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' 'SOI/i'HOLI) TOWN BOARD
April 7, 1981
WORK' SESSION
8:30 A.M. - The Board began the audit of bills and reviewing off-
agenda it.e~s.
10:00 A.M[ - Mr. Jack DriscolI and Mr. Stanley Waimey appeared
before the Board to discuss the ~in their d~elopment known
as Peaonic Knolls. Mr. Driscoll stated the Buliding Department
would'not give them a building permit until they received permission
from the Planning Board. Mr. Driscolt did this and the Planning
Board approved a permit for Lot No. 6 and the Building Department
issued it. Mr. Driscolt does not feel ir'necessary to go tOe-the
Planning Board each time they wish.to secure a permit on the roads
which'have not been completed. He appealed to the Town Board to
intervene in this matter. Town Attorney Tasker and Councilman
Nickles pointed out to Mr. Driscoll that he is before the wrong
Board. He should go back to the Planning Board. According to
New York State Law, Section 280A, no building permit shall be
issued in a subdivision until the roads have been improved to the
satisfaction of the Planning Board
10:30 A.M~ - Mr. William Multen, Jr.., insurance advisor for the
Town brought the Board up to date on his studies concerning medical
insurance coverage for Town employees. He has accomplished a very
important task concerning Blue Cross, making it possible for the
Town to pay only six days in advance, rather than two months as
in the past. He is still in touch with Mr. Cart at BOCES concerning
a joint.program, but this does not .look hopefut.~Mr~'~Mullen did
read about a new plan in the Wall Street= Journal wi~h?~ih~ best.-
coverage possible. If he could ~interest Suffolk~:County~in t~his
progra~i~i~ would be beneficial to Southold Town.'i'SuPer~isor
agreed to arrange a meeting with the health insUrance~Officer in
the County and Mr. Mullen. Mr. Mullen f~rther advised'the Board
that .he recommends that other insurance coverage for ~he To~n should
go to a three year bid which ~ould save the ~o~n a Considerable
amount~ of m6ney. The Board favored this proposal.
10:45 A.M. - Mrs. Venetia McKe~ghan, Site. ~anager of the Southold
Town Nutrition Program met with the Board to advise them that unless
additional employees are provided, the program must close. At the
present time she is functioning with only Gerald King, Cook and four
part-time senior workers who work four hours a day, three days a
week. Mr. King has informed Mrs. McKeighan that he will leave the
program on Thursday if he does'not receive help in the kitchen. He
is single handedly preparing an average of 130 meals per day. They
have a total of five full-time and four part-time people running the
program. When asked what she would need to continue, Mrs. ~cKeighan
stated'it would be-necessary to have an assistant cook for Mr. King,
at least one bus driver for home meal delivery (more people will be
encouraged to use the Feeder Bus System), and full time employment
of Pam McCaffery in the office who has been responsible for aiding
the.elderly complete and file forms for various types of financial
relief. The Board is concerned about closing the program, but feel~
it could still function if there were certain cutbacks.' Mrs. McKeighan
was asked to return to the Board on April 21st with a priority. list
of services that will enable the program to continue. In the mean-
time it was agreed to place a resolution on the agenda to hire Dorothy
Mysliborski as an assistant cook.
EXECUTIVE SESSION
11:30 A.M. - the Board met with Mr. Rh~r]es GraVes, Southold Town's
labor consultant, concerning C SEA negotiations.
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12:30. P.M. -.Chief Carl ~' ..... ~1~
Cataldo appeared before the Board to discuss
~ete~tive ±r~in~n~ ~h~l. which is tentatively set to begin on May
18th. Chief Cataldo was advised to reserve four seats at the school
in the event that many were needed. The Chief al:so spoke about using
seasonal police of£icer~ to aid in transporting patients to mental
institutions and the fact tha~ a letter should be requested from
the mental health designee which would request the Town to transport
these patients and possibly the Town can be reimbursed for their
services.--Chief Cataldo stated that the .7th Squad is definitely
out of Southold Town.-~Chief CataIdo was asked to presen~ a proposed
program for the future investigative unit and what individuals he
would assign to this unit. The Chief stated he feels the assignment
of personnel within the POlice Department is his job. The Town Board
does not actually know what is involved, i.e. performance, characteristics
of the police officer to qualify as an investigative officer. The
Board renewed their request for a proposed program.
12:50 P.M. - The Board recessed for lunch.
2:30 P.M. - Mr. James McMahon, Director of the Southold Town ~
D~version and Prevention Program made a pTesentation to the Board
concerning a proposed application for a $75,000.00 grant for a
Southold Town Police Juven~ie Bureau. The Board wished more time to
study the proposal and a resolution will be placed on the Aoril 14th
agenda.--~r. NcMahon advised the Board that the $3,000.00 D~ug Abuse
should be accepted by the end of April. He said Riverhead,
Southampton and East Hampton already have juvenile bureaus in
their towns.
2:55 P.M. - The Board began reviewing the agenda.
3:35 P.M. - James Bitses, Esq. ~opeared before the Board with his
client Demetrios Pavlidis concerning the possible rental of ~he
refreshment .building at Southold Town Beach, Arshamomaque. Mr.
BitseS has presented a proposal to rent the building and would
like the Board to reconsider their proposal to demolish or remove
the building. This matter will be discussed further at the April
21st meeting after the bids are opened (April 20th).
Supervisor Pell asked for the Board's feelings concerning the
proposed residences for potential community residence s~tes by ~he
New York State Office of Mental Retardatio~:~and Developmental
Disabilities. The proposed residence on Route 48. Mattitu¢k was
approved by the Board and Supervisor Pell will notify OMRDD. The
proposed residence on Short RoaQ was discussed and Supervisor Pell
will notify OMRDD that there has been one complaint regarding that
site. The proposed residence on Plum Island Lane, Orien~ will be
discussed further at the next Board meeting.
4:00 P.M. - A group from the Mattituck Inlet Advisory Committee
(Michael Cortese, Lydia Tortora, Alfred Kirby, Peter Maione and
Frank Bear), met with the Town Board to advise them that the
Long Island Regional Planning Board has completed Phase I of
Study at Mattituck Inlet and they will be meeting with them for
a preliminary presentation at 7:00 on April 23rd. They would like
to have an open meeting on April 30th for presentation of the study
to the public. The Board agreed to such a meeting. Mrs. Tortora
said that following Phas~ I the L. I. R~gional Planning Board will
be able to go into the Site plan.--There was some discussion r~lative
to lack of communication between the Advisory Committee and the
Town Board and Mr. Cortese said that would be corrected and their
minutes would be supplied to the Town Board regularly.
Councilman Murdock wished it noted for the record t~hat he requests
legal advice from the Town Attorney relative to abolishing the
~osition of Deputv Supervisor, o~-restricting the powers to only
signing checks. Town Attorney Tasker said that under Town Law
the duties of Deputy Supervisor cannot be restricted. The Deputy
Supervisor is empowered to act in all capacities in the absence
or inability to serve of the Supervisor. To abolish the oosition
would merely be by resolution of the Town Board, however,-'$his
would be inadvisable because if the Supervisor were unable to
function, employees would not be paid and other transactions of
the Town would halt.inasfar as the position of Supervisor were
concerned.
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A regular meeting of the Southold Town Board was held on Tuesday,
April 7, 1981 at the Southold Town Hall, Main Road, Southotd, New
York. Supervisor Pell opened the meeting at 7:30 P.M. with the
Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
Present:
Supervisor William R. Pell, III
Justice Francis T. Doyen
Councilman Henry W. Drum
Councilman John'~ J. Nickles
Councilman Lawrence Murdock, Jr.
Councilman Francis J. Murphy.
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Town Clerk Judith T. Terry
Town Attorney Robert W. Tasker
On motion of Councilman Nickles, seconded by Councilman Murphy, it was
RESOLVED that the following audited bills be and hereby are approved
for payment: General Fund Whole Town bills in the amount of
$43,821.79; General Fund Part Town bills in the amount of $19,328.14;
Highway bills in the amoun~of $23,163.52; Fishers Island Ferry District
bills in the amount of $35,641.86; Delinquency Diversion and Prevention
Project bills in the amount of $268.39; and Division of Youth Program
bills in the amount of $1,706,33, FRS bills in the amount of $12,442.38.
Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman 5~urphy, Councilman
Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen,
Supervisor PeI1.
This resolution was declared duly adopted.
On motion of Councilman Drum, seconded by Justice Doyen, it was
RESOL.VED that the minutes of the Southold Town Board meetings of
March 24, 1981 and March 31, 1981 be and they hereby are aD-proved.
Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, ~ouncilma~
Murdock, Councilman Nickles/ Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen,
Supervisor Pell.
This resolution was declared duly :adopted.
SUPERVISOR PELL: Next meeting of the Town Board has been changed
from what it says in the agenda. Today a couple of Board membeys
brought up to me and I concur with them~that we have so much going
on today we did not devote time to everything we have to in the
amount of time. It happened to us two weeks ago when the Board
met, so therefore we have called a meeting on April t4th, one week
from today at 5:00 P.M. There will be a working session of the
Town Board which will start at 1:00 in th~ afternoon. The official
meeting will be at 5:0OP.M. at night. It will be in a meeting we
are going to have at 4:00 o'clock with the Village of Greenport in
studying the waste management problems we have and I think it will be
brought up later on today under Councilmen Reports.
On motion of Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman Murdock,. it was
RESOLVED that the n~ r~]~r meetin~ of the Southold Town Board
will be held at 5:00 P.M., Tuesday, April 14~ 19gl 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.
SUPERVISOR PELL: Next we have a ~necial event~ We would like to
honor some people tonight and I woul~ like to describe the event
a little bit if t could. I think I have most of the details in it.
Saturday, a week ago, two young people were out in ~ boat in a little
lake down behind Kenneys Beach. The boat' caDsized and the two people
of seven and nine year~ old went into the water. Two yonng boys who
were visiting our township from Islip Township were in the ar'ea~ They
went into approximately 37 degree termperature wazer and pulled .out
the nine year old girl who is with us tonight. There she is right
over there. The two young boys pulled her out, ran to a ho~se to
call for aid. A gentleman was in his house taking care of his little
child, left the child in the house, ran down, called the police. The
police responded, the Sou~hold Fire Department Rescue Team came out
with a man who is not here yet, and I hope he will be here, got on
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the scene, Sergeant Droskoski. He's transporting blood right now
is the reason he is not here. He was on the. scene with other folks
and at that time made the tall to go out in the little boat and look
for the missing young man. They went out, two people went out, and
found this young man in eight feet of water, approximately twenty
minutes submerged. The p~rents are here tonight. I talked to the
£ather a little while ago and he said little Lance is slightly better
than he was yesterday. Lance has a long ways to come but he is
coming. After that the firemen took him to ELI, what is known as
Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenpo~t. He stayed there for
several days and then they pu~ him up in St. Charles Hospital where
he is now and the mother is here and she was up there today. These
people all involved are here tonight with us and at this time the
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Town Board would like to recognize alt of them, individually. Each
Councilman will take a turn and I will present them with a resolution.
Council, man~urdock ....
O~ motion of.Councilman Murdock, seconded by Councilman Drum,
WHEREAS, the sancity and value of human life is treasured and
honored as a basic tenet of American life, and
~EREAS, it is in the highest pursuit and maintenance of th~
belief that a person should expend all his knowledge, ability
and efforts toward that goal, even at the risk of his o%~ life
and Welfare, and ~
WHEREAS, on the twenty-eighth day of March, nineteen hundred and
eighty one,
did exemplify the character, ability, knowledge, selflessness,
courage and devotion necessary to meet the challenge in that he
did without concern for his own safety, plunge into the frigid
waters of Great Pond and rescue a drowning child and pull her to
shore and then displayed the presence of mind to run to a nearby
home to have additional aid summoned in order to rescue another
child who had slipped beneath the waters, and
WHEREAS, his efforts contributed to the saving of two lives and
is a credit to himself and to his parents, NOW, TItEREFO.RE, BE' IT
RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold does hereby
commend and thank him for his actions, and BE IT FURTHER
RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold does by this
resolution desire that the knowledge of his acts be brought to the
attention of the community so that the citizens thereof may be
aware of the courage and service of this youth.
Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman ~urphy, Councilman
Murdock, Councilman Nickles, ~ouncilman Drum]~Justice Doyen,
Supervisor Pell.
This resolution was declared duly adopted.
(Thomas Burke came forward.and received his resolution and congratulations
from the Town Board, Town Clerk,~,~own Attorney a~d'all others present.)
On motion, of Councilman Drum, seconded by ~upervisor Pell,
WHEREAS, the sanctity and value of human life is treasured and
honored as a basic tenet of American life, and
WHEREAS, it is in the highest pursuit and maintenance of that
belief that a person should expend.all his knowledge, ability
and efforts toward that goal, even at the risk to his own life
and welfare, and
WHEREAS, on the twenty-eighth day of March, ~ineteen hundred and
eighty one~
NICHOLA~ WORONTZO~
did exemplify the character, ability, knowledge, selflessness,
courage and devotion necessary to meet the Challenge in that he
did without concern for his own safety, plunge into the frigid
waters of Great Pond and rescue a drowning child and pull her
to shore and displayed the presence of mind to run to a nearb .
home ~to have additional ~id summoned in'order to rescue another
child who had slipped beneath the waters, and
WHEREAS, his efforts contributed to the saving of tw~ lives and
is a credit to himself and to his parents; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold.does hereby
commend and thank him for his actions, and BE IT FURTHER
RESOLVED that the Town Board of-the Town of Southold does by this
resolution desire that the knowledge of his acts be brought to the
attention of the community so that the citizens thereof may be
aware of the courage and service of this youth.
Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman
Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen,
SupervisDr Pell.
This resolution was declared duly adopted.
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(Nicholas Worontzoff came forward and received his resolution~and
congratulations from the Town Board, Town Clerk, Town Attorney and
all others present.)
On motion of Councilman Nickles, seconded-by Councilman Murphy,
WHEREAS, the sanctity and Value of human-life is treasured and
honored as a basic tenet of American life, and
WHEREAS, it is in the highest pursuit and maintenance of that
belief that a person should expend all his knowledge, ability
and efforts toward that goal, even at the risk to his own life
and welfare, and
WHEREAS, on the twenty-eighth day of March, nineteen hundred and
eighty one,
._CARLISLE "TY" COCHRAN JR.
did exemplify the character, ability, knowledge, selflessness,
courage and devotion necessary to meet the challenge in that he
did enter a small boat' with another person and search fora child
who had fallen off a boat and was under the water. Upon the child
being found and brought to the surface, he brought the child into
the boat and immediately initiated cario-pulmonary resusitation,
keeping it up until reachi~ Shore. Once on shore he continued,
along with others, to administer CPR, then entering the ambUlance
to continue such administration until the arrival at the hospital.
Without the oxygen and blood circulation provided by the CPR on a
continuing basis there is no doubt that the chitd would have died,
and
WHEREAS, his timely and effective action, skill and determination
resulted in the saving of the life of the child, NOW, THEREFORE,.
BE IT
RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold does hereby
~ommend him for his actions and in doing so extends recognition
nd appreciation for the dedication and services of all its volunteer
firemen.
Vote of-the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman
Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen,
Supervisor PelI.
This resolution was declared duly adopted.
(Carlisle Cochran, Jr. came forward and received his resolution and
congratulations from the Town Board, Town C~erk, Town Attorney ~nd
all others present.) ~
On motion of Councilman Murphy, seconded by Justice Doyen,
WHEREAS, this nation was built.upon the spirit of cooperation
and community service and the sanctity and value of human life, and
WHEREAS, it is in that honorable tradition that our citizens devote
their time and e£fort in community endeavors, and
WHEREAS, the active membership in the volunteer firematic service
of the community is of the highest order wherein the members thereof
not only give of their time and labors but also place their lives
and welfare in danger-for the benefit of their fellow citizens, and
WHEREAS, such service was exemplified recently when a child who had
been submerged beneath the water for twenty minutes was resusitated
and restored to life by members, of the Fire Department and others,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold.does hereby
commend the
SOUTHOLD FIRE DEPARTMENT
and the. members thereof for their dedication and service to the
people of the Southold Fire District, and in doing so states its
respect, admiration and appreciationto zll the volunteer firemen
of the Town of Southold.
Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman
Murdock,. Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen,
Supervisor Pell. ' · '
This resolution was declared duly adol~te~
(Cht~f/Terry Latham of the Souffle-Fire Departmen'~-c~me f~rward
and~e'ceived his resolution and. congratulations from the Town Board,
town Clerk, Town Attorney and all others presenz.)
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On motion of Justice Doyen, seconded by. Councilman Murdock,
WHEREAS, the sanctity and value of human life is treasured and
honored as a basic tenet of American life, and
WHEREAS, it is in the highest pursuit and maintenance of that
belief that a person should expend all his knowledge, ability
and efforts toward that goal, even at the risk to his own life
and welfare, and
WHEREAS, on the twenty~eighth day of March, nineteen hundred and
eighty one,
~DWA~D J. BOYD 5~
did exemplify, the character, ability, knowledge, selflessness,
courage and devotion necessary to meet the challenge in that he
did immediately assist in the administration of cardio-pulmonary
resusitation to z child who had fallen into the water and had
been submerged for about twenty minutes. Although the child
showed no discernible pulse or respiration, he did not cease in
the efforts to save the child's life all the way to the hospital,
thus contributing to continuing the flow of oxygen and bloo~ to
the child's body, and the saving of the child's life, and
WHEREAS, his timely action, skill and determination result~di"i~~'
the saving of the life of the child, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold does hereby
commend him for his action-~nd in doing so extends recognition
and appreciation for the dedication and service of all its
volunteer firemen.
Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, douncilman
Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum~ Justice Doyen,
Supervisor Pell2
This ~esotution was declared duly adopted.
(Edward J. Boyd 5th, Esq. came forward and received his resolution
and congratulations Of the Town Board, Town Clerk, Town Attorney
and all others present.)
On motion of Supervisor Pell, seconded by Councilman Drum,
WHEREAS, the sanctity and value..of human life is treasured~and
honored as a basic tenet of American'life, and
WHEREAS, it is in the highest pursuit and maintenance of that
belief that a person should expend all his knowledge, ability
and efforts towards that goal, even at the risk to his own life
and welfare, and
WHEREAS, on the twenty-eightN day of March,1'/nineteen hundred and
eighty one,
~OLICE OFFICER DENNIS B~NNON
did exemplify the character, ability, knowledge, selflessness, ~
courage and devotion necessary to meet the challenge in that
he display excellent judgment in using a small boat to enter
upon the waters of Great Pond to institu%e ~ithout delay a
search for a young child who had fallen into the water and gone
under. Upon seeing the child submerged in eight feet of water,
he did not hesitate to dive into the frigid pond and retrieve
the child thereby permitting immediate resusitation efforts to
commence. His quick action and proper response and his willingness
to enter the water at risk to himself aided in the successful
efforts to save the life of the child who had been submerged
for about twenty minutes, and
WHEREAS, his acts contributed to the saving of a life and are
a tribute.to his devotion and skill as a police officer of the
Town of Southold, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold does hereby
commend him for his actions and note its pride in the quality
and dedication of his service to the Town of Southold.
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: I would like to tell you all that the Town Board
has authorized Dennis to have one extra personal day this year~
(Police Officer Dennis Bannon came forward and received .his
resolution and congratulations of the Town Board, Town Clerk,
Town Attorney and all others'present.)
SUPERVISOR PELL: I'have two other things I would like to say
while I'm standing here. The gentleman who made the judgment
call on this whole affair, we did not single him out tonight.
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I asked him to stop in. I would like to recognize him at this
time. Sergeant in charge of the operation who made the judgment
call of the boat to go out, Sergeant Stanley Droskoski. (Sergeant
Droskoski was applauded by the audience;)
They say there is some good that comes out of everything
and I think there is a lot of good that come out of the experience
we just went through.. Last week I was asked to attend a meeting
in the Cutchogue Fire House. The volunteer firemen throughout
the Town were there, except Fishers Island and East Marion could
not be there. They are going to form a volunteer, I'm going~to
call it ",diver's team~' so they can be on call in each department.
They have elected a chairman of this. The county 'will train them
in Yaphank and Brookhaven and Cutchogue Fire House and I know there
is a spokesman here for that firm or group of firemen who are
going to do this. I will ask him'to get up 'and tell us basically
what it is all about. Fred, where are you? Fred, come up here.
MR. PETE NATHANSON: I'-m Assistant Chief, Orient Fire DeparTment,
I have been appointed, volunteered and therefore appointed,
coordinator of what I' think I'll call,..for lack of any other formal
name, The North Fork Sc~b,~ ~¢scue Team. The firemen from the
volunteer fire departments from Orient up to and including River-
head. Not only the Town of Southold we are going on the North Fork.
We started this initially aSout five months ago with a little
coaxing from myself to Waiter ~ilet Who works for the Department of
Agriculture. He is a retired New York City police diver. At the
time we asked for volunteers and we 'kot a bunch of fellows together
as a kind of side line for a little while and a couple of weeks
ago we started again.on formalizing this and with the events of a
week ago Saturday we're going full steam ahead on this now. We
are going to be trained by an instructor from the Suffolk County
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Department of Fire Services ~nd Chief Gary Grave who is
instructor. Ho~efull~ we're getting written ~ermission and okay to
use Brookhaven Labs' pool, We'll be renting equipment temporarily
during the training sessions and after that purchasing through the
individual districts scuba equipment for each~man~ .... It's going to
be working on the individual department basis initially with the
call from the chief of that department for mutual aid from other
departments to get the entire team together in case~an~emergency
comes~along. Any suggestions from the Board, any help from the
Board, any help from the Town itself towards this group would be
greatly appreciated now and until whenever. But we are going full
steam ahead on this, in fact our training s~arts on April 15th,~ is
our first class. Thank you.
SUPERVISOR PELL: Before I ask for a five minUte recess, I would
ask Sergeant, do you have anything to add to it. Stan? As being
officer in charge at the scene?
POLICE SERGEANT STANLEY DROSKOSKI, JR.: I don't know what's been
said before, but'I was proud to be a part of the bunch that were
responsible for the young man being ali~ve. The guys did a hell of
a nice job.
SUPERVISOR PELL: Thank you, Stash. I'd like to add one thing to
Dennis Bannon. Seems in the last week Dennis and I have crossed
three times. Last Friday night I was trying to duck the press
on an item they were after me on, so I told my wife, let's go out
to eat. We went to Rosses Restaurant. We were sitting in the
window. Dennis was there. Ail of a sudden my wife hears a crash.
She looks outside and a~car that hit a car at Orient Point, side-
swiped another car in front of Soundview Restaurant, went down
Boisseau and hit another car there, but this time he couldn't
get away and Car 805 comes up with~the lights on ~nd makes a lot of
noise and.I look up and Dennis is jumping out of his car chasing
somebody that ran down the road. They got him and brought him
back. Saturday night was one of the few nights I'm home Without
somewhere to go and I told my wife, about half past eight, let's
t~ke a walk, We walked from my house up to what is called the
fish dock.. It's about .eight tenths of a mile. On the way back
down comes the police car again going into one of the yachts that's
tied up along side the road there. I stopped to see who's--what's
going on and out of the boat comes Officer~Bannon again..My wife
says, that's three times in about a week. -Dennis, we're very very
proud of your work. You're doing a fine job and the day off can
no% ever express the desire of this Board to teI1 you you're doing
. a fine job. At this time I will-call for a five minute recess.
Then we will begin again.
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On motion of Supervisor Pell, seconded~by Councilman Nickles, it was
RESOLVED that a five minute recess be-~alled at this timej 8'05 P M
Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman
Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen,
SupervisOr Pell.
This resolution was declared duly adopte~F
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Meeting reconvened at 8:1-0 P.M.
SUPERVISOR PELL: Thank you very much.
Board meeting and go under reports.
I. REPORTS - SUPERVISOR PELL:
Let's return to the Town
These reports are all placed on file with the Town Clerk if
anybody cares to review them, they can do so at the Town Clerk's
Office.
1. Town Clerk's report (April 1981).
2. Building Inspector's monthly report (April 1981).
3. Mr. Dean's, Superintendent of Highway's monthly report
(April 1981).
4. Report from my office, Supervisor (April 1981).
5. Fishers Island Ferry District report (April 1981).
6. Bay Constable's report (April 19~81).
7. Assessor's monthly report (April 1981).
8. Police Department's monthly report (April-1981).
9. Town Justice Tedeschi's report (April 198t).
10. Town Justice Rich monthly report (April 1981).
11. We go to Councilman's reports. Councilman Murdock.
COUNCILMAN MURDOCK: As I told the Board this afternoon, we have
had a proposal from the Energy Development Corporation relative
To operating a municipal solid waste disposal system at our town
landfill. We will discuss it further on the 14th of the month,
at our next meeting. We also have a proposal t.hat we will look
into on the 21st of the month from an engineering firm. Again
relative to the disposal area and municipal so]~d w~.~t~_. As you
know we will also have a report from the H2M. We a~e going to
have ~ meeting relative to the sludge and the septic removal. .~
The work at the disposal areg is moving rapidly a~ong. Thank
you, Bill.
SUPERVISOR PELL: Councilman Drum.
COUNCILMAN DRUM: Very briefly I had reported that some of our
.dredminm pro~at~ we've gone forward to the County Executive and
at present all the budget projects, major projects, are being
held in the budget office and the outcome of the review of the
budget due to cutbacks. It is hoped that we can get some of these
essential dredging projects finished before the summer is upon us.
We've also taken a close look at Goldsmith Inlet and perhaps we
will move some of the spoil there, which will be done by a crane,
dredge, dragline,~ I should say, and some of the spoil would be put
down at Kenneys Beach to assist with that erosion. That's about it.
SUPERVISOR PELL: Thank you. Councilman Nickles.
COUNCILMAN NICKLES: .The P~.~ an~ Beach-Committee met on March
30th at 9:00 A.M. at the Highway Superintendent's Office. The
purpose of this meeting was to discuss with Legislator Wehrenberg,
who is Chairman of the Legislative Committee on Public Works, to
discuss GQldsmith's I_nl¢~ ~hich you just heard Councilman Dru~
describe, and also to look at the erosion problem that is existing
at Kenneys Beach on the Sound. The legislator had several suggestions
that he's pursuing. In the meantime the Beach Committee is pursuing
other avenues and we hope to meet with a gentleman from Sea Grant
who's in charge of extension service, where they come out and give
advisory information to towns or individuals concerning erosion on
the waterfront. We hope to meet with him next Tuesday and as you
heard earlier there is a Town Board me,ting that afternoon and if
he comes up with some viable information I"m sure we'll have him
meet with the Town Board either on the 14th or the following Town
Board meeting on the 21st. Also, I have the report that~'I met with
George Fisher, head of the B~il~ing ~aps.rtment and the~
Inspectors last week and I'm happy to report that they've designed
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a survey sheet for the Deputy Fire Inspectors to make surveys of
pla'ces of assembly in the Town which basically,.by places of assem6iy,
we're talking about restaurants and they hope to begin the survey
process starting April t8th. I~think Chat concludes my report. Also,
I might add on the Building Department and the Fire Inspectors, they
will be sending out a letter to all the_ Places of assembly notifying
them of the Deputy Fire Inspectors who will be coming by to conduct
this survey.
SUPERVISOR PELL: Thank you. Councilman Murphy.
COUNCILMAN MURPHY: On the ~tr~ir,ightComm~ti¢~, I turned in a
report for four different meetings last month and basically what
is being done is a physical inventory i~ being taken of ail lights
and trying ~o establish policy and set the guidelines and priorities
for-the installation of 'lights. We are working on this. There is
still quite a bit more work to be done~and we have also inspected
various locations that are what we consider extremely dangerous and
where lights should have been placed and we are asking that these
lightsbe placed. Thank you.
SUPERVISOR PELL: Justice Doyen.
JUSTICE DOYEN: We are getting very close at this time to finalizing
a sen~or c~iizen progr~.~on Fishers Island and hope to be tied in to
the program you have in Southold and in a month or two we should have
it all together.
SUPERVISOR PELL: Thank you. Larry, do you want to report on some-
thing else?
COUNCILMAN MURDOCK: Yes, thank you, B~ll, I neglected to talk about
the M~t~k I~ ~dv~ory Committee~ We hope to have a public
information meeting here on the night of April 30th to discuss with
the people in the Town the findings of the Suffolk County Planning
Board who has been working with us and helpinglus!i0 get a survey of
the entire problems inVolving'the Matt'~tuck:Inle~:~.:-i~- Will ~eal with
the road runoff, causes of'pollution, some poSsib~!i~Commendations
dealing with the entire area from County Road 48 wh~r~ the ToW~. Park
District launching ramp is to the mouth of the :Inlet and-certainly
anybody who's interested in the Mattituck Inlet and the preservation
of our waterway is welcome 'and their input will be welcome and ~'m
sure everybody would like to 'see a big'crowd~here that night, Thank
you, Bill.
SUPERVISOR PELL: Thank ~ou. I have two articles I would like to
comment on. Both of them concern money. First of all, I received
a check last.'night that was delivered to my house fromthe Southold
Town B~v~en's Assoc~ation~. Every year the Town, for the last S~veral
years, has taken a matching funds program with the federal government.
It works through the state to bring in clams to help make clams in
our township. Last year they gave us $500.00 towards this and again
this year they came through with the same $500.00 check. This will
enable'us to spend approximately $5,000.00 on this project. $2,000.00
of Town money, $500.00 of.Baymen~s money, matched by the federal
government~ It is a program they feel very strong about because
they give up their own fUnds to do this. The.other check is $100.00
donation to the Southold Town Youth Proiection Committee from some
parents whose youth are involved in the rec center up on Peconic
Lane. The parents donated $100.00 to the committee and we,will send
them a thank you.
II. PUBLIC NOTICES - COUNCILMAN NICKLES:
1. ~he first public notice is from the Department of the Army,
New York District, ~orDs of Engineers regarding an application by
the--t~e notice indicates'the Mattituck Park Commission. ~r. ~urDhy
is a Mattituck Park Commissioner and ~0ints out the notice is in
error, it is really the Mattituck Yacht Club. The work that they
wish to do ~s to put a floating p~er)out ~nto Great Peconic Bay for
the p~rpose of sailboats coming and ~oing. The response date on
that is April 24th.
2. This is a notice from the CorDs of Engineers relative to
the ice damage this year and how you go about getting a general
permit for the redrivi-ng of spiles, lifting of docks, that type of
thing. Any damage incurred and the instructions that you have to
go through in order to get this general permit that will be given
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both by the Department of Environmental Conservation and the Corps
of Engineers. These permits are a special permit due to this ice
damage and they will expire on June 30th, 1981. So if anybody has
ice dama~ it would behoove them to get their permit and get the
work done before this .special general Dermi~ runs out because if
any of you are familiar with doing this work on the water,' it is
quite a lengthy process to get a permit.
Both of these notices are with the Town Clerk and you may
examine them at your leisure during the week.
III'. COILMUNICATIONS - SUPERVISOR PELL:
1. The first one is a resolution passed by the Village of
Babylon concerning the pre-inspection of rental homes for social
services recipients.
2. Letter addressed, and a copy sent to Southold Town Board,
to Congressman Carney pertaining to a fishing boat that does fish
out of Greenport at c~rtain times of the year, going aground at
Montauk Point and being--the CoaSt Guard not coming out fast
enough To save the boat. The three men did put on their survival
suits that they have and had to swim ashore about a quarter of a
mile. A copy6f the letter was sent to us. I' copied it and sent
a note to Admiral Price, who's on Governors Island, who I happened
to know through some Of my fishery committees that I serve on.
Admiral Price's staff did call up and they are going to investigate
the incident and make a report back to us on it. I will be with
Admiral Price's captain of his staff tomorrow morning at a meeting on
fishing matters and I will bring it up to his attention at that time
again.
3. This is what I mentioned before when I stood down here,
about the ~ operate throughout the North Fork, I said Southold
Town~ It is going to be the North Fork. This group of firemen
volunteers, and I will talk it over with the Police Committee. I
know a couple of our police officers were at the meeting that. I did
attend, with them and a couple of them would like to get involved
also. You know, I want to digress here. I found something out
from this. Comes up with articles that I heard abo~t the other
night that people have been submerged as much as 45 minutes and
have been brought back to normal life, in cold water. Something
about the blood, when the water hits your face the blood will pump
oxygen to your brain and your heart for a given time and if you are
brought up, we have a doctor here who knows ~the best phraseology
more than I do. But it was a Very worthwhile meeting that I attended
in Cutchogue Fire House and it is a program, as I told the Town Board
today. In the course of my life I think I pulled up anywhere from
fourteen to fifteen, sixteen bodies out of the water and I know if
some of these facts were known in those days, and I'm going back
to 1954, '53 when I worked on a fishing boat, I know if some of those
facts, if we had known them then, some of those people would be alive
today. Some of them had only been in the water for five minutes or
less when we pulled them out. That is why I am so enthused about
this diving getting set and this little boy being saved.
4. One of our Town employees suggested that the Peconic Lane
building we look into solar energy to heat that. Mr. Dean will be
looking into it to see if that can be worked out.
5. Information on Town aid for safe drinking v, ater. If this
is approved and sent for:t~h I think, Larry, you said our share will
be $65,000.00?
COUNCILMAN MURDOCK: Either $60,000.00 or $65,000.00, yes.
SUPERVISOR PELL: That the Town will get.if it follows along.
6. A street light reeuest which~.is turned over to the Street
Light Committee (.from Anton Jurkovich, 1675 Tuckers Lane, Southold).
7. Request for ~ixing a fence down at a boat launching ram~l
(Ninnehaha Boulevard). I~m~not~sure the Town even owns it, We'll
turn that over to the Departmen~..of Pubti¢ Works and look into it.
IV. PUBL/CtLEARINGS.
SUPERVISOR PELL: We had two public hearings at the last Town Board
meeting and it is time to make a decision on them. Is the Board
ready to move on the ~ederal Revenue Sharing Budget?
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1. Moved by CounCilman Murdock, seconded by Councilman Drum,
WHEREAS, the Town Board of the TOE of South01d held a public hear-
ing on March 24~ 1981 at 3:30 o'clock P.M. in the matter of the
s.mendment of th~ a~rrent Town Budget relative to the use of ~
~evenue Sharing. Fun.ds.; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby amends
the current Town Budget relative to the use Of Federal Revenue
Sharing Funds by transferring and/or reassigning the sum of
$299,023.83 to the follow'lng:
$41,000.00 - Police Equipment
$78,000.00 - Waste Management
$16,000.00 - Land Acquisition
$34,592.01 - Bulkheading
$30,604.52 - New Suffolk'Avenue Road Improvement
SI1,000.00 - Street Lights - Bond Anticipation Note
$11,886.72 - Street Light Equipment
$10,000.00 - Village of Greenport
$46,604.33 - Highway Equipment
$ 9,049.14 - Town Hall Sprinkler System ..........
$10,287.11 - Senior/Youth Center Equipment
Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman
Murdock, Councilman Niekie~ Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen,
Supervisor Pell.
This resolution was declared duly adopted.
Moved by Councilman Nickles. seconded by Councilman Murphy,
WHEREAS, Eugene Bolte~ applied to the Southold Town_Board for a
permit under the provisions of the Wetland Ordinance of the Town
of Southold, application dated January 29, 1981, and
WHEREAS, said application was referred to the Southold Town Trustees
and Southold Town Conservation Advisory Council for their findings
and recommendations, and
WHEREAS, a public hearing was held by the Town B5la~i with respect
to said application on the 24th day of March;-:198~'~s ; which time
all interested persons were given an opportunity[~.~i ~heard,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that Eugene Bolte~b~-and he-hereby
is granted permission under the provisions of the _W~ :land Ordinance
of the'Town of Southold to construct a timber dock ~onsisting of
a fixed catwalk, hinged ramp, float and~associated ~ilings at the
north side of Broadwaters Road on Broadwaters Cove, Nassau Point,
Cutchogue, 'New York, under'.the following conditions:
1. The 14 ft. by 14 ft. ~eck shall be ~liminated entirely.'
2. The catwalk shall be not less than 3 feet above ground
level.--
(COUNCILMAN NICKLES: The last few conditions were at the recommendation
of both the Advisory Council and the Southold Town Board of Trustees.)
Vote of'the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman
Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell.
'Abstain: Councilman Drum.
This resolution was declared dul~ adopted.
V. RESOLUTIONS
SUPERVISOR PELL: Number one was recommended by the Street Light
Committee. Are you prepared to offer a resolution?
COUNCILMAN MURPHY: Yes. I would like to make a statement first,
Bill. At a meeting held on March-10th COuncilman John Nickles
questioned the resolution I made, and it was a good question. What
does it cost? I disagreed with John's question at the time because
the actual figures were'available during the work session and it was
not asked for. At the Town Board meeting the best the previous
~ .....-----~-airm~u, 'members and the three present Councilmen who served
last year could come up with, was a guess at the cost and we '
knew that was not good enough.
As I have stated, the only file turned over to me by the
previous chairman in January had only a few old light requests
that had not been acted upon. No cost factors, no policy, no
report of Jim Homart, nothin~ until the last Town Board meeting
when M r. Homan's report made its re-entry. I have taken the
interest to start to develop a policy, take an inventory, set
up priorities, etc., with .the great help and support of Henry
Drum, Ray Dean and his department. Mr. Murdock, you challenged
the Supervisor and took great offense, because he said he thought
:- that Councilman Nickles' comment was political. You have since
accused him of acting in bad faith and being politically motivated
~hen he appointed me to this Committee because we had some money
to spend this year; When, in fact, Larry, if you and the members
of the previous committee and Town Board had given more thought:;to
the proper placement and size of lights, we might not have had to
spend any money at ali this year and would not have a so called
po'litical advantage. I question why the' main thoroughfares Of
this Town are not yet adequately lighted when some small side
streets look like, using your phrase Larry, an airport runway
from the sky? I. queStion why some very serious curves, and inter-
sections are not lighted yet when we are paying for over-powered
lights on every pole in some towns, lights on long straight roads
in open fields, when reflectors could have done a better job with
no energy cost to the Town. Why have areas of high traffic
fatalities still not been lighted? Larry, if you want to play
politics, I don't. I care about Southold Town, not oolitics.
I want this Board and this Co~nittee to work hard £o~ all the
people of Southold Town and t intend to do just that. I will
now offer the following resolution:
On motion of Councilman Murphy, seconded by Supervisor Pelt, it was
RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold authorize the
installation of the following street lights:
1. Main Road, Mattituck, LILCO pole 385, 388.
2. Main Road, Laurel, NYT_311.
3. Breakwater Road, Mattituck, NYT 37.5, LILCO 40, 42, 44, 51.
4. Sterling and Bay Avenue, Cutchogue, NYT 52, 54, 58.
5. Fleets Neck, East End Road, NYT 22, 108.
6. Main Bayview, Southold, NYT 26 and 29.
7. Main Road, Mattituck, LiLCO Pole 64.
8. Oakwood Road and Wesland Road, Southold, LILCO Pole 3.
9. Depot Lane, Cutchogue, LILCO Pole 17.
COUNCILMAN DRUM:'-Comment.
SUPERVISOR PELL: Discussion.
COUNCILMAN Drum: I thought--I'm a member of the Street Light
Committee, and it was my understanding, ~' at least it was my
thought that during the work session that we were going to'with-
hold this resolution. I did not realize Frank, that you were
going to Offer it at this time. I thought we were going to complete
our inventory of all of the areas which some of these .... you'know you
and I have not gone into--we looked at some of these. I mentioned
this to you earlier, yesterday I believe, and I thought it was our
understanding today, this afternoon, that w~ were going to hold and
wait until we complete the whole package. '~
COUNCILMAN MURPHY: It wasn't my understanding. You asked me to
hold a couple that you haven't seen. We've had this for two months
and I would like the resolution to stand the way it is.
COUNCILMAN MURDOCK: During the working session today I was given a
list with the agenda of resolution dated April 7, 1981. I worked
on that resolution over the weekend. I had questions pertaining to
that resolution, the lights on that resolution. The resolution was
changed during the working session. The committee chairman handed
out another resolution. At that time I protested that it was unfair
to give a member of the Board a list to peruse, to think about over
the weekend and then change the list. Our discussion then centered
around whether we should have another opportunity to go over this
list and which resolution was the list that we were suppose to
persue and act on. In the light of the fact 'that' I did not get
this new resolution 'that Frank just wrote or jus~ read to the
Board. In light of the fact that we did discuss this at the working
session. We got into quite an involved discussion about how resolutions
should be handled, through the Town Clerk and through the Supervisor,
I am not prepared to vote on this resolution because I do not know
of all the light poles and their location in reference to the
resolution that I looked at. For example, on Main Road it goes
from Hobson Drive and those poles are on the wrong side of the road,
they're too far off the road and the street light would not really
reflect on the road for safety. Now, I don't know, because these
are different pole numbers again, which poles and which lights we're
talking. I think it's unfair ~or the chairman of the committee to
not give the rest of the~Board members ample oppdrtunity ~o inspect
or look at the lights. There was one light, it happens to be Item
No. 9 on both lists, the Knights.of ColumbUs--near Knights o~ Columbus
Hall on Depot Lane. I was going .to recommend to the Chairman at
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that time that instead of installing a new pole, a new light, on
pole no. 17, remove a pole--a light from a pole that is in front of
a farm lot. We didn't get to that discussion because it was agreed
that we would not act on this motion tonight. I would still like
to see a light transferred as opposed to'putting a new light out.
I would respectfully ask the Chairman, in light of all the.confusion,
to withdraw his motion and put it on the next meeting of April the
14th as we had discussed, otherwise I'll have no alternative but
to vote my conscience which would then be to vote no because I am
not sure of these lights and the new resolution.
SUPERVISOR PELL: Councilman Nickles?
COUNCILMAN NICKLES: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I respectfully request
that at the last Town Board meeting when this same resolution or one
very similar'to it was proposed, it was discussed at the work session,
and the result-of the discussion was that any installation of street
lights would be held until such time as the Holzmacher, McLendon
report was completed and the survey of the Street Light Committee,
consisting of Mr. Murphy and Mr. Drum, and a revaluation of the prior
plan, master plan for street lights of ~his Town which consisted
of three phases, be reviewed and brought up to date. To my
knowledge, no street light'~rogram prior to within about ten days
ago, was instituted by this committee and I respectfully sugges%
also that at the time that I asked in the public session what the
street lights cost that information wasn't available that evening,
nor was it available that afternOon, because I'm sure if the cost
were available in the afternoon and nobody asked the question, it
still would have been available that evening. Therefore, since the
Board should be working together, and we agreed that those things
I just. enumerated would be completed, I call for this resolution
to be tabled.
COUNCILMAN DRUM: And I do feel, and I had mentioned Frank and I
had discussed this and my thoughts were that in the interest of
economy that we take a look at what we need and what.we have that
we feel are surplus and at the time that we Submit~ur needs to
the Board we submit those--a list of those lights which we have
come up with a large number, be eliminated that are not needed,
that are surplus. I felt that this was the proper approach.
Of course, we do not have The fixtures at present as it is, ~Ut
I too feel that I cannot approve this resoiu~ion as it ~s. ~
COUNCILMAN NICKLES: Do you second my motion to table?
COUNCILMAN DRUM: I will second your motion to table.
COUNCILMAN NICKI~S: If there is no further discussion, Mr.
Chairman, would you please call the roll.
SUPERVISOR PELL: Can I have my equal time? Street lights are
an important thing to our Town. We have put three up in December,
I think, it was, correct me if I am not ~igh~. Didn't we put three
up in the month of December, I don't have the figures in front of
me.
COUNCILMAN DRUM: Whether they went up then, we approved them.
SUPERVISOR PELL: We approved three to go up. We have been
talking street lights since the last three months. We approved
$15,000.00 in October, I believe it was, for acquisition of-new
street light equipment to be used to give us mone_y to operate
to put street lights where we felt-they were needed. There are
nine requests on here, two are different from the original
resolution that was presented two months ago or two weeks ago
or three weeks ago. Two differences ou~ of the nine. I feel
that we have talked about street lights for six months. Last
fall when street lights came in I wrote letters out, last summer,
we had no money to buy streets, we were out, we had to wait until.
we got some money. The Town Board felt it important enough in
October to put $15,000.00 towards this goal. As I said, we put
three up and I feel it is time that we get moving forward with
the street lights and I do not want to see any more delay in
them and I will vote against the motion to table.~ Judy, call
the rol~ on the motion to table the motion made for the street
lights~ This is a motion to table it.
APRIL 7, 1981
Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murdock, Councilman
Nicktes, Councilman Drum. No: Councilman Murphy, Supervisor
Pell. Abstain: Justice Doyen.
This resolution was declared lost.
SUPERVISOR PELL: The motion died. We need fQur affirmative votes
to carry it in a ToWn with a six man--six person Board. Now we
will vote on the resolution presented by the Street Light Committee,
Councilman Murphy.
Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Supervisor Pell.
No: Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilm~n Drum.
Abstain:... Justice Doyen.
This resolution was declared lost.
COUNCILMAN NICKLES: I would just ask the Street Light Committee
that if they should complete the studies as have been indicated
at the last Town Board meeting, before they submit this street
light request to the Town Board. I think we are all in agreement
that street lights is an important item. One, they save energy
and consider the safety aspect of it. Get our program squared
away before we charge off and do these lights.
SUPERVISOR PELL: .ResolUtion number 2, sand pit renewal of Leander
Glover, Jr. The Town Board did spend a lot of time with this today
and reviewed it with counsel and. I believe we are ready to act upon
it.
Moved by Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman Nickles,
WHEREAS, a renewal, excavation permit h~s been applied for by J~
~, residing at Coxts Lane, Cutchogue, New York, for the
excavation of sand, gravel, stone or other materials from premises
located north of Middle Road (Route 48), Cutchogue, New York,
generally describe!d as follows, to wit: ..
PARCEL 1 - No!rtherly by lands of Glover, easterly by
lands of Glover and McBride; southerly by lands of
Pietrewicz anld the Town of Southold; and westerly by '
lands of the ~own of Southold.
PARCEL II - Northerly by lands of L. Glover; easterly
by lands of Ji. Pratt and F. McBride; southerly by lands
of Pietrewiczi; and westerly-by the Town of Southold.
NOW, THEREFORE, BEI IT RESOLVED that the per~it hereby applied for
is granted subject to the following terms and conditions:
1. That the ~oplicant, within six months from the date
of the issuance oil said permit commence rehabilitation of the ~
areas previously excavated, in accordance with previous resoluiio-
of this Board and ~hat within said six month period the applicant
submit to this BoaMd assurances as to the date of completion of
such rehabilitatioh.
2. In any event that the applicant fails to complete
rehabilitation as herein before provided~applicant shall supply
to the Board a surety bond in such amount as the Board shall
determine, conditioned.upon the faithful and proper rehabilitation
of the excavated areas.
3. In the event that the applicant fkils to comply with the
provisi6~'~'h~rein before st~d, that said permit shall terminate
six months from the date of issuance thereof.
COUNCILMAN MURDOCKI: Mr. Supervisor, may I offer one correction.
It's now Middle Road (Route 48), Cutchogue.
Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman
Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell.
Abstain: Councilman Murdock.
This resolution was declared duly adopted.
SUPERVISOR PELL: Number 3, Boy Scouts to put on a parade.
On motion of CoUncilman Murphy, seconded by Councilman Nickles, it was
RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold grant permission
to the B~y ~a~t~ of America Peconic Bay District to ~ T~wn ~oads
for a ~arade in connection with their ~on Saturday, ~May 2,
1981 at 12:00 Noon; provided said organization secures the necessary
insurance to hold the Town of Southold harmless.
Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman
Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen,
Supervisor Pell.
This resolution was declared duly adopted.
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SUPERVISOR PELL: Number 4. The fee for a trailer permit for six
months has been $5.00 in the Town of Southold since'1957; before
zoning went in. At this time I would like to offer the following
resolution to fix that fee at $25.00 for six months.
On motion of Supervisor Pell~ seconded by Councilman Drum, . ~.
WHEREAS, Section 101 of the Zoning Code of the Town of Southold
provides that the Town Board may authorize the location of a
single automobile JLr~or house car outside of a tourist camp
subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by the Town Board,
now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED that the Town Board does hereby fix a fee of $25.00 as a
condition to authorize the location of a single trailer outside
a tourist camp; ~ff~iv~ May 1. t981~
Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman
Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen,
Supervisor Poll.
This resolution was declared duly adopted.
SUPERVISOR PELL: Number 5, sale of Town books.
On motion of Councilman Murdock, seconded by Councilman Drum, it was
RESOLVED that the Town Boa-~d of the Town of. South01d set the follow-
ing fees for the sale .of ordin.ances of the Town (plus 7% sales tax
and appropriate postage for mailing) effective April 7, 1981:
Code of the Town of Southold -$70.00
Annual Supplements to Code of the Town of Southold--$15.00
Zoning (Chapter 100) ............... ~ .......... $ 5.00
Vehicle & Traffic (Chapter 92) .................... -'$ 2.00
Housing (Chapter 52) ............... $ 2.50
Wetlands (Chapter 97) ............................... $ 1.00
Subdivision of Land (Chapter Al06) ...... $ 2.00
Development plan $12.50
Development Map ............ $ 5.00
Fire Code (Chapter 45) ..... $ 6.00
Flood Plain Ordinance (Chapter 46) ............... $ 2.00
Highway Specifications ........................... $ 1.00
Road.Map $ 3.00
Shellfish (Chapter 77) $ 1.00
Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman ~lrphy, Councilman
Murdack, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen,
Supervisor Pell. .~ :~
This resolution was dectared"duly adopted.
SUPERVISOR PELL: Number 6, Southold Town declares itself lead
agency.
On motion of Councilman Nickles, seconded by Supervisor Pell, it was
RESOLVED that the Southold Town Board declares itself lead agengy
in regard to the State Environmental Quality Review Act in the
matter of the application of James .H. Rambo~ Inc~ for a ~
permit on certain property located on Mill Road, Nattituck Creek,
Mattituck, New York.
Pore 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 7~ award a road asphalt material bid.
7. On motion of Councilman Murdock, seconded by Councilman Drum, it was
RESOLVED that the Town Board of the~Town of Southold award th~ b~d
for furnishing the Town of Southold with 150,000 gaIIons, more or
tess as may be needed of Grades RC-2 an~ MC-2 Asphalt Road Materials,
delivered to the Town of~Southold and applied, to: ~
Bituminous CorR., Kings Park, New York, at a bid price of $1.485
per gallon.
~ote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman
Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen~
Supervisor Poll.
This resolution was declared duly adopted.
On motion of Councilman Nickles, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was
RESOLVED that Deputy Supervisor~Francis J. Murphy be and he hereby
is~authorized to si~n all'checks.~ d~afts and other instruments for
APRIL 7, 1981
payment of money dr~wn Upon the kccount of the Town of Southold in
the absence of Supervisor William R. Pell, III, on the following
banks: The Bank of New York
The North Fork Bank and Trust Company
Chemical Bank
Hariford National Bank and Trust Company
Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman-Murphy, Counctlman
Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen,
Supervisor Pell. --
This resolution was declared duly adopted.
SUPERVISOR PELL: Number 9 is a letter that we will send out, we
will redo it on the 14th of the month when.we meet again, go over
it and get the correct wording, of a bill that we wish to ~o~os~,__
It's a bill to have a four t~x payment svstem, in the Town. That
means instead of collecting taxes every six months the collector
would have to work twelve months and we feel it would be a great
hardship and money for the Town budget to have. We did oppose it
once before but we want to oppose it again. We will do that on
the 14th.
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10. On motion of Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was
RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold~zD.p_~the
~illa~e _of Greenn~t one-half of their outstanding loan to the
Town of Southold, ~$10~000.00, from the Federal Revenue Sharing
Account.
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: We have just paid $30,000.00 back to the Village
of Greenport of $40,000.00 that_we had with.them two years ago.
We have $10,000.00 more to pay this year. After I look at the
budget closely we will see where we can get it from; out of perhaps
the contingency fund. I want to go over it again first.
~. On motion of Justice Doyen, seconded by Councilman Murdock,_it was
RESOLVED that the Town Board o£ the Town of Southold authorizes
the Board of Commissioners of the F~har~ Isl,.nd Ferry District
to direct the Thames Shiovard & Repair Co., New London, Connecticut
to perform the following additional _rep~.~rs on the M/V M~nnatawket~,
which were discovered during drydocking, ~t'an estimated cost of
$800.00:
1.- Reset and secure rudder bearings.
2.- InstalI spare port and starboard propellers.
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 12 is the support of Assembly bill No.
7100.
12.
COUNCILMAN NICKLES: We have a Home Rule Request from the State
Legislature. I' offer the following resolution regarding it.
On motion of Councilman Nickles, seconded by Councilman Murphy, it was
RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold supports
Assembly bill No. 7100 entitled,"AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred
forty-six of the laws of.nineteen hundred sixteen, entitled "AN ACT
to enable the towns in the county of Suffolk to provide for the
extermination of mosouitoes and establishment of districts therefore",
in relation to the amount of the annual appropriation by the town of
Southold for the orient Mosouito Distri~%j
Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman
Murdock, ~uncilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen,
Supervisor Pelt.
This resolution was declared duly adopted.
SUPEE¥ISOR PELL: Number 13 is a transfer of funds that has to be
made so we can pay our Division of Youth bills. They are going
to transfer funds. After we pay the bills we do get reimbursed
the entire amount. But we must pay the bills first.
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13.
On motion of Councilman ~.~urdock, seconded by Councilman Drum, it was
RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold transfer
the sum of ~ from the General Fund Whole Town Contingency
Account A1990.4 to Other Funds A9999, to pay audited bills for
the Division of Youth Prosram.
Vote oT the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman
Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen,
Supervisor Pell.
This resolution was declared duly a.dopted.
14.
On motion of Councilman Nickles, seconded by Councilman Murphy, it was
RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold authorize
Building Inspector i_~ to attend the Finger Lakes
Buildin~.Off.icials Assoqiatio~ sixth~Annual Building Officials
School on April 27, 28i 29, :t98~, and his necessary expenses for
meals, travel and lodging shall.be paid by the Town up to, but
noi exceeding the sum of $250t00.
COUNCILMAN NICKLES: I might comment that Mr. Hortondid not.~attend
the Association of Towns which he is entitled to, in lieu of or in
anticipation of attending this seminar which is quite educational,
and recommended by the department head..
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: The next one I~m going to ask the Board to
approve is to hire Dorothy Mysliborski~, Assistani Cook to the
Southold. Town Nutrition Center at a salary of $3.77 per hour,
six hours per day. After a second I will commenton ft.
15.
On motion of Supervisor Pell, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was
RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold appoint ~
~as Assistant Cook at the Southold TOWnl. Nutrition Center,
at a salary of $3.77 per hour, six hours per day, f~'ve days per
week, effective Apri~ 9, 1981.
SUPERVISOR PELL: CETA funds have been cut. The N~trition Program
is going to have to be curtailed. We are going to have to evaluate
it an'd perhaps make some cutNacks in it. W~ have one cook there,
a Mr. Jerry King. He is a senior citizen, he is working there and
he cannot work alone. Right now he has prepared about 150 meals
per day. Mrs. McKeighan was before the Town Board today explaining
her plight to us with the cutback in CETA, cutback in staff she had
to go through and one thing the Board did-agree today was to give
her an assistant cook. She will be back to the Town Board in two
weeks and I and the Town Board will be working with her to see how
we can have the program we have but realize we do have to make cuts
and it might be curtailed the best way to work it. One of them
mentioned today was using the Feeder Bus instead of the present bus
tha{~icks-fh'~m"~p. -There are several areas we are going to look
into, but with the prices in government and everybody trying to
cut from the President right on down to the Town Board, we.have
to evaluate certain programs and this is what we will do and Mrs.
McKeighan will be back to reoort to us in two weeks.
16.
Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman ~rphy, Councilman
Murdock, Councilman Nickles., Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen,
Supervisor Pe!l.
This resolution was declared duly adopted.
SUPERVISOR PELL: Councilman Murdock, I believe, has the next 'one.
On motion of Councilman Murdock, seconded by Councilman Drum, it was
RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold urges our
New York State Legislators to support legislation (Senate Bill
No. R 277 & Assembly Bill No. 359) which will appeal to the
Congress of the United States to convene a Constitutional
Convention for the purpose of preparing a Human Life Amendment.
VoteOf the Town Board: AYes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman
Murdock, Councilman I~um. No: Councilman Nickles. Abstain:
Justice Doyen. jNo: Supervisor Pell~--(see statement below).
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SUPERVISOR PELL: I am~,going tD~.~.~:~tatemept before I sav mv
President of the United States is curtailing. He has asked every
state, every municipality to curtail government. We are facing
it with our Nutrition Program to curtail. If'a Constitutional
Convention was formed, one member would have to serve from each
Congressional District. We-have approximately 450 congressmen
now, that means 450 people would have to serve. Two delegates
from each state at large, fhat's 550 people getting involved.
What support st~ff they would need, wha{ economics would be
involved. I sympathize and agree with the people trying to get
the Constitutional Convention. I believe there are other ways
to seek your goal. As fiscal officer of this Town I cannot
support a call to the Constitutional Convention with the unknown
factor of the economy, the money it is going to cost and I think
your goals Can be reached another way. I vote no.
This resolution was declared l~st.
SUPERVISOR PELL: Any Board member wish to have anything else to
bring up? Larry?
COUNCILMAN MURDOCK: Not a~'this time, Bill.
SUPERVI SO R PELL: Henry?
COUNCILMAN DRUM: Yes, I~woutd tike to repea~ one o~ the comments
that I had made. I was asked by the newspapers last week regarding
the appointment of our Supervisor, appointment of Mr. Frank Murphy
and I consider Frank a close friend of mine and these comments are
not directed towards Frank, but I felt that the SuDervisor's
appointment of Frank ~rDhy as Deputy Supervisor, I felt that the
Supervisor made a political appointment.
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SUPERVISOR PELL: As I told Councilman Drum when he made this,
I made the same remark two weeks~ago, if the shoe fits you wear
it. In this case the shoe don't fit and I don't wear it and I
don't disagree with you. Councilman Nickles?
COUNCILMAN NICKLES:
SUPERVISORPELL:
COUNCILMAN DRUM:
SUPERVISOR PELL:
That is a ma~ter of judgment.
My judgment, yes.
You said you don't disagree with me.
I do. I do. Correct the record.
COUNCILMAN NICKLES: I don't have anything to say about the Deity
Supervisor, although I was disappointed because Bill, as you read
in the papers, has been working closely with the Board and over the
past 15 months or so, whenever he gets in a room with a reporter
or somebody from the public he always says, here's Henry Drum, my
right hand man, here's John Nickles, my left hand man. I want to
know what the hell happened we didn't get to be--one of us didn't
ge~ to be Deputy Supervisor?
COUNCILMAN MURPHY: He couldn't afford to lose you, John.
COUNCILMAN NICKLES: And because I'm somewhat piqued, I offer a
resolution that we take the Deputy Supervisor's car away from him
and' banish it to Fishers Island.
COUNCILMAN DRUM: Second~
COUNCILMAN NICKLES: And.~move it forthwith tomorrow morning.
COUNCILMAN DRUM: Of course, everyone khows there is no Deputy
Supervisor's car.
COUNCILMAN NICKLES: I thought so at one time.
SUPERVISOR PELL: Judy, I hope you keep some of this out of the
minutes. Judy puts the minutes verbatim. I hope she leaves--
COUNCILMAN NICKLES: It's a matter of record.
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SUPERVISOR PELL: Councilman Murphy?
COUNCILMAN MURPHY: No comment.
SUPERVISOR PELL: · Councilman Doyen?
JUSTICE DOYEN: We'll take the car.
SUPERVISOR PELL: The car 'they,re all talking about actually in the
next two or three days will be transferred to Fishers Island.
Fishers Island needs the car for our departments~when they go over
there and we take what is called the Black Mercury or Horia or what-
ever it is called, we are going to transfer it for the next month
or tw~-over to Fishers Island so when our departments go over there,
George, you asked me, there will be a car there for you to use.
They have a lot of work this spring they have to do there. --
Open it up to the floor. Anybody wish to address the Board?
MRS. BETTY SCHLOSS: I have a group of listed names here of ....... ~
residents and interested persons from the Cedar Beach area who
seriously request that you protect and preserve the natural salt
marshland located at Cedar_.Deach Creek and Inlet. We appreciate
this ecologically valuable marsh and environmentally beautiful
wetland area and we strongly feel'encouraged by a plan for a
complete marine life study to be conducted by marine scientists.
We further request that you, the Board and the Suoervisor, act
carefully and slowly and refrain from permitting the construction
of any kind of jetty, breakwater or any other means to control or
change the natural drift of beach sand and tidal activity by either
the County, tSe Town of Southold or the Army Corps of Engineers.
(Mrs. Schloss filed the petition with the Town Clerk.)
SD~ERVISOR PELL: Anybody else wish to address the Board? (None).
If not, it's..-been a long day, we started at half past eight this
morning and broke up around quarter after six and~Cam~ back at
quarter after seven~ Of course, we had a three hour lunch break
in between.
COUNCILMAN DRUM: How many? No way.
On motion of Supervisor Pelli seconded by C~uncilman Murdock, it was
RESOLVED that there being no further business~ to come before this
Town Board meeting adjournment be called at 9:10 P.M.
Vote of the~Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Murphy, Councilman
Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen,
Supervisor Poll.
This resolution was declared duly adopted.
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Town Clerk