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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTB-05/20/1980SOUTHOLD TOWN BOARD May 20, 1980 EXECUTIVE SESSION 10:20 A.M. - The Board met with Richard J. Cron, Esq. to discuss certiorari cases which are presently on the Trial Calendar Bt the Certiorari Part at the Mini-Center, Bay Shore, New York, on June 3, 1980 and June 5, 1980: 235 MilI Street, Inc. v. Town of Southold Donald G. King v. Town of Southold (Grant~s) Eylene H. King v. Town of Southold (IGA) DonaId G. King v. Town of Southold Murray Weitman v. Town of Southold 11:20 A.M. The Board discussed the Bruce Stewart grievance. * * * 12 Noon The Board began reviewing the agenda. 12:25 P.M. - Mr. Dick W~lton and Mr. Peter Kreh of the Southold Town Promotion Committee appeared befolre the Board to present them with copies of the 1980 North Fork Summer Activities Calendar and the Visitor's Guide ~o Long Island's Picturesque and Historic North Fork. 1:35 P.M. - Merlon Wiggin appeared before the Board to bring them up to date on a meeting he attended a~ Waterford, Connecticut, called by the State o£ Connecticu~ Emergency Preparedness Commission. Mr, Wiggin explained some o£ the new criteria put out by the NucIear Regulatory Commission on Emergency Operation Centers.--~Councilman Drum and Mr. Wiggin will meet further to discuss Southold's program. 2:05 P.M. - Mr. David Spohn and Mr. John Duell appeared before the Board to ask permission to interview firms £or preparing an airport study. They were granted this permiS'sion~ and will submit the names of four or five forms for the Board to interview after they have narrowed down the best choices. 2:15 P.M. - The Board continued ~o review ~he agenda. 2:30 P.M. - Members of the Mattituck Inlet Committee appeared before the Board to introduce themselve~s. They were advised the Town Board committee for the Mattituck Inlet study wodld be appointed at the regular meeting. 3:00 P.M. - Mr. Gary Pappas of Pan Tech Management Corp. and Mr. Kavadish and Mr. Schwerin of Chas. H. Sells, Inc. discussed with the Board the $50,000 grant for removal of architectural barriers at town barriers. Mr. Schwerin advised that the charge of $2250. for. supervision of construction could be eliminated from the charges by Sells, Inc. as full time supervision would not be needed. Mr. Pappas explained that the $5,000 charge £or planning is £or a three year cpmprehensi~e program £or the nex~ round of community developmen~ funding would amount to one half million dollars. The federal government makes it specific tha~ the application must be a three year strategy application.--The Board advised they would adopt a resolution a~ the regular meeting agreeing to pay Chas. H. Sells, Inc. $5,560.00 for their engineering services. A regular meeting of the Southold Town Board was held on Tuesday, May 20, 1980 at the Southold Town Hall, Main Road, Southold, New York. Supervisor Pell opened the meeting at 3:30 P.M. witch the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Present were: Supervisor William R. Petl 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. Tusker Highway Superintendenv Raymond C. Dean Depuvy Supervisor Marie Bauer Johnson SUPERVISOR PELL:. I want to apologize for being a half hour late, but I did prepare for the Board a lengthly agenda and a little bit of discussion on some of the items and they we~j~stl, got here a little bit late and ! did want to go voer it with the Board. On motion of Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was RESOLVED that the May 6, 1980 minutes of the Southold Town Board be and hereby are approved as submitted. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. On motion o£ Councilman Murdock, seconded by Councilman Drum, it was RESOLVED that the next regular meeting of the Southold Town Board will be held at 7:30 P.M., Tuesday, June 10, 1980 ay the Southold Town Hall, Main Road, Southol~, New York. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Cou-ncilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. SUPERVISOR PELL: I will probably be calling a special meeting of the Board on around June 6th. Later on we are going to go to bids for clams and we want to award the bid prior to the next Town Board meeting so I do anticipate, if the bids come in right and look right, I will call a special meeting the Board between now and the June 10th meeting. REPORTS - SUPERVISOR PELL 1. The first report is the monthly report from Judge Rich. 2. The monthly report from Cable TV. 3. Fresh Water Committee report from Councilman Murdock. COUNCILMAN MURDOCK: This committee, it's not really a committee, it's an adjunct of what the Trustees have been investigating in terms of making a fresh waver inventory and they, I believe, are preparing to make a recommendation to the Town Board about hiring a consulting firm or having a meeting with them in terms of hiring them to make an inventory of all fresh water ponds and possibly tidal wetlands in the Tonw of Southold. We haven'~ gone into funding, it's not going to be a cheap proposition and hopefully if we gev into it we can find help from the state funds and federal funds. That is a forthcoming project. 4. Wage and policy, Councilman Drum. COUNCILMAN DRUM: We discussed earlier in the executive session primarily dealing with administruative matters as I had stated previously in my report. 5. Inland Waterways Committee, Councilman Drum. COUNCILMAN DRUM: The county has notified us that they are - will proceed with the dredging of ~eep Hole Creek, Little Creek and Halls Creek and we do have some resolutions and assurances that are necessary by the Town Board before they will take action on these. It is our feeling that-the committee's feeling-that we have,many creeks and inlets that need dredging. I'm talking about bays and ~ ~' · MAY 20 1980 prima~rily the entrances. They haven't closed, they're not in as bad condition as those that I had mentioned, however, some remain to be critical and it is the committee'- feeling that they are a hazard To local boating and public and actually restirct the natural flow of water in and out which is very natural, the flushing action is essential. I feel that the real solution is that we, the eastern towns in Peconic Bay, have a dredge assigned permanently which would provide this annual maintenance to all of the townships along Peconic Bay. That is my recommendation. 6. Beach and Parks Committee, Councilman NIckles. COUNCILMAN NICKLES: I haventt really any report, Mr. Supervisor. Our next meeting is going to be at 9:30 on Friday. We are going to take up several matters, one of which is reviewing with the people of the Kenney's Beach area a possible ordinance relative to beach vehi61as. 7. This is a meeting I was supposed to go to and sent my Deputy to, an Energy meeting. Deputy Johnson. DEPUTY SUPERVISOR JOHNSON: This conference was called by Congress- man Downey and the county executive to set up an energy study, an energy use study in Suffolk county. The inspiration for this came from a study that was done in Portland, Oregon in 1974 when the first gasoline crisis hit us and Oregon realized they had a serious problem and at the same time they had a drought in that area and since most of their energy is hydro-electric it was a kind of double problem. SO they set up a committee of the citizens, all walks o£ life, to study the uses and construction of buildings and all kinds of things that would have anything to do with their energy use. They did a complete audit of the city and they came up with a plan that was eventually adopted and the one thing that has gotten national attention is the fact that they came up with a mandatory insulation program which is the only one in the country as far as they knew of. The Suffolk County one - conference - divided the groups of people there into seven subcommittees and one committee which will coordinate what all the others do. I will be serving on the committee studying renewable resources and alternate energy-sources. We will be meeting once a month for the next year and there will be during the course of the year public herirings and seminars which the members of the various committees will conduct. 8. Report for myself, the East End Supervisor's Meeting. The East End Supervisors met this past month in Southold Town. We discussed the town's requesting part of the sales tax back from the county. Many of the towns have done this already. We discussed the present negotiations which come up with each Town each year, the CSEA and the PBA and the different attitudes that the different towns Would like To see taken. An emergency evacuation plan was discussed. But Southold Town is the only one that comes anywhere within a ten mile circle of any nuclear plant. We have Fishers Island as part of Southold Town and we are working on a plan. Councilman Drum is sitting on top of this, working on this plan, with Doyen from Fishers Island, Serge Doyen from Fishers Island, and they are staying on top of this and as I said, out of the five towns we are the only Town who is really within the ten mile range and we are working on that. 9. Dog Warden's report which will be onfile in the Town Clerk's Office. 10. I'm back to another panel that I was supposed to be on and again I sent my Deputy to represent me, Mrs. Johnson. DEPUTY SUPERVISOR JOHNSON: This was the second year the county executive called a cost cutting conference. It was attended mostly by county officials and town officials, it seems~ We had rather short advance notice and there weren't many of the public there. The group had one common meeting and then broke into six or, five panels. I was on one of the panels dealing with energy and the environment. We mostly discussed things that are going on in our own towns, our own areas that are energy saving. It was a very interesting discussion. Councilman Murdock was there, perhaps he has something to add. COUNCILMAN MUR~OCK: It was interesting. The Town of Riverhead has been a little bit at the lead. We come to find out they have a little advanced help in that Grumman Engineering has been providing little service helping them check their buildings and do surveys. They have gone into a solar heating system for their hot water, they have gone into tinted windows in terms df summer radiation and retaining ~he winter heat. The most interesting part is in terms of their town vehicles. They are going to sell off at public auction all of their converted police cruisers which have a much heavier motor---a police package which brings the mileage down to about eight miles a gallon and they are going to go out and buy used cars £rom wither Avis or Hertz and they are going to go into the smaller economy cars for the town employees, such as the building inspector and health department. They are really off and running in terms of conserving energy and at the same time conserve money. That did make the conference very interesting to me. Something I'll talk to the gentlemen about as we go along. The meetings were too short, I felt. That may sound £unny £or someone to say that but when something is interesting you'd be surprised how fast two hours goes by and the meetings were too short. I would more £avor all day sessions if they are going to be only once a year because I think one of the first things we have to start doing at all levels of government is cutting cost if possible. MR. W.S. GARDINER: Is it in order now, Mr. Supervisor, to ask a question on one of your committee reports or would you rather I wait? SUPERVISOR FELL: I'd rather save it to the end. I have a hearing at 3:40 scheduled by law and I'd like to go into that. I am going to ask for a recess now as long as it will be required to hold the public hearings that are advertised for this time. On motion of Supervisor..Pell, Seconded by Councilman Drum, it was RESOLVED that a recess be called at this time, 3:40 P.M. for the purpose of holding public hearings at 3:40 P.M. in the matter of an amendment of the current Town budget relative to the use of Federal Revenue Sharing Funds; and at 3:45 P.M. in the matter of a Local Law t~oProvide for the Removal or Repair of Unsafe Buildings and Collapsed Structures. Meeting to reconvene following the public hearings. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. This Town Board meeting reconvened at 4:05 P.M. PUBL I.~ ,NOT ICES COUNCILMAN NICKLES: 1. Public hearing on June 10th at 3:00 P.M. at the Southold Town Hall on the application of William Thompson to construct a catwalk and floating dock at Mattituck Creek. That is located on Canoe Path. :~ 2. From the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers we have a request for a dock construction on the west side of Gull Pond. The applicants name is Leon Marcus and you have twenty days from the date of this letter to make any response. The date of the letter if May 8th. You have until the 28th of May. You may respond to the Department of the Army, New York District, Corps of Engineers, 26 Federal Plaza, New York. 3. New York State of Environmental Conservation notice of complete application by Halsey Staples to construct a one family residence. Written comments to be submitted bF May 28th to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation at Stony Brook. The property is located on the west side of Beach Road, on the east shore of Sterling Creek. SUPERVISOR FELL: Thank you very much. As John said they will be o n file in the Town Clerk's Office, also the applications. COMMUNICATIONS SUPERVISOR PELL: 1. This will appear later on in the agenda under resolutions but basically it is to let the people know that the Southold Town Trustees and Southold Town Baymen's Association have been working on the clam tran~si~lant program again this year. It will take place the second week of June, the first week might be out because of a time element. It will take place in early June. 2. Re£erenee and referral to an item in the PBA contract. The Town Attorney will respond to them. (Richard Hartman Re: Southold Town P.B.A. cpntract.) 3. This is something the Town has been aorking on for a couple years, year and a half and we are moving ahead slow but sure but we are doing a very thorough job and that is with David Spohn who attended a meeting with Mr. Cook in Albany this past week and the Board discussed this with Mr. Spohn today and directed him to start to look at but not commit, look at but not commit different groups that could come in to Southold Town and do a study on the feasibility of a Town airport. This is only - he is interviewing different things, this is no way committing this Town of Southold ot Town Board to any funds whatsoever or binding in any form or any contract whatsoever. He is going to evaluate different firms then report back to the Board. 4. Letter on Wayne Associates. People giving their views on it. (note: letter from Pat Romanelli.) 5. Letter responding from SCDC, Suffolk Community Develop- ment Corporation saying that the Town of Routhold will participate in the weatherization program. This year is the first time that Southold Town has been involved in it. This program - more information will be made known as it is given to us. Basically the Town is held harmless of any expenses that might be incurred on this. This is put on by Suffolk Community Development Corporation. 6. A resolution that the Brookhaven Town passed requesting the county to give back some of its sales tax money to the town. This is done is some counties throughout the state and right now the towns are trying to get back some of this tax money for our own budget purposes. 7. Informing the Town Board and inviting the Town Board to be in a parade on May 26th at 10 AM here in the vollage o£ Southold. (note Memorial Day Parade invitation from the Griswold- Terry-Glover Post No. 803, American Legion.) 8. Again a resolution by Southampton Township requesting some of the sales tax money to come back to their township. 9. Sort of a nice letter I'd like to report to you on. It is from Gloria Tarsy complimenting one of our police officers on a job when she was involved in a car accident with three other people besides herself, all over 80 years old. The officer she speaks very well of is Robert Conway. She speaks very well o£ our Chief of Police and his staff. 10. A letter from - copy of a letter sent to New York State (Highway Department) from the Presbyterian Church right across the way from the Town Hall, talking about the problem of parking. The letter - this has nothing to do with the Town, it is a State road and they sent us a copy of it so we know what they are doing, ll. A letter from Twin Fork Fence, Inc. reference fencing in "B" zone. The Town Attorney is going to send a letter - get together with our town building department and go over the "B" zone fence ordinance with them and make sure Twin Fork Fence is brought up to date with it. 12. Islip Town's resolution. Again on this sales tax refund to the various towns. 13. From Adelaide Silkworth who is Commissioner for the Office of the Aging for our county exeuctive and she lists all the different bills in Albany that would affect the senior citizens; medicare and what not and she asks that people write to these people, Assemblyman, saying endorse the appropriate bills. We have sent this to all three of our senior groups in town and I will let them write. 14. Letter from the Greenport-Southold Chamber of Commerce, which I am a member of, and it congratulates the Board on, I said She Board, on the stand it has taken on Robins Island and congratulates myself and the Board on all the work we have done on the gasoline problem we have in Southold, trying to prevent a reoccurance of last year. HEARINGSAND DEUISIONS Moved by Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman ~urdock, WHEREAS, Richard A. Schlumpf applied to the Southold nown Board for a permit under the provisions of the Wetland Ordinance o% the. Town of Sour.hold, application dated February 19, 1980~ and WHEREAS, said application was referred to the Southold Town Trustees MAY 20, 1980 and Southold Town Conservation Advisory!Douncil for 'their findings and recommendations, and WHEREAS, a public hearing was held by the Town Board with respect to said application on the 6th day of May, 1980, at which time all interested persons were given an opportunity to be heard, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that a Richard A. Schlumpf, 32 Curtis Path, East. Northport, New York be granted permission under the provisions of the Wetland Ordinance of the Town of Southold to construct a 40 ft. by 4 ft. catwalk over the wetlands at his property at Howard's Creek, Home Pike Road, Lot #1, "Map o£ Point Pleasant", Mattituck, 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. SUPERVISOR PELL: Item No. 4, the Board, after deliberation today, and Item No. 5 are not prepared at this time to make a de,sion in reference that these are long hearings, we have the minutes given to us and we have not had ample time to review and evaluate. Therefore I will place it on the agenda for the next Town Board meeting which is June 10th. (note Item No. 4 - decision on change of zone application of Maidstone Development; Item No. 5 - decision on change of zone application of Wayne Associates.) RESOLUTIONS 1.0n motion o£ Councilman Nickles, seconded by Councilman Sullivan, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board o£ the Town o£ Southold accept, with regret, the resignation of Mabel P. Lytle as a member of the Board of Assessment.Review, and be it further RESOLVED that a letter be sent to Mrs. Lytle expressing the Town Board's appreciation for the eight years she has devoted to the Board of Assessment Review as Chairman and Member. Vote 6~ the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. SUPERVISOR PELL: At this time I will ask that people interested in replacing on this Board (Board of Assessment Review) submit their resumes to the Town Clerk prior to June 6th. So at June 10th the Board will make_,a selection. Does anybody object to that? I haven't discussed this with the Town Board. (no objection). 2.On motion of Councilman Murdock, seconded by Councilman Drum, it was RESOLVED that4the Town Board of the Town of Southotd accept, with regret, the resignation of Howard M. Terry as the Town's representative on the Suffolk county Emergency Medical Committee, and be it further RESOLVED that a letter be sent to Mr. Terry expressing the Town Board's appreciation for the years he has devoted to serving the Town on the Suffolk County Emergency Medical Committee. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. 3.On motion of Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was LSL_RESOLVED that the application of Sophie T. Saunders, dated May 7, 1980, for a trailer renewal permit on property of the applicant on the north side Main Road, Laurel, be and hereby is granted for a six month period. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nick~s, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen;: Supervisor Pell. This~ resolution ~ declared duly adopted. 4.On motion of Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman Nickles, it was RESOLVED thatthe application o£ George McCarthy, dated May 7, 1980, for a trailer renewal permit on property of the applicant on private road off south side Main Road, Laurel, New York, be and hereby is granted for a six month period. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. i20" MAY 1980 On motion of Councilman Nickles, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was RESOLVED that the southold Town Board declares itself lead agency in regard to the State Environmental Quality Review Act in the matter of the application o£ May LePeter for a wetland permit on certain property located at 3800 Deep Hole Drive on a canal off Deep Hole Creek, Mattituck, 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. SUPERVISOR PELL. Number six, if you are £ollowing your agendas, we are not ready to move on. This is a request from Mrs. Goodrich. The Board has a few more things we would like to go into with her. She worked in the morning, we did not get a chance to get to this until the afternoon and we want to go into it in a little more depth with her before we move on number six. (note 6. Resolution to allow the Town Historian to make two (2) photo-static copies of the Southold Presbyterian Church records. These records are to be~ used solely for genealogical research and will not be published.) SUPERVISOR PELL: Southotd town has copy machines throughout the Town. We have fi~e Xerox copiers throughout the Town. The contract ran out with them last fall, we never renewed it. We have evaluated three different copy machines. The one that we like best is the Savin machine. By going onto a lease/purchase plan with this machine where after we lease them for five years, then at the end of five years we own the machines. The present ratio which we are paying the Town can save around $6,000 over a five year period plus we will own the machines and they will have a value at the end of the lease. I have asked the Board today to give me permission to enter into a contract with Savin subject to the Town Attorney's approval. At this time I will ask for a resolution authorizing myself to sign a rental agreement (note: lease/purchase) with Savin. 7. On motion of Supervisor Pell, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was RESOLVED that Supervisor William R. Pell III be and hereby is authorized and directed to enter into a lease/purchase agreement with Sevin Corpoartion for the lease/purchase o£ The following copy machines at a total monthly most for the first year of $480.95: Model 775 - Highway Department, Police Department, AsseSsors Office; upon approval of the contract by Town Attorney Tasker. Vote Of the Town Board: Ayes~.:Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. SUPERVISOR PELL: Number eight, the Town Board did discuss it today at great length. That's one of the reasons why we're late. It is the decision that this should go back to the Planning Board where it came from for more--- for their intrepretation of it. Number nine was on the agenda last Board meeting. We could not agree with it. Good thing we didn't. We changed it to a degree today and I will ask Councilman Murdock to read it. 9. Moved by Councilman Murdock, seconded by Councilman Drum, WHEREAS, the Town of Southold is interested in providing maximum access to public facilities for handicapped peraons, and WHEREAS, THE Town has been approved for t'he uae of Federal Funds: to renovate public facilities for such purposes, and WHEREAS, the Town proposes to undertake the renovation of various libraries in the Town of Southold for the purpoae of providing access for handicapped persons, now, therefore, be it RESOLVED that the Supervisor be and he hereby is authorized to enter into an agreement with Chas. H. Sells, Inc., Consulting Engineers, to undertake specific design, contract plans, specl£i- cations and estimates and periodic evaluation and supervising of construction for the purpose of constructing handicapped access- facilities for each o£ the public libraries within the Town of Southold, all in accordance with the proposal submitted by Chas. H. Sells, !nc. at a cost not to exceed Five Thousand Six Hundred Fifty Dollars ($5,650.00) Vo~e of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sull!Tan~ Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Poll. This resolution was declared duly adopted. SUPERVISOR PELL: The problem we had with this, to bring it up To dater and we knocked it out today, in the first time around they had $2250.00 in there for inspection, on the site inspection of the construction of the job for George Sills (Chas. Sells) outfit to~dO We~to~k. th~s~out their hands and said we have a building departmen~ here, we have our town engineer, we will inspect and make sure this work is being done right and we can charge back that money, the Town can charge back and have it come back into our budget. We would have local control, somebody here when we need them here, not coming from Babylon. That's what -- why we held it up last week to make sure we could legally do this and they were out today. 10.On motion of Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was _~?.RESOLVED that the application of William P. Ruland~ dated May 7, 1980 for a trailer renewal permit on property of the applicant on the corner of Route 25 and Mill Lane, Mattituck, be and hereby is granted for a six month period. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. SUPERVISOR PELL: Number 11 is required by the suffolk County Depart- ment of Public Works which requires a resolution for the maintenance dredging of the different creeks. ll.Moved by Councilman Murdock, seconded by Councilman Sullivan, WHEREAS, the Town of southold has requesved the County of Suffolk to dredge a navigation channel in Deep Hole Dreek, Town of Southold, and WHEREAS, the County of Suffolk proposed to do said dredging of Deep Hole Creek, in the Town of Southold at a nominal cost to the Town of Southold; and WHEREAS, in order to accomplish said dredging, plans, specifications, agreements and other documents must be executed on behalf of the Town, now, therefore, be it RESOLVED that the Supervisor be and hereby is authorized to execute on behalf of the Town of Southold, all necessary plans and specifications and/or dredging permit application to Federal and State Agencies and all other documents that may be required to accomplish said dredging work, and update the resolution and assurances previously executed by the Town Board of the Town of Southold on August 12, 1975. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. 12. Moved by Councilman Sullivan, seconded by Councilman Drum, WHEREAS, the Town of Southold has requested the County of Suffolk to dredge a navigation channel in Halls Creek, Town of Southold, and WHEREAS, the County of Suffolk proposed to do said dredging of Halls Creek, in the Town of southold at a nominal cost to the Town of Southold, nad WHEREAS, in order to accomplish said dredging, plans, specifications, agreements and other documents that must be executed on behalf of the Town, now, therefore, be it RESOLVED that the Supervisor be and he hereby is ~uthorized to execute on behalf of the Town of Southold, all necessary plans and specifications and/or dredging permit applications to Federal and State Agencies and all other documents that may be required to accomplish said dredging work, and update the resolution and assurances previously executed by the Town Board of the Town of Southold on June 7, 1977. Vote Of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen. Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. 13. Moved by Councilman Drum, seconded by Councilman Murdock, WHEREAS, the Town of Southold has requested the County of Su-folk to dredge a navigation channel in Little Creek, Town of Southold, and HWEREAS, the County of Suffolk proposed to do said dredging of Little Creek, in the Town of Southold at a nominal cos~ to the Town of Southold, and MAY 20, 1980 WHEREAS, in order To accomplish said dredging, plans, speci£ications, agreements and other documents must be executed on behalf of the Town of Southold, now therefore be it RESOLVED that the Supervisor be and he hereby is authorized to execute on behal£ of the Town of Southold, ali necessary plans and specifictions and/or dredging permit applications to Federal and State Agencies and all other documents that may be required to accomplish said dredging work, and update the resolution and assurances previousIy executed by the Town Board of the Town of Southold on April 11, 1978. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. 14.Moved by Justice Doyen, seconded by Councilman Nickles, WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of the Fishers Island Ferry District requires the services of a reservation clerk for making reservations for automobiles leaving Fishers Island, and WHEREAS, Evelyn Clark has applied for the position, now, therefore, be it RESOLVED that Evelyn Clark be engaged as reservation clerk for automobiles at a rate of $4.00 per hour on an average annual basis of less than 15 hours per week. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilmah Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. SUPERVISOR PELL: Move on to number 15. The appointment of members of the Mattituck Inlet Advisory Committee. I brought this up two weeks ago, the Board asked that it be laid aside until this meeting. Today at quarter to three or three o'clock, one of the reasons we were a little bit late, we had the members of that committee come in and speak to the Board and introduce themselves to the Board so they would know the Board and the Board would know them. At this time I will ask one of the Councilmen to offer their names in resolution form. I think I have the names so I guess I will do it. 15.On motion of Supervisor Pell, seconded by Councilman Drum, it was RESOLVED that in accordance with Chapter 7 of the Code of the Town of Southold, Appointment of Committees, the following individuals be and hereby are appointed to the Mattituck Inlet Advisory Committee, to serve at the pleasure of the Town Board, without compensation: Michael Cortese, Chairman, Anthony DeMaula, Lydia Totora, Peter Malone, Michael Mattes, Frank Bear, Ruth Engel, Genevieve Robinson, Alfred Kirby, Henry Raynor from the Southold Town Planning Board. SUPERVISOR PELL: I will probably sit on it (Mattituck Inlet Advisory Committee) from the Town Board and I will ask, I have not done this, I will ask Larry (Councilman Murdock) to be with me, Larry Murdock. Any objections? COUNCILMAN SULLIVAN: Bill, didn't we way we wanted to sta~e the purpose? SUPERVISOR PELL: The purpose of this committee - the purpose of this eommittee- I left my note in the back room - is to look into the best possible use of the real estate, the land in the Mattituck Inlet area, to seek funds for studying this situation and make recommendations'"'] To the Board. Now, what else did I leave off of that. COUNCILMAN DRUM: They are not going to seek the funds, they are ~-~i going To recommend to the Town Board avenues. SUPERVISOR PELL: Recommend to the Town Board the avenues to apply for funds. Basically this is the responsibi,lity placed upon your committee, Mike. Any other comments, discussion, objections? PURPOSE OF THE COMMITTEE: The purpose of the Mattituck Inlet Advisory Committee is to address planning options to the Mattituck Inlet area and make recommendations to the Town Board. The committee members hsall perform such duties and exercise such powers as may be specified by the Town Board. The committee shall have no other MAY 20, 1980 powers other than advisory . Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. 16.On motion of Councilman Nickles, seconded by Councilman Sullivan, it was RESOLVED that the_ Tow~ Board of the Town of Southold set 3:10 o'clock P.M., Tuesday, June 10, 1980, Southo~d Town Hall, Main Road, Southold, New York as time and place fbr hearing upon applica- tion of George W. Bornschein for a permit under ~h.9 provisions of the Wetland Ordinance of the Town of ~ ~uthold for permission to construct a timber dock, catwalk, ramp and float at his property on the east side of Oak Street, on Eugeners (East) Creek, Cutchogue, 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. 17.On motion of Supervisor Pell, seconded by Councilman Nickles, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold h~reby authorizes payment of the bill of Sunrise Coach Lines, Inc. in the amount of $835.00 for two buses to transport the Greenport- Southold Senior Citizen Club members to Goshen, New York on May 7, 1980. SUPERVISOR PELL: This came in, I believe, ~omewhere in Tow~ Hall, I'm going to take the blame, say my office. ~t did not get put on the last agenda which would have been May 6~h. So therefore, 1 am offering at this time to take the heat, somewhere this was submitted to the Town but it did not ge~ put on the agenda and I am going to take the blame for it. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declaredd~ly adopted. SUPERVISOR Pell: John (Councilman Nickles) pointed out a point just now that we are no~ authorizing the payment but we did authorize the ~rip. Either way I had it but I' didn"~ put it on the agenda last time around. COUNCILMAN NICKLES: I understand there is a budget. That you have to ask permission from the Town ~o go on a particular trip before you go. SUPERVISOR PELL: Number eighteen, you people do not have it, it came in today out of the Police Committee's recommendation~ In the summertime we have a part time bay constable. Mr. Januick has returned home from the winter in Florida 2nd the Town Board does want to hire him ef£ective tomorrow, 5/22, as a part time summer bay constable at $5.00 per hour. (Tomorrow- the 18.On motion of Supervisor Pell, seconded by Councilman Nickles, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold engage the services of William Januick as a part time Bay Constable for the Town effective May 21, 1980 at a salary of $5.00 per hour. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Poll. This resolution was declared duly adopted. 19.On motion of Councilman Nickles, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of S'~uthold appoint James Fogarty as a Radio Operator, from the Civil Service Lis~, a~ a salary of $8,620.00 per annum, effective June 1, 1980, for a six month probationary period. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Poll. This resolution was declared duly adopted. 20.On motion of Supervisor Pell, seconded by Councilman Sullivan, it was RESOLVED that the Town Clerk of the Town of southold advertise for MAY 20, 1980 bid~.£or the purchase of 500 bushels o£ uncertified chowder clams for spawning purposes. Bids to be submitted as follows: (1) Picked up by the Town and delivered to the Town Highway Department, Peconic Lane, Peconic, New York; (2) Delivered to the Town Highway~Department, Peconic Lane, Peconic , New York. Bid opening to be 3:00 o'clock P.M., June 5, 1980. Vote 0~ the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. 21. On motion o£ Supervisor Pell, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold award the bid for supplying the Southold Town Highway Department with 150,000 gallons, more or less as may be needed, of Grades RC-2 and MC-2 Asphalt Road Materials, delivered to the Town o£ -Southold and applied to R. Lansdell Bituminous Corp., Kings Park, New York, at the low bid of $.8854 per gallon. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. SUPERVISOR PELL: That ends that the agenda that we have up here and I will ask my Councilmen ££ they have anything they wish to bring up. Councilman Murdock? (noIhing) Councilman Drum? (nothing~ Councilman Nickles 9 COUNCILMAN NICKLES: I don't know whether I should bring this up now or later. We were discussing something about HUD and applica- tions and a letter that we received from HUD with a questionnaire relative to Southold Commons. SUPERVISOR PELLL Yes. We have thirty days. Henry Raynor --- We received a letter from HUD on a proposed project in Southold Town. It came to my office on Monday. I gave i~ to the Planning Board. They met last night. I just got the Planning Board's letter back to me this afternoon when we talked in here, at quarter to three Mert came in and, Mert Brush,, and put it on my desk. I have not read it yet. We have thirty days and I do plan to put it on the next agenda. COUNCILMAN NICKLES: I would request that if Mr. Pappas is still around when we break that we discuss this with him. SUPERVISOR PELL: Okay. Councilman Sullivan? (nothing) Councilman Doyen? (nothing) Th~ £1oor is yours. Mr. Gardiner? MR. W.S. GARDINER: I just had a question on the Long Island Cablevision monthly report. I'd like to know where they stand on their two year expansion program. SUPERVISOR PELL: Alright. I don't have that. This is a complaint - this report we ge~ each monthly is on complaints, but I can request from them an update on the two year expansion and have it ready for you at the next Board meeting. COUNCILMAN MURDOCK: At the last meeting we just had a report. TOWN CLERK TERRY: They had completed Captain Kidd's and now they are in the Hog Neck area. MR. GARDINER: Are they on schedule? COUNCILMAN MURDOCK: They say so. COUNCILMAN DRUM: I think they are. SUPERVISOR PELL: I'll look the report up. MR. GARDINER: The folks are asking me on Nassau Point and I'd like to have something de£initive, something concrete. SUPERVISOR PELL: Let me_look in my communication file and I'll get ahold o£ you in the next day or two. MAY 20, 1980 125 MR. GARDINER: Fine, I'd appreciate that. We are having a meeting on Saturday. SUPERVISOR PELL: Mr. Gardiner, I'll get back to you on an update of the Long Island Cablevislon progress. COUNCILMAN DRUM: They say they've completed construction, Cablevision now, on the Captain Kidd Estates, Little Neck area, Deep Hole Lane and presently starting construction in the Hog Neck area. Now, this doesn't say whether they are on schedule or not but I'm pretty sure they are~. SUPERVISOR PELL: I'll get back to you, Mr. Gardiner, in a couple of days, before Saturday anyway. MR. CHARLES HICKEY: On the last agenda, two weeks ago, you had an ar,ticle on dental and optical plan. Do you have something on that? SIYPERVISOR PELL: Yes, we have. That was discussed today in the working session of the Board. Tentatively the Board is thinking along these lines. That the figure is $26.00 per month for every participant. $24.00 to $26.00 per month. The Town elected officials, as we all are, some of them feel that they would like to be part of this. The Wage and Policy Committee is investigating the cost. They gave me numbers today of who they feel should be entitled to it. The percentage that should be paid and I have to go to the books now and figure out how many o£ it it is. Their recommendation was that it does not take effect until next year's budget. We didn't put any money in the budget for this item at this time. In two weeks after I do a little arithmetic and find out who is fulI time and who wants it, who does not, like myself, I, as full time, do not want it because I h~ve it under another plan. These are things I have to look i~to to get a figure. MR. HICKEY: Can you also find out about what is the length of time they want this, is it just for their time they are elected for or is it for the whole family, is it for the children and the cost. SUPERVISOR PELL: Good point. Yes, we will get back to you on that. MR. HICKEY: And when they leave and are not elected again then it falls apart. COUNCILMAN DRUM: That would be rather difficul~ to determine their feelings now, how they feel if they are not elected. Perhaps they plan on being elected forever. I'm saying that's a determination that could not be made. Now, as to whether they are going to include their families, and if they had families, of course, this is a determination that will be made before a final decision is made. MR. HICKEY: I'm thinking in terms of orthodontist work for children and so forth which could cost the taxpayers quite a few extra dollars. COUNCILMAN NICKLES: I think we should point .out that the Town Board members, the Councilmen, would not be participating in this unless they were paying full freight themselves which would be $26.00 or $24.00 times the twelve month period. In other words, I, as a Councilman, if I should want to participate in this-dental program I would have to pay directly into the program what the Town would be paying for a full time elected official. ~hi.ch actually is what was recommeg~ed i,n ~he case of Bili (Supervisor Pell) is he is a full tim~ ei~cted official, the Town would pay half and he would pay half. In the case of the Councilmen, which is a part time position, although as someone remarked this morning we work full time, we would on be - we would bear that cost individually. This is what really is the ongoing study is about and why it hasn't been brought to the agenda to be voted on because they still have a few more things to iron out as Bill described. MR. HICKEY: I do hope that before this is even thro~ghvthe Board that the taxpayer knows all about it and what it is going to cost them. SUPERVISOR PELL: It will be discussed right here in this room. before it goes into effect. Anybody else? ~ARG~RET POULT: I'd like to ask Mr. Drum. I'm a resident ~f Mattituck. Another resident Mr. Williams told me he spoke ~o you and you told him about a week ago right here in Town Hall, that the State was going to replace the bridge on Peconic B~M Boulevard with a four land bridge because, quote, they're going to put a national or something down there. Now, my questions are, one, is your statement that the bridge is going to be four lanes correct, and two, by national park, you don't mean Robins Island do you? COUNCILMAN DRUM: I did not make this statement. I believe we are talking about Mr. Hadley Williams. I think it was Mr. H'adley Williams who I feel I know fairly well and I did not make this ' 7 public statement at any one particulars, time. Mr. Hadley Williams and I were discussing and he said,"I don't care i~ we had no bridge.'~ I said,"Un£ortunately, in Southold Town we have no control over the bridege." And I had jokeingly --- we made several statements jokeingly I have never made any official statement whatsoever. I do not know -- it was news to me, I read it in the paper, when the article appeared that they were going to replace ~wo of the bridges. This was not a Southold Town Board action whatsoever. I don't know o£ any plans and when the bridges will come about. I do know there are several people who have spoken to me in opposition to the bridges. SUPERVISOR PELL: Let me bring you up to date a little bit if I can. I had written to the County Department of Public WOrks requesting that the Town be given a set of rough blueprints before they go into final stage so we could examine them and make sure the bridges are going to be what we think it should be. I had a reply come back and told me there was from anywheres from three to five years away'. They are being done by federal funds and that we would be given the set of plans when they were prepared. I wrote a letter back to the gnetleman and said the point I'm trying to make is before the plans are in final draft stage we would like to have a little bit of input. to what we think would go with our township there. We don't want something that we don't feel would go with the New Suffolk-Mattituck road. We wa-nt to have a little bit of input. That lezter went out a couple of weeks ago and I haven"t got -- I haven't received a reply yet. So I have written twice to the County Department of Public Works on this and had on reply, that's where we stand on the bridges. I have had, I'm going to say, probably ten, twelve telephone calls, at least, from people down that way in the New Suffolk-Mattituck area on these things. Southold up here, the Jockey Creek bridge, was another one they mentioned. I was down to the coffee shop and wondered what's going on. I said, fellows, I don't know yet, give me a chance. That's where we stand on the bridges. I hope I have assured you we are on top of it. Anybody else wish to be heard? MR. FRANK BEAR: I just want to ask a question about the proposed study for an airport. A little over a year ago there was an airport committee wh~ah_~as, lpoking into the question of the possibility of a town air~ort and at that time I think the committee agreed that before anything was done there should be a study and I see that that at least is now the apparent direction in which you seem to be going. The question I do have in that connection, however, one, at the time we were studying this a year or so ago we were told that Tri State Planning Commission reports on the possible need for an airport in this Town, would have to come first before we went further with the federal agency or whatever is done by the town, so, my question ms, whether or not the action which apparently is being taken ms being taken with the assumption or that there actually will be a study or is this just another step in what' appears to be ~o me a move in the direction of an airport sooner or later anyway. I just would like to get clarified who's responsible for this, Dave Spohn here or are other people going to be involved or who's going to make the recommendation? COUNCILMAN DRUM: Mr. Bear, as far as Tri State, the Federal Avaiation Administration has advised and stated that the townships governmental agencies that they can apply directly to the FAA. Why the Tri State has been bypassed as not necessary any longer I do not know, however, it is at my personal feeling that ~ as a Town Board member am going nowhere and as I men tioned earlier this morning our aviation committee, airport committee, of which you were a member of, this was our recommendation that we ha~e a study and it is my feeling that this is where we're going and this is out intention that we have a study to determine the necessary, the need. That's -- I feel very strongly. And this was part of your recommendation, you and I, one of the things we recommended, that we have a study before we go any further. MR. BEAR: I agree with that and as I said awhiIe ago I'm glad that that's the direction you seem to be going. There is one question that does come to my mind, though, and This is experienced not just with airports but with every study, these studies seem to go inthe direction of getting what the study group, organization, corporation or whatever it is, expects of the people that are hiring them to give. I'd like to just raise the question o£ how we know which one of these groups is going to be the most objective? Objectivity is the thing that I am concerned about here. COUNCILMAN DRUM: We are going to interview them. SUPERVISOR PELL: Good point. Anybody else wish to be heard? COUNCILMAN NICKLES: Because of the problem we had in our work session today, as you heard, I wasn't able to bring this up but I am concerned about a federal bill that's in the hopper down in Washington at the United States Congress. It is HR5200 and this pertains to HUD. What concerns me about it is that this is enabling legislation that they can be the policeman, judge and jury. What they are going to do is remove people and or towns and municipalities from going into court. This legislation, part of it, is enabling the HUD outfit to have their own administrative tribunal The only word I can think of that can properly express it. In the event that they discern, this legislation will provide funding for them to come into the various municipalities in the United States and determine whether or not our zoning is exclusionary and/or discriminatory the town would be deprived of going to a court of law to defent them- selves. They would have a hearing by one of these administrative tribunals. In other words, kind of like going to the motor vehicle, they make the laws and they review your license all in that same department. Kind of~doesn'~t'give you -- a_one, sided type.o~~ ? situation. I personally ~o'hot think it's proper. I don't oppose the basic legislation that's involved but I do oppose that aspect of it where in the event in the Town of Southold somebody should come in here and say that our zoning is exclusionary I think we ought to have our day in court and not before some administrative hearing run by HUD. Consequently I would Offer a resolution to oppose that portion of HR5200 which I believe is Section 811 and send forthwith notice to our congressmen and senators. SUPERVISOR PELL: I haven't seen it. We're going to meet on the 6th. COUNCILMAN NICKLES: Well,I feel the~6th is too late. This is something SUPERVISOR PELL: When did you get ahold of this? COUNCILMAN NICKLES: I just got ahold it it yesterday. I know this bill is live and can be acted on any minute. In other words, to put it off until the 6th. If you want to recess so we can go into the work session to discuss this further I would be happy to do that. Or if you want to discuss it now, we'll discuss it now. SUPERVISOR PELL: Do you h-ye the bill in its entirety? COUNCILMAN NICKLES: I don't have the bill. MR. DOMINICK ZITO: I would like to pose a question to Councilman Nickles. You are introducing a resolution which we're not really aware o£. It hasn't been presented formally. So how do you expect us to ~ote on the resolution without really knowing what the £acts are? COUNCILMAN NICKLES: It's something I just learned about yesterday and I feel it is important and I feel that, as I said, I'm not opposed to the basic premise of HR5200 but I am opposed to the fact that they're eliminating our day in court; that any violations will be handled through administrative situations within HUD itself. MAY 20, 1980 MR. ZITO: This appears to me to be speculation. COUNCILMAN NICKLES: It;s not speculation, sir. MR. ZITO: I'd like to see a more formal presentation before you even introduce the idea. COUNCILMAN NICKLES: If the Town Board wishes To recess I can gather the necessary papers an~ present to the Town Board: It would be the Town Board, I think, that would make the decision on this representing you. SUPERVISOR PELL: I will recommend, John, to recess this meeting today and give the Town Board a chance. This is the first I heard of it out here and I know I would have to abstain from voting. COUNCILMAN NICKLES: Well, I wanted to bring it up earlier, Bill, but we were twenty-five minutes late getting into this meeting. MR. RICHARD WINTERS: On that House Bill, I certainly don't ~ro£ess to be an expert on it and I'm not really here on that matter, but to pick up a little bit on what Councilman Nickles. said. I am a member of the Society of Real Estate Appraisers which is an inter- national organization and we recnetly received a flyer from them addressing HR5200 and. they were adamently opposed To it because of its restrictive nature and the tribunal effect that you mentioned, John. I can agree with the Town Board's position and sometimes we are impatient with our legislators but I wish ] could say that I'm an expert on it, I'm not, have only indefinite information but if that will help. There is one highly though of recognized inter- national organization that is interested in free enterprise and property development that has come out in opposition to HR5200. SUPERVISOR PELL: Thank you. If The Town Board wishes to act upon it so be it but I will recommend that we recess for time to gather more in£ormation on this and then act on it. Anybody else have anything to bring up? I am going To lay this aside and~when we adjourn today--we are going To recess. It might be until tomorrow until we can get more information on this, give us a chance to call Washington and have them read the bill to us over the phone. We can take it down so we know what we are voting on. So I probably will ask £or a recess until the time length it takes .... TOWN ATTORNEY TASKER: We have to recess until a time certain. On motion of Supervisor Pell, seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was RESOLVED that this Town Board meeting recess until 8:30 A.M., Thursday, May 22, 1980 at the Southold Town Hall, Main Road, Southold, New York. Vote ~f the Town Boar~: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Justice Doyen, Supervisor Pelt. This resolution was declared duly adopted. This Town Board meeting reconvened at 8:00 A.M., May 23, 1980. Present were: Supervisor William R. Pell III, Councilman Henry W. Drum, Councilman John J. Nickles, Councilman Lawrence Murdock, Jr., ~.~Councilman George R. Sullivan, Town Clerk Judith T. Terry. Absent: Justice Francis T. Doyen. On motion of Councilman Nickles, seconded by Councilman Sullivan, it was RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold oppose HR5200 which amends the Fair Housing Act to expand the defin£tion of discriminatory housing practices to include any violation o~ such act, and be it further RESOLVED that the To~n B~ard o£ the To~n of So~th~ld d~es support the Sensen-Brenner-Volkner amendment to delete Section 8Ii. creating the HUD tribunal, and be it ~urther RESOLVED that the Town Clerk be and she hereby is instructed to transmit this resolution to Congressman ~illi~am Carney~ Congressman. Thomas J. Downey, Senator Jac~ k. 2avitsl s~n~to~ Daniel Patrick'. Moynihan. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman MAY 20, 1980 Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. Supervisor Pell handed each Board member a letter from Pan Tech Management Corp. which addressed itself To possible funding under the Town's Small Cities Grant Application for planning options for the Mattituck Inlet area. The Board discussed the availability of Town funds should such a gran~ be approved. Supervisor Pell felt this would not be a problem and the Town could refuse the funds if they wished. Moved by Councilman Murdock, seconded by Supervisor Pell, HWEREAS, the Town Board considers it prudent ~o study and plan for the environmental, social and economic consequences which have occured, are occuring or are likely to occur as a result of the siting, construction, expansion or operation of energy facilities located at and around the Mattituck Inlet; and WHEREAS, the New York Sta~e Departmenm of State has available funding for said purpose, and WHEREAS, the Town's approved Community Development Small Cities Grant provides for funds for related planning activities; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Supervisor be and hereby is authorized to submit an application To New York State Department of State in accordance with the Coastal Energy Impact Program as created by the 1976 amendments to the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 Pub. L. 934-370. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman Murdock, Councilman Nickles, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. Councilman Nickles advised the Board that the house to the west of the Southold Savings Bank is owned by the bank and they had granted Edith Prince a life tenancy. Ms. Prince has now died and the bank wishes to sell outright or at bid the house and possibly utilize the space for an outside teller station. Councilman Nickles feels the Board should explore the possibility of bidding on or purchasing the house and moving it to the rear of.the Town Hall property for use as a jus~tiee court. The Board agreed that Councilman Nickles should investigate the possibilities in connection with the afore- mentioned property. Supervisor Pell advised the Board he has set dates for public meetings on the proposed Southold Town Fire Code at the various firehouses and will Supply them with the dates and places in the near future. On motion of Councilman Sullivan~ seconded by Councilman Murdock, it was RESOLVED that there being no further business to come before this Town Board meeting adjournment be called at 8:25 A.M. Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Sullivan, Councilman ~urdock. Councilman Nickles-, Councilman Drum, Supervisor Pell. This resolution was declared duly adopted. gudith T. Terry Town Clerk