Town Board - Regular Meeting

Start off with public comments. Ken was requested to speak first today. So, Ken? You are muted.

Hi, everybody. Good morning. I just wanted to make a quick, just a quick sort of recycling center announcement update because some people have been asking about our wet garbage area where the compactor is. I think people have noticed. We've had some we've had 40 yard open top containers down there and we've had another delivery system that people have been dumping their garbage, wet garbage into containers for us to transfer to these larger containers because our compactor has been down. Just wanted you to know that we met with Mattock Environmental, who is the contractor for our MSW. They're responsible for the compactor and they're in the process of purchasing a new compactor that will be installed hopefully within the next two weeks. So they're just trying to finalize some of it. So I, Appreciate the patience of the public. I know it's been a little bit of a different system down there than people are used to. But people, for the most part, I think have been very understanding. But I just want to give you all an update. That's you know, that compactor is not that comes with the contract and that compactor itself is about close to 50 years old. It changes hands with each new contractor that wins the MSW bid, and they take ownership and responsibility for maintaining it or replacing it if need be. In this case, it's gonna need to be replaced. So that's where we're at. I just wanted to update the board on it and just let the public know, whoever's listening, that that's what's happening. Will we get a new compactor or a refurbished one? I think we're going to get a new compactor, but that's up to them. It's their compactor. Thank you.

Any other questions? OK. Thank you, Ken.

Thank you.

Other public who would like to speak today?

Walter Richard, 17 Osprey Road. I'm here on the next topic, which is irrigation. Um, and a little bit, I guess I attended the water advisory committee yesterday meeting yesterday as you 1st, I can get to irrigation.

You can speak during that. Oh, no, you can't actually.

I'm sorry. It is legislation.

So. Just generally not specific to the legislation, because we will have a public hearing on the irrigation legislation after the board.

Okay, I'll try to be as general as I can. I'm curious as to why we're going down the road of irrigation again. Has there been numerous complaints? Have we had some water crisis that I'm not aware of or that we're not aware of? It seems like the code has worked fine for the past 20 years, and I'm not sure why we're going down it again. When I look at what you're laying out in this law without being specific, people that are trying to plant, install landscapes and have plant material using the most efficient form of irrigation, which is drip. And I feel like it's also targeting the down from 120, 90 systems that are left met all the requirements for the past 15, 20 years since they've been grandfathered, depending on what date you want to pick for that. And I feel like it's very difficult for us to even follow some of the regulations that are out now. Right now, there's a job site on Shell Brown that has had the sprinklers going every single day, including in the rain, that I know all of us have driven past. Nothing has happened. There was a sprinkler on the anchor statue out here during the day, during our moratorium that we had. The golf course, Go Hills, has irrigation that's running during rainfall, but we have a rain sensor on that. so i'm not trying to complain i'm not trying to be a jerk i'm just saying i think that the overall code is working and we could look at it and make adjustments but what is the real intent of it if the real intent of it is to stop it maybe we should just say we're going to stop it and see what the public comes back with i also talked to ken this morning uh about the because i feel like i said last time i was in here i said that the uh putting water back in the ground i felt was important If we're taking water out, we're focusing on that, but we're not putting it back in. And Ken did say that he's got the vac truck running and he is going to try to, you know, take silt out of the drains and get more water to go back in. So I think there's a lot of steps that we can take in the meantime before we totally revamp the code to something that is going to hurt local businesses. And I would appreciate it if you just took those comments and

Live in Lucas Woods Drive. Yesterday, 5.5 million gallons went overboard in our natural groundwater displacement into the elsewhere. So a lot of water we use every day. It's slowly, but it's going out 5 million gallons. And we're talking about drip irrigation. Drip is about as efficient as it can be. 90% of the water gets recharged back into the plant. We only lose about 10% of the water through drip irrigation. So again, Walter talked about complaints. I haven't really been able to see where the complaints are regarding where drip irrigation is occurring on the island. It would be nice to hear specifically the addresses where these are occurring and where all the drip irrigation violations actually are that we're trying to remove. On our committee, do we have, do we have any hydrologist and do we have any horticulturists that are on the committee that are giving guidance for this legislative change that we're making? I know we've came in and spoke a little bit. But I feel like we're the guys that are in the trade aren't involved. I just don't feel like we've. You know, I know we come to, we have to come to the meetings, but there's, I don't feel like there's enough. Interaction or there's not enough scientific people on the committee to help give proper information. And when we talk about cycle times and up-coning of salt, which is really our biggest problem, the up-coning of salt into people's wells happens with duration of pull and how fast we pull it. The faster you pull it and the longer you pull it, the higher the cone of salt comes into your well. So if we talk about cycle times, and now all the irrigation systems that I'm aware of pretty much can have a rest period. So you could pull for four or five minutes, shut it off for 20 minutes. You don't have that upconing of salt. But I don't see anything, any real discussion in there. You could run 10 zones back to back with drip, and you could have a problem. So there's no real discussion on what cycle times and how we could rest and protect the aquifer. It's no different than really washing your dishes at home, around the same, five, 10 minutes, you shut off and wait.

It's the same thing.

And when we talk about removing systems after a three-year period, there's a substantial cost for a professionally installed, like Joel installed in the near-shore overlay. Are we talking about removing the entire system? Are we talking about removing the controller, all the piping? Are we talking about just removing the drip emitters themselves? So there's a substantial cost for a homeowner, maybe 10 grand for a three-year period, and we're just going to remove it. So there needs to be some clarity on how that's going to work on the near shore. I would suggest that we exclude the contractors somewhat in the permit process going through making more of a homeowner. They're the ones who are affected mainly by this. Contractors are going to change constantly. And they're always in the flux. And the last thing is I talked to the guy from Netafim. I think I mentioned to Meg. Netafim is probably one of the biggest dealers of drip irrigation. And they're willing to come out and give a class on all the practical uses of drip and what the most efficient uses are. And they're promoting short durations and run times. for the drip irrigation. You really can't get into trouble if you have short duration runs. You just can't pull enough volume of salt back up. And these are the things that you're kind of doing in some of the near shore areas where you're requiring, I've heard now, some bigger water storage tanks and smaller pump trucks. So these are all things that you can help the homeowner protect themselves from themselves without really a lot of legislation. That's it. Thanks.

and other public comments today i'm familiar with it uh i'm here just take your name from the record please be caught at 33 saint mary's road i'm here representing 79 people who signed a petition concerned about the traffic on saint mary's road and basically what it's about is the safety of the children that live on saint mary's road Ginny Drive and Mark Street is one of the largest areas where children live. And it's been going on for years. This is my third rodeo. I did it in 2006, 2016, and in 2026. We have people who are actually come forward to me now and would like to buy blinking signs, which are online at Amazon starting at $350. so they're willing to purchase more signs. As the petition says, there's four different things on it that people have come to me with the idea of lowering the speed limit, making it safer, some things I did not put in it because they were very interesting. But what you need to know is that St. Mary's Road is listed online as a cutoff between North and South Ferry on one app called Waze, W-A-Z, and the other is Apple Maps. It was also on Google and two other sites before, which people wrote in and tried to get it off. We literally have a rush hour in the morning from the traffic. And our concern is the kids. We know how to handle the situation of cross island traffic and not have a problem with kids on bikes, people walking dogs. That's why I'm here and we have 79 signatures today and we have at least 10 more. Well, I haven't been able to catch up. Who want to sign and do something to help? That's like, the gist of it. Thank you. Thank you.

I'll distribute that and. I know PD, I think is currently, I understand some.

There's some action in the last two weeks, absolutely. And people have evidently on their phones the capability of telling when there's a police officer around with radar. It's very interesting. And I was in several people's houses in the last two weeks. And it was kind of frightening because there's children who are crossing St. Mary's Road. And where we live, right in the top of the hill, directly across from St. Mary's Church, You can't see over the hill. Some of the signatures came from people who go to meetings at St. Mary's Church. I won't list their meetings because it's private, but they are afraid to come out of the driveway. The church is one of the people who has offered to buy a blinking sign. So it's about safety. And if you have any questions for me, I'm happy to answer them. Thank you. Thank you.

Any other public comments before we move on to the next topic? Anyone on Zoom? OK. Irrigation legislation.

All right.

I'll do this. I'm going to ask them to say it, so the committee can start working on it.

Yeah. So with this irrigation legislation, it's been working in subcommittee back and forth, back and forth, and it's gotten to the point where it really just has to be a public dialogue. We have had multiple meetings with the landscapers and irrigation guides. We've had meetings with experts in irrigation who taught us how it works and how to use it effectively, what works, what doesn't work. And so at this point, it's really that we need the public and the board to make decisions and choose a path. There are a couple changes. If we look at, we'll go to the definitions first.

So we've always had

or we've had the salinity testing or fluoride testing for the grandfathered irrigation systems. And what we've been doing is testing sort of in the off season in the winter after there's been recharge and everything's kind of at its best really. And so we've added a definition of the fluoride test, which should be performed by a state certified lab. So it's not just a field sample. Then we've also added the definition of a maximum permissible chloride level, which we've always been using as 125, which is half of the potable limit. So the Department of Health says you can't drink water that is 250 milligrams per liter of chloride. It's unhealthy. So for irrigation, we've always said that if your irrigation water that you're pumping from a well is at 125, You have to shut down your irrigation because then you can risk your potable water. So we kept that limit the same. We just made it a definition. We removed the term moisture sensor. It was soil moisture sensor. But the problem with that that the landscapers pointed out is that it really depends on where you stick the moisture sensor, right? So if you stick it in a dry, sunny part of the yard, the irrigation is going to constantly go off. If you stick it in a shaded damp corner of the yard, then maybe it won't go off. So it's too fickle depending on where you place it. So we did remove that requirement from the code. And leaned more into rain sensors because that just seems more reasonable. We did put in the definition of a public water supply system. and we took out the definition of truck water because it just seems obvious that truck water is water coming in on the truck um then we changed so there's like updates to the turf irrigation permit process um and we separated turf irrigation from the drip irrigation so there's sort of two different topics in the code not too significant the biggest change that we have in here is that we added a new section breaking out the chloride testing for well-drawn irrigation systems in the near shore and ventrilar overlay zone. So lately we have been having issues in certain areas of the island with water quality. Specifically at the moment, Westmoreland is something that keeps coming up as having problems. We know that there are irrigation systems, they are permitted, everything you're doing is allowed, but they are having saltwater issues. So the purpose of adjusting the chloride testing to have the homeowner test in August or September, which is peak drawdown, which is when your water quality would be the worst in those areas, is to determine if that area is too sensitive to support the irrigation. So the idea is let's say you have a well-drawn turf sprinkler system and you've been irrigating and now it's August, September, you have to take your salinity test in order to get your permit for next year. You take your test and it comes out over 125 milligrams per liter. When you see that, the building department's gonna say, okay, you have to shut your system down for the rest of the season because you're risking your potable water. And then, depending on the year, we might have tons of rain. It might be a monsoon fall. And then you can retest in May when you would have to resubmit for your permit. And if your salinity test is good in May, then you have the opportunity to get that system again. But if you fail two summers in a row, or if you fail a September, August, and a May back to back, then you've demonstrated that your property can't support the irrigation system that you have. So it's a way of weeding out the systems that are actually problematic. So if you don't have any problems with it, then you can keep using your grandfathered irrigation as long as you can support it. But there are definitely some systems that are causing problems for themselves, but they're not recognizing it and for neighbors. So the whole point of, the change to the chloride testing is to kind of try to capture those properties and essentially force them to make a change that's in their best interest and the community's best interest around them. So definitely look that over, think it through, see if it makes sense. This is kind of what we came up with as a committee trying to solve the issue. It just seems like having the chloride testing done in March and April After we've had a nice, healthy recharge system, it doesn't make sense if you're in a sensitive area that really suffers seasonally. The porad testing, we're not really requiring for cistern systems because obviously they're not drawing from the aquifer. Let's see. We've eliminated the limit on rain capture. So if you go down to New Turk Irrigation Systems, There used to be a cap where you could only capture 10% of the rainwater coming off of impermeable cistern. We've eliminated that because if you design a cistern Correctly any overflow once that system is full any overflow should run into a dry well and recharge. So the thought is that you're never going to capture 100% of your yard it's just not reasonable, but. You can definitely handle capturing more than 10% without impacting recharge because so much runs off if you're capturing it at least it's not going overboard so. That's a thought, especially in the near shore overlay. If you're not capturing it, if it's not going into dry wells, it's going overboard. So it didn't make sense to limit how much rainwater you can capture. We did adjust the, well, the irrigation system operation times is still the same. It's just moved in the code, that's why it's blue. Drip irrigation, so there's definitely something here to consider in drip irrigation because what we did was we said it should only be used for non-turf irrigation to establish plantings. So, in the last version of the code, it did allow you to use drip irrigation or turf areas not exceeding 3000 square feet, but it didn't really make sense because not many people use drip irrigation to establish turf. It's usually used for plantings and trees and trubs and gardens and things like that. The thing that I think we really need to think about here is something that Jay and Walter were both bringing up and It's sort of the last 1 here in D. so in the near shore peninsula overlay district. We have that drip irrigation has to have a master valve, a time block, a rain sensor, and it's all connected to the house. So that water came back into the global water system.

That's just a building code requirement, which is why you've added it in.

that it should only be used for the establishment of plantings for a period of up to three years. And then we also have if drawing from the aquifer, it's subject to chloride testing and permanent bar provisions that are in the other section. And then at the end of three years, the drip system shall be removed and the permit closed unless the drip system is fed by a sister. So this is really the question. Is it necessary to force abandonment of the drip system after three years? if there's been no issues with chloride, if there's been, you know, if the plantings are healthy and, you know, is it necessary to have that done? And then the other question is, do we want to be forcing people to convert to systems? So these are all things to think about when we review this provision. This came because people we get complaints from the public that drip irrigation is kind of what they tend to see when they're walking around because everybody has it in their shrubs along the property line. And so people are always saying there's so much irrigation, but As we've learned in the subcommittee that drip irrigation is actually 1 of the more responsible methods of irrigation, because it's typically covered with mulch doesn't have as much evaporation and it's a slower draw from the aquifer. So, these are things that really have to come to the board in the public to sort out. So, these are things that we put in here because it's like, the most restrictive, but we need to know what the public thinks and we need to know what the board thinks. Um. Let's see, and then for exemptions, we have hand watering is still an exemption. We also included temporary above-ground cisterns in order to establish plantings in areas where you don't have well-drawn irrigation, you're not going to have an in-ground cistern. So this is to help re-establish plantings, to help develop a vegetative buffer in certain areas. And we did define that the setbacks for the temporary above-ground cistern match the setbacks of the zone with, you know, A, B, C, D zone it's located in. And then the other one that is still exempt is irrigation is allowed to establish new lawns or bare portions of lawns after planting and may occur between 9 and 5 p.m. to allow seed to germinate. So that's just one that in order to get seed started, you can't have it burning off in the middle of the day. So we do allow irrigation for that. And that's something that's been allowed in the past as well because it's short term. It's not like you're going to be establishing a new lawn for the next six months. See, those are really the big changes. But we need to look it over. Oh, the other thing we did is we prohibited. Irrigation from connecting to a public water system. So this was something that was requested sort of by the heights and by Western water district. That that we not allow people to use. turf sprinkler irrigation connected to the water systems because it's a burden on the system itself. As we know, you know, sometimes the systems have enough trouble getting enough water to the homes to begin with. And it also has the potential to cause more problems. So that was another big one that we did. Oh, and then the other thing is for the turf irrigation permits themselves. So when someone has in-ground piped irrigation with the sprinkler heads, the permit has always had to be signed off by an irrigation contractor. And so something that was in the code before the last iteration was that you had to have a Suffolk County restricted towers license to sign off on that in-ground irrigation. So that's kind of back in here. But that's only for the turf irrigation permits when you're renewing your application, just to have someone certify that, yes, we've looked at it It's not leaking, it's functioning, and we installed it for code. Those, I think, are the big highlights. So everybody needs to look it over and see what you think. And I'm really curious to hear what the public thinks and to move forward.

We're giving you a week to take a look at this and putting it on for next week. Would that work?

Yeah, that's fine. Then everyone has a red line and clean version. So you can. If everyone's easier for you to reach.

Okay, so you do that and then we can get our comments pulled together. Maybe at the August. I keep forgetting. And maybe we can set a public hearing so that then we can get the time. And again, just for the public, having it discussed at a public hearing, it allows everyone to hear everyone's comments at one point in time instead of work session to work session to work session trying to gather it from different places which then we take it back to the town board and based on the public hearing comments um it could get redrafted and re-noticed for a second public hearing so it's a it's an iterative process everyone will get a chance to speak enforcement remains an issue Yes, and actually, I was going to say the building department in most instances where people are not what people are not abiding by the rules of not watering within from it's currently 10 am to 4 PM. We're. Maybe changing that this afternoon or this morning. It should be reported to code enforcement in the building department. And if it's on a weekend, you know, we let the police know. So it could just be noted that there's an observation that, you know, sprinkling was happening. During that time period, that can then be turned over to code enforcement to pick up on Monday morning.

Yeah, call the non emergency number to report that. Yes. Yes, exactly.

Wanted to clarify. Yes. Yes, exactly. Okay, all right so we'll pick that up again next week. WAC recommendation restricting water use. We have Andrew Chapman here.

Hello? Thank you very much. And thank you for putting us on the calendar this morning. Andrew Chaplin, Chairman of the Water Advisory. This is an update on the current drought that we're experiencing. If you go to the first page, this will follow the basic logic. Second page, first page of content.

Does Kristine have a copy? Just to be .. Just did it this morning.

So yes, we had rain in July. And so you'll see on a cumulative basis that the difference between year-to-date rainfall at about 29.8 inches and roughly 30 in the normal year-to-date of about 40, we're still lagging about 10 inches year to date, despite the rains we had in July. But what's important with respect to the rains is how much in the summertime is how much gets down into the aquifer. So if you go to the next page, you can see it looks like this. You can see the levels of the Goat Hill Well, which is one of the larger, deeper monitoring wells in the aquifer. You can see the levels of the Goat Hill Well from early June until July 21. And you'll see in the lower right corner a bit of an uplift. And then it resumes its downward trajectory. That bit of an uplift is As a result of the three inches of rain, we had an early July, so that was quite a rain event that was almost a full month's worth of rain early in July and you'll see that it had very little effect on the overall. trajectory of the level of that well, and the reason is that we have all of this green vegetative cover around this time of year and it basically intercepts the water, the rain that comes down and then. It's called evapotranspiration. It all sucks it up into the plants and evaporates and instead of going down into the aquifer, it goes up into the air. So in the words of Dave Ruby, who tracks all this, we are not going to rainfall our way out of this drought. It really matters when we get the rain. If we get the rain in the shoulder seasons and in the wintertime when the ground isn't too frozen, Then it's going down into the aquifer. If we get the rain in the summertime, like in July, it gets intercepted by the vegetative cover and doesn't go down into the aquifer. And this graph proves it. So what does that mean? Turn the page. That the aquifer test wells remain at a seasonally adjusted 10-year low. So what this graph shows is we have four large monitoring wells that go deep into the aquifer, and we've tracked the level of those wells relative to mean sea level for the last 20 years, actually, but 10 years shown on this chart. And you'll see that relative to normal, and this is seasonally adjusted relative to normal, we're down underneath the 10th percentile relative to history. Now, it's important to understand this metric. This metric is not an absolute volume metric. This metric, it tells us what's going on relative to history. We actually don't know where the bottom of the aquifer is at any given point in time, and we don't really know the volume. But we do know from this metric that relative to history, we're running at 10-year seasonally adjusted low so we can't ignore this relative to history but it's also not reason to say the sky is falling it's just relative to history we're not in a good place so what does this mean this means that believe the wells in the near shore areas may see stress as the saltwater-freshwater interface moves towards the land. What goes on in this aquifer is that you have a fair amount of water in the center of the aquifer, and that water pushes out, that freshwater pushes out to the periphery all the time and then goes into the saltwater. That pushing, or that hydraulic head, pushes the saltwater-freshwater interface away from the shore, and so that the people who have wells in the nearshore areas and so forth are tapping into fresh water. When that head is reduced because there's less water in the aquifer, the saltwater interface comes back in towards the shore, and you run the risk of getting high chloride contents in those nearshore wells. That's the risk. It's not going to happen to everybody, but that is the risk. The other risk is that wells with quality concerns everywhere may see higher levels of contamination because there's less clean water flushing through the aquifer. So that's simply a matter of contamination as a fraction, contaminant divided by the denominator being all the water in there. If there's less water, there's less denominator. that fraction is going to be increased. So what we wrestle with on the WAC is not having absolute metrics, because it's not like our aquifer is a lake that we can go look at and measure. We can only understand these flows. And the current situation is that we're having less rainfall, less flushing, And therefore, the risk we see in particular is in the near shore areas. So what do we recommend? Last page. Use water sparingly, but don't waste it. We're requesting today that the town board extend the ban on use of sprinklers to 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. It's now 10 to 4. So we want to increase that daytime ban. So that's seven days a week. And we also want to limit pool, and sorry, that is for well irrigate, well sprinkler use. If you have a cistern, no, that doesn't apply. And also limit well-drawn pool top blocks to two inches in any five-day period. Those are currently, that That limit now in the town code is two feet, as I recall. And we're saying in this period, limit those pool top lots to two inches in any five-day period. Other guidance, use an electric leaf blower to clean your driveway. Use a car wash that recycles its water. Check your appliances for leaks. Limit drip irrigation to three cycles a week, 20 minutes a cycle. And avoid prolonged pumping of your well. That's my presentation. Any questions?

Thank you.

Thank you, Andrew.

Thank you very much. We have drafted. We're going to have a special meeting if the town board agrees to it after this work session. And we will be adopting those two provisions.

That's quick. Thank you very much.

It's an important time to make sure it happens. Any questions, comments?

How did we get through? Andrew, how did you get to two inches down from two feet?

One of our members owns a pool. And his basic view was, look, a pool that's functioning properly shouldn't need more of a top-off than a couple of inches every five or six days. And if you need to draw your pool way down to do a repair, if you want to fill it back up again, You need to go off the island for that. Don't pump your well to fill that pool up, because that's going to cause down-coning in the well. Sorry, up-coning in the well. So it's really going to stress the well. It could stress your neighbor's well. It's a huge amount of water. So if you have to do something like that, go off island to bring the water back in the pool after that repair. But otherwise, continue to do the problems. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Site plan review applications, the Sylvester Manor people, if you will step out for Sylvester Manor people, if you can step out for a minute now, but don't go too far because it's just a brief update. Okay. I just put this on here because three weeks ago we had closed the public hearing except for written correspondence and just wanted to have Thomas give us an update since it had been three weeks.

The written correspondence was PW Grocer recommended that the building department opine on the internal circulation and traffic. The building inspector did that, produced a memo that recommended certain changes to the site plan. And the way it was framed is that the building inspector was recommending that the board make them conditions of approval. However, once PW Grocer reviewed that, they felt like it was necessary for the secret process to have those changes made before making a secret determination. And therefore, you could not make them conditions of approval. I reached out to the applicant, the applicants aware and once they submit. The site, those changes to the site plan in response to reads memo. The board should be able to discuss it and the secret determination should be made at that point. So, we're just waiting on them to I spoke to their attorney yesterday and they're aware they're going to submit those changes. Hopefully.

Thank you.

You have to be comfortable with it. The next item on the agenda was Suffolk County water authority, Western district. If the public hearing is closed last night, and because it wasn't off of the agenda. So that leads us to. Okay. Thank you everybody who came out for the blood drive on Friday. I think the goal was 50, I'm not sure what the measure is, and we exceeded that. I think it was 46, 676. So thank you for everybody who did that and thank you to Judy Merringer who makes that happen for us every year.

Okay. Um, so I think I've been telling you guys I've been working on a fee review. So I think I think I have the final meeting today with the building department. I'll be ready to bring you stuff. So it's like our third meeting Thomas is going to kind of sit in and just advise as to anything that is that might require legislation update or anything like that, so that I can kind of bring the full packet. Amber will be looking to get on the schedule. I think I already have these down for sometime soon. Yeah, next week. Oh, great. If you're ready. Oh, yeah, I would be checking in with you. Yeah, I am absolutely ready. Additionally, I had a great meeting with the highway department yesterday to go over a fee review for them. I think I'm actually ready. I'm going to be sending it back to them just to make sure I got everything right. And so maybe the following week I can do that one. have kind of come out. The other update that we'll talk about a little bit later was as I was made aware that we do have a piece of machinery at highway that does need to be replaced. And Ron, if you're listening, I'm going to get this wrong. It's the, it's the, the, it's a unit that they put all the hazardous materials in. It's about 30 years old and there are, it is rusted through. There's, there's basically some, It can no longer keep things secure and the staff has said that by the end of the year, they don't will not feel comfortable so we're going to need to kind of talk about how to address that so thanks to the highway team for bringing that to our attention, so we can address it. um. Okay, other thing is. We know we had talked about doing reviewing financials, so I don't know if we're on for next week.

Because I wanted. To pull together that report and she's on vacation. Okay, so she just she's on vacation for two weeks, I think. Last week in this week or this week and next week. So it would be not next week for the next week because it gives her a week to be back to.

Okay. Um, and then I would just say to the board, I don't know if you guys got, um, I did a, uh. I pulled the financials into Excel. There's some notes. I did an overview. You can see, I took the budget basically amortized per month to show over over or down. color coded because it is a long document please check it out give notes ready to talk about when you are um and then just as a CPF just kind of uh we are pretty close with the acquisition plan so once you get the the water piece of it to put in we should be bringing like my hope is is that we can maybe get that before I don't know when do you think like um

Yeah, I just, I know Jessica was looking for the WQI plan because it's been, it was decided on and it just needs to be found in the archives.

Okay, so I did, just to be clear, because I think, okay, so I'll double check with Jessica to make sure that's pulled so that basically we can look at the opposition plan. Obviously, it's been out of compliance for five plus years, so it would be great to get that up to date and get us back into compliance. And then I think the last thing was, is the investment policy. We're just waiting for, you have notes from the auditors. So I'm just waiting for those to close those out. So those are the things I've been working on.

I had green options on Thursday and they're getting ready for the Green Expo in August. So just starting to plan for that. We did receive a request from Tim Quartel to put up signs like the week before the event. So we can look at that at our next meeting. We also talked about the RFP for solar at the recycling center that is going to go out this week. It's going to be available at the clerk's office and we're going to send it to people that we know are interested. Then we had, let me see. Water advisory committee yesterday, and as Andrew came and said, we spent about an hour talking about the drought. So. You're all stayed on that and then. See, there's something else going on this week that I can't remember. Yeah, a lot of things. Right, thank you. This weekend, Saturday, the 25th is Know Your Water Weekend. So there are going to be members of the Water Advisory Committee and some other boards and people who are sort of invested in our water, like the Monanic Creek Keepers, who are going to be posted at different places around town to give you information on water quality how to get your water tested just to answer general questions that you might have People are going to be posted at different places. They're going to be at the IGA, at Sylvester Manor, at the Historical Society Farmers Market, at STARS, both by the IGA and also in the Heights, and also downtown the Heights by Maria Eiffel Picosi's and the liquor store in that area. So there's going to be people stationed there from about 8 o'clock till 12 o'clock or 8 o'clock till or 10 o'clock until 2 o'clock, depending on the location. just to answer any questions and to hand out information. So if you're curious about whitewater, find one of these locations and talk to people. So that's this weekend.

Yay.

That's all I got.

I just had green options with Meg. One thing I would add to what Meg said was really there's some open positions on green options that they're desperately trying to fill. So if there is anyone out there who is interested, please reach out. And the tote bags are, are they available now?

Yes, they're available and they are 10 bucks. And they look really good.

Yeah.

They're nice and sturdy at the town clerk's office. And that's it.

I have one other thing. I am doing office hours this week, so I will be here Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon here in the boardroom.

a few events again okay oh yeah the fun topics yeah i know uh tomorrow is wednesday at wade that's from 4 30 to 7 30. i think if it rains they do like the following week though um is having a little free cocktail party on their manor house lawn that's thursday from four to six Then Saturday night, the Lions Club is having their Rocking the Rock fundraiser at Gardener's Bay. That's from 6 to 1030. And Sunday, the Educational Foundation is having their Garden Party benefit. That is going to be at 1901 at Goat Hill and from 3 to 5. And that's what's happening this week.

Thank you.

All righty, we have a special meeting, so we'll adjourn your session and go into a special meeting and we have one resolution. I'll read it. Whereas on June 29th, 2026, the town board adopted resolution 2026. that's 324 pursuant to section 8212 of the shelter in town code after determining that emergency conditions existed, which warranted temporary regulation of irrigation systems and other consumptive water uses. And whereas the water advisory committees continue to monitor ground. water and aquifer conditions and has recommended additional measures to reduce water consumption and preserve the town's freshwater resources during the ongoing drought conditions. And whereas the proposed action is deemed a Type 2 action for State Environmental Quality Review Act purposes, now therefore be it resolved that Resolution 2026- 324 is hereby amended as follows. One, the irrigation restriction set forth therein is amended to read sprinkler use for the purpose of irrigation between 9 AM and 7 PM is prohibited in all zoning districts in the town. To the following restrictions, the use of well drawn water for the purpose of topping off swimming pools, shall be limited to no more than 2 inches of additional water in any 5 day period and be it further results that all other provisions of resolution 2026-324 not specifically amended here and shall remain in full force and effect. So moved. Second discussion. I just in listening to Andrew, I think that number 1 sprinkler use from well drawn water.

Yeah, because of the sprinkler. Yeah.

So, so sprinkler use from. Well, John water for the purpose of irrigation. So, I'd like to amend. My motion to include those four words. Second. Second. OK. Faber? Aye. Motion carried. OK. We will close that special meeting and go back into the vote session. And we're going to go into executive sessions for contract negotiations and employee history of a particular employee. So moved.

Second.

All in favor? Aye. Thank you, everybody.