation and readiness assessment. So. 2nd, all in favor motion carried motion to close a special meeting. and go into executive session for interviews, contract negotiations. Yeah, that's it. Second. All in favor?

Aye.