HomeMy WebLinkAbout03/17/2025 Southold Town Transportation Commission
Monday March 17, 2025 Minutes Approved 4.21.25
Attendance:
Mary Bess Philips,Jim Kalin, Dan Goodwin, Heather Lanza, Brian Cummings, Charles Guelli,
Chris Shashkin,TB Liaison Anne Smith, Guest: Deputy Supervisor John Stype
Absent: Margaret Newman, Charles Peck, Steve Grattan
1. Review of the History of the Commission History: Various highlights were shared and
summarized here.
Heather shared the early work related to land use and planning and the impact on
transportation, efforts to increase mass transit and encourage use.
Mary Bess shared information about the East End Transportation Council East End
Supervisors and Mayor
The early work of the Commission (Neb Brashich) started to focus on requests that came
to the Commission and the Town Board to process and advise Town Board.
Bike Routes were discussed and supported over time as well as trails and maps.
Sidewalks were identified as a need for establishing goals.
Bus Stops and Shelters were planned and implemented.
Commission's early work also focused on grants with pamphlet development and bus
routes.
Signs for scenic byway studies, designation early on and study available on the website
and sign code, Information center and kiosks were put in place.
Updates were generated to Master Plan to write the goals and objectives currently in
the Comprehensive Plan.
Chris S. reported that Neb B. worked to get the LI RR to increase service or some kind of
shuttle tram Greenport and Riverhead Volpe study, East End Institute and SEEDS study,
MB Trucking and transportation and ferries for interstate commerce part of why ferry
was created, talk of combining the transportation to Village and transportation "Hub"
Chris Kepner Tiger Grant? North Road issue traffic, evacuation route, Water Taxis were
explored, Tom Fox was very involved, Water Ferry.
Charlie will help gather reports and links to reports.
Discussion followed organizing previous studies and recommendations.
2. Review of Comprehensive Plan Goals: Anne and John led a discussion of the 2020
Comprehensive Plan goals and discussion on the connection with the history of the
commission and accomplishments followed. The group discussed doing a specific look at
each and use the template provided by former chair Randy Wade as a good starting
place for creating new goals and tasks to present to the Town Board for consideration.
3. Review of Map of Town and other roads in Southold and which roads we can impact
easily, and which require partnerships with other governmental agencies and regional
collaboration. Dan reviewed the maps that are available online for review and
understanding of roads where the Town of Southold has jurisdiction.
4. Current Process for Consideration of request for changes that require Board, County
and or State Action Procedure for reviewing requests for speed limit and other traffic
flow changes from community members and organization has been approved by the
Town Board and will be reviewed as it is used.
1. All communication starts with the Town Clerk who will stamp and distribute to the
Town Board and appropriate departments for review and action. All records will be
held digitally and hard copy in the Town Clerk's Office.
2. If communication is received by a Town Board Member, the Supervisor's Office, a
member of the Transportation Commission or Departments they will inform the
individual to start with the Clerk's office.
3. The Town Board will place it on the Work Session agenda to review with appropriate
requests to the department or agency and place on the agenda if it needs full Town
Board direction or if they would like the Transportation Commission to review and
provide an opinion.
4. The request is reviewed. The Chief of Police, the Highway Supervisor, and a member
of the Planning Department will be asked to research the request (if relevant to their
role) and report to the Town Board. If the Transportation Commission may be asked
to provide an opinion that will be included in the report.
5. The Supervisor's Office will file the response in the Clerk's Office and will respond to
the community member or organization about the outcome.
5. Review of Commission openings and need for a chairperson was discussed and will be
furthered reviewed at our next meeting.
6. Changing meeting time to 4:00 or 4:30 and request Town Board to allow us to seek
clerical support and allow staff on the Commission to complete their regular workday
prior to the meetings. We discussed checking on available day of the week and month
for room and zoom link availability, discussion followed.
Next Steps; Next Meeting April 21, 2025 10:30 Town Hall Meeting Room
Randy Wade will be invited to attend the start of the meeting so we can formally thank her
and present her with a certificate of appreciation.
• Appoint a chair, new members will be appointed at the end of April
• Review minutes needing approval
• Review process for posting agenda, minutes and recorded meetings
• Review of role of chair and members in new Handbook
• Continue to work on priorities from Comp Plan Goals
• Prepare a presentation to request a meeting with TB for priorities and tasks at direction
of the TB to set priorities
• Identify any issues that are not reflected in the Comp Plan
• Be prepared to engage with the Zoning Update recommendations as they are released,
and public is engaged