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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTB-03/24/19819¸8 SOUTI{OLD TOWN BOARD MARCH 24, 1981 WORK SESSION 9:00 A.M. - Sybil Mizzi and Paul Fink of'Pan Tech met with the Board to discuss the Housing Assistance Plan that must be filed with the community Develooment Plan. They explained Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Program. which helps the landlords as welI as tenants and the certification goes to the unit not the tenant. The Landlord must upgrade his tmit and gets 20% above fair market rent; the tenant atso receives a subsidv. Section 8 Existing Housing program is for 10~ income and 302 Of their income goes to rent.--The Board decided to apply for I0 Moderate Rehabilitation Units --6 elderly and 4 family. 9:55 A.M. - Frank Bear read a prepared statement to the Board which he will again present at'th~-regular meeting. Mr. Bear urged the Board to take steps in the immediate future to consider changes in the Zoning Ordinance as well as the Development Plan which he feels has become outdated. He asked that the Board seek the County Planning Commission's assistance in updating the Town Plan. 10:00 A.M. - William Mullen met w~th the Board to discuss the Town's health .insurance orogram. He has had several meetings which caused him to determine there is no way the Town can go with a private carrier. There are presently two groups working on a splinter setup from Blue Cross. One is the BOCES group in Westhampton and he has made arrangements to contact Mr. Cart of BOCES after April 3rd and comeback to the Board on April 7th with the details. 10:05 A.M. - The Board began reviewing the agenda. lt:45'A.M. - Allen Cohen, New York State Auditor met-:with the Board to discuss the interest money the Tgwn has received from moneys deposited by the Receiver Of Taxes. Mr. Cohen stated the money belongs to the various districts in the Town as well as the Town but cannot be used for the purchase of equipment for the B~.~e~e~o~-..Taxes. 12:00 Noon - Board resumed reviewing agenda. 12:35 P.M. - Recess for lunch. 1:45 P.M. - Resumed reviewing agenda, 2:15 P.M. - Venetia McKeighan, Site Manager of the Southotd Town Nutrition Center met with the Board and advised them she has lost six CETA employees; bus drivers plus one cook. She has made arrangements with the Office for the Aging to retain the services of Pam McCaffery who has qualified as a bus driver and has been trained to complete applications and forms for fuel oil, social services, etc. Her major problem at this time is the fact the cook, Gerald King, requires surgery and the Center will be with- out a cook. The Board agreed to hire Dorothy Mysliborski as a part-time cook for no more than four weeks to fill in forhGe~!d King. 2:25 P.M. - Jim McMahon, Director of Southold Town's Deiine.uencv Diversion and Prevention Pro,ram and Bob Starcher of the Depart- ment of Health Services, DruglAbuse Program, County of Suffolk, met with the Board to discuss the establishment of a Drug Abuse Prevention Council for the Town, an~ the application by the Town for a New York State Division of Substance Abuse Services grant in the amount of $3,000.00. The Board agreed to place this on the agenda for the regular meeting at 3:00 P.M. MARCH 24, 1981 A regular meeting of the South~~.Board was held on Tuesday, March 24, 198I at the Southoid T6Wn~Hall, ~ain Road, Sou/hold, New York. Supervisor Pelt opened the meeting at 3:00 P.M. with the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Present: Supervisor William R. Pell, III ~usti.ce Francis T. Doyen Councilman Henry W. Drum Councilman John J. Nicktes Councilman Lawrence Murdock, Jr. Councilman Francis J. Murphy Town Clerk Judith T. Terry Town Attorney Robert W. Tasker Highway Superintendent Raymond C. Dean 99 SUPERVISOR PELL: I want to thank you on behalf of the Town Board for coming out today for.the Town Board meeting. This will be a fairly interesting meeting, I'm sure. A lot of these things were not discussed in the working session of the Board. We ran out of time. We had such a debate this morning on a few items that we will go into today and I am sure you will be' in for an interesting meeting today. I don't think it will be routine-because we~haven't been through it all yet. On motion of. Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was RESOLVED that the minutes of the March '10, 1981 Town Board-meeting be and hereby are approved. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion of Councilman Nickles, seconded by Councilman Murphy, it was RESOLVED that the next re~utar meetin~ of the Southold Town. Board will be held at 7:30 P.M., Tuesday, .Aoril 7 1981 at the Southotd Town Hall, Main Road, Southold, New York. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilma~ Murphy, Councilm~n Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion of Supervisor Pell, seconded by Councilman Drum, it was RESOLVED that there will be a Special Meeting of the Southold ~Town Board at 8:30 A.M., Tuesday, ~arch 31. 1981 at the Southold Town Hall, Main Road, Southold, New York. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. I. REPORTS - SUPERVISOR PELL: 1. Assessors reoorts, for January and February (1981). 2. ~on~ Island Cablevision reoor~'for February (198I). 3. I will ask at this time the Councilmen to make reports, starting with Councilman Murdock. COUNCILMAN MURDOCK: On. Friday, the 20th of March, Councilman Murphy and myself as the ~Disoosal Area Commit~e~ flew to New Hampshire to the University of New Hampshire to inspect a municipal solid waste plant there in operation. It was recommended to, us by engineers from the firm of Sacco and Ahlers. This is in the Town of Durham, New Hampshire, operated in cooperation with the UniMersity of New Hampshire. They burn 72..tons of municipal solid waste.a day. They produce 15,000 of s~eam per hour, all of which is sold to the University of New Hampshire which makes it a very cost effective system for the Town of Durham. It is also serving, I think he said, 16 townships in the area that are cooperating in this to provide enough municipal solid waste to keep the system burning. The Town of Southold has a hundred tons a day and the setup that they have up there would be applicable to us. We also viewed, 100 MARCH 24, 1981 while we were there, a facility for the treatment of sludge~ They have a sewage system there and they are treating sludge and compost- ing it with wood chips. It was a.very interesting aspect for us, It's probably something That we will not be able to get into, bu~ that facility cost seven million dollars. They've been building, it since 1973. So a comparable facility would probably be in the neighborhood of ten or eleven million dollars today. It was very interesting to both Frank and I. We both felt that they were sort of light years ahead of us in terms of resolving municipal problems. They were very gracious and I think we learned a lot in relation to what we will need in Southold Town. Thank you, Bill. SUPERVISOR PELL: Thmuk you~ Councilman Drum.' COUNCILMAN DRUM: Last week, in regard~to the dredging of the Peconic Bay inlets, the two Trustees,-Anna Hataier and Henry Smith and. I inspected the following Town bay inletS: ~ Cedar Beach, CoreY, Little Creek, Mill Creek, New Suf£olk boat ramp~ Wickham, Richmond, Brushes and 'Halls. It was opinion that they all are in need Of dredging prior to the summer season.~' On March 20th I met with the County Waterways engineer John Guldi and at present the Cedar Beach dredging project has been approved by the county legislature, and is awaiting the county executive's signature. The cost will be approximately $35,000.00. The county dredge is to commence the dredging of the New Suffolk boat ramp we hope prior to the first of-- no later than the first of ~April~.~ It will commence at that time. It will be a very short--perhaps five or six days. Then Little Creek, Mill and Brushes and East Creek, 'they are-to be dredged by a dredging contract. Now, these projects have been forwarded to the county budget office and from there he looks at them, costs them out and then go before the legislature. However, at present all county expenditures are being held by order of the county executive until a review is completed of the budget and the impact to the federal fund 'reduction. Until this review is completed, which is estimated abbut l0 April, "8I.' As I say, these are considered capital expenditures so these projects are being held for approximately two Weeks. i WiClkhams Creek 'is to be done by ~drag line or bucket contract ~nd Halls Creek perhaos wi~ll be done by-a county dredge ~n June in 1981. That's one.~£ the smaller creeks. Richmond Creek~which we felt was in urgent need of dredging, at presently is currently being surveyed by the county engineer. However, it may be until late summer until all permits are obtained. I'm not to optimistic as.far as Richmond Creek is concerned, at least not the early par~ of this summer. Also discussed at great length with'the engineer was the stabilization~of the Cedar Beach Inlet. In the past year it has been required to dredge Cedar Beach approx- imately ~t least once' a year and the conclusion is that we feel it is best to request the County DePartment of Public Works to conduct a stabilization feasibility-study and that is my recommendation that the Supervisor go forward ~in requesting such a study of Cedar Beach. I am pleased to see where the our County Legislator Mr. Blass has agreed with us and that a county dredge is necessary. We have felt this way on the Town Board for the last year or so and have gone forward with just such a. recommendation that there be a county dredge to do the regular maintenance and you may have seen some of the reports, high cost of contract dredging. With the county dredge ~i~t~s'eSt~mated it ~W°Uld ~-~-proximately one half, if we had our own county dredge, smaller than the old dredge but larger than this little~ mud cap that they have right now. So much for the dredging of .the bay.l inlets. I~might just say that Councilman Nickles and I also, on the Bu~ ]Si n~-. Zo~in~ and Zonin~ Board of Aoo~al~ Committee have met with th~'buildi~g inspect0~ several ticks'in' the past presently we are looking at the whole organization of our build- ing department. I use th~ word ~deDartment, it is actually not a department but we are looking at the whole organization; some of the various problems they are coafronted with and looking at' the procedures knd the vari~us~CodeS and ordinances to see if' we can develop some qonsistency within the department.-' We hope to--I think we have been given until about the £irst of Jume to Complete our report. SUPERVIS.OR PELL: Thank you. Anything .else? COUNCILMAN DRUM: That' s it right now. SUPERVISORPELL: Councilman Nickles?~ MARCH 24, 1981 COUNCILMAN NICKLES: I have a~e~of the Beach Committee Yesterday, ~ - ~"~'-'"':~:' ' · ~ ~arch 23rd at 8.00 ~.~., -myself, Councilman Murphy, Highway Superintendent Dean discussed various items concerning o~r town beaches and parks. One, we discussed oiling and sanding of Gull Pond and McCabes Beach, those parking areas. We have an estimated cost of oil of $6,000.00. It was determined to recommend to the Town Board that the Gull Pond parking area be done first because that's the area that receives the mo~t wear and tear and after evaluation of our budget constraints we will move forward with the oiling of that area and possibly McCabes %y the end of the year. We discussed erosion at Kennys Beach and there is no de%er~ination at this time but in discussions with the Supervisor and Town Board this morning the suggestion was made that we con- tact John Wehrenberg who is the Chairman of the Legislature's Public Works Committee and I plan to contact him sometime in the near future. We will be discussing this problem with him. It is that time of year we have to think about opening up the beaches, it's nice and warm out today, and the Committee recommends to the Town Board that we open all the beaches this year on June 28th except for the Peconic Goldsmith's Inlet Beach, which has been closed in the past and will remain closed this year. We also recommended that beach attendants be hired at $3.75 Der hour, the same hourly rate as last year, and that the Supervisor submit an initial list of applicants to the Town Board fo~ approval for these positions. Once the beach season commences the Town Board to authorize the Supervisor to hire and fill ~acancies as becomes necessary. Mt. Murphy on the Committee has s~oken'to Mr. Muir and Mr. Muir is going to continue to run th~ li~e guard program for the Town and to train them and schedule them; those people that guard our beaches. We discussed Cedar Beach and we spoke to the Supervisor who is going to check with the County to make sure that the allocation received from them annually for the patro~ing of that area and clean-up of that area be continued. We purchased safety ropes for New Suffolk which completes a long program of getting all our beaches to have swimming ropes deployed and with New Suffolk that concludes'that program. We also dis- cussed, in our m~et~ng, the building at Town Beach on the~Sound, commonly known as "Jack's Shack", and no determination was made by the Committee but we brought it before the Town Board and-there will be a resolution offered later in the day to demolish and/or remove the building from the premises. This is~something that the Town Board and the Beach Committee ha~ been agonizing over for the last year or so and we first have to weigh the decision as to the benefit to the public as well as the benefit to the private entrepreneur. The cost of putting that building in shape and conforming to County Board of Health requirements, we are~Iook- · ng at a dollar figure this year of five or six thousand dollars and this is an ongoing problem. So, as ~e Committee pointed out to the Town Board, it is our obligation to run programs at our~ beach~s that benefit our taxpayers and we felt that entering into another rental situation with a concessionaire would be mo~e to the benefit of that concessionaire than to the people of Southold Town. On that basis, you wilt see a resolution calling for the removal or the destruction of Jack's Shack. That concludes my report. SUPERVISOR PELL: Thank-you, John. Councilman Murphy. COUNCILMAN MURPHY.: Thank you, Bill. I'd like to comment on the trip with Larry up to'New Hampshire. It was most interesting and the most important part and the reason why I think these trips are important, that each time we go to one of these locations there is something more that is most applicable to Sou/hold Town. There was quite a bit here. This was probably one'of the best composting programs that I've seen ~nd.this town is smaller than ours. True, a university town and they do have a ~remedous amount of money and this whole cost of their sew~.g~reat~ent plan~ will cost them five percent and the rest is funded by the State and Federal govern- ment. After the Beach Committee met yesterday, we had a meeting of the Town Street Light Committee with Henry Drum. and John Nickles, myself'and Ray Dean present. We are going to reevalue the previous policies that have bee~ set as far as locating street lights and setting up some kind of a criteria for adding new lights and moving, At the present time we ha~e about. 1300 lights in the Town. A good part of them are old energy deficient lights. They are very expensive, very poor light from them and we would like to reduce the number down to save on the cost of electricity 102 MARCH 24, 1981 and put them in better locations and Henry, myself and Ray Dean'S department are going to start.getting it ready. Hopefully in two weeks we'll have a survey of the Town done and report back to the Supervisor and the Town Board~ For the record, the cost of lights now and what the Town has to pay each year is a pole rental~of $5.00 a year and an energy cost at the present time for the 50 watt sodium' lights are $41.00. That's $46.00 for each light, and if the light is broken or out of service and we're not using energy, we're still paying. So any time somebody does see a light out or broken, call the Highway Department and it can be fixed. No sense of paying for it. That's it, Bill. Thank you. Councilman-Justice Doyen from FiShers SUPERVISOR PELL: Island. JUSTICE DOYEN: .-I don't have anything except for senior citizens. A study was made ~recently on the Island of approximately how many senior citizens live there and a lot of interest has been shown by them to have a program similar to the program we have here and it won't be very long before we have a committee working to get something over there for them. SUPERVISOR PELL: We have some experts right in the room in the back row there to help set up. Mr. Henry Lytle helped set up the Pedon~c one we have here now. He is an expert. He might come over and give you some advice. JUSTICE DOYEN: Well, either way, we could have someone from there come..here or someone from here go over t~ere. SUPERVISOR PELL: Look forward to getting it set up.for you Francis. Deputy Superviso~ Marie Johnson. DEPUTY SUPERVISOR JOHNSON: -I'm' sure you all remember the Problem in Greenport last summer: that was. reporied,as a~. near_race riot. As~a result of that event there Was the formations'of the Gr e~ Task Force Which met for a short period weekly and' th~n on a monthly basis and"finally in February had-its first public.meeting. At this public meeting people in the community came out and rather freely expressed their opinion of what they thought the problems were in regard to the race problems in Greenport and most of the blame at that time seemed to be placed on the Greenpo~t school. ~The principal of the school, Mr. Nelson, then took on the responsibility of con- tacting Albany and bringing a Dr. LeRoy Ramsey, who is head of the New,York State Equal Education Opportunity Office and Administrator of the New York State Fair Education Practices Act, to come down and meet with him. The result of this meeting is that he has conducted a questionnaire throughout the school system in Greenport, of students and faculty and he is setting up a series of three community dialogue sessions. One will be on what people in the community think and the other one will be to get input on the educational system in Greenport and the third meeting will be conducted by the task force looking for solutions to the problems that are brought up as a result of the other two sessions. The entire Township will be involved in this 'because the problem in Greenport., it was discovered, was not involving only Greenport youngsters. There were people from the other parts of the Town who came in. So, when these meetings are advertised, and they will be widely advertised, we trust, I think it would be a very good idea if everyone tried to get to them. The second thing I'd like to tell you about is the Department of Health Services through it's Division of Drug Abuse Services has made it possible for us to~apP!y for a grant which will be $3i 000.00 a year. The money will be advanced 'by the Town and reimbursed by the State. T~is will'be to carry on a D- :.~Abuse Prevention Pro,ram throughOUt the Town. It will be-a program that will allow us to do anything that seems proper to do in this event, except actual treatment. It will be run in' conjunction with the Youth Corporatibn we have-already formed to r~n the program at the new Center and the Town Board will, today, pass a resolution to create~ the Council that is needed to apply for this grant. Thank ~you. MARCH 24, 1981 SUPERVISOR PELL: Thank you very much. The next r~port is from mYself for some of the meeti~%~t~end in the last two weeks. ~ast End Supervisor's M~e{i~met in East Hampton and we talked mainly about the Yth Squad, how the phase-out would take effect. East Hampton, Riverhead and Southampton wants them out right away. They have their own detective squads. The villages involved and Southold Town, we said it would take time to get our detective force in operation and basically this is what we went to the 7th Squad with, the County Exec he spoke with. Basically that was that one. B. is the Ten Town Supervisors, We met and basically the Ten Town Supervisors have asked the County Exec to sh~are in some of the sales tax that the county collects, back with the ten towns. We have written a letter to him three months ago, four months ago and. got a very negative reply back. Therefore, we request a meet- ing with the County Exec and some of the people in the 'legislature and.that will be held probably within the next two weeks. We will go up as a group and see if they cannot shake loose some of the funds to held the towns out. We feel on this level that the county collects three percent sales tax, with the inflation rate the way it was the last two or three years, that three percen~ has become quite a large figure and the Town Board's only can levy taxes on real property. Therefore, we are going to ask to meet with them and see if we can't get some of that shaken loose to the towns. There are 52 counties that collect sales tax; 37 of them share it with the difference towns in their counties. We feel it should be one more county added to that so we afc going to ask to make it one mo re. The Police Committee met the other day and discussed adding to our police force the amount of people we are going to add to it to create a plain clothes squad.to replace the 7th Squad. We realize we have to hire more manpower and this was discussed. We are thinking of hiring, perhaps, two more additional patrolmen and move some of our patrolmen into the plain clothes detective force. The 7th Squad, as I said, will be a phase-out gradually. It is taking place right now. Councilman Drum and myself met with Commissioner Dilworth, County Exec's officer, Mr. Brotherton, Deputy County Exec and they will meet with each village and Southold Town to see how we want to phase them out and who's going 'to pay for the cost if the 7th Squad remains until December 31st or September, whenever we feel we can do without them. The point that Councilman Drum brought up was a very good one, we wil~ be asked to enter into a con~act with the c~unty for this charge, but it will only take effect on the day when we sign the contract. It will not pay January, February or March. If we sign it April 15th, the contract will begin April 15th until we feel we are capable of getting along without the 7th Squad. Number E, _~ You all know CETA is being phased out and later on in resolution form we will have some people we want to take on full time and some part time. That c6ncludes the Supervisor's report. 103 At this time I would like to recess the Town Board meeting for the length of time it takes to conduct a public hearing. On motion of Supervisor Pell, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was RESOLVED that a recess be called at this time, 3:30 P.~., for the purpose of holding the following ~ublic hearing~: 3:30 P.M.'in the matter of.the amendment of the a~rrent T~W~ Budget relative to the use of Federal Revenue Sharing Fund~. 3:45 P.M. in the matter of the application for a permit under the provisions of the Wetland Ordinance of the Town of Southold. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Coungilman Murphy, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolutio~ ~.as_ d~a~ed_duly ad~pted. Meeting reconvened at 3:50 P.M. II. PUBLI¢:INOT~OES: COUNCILMAN NICKLES: I.. The first notice is that the term of Robert J, Douglass e~pires April 19, 1981 on ~he Board of A~Dea%$ and the Town Board i~ calling for resumes which will be acc~ted until April 17th, 1981. Appointments for that position will be made on April 2tst. MARCH 24 1981 2. Similarly on the Plannin~ Board,, George Ritchie Latham, Jr.'s term expires on April 30th, 1981 and we're calling for resumes. They must be in by April 17th and his appointment will be filled on April 21st. 3. A notice.from the.~epartment of_~nvironmen.tal_~pnse~vation. This is a Notice of Complete Application by Barney EVans., County Department of Publia Work~ to remove and reconstruct two bridges along New Suffolk Avenue over Mud. and Down% Creek with minor increases to width and span~ Written comments by April lst2 4. From the Department of the Army, New York DiStrict, ~OUps of Engineers_ application by Joseph Sucher for bulkhead and maintenance dredge. Location of this property is in Fordham Canal, East Greenport. Comments~by the 16th of April. 5. New York State,D~epartment of~vironmental.Qpnservation, Notice of Complete Application by Walter-Dohm to construct a one family dwelling and associated sanitary systems. Wri.tten comments by April 8th. 6. From the_~epartment'_,of_,Transportation (State of New York), Notice of Order establishing a no Darking restriction from 84 ft. more or less west of to 40 ft. mOre or tess east of the driveway of the First Presbyterian Church, Southotd, which happens to be right across the street, I believe that's a 24 hour parking ban so you good folks who attend the!-evening Town Board meetings or other meetings here in the'Town Hall might keep that in mind when you park across the street, including Town Board members. 7. Again from the D~partment ~f2~ransportation (State of New York), Notice of Order establishing a no parking east of the drive at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church here ~in Southold. 8. Again from the.~epartment ~lf ~.~ansportation (S~ate of New York), Notice of Order establishing a ~0 ~M ~Deed ~mit on Etijah's Lane between Route 25 and County Route 48% formerly known as County Route 27. 9. New York State Office of M~ntal Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, notice to the Town:indicating a potential community residence site at 3690 Route 40, it should be Rn~t~ 48, Mattituck. Comments by ~pril 27th. 10. A' similar notice from the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities fo~prepe.rty located on ~lum Island Lane. Orient. Comments by April 27th. ~11. Loqg Island Hard Clam Culture WorkshoD and this is aDout a workshop to be held on May 7th at 8:30 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. by the/Marine Sciences Research Center. Alt of these notices are on file with the Town Clerk if you wish to examine them more closely~ They are available from 9:00 to 4:00 five days a week for examination. Mr. Supervisor, if you are going to make this list much longer I'm going to demand a glass of water. SUPERVISOR PELL: Thank you, John. As John says, all these reports are public notices and are on file with the Town Clerk if anybody wishes to go into them, contact her office and she can give them to you. III. COMMUNICATI'ONS - SUPERVISOR FELL: 1. From the Greenport-So~thold Chamber requesting special signs in reference to signs tha~ they would like to have the Board consider, or the lack-of signs, .perhaps I should say and some problems that are on their mind_for the Board's consideration. 2. From Smithtown Supervisor saying that Smithtown and some of the other towns request the county to share in some of the OT~ funds as well as ~ 3. This is telling us exactly what our president is going to cut and how he is going to cut it ~nd what we can look not to receive during next year or this year. The highlights of his cuts he has been making and will continue to make, 4. Reference to the N~w ~l'k ~v~nu~ brid~ saying that they are somewhat opposed tO Widening the bridges. The bridges are anywheres now from I think 19, 21 and 22 feet wide. Plans call for them to go to 28 to 32 feet wide. The lady (Mary Kelleher) is objecting to the widening of the bridges to beef it up. 5. From the Department of Health in the County. They test the water around the'landfill up there periodically and it is a report on ~hem saying that there is no pesticide carbofurm (Furadan) in the'water around the landfill. It's nice to know that the county is continually ~hecking the water up there to keep us involved of.what's going on and what our problems will be. MARCH '24, 1981 105 6. From Southampton ~own.~ saving- !'Resolved that tb~ R,V~I~ County Police Squad, the 7th; ~.,p~d out during the 1981 year." They want lhem out by the end of '81. They passed a resolution for that and sent it to all the towns. IV. HEARINGS AND DECISIONS SUPERVISOR PEI,L: We had two hearings today. The Town Board is nom ready to move on them at this time, are you gentlemen? (no). V.' RESOLUTIONS SUPERVISOR PELL: Moving to resolutions, your ToWn agenda said I5 resolutions. We end up with 30. We had a very lengthly meeting today. We did not get thrdugh all of them so, as I said before, we will discuss, perhaps, some of them now at this time. Resolution No. 1 is going to be t~.b~e~ ~t~ A~r~I 7th. (Resolution I - Authorize the i~ta]tation of 24 street Resolution No. 2~is to nurchase a Chevrolet Imoai~ car out of the $40,000.00 Police Grant that we received from the federal government, down through the county, through the state. The budget was approved and in it there was this vehicle to be purchased and we are going on county contract for this. I would like the resolution authorizing expending this money. On-~motion of Councilman ~urdock, seconded by Supervisor Pell, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold authorizes the ourchase, of one ¢1) blue Chevrolet Imoala V-6 Station Wago~ with AM radio and antenna and rear window defogger in the amount of $6998.00 under the Suffolk County Contract for use by the ~ D~v~sion and Prevention Pro~rsm: said cost of the vehicle to ~e paid for from the Delinquency Diviersion and Prevention Program Grant. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, JustiCe Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. SUPERVISOR PELL: Number 3 is to support Assembly Bill which we had introduced two or three years ago and never went through eyed though we do have a local police lis~--county local police list we can have--Town list. A~semblyman Behan still feels it w6uld be worthwhile to have this introduced in Albany and he will intro- duce it on our behalf. On motion of Councilman Nickles, seconded by Councilman Drum, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold ~uD~rt~ A~embl¥ b~]~ No. 2M~& entitled "AN ACT in relation to authorizing the governing body of the town of Southold to make certain nermanent aooointments for the nosition of ool~ce office~", and be it further RESOLVED that the Town Clerk be and she hereby is directed to complete the necessary forms and. submit them to the New York State Assembly. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. SUPERVISOR PELL: Number 4, authorizing to go to bid for the cleaning of the police department uniforms. On motion of Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman Nickles, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby ~thnrizes ~nd direct~ the Town Clerk to advertise for bids for the cleanin~ services required by the Town for the ~niforms of the members of the Southold Town Police Deoartment for the period commencing on the first day of May, 1981 and ending the 30th day of April, 1982. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy,~Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. SUPERVISOR PELL: Number 5, Bingo License for the Sacred Heart Church, Cutchogue. MARCH 24, i981 106 Moved by Councilman Murdock, secondod by Councilman ~mrphy; WHEREAS, Sacred Heart R. C.. Church, Cutchogue, New York has ~applied investigation, duly made ~findings and. determinations as required by law. RESOLVED that the Town Clerk be and she hereby is directed to issue an amended Bingo License to Sacred Heart R. C. Church, Cutchogue, New York. ~ n Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy , CouncIlma Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman .Drum; Justice Doyen, SuperviSor Petl. This resolution was declared duly adopted. SUPERVISOR PELL: Number 6,a trailer renewal. 6. On motion of Councilman Nickles, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was RESOLVED that the application of Herodotus Damianos, dated Feb- ruary 25, 198i, for permission to maintain a single family trailer on t~e north side of Main Road; Peconic, New York (f0rmerlV Isidore P. Krupski), be and hereby is renewed for a six (6) month period. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, CouncilmanDrum, Justi'ce Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. SUPERVISOR PELL: Number 7, Mattituck Senior Citizens trip to Guerney's Inn, .July 9th at a cost of $300.00. I'll offer thatJ 7. On motion of Supervisor PelI, seconded by Councilman~Murphy, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southoldgrants permission to the ~enior Citizen Club of Souihold T~wnship~ ~attitUcklUnit. to contract for one bus at a cost of $~300.0~ to transport them to Guernev's Inn_on July 9, 1981. Vote o~ the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. Th~S resolution was declared duly adopted. SUPERVISOR PELL: Number 8, again a.senior citizens trip. 8. On motion of Councilman Nickles, seconded by Councilman D~um, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold grants permission to the ~enior Citizen Club of Southold Township, Mattituck Unit~ to contract for one bus at a cost of $325,00 to transport them to Mitlerid~e Inn on May 6~ 1981. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Murdock, councilman Nickle~',-:Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted· 9. On motion of Councilman Murphy, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was RESOLVED that Supervisor William R. Pell, III be and he hereby is authorized and directed to execute an agreement with Suffolk. County Department of Real Estate for the ent~ approximately 500 square feet of ~in the basement of the Southold ' T~ for~ the-office_of-th~District Attorney at $960.00 per annum, payable in equal monthly installments of $80.00; the Town to furnish, heat, air conditioning, lighting, electric for normal office equipment, and building standard Cleaning services. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Petl. This resolution was declared duly adopted. 10. On motion of Supervisor Pell, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was RESOLVED that Supervisor William R. Pell, III, Councilman John ,I. Nickles and Town Clerk Judith T. Terry be and they hereby ~re appointed to represent the Tow~ of Southold in ~got~t~ with North Fork Animal We~far~ LeaM~e for a ~ for.the Pound; present contract expires on June 30, 1981. · Vote of ~he Town Board~? A~es:~ Councilman Murphy, Councilman Mu~dock, Councilmam Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen:,- ~This resolution was declared duly adopted. ll. 12. 13. 14. 15. MARCH 24, 1981 107 SUPERVISOR PELL: I will appo~t~C0~neitman Nickles to chair it-. NUmber 11, Justice Doyen, please. On motion of Justice Doyen, seconded by Councilman Ni~ktes, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board Or-the Town of Southold authorizes the Board of Commissioners of the Fishers Island Ferry Distviat to enter into a contractual lease agreement with Gre~orv. C. Thibodeali for the .leasing of, the third buildinE on the west side of Prospect Road, south of ~histle~Avenue on the airport property at an.~annual rental of $600.00. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Counciilman Murdock, Councilman Nicktes, Councilman Drum, Justice.~0Yen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion of Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman Murdock; it,was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town 'of Southold supports Senate bill No. 249-A entitled, ~"AN ACT to allow persons in public employment on August sixteenth, nineteen hundred seventy- three or their executor, administrator or personal representative who did not file a membership application with the New York $$ate employees' -retirement SVs~em to file a request for retroactive membership with the state comptroller", and be it further RESOLVED thatthe Town Clerk be and she hereby is directed to complete the necessary forms and submit them to the New York State Assembly. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Murdock, Councilman NickIes, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion of Councilman Murdock, seconded by Councilman Drum, it was RESOLVED that Supervisor William R. Pell, III be and he hereby is authorized and directed to execute an a~reement.be~tween the County of Suffolk and the Town of Southold for the Town of Southold (Greenport Site) Senior Nutrition Progrsm, commencing on January 1, . · 1981 and ending December 31, 1381, in the amoun~ of $69,014.00. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes:. Councilman Murphy, Councilman Mur~dOck, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. ~ This resolution was declared duly adopted. COUNCILMAN NICKLES: We ha~ a letter.from~the Chairman of the Robins Island Committee requesting a four week extension and the resolution reads as follows: On motion of Councilman Nickles, seconded by Councilmzn Murphy, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of S0uthold grant an ewte~on for the f~na] report of the Robins' Island Advis~rv ~ to April 20, 1981. This extension is granted due to the various holidays and a snow day which caused the Committee to cancel several meetings. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Couhcilman MUrdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. SUPERVISOR PELL: The next resolution I am going to ask for today is to authorize Suffolk Community Development Corporation-- COUNCILMAN MURDOCK: Sorry;'-~SC left O~t ~Southold Senior Citizens. SUPERVISOR PELL: I'-m sorry, moving ahead too fast. Southold Senior Citizens my apology. Number 15. On motion of Councilman Murdock, seconded by Councilman Drum, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold grants permission to the Southold Senior Citizens Club to contract for two buses at a total cost of $576.00 to transport them to The Island SGuire, Middle Island, New York, ~or luncheon and Easter Show on April 28, 1981. Vote of theTown Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, CounCilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum~ Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. 108 MARCH 24,1 1981 SUPERVISOR PELL: ~ Number 16 has been tabled. (Gtover Sand Pit renewal). - . . Number 17 is Suffolk COmmunity Develonment Corporation. Anybody have the resolution'on, that? I will ad lib then.-AS I said, we worked today and didn't get through everything. The Town of South0%d to apply for moderate rehabilitation of ten units, six for elderly, four for family, subject to the Town Attorney's approval. We had Pan Tech in here today. In our grant for community~ blOck funds ihe T°Wnhas to have Som~ rehab program. We met with Pan Tech today and discussed this at great length and in applying for ten we might only with, the present cuts in existence, we might get .zero, we might get two,'we might get five, but we are going to make application for ten. It is not 'theminimum that they ~requested'of us. '~The,minimu-m is fifteen. We went below that. This is something new for the T0wn of Southold to get involved in. We want'to move very slowly .and very cautiously along these lines. The umbrella is the county. If they have more urgent needs then the Town of Southold, Southold~could be given no rehab at this time; this year, this application. This is something we are moving very Slowly with and very carefully with and ~his is the route the Board chose to go. 17. Moved by Supervisor Pelt, seconded by Councilman Drum, RESOLVED that the S~ffolk Comm~ln~tv Develooment CorooratJon be and it is hereby authorized to submit an application in the name of the Town of Southold to the Rousing and Urban Development Agency for the Moderate and Rehabilitation Section 8 ~Rousing Program to consist of six (6) elderly and four-(4) family units. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman MurPhY, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. 18. On motion Of Councilman Murdock, seconded by Cbunciim~n Drum, it was RESOLVED that the SupervisQr be and he here~y-isii.~i~ected to request the S~.ff01k County Departmentiof Public Works~to'/~'~pii~UCt ~a stabiliza- tion feasibility st~dv for 'the Stabilization of C~~d~' Bea~ch InI~t. Vote of the Tow~ .Boar~: AyeS: CoUncilman l{UrD~ CoUncilman -- Murdock, Counc:ilman Nickles, Councilman Drum,i Jus_tice:~,Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This~ resolution-was declared duly adopted. 7 - 19. On motion of CouncilmanfDrum, seconded by-~ Councilman Murdock, it was RESOLVED that' the Town Board of ~he Town of Southold urges the Governor and the State Legislature to remove the freeze on State Shared Revenue proposed in the 1981-1982 EXecutive Budget and to restore the allocations to towns and other local governments in accordance with State Finance Law. #54, including the use of 1980 population census. -- Vote of the Town Board': Ayes: Coun'cilman Murphy, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Petl. This resolution was declared duly adopted. SUPERVISOR PELL: 20, again Councilman Drum. These come out of the AsSociation of Towns. Mr. Drum was our voting delegate. 20. On motion of Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman ~urphy, '. WHEREAS, for nearly 30 years the Town Richway Improvement Pro,ram (TRIP) has been most S~ccessful in upgrading the quality of Town Righways, and WHEREAS, State appropriations for the last several years have remained static while inflation and increased cost of labor and materials have reduced the number of highway miles improved under this program, and WHEREAS, the TRIP expires in 1982, with the final processing of applications having occurred in 1980. Therefore, the extension of THIP is essential to preserve the basic highway program, upon adoption of an acceptable betterplan, T~IP could be repealed. Therefore, be it RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby urges the Governor and the State Legislature .to extend the Town ~ighway Improvement Program and to end the discriminatory treatment of towns by adopting a more equitable state aid plan for town highways~ Vote of Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, S~pervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. MARCH 24~ 1981 SUPERVISOR PELL: Number 26 we move to the Nutrition Site in Greenport. Our cook down there is Jerry King and he is going into the hospital for approximately Two to three weeks operation and he will be out of work,therefore we have to hire'a cook to relieve him to carry on the work while he is fore we would like to hire Dorothy Mysliborski as Nut~ not to exceedfour weeks. He says three weeks, but weare putting in the resolution four weeks in case anything does wrong. Four weeks at the hourly rate of $3.77 per hour and the funds to be paid from the Whole Town Contingency line. On motion of Supervisor Pell, seconded by Councilman mMurphy, it was RES©L~rE.Dthat the Town Board of the Town of Southold appoint .... Dorothy Mvsliborski as oart-time Cook at the N~tvitio~ to relieve Gerald King, for a period of time not to exceed four weeks, au a salary of $3.77 per hour; funds to be used from the Whole Town Contingency Account. COUNCILMAN NtCKLES: Discussion. SUPERVISOR PELL: Discussion. COUNCILMAN NICKLES: Did we decide to do the transfer first, Bill7 SUPERVISOR PET.L: No, we did not. COUNCILMAN NICKLES: Mrs. Clerk, did we? TOWN CLERK TERRY: No, you didn't, because he is taking it from Contingent~ SUPERVISOR PELL: We are taking it out of the Contingent. Town .Attorney, ! am taking it outof the Contingency line. TOWN ATTORNEY TASKER/ Transferred into wha%%ver a~count, right? COUNCILMAN NICKLES: Don't we have to do the transfe~ first? TOWN ATTORNEY TASKER: Yes. CO~CILMAN' NICKLES: Before we hire ~he person? SUPERVISOR PELL: Then I will need a line number for. it. I have to.create a line item. Transfer-- I'll withdraw the motion since I made it. We'll start again. Supervisor Pell withdrew his motion and Councilman Murphy withdre~ his second. (Off the record discussion concerning a transfer of funds.) 2~(a) On motion of Supervisor Pell, seconded by Councilman Nickles, it was RESOLVED that $625.00 be and hereby is transferred from Whole Town General. Fund'Contingent Account to Programs for the Aging A6772.1 for the purpose of paying Dorothy Mysliborski, part-time relief' ' cook at the Nutrition Sit~. i i Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: ~ Councilman Murphy, CounCilman . Murdock, .Councilman Nickles, CoUncilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. .. ~ -- Thfs resolution was declared duly adopted. ~26(b) On motion of Supervisor Petl, seconded by Councilman Drum, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town Of Southold appoint Dorothy Mvsliborski as part-time Cookat the to relieve Gerald King, for a oeriod of time not to exceed four weeks; at a salary of $3.77 pe~ hour Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman MurdoCk, Councilman Nickles, CoUncilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pelt. This resolution was declared duly adopted. MARCH 24, 1981 ~ 111 27(~) ~..,~7(b) 28(a) On motion of Councilman Murdock, seconded'by Councilma.n Drum, it was RESOLVED that Supervisor William R. Pell, III be and he hereby is authorized and directed to make application to the New York State' Division of Substance Abuse Services for a Dru~ Abuse Prevention Council Grant in the amount of $3,000.00. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman ~urphy, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion of Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman Nickles, it was RESOLVED that there is hereby created a Dru~ Abuse Prevention Council in the Town of Southold to consist of not less than three, nor more than seven members. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. SUPERVISOR PELL: Number '28 pertains lo Mr. Dean and his highway. I think Councilm~n Murdock is prepared to read this resolution. COuncilman~lurdock offered the following resolution and moved its adoption: BOND RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN OF~SOUTHOLD, NEW YORK, ADOPTED MAR~H 24, 1981, AUTHORIZING (A) THE PURCHASE OF ONE (1) STREET SWEEPER AT THE ESTIMATED MAXIMUM COST OF $53,000; AND (B) ONE (1)~ BACKHOE AND LOADER, AT.THE ESTIMATED MAXIMUM COST OF $75,000; BOTH ITEMS FOR USE BY THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENt, STATING THE ESTIMATED TOTAL COST OF SAID SPECIFIC OBJECTS. OR PURPOSES IS $128,000, APPROPRIATING SAID AMOUNT THEREFOR, AUTHORIZING THE APPLICATION OF $10,000 BEING THE TRADE-IN VALUE OF OBSOLETE HIGHWAY EQUIPMENT AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF $118,000 SERIAL BONDS OF THE TOWN TO FINANCE THE BALANCE OF SAID APPRO- = PRIATION AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING ANY AMOUNTS RECEIVED FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND/OR~THE-STATE OF NEW YORK TO BE EXPENDED TOWARDS THE COST OF SAID SPECIFIC OBJECT ORPURPOSE OR REDEMPTION OF SAID BONDS ISSUED-THEREFOR OR TO BE BUDGETED AS ~N OFFSET TO THE TAXES FOR PAYMENT OF THE PRINCIPAL-AND INTEREST ON SAID BONDS. THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF SOUTHOLD, IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, NEW'YORK, HEREBY RESOLVES (by the favorable vote of not less than two-thirds of all the members of said Board), AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The Town of Southold, in the County of Suffolk, New York ("Town"), is hereby authorized to purchase MARCH 24, 1981 (a) one street sweeper at the estimated maximum cost of $53,000, and (b) one backhoe and loader at the estimated maxi- mum cost of $75,000, both items for use by the Highway Department of the Town. The estimated total cost of said specific objects or purposes, including preliminary costs andcosts incidental thereto and the financing thereof is $128,000 and the said amount: is hereby appropriated-therefor, including the ap, plicatiOn of $i0,000, being the trade-in value of obsolete highway equipment p.resent!y owned bythe Town, and hereby authorized to be applied towards the payment of the equipment authorized~by this resolution. The plan of financing includes the use of said $10,000 trade-in allowance, the issuance of $118,000 serial bonds to finance the balance of said ap- propriation and the levy of a tax upon all the taxable real property i~ the Town to pay the Principal of and in~herest on said bonds as the same shall become due and payable., It is also expected that grants of Federal and/or will'-be received and any amoun, aut- horized to be expended towards the cost' of objects or purposes or redemption of said bonds or any bond anticipation notes issued in anticipation of the sale of said bonds or to be budgeted as an offset to the-t~L~es for the payment of the principal of and interest on said bonds. Section 2. Serial bonds of the Town in the principal amount of $118,000 are hereby authorized to be issued pursuant to the provisions of the Local Finance Law, constituting Chapter 33-a of the Consolidated Laws of the State of New York ("Law"), to finance the batance of said appropriation. Section 3.~ The foltowing~additional matters are hereby determined and stated: - - (a) The period of'probable'usefulness of the street sweeper for which serial bonds herein authorized to be issued- pursuant to Section t(a) hereof, within the limitations of Section 11.00a.29 of the Law, is five (5) years. (b) The period of .probable usefulness of thebackhoe and loader for which serial bonds herein authorized to be issued pursuant to Section l(b) hereof, within the limiations of Section 11.00a.28 of the Law, is'fifteen (15) years, but the maturity MARCH 24, 1981 113 of any bonds issued unde~.%h~olution will not exceed five (5) years. (c) Current~'funds are not required by the Law to be provided prior to the issuance of the bonds authorized by this reSolution'or any bond anticipation notes issued in anticipation thereof pursuant to the p~ovisions of Section 107.00d.4 and 5 of the Law. Section 4. Each of the serial bands authorized bs~ 'this resolution and any bond anticipation'notes issued in anticipation of the sale'of said bonds, shall contain the recita~ of-validity prescribed by Section 52.00 of the Law and said bo~ds and any notes issued in ~nticipation of said bonds, shall b~ general ob!igati~ns of the Town, payable as to bo~h principal and interest by a general tax upon all the taxable real property · within the Town without limitation of rate or amount. The faith and credit of the Town are hereby irrevocably pledged %o the punctual payment of the principal of and i~terest on saidbonds and provision shall be made annually iD the budget of the Town'by appropriation for (a) the amortization and redemption of the'bonds and any notes in anticipation thereof to mature in such yea~ and (b) the payment of interest to be due and payable in such year. Section 5~ Subject to the provisions of this reso~ lution and'of the Law, pursuant to the provisions of Section 30.00 relative to the authorization of the issuance of bond anticipati'on notes, or, the renewals of said Notes and of Section 50.00 and Sections 56.~0 to 60.00 of the Law, the powers and duties of the ?o%~n Board relative to authorizing bond anticipation notes and prescribing the terms, form and contents and as to the sale and issuance of the bonds herein authorized and of any bond 'anticipation notes issued in anticipation of said bonds, ahd the renewals of said notes, are hereby delegated to the Supervisor, ~he chief fiscal officer of the Town. Section 6. The validity of the bond authorized by this resolution and of any notes issued in anticipation of said bonds, may be contested only if: . (a) such obligations are authorized for an object or purpose for which the~Town is not authorized to expend money, or 114 MARCH 24, 1981 (b) the.provisions of 1-aw which should be complied with at the.date of the publica- tion of such resolution are not substanti&Ily complied with, and an action, suit or proc~edin~ contesting suc~ validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of s~h publication, or - (c) such obligations are authorized- in violation of the provisions of the constitution. ~, Section 7. This resolution shall ~ ~I take effect immediatel~? j! The adoption of the foregoing resolution was seconded by Councilman Drum and duly put to a vote on roll call which: resulted as follows: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice~Doyen, Supervisor PelI. This resolution was declared duly adopted. 28.(b) Councilman Murdock offered the following resolution and moved its adoption: RESOLVED by the Town Board of the Town of Southold, in the County of Suffolk, New York, is_hereby~direeted to publish the~fore~oinE. bond resolution, in full, in ,The Suffolk Times", a newspaper published in Southotd, New York, and having a general circulation therein, which newspaper is'hereby designated as the official news- paper of the Town for such publication, together with the Town Clerk's statutory notice in substantially the form as orescribed by section 81.00 Of the~LoCaii'FinanCe Law of the. State· of New York. ~Section 2.' This resolution Shall take effect immediately. This r~solution was declared-duly adopted. SUPERVISOR PELL: I would like to explain to the press and the people here that $43,000 will-come from the Fed~r~.l. 2evenue Sharing Budget, if we .adopt it, towards that figure. We have to do it this-way, and $10,000 trade'in. ~So if everything goes according the way we hope it does the trade-in, thebonds wilt actually be about $75,000. But according tolegaI we have to do ~t-this way. 29. On motion of Councilman Drum,' secondedby Councilman Murphy, it was RESOLVED that the TOwn Clerk of'the Town of Southold be and she hereby is authorized to advertise, for bids for the following: One (1) Dynahoe Model 190 series Three Heavy-Duty Hydraulic Bs~ak- hoe Loader Unit_ or equal, with trade-in of one (1) 1965 Hough H90C and one (1) 1970 Ford Backhoe, Model F 5000. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. 30. On motion of Councilman Murdock, seconded by Councilman Drum, it was ~ RESOLVED that the Town Clerk of the Town of Southold be and she hereby is authorized to~dvertis~ for'bids for the following: One (1) 19811TE4 Four-Wheel Self-Propelled Pickup Street~Sweeoer Single Cutter Broom, or eqhat; With trade-in of ohe (1) 1968 Mobil Sweeper, Model 2TE4. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Nurdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilmpn Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. '~ ~ ~ This resolution was declared duly adopted. SUPERVISOR PELL: Believe it or not, that ends the agenda that we have-. At this time I would like to ask the Councilmen i~ they have anything else they would like to bring up a~ this time. Councilman Murdock? COUNCILMAN MURDOCK.: I do,~ Bill. After last Board meeting it appeared on the.front page of the paper that because I declared my candidacy for office that you charged my motives in the Board meeting were political. I resent that remark. I resent the ~RCH 24, 1981 implication that my service to the Town ~as been nolitical. understand that I'm a potitiC~?~hat ~nything I do either officially or un0fficially 'd~e~ ~'~ ~0~'~ical overtone. How- ever, I think in the year and three months that I have'been on this Board I have never let my personal fee~ings or my personal wants or desires intrude upon my performance on what I figure to be the best for the Town of Southold. I've taken positions where, vis'a.vis, Robins Island where in my original opinion I was not in favor of it. I was in favor of the people of the Town of Southold having a chance to have their opinion heard and moved hard to get the RoW~ns Isl,.nd Committee established. I've tried to conduct myself all through my ass6ciation on this Town Board in a neutral way to what I believed to be the best for the Town. Ithink you'll have to agree that in the year and three months the newspapers have been very disappointed because we had very little conflict apparent on this Board with you. That is particularly done by design. I think I and all the Other members of this Board have tried very hard to remain apolitical in our deliberations. I certainly hope that for the next six or nine months on any given day you will not charge us with dealing politics with our Town Board deliberations. 115 SUPERVISOR PELL: Anything else? COUNCILMAN DRUM: Do you have anything to say on that? SUPERVISOR PELL: 'Not at this time. Councilman Drum? COUNCILMAN DRU~.~: It looks like this is your day~ I had made comments at the working session and it's concerning the comments that were made in regard to street lights, which perhaps along the same vein as Councilman Murdock has said, where comments were made by--allegedly made as printed in the paper, that when Councilman Nickles asked us what_the cost of the street lights were two weeks ago at this Town Board meeting, I was~ot able to give them. I'm a member of the Street Li~h~ ~omm~ttee,_and I did not think at that particular time--! know John Ni~ and I did not think that he was politically motivated in ~g a question, what the cost was of these street lights. Thkt proposal was for twenty street lights which we have not requested at any one time in the past year. We have been without funds this past year. And as ~ res~tt of what I'm'saying, Mr. Supe~- visor, I did not think his~remarks were p~iiticalIy motivated and I don't like to see politics enter into our deliberations or in comments when made such as John Nickles made. When we speak of the street lights, I might say, we had a street light report and I~m glad to see Mr. Homart here today. He made a very thorough study several years ago and it's still applicable today, the study made. Of course, we have had additional funds~ that have been--you just heard this last hearing on the Federal Revenue Sharing--some $10,000.00 made available for a study and while Mr. Homan's study is still--as I say applicable--it's perhaps an update and this past year there have not been--there have been only three street lights. Not many, only.three requests that have been approved. There were two additional but the fixtures were furnished by the Chambers of Commerce in ~ttituck and Cutchogue. I guess what I'm saying, ~r. Supervisor, I didn't think your remarks were apropos, your purported remarks. SUPERVISOR PELL% Thank you. Councilman Nickles? COUNCIL~N NICKI,ES: -I don't have anything to_say really. I just think that I really enjoy it with the Town Clerk reading these resolutions for us and I suggest that all resolutions be read by'the Town Clerk in the future. SUPERVISSR PELL~''~ Councilman Murphy? COUNCIL)~N MURPHY: It would make it much easier, Judy. I have nothing more to say to the Supervisor except your doing a good job. SUPERVISOR PELL: Justice Doyen? JUSTICE DOYEN: I have nothing. SUPERVISOR PELL: The floor is open to the public. Does anyone wish to address the Board? Mr. Frank Bear, then I will come to you Peg.. MARCH 24, 1981 FRANKLIN BEAR: At the work session this morning I read this statement so it is slightly old news to you gentlemen and you, Judith Terry, but-~t want to get it into the rec0rd and also Tasker's request that ther:Town Board meet joinly with the Town's ~ Board,. Zonin~ Board of Appeals and ~ Inspector to consider changes in the Town's code on zoning. You informed me this morning that .s ~lready set up for April 14th and I'm glad to hear't an effort would certainly be worth while--in fact 'is urgently needed--and I trustlthat number of shortcomings in the present code. Discussing these ~"~/ and problemS of jurisdiction, including overlapping or contra- dictory responsibilities, can hardly happen too 'soon. There is a related, even more basic, problem, however. The $outhold Town Plan, which served as a guide for portions of the Zoning Code which were'entacted eight or ten years ago, was adopted in 1971. It was based on a study by Raymond and the planning consultants, which was completed in 1967. In other words, the data and assumptions in the Raymond and MZy report, and to a considerable extent in the Town Zoning Code, are up to fifteen .years old. Hence F~ny of these data and assumptions are out of date. Much has happened during the last decade to-shed:new light-- and to influence the thinking--on the economic, social-and environmental aspects of lif~ in the Town of Southold, both present and future. There was the so-called 208 Study o~ waste plant? Or of having to pay the H2M Corporation thousands and thousands of dollars to make all their studies f0rSouthold the other East End towns? Yes, and a lot has-happened in the last-15 years pointing toward the need to uodate Southold's To~w~ P'lan~; The Southold Town Planning Board, unde~ the chairmanship of Henry Raynor, has taken the first essential s~eps in that direction~. Chairm~n Raynor, after experiencing various problems in conforming with the~Town Code--inclUding the Planning Board' s often confusing --~iationship with the Zoning Board of Appeals--initiated these steps by inviting Lee Koppelman, 'executive director of the Suffolk County Planning Commission, and his assistant, Arthur Kunz, to an exploratory meeting with the ~Pt~nning Board on June 16, 1980. Mr. Koppelman and Mr. Kunz were impressed with the thoughtful and thorough manner in which Mr. Raynor had prepared fo~ the meeting. Mr. Koppelman offered to make his staff available to assist the Town in updating its plan, providing he was requested to do 'so by the Southold Town Board. The cost to the Town would be minimal, especially as compared with what a new study by Raymond and Nay would cost. Mr. Raynor then' ~eported Mr. Koppelman's offer to the Town Board. And as you know, yRaynor and some of you met with Mr. Raymond of Raymond and May esterday to discuss this matter~; And this would indicate further need for some action--ih that directionl I would hope that the Town Board would act now to seek the County Planning Commission's assistance in updating the Town Plan. This is an essential preliminary to changing the Zoning Code, although the Town-Board's consideration of zoning problems need not await achievement of an~ updated plan. Such consideration might in fact be a contribution to'the plan. Incidentally, the Town plin is to be the program-topic at the May 6th meeting of Of Women Voters of Riverhead/ Southold, at 7:30 P.M. sbyterian Church. The members of the Town Board would be most welcome to attend that meeting. That meeting, incidentally, the ~people who will be on the program, in the panel, will be Mr. Raynor, Chairman of the Town Planning Board,- Arthur Kunz, who was at that meeting I referred on June the 16th as the Suffolk County Planning Commission-staff, a~nd David Newton, who is the Land Use Special- ist for the Cooperative Extension of. Suffolk County. It would .~ encouraging if the Town at that time had already requested ~ARCH 24, 1981 the assistance of the County Planning Co~ission. That would 117 legacy through careful planning and zoning. Thank you very much. SUPERVISOR PELL: Thank you, Mr. Bear. MR. BEAR: I think you have a copy of this, don't you, Judy~ TOWN CI.ERK TERRY: Yes,'I do, thank you. (Justice Doyen left the Town Board meeting at 4:35 P.M.) SUPERVISOR PELL: Anybody else wish to address the Town Board? MR. HENRY.LYTI~: Concering this public notice, on page 2, do you have any knowledge whether Mr. Douglass and Mr. Latham intend to accept reappointment? SUPERVISOR PELL: Yes, they do. MR. LYTLE: Thank you. TOWN CLERK TERRY: We have resumes on both of them. SUPERVISOR PELL:~ Resumes haveralready been turned in on both of them. They do seek reappointment. MR.~LYTLE: .They should be reappointed in my view point. SUPERVISOR PELL: The Board will reevaluate. Thank you very much. Anybody else wish to address the Town Board? MRS. PEG KAELIN: Thank yo~ very much~', I see that you have been very very busy and I know that-your work sessions for the next two weeks are just-unbelievable and I can-see where with you adding on another fifteen resolutions that you're rezlly earning your ~keep here. I was very happy to hear that Bridge Lane sump hopefully will have funds because I have a lot of friends-on that road and it's been' tough getting up and back there. I was also glad to hear that the Board does support and urge, from time to time, the state legislature on various legislation and allocations. The.state legislature will be enacting legislation the-latter part of April which is regarding the following: the legislation'intro- duced wilt appeal to the United States Congress to convene a constitutional convention for the purpose of causing a_human- life.~amendment and also legislation to support prohibiting the funding of abortions, I have spoken to you last-year on the constitutional call and certainly am not going to take up your time on that. Six months is quite a long time. I do have new information that I did not have at that time that I will turn in to you today and my covering letter on medicaid abortion funding I think is also thorough. If you have any questions whatsoever, I've given my phone number on report so I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have. I do not intend to take up any of your-time. Th~nk you very much. SUPERVISOR PELL: Thank you~ Will you turn that in to the Town Clerk? Mr. Homan? NRi JAMES HOMAN: Thank you, Mr. Petl. As you realize, I came down here to talk about u~tr~et t~hts, I'm sorry to see that you pulled that first resolution. At first I was going to ask what kind of Board do .we have that when a Councilman asks you what a street light costs that we either have a financial committee or a street light committee that can't answer it. That's Pretty good. Then'I asked for, requested rather, and got a copy of the proposed installation of 24 lights and I did a little work on them and I found them to be in the most part very very.lacking and I'm sorry that ~ou didn't bring them up because I certainly would have liked to discuss them all the way from the first one, where the proposal was to put lights that are 20 to 30 feet away from the road, rather than put them on the opposite side of the road where the poles are 10 feet away from the road. All the way down to putting lights on the best lit roads we have in Town and just north of it are two lights lighting a potato field.any one of which could be moved MARCH 24, 1981 down to fulfill the request. The Street Light Committee has not done their homework on these lights. As a matter of f~ct they recommended one area two lights that needs three. And I find that, you know, rather than to go into each and every one of these recommendations, which for the most part I find lacking, I really think that the People who are going ~o be: on the Stree~ Light Con~nittee really have got to get out. Now, Bill~ you know what it takes because you~-worked ~with me: on it and you know that when we went out with street lights, we 'didn't see how many:lights we could put up, we went to see how many we could take down and the last thing that you and I did, we took town six percent of the lights and cut out forty percent of the energy and put more than one hundred'percent light on the road than we had before. The Street Light Program was originally set up in.three phases. The first phases of which'have been done and the Town borrowed $50,000.00 to do it. $25,000.00 of that $50,000.00 theyspent for a truck, the other $25~000.00 they spend for l~ghts. Our estimated bill for 1977 for LILCO was $103,000.00. What is your bill today for street lights? SUPERVISOR.PELL: Jimmy, off the top of my head, $70,000.00. MR. HOMAN: $65,000.00, besides your maintenance. Can you imagine what that bill would be today if we hadn't gone into the Street Light Program? In other words, in the last four years this Town has saved over $50,000.00. If the ToWn had put money into street lights over the last severalyears, instead of perhaps buying police cars which were an annual expense and put the money into street lights, we'd be saving enough money to buy police cars every year. Mr. Murphy just gave a cost of $41.00 in energy, I believe, for a'50 watt light. Where did you get that figure from, Mr.~Murphy? COUNCILMAN MURPHY: Mr. Dean got it from LILCO. MR. HOk~AN: Oh, do yo~believe everything LILCO telI~ you? Do you know how mu~h that light_ costs you? COUNCILMAN MURPHY: Inenergy? MR. HOMAN: In energy. That light costs you $20.25. a y.e~, plus another $5.00 pole rental and another $4.50 a head hook-up. 'It street doesn't 6ost you that. Yofi said we have '1300 lights. We don't have 1300 street lights, we have i423 lights. Do you realize that we have five lights in the Town that are costing us over $115.00 a year to burn? That put out less light than the cheapest light that we put up? The cheapest sodium.? I".m sorry, but you fellows on your Street Light Committee are 'not ~oing your homework and I just hope for the sake of the Town that you do give this thing a little more thought. The other thing I would like. to caution you about isthe irresponsible--not the irresponsible-- just the indiscriminate placing of street lights because people ask for them. This is the hardest thing I had to contend with when I was on the Street Light Committee; taking street lights doWn just because somebody wanted one in front of their house. If you go to that you are going to have an awful lot of miles of roads in the Town. If you are going to-light them from one end to the other . end, you must be very very careful where you put your street lights; SUPERVISOR PELL: Jimmy, can i ask you where did you get the figure of energy, your energy figure~ because--- MR. HOMAN: I got it~from your' last month's bills. SUPERVISOR PELL: Mr. Dean, you got-- MR. HOM~N: It is the wattage 0fyour light plus the wattage of ~ourballast,-plus 4200 hours per year, plus your current energy osfWhich is ~.080t82._ SUPERVISOR PELL: Mr. Dean, HIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENT DEAN where did you get your energy--- I got it from LILCO. SUPERVISOR PELL: You called LILCO and got it from LILCO. MARCH 24. 1981 MR. HOMAN: I£ that was r, ~u'd be spending over $100,000.00 a year for energy and you're not doing that. My figures are right. SUPERVISOR PET~,: Mr. Dean, you are going to call.LILCO tomorrow, and i£ they are charging us on what you say and what Jimmy j.us~ brought out, let's find out who's right and who~s wrong. 'LILCO could be misleading us. MR. HOMAN: One more thing. After a great deal~of study when I was doing the s~reet lights, I, of course, went down to North Carolina and I went Upstate and I went to New Jersey and a lot of: other place~ looking not only to see what'kind of street lights were available, but how the other municipalities ran their program if we were put in the same situation that we were in there, so- called new Street lighting dep~rtments, and in all of this recommended to the Town Board at that time a GE power door type of fixture' which the Town Board did go out to bid on and did standardize. I understand that you have now--are now buying a different type fixture? COUNCILMAN DRUM: It's news to me if he is, Jim. HIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENT DEAN: I'm trying the ITT. MR. HOMAN: and GE? Does anybody have figures on the two lights, the ITT COUNCIL~N DRUM: No, Mr. Dean was going to get ahold of me at time--appropriate time and we would go and look at what was proposed, To. date I don't know how, Ray, you've gone. . MR. HOMAN: It's immaterial. I just heard that you were buying a fixture that was half the cost of the other and I did a little checking around. So I was J~st curious about what_the fixtures were costing you.' SL~ERVISOR PELL:Mr. Dean, can you give us a price for ITT? 119 MR. HOMAN: I don't think it's Mr. Dean's]place to give a p~de on street lights. It is the Street Light Committee's place ~o know what a light' is going to cost him when they say th~put, up. a light, what kind of light are they going to put up, and What it is going to cost them. And after all, the big expense of a light is not the fixture itself. That's secondary. The big expense is your energy cost .and your maintenance of alight, Those are your two big ones. SUPERVISOR PELL: Thank you, Mr. Homan. Mr. Dean, do you have a cost, any idea of the cost of that ITT light for the Board?. HIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENT DEAN: The price I got for ITT was approximately $95.00. SUPERVISOR PELL: Again, the G.E.? HIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENT DEAN: I can't remember what G.E. light is. If we go out to bid, but~first I have to contact H2M to check this fixture and they haven't gotten back to me yet. SUPERVISOR PELL: When they get back to you you wiI1 notify the Street Light Committee, I presume. HIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENT DEAN: That's right. COUNCILMAN DRUM: You called me several weeks ago and said we would go take a look at these, to date we have not done-it. To my knowledge nothing has been purchased. SUPERVISOR PELL: Nothing has been bought yet, no-. COUNCILMAN MURPHY: Ji~, I appreciate~your comments and I think you're One thousand percent right and what I would like is some input from you and also some kind of passing on. I realize of us aren't here each year and I do think~some of this material 120: MARCH 24, 1981 should have been passed on. This morning was the first time I-~ heard of a report.- This morning was.the first time I saw the outside cover of it. I haventt been given a report yet and anything that was turned over concerning any costs of.anything has never been turned over to this-Street Light Committee as of January 1, 1981. Now, I would appreciate anything. I would like if you wo~ld give of your time. I~know:you have given a lot of time. If you would give of your time in helping the. present Street L~ight Committee come up with the right answers. I think we're all interested in the same thing. MR. HO~.~N: Mr. Murphy, if 'Jud~ did have ~i'~co~y' of~ this' report, why--I'm sure the Highway Department has a--copy of it, I will ~eJgl~d to ~;et with-you~at m~ conVenience, you and Hank !or anybody else. I spent a great deal of time setting up this program and I have a great.deal.of feeling for it. One of the few areas where you can spend money to save money. MRS. RUTH OLIVA: I just like to ask ~4r. Drum if he can enlighten me on something. What type of scientist down at the Department of Public Works will' be condUcting'the feasibilitv study at Cedar Beac.h? COUNCILMAN DRUM: I don't know who will be conducting the study, scientist-wise. That is up to the county to determine who will . a jetty would solve the to'-rather than having you would not have the filling he inlet. -you go around that point yon'do not get the l%toral drift and maybe--- MRS.~OLIVA: We disagree on that but--- COUNCILMAN DRUM: You may disagree, I don't know. I do .not agree or disagree with you or some of the conce~ts and that is the purpose of what'is the solution. At present I am concerned when the:engineer indicated perhaps the legislature will not continue to ,appropriate money every year opening Cedar Beach, and when they s~op~that then what happens't0 the whole-inlet; correct. Perhaps :rance ~r northeast If MRS. OLIVA: May I ask the~Board. 'You have listened very carefully to the petitioners, you have contacted bhe county engineer and listened very closely to him. ~y has not anyone gone down to the marine scientists who are-there every single day of the year, down at Cedar Beach to ask them their opinion of what is going on down there as far as latoral drift is they could tell you so much better than just an engineer that is coming out, perhaps once or twice a year to do the dredging. COUNCILMAN DRUM: I'm not going to dicker with you. t feel' the study should be made. Several people that hame been natives fifty or sixty years-- - MRS..0LIVA: But they're not scientiStS.- si}.~ COUNCILMAN DRUM: No, they aren't, but they have seen the inlet and certain locations that never require dredging or very seldom require ~edging at certain locations in l~econic Bay, either Little Peconic Bay. You can take the, for instance, Goose Creek Inlet, which has been some time sinCe~it was last dredged. We took soundings in it the other day; Nfs. Hataier was with us, ~d they' re ten to-eleven-~ ~eet.Because ~ its location in the Bay you do not get the wind, wave and. current action~ NoW, it is k~own that if you go around where the c~unty park is at present, do not get the same amount. Y do not profess to be an-engineer and I say, let's put it in the hands of the- experts and let the county--they were the ones that came up with this, not the idea, but mentioned a jetty. I said, let's study ali aspects, and that's why I say we. call it not a:jetty study but a stabilization study. MRS. OLIVA: And I thinkit's safe to assume that the Board will MARCH 24, 1981 give it careful'consideration to this stabilization project as it did to the street'lighting of ~ogthold Town Thank. you. SUPERVISOR PELL: Mr. Homan. MR. HOMAN: One more thing, Bill. I really don't want to come to To%~ Board meetings and I'm not going to come to them any more. Two or three years ago, Bill, we set a policy~when I was on the Board that whenever the s~nJor c~t~z~n~ asked for a bus trip they gave us a breakdown of the swp~n~ because we wanted To make sure that they weren't going to get into something, that was going to be prohibitive to.too many people. I assume that they have given you a breakdown of their expenses for these various trips%they've been on to date. SUPERVISOR PELL: What do you mean? MR. HONAN: . I mean; have they got--are they into something where it is going to cost everybody who gets on the bus $10.00 or $15.00 or $20.00 a head where they go, Milleridge or Guerneys? I know what a lunch costs at Guernevs and I know what it costs going at~ the on.Milteridge Inn; and I don't ~now if there is a program SUPERVISOR PELL: They haven't given us abreakdown. MR. HOMAN: But in the past we had commented on several programs that they had that were very expensive. That's number one. Number two, the other thing that we asked them to do, and I'm sure that they're doing it, perhaps you could chgck on it, was to make sure that whenever they planned a trip that they advertised it well enough so it was available to other people as well as their own group. And just a question~ if they ask for a bus to say 21 or the Four SeaSons, is that gbing to go through? SLrpERVISOR PELL: Mr. Samuel NarkeI had your hand up. MR. SAMUEL MARKEL: When you talk about that subject, that happens to be a subject that I'm pretty interested myself, t think that is really the taxpayers are paying for a certain segment of the population to enjoy bus trips and other things. I would like to know whether any other group, whether or not senior citizens and/ or youth can use the senior citizens' hall as we~call it down there on Peconic Lane at any specific~time? For instance, I ~ belong to the Greenport M~n's Club and a lot of the members of the Greenport Men's Club are Southold residents and we pay rent for the use of Nechanic's Hall in Greenport which you're famiTiar with, and perhaps we could arrange for the Town of Southotd to use the senior citizen center for our little get togethers weekly and eliminate our having to pay rent when everybody else gets the benefit of %he senior citizens center and I don't see why not, because it is for all the taxpayers of the Town of Southold~ I would like to know where and when I can make applications to use the facilities. SUPERVISOR PEI,L: Make your request to my office and it will be reviewed. We have let many civic organizations g~e that. 'You name t~e~.~ Mr. Dean had the chart today. It's booked practically a~d in use practically every day. MR. MARKEL: We're a very philanthropic organization. SUPERVISOR PELL: COUNCILMAN DRUM: SUPERVISOR PELL: It is used by many civic organizations. We'd like to have you. Anybody else wish to address the Board? Yes, sir. MR. KEN DEIM: I am county chairman for the Right to Lif~ Party. I'm here at the request of Mrs. Kaelin and I'm here to request this council, this Town Board to support the two resolutions.that she is going to put forth. On the call for a constitutional convention for purposes of passing a human life amendment, I'd like to put aside your fears of a runaway convention. Professor Henry Black from Harvard University, who is not for a human life amendment convention has clearly stated that if it is. called for more than one issue, the convention itself is null and void. Our forefathers, in putting together the constitution, did this as a means to the people, for us to speak', so the way that we can amend the United States Constitution. It wasn't meant, the constitution 121 !22 MARCH 24, .1981 was not meant to leave soiely in the hands of congress and that's the'only place for it to be. Abraham Lincoln stated that probably the fairest and the best way to the average person to have a~say in the politicaI process is through a call for a constitutional convention. There have been over 400 attempts'at such a call. Not'one has ever been successful. Correction, there was one. The closest we came was in the early part of~this century when _~ there was a call for a.constitutional convention for the purposes of having a United'Sta~es Senator elected to °fiice. Whe~ gongress saw that they were get'ting dangerousl~ close/as the because they did not want the people to have the turned and they passed a law, an amendment, d States Senators elected every six years rather than being appointed. Given that background on the con-con, so called con-con, there~are little or no dangers to it. Should, for example, 34 states call, and by the way there are now 26 states that have issued the call, the. call would then go through a long process of three years of deliberating; negotiating and coming out with an amendment Which then must be ratified by 38 states. If by some--and lets give it a hypothetical situation, if we possibly can,--that they elected to throw out the Bill of Rights. Should 38 states ratify such an amendment, I would say that's the will of the American people. God forbid it would happen. As far as medicaid funding goes, New York State is one o5 ll states that are still funding medicaid funded abortions. The cost to the state is approximately thirty million dollars a year. That affects Southold, that affects my Township of Brookhaven, that affects everybody. The misnomer that medicaid funded abortions are s~rictly for the poor people who come in, who cannot'afford them, is just that, a misnomer. New York does not have ~a residency law. All a person has to do,is cross the border, move into the state, into a motei room, and fi!e f0~imedicaid and be immediately approved and they can h~ve ih~.~.i~fund~d abortion. That bilt now is being carried by Senator Donov~h~andif i"~ not mistaken, I'll know for Sure t0m~rrow, it will b~!~sSembly~an Howard from the house side.. As far as the fears~: gentlemen, of this whole thing bf why at a Town level, who arc-we on Town level of government to stand up and tetI the government what to do, or direct them. Well, it seems to me that when this.country was founded, it was for the people and by:the peoDle and direction was meant for us~ to give to the government as towhat we want, not for the government to give us ~s to what they~.~want I urge you, please, support those-resolutions. ~ We need your ~elp; If we had more help of more~ townships last year we would have passed it in the State of New York. Thank you. SUPERVISORPELL: Anybody etse wish to address .the Town Board? Before I ask for a motion to adjourn, I would like to pass on a bit of information--advice [ received approximately two years ago, from a man who used to sit in this chair, the office that I now hold. I questioned him one day on something and his advice to me was; "Young fellow, if the shoe fits you wear it, if it don't fit you don't worry about it". I move to adjourn. . On motion of Supervisor Pell, seconded by Councilman Murphy, it Was RESOLVED that there being no further business to come before this. Town Board meeting adjournment be called at' 5:05 Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. Judith T. Terrp Southold Town Clerk