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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTB-11/29/2022 PH 1 COUNTY OF SUFFOLK : STATE OF NEW YORK TOWN OF SOUTHOLD -------------------------------------------------- TOWN OF SOUTHOLD TOWN BOARD REGULAR MEETING -------------------------------------------------- Southold, New York November 29, 2022 7 : 00 P . M . B E F 0 R E : SCOTT A . RUSSELL, SUPERVISOR LOUISA P . EVANS , JUSTICE JILL DOHERTY, COUNCILWOMAN BRIAN 0 . MEALY, COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI , COUNCILMAN SARAH E . NAPPA, COUNCILWOMAN November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 2 CHAPTER 260 - DUCK POND LANE WHEREAS , there has been presented to the Town Board of the Town of Southold, Suffolk County, New York, on the 15th day of November, 2022 , a Local Law entitled "A Local Law in relation to an Amendment to Chapter 260 , Vehicles and Traffic, in connection with Parking on Duck Pond Road in the hamlet of Cutchogue . " Now, therefore, be it RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold will hold a public hearing on the aforesaid Local Law at Southold Town Hall , 53095 Main Road, Southold, New York, on the 29th day of November, 2022 at 7 : 00 p .m. at which time all interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard . The proposed Local Law entitled, "A Local Law in relation to an Amendment to Chapter 260 , Vehicles and Traffic, in connection with Parking on Duck Pond Road in the hamlet of Cutchogue" SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Would anybody like to comment on this particular Local Law? (No Response ) . November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 3 COUNCILWOMAN JILL DOHERTY : I will make a motion to close the Public Hearing . COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI : Second . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : All in favor? COUNCILWOMAN JILL DOHERTY : Aye . COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Aye . COUNCILWOMAN SARAH NAPPA: Aye . COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI : Aye . JUSTICE LOUISA EVANS : Aye . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Aye . * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CHAPTER 144 FIRE PREVENTION & BUILDING CODE WHEREAS , there has been presented to the Town Board of the Town of Southold, Suffolk County, New York, on the lst day of November, 2022 , a Local Law entitled "A Local Law in relation to an Amendment to Chapter 144 , Fire Prevention and Building Code Administration, in connection with Updates to the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code Administration and Enforcement Law, . " Now, therefore, be it RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold will November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 4 hold a public hearing on the aforesaid Local Law at Southold Town Hall , 53095 Main Road, Southold, New York, on the 29th day of November, 2022 at 7 : 00 p .m. at which time all interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard . The proposed Local Law entitled, "A Local Law in relation to an Amendment to Amendment to Chapter 144 , Fire Prevention and Building Code Administration, in connection with Updates to the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code Administration and Enforcement Law . " SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Would anybody like to address the Town Board on this particular Local Law? (No Response ) . COUNCILWOMAN JILL DOHERTY : I will make a motion to close the Public Hearing . JUSTICE LOUISA EVANS : Second . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : All in favor? COUNCILWOMAN JILL DOHERTY : Aye . COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Aye . COUNCILWOMAN SARAH NAPPA: Aye . November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 5 COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI : Aye . JUSTICE LOUISA EVANS : Aye . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Aye . * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * PUBLIC COMMENTS SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : That concludes the business of the agenda . I am going to invite anybody that would like to comment on any issue, to please feel free . MR . JERRY LARICCHIUTA: Good evening . I am Jerry Laricchiuta . I am president of the Long Island CSEA Region 1 . It ' s a big region . We have 46, 000 members from Montauk to Queens . So I am here tonight to address Mr . Russell and the Board about what we see as a problem with Labor Relations right now . Okay . But I thank you for allowing me to address you . Basically what we have here, and as far as I am concerned, we have a kind of a severe lack of Labor Relations . Good sound labor relations between this Town and the CSEA. The reason I say that because, I think after, three sessions with the Town, it was called for an impasse . Mr . Attorney -- I don ' t know if everybody understands November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 6 what an impasse is , basically that means that they hit a road block and could no longer negotiate and they want a third-party neurtral , usually a mediator to step in . All that does is kick the can down the road . I mean, there are times when an impasse is necessary . But after three sessions , I don ' t think so . It ' s kind of disgraceful in a way . You know, I understand, I was a Board member in a village that I lived in . So not all Board members know what the heck I am talking about . Maybe some of you do and some of you ' s don ' t . Certainly Supervisor Russell , you must know what is going on, but I am speaking to you more directly because it ' s going to take your persuasion and your influence, if we ' re going to have a change in the way that both sides negotiate . Now I am going to go over a few things quick . I don ' t want to keep you here all night . Look, let ' s face it, this country right now is in the worse inflation period it has been in 4 decades . As a result, Town ' s and village ' s around the island, especially Long Island have November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 7 recognize that . Now your members keep this -- now I understand that Southold has a very strong budget and I congratulate you on that . In fact, I believe you have AAA bond rating, which means you ' re doing a good job . So are your members . So are you employees , my members . Our members , right? They are the ones out there during the day . They are the ones that keep Southold . Southold is one of the pristine places on Long Island to live . The residents here are very happy . They like the services . They like the way the Town is run . But what does that have to do with these folks right here? They are the ones that get the job done everyday . And from what I am told -- and I am not here to discuss or negotiate in public . So if anybody thinks that is why I am here, I am not doing that . I am going to talk about labor relations in general . CSEA, we ' re a large union . Right . We ' re the largest public union in New York State . We ' re certainly the largest public union on Long Island by far . And you know, we got to get things done . We do . Now, I am the region November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 8 president . I have come to a few of these kinds of meetings in the past . It ' s not something that has never been done before . But when they call in the region president, that means , you know, we have somewhat of a real problem. A problem that could be fixed . And I am going to go through it with you . But you know, let ' s just start off with what I said before, inflation . Our members live in this Town and they work in this Town . You can appreciate the fact that the standard of living on Long Island is so difficult today . Now that inflation has come to it, you have Town ' s right in your vicinity, I ask you all as Board members , including our astute Board members online, check it out . Go and look and see what township ' s , village ' s , city ' s around you are offering their workers . Don ' t take my word for it . The poorly raises that are being offered by this Town is not anywhere ' s near what other areas are offering . And you know what, most of them don ' t even have the budget that Southold does . You guys have the ability to do it . Our members have the November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 9 need for you to do it . And you know, now for nothing, but I have been told every year that the Board gets a 20 raise . Okay . Good for you . I am not against that . But if the Board is going to get a 20 raise every year, how is that you find it acceptable and maybe you need to speak to those that are negotiating, to offer less to our members ? It ' s disgraceful and it ' s not acceptable any more . So as a result of that, we are here to ask you to be reasonable and to go back and find out and do a little bit of work and -- and I don ' t mean that in a sarcastic way, study the townships and the contracts that are going around . I have access to that information statewide . I can tell you areas in Upstate New York with very bad budgets are offering their workers because of the need, because of the inflationary period . I will tell you something right out of my own life . I just turned 66 in 4 months . I am getting my first Socia Security check next month . And that was all right . I am pleased with that . But then in January, the Federal Government who don ' t give you two November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 10 cents for anything, the Federal Government is adding 8 . 7% to 63 million recipients of Social Security . This year only, in 2023 . Why? Because of the inflationary cost . Because of the need of American ' s to make more money . Everybody has the right to make money . Especially if you live on Long Island . No one should be asked to do something for less than what their patriots do in another town, another village, another city . Especially Southold . Your residents are happy here . And we want to keep them happy . Our members are good -- there is a good reason for that . So look, we need to get some results here because as angry as your employees are feeling, and they are . This union is really feeling it . When I have to speak to the statewide president, Mary Sullivan, about what is going on in Southold, to let her know, hey, we ' re having a problem here . So calling an impasse, again, after three sessions , that ' s insulting . Out right to these folks here, that is a slap in the face . Because now we ' re going to kick the can down the road November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 11 and everybody is going to wait for a mediator to be chosen and we ' re going to have to start -- it ' s a circular argument . Usually mediation happens after an impasse is declared . After both sides have pounded each other for a long time . So I am asking you, as the Supervisor, Mr . Russell , of course, and this Board, to really get involved and try to change that . Talk to the people that are negotiating for you . I got to tell you -- second ambush . The impasse is like an ambush to the union and our members . And we ' re not going to take it lightly . Now listen, we have been known to do things , CSEA, we have the ability . We can come together . We can go around with our billboard truck and shopping centers and hand out fliers . We can have huge rally ' s . Come down here with fliers and posters and everything . We don ' t really want to do that . We will if we have to . I promise you that . That is my job . When my members come to me, I answer them with direct answers . There is no BS ' ing them around . So what I ask for you is , don ' t allow substandard November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 12 salaries and very, very low disrespectful raises in a time, when even the Federal Government and Upstate New York and other areas are offering their members and their employees a sound raise to keep up . You don ' t want your employees struggling . That is not what you are here for . You don ' t want your residents struggling . Please don ' t tell me this is about a bond rating . I had that once before with another township . That is the worse thing you can say . That you don ' t want to give your employees a raise because you ' re trying to protect some kind of bond rating . You ' re going to keep your bond rating no matter what . Just because you give your employees a fair contract, it does not mean you ' re going to take a hit on your bond rating . That is called responsible government . And you have been responsible in every other way, except lacking in labor relations . So which way are we going to go here? Are we going to allow tension between the union and the Town to escalate? Do I really have to get a thousand people together to come down November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 13 here and visit every shopping center and hand out people ' s salaries with their pictures on it and do things on billboard trucks? I don ' t want to do . Absolutely not . I am asking you to take this seriously . Don ' t take the CSEA for granted and don ' t take your employees for granted . They work too hard for you . And they ' re proud . They live here . They work here . Don ' t give the image that you ' re hurting them here . That is the image that is going out right now . Do you guys really want that? Supervisor Russell , I know you have bene here a while . You have done a good job . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : For some people too long . MR . JERRY LARICCHIUTA: Certainly, I am not saying that . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : I am . MR . JERRY LARICCHIUTA: I know you run a good Town . All we ' re asking for here is good labor relations or we ' re going to have to go to war with each other, and that is not something that I am here for . That November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 14 is not a threat . I don ' t want you saying, this guy thinks he ' s tough . He ' s going to threaten us . That is not a threat . I am trying to be honest and open with you . We would ten times not do that . We would much rather be able to lift a glass and say, "hey, that was a fair contract . We can ' t complain . They treated us right . They gave us something to be proud of . " Instead of walking around saying "do you believe what they have offered us ? " The raises -- if I start talking numbers , this attorney right here is saying I am negotiating in public, and I am not . Okay . You seem like a nice guy . So in ending, WAYZ told me it was going to take me an 1 hour 31 minutes to get here from Massapequa Park . I got here in an 1 hour and 20 minutes . Don ' t tell anybody . I wanted to make sure I was here because these people here, what they do to this union and they are good workers . And I know they ' re good workers because a lot of people would love to live in Southold . And I think a big part of that has to do with the folks that you hired . So reward them with a fair November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 15 inducing contract . Tell your negotiating team. Kick them in the ass and say, enough . We have a good budget . We have a great bond rating . Be fair . That has to come from you Mr . Russell because Board members -- I understand how this works . I am appealing to the whole Board . And you can speak to some of these folks here and they will tell you . So let ' s keep it peaceful . Let ' s not blow tension . Let ' s go into 2023 as a team, like the way we should be and not as Spartan ' s fighting each other . Nobody wants that . And I thank you for your time . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Thank you . Would you care to answer a couple of questions? MR . JERRY LARICCHIUTA: Sure . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : First, I want to impress upon you, do not over estimate my power and persuasion over this Board . And I don ' t mean that jokingly . We are six very independent minded, who butt heads on a regular basis . One of the things you talk about is appreciation of the workforce . I agree with you 1000 . I think November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 16 we do appreciate this workforce a great deal . Regarding our fiscal management, yeah, I am very proud of it . Back when COVID hit and we shut down and other town ' s and village ' s shut down, we were feeling a pinch because our revenue dried up . We were essentially everything came to a standstill . But we had the fiscal management able to make sure that not one single employee got laid off, unlike other towns , which you keep referencing . Not one employee was asked for give back . Not one employee was asked for a cut in pay . Not one single employee was asked to give back as much as one dollar . In fact many of the people sitting here earned double time when they came to work . We had no obligation under the contract, the labor law or executive order, to tell the employees , hey, look, when you come in on Tuesday, we ' re going to give you an extra pay just for just coming in, but we did that . We did that for all these workers . You can talk about box trucks , you can talk about all these things , I don ' t think we have shown bad faith, and I sure as hell November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 17 don ' t think we showed a disrespect to this workforce . Yes , we ' re at an impasse right now . We have difficulties with negotiations . Those happen from time to time . I have been here for 18 years . And you ' re going to butt heads from time to time and you ' re not going to see eye to eye . That is the nature of it, but ultimately we tried very hard to ( inaudible ) and we have rewarded a lot of them for giving us their commitment during that whole time . So there is no lack of appreciation here . Okay . What we have is a disagreement on negotiations . It happens . MR . JERRY LARICCHIUTA: Can I respond? SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Please . MR . JERRY LARICCHIUTA: So evidently it ' s much appreciated . I know when COVID came in, this Town did -- I did ask about that . So I appreciate that . As far as other town ' s , no township ' s laid anybody off . As a matter of fact, I think it was against the law at one point . That people could not be laid off due to COVID . November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 18 SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Union givebacks . MR . JERRY LARICCHIUTA: Union givebacks . Thank you . Listen, that does show respect, but at the end of the day -- Mr . Supervisor, at the end of the everyone talks about the contract . And even if you ' re fair -- and you explained yourself a couple of times , they have to live with a contract for 2 , 3 or 4 years . As long as you put it out there . Living on Long Island, they ' re already struggling . That is what I am trying to say to you . Everyone on Long -- not everyone . Many people on Long Island, especially the Middle Class today, they ' re hurting . Probably one of the top 5 in the country . So they need -- that needs to be addressed . They can ' t afford to go up a little bit . I am not saying they want to go up loo every year . Nothing unrealistic . I ask you to look around and see what other townships are given . So you don ' t stand out . I understand all about good budget and doing a great job obviously . AAA bond rating, that is not easy to obtain . The November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 19 need and desire to treat your employees is never going to be about the bond rating . You ' re not at that tipping point yet . You ' re still showing a nice surplus . The fact that you know how to control a budget . So if you weren ' t, I then would say, we have been in that situation before . We know that township ' s , even county ' s were at a point going broke . We took it on the chin in those areas . We got to get paid by these folks and they ' re having a hard time maintaining this budget . We ' re not one way . It ' s not always more, more, more . At one point, I told 35 , 000 hospital members to take multiple zeros because the hospital in East Meadow was going out of business . And they understood that . And so do we . But that is not the case here today, because of your good work, all of you ' s , all of you ' s working as a team. Doing better . You say it ' s a process . Same process you can follow four years . We ' re going into impasse every time there is a contract . There should be no need for that . We have reasonable people here . Gretchen is our main negotiator . She November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 20 is not a tyrant . She is easy to get along with . To sit down and settle it . Thank you . And it is appreciated by what you did do, but the contract is the foundation and the basis of what everything lives off of . If you have a poor contract, you will have poor morale . And things like disrespect comes out . That is why it was said . Not that you do it on a daily basis . We ' re just meant to make a point . That the contract is the foundation point of labor relations . I just ask you to just look into it . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : I did tell Joe, and I would be happy to, if you want to take my cellphone number, 631-300-5349 . We can sit down and do a side by side comparison on the growth that was over the last decade . I know the 20 gets mentioned a lot here . Let ' s sit down and go over the math here . It ' s not --you and I will have that discussion . Please call me day or night . Weekends . I am always available . MR . JERRY LARICCHIUTA: Thank you . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Who else would like to address the Town Board? November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 21 MS . CATHERINE HARPER : Good evening . I am Catherine Harper from Mattituck . Northfork Parish Outreach Director could not be here, so she asked me to represent Outreach . Because I have been a core volunteer for 13 years there . And I just wanted to thank you for opening up your funding opportunities to Open Arm profits . We really appreciate . We ' re still affected by COVID . I am not sure if you ' re aware, when -- the early pandemic was happening, New York State Department of Health contacted us -- the COVID tracking specifically, contacted us and asked us to be the designated deliver of groceries to people who were isolating . And we don ' t have a van . So the Director packed up the groceries into her little Mini Cooper and they gave us the address and we just dropped it off . So we ' re really appreciate being able to do that . I would also like to clear up some misconceptions about our Outreach and its affiliations . We ' re located in Greenport . Not Rockville Centre . We ' re a nonprofit . Yes , we were started by Catholic November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 22 Charities in 1985 . Catholic Charities became aware that there were some people who really hurting out here . And they wanted to help . And so they started the outreach here . After three years , they were obliged to terminate Catholic Charities oversight . And it ' s kind of like the momma bird . The baby birds have to fly sometimes . We were released from Catholic Charities and we became our own nonprofit . We still have some affiliations with Catholic Charities . Only because it serves us . Baby birds that fly from the nest don ' t need any accountants . We still do . We are our own . We look further to the round table that you were suggesting with other nonprofit ' s . Thank you so much for being so understanding and sharing social justice with us . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : I think Karen actually talked to one of the representatives who said you were operating under the authority of Rockville Centre . That you were under the organization . That is where it came from. COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI : And I think November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 23 the discussion now, we ' re talking about expanding the eligibility to organizations that are located in Southold Town, it ' s kind of a non-issue . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : The headquarters is a non-issue at this time . MS . CATHERINE HARPER : Super . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Who else would like to address the Town Board? Robert? MR . ROBERT DUNN : Robert Dunn, Peconic . You may have heard it, it has been close to two weeks now . Really not critical for this month . But as you know, the permit runs out in January . They won ' t even give it to you in January . So it has to be done this year . It ' s close . The whole thing is going to go in the crapper . Before you do it, it might be a good to discuss with some of the neighbors about the way to approach it . As it ' s been closing and -- it closes when it goes east . As it has been doing that, it tore away some of the dune on East Beach . That is just -- SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : The County November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 24 property? MR . ROBERT DUNN : The County property . But that is going to be catastrophic . You know, if that dune goes , these guys will be doing repairs on Sound Avenue when waves come in . So it needs to be done . And then in the longer term, we lost two of the big mouths . And I don ' t mean that in a nasty way . But both Peter and you moving elsewhere . You were two of the big guys that kept them alive . And now it ' s down to me, and I am on the other side -- SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : ( Inaudible ) . Open? COUNCILWOMAN JILL DOHERTY : It ' s open now . Closes in January . Middle of January . We can have our Town Engineer look . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : We will have Mike Collins with Craig Jobs and maybe Nick and Glenn to go look at it . MR . ROBERT DUNN : Tim did a great job on the last one . It was while Michael was on vacation . And it was probably -- as a matter of fact, they did so good, there is still a sign hanging on the pole . November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 25 COUNCILWOMAN JILL DOHERTY : We can have Tim and Mike go out . MR . ROBERT DUNN : They stayed on top of it . It needs to be or it ' s going to fail . The other thing, I wasn ' t here last week . And so I listened to the work session on the computer because I had read about the grant money and all that, but that is all I wanted to do . As I was telling Jill , I couldn ' t hear anybody . The sound system -- and I was told you ' re getting somebody but I just wanted to reiterate, the sound system is horrible . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : We ' re actually -- in works fine in the conference room. The conference room is a Smart TV. So the consultant that we hired -- the problem is , we can ' t get the vendors here because they ' re too busy because of the explosion of Zoom. MR . ROBERT DUNN : Maybe Missy knows the technical aspect of it, but it ' s kind of when -- I think the microphone -- COUNCILWOMAN JILL DOHERTY : It ' s not the microphones . November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 26 MR . ROBERT DUNN : But the system takes out background noise . Some of them didn ' t come back on . Yours didn ' t come back on at all . As a matter of fact, you got up and went around with a battery or something . Yours didn ' t work well but it worked . Brian, he got close . If he got any closer -- and so he always talks . You do pretty well . Judge, not zip . COUNCILWOMAN JILL DOHERTY : The consultant is coming out next Tuesday and is going to assess the room. MR . ROBERT DUNN : Next Tuesday, is there going to be a meeting? COUNCILWOMAN JILL DOHERTY : No . They ' re coming to look at what we have and go over everything and give us suggestions of what we should do . Our tech guy -- MR . ROBERT DUNN : Let him go on the web and listen to something in the past -- COUNCILWOMAN JILL DOHERTY : He has . They ' re aware of it . Lloyd has been talking to them for a few weeks now . And they ' re aware of it . As Scott said, we just couldn ' t get them out here . We actually November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 27 moved a couple of meetings around on Tuesday for them to come . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Also , we did tell Lloyd, enough is enough . Whatever it takes . Spare no expenses . It ' s the future . We got to get it done . I think the board agrees with me . MR . ROBERT DUNN : Yes . It ' s a need . And then the last thing -- because I wasn ' t hear last week and I hope that this doesn ' t make you very uncomfortable, listening to tonight, which is all correct . You passed a budget last week . And I just want to give an at a boy on that . We all -- inflation -- and to be able to do it at 0 . 6 is good . I know someone else was here spinning it and saying it didn ' t sound good . It did . And you should hear that from taxpayers . And I am one of them. Thank you . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Who else would like to address the Town Board on any issue? (No Response ) . COUNCILWOMAN JILL DOHERTY : I will make a motion to close the hearing . November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 28 COUNCILWOMAN SARAH NAPPA: Second . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : All in favor? COUNCILWOMAN JILL DOHERTY : Aye . COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Aye . COUNCILWOMAN SARAH NAPPA: Aye . COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI : Aye . JUSTICE LOUISA EVANS : Aye . SUPERVISOR SCOTT RUSSELL : Aye . (Whereupon, the meeting concluded at this time . ) November 29, 2022 Regular Meeting 29 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 November 29 , 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 15th day of December, 2022 . J ssica DiLallo