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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTB-04/26/2022 PH 1 COUNTY OF SUFFOLK : STATE OF NEW YORK TOWN OF SOUTHOLD -------------------------------------------------- TOWN OF SOUTHOLD REGULAR TOWN BOARD MEETING -------------------------------------------------- Southold, New York April 26, 2022 4 : 30 P . M . B E F 0 R E : SCOTT A . RUSSELL, SUPERVISOR LOUISA P . EVANS , JUSTICE BRIAN 0 . MEALY, COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI , COUNCILMAN SARAH E . NAPPA, COUNCILWOMAN April 26, 2022 2 SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : That concludes the business of the agenda . I am going to invite anybody who would like to address the Town Board on any issue? You just have to stand at the podium. MS . GENEVIEVE BAHRENBURG : I created Joe Biden for President Biden . And -- SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Just for the record, I want to say it ' s Genevieve Bahrenburg . MS . GENEVIEVE BAHRENBURG : Thank you for having me here . It ' s such a pleasure . And my house is dead center in Orient Harbor . And what I am doing in Orient Harbor, there is several different issues to focus on . Number one, is to -- I took video, which I will show you later . My house is dead center in Orient . This is my -- so what I am trying to do -- and I took these videos and I will show you shortly . But I am trying to open up so that the water flows clearly -- the harbor . What happens now -- to keep the beach, our neighbors from trying to -- because Orient is a Historic District, we can ' t leave it as such . So my April 26, 2022 3 thinking is , Number One -- shall I just show you this as I speak? The images ? SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Sure . MS . GENEVIEVE BAHRENBURG : Just so you can -- because I took videos . That is where I was earlier today . Let me show you this first . This is what I have a ( inaudible ) Park . And so to get back to -- I created -- what I am trying to do is draw the next generation to start listening and learning from politicians . Creating the hash tag, *mentorshipmatters . I have been listening to them and coming here to see what you all do . I am hoping with the next generation, we can all strive to be politicians . To strive and do all that you all do . And I have it at 7 / 11 and I did it at the grocery store . So what happens is , when people blog -- when people want to -- I am putting posters up . First I was trying to figure out several different ways to express this , but instead of just posters , what I can do to just be sure that we have donations go directly to -- you can see that I had this directly up at the schools as April 26, 2022 4 well . What I have seen and I also went as far as Riverhead and spoke to the gentleman at the grocery store -- SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : We ' re going to have problems transcribing the minutes unless you speak directly into the microphone . Because we have to capture the recording and then we will -- MS . GENEVIEVE BAHRENBURG : Okay . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : We want to make sure they can hear you . MS . GENEVIEVE BAHRENBURG : I went to the grocery stores and also the pharmacy ' s in Greenport . Two different pharmacy ' s . So what I did was , I created a QR code . And the QR code is to be with the bin and the box . And it is my hope that Ford Hero ' s and Ford SUV ' s in every state are going to be with vaccines and with boosters and shots of Apple Cider Vinegar . And we ' re going to drive them around . And that ' s going to be helping State and Federal Government . So to get back to this . So I have been putting posters up . Now with the QR code, I went back to the grocery store in Greenport . The April 26, 2022 5 issue with the grocery store in Greenport is he said he needs to hear it from Hochul and Biden . It should be coming from them. Not me creating the QR code . So I created the QR code to the links that I created for Joe Biden . And it is my hope that we can turn that into a reality . Because when anybody goes into a grocery store to buy the box . It ' s $ 10 . 00 for the box . And this is my question to you all , is $ 10 . 00 the correct way to go about it or should it be $ 5 . 00? And what is in the bin is exactly what -- and I shall show it to you . You can see -- they are going to be driving the healthcare heros and driving around . Handing out the boxes and bins that have been purchased . Go to the post office and it can be expedited to Ukraine . Further, instead of having to send all of this to Ukraine, the wisest way to go about this is to have people purchase $ 10 . 00 with the QR code in groceries and pharmacy ' s . It is my hope that we then take -- we are going to be able to get the numbers for people who want to purchase it and go directly to Ukraine . And the reason April 26, 2022 6 I created this is to make it super simple . For people to buy a box . And what is in the box is exactly what Ukraine needs . And with the United Nations -- so -- and I made this up as well . Michelle Obama, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and Kathy Hochul . And what I am trying to do as well is -- the one with the QR code, I am running it through you guys first and then it ' s to go to Biden and Harris . It ' s my hope -- and Hochul . And it ' s my hope that we will move forward with the QR code and then have Ford SUV' s pick them up . What I am trying to do as well is set up an event in ( inaudible ) Park . And I will be thrilled to have you . And it ' s my hope, as well from schools , from Orient to Greenport, Southold to Mattituck, for the schools to have plastic in State and Federal bins be turned into sculptures . And we would do that weekly . My first choice would be to create a dog . And kids would -- and then we would auction off the sculptures and then raise funding . And then we would celebrate the vets . And then we would do it for fish . And I had helped -- with a group April 26, 2022 7 for the East End, I had helped for to make a fish and then we would be having kids do that . And then we would put that in the fundraising for Ukraine as well . There is an art and design -- do you know that studio? He has Ukrainian art . So we would put that in as well . We would be drawing more people of every age bracket to get more into -- to help Ukraine . Now for -- and you will see these posters up on trees as well . Now the other part -- so I am very hopeful that will turn into the next part and you will see -- this is the way that it ' s structured . So that is the bin in the box . The healthcare workers would pick it up . We also just take the numbers of -- in the inbox that goes directly to Ukraine . That way I am hoping we can get a lot of people in every state . Hopefully starting with us . To make donations to Ukraine . As well , is -- what -- this -- because 7/ 11 and every store, whether -- depending on if you ' re a Republican or a Democrat, my hope is that we have outside bins like this . I was very surprised to learn that 7/ 11 didn ' t have April 26, 2022 8 one . And that hurt my feelings because kids are going in there all the time . And when I had brought my sculptures , the kids brought the sculptures . So it ' s my hope that this is something that can become official . That big store should be having bins just like this , with that age bracket . So that ' s a leading hook on Biden . So what I am trying to do is have Village Lane redone . Because in Orient, the problem is Village Lane has two -- SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : What we ' re going to do, Genevieve, because I know you have outlined to me, if you can quickly outline . And then what we will do is save some of this for the next meeting with the whole Board . MS . GENEVIEVE BAHRENBURG : So what we need is , we need to redo Village Lane . Because it ' s a Historic District, the problem there is that all of the cesspools are going into the ( inaudible ) and that goes directly into Orient Harbor and that is not safe . What has happened is -- my house is right here and the ( inaudible ) is here . April 26, 2022 9 What we ' re going to do is open up the aqueduct and open up the part . And the reason ( inaudible ) . Came up with this concept . I will show you later but to be having to go right down the duct . We open that up and then we have tubes sticking out of the two different beaches . So the beaches are going to stay safe . Stop the cesspool system to be stuck on one side where the kids go swimming . So we want to have that open up . The water can flow through . I addition to that, Village Lane is to be done . What we ' re -- in terms of the Highway Department, just -- we don ' t want a lot of people ( inaudible ) because I know they ' re going to be coming in . So we can redo Village Lane as soon as possible . We will redo the system below it and then reconnect it . So you would then with the Village -- that is where I am looking to have the donation and to have Village Lane redone . Have the cesspools linked into ( inaudible ) Park . I am trying to have the park turn into a dog park . I spoke to a couple of people . I walk my dogs around April 26, 2022 10 there . And it ' s my hope to have -- to put something around there, so that dogs don ' t get into other peoples homes . And in doing that, we ' re going to be preserving it . And then for the next generation -- because it ' s my hope, we can play baseball there again and to keep it organized . We have a wonderful park and we should be using that for our advantage . We would then as well put a system in it . We have a space for it . Several fronts . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Very ambitious set of goals . I know I have talked to you about it . MS . GENEVIEVE BAHRENBURG : Do you want me to show you the images? SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Actually Channel 22 wouldn ' t broadcast them very well . Unfortunately, it would be a shame . What we will do is make arrangements . Can those be e-mailed? I want to make sure everyone on the Board gets them? MS . GENEVIEVE BAHRENBURG : Yes , of course . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Can you April 26, 2022 11 put them in an e-mail format and I will make sure that every Board member gets them. Sound good? MS . GENEVIEVE BAHRENBURG : Yes . And I am just going to show you visuals . It would be my hope ( inaudible ) . And it ' s my hope ( inaudible ) but I am working for the President in creating this for him. And it ' s my hope if he approves that ( inaudible ) and in addition to that, they will have these shots . People don ' t have to go on a computer to get vaxed . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Sounds good . Thank you . Would anybody else like to address the Town Board? Robert? MR . ROBERT DUNN : Robert Dunn, Peconic . This is really uncomfortable . Since the Board came back from the shutdown, I have been speaking to them and various members of the Town, and you . Craig and you . About a situation next door to me . Gentleman bought a house and put some fences up right through the Town ' s right-of-way . Made a complaint about it . He was stopped at one point but the Town never issued a April 26, 2022 12 Stop Work Order . So he continued . On a Saturday completed it . I tried to pursue it through Law Enforcement . I tried to pursue it through here . I have spoken directly with you on occasion, Scott . I have spoken with Town Attorneys . And the fence is now removed, but I continue to be harassed . And that is unacceptable . And nobody has done anything about it . From one junk after another . And this is a pure example of urban decay coming in and finding a place to fester in our Town . I want to thank Sarah for several of the issues . She has followed through on it . He put up 150 ( inaudible ) through the Town right-of-way . So that the road is so narrow there, which it ' s almost impossible now to pass with two cars . It will no longer qualify as a bike lane . The harassment towards me and my family has been ( inaudible ) which we have been speaking of . Nobody has enforced anything there . This has gone on a year and a half now . I have spoke directly -- Duffy made a claim that there were fines being done . I don ' t believe it . I just don ' t believe . He has April 26, 2022 13 taken the fence down, but the trees are still there . The plantings are still in the right-of-way and on the private road . And the plantings are still up . Debris and loads of driftwood and put it on the road . The whole thing is unsafe . This is a corner lot property . By Town Code, 35 feet from each corner should be unplanted . So that you have a line of sight . These trees are not supposed to be more than 2 feet . The trees top out around 7 foot . This is not the way -- this is -- disregard for anything in the Town . And if we ' re going to allow this to continue, it should be right . It ' s that simple . And personally, I kind of resent that it has been okay with the Town for me and my family to be harassed for over a year and a half . At one point, you -- he cut down 20 trees . Put that on his lawn . So what was once ( inaudible ) is no longer . I mean, can anybody just go around and cut down trees? You made a point that one of the trees was cut down, I believe you said it was a Dogwood and the Town never planted Dogwood ' s . So it ' s not the Town ' s . It was April 26, 2022 14 on Town property . It was never his . Maybe somebody else planted it in the past but he had no problem taking it down . If somebody planting things on Town property, it gives them -- I want to claim ownership of . Because there is 400 feet on that that I planted, at my own expense . It ' s Town property . I did it to restore it after Sandy and that is fine . I just have been really hearing some crazy stuff . It ' s been a year and a half later and I am still dealing with this . No respect for the Town whatsoever . It has come up at every level . I went to a ZBA hearing for him trying -- first of all , I don ' t know how anybody can apply for a variance when they have outstanding with the Town . I just don ' t understand that at all . That ' s just crazy . An open case against -- where the Town has something against you, you can ' t apply for a variance . And yet I was insulted by Ms . Weisman who shut me down when -- calling me a racist over Zoom. In a Zoom meeting here because he applied for a ZBA. I mean, this whole thing is bad . I am not going to tell April 26, 2022 15 you how to run the Town . I want to see harassment stopped . And I want to know when it ' s going to stop . Bill Duffy -- I went through the things here and I asked you -- this was back -- I asked you, who does Code Enforcement answer to? Bill Duffy . Who does Bill Duffy answer to? I asked you, can you direct Bill Duffy to take care of this? Little spurt of movement out of that and then it went dead . He sent a Lester to look and it died . And my family has suffered . My family sleeps with a fan against the window . The summer is coming . I want to open up the windows and I don ' t want to be prevented because this clown wants to shine lights . I can show you pictures . At my pillow -- I don ' t think he knows that but that ' s where it ' s directed . The noise . Under my -- and on top of it all , I got arrested . And I had a cop tell me, "well , close your windows . " Is it against the law in this Town to have your windows open? Telling me I should close my windows to placate this creep? Uh-huh . Uh-huh . That is not why I bought my house . I bought it April 26, 2022 16 to listen to the water and look at the sky and always enjoy what I enjoy there . Are we going to do something about this or are we not? SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Just to go back and to cover a little bit of history first . I tried -- MR . ROBERT DUNN : You have been there a couple of times . Never said you haven ' t made an effort . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : I went out there at night and I was told by the Attorney ' s office and told the owner that he had to redirect the lighting . I went there out on my own and at the time, he was . He was at the time . MR . ROBERT DUNN : The lights have never been redirected . They have been against the house . It ' s called wall washing, which is specifically -- specifically -- SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : At the time, my understanding was directed -- when I got to you, they were directed downward . I understand -- April 26, 2022 17 MR . ROBERT DUNN : They were pointed back at -- which it ' s white vinyl siding . So it just gives a glare . It ' s the same as being directly at my house . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : I brought that back to the Town Attorney ' s Office . I don ' t know what the resolution was . When you did complain, I did talk to him. And he said the issues -- there was a Stop Work Order . And I think they got a fine for that . For the interior work . MR . ROBERT DUNN : There was a Stop Work Order on some interior work, yes . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : On the interior work, but I know they got a fine -- MR . ROBERT DUNN : But that -- right now . Go there right now . There is two lights . They ' re on . I am not saying as a suggestion but if you were to go there right now, there are two lights that have been on since the end of September . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : I will go there tonight -- MR . ROBERT DUNN : Those two lights of the made, which he personally installed, April 26, 2022 18 which you personally defended . You said a homeowner is allowed to do their own electrical work . And I understand that . I have been in the construction business for 40 years . Homeowners are allowed to do their own, but it has to be done to code . And it has to be filed . Neither one of those things were done . And in fact, we just had a discussion about lights , which I might add, those two pages of lights of what can go and can ' t go, they should be blown up and hung on the wall in the Building Department . Go in and Town ( inaudible ) is going in the right direction . Unless the contractor knows what they can put in, it doesn ' t matter . They will go to Home Depot . They can still go anywhere else in Suffolk County and buy what they want . I am going to tell you the truth . I have learned a lot during this . I have five lamps that were all put up in the last 5 years . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Actually MR . ROBERT DUNN : I changed it myself . April 26, 2022 19 SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Councilwoman Nappa has made -- MR . ROBERT DUNN : I know she is working on it . COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI : That the Building Department -- gets all of that information when someone goes in for a Building Permit . Getting all the Dark Sky ' s code . She ' s making sure that takes place -- MR . ROBERT DUNN : The Building Department has to enforce it . That is critical . I am just telling you . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : I know . MR . ROBERT DUNN : These 5 lights that I have changed in the past 2 months . I have renovated my house twice now in the past 5 years . All these lights and my electrical contractor who has since retired and gone to Texas , told me we got to put one there . Put one there and put one there . That ' s the code . My attitude, " then put them. " It ' s code . Sarah is doing a good job on that . Thank you . COUNCILWOMAN SARAH NAPPA: I will followup . April 26, 2022 20 MR . ROBERT DUNN : But I really think -- turn that page into two pages into posters . So everyone can see it . But back to my problem, I just want to enjoy my home . I am not going to tell this guy -- I am not going to tell anybody how to live . I want to be able to go to sleep at night and look at the stars . I want to be able to sleep in my room with the windows open and not need a fan to deaden the noise . And I want the Town to do its job . Enforce those codes . What more can I say? COUNCILWOMAN SARAH NAPPA: Can we get Code Enforcement to look into the lights again? TOWN ATTORNEY : Sure . I have yet to receive a complaint with regards to lighting in your house . MR . ROBERT DUNN : Me personally . No . I am not -- TOWN ATTORNEY : Well , I will tell you that filing a complaint is what dispatches . MR . ROBERT DUNN : I filed a complaint . I was here arguing with Duffy . I was here -- April 26, 2022 21 TOWN ATTORNEY : I know . Hear me out . File a complaint and that dispatches out . I don ' t know the number but there are numerous tickets for those lights . You mentioned something about 150 trees being planted that are now making the roadway impassable ; is that right? MR . ROBERT DUNN : Making the road narrower . TOWN ATTORNEY : When was that done? I have not seen that . MR . ROBERT DUNN : That was done originally . TOWN ATTORNEY : So the road is as wise as it was -- MR . ROBERT DUNN : Yes . Nothing has changed probably since October -- TOWN ATTORNEY : So we have sent investigators out . There is no evidence -- no one -- there is no evidence from a Town Code inspector that the road is impassable . MR . ROBERT DUNN : I ' m sorry? TOWN ATTORNEY : There is no evidence from a Town Code perspective that the road is impassable . April 26, 2022 22 MR . ROBERT DUNN : That is not true . That is not true . TOWN ATTORNEY : Okay . On that particular issue, we will have to agree to disagree . The issue that you have with your driveway, the paved surface, not in the middle of the -- MR . ROBERT DUNN : Absolutely . TOWN ATTORNEY : He is not in the middle of the roadway . So in particular, the front of your house, there is almost no right-of-way . MR . ROBERT DUNN : In front of my house? In front of my house, it goes from zero to about eight feet . TOWN ATTORNEY : It is a very hard angle there . MR . ROBERT DUNN : Yeah . TOWN ATTORNEY : That is the problem. We have done measurements . There is not a statutory site structure . We have been there . Looked at it . With respect to those lights , sometimes they ' re on . I have sent investigators out and they are off . So what happens is , sometimes they ' re on . Sometimes April 26, 2022 23 they ' re off . There are times when the investigators went out there and the lights are off . That is not your fault . Not my fault . MR . ROBERT DUNN : Would you like to see some of the 500 , 600 pictures I have? TOWN ATTORNEY : I am not -- we have found them on too . What I am saying is , they have been off . What is the noise? Is the noise still wind chimes? MR . ROBERT DUNN : Wind chimes , yeah . TOWN ATTORNEY : Because the wind chimes have been taken down at times . And then they are put back up; right? MR . ROBERT DUNN : No . TOWN ATTORNEY : The police took them down . MR . ROBERT DUNN : No . The police did not take them down . I gave them back to them because they were hanging in my yard . And I was arrested for it . So please don ' t tell me -- they didn ' t do a damn thing . I ' m getting mad now because now you ' re telling me things that are just not true . TOWN ATTORNEY : All right . April 26, 2022 24 MR . ROBERT DUNN : As a matter of fact, I will show you an affidavit signed by Officer Robins that said that they were going to followup on an investigation and they never did . TOWN ATTORNEY : All right . MR . ROBERT DUNN : That is garbage . TOWN ATTORNEY : We will send somebody out tomorrow to look at the wind chimes . But I am telling you, you need to continue with the complaint because these issues don ' t necessarily exist every time we go . MR . ROBERT DUNN : I wouldn ' t -- there is no way you could have gone there in the past six months at any point after dark that there weren ' t some lights on . TOWN ATTORNEY : I will -- MR . ROBERT DUNN : There is no way . TOWN ATTORNEY : I will tell you, I don ' t think my guys received a complaint this year . MR . ROBERT DUNN : Prior to this . Last year -- TOWN ATTORNEY : I am telling you, in the last six months , this year and it ' s the April 26, 2022 25 end of April . MR . ROBERT DUNN : They left the end of September and did not return again until two weeks ago . Other than he made one or two night visits and -- the lights have been on constantly . TOWN ATTORNEY : I would ask that you continue to followup . MR . ROBERT DUNN : Continue to followup on what? TOWN ATTORNEY : Please file the complaints . MR . ROBERT DUNN : What ' s the point in filing complaints if nothing gets done? TOWN ATTORNEY : They will issue tickets . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : This year itself, it ' s in compliant . MR . ROBERT DUNN : I am going to give you a little story . Okay . You know, I have made my point . I am not going to argue on a dead door . I am just going to tell you -- it ' s not going to let me sit still . There was a point in my life, everybody on my block -- I grew up in Queens as you know . April 26, 2022 26 Everybody in the neighborhood was complaining about putting a stop light on the corner . It was 1950 . Just after the war . Everything was exploding . Population was exploding . Everybody was buying cars . Traffic got horrible and they requested a street light on the corner . 1954 four days before Christmas , my father crossed that street . He was holding my hand and my sisters hand . I woke up three days later from a coma with three of my extremities in plaster . My sister was in a bed next to me and they had buried my father that morning . There is a light there now . It ' s -- there ' s a traffic light there now . I have experienced what happens . I was 8 years old . I know I have told you about it . That was a story of my life . We all have a story . I am not going to sit here and wait for somebody to get hurt on that corner because we don ' t want to do anything . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Can I just point out that there was a decision by the Town Attorney ' s office in 2009 -- MR . ROBERT DUNN : The Town Attorney April 26, 2022 27 at that time stood up there and said it may be -- everybody encroached it . So I question his -- on anything . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : It was 2009 and prior to the current Town Attorney . It ' s a private road and that 35 foot setback is not applicable to that . That is done for a private road . ( Inaudible ) . As long as there is enough access for emergency access , for emergency vehicles , they have met their burden under the law . If they ' re encroaching with trees , that is a private civil matter with the people on that road . That ' s the -- believe me, we went over this on a bitter cold day on Oregon Road in Cutchogue . MR . ROBERT DUNN : If I build a house -- and now I am going to argue . If I build a house on Sound Avenue . That is the name of the side street . If I build a house -- a road doesn ' t have a standing? COUNCILWOMAN SARAH NAPPA: Not on a private right-of-way . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : If you read the Town Code, it will outline the April 26, 2022 28 recommendation on how a road should be improved, even a private road . The only standard is , as long as its suitable for emergency access . That is the only standard . All the other things , pervious -- all those other things -- if there is a requirement or restriction, the only thing is that it has to be suitable for emergency access . MR . ROBERT DUNN : Well , you can see to me, the corner of Mill Road, a public road and Sound Avenue, a private road, is a corner . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : By Town Code, it ' s not a street corner . There is a corner there . But it ' s not subject to the 35 foot rule . The setback on the corners , where you can ' t -- in other words , you have a perpendicular corner -- MR . ROBERT DUNN : You are not supposed to block it . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Not supposed to block it . The Town Code doesn ' t apply to those circumstances , it ' s private . That was established by the Town Attorney in April 26, 2022 29 2009 . We were sued over it and we won . We were sued over it and we one, Article 78 . Because we determined that at the time, we did not make the person move the flower bed and the trees and we were sued over it at the time by the other person . They filed a complaint over it and they sued us and we won . TOWN ATTORNEY : We will have Code Enforcement out there tomorrow morning . I will go out myself . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : I second what Sarah said . COUNCILWOMAN SARAH NAPPA: I think we should at least control what we can, which is Mill Lane . So have Code Enforcement look at Mill Lane and the plantings on Mill Lane . MR . ROBERT DUNN : These are not plants that he put on his property . Theses are on -- COUNCILWOMAN SARAH NAPPA: That is why I am asking for Code Enforcement to look at . TOWN ATTORNEY : There is not a requirement to be free of growth . It just April 26, 2022 30 can ' t be a site obstruction . MR . ROBERT DUNN : Agreed . TOWN ATTORNEY : The last time they were out there, they determined that it did not constitute as a site obstruction . Not saying there is no growth there . It ' s very difficult in that location because the road is not sitting the middle of that bed . MR . ROBERT DUNN : Mill Road? TOWN ATTORNEY : Yes . MR . ROBERT DUNN : Mill Road is clearly not in the middle of the road . I agree with you 1000 . TOWN ATTORNEY : The stuff that is on the private road, I have no control over it . MR . ROBERT DUNN : I hear what you ' re saying there . TOWN ATTORNEY : It ' s not my property and I have no control over it . MR . ROBERT DUNN : How can you -- how can you enforce building code? You can ' t enforce road standards but you can enforce building code? TOWN ATTORNEY : It ' s not the same type . There is no building code that says April 26, 2022 31 that . MR . ROBERT DUNN : There is no standard in New York State? TOWN ATTORNEY : There is no private road standard that says that a private road -- that is a highway . I think it ' s a highway law . I have to research that . It doesn ' t apply to private roads . COUNCILWOMAN SARAH NAPPA: But going forward, we will have Code Enforcement look at Mill Lane . We will have Code Enforcement look at the lights again . And then let ' s hear from them. MR . ROBERT DUNN : And the wind chimes . COUNCILWOMAN SARAH NAPPA: And the wind chimes . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : I agree . TOWN ATTORNEY : We will take an assessment of what is going on -- MR . ROBERT DUNN : I will tell you the wind chimes in dead air are dead quiet . TOWN ATTORNEY : That is a possibility . That the investigator will go there and it ' s not making any noise -- April 26, 2022 32 MR . ROBERT DUNN : If you go there 4 : 00 in the morning and it ' s a windy night and you ' re sleeping in my bed -- sleeping -- TOWN ATTORNEY : That is part of the problem. I don ' t have a rapid response at 4 : 00 in the morning to answer that . MR . ROBERT DUNN : Well , if Officer Robins who said in his report that he ' s going to followup on the investigation, if he had, maybe he would . He followed up with getting me arrested and making an appointment with this guy to sign off on the complaint . TOWN ATTORNEY : That is a separate issue . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : We have a plan . We ' re going to go out and check out Mill Lane and I will go by again at night, again . We will do what we can . I agree with you in terms of setbacks . People go beyond what they should . But everybody plants into the right-of-way . We will go and look at it . MR . ROBERT DUNN : There you go again . Everybody plants in the right-of-way . April 26, 2022 33 SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Including you, Bob . Let ' s be honest here . MR . ROBERT DUNN : Everybody is doing wrong if they ' re going over 2 1/2 foot . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : But there is no standard for that . You know what, I shouldn ' t have mentioned this . I will go out and look at it . Said experts . Not me . MR . ROBERT DUNN : I just want some peace in my house . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : I know . MR . ROBERT DUNN : As far as the private roads , that ' s not for me . I am not running for office . I want peace and quiet . I don ' t want people flashing lights in my house and I expect the Town to take care of that . I am not being unreasonable . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Okay . MR . ROBERT DUNN : Thank you . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Would anybody else like to address the Town Board? (No Response ) . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Motion to adjourn? COUNCILWOMAN SARAH NAPPA: I make a April 26, 2022 34 motion to adjourn . COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI : Second . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : All in favor? COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI : Aye . COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Aye . COUNCILWOMAN SARAH NAPPA: Aye . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Aye . (Meeting Concluded . ) April 26, 2022 35 C E R T I F I C A T I O N I , JESSICA DILALLO, a Court Reporter and Notary Public, for and within the State of New York, do hereby certify : THAT the above and foregoing contains a true and correct transcription of the Meeting held on April 26 , 2022 , via videoconference, and were transcribed by me . I further certify that I am not related to any of the parties to this action by blood or by marriage and that I am in no way interested in the outcome of this matter . IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 13th day of May, 2022 . Jessica DiLallo