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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTB-03/31/1998199 SOUTHOLD TOWN BOARD MARCH 31. 1998 WORK SESSION Present: Supervisor Jean W. Cochran, Councilwoman Alice J. Hussie, Councilman William D. Moore, Justice LouiSa P. Evans, councilman John M. Romanelli, Councilman Brian G. Murphy, Town Clerk Elizabeth A. Neville, Town Attorney Laury L. Dowd. 9:10 A.M. The Town Board met with Valerie SC°paz, Town Planner to discuss the Ground Watershed Protection and Water Supply Management Strategy. The Planning Board feels that the planning should be conducted by a separate group. Ms. Scopaz recommends that Suffolk County Department of Planning for this task. The first part or phase of the contract is to prepare the factual information or text. The second part will be to prepare supporting documentation for policies and draft legislation to implement specific recommendations of the product and management plan. Justice Louisa Evans questioned the fee, she said that they had done something similar and were not charged. Supervisor Cochran said that the Suffolk County Planning Department is now told by the Legislature that they must recapture some of their expenses. Two r~/ ~? S 18~ reauestinQ the assistance of the resolutions were added · ...... -. .~.- . · Suffolk County Planning Dept, entering into and authorizing the Supervisor to sign the agreement for these services. 9:25 A.M.- The Town Board met with Gerard Goehringer, Chairman of the Zoning Board of Appeals. Mr. Goehringer advised that the Appeals Board has been very busy and they have been doubling up on meetings and is finding it necessary to have the Fishers Island member present at more meetings. The Board discussed the philosophy of Section 20,2, Non-Conforming Buildings and Non-Conforming Uses. Edward Forrester, Building Department Head said they are running, into the homeowners bulldozing their houses because they want a new house. I~c is getting into voluntary verses involuntary destruction. This is another philoso, phy issue that the Town Board will address at their retreat. 9:0,5 A.M. - The Town Board met with Tom Maher and Ed Riley of Dvirka F, Bartlucci to discuss the Landfill Closure Plan. Unfortunately, the DEC was not able to attend today. They discussed the southeast corner of he property for a re-charge basin, near the scalehouse. If more is needed, there could be a second one near the entrance. The setback is twenty-five feet off the property line for a re-charge basin. Johanna Northam asked if this type of washboard closure has ever been done before, and if so, can we get information on it. Councilwoman Alice Hussie said yes that it has been done upstate New York. A seismic analysis must be done to provide allowance for earthquakes since Long Island is near a fault. Swales must be added to provide for drainage. The Lilco tower will have to be checked out. Mr. Maher asked the Board about what use they proposed for the plateau. If there is any use proposed, the cover will be very costly. The Board said that there will not be any use of the plateau. It is proposed to put the Ag Bag System in the old Sand pit. The Dec will require a letter confirming the use of the borrow pit, it will have to pitch to the south. Councilwoman Hussie said that a lot of the preliminary work has already been done. It was not clear whether the deadline was July 1st or 15th to present the final plan to the DEC. Tom Maher asked that meeting be set-up with the Town representatives and Dec representatives Tony Cava and Melissa Treers from Albany before finalizing the closure plan with a follow-up letter confirming everything. Councilwoman Hussie asked Tom Maher about pipes. Mr. Maher said that they will avoid pipes at all costs. 10:40 A.M. to 10:50 A.M. - The Town Board took a short break. 10:55 A.M. - Gary Vegliante of Power Alternatives presented the Board with a Summary Report on the creation of a municipal-electric utility. The following Long Island villages have passed referendums for creating their own electric utilities: Farmingdale, Lynbrook, and Hempstead. These villages will be contacted to see if they also did gas along with the electric. Another meeting of at least an hour will be necessary to lay out the plan on this. The referendum must take place before the El PA/LI LCO settlement. 11:00 A.M. Neboysha Brashich and the Scenic Byways Committee, together with Ernie Hutton of Hutton & Associates and Ken Bowers of Ferrandino F, Associates, Inc. appeared before the Town Board to give an update report. They have received a $55,000.00 grant from New York State to develop a scenic byway management plan. This is a pilot program for which the State is looking to the Town of Southold to develop a model plan for the entire state. Mr. Hutton presented a scenic corridors map describing the entire town. The two main roads being Routes 25 and and five local roads: New Suffolk Road, Bayview Road, SOundvi~ew Road, Oregon Road, and Narrow River Road. The public forum :is scheduled for the end of April. 11:55 A.M. The Board discussed IV For Discussion Items. IV 1. Crants will be discussed later on. IV 2. Scavenger Waste Plant employee transfer'- title will be checked.with civil service. IV 3. Re-appointment of Landmark Preservation members (see Resolution iNo. 19). IV. 4. Amendment i of Section 65-3 of Town Code "Parking At BeaChes" to enable marime recreational facilities to purchase parking permits for bikrng, fishing, and kayaking visitors {See Resolution 22.) 12:15 'P.M.- 12:30 P,M. r The Board reviewed resolutions to be voted upon at the regular meeting. 12:30 P.M. - The Board recessed for lunch and will reconvene at 1:30 P.M, 1:30 P.M. - The Board reconvened and discussed IV 1. 1998 Grants. (See Resolution No. 21.) It was agreed that thls will be the last year of this grants allocation project, a~ nd letters will be sent together with the checks so advising the organizab(~ns. 2:35 P.M. On Motion by Councilman Murphy, seconded by Councilwoman Hussie it was RESOLVED that the Town Board enter into Executive Session to Litigation, Acquisition of Property, Negotiations, and Leases. Resolutions Numbers 20 and 2u, were added onto the agenda as a result of discussions held. 3:53 P.M. - The work session was adjourned. 201 REGULAR MEETING A Regular Meetin~l of the Southold Town Board was held on March 31, 1998, at the Southold Town Hall, Main Road, Southold, New York. Supervisor Cochran opened the meeting at 7:30 P.M. with the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Present: Supervisor Jean W. Cochran Councilwoman Alice J. Hussie Justice Louisa P. Evans Councilman William D. Moore Councilman John M. Romanelli Councilman Brian G. Murphy Town Clerk Elizabeth A. Neville Town Attorney Laury L. Dowd SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: A motion to approve the audit of bills March 31, 19987 Moved by Justice Evans, seconded by Councilwoman H~ssie, it was RESOLVED that the following bills be and hereby are ordered paid: General Fund Whole Town bills in the amount of $78,792.12; General Fund Part Town bills in the amount of $2,821.97; Highway-Fund Whole Town bills in the amount of $3,370.76; Highway Fund Part Town bills in the amount of $2,297.50; Capital Projects Account bills in the amount of $4,705.00; Ag Land Development Rights bills in the amount of $117,977.00; Landfill Cap and Closure bills in the amount of $7,60L[.84; Computer System Upgrade bills in the amount of $3,649.81; Seaview Trails Capital Fund bills in the amount of $484.88; Employee Health Benefit Plan bills in the amount of $26,920.26 Fishers Island Ferry District bills in the amount of $16,832.77; Refuse and Garbage District bills in the amount of $6,138.99; Southold Wastewater District bills in the amount of $4,633.70; Fishers Island Sewer District bills in the amount of $543.3~; Southold Agency and Trust bills in the amount of $8,/~t28.13; Fishers Island Ferry District Agency and Trust bills in the amount of $136.17. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Romanelli, Councilman Moore, Justice Evans, Councilwoman Hussie, Su pervisor Cochran. This resolution was duly ADOPTED. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Board meeting? Approval of minutes of March 17, 1998, Town Moved by Councilman Moore, seconded by Councilman Romanelli, it was RESOLVED that the minutes of March 17, 1999, Town Board meeting, and the March 18, 1998, Special Town Board meeting be and hereby are approved. Vote of the Town Boa rd: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Romanelli, Councilman Moore, Justice Evans, Councilwoman Hussie, Supervisor Cochran. This resolution was duly ADOPTED. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: To set the date of the next Town Board meeting, April 14, 1998, at u~:30 P.M. Moved by Councilman Murphy, seconded by Councilwoman Hussie, it was RESOLVED that the next meeting of the Southold Town Board will be held at 4:30 P.M., Thursday, April 14, 1998, at the Southold Town Hall, Southold, New York. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Romanelll, Councilman Moore, Justice Evans, Councilwoman Hussie, Supervlsor Cochran. This resolution was duly ADOPTED. I. REPORTS. 1. Southold Town ' Police Department Monthly Report for February, 1998. II. PUBLIC NOTICES. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: In relation to Public Notices I would like to call your attention to the listing of the Spring Leaf and Brush Cleanup that the Superintendent of Highways, Mr. Jacobs, provides, and Orient to Truman's Beach is April 20th, Truman's Beach to Moore's Lane is April 21st, Moore's Land to South Harbor Lane in Southold is April 22nd, South Harbor Lane to New Suffolk and Nassau Point to Alvah's Lane in Cutchogue is April 23rd, Alvah's Lane to Mattituck to .Laurel Lane, Laurel is April 2Ltth, so that brush and clippings have already been put out in front of your houses, but please pay attention to the dates. It makes the job of the Highway Department easier if it is out there the first time they go through. So, I just want to call your attention to that. There was several other public notices in relation to the U.S. Corp of Engineers. 1. Southold Town Superintendent of Highways Notice of Spring Leaf and Brush Clean-up.. 2. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, Notice of Complete Application of Cove Condominiums Homeowners Association for a permit to dredge with ten years maintenance and Subsequent upland disposal in Corey Creek, Littel Peconic Bay, Town of Southold, Written comments to be received by April 1L~, 1998. 3. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Division of Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources, Notice of Application of Alex Villani for property aquaculture activity involving the culture of shellfish on less than a five acre parcel of State underwater land in Long Island Sound, Mattituck, Southold. Written comments by. May 8, 1998. III. COMMUNICATIONS. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: We had a letter from Geri Woodhouse, she is Executive Director of Retreat, and it was a farewell kind of letter. She is moving on evidently. 1. Geri Woodhouse, Executive Director of The Retreat to Supervisor Cochran. IV. PUBLIC HEARINGS. None. V. RESOLUTIONS. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: As you know the Town Board has a policy that if you would like to address the Town Board on any of the printed resolutions, that you have the opportunity now. If it is something that is not on as a resolution at the end of meeting there is time to address the Board on any Town business, that you would like to share with us. At this time, if there are any questions in relation to any of the resolutions I certainly will entertain them now. JOE COLD: Joe Cold, Cutchogue. I have a questions about the resolutions. I have questions on what the resolutions mean. Resolution 16, authorizing and directing the Supervisor to execute an agreement with Dennis Bannon. What does it mean? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: This officer is retiring, and the agreement, I believe, that we executed was to .allow him to receive his payment, his payout. I believe he has opted to do it over several years rather than one year, or take it all now, which kind of benefits us in a way, Joe. JOE GOLD: The other one is resolution 20, purchasing property on Main Road, and demolishing it. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: That is the property here. I shared that with you, I think, at the last Board meeting on the corner. We would like to acquire that. MARCH 31, 1998 203 JOE GOLD: The house next door here? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Yes. To square off the property. Most people feel it is a good business move. If in the future the Town Hall has to expand, and they decide here they would at least have the land to do so. JOE GOLD: Number 23, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to sit in on the Work Session while the report on the municipal electric studies was being made, and I really envy the Board', because you have an exciting opportunity here, It sounded to me like a win-win, no risk, can't lose proposition, and applaud the Board for getting it on the agenda immediately here. SUPERVISOR GOCHRAN: Thank you. What this will do, Joe, is to start the process to enable us to get enough information as we can to share with the community at large. I believe it will go to a referendum, and will be their decision, but meanwhile we feel it is very important that we can collect as much data, costs, everything, and this resolution allows us to start that process. So I am asking the public at large to, please be patient until we are able to gather all the information, and we can go in a direction. JOE GOLD: The report that was handed out, will there be copies of that made available to the public? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Yes. It is public information. JOE GOLD: One last thing, I would like to - applaud Councilperson Hussie's determination. You have been in on this for more than ten years, that I know of, and without that determination and persistence it wouldn't be happening, and the time is now, because of the change in the regulatory climate, and the change in technology. There is stuff coming up, the microturbines, and the fuel cells, that are going to make it a whole new ball game. I applaud you getting us into it. Thank you. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Mr. Carlin? Anyone else like to address the Town Board? FRANK GARLIN: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Number 12, information center? You talked about it a year ago. What was delay? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Frank, the grant that we got was $25,000, and we had hopes to be able to put together, and get a bid that would give us a half way decent building for $25,000. We sent it out twice, and we still had to cut it down. What we have now, we are working with is that is very similar to the size that is now there. So, we are hoping that at this juncture that a bid will come in at the $25,000 mark, and we can get it built. We would like to have it ready before summer. FRANK CARLIN: You can't build very much for $25;000. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: I know that. FRANK CARLIN: The one that we have in Laurel there, that was back in '86, that was 'over $30,000 then. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: That was about $35,000. FRANK CARLIN: $35,000, and the Town Highway put in the cesspools, and that wasn't included. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: We did some in kind services. We will be doing some here too probably. FRANK CARLIN: I mentioned to you a year ago, and you said this $25,000. It is going to be more than $25,000, and then you got your bids out, it came back around SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: I did mention it to the Mayor of Greenport, because they benefit from it more than we do actually, to work some kind of a partnership. We haven't met with them yet, so I don~t really have a solid response to that, but we are going to do the best we can. FRANK CARLIN: You will have to go some, though, to get that done before summer. It is kind of a hard time to start, but late ts better than never. Number 23, number 23 seems to be the lucky number tonight. COUNCILWOMAN HUSSIE: i know you are going to talk to me, Mr. Carlin, right? FRANK CARLIN: Well, you are part of the Board. What I wanted to say is that I remember 1986 we had a referendum on that. It was voted down, but anyway. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: I don't think it ever got to referendum, did it? FRANK CARLIN: Yes, we did. COUNCILWOMAN HUSSIE: It was not quite 213. FRANK CARLIN: Two hundred thirty was voted down in 1986. Only thing I want to say tonight is, do what you got to do, because when LIPA takes over we will have a rough time getting your utility company in here. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Thank you. Is there anyone else that would like to address the Board on any of the printed resolutions? (No response.) Number one? .-Moved by Justice Evans, seconded by Councilwoman Hussie, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby modifies the General Fund Whole TOwn 1998 budget as follows: To: A.1910.~.300.200 A.1910.[[.300.~00 A.1910.[[.300.600 From: A.1910~.300.700 Insurance, C.E. Public Officials Insurance, C.E. Police Professional Insurance, C.E. Umbrella 1 .- Vote of the Romanelli, Councilman Moore, Justice Supervisor Cochran. This resolution was duly ADOPTED. $ 708.00 117.00 3,000.00 Insurance, C.E. Deductibles & Small Claims 3,825.00 Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Evans, Councilwoman Hussie, 2.-Moved by Councilman Murphy, seconded by Councilwoman Hussie, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby grants permission to the Southold Town Tree Committee to place advertisements in The Suffolk Times and The Traveler Watchman to promote their Memorial Tree Committee Program; said cost not to exceed $750.00. 2. - Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Romanelli, Councilman Moore, Justice Evans, Councilwoman HusSie, Supervisor Cochran. This resolution was duly ADOPTED. 3.-Moved by Councilman Moore, seconded by Councilwoman Hussie, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby authorizes and directs Supervisor Jean W. Cochran to execute a lease_ agreement between Sprint Spectrum L.P. of Mahwah, New Jersey and the Town of Southold for the installation of a 1[[0 foot monopole, removal of old existing 90 foot lattice tower, and placement of Police Department's antennas on the new structure, at Police Department Site, Main Road, Peconic, at a rental fee of $2,000.00 per month, for a term of twenty five (25) years with a 3% increase per annum, all in accordance with the approval of the Town Attorney. ~,iARCH 31, 1998 3. -Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Romanelli, Councilman Moore, Justice Evans, Councilwoman Hussie, Supervisor Cochran · This resolution was duly ADOPTED. q.-Moved by Councilwoman Hussie, seconded by Councilman Romanelli, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby grants permission to Marilyn quintana, Receiver of Taxes, Scott Russell, Assessor, Claire C;lew, Senior Assessment Assistant, and John Sepenoski, Data Processing Equipment Operator to attend a eastern five town meeting with Suffolk County Treasurer John Cochran~ at his Riverhead Office, to discuss information stored on computers which they might be able to incorporate into future computer modifications, and necessary expenses ~for travel be a legal charge to the ReceiVer of Taxes, Assessors~ .and Data Processing. Departments 1998 budgets. ~..- Vote of ' the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman' ' Murphy, Councilman Romanel Ii, ., Justice Evans, Councilwoman Hussie, Su .pervisor . This resolution was duly ADOPTED. 5.-Moved by Councilman Romanelli, seconded by Councilwoman Hussie, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Sauthold hereby accepts the resignation Of Karen E. McNeil, part-time Clerk Typist in the ToWn Clerk's Office~ effective March 31, 199.8.. 5.-Vote of, [the Town Board: Ayes. Councilman Murphy, Councilman Romanelli, Councilman Moore, Justice Evans, Councilwoman Hussie, Supervisor :Cochran. This resolu~tion 'was duly ADOPTED. 6.-Moved by Councilwoman Hussie, seconded by Justice Evans, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby authorizes and directs the Town Clerk to advertise for a part-time Clerk Typist for the Town Clerk's Office, 17 112 hours per week, at a salary of $6.8:) per hour. Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Moore, Justice Evans, Councilwoman Hussie, This resolution was duly ADOPTED. 7.-Moved by Justice Evans, seconded by Councilwoman Hussie, it was RESOLVED that. the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby grants permission to Deputy Town Clerk Linda J. Cooper to attend a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Seminar on new and proposed changes for 1998-99 conservation licensing, to be held at Stony Brook, N.Y., on Tuesday, April lU,, 1998 from 9:30 A.M. to 12:30 P.M., and the necessary expenses for a meal and travel shall be a legal change to the Town Clerk's 199~ budget. 7. -Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Romanelli, Councilman Moore, Justice Evans, Councilwoman Hussie, Supervis(~r Cochran. This resolution was duly ADOPTED. 8.-Moved by Councilman Murphy, seconded by Justice Evans, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Should hereby waives the fees for Alarm Permits for the Volunteer Fire Department Station Houses in Southold Town. 8.-Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Romanelli, Councilman Moore, Justice Evans, Councilwoman Hussie, Supervisor Cochran. This resolution was duly ADOPTED. 9.-Moved by Councilman Romanelli, seconded by Councilwoman Hussie, it was RESOLVED that ~h.e Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby appoints the following individuals as part-time Matrons to assist the Southold Town Police Department, effective immediately, at a salary of $9.76 per hour: Nancy ' Carman, and Mary H. Ciupryk. - Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Romanelli, CoUncilman Moore, .Justice Evans, Councilwoman Hussie, Supervisor Cochran. This resolution was duly ADOPTED. 2O5 10.-Moved by Councilman Romanelli, seconded by Councilwoman Hussie, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of S0uthold hereby- authorizes Venetia McKeighan, Director of the Southold Town Human Services Department to coordinate together with various service organizations, the transportation of town residents to receive medical treatments at out of town medical facilities within Suffolk and Nassau Counties, using a town van driven by Volunteers from the community. 10.- Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Romanelli, Councilman "Moore, Justice Evans, Councilwoman Hussie, Supervisor Cochran~ This resolution was duly ADOPTED. 11.-Moved by Councilwoman Hussie, seconded by Justice Evans, it was RESOLVED that the Town 'Board of the Town of Southold hereby accepts the resignation of Alexander R. Nyilas from the SouthOld Town Scenic Byways Advisory Committee~. effective March 31, 1998.~ 11. - Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Romanelli., Councilman Moore, Justice Evans, Councilwoman Hussie, Supervisor Cochran. This resolution was duly ADOPTED. 12.-Moved by Justice Evans, seconded by Councilwoman Hussie, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby authorizes and directs the Town Clerk to re-advertise for bids for the construction of a Tourist InfOrmation Booth at S. Wentworth Horton Memorial Park, New York State Route 25, New York. 12.-Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Romanelli, Councilman Moore, Justice Evans, · Councilwoman Hussie, Supervisor Cechran. This resolution was duly ADOPTED. 13.-Moved by Councilwoman Hussie, seconded by Justice Evans, WHEREAS, Assembly Bill 93-26 was passed by New York State Assembly on March 2, 1998; and WHEREAS, one of the purposes of said bill is to add additional members to the Health Research Science Board, which board will oversee distribution of taxpayer funding for breast cancer and prostate cancer-related projects; and WHEREAS, the intent of said bill is in part to include breast cancer activists as voting members of said board, now therefore be it RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold supports the passage of this bill; and be it further RESOLVED that the Town of Southold strongly fins that a voting East End representative should be appointed to the Health Research Science Board in the event that said bill becomes law. The Town Clerk is hereby directed to send certified copies of this resolution to all State and County representatives. 13.-Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Romanelli, Councilman Moore, Justice Evans, Councilwoman Hussie, Supervisor Cochran. This resolution was duly ADOPTED. 14.-Moved by Councilman Murphy, seconded by Councilman Moore, WHEREAS, it is the policy of the Town Board of the town of $outhold to preserve prime agricultural soi!s and to protect the scenic, open space character of the Town; and WHEREAS, the Town of $outhold has taken actions to clearly define, delineate and implement this policy of land preservation by acquiring various parcels through the Farmland and Open Space Programs, and WHEREAS~ the Town Board of the Town of Southold realizes the value of nurturing and protecting the quality of life for its residents; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby transmit. to Suffolk County Legislator Michael J. Caracciolo to present to the Suffolk County Legislature, the Arshamomaque properties and the Dam Pond property as candidates for open space acquisition ultimately to be acquired' through the Suffolk County partnership Program. 14. - Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Romaneili, Councilman Moore, Justice Evans, Councilwoman Hussie,~ Supervisor Cochran. This resolution' was duly ADOPTED. 207 J'!?~A RC N 3~, SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: I think this is a very appropriate moment to announce that the Town of Southold today received a grant in the amount of $337,500 towards the acquisition of farmland rights· So, this is a nice piece of change to add to our bond money, and we certainly will continue purchasing farmland development rights to help preserve our open space· The resolution we just passed in relation to Michael Caracciolo, County Executive Gaffney, his partnership program for buying land, the first step is sending a resolution to our County Legislator, Mike Caracciolo, and then he send a resolution to the Suffolk County Legislature, and then we will be in the hopper to become a part of the partnership program with County funding. It is a matching program. BE IT I. h 1'. 15.-Moved Justice Evans, seconded by Councilman Murphy, WHEAl was to the Town Board of the Town of Se~ 1998, 'A Local' Law in Relation to A Stop E an .~'; now therefore, be it RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby sets 5:00 P.M., Tuesday, April 14, 1998, Southold Town Hall, 53095 Main Road, Southold, New York, as time and place for a public hearing on this Local .Law, which rea Is as follows: to a Stop Sign at Willow Pond Lane tt Board of the Town of Southold as follows: s ~; Traffic) of the Code of the Town of Southold is (Stop intersections with stop signs) is the following: Stop Inter- Location Sign on of Travel section With (Ham!et)' I IW.ill°w P;ond Lane West~ ~:learvieW Avenue SOuthold · This Local Law shall take effect upon its filing, with the Secretary of State. *Underl :sents additions. 15. -Vote ir Ayes: an Moore~ Justice Su 'an. Thi~ [uti.on ~was dUly ADOPTED· Councilman Murphy, Councilman Evans, Councilwoman Hussie, ilman: Romanelli, seconded by Councilman Murphy, it was Town Board of the Town of S~outhold hereby authorize ~ Supervisor Jean W. Cochran to execute an agreement between S0uthold and Dennis Barmen, retired Police Officer, whereby entitled to be compensated in the amount of $38,666.5~I :eive compensation in biweekly payments all in accordance with agreement as prepared by the Town Attorney. SUPE still we I stand corrected. I thought he had opted for but the way he is taking it is as if he was legal pay check but he won't be on the job. I stand 16. - Vote of ird: Ayes: Moore, Justice Su Cochran. This reselution iwas duly ADOPTED. Councilman Evans, Murphy, Councilman Councilwoman Hussie, 17.-Moved by Councilman Murphy, seconded by Justice Evans, WHEREAS, the Town Board of the Town of Southold is seeking to adopt an action strategy to protect and preserve watershed areas of the town in order to insure pure drinking water for its residents, and WHEREAS, the Town Board also is seeking to set the parameters for the future distribution of public water supplies, and WHEREAS, the Town desires to avail itself of planning assistance from the Suffolk County Planning Department, and WHEREAS, pursuant to section C-1~ of the Suffolk County Charter, towns may request assistance for such purposes from the Suffolk County Planning Commission, now, therefore, be it RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby requests the assistance of the Suffolk County Planning Commission in the provision of professional planning ser.v, lces to be provided by the Suffolk County Planningl Departn~ent, arid be It FURTHER RESOLVED that the Town Board shall provide payment for said services in accordance with a scope of services to be agreed upon by the Town of Southold and the Suffolk County Planning Department. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: I would just like to take a moment to explain this a little bit. As you may or may not be aware, the Suffolk County Water Authority gave a grant to the Town of Southold in the amount of $75,000 either in money or in kind services, Part of teat entire strategy in relation for planning for Southold is to bring together the Water Authority, ourselves, and part of that was also to bring together the Suffolk County Planning Commission with Steve Jones, and so forth. So, this is putting in place things that we already are receiving the grant money for. 17.-Vote of the Town 'Board: Ayes: Romanelli, Councilman Moore, ,Justice Supervisor Cochran. This resolution was duly ADOPTED, Councilman Evans, MurPhy, Councilman Councilwoman Hussie, 18.-Moved by Councilwoman Hussie, seconded by Councilman Romanelli, WHEREAS, the Town :'Board of the Town of Southold pursue.hr to Section C-1~ of the, Suffolk ~:0unty Charter has requested the aSsistant of~ the Suffolk County. Planning bepartment~in th~ provision of Professmnal planning services to the ToWn in the PUrsuit of an action strategy for the protection of the Watershed areas of. the town to provide for pure drinking water for the present and future residents of' the, town, and WHEREAS, the Suffolk County ent has agreed to provide such services for a cost not to exceed twenty thousand dollars WHEREAS, the ,Town of can realize significant cost savings to its taxpayers by availing itself of the Suffolk County Geographical Information System (G,IS) and the current and past work of the County Planning Department lc Estuary Plan (PEP), the Long Island SOund protection Area (SGPA) Plan, now, it RESOLVED that the Town Board of .the Town of Southold hereby agrees to pay to Suffolk for the provision of I attached ~ Sco FURTHER hereby agreement between Department, all' a not to exceed twenty thousand ($20,000.00) services in accordance with the and be it Town Board of the Town of Southold ~ Supervisor Jean W. Cochran to execute said of ~ and the Suffolk County Planning approval of the Town Attorney. COUNCILMAN MOORE: Before I vote on this, one thing that I was pleased to see in this, is loaded down eur Planning staff with lots of projects~ and by the Town's Planning staff, one, we are not hiring staff members for th.e Town, we are reaching out to existing planners and that iS there, and already has GIS Systems in place. The second thing, which i liked When I saw the agreement that was put together was that this includes not only a plan, which wi!l not. just be i',~on the shelf, but :the work inc!udes implementing, and putting ~t in the legislation, that has to be put ~n place ..to execute the plan, so I was very happy to see that. I am happy to vote, yes, on that. 18. -Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Romanelli, Councilman Moore, Justice Evans, Supervisor Cochran. This resolution was duly ADOPTED. Murphy, Councilman Councilwoman Hussie, 19.-Moved by Justice Evans, seconded by Councilman Murphy, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby reappoints the following individuals to the Southold Town Landmark Preservation Commission, 'for a term of two (2) years, effective April 5, 1998 through April 5, 2000, they to serve withou~ compensation: John C. Cronin,. J r. ,John B. Greene, Robert G. Kassner and Ralph O. Williams. -Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Couilcilman Murphy, Councilman Romanelli, Councilman Moore, Justice Evans, Councilwoman Hussle, Supervisor Cochran. This resolution was duly ADOPTED. MARCH 31, 1998 2O9 20.-Moved by Councilman Murphy, seconded by Councilman Romanelli, WHEREAS, the Town of Southold seeks to acquire a parcel of land adjacent to Town Hall for the purposes of eventual further expansion; and WHEREAS, parcel SCTM No. 1000-61.-1-5 immediately to the west of Town Hall is for sale, and WHEREAS, the owner of the property is prepared to sell the property to the Town of Southold, and WHEREAS, the Town of Southold has had the existing structure on that parcel evaluated by engineers who find that it lacks the structural integrity to function as a public office building, and WItEREAS, the so that the site NOW, TEIEREFORI 6~, and'220, and : commits to , purchas, further described authorize SuperviSor and be it FURTHER the FURTHER Law thal shall post and Southold seeks to remove the existing structure use by the town, RESOLVED that pursuant to Town law SeCtions : referendum, that the town hereby at 52875 Main Road, Southold, A, for the sum of $170,000. and n W. Cochran to execute the necessary documents; a,nd determined that after the purchase is complete, the necessary additional steps to demolish the existing site, and be it uant to Sections 82 and 90 of the Town fr°m the date of this resolution the Town Clerk a notice Which shall set forth the date of the adoption of the resolution, shall contain an abstract of suCh resolution concisely setting forth the purpose and effect thereof, shall specify that this resolutions was adopted subject to a permissive 'referendum~ and shall pu :he Traveler Watchman, a newspaper published in in the Town of S0uthold, and in Clerk shall post or cause to.be posted on the s' a copy of such n~ti~e within ten Ayes: Justice s dGly ADOPTED. this resolution. until 30 days after adoption. Councilman Murphy, Councilman Evans, Supervisor Cochran. No: the that add taxpayer. lust as a word, the purchase of the property on ant upon the sale of another piece of property [ent. Therefore we are hoping that we will this facility without any additional cost to the 21. Su Romaneili, seconded by Councilman Moore, it was Tdwn :Board of the Town of Southold hereby allocates Jnds under the 1998 Grants Program: Indian Museum) Center, COOL Project Council, Inc. J Town, Inc. eot Legion Post No. 10~5 Post No. 803 School Project n Post No. 861 oard: Ayes: Councilman Justice Evans, $500.00 $500.00 $500.00 $500.00 $1,000.00 $500.00 $500.00 $SO0.O0 $500.00 $500.00 $350.00 $3500.00 $2,500. O0 In Kind Services Murphy, Councilman Councilwoman Hussie, was duly ADOPTED. JUSTICE' I am voting, yes, because the total I agree with. I do every one on here, but we have them all together, so I am tS. COUNCILWOMAN HUSSIE: a line item veto. I have to agree with Louisa. I would have liked SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: How long did we work on this today? I think we spent more time on this than the electric company. COUNCILWOMAN HUSSIE: That is why I said, yes, because we can't do it that way. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Let's get it out of the way. In fact, the Town Board has discussed that perhaps we will be retiring this grant program. I think they are pretty strong on this feeling. It has been talked about for the last several years. Th. is was started, mayb.e fifteeni twenty years ago, when Southold '~own received very few services in the area Of social services~ So, what-the B°ard at that time came up with was that they would give them like starting funds: Funds were given to Hospice~to start. One woman wanted to start a home in Greenport for unwed mothers. There were many different things through the years, Which served the community! filled some of their needs. Technically it is illegal, it is illegal to dO this. The Boards have continued to do this through the years, because the State 'has i3ever really brought us doWh' on it. They have n&Ver said, ¥ob must not do this anymore, because it was such a nominal amount.~ But, it has gotten so that the requests have grown, and grown, add grown, and what did it add up tod:ay, if we gave everybody what they wanted?. It was in the thousands of dollars. COUNCILMAN ROMANELLI: $u,7,000, I think it was. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: And we only had $20,000 'in this fund. The first .$5,000 we agreed to give to the Fishers Island Conservancy, who is Involved ina lawsuit with the Navy for dumping their spoils, their dredged spoils next to Fishers Island in Long Island Sound, and it will effect the environment on that side, so we certainly are concerned with it. That left $15,000, and it is doesn't go very far, so this year as the checks go out they will also receive a letter that says, you know, we regret having to stop the program, but we can just no' longer serve or help as many people as need it. The last one here, Greenport and Southold Summer School project is not finalized as yet. It has been added in the total but the Town Board wants a little bit more information on this particular one .before it is finalized.'-Greenport School has been having meetings, and they are looking to do a pro~ram in the school this summer. Many times through the years many of our people in our different towns.hips have said, why we don't we utilize the 'schools more? Greenport this summer would like to utilize the school in providing a program for young people that would not only keep their sociai 'and their academic skills up, so that they slid back through the summer. They re.el that many kids are being dumped int~) Special Ed, when all they need is perhaps a little bit more ~ncouragementy and they will allowed to u. se computers, and Internet; an.d!.ther.e will be some cu}tural, and there will be some recreational, and so It !!S going to b~ a combination of a program, and the Mayor was attendilng the same program, and so I kind of looked at him, and he looked at m~, and we felt we could have the Vii age and the Town wOrk in partnershil~ each giving $2,500 to be able to provide this program to the .young'people'.in that area, t.h. at it certainly would be a worthwhile project, so the Board will be d~scussing that Further, but they have been kind enough to Put it on th~ list. 22.-Moved by Councilman Romanelli, seconded by Councilman Murphy, WHEREAS, there has been presented to the Town Board of the Town of Southold, on the 31st day of March, 1998, a Local Law, entitled "A Local Law in Relation to Parking at Beaches"; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby set 5:00 P.M., Tuesday, April !u,, 1998, Southold Town Hall, 53095 Main Road, Southold, New York as the time and place for a public hearing upon this Local Law, which reads as follows: A Local Law in Relation to Parking At Beaches BE IT ENACTED, by the Town Board of the Town of Southoid as follows: I. Chapter 65 (Parking at Beaches) is.hereby amended as follows: 1. Section 65.3.D. C1) One Day nonresident permits is amended as follows: (1) One-day nonresident parking permits may be issued for the parking of vehicles on the parking areas at Southold Town Beach, Norman E. Klipp Marine Park, and New Suffolk Beach to any person by the Attendant on duty at such parking areas; and also shall be sold in books of fifty (50) permits to the proprietors of the followin9 recreational businesses: Bike Rentals; Kayak Rentals; and Fishing Stations. II. This local laTM shall take effect upon filing with the Secretary of State. ~ * Underline represents additio~n.s. ~2.-Vote of the .~ Town ,Board. Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman - ~ Romanelli, Councilman Moore, Justice Evans, Councilwoman Hussie, Supervisor Cochran. This resolution Was duly ADOPTED. 23.-Moved by Councilwoman Hussie, seconded by Supervisor Cochran, WHEREAS sented to the Town Board of the Town of Southold, , 1998, a Local Law, entitled "A Local Law in Relation to Creating A Municipal Electric Utility in the Town of Southold; now therefore, be it RESOLVED · 3oard of the Town of Southold hereby sets 8:00 P.M., Tuesc 1998, Southold Town Hall, 53095 Main Road, Southold, New time and place for a public hearing upon this Local Law, follows: A Loc~.l ~l.~:!n :.Re.!.atio.n to the Creation of a Municipal EI~iC !Utility in the Town of Southold BE IT ENACTED; the:T0~vn Board of the Town of Southold as follows: Section 1~ ~tle, ~urpose ~nd Definitions. 2.L(A). Enactment. Pursuant to Section ~0 of the Home Aule La~, and Section 360 of the General Municipal Law, the Town of Southold, county of Suffolk and State of New York, hereby enacts 'this local 'law to create the Town of Southold Municipal Electric Utility. 1.1¢B~- Ef~e0tive Date~ The local law shall take effect on the filing of the approved Local Law with the Secretary of State of New York, which shall be within five (5) days after its approval by a simple majority of the voters by mandatory referend~ at an election to be held to approve this local law, pursuant to section 360 of the General Municipal Law. 1.2. Intent. WHEREAS the Town of Southold is a Town duly formed under the laws of the State of New York, and; WHEREAS the Town Board Of the Town of Southold is duly' empowered pursuant to Section 360 of the General Municipal Law of the State of New York to form a Municipal Electric Utility for the Town, and; 2 1 2 b'iARCH 31, 1998 WHEREAS it is essential for the well-being, livelihood and safety of the residents and businesses of the Town, and of the other consumers of electric power in the Town, including the Town itself, and of their families and guests, for the economic climate of the Tow~, and for the protection of private and public property within the Town and the value of that property,, that the supply and distribution of electricity to the residents, businesses and other consumers of electric power in the Town, and the Town itself, be provided in a reliable manner, and at a fair and reasonable cost, and; WHEREAS the Town Board has determined that the most reliable, fair, and economical way for the supply of electricity and electrical service to be provided to the Town of Southold, its residents and businesses and institutions, is by the creation of the Town of Southold Municipal Electric Utility, the TownBoard of the Town of Southold hereby, enact this local law for the intent and purpose of establishing a Municipal Electric Utility. pursuant to Section 360 of the General Municipal Law, and all of the powers and duties thereunder. Section 2.;Eq~pm~ an~ Fao~lities, Maintenance ~ Se~m~ice. and SuDDlV The Town of Southold Municipal Electric Utility shall acquire the necessary e~pm~and facilities, and either establish necessary functions for or procure contracts for the maintenance, service and billing of the electrical energy system and utility, and a supply of electricity such as are necessary for the creation of the Southold Municipal Electric Utility. The proposed method of constructing, leasing, purchasing, or acquiring, theeq~pm~and facilities for the municipal electric utility, together with both the maximum and the estimated costs thereof, the method of furnishing such service, and the method of obtaining electrical supply shall be as follows: 2.1.~:q~l~me~t:, and Facilities. A. The TOwn of Southold Municipal Electric Utility will obtain by purchase or condemnation the electrical distribution 31, ~99B 213 system within the boundaries of the Town currently owned by the Long Island Lighting Corporation ("Lilco"), and purchase, condemnation or agreement for the use of the equipment of the Fishers Island Electric Company, and will construct such additional infrastructure as may be needed to separate itself from the Lilco system. The Town of Southold Municipal Electric Utility also may construct its own generating facilities to supply electrical energy to its customers and, in its discretion, may construct new infrastructure instead of acquiring Lilco property. B. The maximum and estimated cost of the items set forth in subparagraph A. hereof, should be forty-seven m{llion one hundred thousand dollars ($47,100,000). C. The cost of the acquisition of thee qu~,facilities, distribution system and any other costs that are necessary for the implementation of the Town of Southold Municipal Electric Utility shall be paid by the issuance of a bond by the Town for the useful life of the equipment and facilities, and the longest maturity possible, which is expected to be thirty (30) years. D. The entire costs of the acquisition, construction, development, implementation and operation of the TOWn of Southold Municipal Electric Utility including the debt service of any financing that is created in order to pay the costs thereof, including the long term bond that is described herein, as well as any other costs of the Southold Municipal Electric Utility, will be paid in the first instance from the revenues generated by the Town of Southold Municipal Electric Utility' and will not have any effect on the general budget or real estate taxes of the Town. 2.2. Service and Maintenance of Equipment, Facilities, and Distribution system, A. The Town of Southold Municipal Electric Utility will obtain Service and maintenance for the infrastructure of the Municipal Electric Utility, and billing and management services by obtaining contracts with suitable and acceptable maintenance, service and billing companies% The contracts will be supported wherever possible by a performance bond of an amount acceptable to the Town. B. The Town will also consider and retain the ability and power to create its own maintenance and service and billing department, including the equipment, materials, and supplies required for that department, in order to provide service and maintenance to the Town of Southold Municipal Electric Utility if the Town deem~ it to be in its best interests to do so. 2,3, Electrical SuDDlv, A. The Town of Southold Municipal Electric-Utility will obtain its supply of electricity either by contracting with a utility or supplier, or by generating its own electricity, or a combination thereof. 3.0. Mandatory Referendum. This Local Law shall be subject to approval by a mandatory referendum of the residents of the Town of Southold, to be conducted at an Election or Special Election pursuant to and as set forth in Section 360 of the General Municipal Law of the State of New York, the Election Law and Town Law of the State of New York. The Town of Southold Municipal Electric Utility shall be effective and granted the full powers entitled to it by law on the date of the approval by a simple majority of the referendum, and the filing of the Local Law with the Secretary of State of New York. Dated: March 31, 1998 Town of Southold Suffolk County, New York COUNCILWOMAN HUSSIE: We really should be having a discussion, but I think I am going to do a little bit of explanation on this. This ultimately will go to referendum. We can't do anything at all until you say, yes, go ahead, but by forming the utility it gives us the opportunity to go out and solidify the various numbers that were presented in this report. This report talks about the most expensive possible cost to us to set up a municipal company. As soon as we form our own then we can go out, and actually get bids on how much electricity would cost, actually get bids on how much it would cost to wheel it, and all those kinds of things. I was informed this evening, as I came in, that the Suffolk County Legislature passed the law that says there will be a referendum on the LILCO/LIPA situation in November, which is a very good thing to hear. While we are talking about all those numbers, you know there you have the promise that your costs are going to be reduced by 19%. Right now, the worse scenario here reduces our costs by 30%, which would bring that $.165 down to $.10, and if we can go with the best possible way it would bring our costs down to $.085 a kilowatt hour. ~,ARCh 31, 1998 23. -Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Romanelli, Councilman Moore, Justice Supervisor Cochran. This resolution was duly ADOPTED. Councilman Eva ns, Murphy, Councilman Councilwoman Hussie, 2~.-Moved by SuperVisor Cochran, seconded by Councilman Murphy, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board. .of the Town of Southold hereby appoints Gregory yakaboski to the .positiOn. of Town Attorney, at a salary of $52,000~00 per annum, effective April 10, 1998, he to hold such office until the first day of January next succeeding the first biennial town election. ilq'-V°te of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Romanelli~. CounGilman Moore, Councilwoman Hussie, Supervisor Cochran. No: Justice Evahs. This resolution SUPERVISOR CC Before I call on with you. This it is from the become involved pictures of whal think is the be~ Hall, and .~ what So, I COU all we ,t than wh~ entertain as duly ADOPTED. CHRAN: That is the end of our prepared resolutions. Town reports I would just like to share a couple of things the ad that is going to appearing in the newspaper, and Scenic Byway Committee, and it is. to encourage you to n their photography contest. What they are looking for are you feel is the worst scene in S0uthold, and what you I believe they intend to display them at the Legion will be able to go in, and view them, and vote on and the worst, and there will be a prize given. tell our audience to, please, go out and take a and send them in. You never know. I think that is business is concerned. I will ask anyone in the address the Board on any town business, other conducted tonight. We would be very happy to :htS. Mr. Siegmann? ED SlEI a question at the moment. Will there be a prOblem? COU NC.I that IE: I will have something to say about the meeting I have something to say, yes. ED SIEGM/~NN: something~ a~ter will refrain from talking now, but I may want to say report is made. SUPERVI: Alice, why don~t you give that now? COUNt Public Riverhead Riverhead discus~ letters. have all those p was very confusing. this, concerned call don't is to Jul they a~e require mean, I~ul decision. care Act. mostly, programs. who has parties once b~ HUSSIE: Last Thursday the representative from the sion came down to talk to the Town of Riverhead, and me to go and listen to what was being said. The Committee was meeting. I don~t have to go into their [11 tell you a few things. Many of you have gotten these complained to the Public Service Commission, and .rs saying, why has this rate gone up so much, and .hat you had, and you got back a letter llke this, which ri.g, and until last Thursday I had no idea why it was so You j~dst could not understand it, but I would like to tell you if you are having the basic rate, if you are just rate, which is the one that gives you what they stations, NBC, WOR, those from New York, and you complain to the Public Service Commission. The rate Public Service Commission only after the fact, and to make a decision or a recommendation by May or June. 180 days, so I think that would probably would be closer when you get to the Federal government, the FCC, lo regulate the Family Cable, that we deal with. They have Broadcast Basic on it, the broadcast stations I ~ss, and education, and everything else is a company ~nications Commission is the one that is taking is all as a result of the 1996 Telecommunications ~, however, which is the thing that I am working on ate the rates, and the franchise can not regulate the being taken care of by Assemblywoman Pat Acampora, for the last month to try to get all of the involved to talk about these rates, and the increases. As I said really makes me very incensed to think Cablevision only had 215 to go to the PSC, and say, we want to put five more channels on, and therefore we have to raise our rates. They were never asked what those channels would be. The fact that three of them are income producing channels never had to be considered, but nevertheless I am continuing to work on this cable thing, cable franchise. I am going to be putting a few things together, that I think are important, and I am going to bring it to the Board so that we can have a united front on this, and then go and meet them. I am just waiting for Pat Acampora to get her other group together. ED SIEGMANN: It appears to me that it looks like each town i§ going to negotiate on their own. Is that correct? COUNCILWOMAN HUSSIE: That is pretty much the way it is working. ED SIEGMANN: I understand Westhampton has already made an agreement. COUNCILWOMAN HUSSIE: Easthampton. ED SIEGMANN: Easthampton, and the only concession that they got was to have a senior citizen discount for certain senior citizen. Now, I got a call from June Marcley from Cablevision, that. wanted to know from me, am I the fellow who .has got his name in the paper fighting this thing, and I told her I was. She said she would like to talk to me, and find out just what the people are upset about. I met with her along with a fellow from the committee in Riverhead, and I gave her nine things that we are upset with, and not only involving senior citizens, but involving everybody. To save time I don~t w.a. nt to go thro. ugh .the nine things, that I gave to her, but appears to me ff everYbodY is going to go out and negotiate on their own then if some people settle ahead of time, but don~t sign, even though they don't sign, the fact that they settle, whatever they got~you are going to be saddled with. They are' not going to give one town more than what they are going to give another town, and I am afraid now with the one settlement that they have that the only thing they are going to come along with is a senior citizen discoUnt, and I think it is wrong, because there are a lot of other things that have to be corrected besides that. I feel that it is a mistake if this is the way it is going t.o happen. I was hoping that all of the towns would negotiate with Cablevis~on together, but if this is going to happen I am going to appeal te the Board again for what I have asked before. I think since the other towns have a committee that are working on this, I think that our Town Board ought to appoint a committee also, that when we sit down, or when the meetings are held with Cablevision that there will be some input from the public in reference to what we think is wrong, or what we would like to get. Thank you. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Thank you, Ed. If I may share with you, also, June Ma'rcley, and the gentleman came in to see me, and also asked for our complaints (tape change) That those of us that have not settled are not settling, so I think what you h.ave to do is..I am kind of waiting to see where Pat Acampora's direction is. The east end toWns have been working together on this. COUNCILWOMAN HUSSIE: There are a number of things that are indigenous to each town in some instances. Riverhead, for instance, being what is called the host town has gotten certain things done like on their harbor, and the cablevision company has done certain things for them. They don't have anything in our town for 'instance, or in any of the others for that matter either, so Obviously the contract has be a litUe bit different. The one thing that the five towns have agreed upon is that they are not going to sign a contract until each of us is satisfied, even though each of us has a slightly different point of view. One of the things that I am particularly interested in haw:ng happen is that the hook-up fees' be eliminated all together. Right n0w they have hook-up fee. To bring it to your house is one thing, but if yoUr house happens to be somewhat remote you are charged X number of dollars per foot depending on the distance that they have to bring the wire.. I don~t see why. that has to happen at all. I would like that out. The se.nlor discount, I think is important to :;);'~: ?i ;~,qARCH 31, 1998 2.1.7 have {n, and Riverhead [s having that. They don't get a franchise fee, though, because they just have the senior citizen discount, and the senior citizen discount is for those people, the eligibility is determined by whether you are on Medicare or Medicaid. That is all .I am going to say now. We could have a constant talk about this. ED SIEGMANN: What I said about the senior citizen discount I don't mean 'not to get it. There are lot of other things. I can't understand for the life of me why under basic cable the only Long Island news channel that we have is Channel 12, and why they don't put Channel 12 on basic cable, when they give us news from wherever, but they don't give the people the Plus the fact that when basic first came out you all the Mets games. You had Channel 11, that gave all They took them off, and put them on pa[d channels, Where,you have to pay $11.00 and change, plus buy a box, that you pay for every month in order to see the Mets play, or to see the yankees play'. 'Those things they took off of basic cable, and then they up the price of basic cable, so you got it both ways. The only thing that disturbs. ~me. with. this whole thing, we have committees for scenics.. We have commltte6s for all 'sorts of things in the town, Why the Bbard is reluctant to appoint a committee for this problem I don!t .rqUite understand., because I think it is a very serious one for the simple reason ma~ny a per if.they want to ~ave the family.pac islon is co: for .that than it does for are hollE like about. LIPA and complaining Of electr but done about the cost if we let it go on ~ years from n going to be a damm sight higher than what electric is. SO; to have a }t sOme..plqce, and I don't th[nk there ,[s any time like the I; to get it ~tarted. COUNCILWOMAN HUSSIE: I talked to Cablevls[on about Channel 12. I said I thought {t was very peculiar considering Channel 12 {s owned by Cablevision, why wouldn't they put {t on Cablevision? I was told that, well, in the case of an emergency there would be news on Channel 12. I fail to see people in an emergency sitting there and looking at TV, though. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: I gave them the same bit. I said that you certainly could take your basic programming, and add to it. Where you have increased the price give them more for the dollar under the basic. Ed, it's not that we are reluctant to form a committee. I have been waiting, and this is about the third time I have said it, to see what AssemblYwoman Acampora, ~she iS: developing a task force. This task fOrce will include all the east end towns, and then some, because I have of the other Supervisors up island, :and they are interested also. It may be a different television service, but they have the same kind of complaints, so they are interested in coming' on Board also. I thin~k a larger, committee is going to.. not a larger committee, but a of more towns is going to have more Committe~e. that, is representative clout perhap§~ to make s°me'Change. ED I agree with you. You told me that last time, but the ont saying now, since I heard that each town is going to on.their own, it is an all together .d. ifferent p. icture.. I know what doing,!=know she i.s calling a meeting. She is trying to get everybody in, including the District Attorney, and. that would be one phase of wha[ you would doi to fig. hr Cablevlsion.. But, if each town is going to go out~ and negol~iate ion their own, then it seems to me you have to handle that part of it in a different way, than what Pat is handling. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Alice, don't you agree that the way it's set up that there are certain things that the town is offered differently to us than to Riverhead, and those are the things we negotiate. There are two separate issues. There is one that only can negotiate. ED SIECMANN: I agree with you 100%. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Thank you. Anyone else like to address the Board? 2 1 8 31, 1998 MELANIE SANFORD: Melanie Sanford, Southold. I came to the work session this morning, and my concern is really about the daily beach permits, bicycle permits. That is the only one I am concerned about, really at this point. I was wondering how does the Board plan to distinguish between local bicycle riders, that want to go down to the beach, and the · visitors that are coming to the town, that would need a permit to go use the beach facility? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: It's for a car. A lot of people transport their bikes out on'their cars, kayakers do the same. They transport the kayak on the car, and we are finding that more and more people are coming out, and what they do is look for road ends, and park, and off they go. We are trying to encourage them at $8.00 a day, is what it cost $8.00 and change, you have to pay New York State sales tax, to encourag, e them to park in established parking areas that belong to the town, be It a town beach or whatever, so it is actually a one. day permit f. or car ,parking, to allow people to use either, or the kayaklng, or the bicycle rifling, or whatever they want to do. MELANIE 'SANFORD: So, it wouldn't apply to bicycles going to the beach? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: No. You can ride your bike. MELEANIE SANFORD: Very good. I was wondering because I know that Scenic Byways spokesperson, Neb, came to the session as well., .and the discussion Of bik~ patios came up, and I wondering was, that initiative, was that parer: of ~the $~5,000 gr.ant f.o.r sCenic byWays; or was that part of the $77,000 grant~ that the DOT Is' d°~ng? · SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: There was.a grant from the ISTEA, what they call the ISTEA funds, and those funds were used for the bike loops. I think we have four throughout the town they are working on. MELANIE SANFORD: ISTEA, what does that stand for? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: I knew you were going to ask. COUNCILMAN MOORE: It's Transportation Efficiency Act. Federal, it's Intermodal Surface MELANIE SANFORD: Are those the ones that are then behind this? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: We got those monies for the bike paths, and the bike groups. We got a different grant, and somebody help me who it came from, for the scenic byways. It was State grant. I think it was an EPF, Environmental Protection Fund, I think, but don~t quote me on that second one, but if you come in we can tell you. MELANIE SANFORD: Then my concern was kind of aroused because he mentioned that they are going to be developing maps of all the places where people were going to be cycling, which would include possibly side streets, and it's one thinq for people in town, I think it's a great thing, but are these maps going to include neighborhoods, prorate neIghborhoods? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: I think they have tried to establish them where it is the most scenic, or lovely areas of Southold. COUNCILMAN ROMANELLI: They will be private neighborhoods. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: public roads. One goes down through Bayview. They are MELANIE SANFORD: I know Route 25 and ~8 were named, and then there were five others. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Narrow River Road, Bayview, Oregon, New Suffolk Avenue, Soundview up Mill Road. MELANIE SANFORD: The maps are going to be distributed? MARCH 31, 1998 219 COUNCILWOMAN HUSSIE: I think you are mixing two things. The bike path is one thing, and the scenic byways is something else. The map on the table we are talking about is scenic byways, which is primarily u,8 and 25, and just having the public identify the pretty things. You know, this is part of that contest, the photography contest, the vistas, the historic places, things that just kind of make you. feel nostalgic. On the other hand there are some that are absolutely terrible, that you don't want to see them. They have to be identified, and that is what that map was about. We are not going to have maps. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: You have mixed two things together. MELANIE SANFORD: So this body won't be generating maps? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: No, not to my knowledge. MELANIE SANFORD: Will the DOT be generating any maps? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: I don't think so. COUNCILWOMAN HUSSIE: This is separate from the bike paths. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: In fact you will probably notice all around the town, that bike signs have gone up, and they are only about this big, and they have bicycles going around the outer end, and they are coded to colors of the ride itself. We had some complaints because people felt it was signs all over the place. I went out riding the other day, and did my field trip, and checked, and I don't find them that offensive at all. COUNCILMAN ROMANELLI: Riding on a bike, or riding in a car? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: I was riding in a car, John. MELANIE SANFORD: I noticed them by Goldsmith's Inlet, and I was speaking to someone in Mattituck, and he mentioned that he had some on his street, and they are even in Calves Neck. Are they coming to every neighborhood, because we are having problems as it is? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Where they are is where they are, I think at this point. If you don't see one right next to your fence, that is on town property. I had a complaint. I don't think they are down Founders. COUNCILMAN MOORE: You have free ride down there. You can go up and down the road, but you are not guiding down there. MELANIE SANFORD: So, to date to the best of your knowledge there are ..no maps that are going to be drafted? The DOT is not going to be doing any? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Not to my knowledge, It hasn't been brought to our attention as yet, if they are planning to do maps. MELANIE SANFORD: And none have been generated to be distribute in Times Square, or anything like that? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Not to my knowledge. Internet or.Web site somewhere. Joe? It may end up on the JOE GOLD: On the question of the employment of the Town Attorney, is that in addition to, instead of, the existing Town Attorney? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: In place of. JOE GOLD: Is he going to be the only Town Attorney? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Yes. JOE GOLD: There will be no Assistant Town Attorney? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: No. Anyone else like to address the Town Board? SCOTT HARTFORD: We will start off with who I am, who I work for, and why I am here. My name is Scott Hartford. My folks owned a house here in Southold for twenty-eight years, t am a 1995 graduation of North Carolina State, Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineer, minor in computer programming. Currently I am employed by the Tram Company as a sales engineer. They are the largest manufacturer in North America of air conditioning and heating equipment, worldwide, the company started in 1933. I am here regarding the recent mechanical contract awarded for the new Elementary School in addition to the Junior and Senior High School. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: I am only stopping you because we have absolutely nothing, no jurisdiction, over a school district. You have to see the School Board. SCOTT HARTFORD: There were certain legal issues brought up by the school district, that I am here to inquire about. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: We would not be able to give you any answers. In fact, it goes so far that as they build the school we have no authority. We can not issue permits. We are not a part of the plan, the site plan. SCOTT HARTFORD: Budget money? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: No. They are their own taxing agency, and as a school district they do it all, so you are in front of the wrong board. You have to go to the. School Board over here at Southold. SCOTT HARTFORD: Do they have bi-weekly meetings? COUNCILMAN MOORE: It might be tonight. I am not sure. SCOTT HARTFORD: They do hold their meetings on Tuesday. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: So, when you leave, do you know where the school is? Just check it out. I am sorry we ~canmt help you, but we had some concerns ourself in relation to removing trees, and putting parking ten feet off the town roads, and all along the length of Oaklawn. There is going to be some severe changes. Although we can not dictate or tell them, we did offer our services, and we have had a little input, but they are on their own. SCOTT HARTFORD: Thank you. I appreciate your time. FRANK CARLIN: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Frank Carlin. Tonight my subject is Scavenger Waste Plan[. I remember back. . years back, when we never had a Scavenger Waste Plant. You could go in the Landfill, and dump everything there, chemicals, waste and everything. In fact, I took pictures of that back in '198u,. This is one in color, and this is one in black and white. These are what it looked like then. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: That is what we used to call the lagoon, but it was open dumping. FRANK CARLIN: We had no scale at that time. They let you drive in, anybody could dump what they wanted. Around ~86 we closed it down, about ~86. Greenport took it over with the contract, right? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Yes. It is on Greenport property, and in five more years Greenport can opt, we have to give the plan to them, they can opt whether they want it or not. If they don~t want it we have to take it down if we are not going to use it, and restore the property to it's original site. It was Federal funding. FRANK CARLIN: .Right, and I believe that plant when it was built it cost about 2.5 million dollars, right? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: I don't recall the figure. ~iAF~CH 31, 1998 221 FRANK CARLIN: That is what it says here. I got something here I want to explain to you. I want to explain the history of the Scavenger Waste Plant. It is very interesting. Pay attention. I am going to explain what happened from '86 to today. I have a copy here of the Suffolk Times, dated December 18, 1986. Now, let's review some dates here. What I am saying is exactly what is in this paper. Ruth Oliva, she was a member of the NFEC, made a visit to that plant in 1986. I was appalled at the conditions she told: the Board at it's meeting. The odor from the area affecting the administration building. People have difficulty working. The building was .supposed to have been built. There was a trailer around $7,000. Was it ever built? SUPi RAN: The trailer was put UP there. She had.her office in Frank, in the plant,:and because of the: odor, we put the trailer there for her to have her office, FRANK C. ARLIN: They were thinking about a building. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: In place of the building was the trailer that we did. FRANK CARLIN: At that time, Frank Murphy, at that time when Mr; Hubbard was Mayor of Greenport. There was a 30,000 gallon spill at that time, but then it was determined that there were two spills. It was also determined that it caused by a defective flow valve. You, Madame Supervisor, at that time was a Councilwoman. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: I don't remember the spill, but I remember everything else you are talking about. FRANK CARLIN: Then you are going to remember what I am going to say now. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: I don't know until you tell me, Frank. FRANK CARLIN: You mentioned in this paper, it's just not safe to send people down in those tanks without a rope, safety harness, or scotpac. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: It's true. You should have seen those tanks. FRANK CARLIN: That's right. Equalizing tanks. In fact one man went down there, and he came out he was on his back for three days in this paper. The carters at that time, back twelve years ago, were complaining that the ramp was too steep, they couldn't unload completely their trucks; SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: I believe they have always complained about the ramp. FRANK CARLIN: Was it ever corrected? Was any of these corrected? We don't know. RUTH OLIVA: Part of the ramp was changed. They had to change it. It was too steep. FRANK CARLIN: Didn't they complain recently, though, about it being too steep? RUTH OLIVA: That was when they got the rock in there. FRANK CARLIN: What are we going to do if Mayor Kapell decides he don't want the plant? Ne dumps it in our lap, right? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: The land reverts back to Greenport. The plant stays ours, and we have to demolish it, and put the site back to it's original condition, if that is what they request. 2 2 2 MARCH :31, 1998 FRANK CARLIN: That sets a familiar tune to me. Just like the Police Department, they dumped that in our lap, and cost the taxpayers thousands, and thousands, and thousands for eighteen months, and now these problems 'here wasn't"i:orrected, dump that in 6ur lap. How much is it going to cost us to get it in shape? If we are going to build a new plant it is going to be more. COUNCILMAN MOORE: That was the whole point, we are looking at a lease With only five years left us, actually we were looking at this two years ago, seven years left on it, we couldn't justify With only seven' years left on a lease all the money that had to be spent to bring up to the proper operational condition. Now, you can sit there and say, gee, it never should have gotten to that point, and you are absolutely right, but, that was the state of affairs, so you can't change that fact. It was allowed, to run poorly and inefficiently all along, and in all those Cases Where it was a piggyback system, management contract with the Village, and the Town Board took their hands off of it in many respects, and said, it is out of sight, it is out of mind, and somebody else is tending the shop. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: The whole thing was organized when they built it. FRANK CARLIN: What you are admitting then is that the Town Board neglected to oversee it. COUNCILMAN MOORE: Absolutely. FRANK CARLIN: So, you take the responsibility for that, right. COUNCILMAN MOORE: Yes. I wasn't here then, but, sure. FRANK CARLIN: Also, Greenport should take the responsibility for not living up to maintaining through the contract. COUNCILMAN MOORE: One could certainly say that. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Yes, you could certainly say that. FRANK CARLIN: So, we have two people at fault here then. COUNCILMAN ROMANELLI: We are not looking to point fingers at this point. We have three or four years left on a lease. As this point we are looking to find out how we are going to find out how we are going to handle this situation in the future, so it doesn't get dumped on our laps at the end of the lease, and all of sudden we have to do a rush situation. That why we are at the point now, where we are realizing there are problems with it. We are trying to move forward with it, and say, okay, let's make a plan. Let's determine first if the town is going to stay in this business. If we are, then let's sit down with the engineers. We are working on the landfill capping, possibly putting the tank up there. You should be happy that we finally have a Town Board that is willing to look at the situation, and solve the problem, and not turn their head on it. FRANK CARLIN: John, I am happy, but I am not happy when it looks like the people are going to start paying over $.08 a gallon to have their cesspool pumped out, when it was $.0u~ a gallon. I am not happy on that one, and this is what the outcome of it is. COUNCILMAN ROMANELLI: That's exactly what the outcome of it is. FRANK CARLIN: Because in '86 it was only $.02 a gallon. COUNCILMAN ROMANELLI: At this point it is not because of the plant, that it is $.08. I mean you have to remember we are the only town that doesn't process their own waste, so we are always going to have an additional trucking charge in Southold Town to move the wastewater out of the town, because we are not processing it. We are storing it in the tank, and then we have to truck it out of here. Every other town in Suffolk County that has cesspools either processes it, or they are closer to the Bergen Point facility where the individual .haulers bring the waste to that location on their own, so Southold Town is always going to have an additional trucking charge. I don't care what kind of plant we put up. Unless we decide that we to treat our own waste Fight here, and not truck it out, we will always have that charge, and it is something that if we are going to stay in that business we need to realize and accept. FRANK CARLIN: Do you have plans on trucking it out, or are you considering building a Scavenger Plant? Building a Scavenger Plant is go.ng to cost you a lot of money. COUNCILMAN ROMANELLI: I don~t think building a Scavenger Waste Plant is in our plans. FRANK CARLIN: now? It cost $2,500,000 back then, what is it going to cost COUNCILMAN ROMANELLI: We don't have enough galionage to support the plant, you know to actually build it, support it, staff it. We don't have enough wastewater. FRANK CARLIN: What I am saying is, too, and I don't want to park back on this again. The Police Department was a shamble you dumped it in our lap. Now, this thing became a shamble. It was dumped in our lap, and who is going to suffer for it is the taxpayers. Now, this was your ordinance written in 1986 Southold Town Board, so you still charge $10.00 for a permit to pump your cesspool out? COUNCILMAN MOORE: Yes. FRANK CARLIN: One charge to pump is $10.00. COUNCILMAN ROMANELLI: I don't know what the fee cost is at this point. TOWN CLERK NEVILLE: It is still $10.00. FRANK CARLIN: Do you still require one pump ever three years to pump your cesspool out? That is the ordinance rule. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: That was part of the deal in order to get the Federal funds, and I wasn't on the Board at that particular moment, but I always understood that once you had your cesspool pumped you got on a list, which was maintained in Town Hall. I would say' probably the Town Clerk's Office, but then you had to have it pumped out every three years. I believe that is part of the stipulation for the funds, and new construction, but this was never really enforced. COUNCILMAN ROMANELLI: When was yours pumped out last? FRANK CARLIN: I got it right here in my bill. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Tell us. What were you charged for a pumpout? FRANK CARLIN: I was charged $10.00 for a permit. It was $.02 a gallon at that time, tax and everything. COUNCILMAN ROMANELLI: That was more than three years ago. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: What did it come to, Frank? FRANK CARLIN: I'll tell you one thing, you ain't getting me to pump out my cesspool every three years, because if you are going to $.08 a gallon you are going to sit up there, and you are going to expect all these people in Southold Town to pump out every three years, and have to pay $.08 a gallon. You ought to be having another dream someplace. Come on, John. COUNCILMAN ROMANELLI: I don~t think there is a person in town, who gets their cesspool pumped out every three years. I think most people pump their cesspool out, when the cesspool is full. FRANK CARLIN: It's unbelievable. When you tell it to other towns, the people in other, we have to have an ordinance here that tells you you have to have your cesspool pumped every three years. COUNCILMAN MOORE: money, Frank. That was the condition of receiving the Federal COUNCILMAN ROMANELLI: In order to get the Federal money that was a condition of the ordinance to the Federal money. I donlt think there is a person in town who has had their cesspool pumped every three years. FRANK CARLIN: Then you have in here, the inspector come around, and he looks at, and he can gives you a variance, if he feels it is necessary. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Frank, I don't think any of that has ever really been put in place. The way it has always been handled through the years is if you need your cesspool pumped, you get it pumped. FRANK CARLIN: This should be changed then. It says, one pump every three years. COUNCILMAN ROMANELLI: We should look into thal~. If it still says it in the Code, then it should be taken out. FRANK CARLIN: Another thing, why do you need permits to pump your cesspool out, when you are paying the Town already the fee to pump your cesspool out? Why do you have to have a permit for? COUNCILMAN MOORE: Frank, the entire ordinance put in place that you are referring to was a condition of receiving the Federal grant money to build the Scavenger plant. The theory was that you don't want all the nitrogen, and what not from waste going into the groundwater, and they would pay for the creation of a Scavenger Plant for you. The condition of getting the money was to create a scavenger waste district, and you had to put the local law in place. The scavenger plant was supposed to last twenty years. That was the engineered use for life of it. We sat and said, we really don't want to dismantle the ordinance. It has never been actively enforced. You are absolutely right, but the last thing you want is to knock on the door from some bean counting bureaucrat in Washington saying, how many years has that plant been in operation? How can we recoup some of that money? That's it in a nutshell. We have to get past the twenty year use for life span, we are already looking down the road. What are we going to do? We are not going to operate there, because we don~t envision operating a scavenger plant. We are looking at the landfill as a holding facility. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: That is all this is now, is a holding tank. Up at the landfill we are investigating could we have a holding tank? I think the Town Board has to decide what is the philosophy? Is the Town responsible for providing this service? We provide a landfill for garbage carters, so there are lots of things we are looking at right now, Frank, and we realize there is a problem. In fact, I have spoken to the Mayor, and said, that when we do set up the meeting, which will be the first part of May, I would like, it's difficult, he might not be in office at that time, but we would like an indication from Greenport what they plan on doing five years from now? Do they plan on accepting the plant, or do they plan on saying, no, we don't want it? An indication has been, no, we don"t want it, but I would like to hear from the entire Board. If they don't want it, as I said earlier, it reverts to us. Actually they can say, we want the property put back to it"s original site. We will have to pay to take that building down. What we are doing right now is just a holding tank, so you have both the sludge and water, that we are transporting out of town. In prior years when the plant was operating you would have the water and sludge separated, and the sludge would go to the drying beds, so it was less gallons, less number of gallons going to Bergen Point. We felt badly that we had to increase it to $.07, but prior to that, even before the price increase, the Town was absorbing one penny of the operational cost on each gallon, so we felt where it was being raised to us we had to pass that on, and we realized also, and that is why it comes in do we get in this business, because we realize that some of these old, old houses, and the ones that are pumped out the most, because of the old cesspools, and that 225 ,',/.AP, gl{ 31, ~998 is where you have senior living, that can not afford a $700 to a $1,000 bill for pumping a cesspool. We are aware of all this, Frank, and we are putting it all together, and we are looking to solve some of these problems. FRANK CARLIN: I can understand, Madame Supervisor, and I understand what you are trying to do. I am not questioning that. Don~t get me wrong. I asked Bill a question, and you went right on to what you had planned on. That wasnJt my question. My question was, why are you charging people $10.00 for a permit to pump their cesspools out? Is it necessary to milk $10.00 out, when they are going to ha~e to be doubling their fees to $300.00 to $~00.00 to pump it out as it is withoUt tax. / . _ COUNCILMAN MOORE. If $10.00 makes a difference t'b me. Frank, that was all part of it. FRANK CARL!N: All part of the ordin, a. nce, well, change it. then. That is what you have ~ame.n. dments for. Don't sit there and telI' ~ne it's part of the ordinance. Change COUNCILMAN MOORE: That part we can certainly look at. No doubt about it. FRANK CARLIN: haw towr SUP prio When I say last time, I think it was last time. You people a tendency not to get your priorities right. There is more to this than just open space. You got to look at the priorities. -'.RVI SO R COCHRAN: titles. Come sit with me for one day. You will see FR NK CARLIN: There is more than open space, believe me. This is one of t ~em. SUP me it, TO1 inc of purl ERVISOR COCHRAN: One of the things I just asked Laury, it seems to it was a requirement or part of the agreement, a permit charge. Was .aury? Do you recall? 'N ATTORNEY Down: Yes, I believe it was part of the requirement Jding the fee, but I was going to go back, and take a look at minutes ~dopting this, and find out more of an explanation of what 'was the )ose of that. FRANK CARLIN: You know, $10.00 here, and $10.00 there, adds up, especially when you are going to go up to almost $.07 to $.08 a gallon from $.02 a gallon. Senior citizens, you know, they watch their pay checks. A lot of them are only living on Social Security here. It's easy for you people to sit up there, increase your fees, or whatever you want to do, but you have to think about someone else once in awhile. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Yes, we do, Frank. We really do. Do you have anything else? FRANK CARLIN: I will say one more thing before I leave. I got a call the other night from somebody, and he said to me, Frank, you are wasting your time going up in front of the Town Board. I said, no, I am not, because I am not a Monday morning quarterback. I donJt go around town mumbling, and groaning something. I got something to say, and if I think I am right, I will come here and discuss it. I am not wasting my time. Some times, though, I have the impression that it does go in one ear and out the other. HANK KUEN: Hank Kuen from Laurel, just picking up on' what Mr. Carlin said. What is the administrative costs of a permit? What does it cost you to issue a permit? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: A cesspool permit? The charge is $10.00. HANK KUEN: If it is costing you $11.00 to give a $10.00 permit, it doesn't make any sense. JUSTICE EVANS: It Was required by the Federal Ordinance for record keeping purposes, They have wanted to have some.way of keeping track of Who was Oetting pumped, so that if we were enfOrcing the three year pump Out we Would have record of who had a septic pumped. We domt know ~hat. ~That is why LaMry is going to IO°k at the minutes, and see. HANK KUEN: Has the government ever come baCk and said, let's see your permit list? ' ~ SUPERVISOR cocHRAN~ The Federal government?' No one has ever come in. COUNCILMAN MOORE: As I said before~ we are hoping that continues to be the case. I can tell you one instance in Riverhead. Seven years after the flooding from a April storm that flooded the back of Riverhead, and water everywhere,. Seven-years later FEMA Came back, was asking the. Town of ~Riverhead fOr' their oVertime records, and SliPs on highway: department, and everything else, so never underestimate'the ability of somebody coming back. FRANK CARLIN: Do me one favor. Waste Plant, as of today, right? Greenport still has this Scavenger SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: No, we are running it now. FRANK CARLIN: You are running it now? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Only as a holding tank right now. We were not happy with the service provided. FRANK CARLIN: Now, if I was them people going down in the tank with no harness. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: That doesn't happen anymore. No. FRANK CARLIN: You guarantee that, right? SUPERVISOR COCHRAN.: Yes. FRANK CARLIN: That's what I wanted to know, because that is a health hazard. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: It was worse than that down there many years ago. Anyhow, anyone else like to address the Town Board? (No response.) If not, I will call for Board reports. I will start on my left with CounCilman Romanelli. COUNCILMAN ROMANELLI: I was put on the Board of the First Night of Greenport. I attended their first meeting for the year. Believe it or not, they are planning already for this coming New Years. They are an enthusiastic group of people. They have all sorts of ideas. They are actually even starting to plan for the millennium, which is two years away, but they are looking to get community spirit. They are looking to bring local artists in, local activities, all the way from..the original thought was to start in Mattituck. Now they are saying we can take the Main Road, and bring attractions all the way from Riverhead, and bring people out to Greenport. They are looking to involve the whole community in any way that can. Young, old, doesn't matter, they want it to be a real community event. The planning stage has just started, and they are an enthusiastic group. You will hear more about it as time goes on. This was the first meeting. Then, also, last night I attended the Greenport-Southold Chamber of Commerce monthly dinner meeting. Councilman Murphy came w|th me, also. They had a speaker from the LILCO/LIPA deal. He gave his views on it, and the room was filled up with local business people, and he didn't fare very well. He was beat up very hard on his speech. Most people were against it. He was trying to sugar coat a deal, or try to present a deal that just came off as a sugar coated deal to the public. It was a turnout. The Chamber had a nice turnout. In fact next month's meeting they have Richie Kiesler scheduled to speak. The other side of the coin, so, I will be curious if he keeps the appointment, and shows up. That is for April's meeting, the last Monday of the month, or the third Monday of the month, so that ought to be interesting, too. You will see it in the paper, and if anybody has any views on it, and you want to express your views either way on the LILCO/LIPA deal, or as we passed today, Southold Town municipal electric. The Chamber meetings are open to. the public, so anyone is welcome to come. It ought to interesting, and you will have a nice turnout, a.n.d .you can hear the views of the people, and express your own. Claudios m Greenport on the 30th. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: That's 'it, John? Alice, nothing at this point. William? COUNCILMAN MOORE: Very brief, we had gre.&nhouse topic of the conversation of the Code Committee, and we hope we are going to pull together . some recommendations for the greenhouse industry, and our planning staff and ToV~n Board have put together some comments. We will have thatl to the Board shortly. Affordable Housing Committee meeting is Thursday of this week; and I am hoping to wrap those guys up. We have got some ve. ry' excited people who .have some good ideas on'that, and the final thing i's we have given an' assignment to our Planning staff and the Building Department on the business uses, and that has to do with compresSi 'list. [ mentioned at the last Board: meeting. We de some us in a along very I irt at that time. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Councillman Murphy? COUNCILMAN MURPHY: Nothing at this time. SUPERVI share of week. I Town. 100 on last these action of students Southoi up, two litter be 8 of Kiwar peopl~ less the I¢ from make _ large,l sat, office cour~ been perh~ ![ N: Louisa? I have a few things I would like to I know the East End went up to Albany last week to land tax. I was not able to go, and none were available. We must all have had a busy did, 'so, Jim McMahon did go up and represent Southold the limits on the south shore will be 250 and e.) People felt the concerns for the law some concerns in relation to farmers, and all worked out, so hopefully we will see some year, I met the other day with a couple Pride Program, and the high school We had a represenl~ation from Greenport, :h~ols,. We began to plan our town-wide clean uld do for the first year is stay with the to encourage neighborhoods to pick up the' It ~s going to be April 25th. It is going to ~ each of these schools are in the process service organization, Lions, Rota~ry, ~'t see this as just a high school student Jnity project with both adults and young are going to be hearing a lot more about the quality of life. Well, part of it is with Reverend Fulford frOm the Baptist wanted some information in relation to the may, or may not have noticed on the CUtchogue Church, there is now a sign on of their church. I had Ed ForreSter I think we clarified a 'lot of things to i something that any of you, the public at a project, come in and talk to Ed first. It could save you some you in the right direction, so that it Hilary came in, and we which is Save Our American le has a fantastic video tape that is in my to view, any Town Board members, or great ~!eal. The home base ~for that, of and the environmental building has just · ahead, and we have ihigh hopes that into the ISTEA fund, and get a kitchen dining hall up there· Although that is County property we work together· We had a department meeting. What usually happens at a department head meeting is they are updated on action that the Board has taken, so that the staff, and the Board are on the same wave length, plus they bring any problems in that they see within their department to report on goings on in their department, so it has proved to be very valuable. As a result of that we h'av.e gotten the ZBA, the Building Department, and the Planning Department to meet on a regular basis. They discuss different process, different permits, that are coming in, again, to help move them through the system more efficient than they have been in the past. I had the opportunity, CAST sponsored Women in Conversation. There was an article in the paper last week. I hadn't been to one off their meetings, so I thought I would go down, and take part in the conversation, and it was worthwhile. ~lf there is any of you, you know, even in the watching audience, give Linde Clements a call in the Cutchogue Presbyterian Church, and she can give you information on it. It was really worthwhile; I had a meeting with .Mike Frank, who is Commissioner ~of Suffolk County Parks .'~n .relation to Inlet ~Pond Park. As :he County owns the property Up by and the Ua~iculture people~!want to the County owns a property. years ago. It takes= i~ :. At. the same so bought a small portion property, and every .once in awhile but they. are looking to buy 17 acres, and it's got a house on it, 3eir property up there. It hasn't closed yet, to do, and we are looking to maybe work a I have mentioned it to Neb Brashich, as far as are f(~r a home. Audubon is looking for a home, so I am s. ure this building will b.e utilized in some way. I attended Jubilee Day In St. Paui~s :C~rCh m Riverhead, Which was a celebration of Lincoln signing of the on Proclamation; it was time I had gone, and year. It: was a fun kind of Farm Bureau d wo~ld like to con are farmers, who have been farming and it · E is the first ~t~me the Farm has honored [ we can show our had the opport raised for worked a bar draft a~ tips for it~ evening then District, s complaints, meeting: in come down ~or it's for farmland a grant on Dam Pond. WE 1 preserved. So,; ,~we had Lowry from. the Nature Peconic Executive in-the McMahon, and beg in to 'importan*~ to save, because he was Mike Caracclolo This .was one do, so we get funds with the Bessie Swann's retJr people there, me.ny Board, and, the to be a celebrity I had the; ti ps~. ~hey g on their is for a Commi in relatior As I I ;. Since ~ ,for the are very came up with some the partner., came outi a~ld .w~ can re moving 'n ~th~ ~nt ,dinner, It was ~s~ years, and has served us to MARCH 31, 1998 addition I took a tour around, as we always do, the Beach Committee, and the Recreation Committee, and made list of all that has to be done at our beaches and parks this summer, and our ball diamonds, and one interesting point, when the Commissioner from the County was here I asked if we could do something in relation to where you come off the ferry. It's a scenic look. You see all these signs. There are over twelve signs in the first 100 feet when you get off the ferry, so the County does own that property. It's a park, and Mike Frank says there is no reason why we can't work in some kind of a partnership to clean it all up, and put the signs at least in an attractive manner with some shrubberies, so these are kind of thing we go around from time to time, and. try to solve, and Keep our community looking half way decent. Okay, go ahead, Frank. FRANK' I: .I spoke [o you, I think the last meeting about metal -pilCkuP,' V. it f~r leaves, 'and branches, and stuff for three weeks. Now, even if you d0n!t have ~o pick it up. Even if you let the PeoPle. bring it down for one week a year. Wouldn't that nice if you give the people a or whatever they want down. I am not asking up, Have it open like you do the leaves, and the bra for one week. Open the landfill to bring down your or whatever, that would cost you money, one week out year. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: I have 'to be honest, Fr.ank: It did slip my mind.. I am writing it down. This will be the last thing, and ther~ i will let everyone go ,home. it:has been a long day. ?":.'~L!';iC!7 i"' FRANK ,CARLIN: T. hat's what halppens when you are famous. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Frank, the National Guard has a precjram they just sta?ted and it w,o~rks with communities, and the first Qne that they did was actually I was a iPark Commissioner on the County parks, and we talked about ~etfing rid !of the jump cars in the Pine Barrens, so one of the Trustee-~ On the COunty Parks Was involved in the Air National Ou~rd, and what !t ended up dt~ir~g, and promoting was the Air National c;uacd .Would come n by he icopte~, and take all the rusty cars out of the Pi~ne Barrens. So, the~e are no more junk cars in the Pine Barrens; I had an .offer~ and I am trying to think of a way, and I am going to give it to the Board to think so, I the Netional Guard offer to do a program, with us. cost them toi Sou~ho!? Town. are g(~pg to, look program S :F the u~s and sore of Progra doing to ente~ i They would have these great b g ransport junk cars out of town. There )Ired no matter where, and the dealer of the junk, but it~, would .~r truck be no they take them from [alking to the Commander at this point, and we ~hey can help us with their program AnOther substance abuse., i, have to review,. It is done in the: It would be a DARE many things that the are now have heavy equipm~ going ~ities to work with these come up with an to se from '~the wil;I (No response) the ue site. hatS, ~ a but it i~s nice 'to that in attend a done. Th~'s it, ~ight; Paul. ,od you for joimng us. Moved ~.y Councilman Romanelli, seconded, by Justice~ Evans, it. wa~ RESOLVED that this Town Board meeting be and' hereby ~s adjourned at 9:10 P.M. Vote Of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Romane!li, Counci.lman Moore, Justice Evans, ~ Councilwoman Hussie~ SuperVisor Cochran. Th,s resolutmn was duly ADOPTED. Elizabeth A. Nevill~ Southold Town Clerk