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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTB-02/26/1980F£8 2 6 t980 '$OUTHQLD' TO~ ~O~RD February 26, 1980 WORK S~SSION Mr. William B. ~S~ith, Clerk of the Works for the Senior Citizen/ Youth Center presented his inspection report of the Center and went over each item with the Board. Councilman Nickles reported on a meeting he attended in Mineola with Councilman Murdock by the State Task Force on 100% Assessment. Councilman Drum reported on his Wage and Policy Committee meeting. Mr. Irving Miller appeared before the Board and presented the proposed Peconic County Budget. To prepare the budget Mr. Miller stated he took the entire debt of Suffolk County and froze it to see what picture it presented at the end of 1980. He said everythilng can be divided but park lands. He also suggested that a Bi-County Commission would have to be established to handle the park lands question. Mrs. Jean Tiedke questioned Mr. Miller on several points in the proposed budget. Mr. Lewis Edson and Mrs. Kefferts Edson appeared'before the Board to discuss the dedication of roads in the Crown Land Lane subdivision. Highway Committee - Councilman Nicklss~,.and C~uncilman Sullivan will review the dedication papers and inspect the property and have a recommendation for the March llth Town Board meeting, Mr. Lawrence Tuthill spoke to the Board about the proposed Local Law to Establish Flood Plain Management Standards in Flood Hazard Areas of the Town of Southold. Mr. Tuthill stated there are many discrepancies in zone designations, citing areas on the South Fork and Shelter Island. Town Attorney Tasker stated an engineer from Federal Insurance' Administration will be in Southold on March 10th to review the map and the entire area. ~- Mr. Troy Gustavson of the Suffolk Times spoke to the Board about the policy of the Planning Board to publish their legal notices in only the official newspaper. Mr. Gustavson feels these legals should be in both local newspapers and urged the Board to recommend this to the Planning Board. This matter will be studied further~ and placed on the March llth agenda. Mr. George Fisher, Building Inspector, presented an inspection report of Carey Resource, Inc., Breakwater Road, Mattituck. He said there are no violations of the Zoning Ordinance, the structures pre-exist Southold Town Zoning. Mr. Fisher made his inspection on February 23rd and on February 25th he was joined by Mr. Pim and Robert Olsen of the County Health Services for an inspection. Police Chief Carl Cataldo spoke to the Board relative to the logging tape recorder system for the police department and presented a~legal notice to bidders for publication. This was placed on the agenda under resolutions.---Chlef Cataldo said a prodedure has been worked out with the fire deaprtments wh.ereby he will meet quarterly with Mr. Dzenkowski (liaison for O~ien~r East Marion-Greenport) Bennett Orlowski, Jr. (liaison for Soutkold- Cutchogue-Mattituck) to iron out any problems or complaints.--- Chief Cataldo stated that a meeting of the Suffolk County Ch~f of Police Association meeting he had a discussion with Mort Stark and George Meyers concerning the local list for police officers and also relative to the hiring of seasonal police officers. He aniticipates problems with the seasonal officers as the Town will be held very tightly to all requirements for part time police officers. The County PBA will monitor the program very closely. He said the civil service maximum for seasonal police officers is a maximum of $3,000. but George Meyers said they will 494 26, 1980 try to get it up to $6,000 ..... Chljef C~t~ldo ad,isled th~ BO~d th.at the civil service list for police officer expires August 1980 and cannot be extended.---The Town Board requested Supervisor Pell to write a letter to George Meyer stating the Town Board favors a change of salary for part-time employees from $3,000. to $6,000. and they requested that the Supervisor bring this matter up at the East End Supervisors' meeting.---Chief Cataldo suggested the Board give consideration to selecting a police officer (.s) from the current list.---Councilman Nickles asked Chief Cataldo to supply to the Police Committee a patrol schedule for a three to four month period. Chief Cataldo stated he has such a schedule on an annual basis for squads, excluding admihistrative personnel. The Board discussed the proposed road drainage structures at Dam Pond Causeway. Supervisor Pell was asked to write a letter to Daniel Larkin of the DEC and the NYS. Department of Transportation asking for a meeting with the Board to discuss this matter as ~t pertains to surface runoff. The application for dedication of Grange Road was discussed. This · s a 40 ft. road and cannot be taken by the Town in accordance with New York State Highway Law. A regular meeting of the Southold Town Board was held on Tuesday, February 26, 1980 at the Southold Town Hall, Main Road, Southold, New York. Supervisor Pell opened the meeting at 3:00 P.M. with the following present: County Executive Peter F. Cohalan Supervisor William R. Pell III Justice Francis T. Doyen Councilman Henry W. Drum Councilman John J. Nickles Councilman Lawrence Murdock, Jr. Councilman George R. Sullivan Town Clerk Judith T. Terry Town Attorney Robert W. Tasker Highway Superintendent Raymond C. Dean Deputy Supervisor ~arie Bauer Johnson Supervmsor Pell introduced County Executive Peter F. Cohalan who would be at the~Town Board meeting for about one hour. County Executive Peter F. Cohalan said he had been the Supervisor of Islip for eight years and is a native of Suffolk county. He believes very strongly in County and Town cooperation and having been a town supervisor he believes very strongly in town government, as well as village government. He ~s a strong believer in home ruie and a strong believer in the right of the local people to decide local issues by themselves without being told by big b~ther, whether big b~other be the County of Sgffolk or State of New York or federal government, what is best for them. He is opposed to intervention from on high into local affairs and as supervisor of the Town of Islip over the last eight years he fought the County of Suffolk on many issued and as County Executive he intends to list to the local input from the local citizens in every town and village in the county. If the people of the Town of Southold want something and there is anything the county can do to help them he will try to help. If the people of the Town of Southold don't want something, don~t want interference from the County of Suffolk they won't get it if he has anything to say about it. Mr. Cohalan looks~.forward to working very closely with the Southold 'Town Board in the course of the next period of years. He is trYing to show by his presence at town board meeting as he goes around the County of Suffolk to each of the towns and villages that he strongly believes in the integrity of our system of government that supports and plays up local government and the peoples prerogative to handle their own affairs on a local level. He thinks we have had enough of regionalism and of being told by higher levels of government W~at is best for us here at the grass ~oots. Margaret Poole said the Suffolk County Legislature recently asked the FBI to investigate the suspiciously lax enforcement of the State and Federal laws by different regulatory agencies in regards FEBRUARY 26, 1980 495 to the oil tanks on the Mattituck Inlet. Mrs. Poole asked Mr. Cohalan to give some background on the allegations and the present status of the FBI investigation.---Mr. Cohalan said he cannot give the present status of the FBI inve~gation other than the fact i~t h'as just started. They are checking into things. There have been articles in Newsday and the public knows about as much about it as he does. The Suffolk County District A~torney's Office is also investigating the allegations that have been made. At Mr. Cohalan's request Dr. Harris of the Suffolk County Department of Health has an inspection made on February 25th at the facility at 8:30 A.-M. The inspection~s'howed that the tanks that were involved were completely empty except for ~ine inches of product, probably alcohol'in the bottom of one of t~e horizontal tanks. Ali ~the vertical tanks are open and dry. The situation has remained unchanged. The tanks were emptied last September by order of the New York State Department of EnvironmentalControl. He asked Dr. Harris to continue to monitor the situat~on~n and as time goes on and he gets further reports he will be happy~ Go pass them along to Supervisor Pell. He thinks this is a very s~rious problem and the kind Of thing that should be worked very ~losely on wi~h the Town to try to solve. If there ms an skullduggery he thinks whoever is involved should he indicted and prosecuted. He does not think, unlike some- times in the past, he will not un,er any circumstances protect or cover up or h~de anything. If anything is brought to h~s attention involving anyone in county government that shows that some person is breaking the law, he does not care who that person is, that person will be turned in to the district attorney by Mr. Cohalan personally. Jean Tiedke, League of Women V~ters said that in May 1978 Mr. Cohalan addressed a county league meeting down the Island and she was much impressed by the~'thi~gs he said. He said that suburbs and cities need each other, that both are part of th.e metropolitan region, that we shoUld all ha~g together and that Suffolk County should remain associated with the TriState Regional Planning Commission. Mrs. Ti~dke asked Mr. Cohalan how he relates that to what he just said about lo said that on the question of feder the federal funds Wyoming, Mississ will. He thinks very strongly fha show our weight with the Tri-State to get as much money as we possibl In those fields where there is mon planning, Transportation and other of the federal program such as th~ and the transportation program ar~ ment is funding. Thg~ allow local was superivsor of the Town of t~li cal governments?---Mr. Cohalan ~1 funding, and if we don't take ippi, Alabama or North Carolina we should stick together to Regional Planning Commission can from the federal government. ey available such as housing, things. One of the good aspects community development p~o~ram programs that the federal ~overn- control of the product. When ~ they received many millions of dollars of federal money for community development programs that are run presently by the Town of Islip. They picked the sites where the senior citizen housing went, they picked the sites of areas that would be rehabilitated. The federal government provided the money, allowed local control and only required that they monitored so that the money would not be spent foolishly. That provides local control. He stands by everything he said in 1978, and does not think it in any way contradicts what he is saying now. Mrs. Shirley Ba~h~ach of the League of Women Voters said she hopes Mr. Cohalan's remarks about home rule would-no~ imply that he would not enforce all of the environmental regulations at the county level that would apply to Southold Town%---Mr. Cohalan said that in general he is sworn to uphold the l~ws of the State of New York, and the laws of the chartered communities and laws of the municipalities and he will do that.---Mrs. Bachrach asked about wells and cesspools under the Board of Health.---Mr. Cohalan said that as long as the laws are on the books they will enforce them. Supervisor Pell said the federal government is thinking of contract- ing many of its services out at Plum Island and people who have been employed there for many years are worrying about their security, if they will be let go.----Mr. Cohalan asked what the people would like the County tO do?---Mr. Winston Davids said he has been employed as a federal employee for over 23 years and the subject is something that is known, .in short, as GOCO, government owned, contractor operated. It has proven whereever it is known to be a fraud. In GOCO the people are sold a bill of goods that this will save money. There have been very few instances where this has ever been proven. Mr. Davids cited the Frederick Cancer Research Laboratory in Frederick, Maryland as an example of that. On the strength of what has be-sn done at Frederick, Plum Island is slated to go to contract. One project at Frederick the government allowed ten million dollars for one year and at no time during the year was there more than one employee working on that project, therefore it must be assumed that persons salary in a round about way was ten million dollars a year. That is only one aspect. Another part that is gotten into with contracting out is the fact many people believe there ar~ too many federal emplQyees, so when the installation is contracted ou~ ot do the same work those employees there are no~ federal employees, so that answers that question. How~er, there may be more of them and it generally always costs more money. In the installation at Plum Island for years there has been several million dollars spent just to safeguard the animal industry of the United States, to see to it that every employee there first has his background checked. A contractor can come in and all he has to do is go to New York and find somebody in the Bowery and he has another employee. In that area the employees of Plum Island feel that to contract out the~ operation of Plum Island the animal industry of United States and dairy of every state will be in danger. If they get some employees over there who through ignorance, carelessness or whatever should knock out the dairy industry our children will be drinking milk from New Zealand if we can afford it, and the same thing would go for meat producing states throughout the United States. Mr. Davids feels that this is something that should be looked after by Congressman of the States who have cattle raisers. They have contacted some cattle raisers and have them going on record as being opposed to anyone except the government employees handling something that could mean disaster. In the local area there are several aspects they think of that might affect everyone. As long as there are federal employees in the area working on a federal job schools will get federal aid; without federal employees there will be no more federal aid. Mr. Davids said that everyone present should realize that the operation should be carried out as it has been in the past and why run a risk with the milk industry, horse racing industry, the livestock industry just so that on paper the Department of Agriculture can say,"Look what we've done." Supervisor Pell said that two weeks ago the East End Supervisors met in Hampton Bays. County Executive Cohalan was there and he spoke to him about the oil tanks. Since that time he has spoken to him two or three times and he is assured by what he said earlier that he is not going to let this facility operate unless all laws are met, including all new county health laws that went into effect on January 1st, and every law on the books are met. He personally has the confidence in Mr. Cohalan to look into this matter and give the Southold Town residents, where there is a lot at stake, the answers they are looking for.----Mr. Pell talked to Mr. Cohalan yesterday about the problem of the shortage of funds for the Senior Citizen/Youth Center on Peconic Lane. He asked Mr. Cohalan if there any special grants that he knew of that would help the town. He instructed Mr. Pell to send him a letter in detail listing the town funds that are going into it, the federal funds that h~e gone into it and what we would like him to look for in aid to ~elp complete the building. He spoke to Mr. Cohalan about some kitchen equipment under a Title tIIB grant proposal. County Executive Cohalan said he gave a speech this morning to the County Legislature proposal an open space program. The major ~lements of the open space program that he proposed included recommendations to complete the general parks and recreation programs, n-ew approaches to farml&nd acquisition, coastal management, nature preserve and histroic trust preservation, pine forest protection and the water shed protection. Probably the most controversal aspect of the proposal is to cut back on the farmland preservation program. He intends to implem~ent phase one as originally proposed and spend the full twenty-one million dollars that was proposed. There is still nine million dollars remaining to be committed in the farmland preservation program but the overall original presentation for the farmland preservation grogram was the expenditure of fifty~one million dollars by the taxpayers of Suffolk County and he is recommending thatl~it be cut back to the twenty-one million dollars originally allocated in phase one, plus another ten million dollars or thirty-one million dollars in all and reduce the program by twenty-four million dollars. The reason for that is that 497 , .B uARY 26, 1980 other possible avenues of approach should be looked into on farmland~ preservation such as acquiring certain parklands, areas that are necessary for preservation as well as looking into higher zoning classifications, cluster zoning concepts and other ways to do the same thing but save money. The reason for all of this is that the county taxpayers of Suffolk County according to all of the records are either the first or second highest taxed people in ~he United States. The county budget is seven hundred seven million dollars. Probably one of the reasons for the consideration of Peconic County is becauSe Suffolk County is too highly taxed. County Executive Cohalan stated that he did propose today to the County Legislature that they consider, provising they get the consent of the County Legislature and input from the Southold Town Board, the acquisition of Robins Island to preserve it from develop- ment. Its value in regard to the entire Peconic Bay system in terms of maintaining the bays pristine quality is an Obvious one and development cannot help but lower the quality of the surrounding waters. He would like the input of the Town Board of Southold on this because he believes very strongly in town input. He also told the County Legislature that as a result of the complaints he had received from so many people concerning the proposed marine sanctuary in Peconic Bay he for one feels they have to go back to peg ~1 and .start all over again on this because a lot of people are afraid of it due to the fact there has been a lot of erroneous information concerning it. He wants to make sure everyone is aware of exactly what is proposed there in terms of both the state, the planning grant from the federal government and also to make sure the eastern towns of Suffolk County who will be living with this marine snacturary know exactly what is going on. One of the major reasons behind the sanctuary proposal is the acquisition of Robins Island. He still personally feels the County ~hould acquire Robins Island, but that is subject to local input. Mr. Cohalan announced that he has appointed a special Deputy County Executive for East End Affairs, Supervisor Martin Lan~ of Southampton. He introduced Special Assistant County Exec%ive from Quogue Sandra Rosalia, a long standing member of many environmental groups; and Joyce Rosco from the Town of Southampton an aide to the Suffolk County Legislature. Mrs. Marie Bauer Johnson asked about the upcoming Town Forum.---~r. Cohalan said he would be at the Town Forum to answer any qued%ions anyone might have. They intend to prepare an agenda of different' items they would like discussed and he will be there to take input from people on any item that might be of concern. He will also continue attending town board meetings to coordinate with town government on important issued involving towns and he intends to have community forums. He feels very strongly ~hat the people of the county should see their county executive until they get tired of seeing the county executive.---He is in Riverhead every Wednesday and if anyone wishes to see him he will be available at the County Center. On motion of Councilman Murdock, seconded by Councilman Nickles, it was RESOLVED that the minutes of the Southold Town Board meeting of February 5, 1980 be and hereby are approved as submitted. Vote of the Town Board: ~yes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Superviso~ Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion of Councilman D~um, seconded by Councilman ~urdock, it was RESOLVED that the next regular meeting of the Southold Town Board will be held at 7:30 P.M., March 11, 1980 at the Southold Town Hall, Main Road, Southold, New York. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. 498 FEBRUARY 26, 1980 REPORTS t~i~ Councilman Drum repo~ted on the Wage and Policy Committee meeting, stating that new employees will be apprised to new benefits including retirement benefits. The establishment of procedures and interviews will be the responsibility of the Office of the Supervisor. 2. Receipt of the January 1980 report of Justice Frederick J. Tedeschi. 3. Receipt of CATV report. Councilman Nickles requested that the Board meet with CATV representatives and they file, according to their franchise, a monthly report of the number of complaints and how they are resolved. Thye were asked to file individual reports and last month there were 188 reports in Southold Town. The reports contain the name of the complaint, date and time of complaint and~when repair was made. 4. Southold Town's 1979 financial statement to the New York State Department of Audit and Control is on file in the Town Clerk':s Office. 5. Receigt of the January 1980 report of Justice James H. Rich, Jr. 6. Receipt of the January 1980 Dog Warden report. 7. Report of William B. Smith, Clerk of the Works for the Senior Citizen/Youth Center who made a complete ln~pection of the building on February 23rd. There are quite a few items that must be corrected before final payment can be made to the general contractor. 8. Councilman Nickles report on a meeting he attended with Councilman Murdock in Mineola concerning Property Tax Cla'ssification. The Task Force on 100% ~s~al~u~a~ti.~n has been going around the State getting the taxpayers feelings on this matter. The people at the hearings clearly do not want their taxes to go up, they are in favor of the Esposito-Patterson Bill which basically says that whatever we were doing before the Helestein decision that is what they want to go back to. They have told their legislators they don't under- stand why the state and towns would spend one billion dollars, which is the estimated cost between the state reimbursement and what the towns would have to put out, to collect basically the same amount of taxes. The assemblymen are concerned about whether the Esposito-Patterson Bill is constitutional. PossibLy their leaning was~o looking into the various classifications and the prople at the meeting were from Suffolk, Nassau and Queens, felt that in the terms of classification there are two mikkion parcels in New York State and there is the potential of two million classifications. Minnesota started with four of five classifications and ended up with 24. When the legislators left that meeting they should have had a clear feeling as to how the taxpayers felt. County Executive Cohalan said that the Town of Islip lost the Helestine case which ordered full value assessment in the State.~f New York. The Town of Islip is now one of o~er one hundred communities who have gone to full value assessment in the State of New York. Of the 80,000 parcels in the Town of Islip that went to full value assessment 64% of the people in the Town sent up in land value and as a result went up in their taxes. 36% went down. Of the 64% about 15% went up very little within one or two percent. About 50% of the taxpayers went up appreciably and 50% either stayed the same of went down. The transfer in value from commercial and industrial value onto the ba~k of residential in the town involved a 3% shift, as commercial and indistrual property dropped and residential went up. It hurt a lot of people, people on fixed incomes, senior citizens, p~ople with veteran exemptions. Unfortunately it is the kind of decision that has now occurred in 21 states and it probably going to ~cur in the State of New York unless the State of New York does one thing and that is repeal Section 306 of the Real Property Tax Law which mandates it and which is the reason the courts made the decision. 9. This item was moved to III-17. 10. Report of Building Inspector George Fisher who inspected the Carey Resources, Inc. at Mattituck Breakwater. He made the inspection to determine if there were any physical violations on the premises such as buildings being constructed. Mr. Fisher3-,reports that at the present time there are no violations of the Building Zone Ordinance, no buildings put up. 11. Receipt of the Police Committee report. Later on in the a~enda the board will go to bid for a logging recorder. FEBRUARY 26, 1980 PUBLIC NOTICES 1; Receipt of notice of intention to prepare an EIS determination of significance from the N.Y'.S.D.E.C. upon application of Edward, Frank and Joan Hindermann. The applicants propose to construct a timber bulkhead along the line of mean high water, backf±ll and ~rrace with railroa~ties the present slope. The project site on the west bank of Eugenes Creek, no,th side of Pierce Drive, Cutchogue, New York. Marsh grasses are located in the area to be backfilled and would be los~ if the ~p~oject is impl'emented, comments are to be directed to Daniel J;Larkin, P.E., Regional Pe~it Administrator, S~ony ~rook. 2. No%ice of co~aplete application for non-minor project by Dianne Gazza who proposes to construct a 0' by 3' catwalk,. 3' by 10' ramp, o~e float 5' by 16' and two floats 6' by 12'. .Project site is located in D~yads Basin on parcel south si~e of Cedar Beach Road 200' west of-inhers.ection of Paradise Point Road and Cedar Beach Road, Cedar Beach, Southo~d, New York. Comments to Daniel J. Larkin, P.E. DEC, Stony Brook by-March 12, 1980. COMMUNICATIONS 1. comPlaint from Robert G. Melrose concerning property on Manhassett Avenue, Greenport which was turned over to the police and Building Department. 2. Request by Shelter Island to amend Greenport/Southold/ Shelter Island 201 Study. This will be a resolution under V-26. 3. Letter from the. New York State Department of La~ concerning erosion control in the vicinity of Goldsmith Inlet. This matter will be discussed later in the day in Executive Session. 4. Letter from Ben Kowalski relative to a matter before the Zoning Board of Appeals. iThis letter has been referred to the Board of Appeals. 5. Letter from George W. Smith relative to a complaint about CATV. This complaint will be transmitted to the New York Sta~e Commission on Cable Television. 6. Receipt of notice from the Department of Housin~ and Urban Development officially notifying the Town that we did receive the $50,000. Community Development Block Grant and there is possibly $100,00. more to come.~'~ ~e will hear more by May 12th. 7. ~ Letter,from the~rtme~t~f H~using an~'Urban Develop- ment concerning ~he s0Y~ ~ource aquifem~h.±~ has been re.ferrea to Highway Superintendent Dean. 8. Lette~ from the ~S, DEC relative to the plan of the NYS Dept. of TransportatiOn to place road drainage structures in the Dam Pond Causeway.~--The Town Board is very concerned about runoff that will go into ~am Pond on one side and the Bay on the other. A few years ago a- survey was done of ~attituck Creek to find out what the biggest polutant was and it ~as determined to be road runoff. 9. Letter from Andrew E. Goodale stating he is still interested in a position on the Zoning Board of Appeals. 10. Request from the Building Inspector George Fisher to send two building inspectors to building code school at Babylon. This will be a resolution unde~ V-27. 11. Letter from the Southold Town Planning Board transmitting a resolution that legal notices of hearings be placed in only the official paper of the Town of Southold with the exception what if it is a Fishers Island hearing it be published in the Day.--This will be discussed with the Planning Board and if resolved in time this will be baek[:on the March llth a~enda. 12. Letter from the NYS Department ~f Transportation to Highway Superintendent Dean concer~ing groundwater contamination at Mattituck. They will be testing various existing storage tanks in the area and the installation of observation wells along Main Street, Wickham Street and Pike Street. The observation wells shall be used for monitoring and water quality purposes and may remamn mn place for as long as six months pending water quality analysms.- ..... Councilm~m Drum stated this basically pertains to closed gasoline stations whereth~re are %a~k~ st~I1 in-~h~'g~oun.d~ 13. Letter from the Board of Assessors stat~nq the Town Board could designate the Dog Warden to assess dog damage clai.ms, rather than the Assessors who are doing it now~.--The Town Board feels the Assessors should continue this duty fo~ the present time. 14. Letter from the ~attituck-~n~et Advisory. C6~.mm~%tee askin~- w~a~!]~bwn permits are n~ssary in order for the pre~ent owner or 500 FEBRUARY 26, 1980 9ccup~.. Of -. ther- S~o~age- .tank~ - ~o re.s~ oper~ti6~ Of the faci li ty; a~ ~what progress has~' bee~ad~ toward' ~nsu~i.ng that property in the Mattituck Creek area will be available for more compatible ~se as compared to the surrounding area and whether the property is for sale and at what cost.--~The Town Board has instructed Supervisor Pell to r~ply to this letter. 15. CoUncilman Nickles spoke atbou~ the letter received frOm Holsmacher, M~Lendon and Murrell concerning the Scavenger Waste Treatment PrQgram. They indicate that the estimated project costs of a facility 'at Greenport for Southold's scavenqer waste is $1,750,000. They indicate that .the construction of ~a facilit~ at the Greenport si~.~ is more economical th&n construction of a facility at any othe~ loca~io~ in the Town.---A meeting with H2M on January 29th indi6ated ~he~cost would be much tower. At tha~ ~ime they requested a more concrete estimate to do ~ke job and ~this is ~tke letter the Board re~eived.--- The letter further states that C01nsidering the exterme'ly large cost of the scavenge~waste facility an~ the availab!ilityof 8.7~% Federal and State aid,i ~2~ recommend tka~ thei Town continue with the on2goimg study which, in this case, res~tS ini a local C°s~ of $220,000. compared to an unfunded cost of $'l,750,000.---The Board will have to study this further.---Supervisor Pell stated that the Town Board is very concerned about the landf~ll ~rea. There is waste being dumped from all over the Town. The Town asked H2M to come out and discuss this problem. They realize that to apply for Federal funding will take yea~s, 'three, four.or' five years before it could be done. The Board though% they should forget the red tape and government, for the time being, and see howl'much it would ~cost the Town to do it ~themselves so they could protect the drinking water. The representative from H2M that day apparently picked a figure out of the air~ and said three to four~undre~ithousand dollars, and they could begin within six months. Then this letter was received and it was~four times the amount he quote~ at the meeting on the 29th. There is a serious water problem ou~ here whic~ must be considered. 16. Letter from Arden Scott McCasny comme~nding Dog Warden Gail Bleil. 17. Letter from the Suffolk County Department of Labor concerning the 1980~SUmmer Youth Conservation Corps. Highway Superintendent Dean has had these in the past and the Town Board · s very mych concerned about the local children be~aming involved. There is great concern that a lot of children sent here are from outside of Southold Town. The Board is considering their own local program~ since the Department of Labor program is partly funded by the Town and County. Highway Superintendent Dean, Councilman Sullivan and Supervisor Pell will meet next week to see if the Town should go their own route. 18. Eetter from the North Fork Shipyard, Inc. stating they are opposed~to the proposed~ Peconic/Flanders Estuarine Sanctuary. RESOLUTIONS On motion of Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman Nickles, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold support Senate- Assembly bills S.7204, A8S48 entitled "AN ACT in relation to author- · zing the governing bodies of towns and villages within Suffolk County to make certain permanent appointments for the position of police officer, which reads as follows: "Section I. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the 'contrary, on making permanent appointments for the position of police officer for any police force or police department of any town or village located within SUffolk county,, the governing body off, such town or village may req~ire, by local iaw, that resident eligibles of such town or village be certified frist for appointment to such position; provided, however, no such preference shall be given for appointment from a promotion list. Upon exhaustion of such list of resident eligibles, certification shall be made from the complete eligible list." And be it further RESOLVED that the Town Clerk be and she hereby is directed to~complete the nexessary forms and submit them to the New York State Senate. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman S~llivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. FEBRUARY 26, 1980 On motion of Councilman Murdock, seconded by Councilman Drum, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold support Assembly Bill No. 1288 entitled "AN ACT in relation to authorizing the governing bo~y of the Town of Southold to make certain permanent appointments for the position of police officer", which read as follows: "Section 1. In making permanent appointments for the position of~pO~ic~0f~!ce~ fo~ the police force 'of the Town of Southold; the governing body of such town may ~equire that resident eligibles of such town be ce~t~f£~ed ~i~t f~r ~appo.intment to such position; provided, however, no such preference s-hall be given for appointment from a promotion l~s%. upon exhaustion of the l~st of such resident eligibles, certificat±~n s-hall ~e made f~om the complete eligible list." And be i~ further RESOLVED that the 'Town Clerk be and she hereby is directed to ~omplete the necessary forms and submit them to the New York State Assembly. Vote of the. Town ~oard: A3-es: Councflman $'ulllvan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, J~s~ice Doyen, SUpervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adoptedi~ On motion of Councilman Mu~dock, seconded by Councilman drum, it was RESOLVED~that a recess-be called at 4:00 P.M. for the necessary time it takes to '~ld twb public hearings: 4:00 P.M~ ~ proposed local law entitled "A Local Law to Establish Flood Pta~n 'Management Standards in Flood Hazard Areas of the Town of Southold. 4:30 P.~. - appl±cation ~o~ 44 of David $. Strong for a permit in accordance w~th the Wetland Ordinance of the Town of Southold. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan ~ Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell~ This resolut±on ~as declared duly adopted. Reconvened Town Board meeting at 5:00 P.M. Justice Doyen left the meeting at 5:00 P.M. to return to Fishers Island. Chief Carl Cataldo explained that the Police Department is in the process of completely changing over their c~mmunications system. They have received a federal grant and the total amount of the Town share will be approximately $100,000o It is a county-wide grant of over two million dollars to upgrade the communications system for all the police departments of Suffolk County, the Sheriff's Office as Well as the Suffolk County Police Department. As a result of the grant the Town is getting all completely new modern up-to-date communications sy~te~ for the police cars, also new equipment for haadquarters. Some of i~ has already come in and been installed, other equipment is still to come, some of it is to be ordered. The unit that was referred to earlier in the meeting is a logging recorder, the purpose of which is to record all the incoming telephone calls to the 'switchboard, emergency calls, with a time track on a tape recorder and all radio communi- cations on a twenty-four hour tape recorder so there is an accurate time of occurance for everything that comes into headquarters for record keeping pumposes and also as an accurate record of what was said and who said it to p~otect not only the citizens who call in but the police department from legal suits as to what exactly did or didn't happen. That is part of the syste~. Another part of the system is emergency recall recorder so emergency calls coming in over the telephone Can be recorded. If someone yells something into the telephone rather rapdily and hangs up, a panic type call, the radio operator, which he cannot do now, would be able to reach up, hit a button, and play that call back so he can disect it and try to understand what the people said in haste before the~ hung up and he can do that as often as necessary to get the proper information. There are many other features, some of them are rather technical to ~o into, but is all part of the overall system to upgrade Polic~ communications and tie them in with all of the other departments in Suffolk county as one unified communica- tions system. Part of the upgrading will also be a replace ofr what was the old teletype system, ~s now a computerized teletype system. They w~ll also be going into that in about four months through the State, the state picks up part of the charges for it. It will tie them in with the National Crime Information computer in Washington, the FBI computer, it will tie them ~n with the 502 FEBRUARY 26, 1980 Department of Criminal Services computer in Albany, the Motor VehicLe Bureau computes in Albany and other computers throughout the 50 States thrDugh the National Law Enforcement Communications System which is located in Phoenix, A~na. As far as Chief Cataldo's people are concerned in the radio rom~?'and out on the road the new SYstem will mean that they are going to have to tow the mark in everything they do because if there is any question as to what they said or how they said it or how long it took them to get there Chief Cataldo can check it right out within a second. This is all a part of the Town Board's effort to make sure that every one of the tax dollars is used to full benefit and in the end it will help everyone serve together.- .... Mr. Charles Hickey, Southolf, asked if the police is tune on Channel 9 CB? chief Cataldo said they are not, they have no facilities for tuning into the CB. They tried it a while back and there was so much override on the receivers that they had found that they couldn't do it. When they get the new system going and groups want to come in and have a tour to see what it is like they will be glad to do it. Police head~ quarters handles the dispatching not only for the Southold Town Police Department but also for Greenport Police Department and Shelter Island Police Department and they dispatch the Mattituck Fire Department, the Mattituck Rescue Squad, East Marion Rescue Squad, the Orient Rescue Squad, provide a backup radio to Greenport Rescue Squad and backup telephone for the Southold Fire Department. There are four channels on the police radio that they are monitoring. They will also be getting a marine radio for the Bay ConStable and he will be able to be in contact with the Coast Guard and alsomonitor the emergency channels on the marine band what they haven't been able to do up to now. ---Mr. Hickey asked if with the new system the people who have police monitoring systems, will they still be able to listen?---Chief Cataldo said they would, all they will have to do is change their crystals.--- Mr. Hickey asked if this will cut down on vandalism? .... Chief Cataldo said he hopes everything helps to improve something. As to whether that is going to be a deciding fact he does not know but he is sure before very long the Supervisor will have a report because he is working on grants for youth activities in combination with the police which may help. On motion of Councilman~Murdock, seconded by Councilman Drum, it was RESOLVED that a rengwal permit is hereby issued to Leander Glover, Jr., residing at Cox's Lane, Cutchogue, New York, for the excavation of sand, gravel, stone or other materials from premises located north of Middle Road (Route 27), Cutchogue, New York, generally described as follows, to wit: Parcel I - Northerly by lands of Glover, easterly by lands of Glover and McBride; southerly by lands of Pietrewicz and the Town of Southold; and westerly by lands of the Town of Southold. Parcel II - Northerly by lands of L. Glover; easterly by lands of J. Pratt and F. McBride; southerly by lands of Pietrewicz; and westerly by the Town of Southold. This permit is issued pursuant and subject to the provisions of the Southold Town Code, Chapter 81, S6~1 Removal, and subject to the terms and conditions of resolution of Southold Town Boar~ adoptsd October 26, 19~1. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion of Councilman Sullivan, seconded by Councilman Nick~es, it was RESOLVED that the application of John C. Tuthill dated February 7, 1980, for permission to locate a s~ngle traileron his property on the east side of Elijah's Lane, Mattituck, New York, be and hereby is renewed for a period of six mcnths%~ Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion of Councilman Nickles, seconded by Councilman Drum, it was RESOLVED that pursuant to Article 8 of the Environmental Conservation Law State Environmental Quality Review and 6NYCRR Part 617, Section 617.10 and Chapter 44 of the Code of the Town of Southold, notice is hereby given that the Southold Town Board, as lead agency for the action described below, has determined that the project will not have a significant effect on the environment. FEBRUARY 26, 1980 -503 DESCRIPTION OF ACTION Application of Diane Gazza for a wetland permit. Permission is requested to construct a floating dock and catwalk over the wetlands at her property at 2710 Cedar Beach Road, Southold, New York. The property has been determined not to have a significant effect on the environment for the following reason: An environmental assessment has been submitted which indicated that no significant adverse effects to the environment are liekly to occur should the project be imp&emented as planned. Vote of the ~own Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion of Supervisor Pell, seconded by Councilman Mnrdock, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold set 4:00 P.M., Tuesday, March 25, 1980, Southold Town Hall, Main Road, Southold, New York as time and place for hearing upon application of Diane Gazza~for a permit under the provisions of the Wetland Ordinance of the Town of Southold for permission to construct a floating dock and catwalk over property located at 2710 Cedar Beach Road, Southold, New York. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdo~k, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion of Council~n Sullivan,~seconded by Councilman Nickles, it was RESOLVED that the application of Oscar Goldin dated February 7, 1980 for permission to locate a single trailer on Lot ~60, Greenport Driving Park, south side Linnett Street, Greenport, New York, be and hereby is renewed for a period of six months. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Couhcil~an'Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion of Councilman Murdock, seconded by Councilman Sullivan, it was RESOLVED that the application of Isidore P. Krupski dated February 7, 1980 to locate a single trailer on his property ~n the north side of Main Road, Peconic, NewYork, be and hereby is renewed for a period of si~ months. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was ~clared duly adopted. Supervisor Pell introduced a motion nominating Gladys Csajko for the vacancy on the Southold Town Zoning Board of Appeals. The motion failed to receive a second and was lost. On motion of Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman Sullivan, it was RESOLVED that Gerard P. Goehringer be and he hereby is appointed a member of the Southold Town Zoning Board of Appeals effective this date, February 26, 1980 to fill the unexpired term of Robert W. Gillispie, Jr., to April 30, 1982. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes~ Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion of Councilman Nickles, seconded by Councilman Drum, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold accept the low bid of North Fork Sanitation Service for the purchase of scrap metal and p~pDr~from the Town of Southold at a bid price of $3,510.00 for the period from March 1, 1980 to December 31, 1980, and be it further RESOLVED that Supervisor William R. Pell III be and he hereby ~s authorized and directed to enter into an agreement with the North Fork Sanitation Service for the above mentioned service. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman ~urdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion of Councilman DRum, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was RESOLVED that the application of Edmond Bokina dated February 7, 1980 for permission to locate a single trailer at Aldrich Lane Realty, on r~ght-of-way off north side Main Road, Laurel, New York be and hereby · s renewed for a period of six months. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman M~rdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared d~ly adopted. FEBRUARY 26, 1980 On motion of Councilman Murdock, seconded by Councilman Rrum, it was RESOLVED that the Cutchogue Fire D~rict be and hereby are granted exclusive use of the fire district park±ng~area on New Suffolk Lane~ Cutchogue, New' York, on July 18, 19, and 20, 1980 for Parade and drill On July 19, 1980 provided they are properly insured to hold the Town os Southold harmless, and b~ it further RESOLVED that the Cutchogue Fire DiStrict be and hereb~are g~an.~d~3 exclusive use of the fi~e~_dSstrict parking area on New Suffolk Lane, Cutchogue, New York on August 22, 23, and 24, 1980 for~their annual barbecue on August 23, 1980 provided they are proPerly insured to hold the Town of Southold harmless, Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Counc~lman~Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly aodpted. Resolution V-ii concerning the dedication of Grange Road is not in proper order. On motion of Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was RESOLVED that William R. Pell III be and he hereby is appointed a representative of the Town of ~uthold on the Suffolk Community Development Corporation Board. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman aurdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly ad~pted. On motion of Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman Nickles, it was RESOLVED that the application of Martin Sidor dated February-7, 1980 for permission to locate a single trailer on his property on tke south side of Oregon Road, Mattltuck, New~York for housing of trainees under the Na~i0nal 4-H Agricultural Program be and hereby is renewed for a period of six months. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman D~U~,Supervisor ?ell. On motion of Councilman Nickles, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was RESOLVED that Supervisor William R. Pell III be and he hereby is authorized and directed to enter ~hto a contract with Briarcliff Landscape, Inc. for spring, summer and fall lawn aRd shrub Program for the Southold Town Hall at a contract price of $568.10, and be it further RESOLVED %~at Supervisor William R. Pell III be and he hereby is authorized and directed to enter into a contract with Briarcliff Landscape, Inc. for a spring, summer and fall lawn and shrub program for the Southold Town Police H.eadq~arters at a contract price of $457.90. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell~ This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion of Councilman Murdock, seconded by Councilman Drum, i% was RESOLVE~ that the Town Board of the Town of Southold rescind their resolution of December 4, 1979 declaring themseIves lead agency in regard to the State Environmental Quality Review Act in the matter of the application of Wayne Associates for a change of zone from "A" Residential and Agricultural District to ~M-1'~ General Multiple Residence District on certain property situated a% Bayview, Southo~d, New York, and recommend that the new York State Department of Envi~on~ mental Conservation assume lead agency status. Vote of the Town Board: ayes: Councilman Sullivan~ Councilman ~urdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell~ This resolution was declared duly adopted. Mrs. Betty Schloss of Paradise Point Road, Southold stated a group of residents from the area have met and studied the material concerning Wayne Associates application for a change of zone and they actively oppose the zone change from residential to multiple zone because i~ is an overpopulated area and it would change the character of the area from residential to multiple zone and from rural to metropolitan Mrs. Scholss had a petition with signatures of many of the area residents many of whom were in the audience to represent their oppostion to the zoning change.~--Town Attorney Tasker suggested that Mrs. Scholoss not present the petition o~ possition with respect to rezoning. This will ultimately come to a hearing before the Town Board on the very question of the rezoning and that would be FEBRUARY 26, 1980 the time When she should present the petitions and statements because the matter of the rezoning isn't before the Board yet. She should reserve filinq the petitions so they will be filed with the appropriate action, when ~he Board goes to the hearing oN the question of the rezoning. On motion of Supervisor Pell, seconded by Councilman Drum, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold opposes amend- ments to the Suffolk County Tax Act as recommended by the Town of Islip to provide for four due dates for the payment of real property taxes, and be it further RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold opposes amend- ments to the Suffolk County Ta~ Act as recommended by the Town of Islip to provide for a discount on its taxes of one percent to those property owners who pay both their first half and second half taxi.. bills on or before the due date for the first half. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion of Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman Nickles, it was RESOLVED that the Southold Town Board urge the members of the New York State Legislature and Governor Hugh L. Carey to continue the "equal partnership" concept: (1) so ithat the state makes an equitable sharing of its revenues in support of local services, (2) so that the locat- gova~ment will have a fair, dependable and predictable share'of re~enue'-from the state, allowing them to plan local budgets and long range capital financing in an intelligent and reasonable manner, and (3) so that the already fragile real property tax will continue a viable, effective revenue source in support or,local government. Towards these objectives, the Town of Southo~d importunes the Legislature and the Governor to continue the present state shared-revenues formula. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes~ Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On mo~ion of Councilman Nickles, seconded by Councilman Drum, it was RESOLVED that the services of Pan Tech Management Corp? be and hereby are retained by the Town of Southold as of February 2~, 1980 for the p~pose of providing consulting services to the Town on behalf of the Town's Community Development Block Grant Small Cities Program as approved by the United states Department of Housing and Urban Develop- ment. Compensation for said services are to be assessed on a man hour bas~s in accordance with Exhibit A of the agreement. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdo~k, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion of Supervisor Pell, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of SoutholdTset 7:30 P.M., March 4, 1980 and 8:30 P.M., March 11, 1980, Southold Town Hall, Main Road, Southold, New York as times and place for hearings in ~e matter of the Town Board of the Town of Southold planning to file a final application for Community Development Funds under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban DeVelopment'~Single~Purpose Small Cities Program. As required Under the legislation two public hearings will be held at Which members of the public may present w~itten and oral suggestions and become full informed of the application process. Vote 6f the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. Moved by Councilman Murdock, seconded by Councilman Drum, WHEREAS, the Peconic County Study Committee has recommended to the five East End Towns that they indicate their support and approval for the creation of Peconic County, as proposed by. Assembly Bill ~AB4771 and Senate Bill ~6781, now, therefore, be it RESOLVED that the Southold Town Board hereby endorses and gives full support to said Assembly and Senate bills for the purpose of the creation of Peconic County, and be it FUR~ER RESOLVED that the question of the creation of Peconic County shall be submitted to the voters of the five East End Towns by being placed on the ballot for the general elect~on~of November, 1980. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. FEBRUARY 26, 1980 Moved by Councilman Murdock, seconded by Supervisor Pell, WHEREAS, the Peconic County Study Committee has requested of the five East End Towns the authority and responsibility of fund raising for promotion purposes for the creation of Peconic County, now, there- fore, be it RESOLVED that the Southo~d Town Board hereby authorizes the Peconic County Study Committee to pursue all avenues of funding for Peconic County, provided, however, that said Committee shall not incur any expense or debt for which the Town of Southold shall be responsible, and be it further RESOLVED that said Study Committee will be solely responsible for funds so received. Vote fo the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly aodpted. On motion of Supervisor Pell, seconded by Councilman Nickles, it was RESOLVED that ~he Town Board of the Town of Southold approves payment of the bill of I.W. Miller & Associates, Lts. in ths amount of $3,000.00 as Southold ~bwn's share of the budget and repg~t for proposed new county of five towns in Eastern Suffolk County. Vote of the ~own Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. Item V-21 on the agenda concerning a Fire Code Committee was discussed today by the Board and the enti~ Board will be on the Committee. On motion of Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman Sullivan, it was RESOLVED that the application of Florence Steiner dated February 7, 1980 for permission to locate a single trailer on hero-property on right-of-way off southeast side of Main Road, Mattituck, New York, be and hereby is renewed for a period of six months. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. Moved by Councilman Nickles, seconded by Councilman Drum, ~EREAS, the fundamental freedoms of the Town of Southold and their fellow Americans are embodied in the concept of "Private Property Rights Protect Them" and WHEREAS, this concept is perhaps nowhere more personally meaningful than in the right of each of us to own real property, and WHEREAS, this cherished legacy, beqeathed to us by our colonial forefathers, carries the concomitant obligation to preserve the land upon which our lives depend, and WHEREAS, the fulfillment of this obligation is consistently demonstrated by the commitment and concern of the Eastern Suffolk Board of Realtors in assisting Southold Town residents who wish to exercise their rights to own real property, and WHEREAS, Realtors, have since 1956, celebrated an annual observance dedicated to the purpose of promoting deeper public awareness that we not only have the right to own real property, but that we must all assume an individual responsibility to guard this prerogative from any infringement, political or personal, and WHEREAS, the Eastern Suffolk Board of Realtors is joining fellow Realtors and Realtor - Associates nationwide in this year's observance, called Private Property Week. NOW, THEREFORE, I, William R. Pell III, Supervisor of Southold Town, do hereby proclaim April 13 to 19 to be Private Property Week. And I urge my fellow citizens to join~with the Eastern Suffolk Board of Realtors and the 700,000 members of the National Association of Realtors throughout the country in this observance by taking an active part in ~ppropriate and significant programs sponsored by the Southold Town Realtors and Realtor-Associates who this week, and the entire year, are taking an active role in helping make Southold T~n a better place to live and work. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman ~urdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion of Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman M~rdock, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold authrozies the payment of $6411.00 from HUD funds to Cavaliere Electric Contract- FEBRUARY 26, 1980 ~.507 ign Ltd. for work completed at the Senior Citizen/Youth Center, subject to certain lights being repaired at the direction of Supervisor Pell. Vote 6£ the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murd~bk, Councilman NIckles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion, of Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman Nickles, it was RESOLVED that the Town Clerk be and she hereby is authorized and directed to advertise for bids for furnishing to the Town of Southold a Multi-Channel Logging Tape Recorder System - one logging tape recorder~re~roducer system, desiqned to Drovide.recordin~ of ten ~°3~a~Sp~ ~e~l~f~is~r~°~ ~5~&in~ ~U~ePer Southold Town clerk"s Office. Bid opening March 21, 1980 3:00 P.M. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilm~un Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion of Councilman Nickles, seconded by Councilman Drum, i~was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold approves Amendment No. 2 of the Greenport/Southold/Shelter Island 201 Study which provides for an Infiltration/Inflo~/~nalysis of Shelter Island Heights Association at a fixed price of $5,580.00, said expense to be at the sole expense of the Town of Shelter Island. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman ~urdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion of Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman Nickles, it was RESOLVED that permission be and hereby is granted to two building inspectors to attend building code school at Babylon, New York on March 19 from 3 to 5 P.M., March 26 from 3 to 6 P.M., April 16 from 4 to 8 P.M. and April 23 from 3 to 7 P.M. and charges for meals and mileage and use of a Town vehicle shall be a legal charge against the Town of Southold. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. RESOLVED that Jame designated a votin with present votin RESOLVED that S~u is designated an a from the committee Vote of the Town Murdock, Councilma Th~s resolution wa On motion Councilm~n Murdock, seconded by Councilman Drum, it was Homan, Cutchogue, New York be and he hereby is member of the ~econic County Committee along member Jean Tiedke, and be it further 1 Markel, former voting member, be ahd he hereby Lternate, and alternate Philip Babcock be removed oard: A' · · yes. Councilman Sullivan, Councilman n Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell~ s declared duly adopted. On motion of Councilman Sullivan, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was RESOLVED that the Southold Town Board oppose the Governor,s proposed gasoline tax increase. The funds derived from the increase should not be utilized to support New York City's Mass Transit System; and be it further RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be transmitted to Governor Hugh L. Carey, Senator Kenneth P. LaValle, Assemblyman John L. Behan and County ExecutiVe Peter F. Cohalan. ' Vote Of t~e Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilma~ Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion of Super' RESOLVED that the~ directed to advert with one cab and cl Vote of the Town B~ Murdock, Councilma~ This resolution wa: 7isor Pell, seconded by Councilman Sullivan, it was ~own Clerk be and she hereby is authorized and ~se for bids for supplying the Highway Department ~assis dump truck. >ard: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. declared duly adopted. Supervisor Pell announced that the minority Business Representative for the proposed F~shers Island Sewsr District has been filled by Albert D. Dawson, Fishers Island, New York. ~508 FEBRUARY 26, 1980 Councilman Drum reported that Mr. John R. Gutd~, Division of Water- ways, Suffolk County, visited Southold Town on February 15th and Councilman Drum accompanied him in inspecting the essential dredging project locations. Mr. Guldi was in accord with the Town's critical need for the dredging of the entrances to the twon ramp in New Suffolk, Deep Hole Creek and Goldsmith Inlet. While immediate dredging is not possible, it was indicated that these projects would be completed prior to commencement of the summer season. The importance of opening the entrance to the ramp at New Suffolk prior to the fishing season was emphasized. Also the necessity for continuous maintenance d~edging in all Peconic Bay Creek entrances was agreed to; it appeared the anly real solution was to have a County dredge permanently assigned to the waters of the East End Towns. 'Inspection of other creeks, inlets will be scheduled at a later date.--Councilman Drum said he did not have an opportunity to notify the other members of the Inland Waterways Committee of the meeting as Mr. Guldi appeared within one half hour notice last Friday. Supervisor Pell congratulated Mr. Gerard Goehringer, who was in the room, on his appointment to the Zoning Board of Appeals and he looks forward to working with him and pledged him his support. Mr. Arthur Tillman, Mattituck, stated that in 1978 he initiated legal proceedings against the Town of Southold regarding what he felt to be arbitrary and unequal assessment of his property in Mattituck. Since that time the Town has sent their assessor out to reevaluate, they have had an outside agency, specifically Suffolk County reassess his property and the case ultimately found itself in the hands of Mr. Cron who is acting attorney in this case for the Town of Southold. Mr. Tilman has been informed by his lawyer Mr. Manning of Wading River that he is unable to get Mr. Tilman's case that is being held in abeyance by Mr. Cron to the Town Board and he has waited two years. He feels it is an obstruction of justice, either intentional or unintentional, and all he wants is his day to present his case before the Town Board.--Supervisor Pell said he received a list of pending cases at the last meeting and his name was one of twenty-seven. He will have an answer for Mr. Tillman within a short time. He will get in touch wi{h Mr. Cron and find out where the Town is going to go from here and what the hodl up is.---Mr. Tillman said the Town Board is concerned with everything from marsh grass to flood control and there are twenty- seven people with a real problem and it is just allowed to lay there. Mr. Charles Hickey, Southold, asked what is happening in regard to Kenneys Beach and all of the beaches that are washed out. He feels that by the time it comes swimming time ~here won't be a beach at Kenneys Beach, only a parking field.----Councilman Nickles, Chairman of the Beach and Park Committee said he does not have an answer for Mr. Hickey at this moment. The Town Board will be meeting in Executive Session following th~s meet~n~ and at that time they will be discussing the problem of beach eros~on~ On the oth~r side of the coin, A~r. Nickles is involved ~n somethin~ w~.th the Depar.tment of Interior, the HOCS Park and Rehabilitation grants which may be an. avenue that w-e might look to for restoration in that a~ea. Kowever~ it is too early~to:~-qlve Mr. H.ickey an answer as to whether it even qualifies at this point. Mrs. Arthur Tillman, Mattituck.~ said she noticed in a couple of places there i~ mention of redevelopment block grant applicatns and in anothe~ place Mr. Pell has been named a ~epresentative to the Suffolk County Development Corporation. She was very interested in an article she saw in Newsday a few months ago about federal funds to provide lo~' interest loans for alternat~.ve energy p~ojects~ Aqy project a resident m~gkt '~ant to ~n~t~ate ~n th.e/~k o~n fo~ tke~ own private. ~se. She called HUnt~n~ton to £±nd out how~tkey wentabout it and they told her they have a community development agency and they got the ~unds from R~3D as discretionary funds, %That they did with the money was put it ~n the bank and residents d~e~ ~rom tkat account at a low-interest rate and ~t has been very s~cces~sful.--'- Supervisor Pell stated that th~s week he w~ll be ~.th Supervs~o~ Kenneth Butterfield or Huntington and he w±.!l a~k h~m fo~ information on this project,-~-TO.~nktto~ney Tasker ~stated that ke th~.nks this is part of th~ project the Town had $l~00.0~ allocated to us and the other part went to the western towns for solar and energy~ 509 FEBRUARY 26, 1980 Mr. Gerard Goehringer asked if in the meeting with CATV there was any indication about when Captain Kidd Estates or Shore Acres would be hooked up?---Supervisor Pell Stated that Captain Kidd Estates is going to h~.the first one hooked up, they are working on that now, they have practically all the pole permits from LILCO and New York Telephone. Shore Acres he does not know about. Mr. Ed Hallahan, Southold Town Baymen's Association, Inc., asked if the town Board would be interested in buying the Demarest property at Orient?---Supervisor Pell said thia ma~ter of buying the Demarest property with town funds has not been discussed in that aspect. The only thing the Town Board did discuss with Mr. ~aoramina of the DEC was the possibility of State funds. Mr. Taoramina was going to see if there were any funds available and get back to Supervisor Pell on the Matter. Mr. Taoramina has been supplied a copy of the map of the property and the Assessors office should have a copy of the deed. Mr. Hallahan will take care of the matter. On motion of Councilman Nickles, seconded by Councilman Sullivan, it was RESOLVED that a recess be called at this time, 5:45 P.M. to allow the Board to meet in Executive Session. Meeting will reconvene following Executive Session. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nicktes, Councilman Drum, SupervisOr Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. EXECUTIVE SESSIDN Chief Carl Cataldo discussed with the Board increasing the police insurance liability from $500,00. to $1,000,000. with the Ideal Mutual Insurance Company of New Gork. The increase in premium would be $1,552.00 The Board discussed litigation pertaining to the Goldsmith Inlet jetty. A meeting will be arranged with County Executive Cohalan , A Couhty Attorney, Mr. K~mmerer of the Suffolk County Department of Public Works, Supervisor Pell, Board members and Town attorney Tasker. The regular Town Board meeting reconvened at 6:20 P.M. On motion of Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southodl authorizes increasing the Southold Town Police liability insurance from $500,000. to $1,000,000. and payment of $7,757.00 to yhe Ideal Mutual Insurance Company of New York for the premium o~ this policy. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman D~um, Superivsor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion of Councilman Murdock, seconded by Councilman Drum, it was RESOLVED that there being no further business to come before thiw Town Board meeting adjournment be called at 6:22 P.M. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. Town Clerk