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1 TOWN OF SOUTHOLD
COUNTY OF SUFFOLK : STATE OF NEW YORK
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TOWN BOARD
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7 Southold, New York
8 June 10 , 2025
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14 B E F O R E :
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16 ALBERT KRUPSKI JR, SUPERVISOR
17 LOUISA P . EVANS, JUSTICE
18 JILL DOHERTY, COUNCILWOMAN
19 GREG DOROSKI , COUNCILMAN
20 BRIAN O . MEALY, COUNCILMAN
21 ANNE H . SMITH, COUNCILWOMAN
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1 INDEX TO TESTIMONY
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3 Public Comments 3-16
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5 Subsidy Framework and Implementation Plan 16-58
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1 PUBLIC COMMENTS
2 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : All
3 right . Is there anyone who would like
4 to speak before we start our meeting on
5 any agenda item?
6 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : Good evening .
7 How are you?
8 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I ' m
9 good . Please identify yourself .
10 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : Benjamin
11 Schwartz . I ' ve lived in Cutchogue for
12 the last 50 years or so . I ' m still
13 here . I ' m happy to be here . I saw you
14 had an agenda item where you were
15 appointing a new member to the Land
16 Preservation Committee .
17 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Yes .
18 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : I appreciate
19 it, but I ' m thankful for the Land
20 Preservation agenda and all of the
21 taxpayer funds that have been collected
22 and are being spent . However, there
23 are some problems . I ' m not going to go
24 through all of them today, but we have
25 a new member joining the committee . So
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1 I ' m hoping that maybe that member will
2 not play along with the game that ' s
3 been going on, excluding the public
4 from what the committee has been doing .
5 I ' m not going to get into the
6 technicalities of the law . It limits
7 the amount of discussions that are
8 permissible in Executive Sessions . But
9 they are not being respected by that
10 committee . That committee has a
11 default mode that they ' ve been
12 operating in for years . And anyone who
13 joins that committee knows that if they
14 join in, in those Executive Sessions ,
15 excluding the public from what they are
16 doing with the money collected from the
17 public, they will be violating the law .
18 Besides the Executive Sessions , the
19 agendas for the Land Preservation
20 Committee do not allow public
21 attendance . Now, I have nothing
22 against computers . I ' m a web designer .
23 I think computers can be very useful .
24 But to limit public attendance to the
25 Zoom or on a telephone link so that
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1 people can hear what ' s going on when
2 there are people at the meeting talking
3 over each other, and the people who are
4 on Zoom are only seeing what the camera
5 shows them . That is not the same as
6 being at the meeting . This has been
7 going on since year 2000 , when the
8 governor of the State of New York
9 declared an emergency statewide . He
10 said that public did not have to attend
11 the meetings because of the pandemic .
12 But that suspension of the law
13 requiring permitting the public to
14 attend the meetings that are supposed
15 to be open to the public, according to
16 the law, since the ' 70s at least,
17 ended . That ended and was rescinded in
18 2021 . New York State rescinded it .
19 And most parts of Southold Town
20 respected that . Not the Land
21 Preservation Committee . They --
22 Recently we requested to attend the
23 meeting and were refused . When I
24 represented the individual who
25 requested to attend the meeting, she
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1 was permitted . They were permitted to
2 -- people were permitted to attend the
3 meeting . But the public should not
4 have to fight to get into public
5 meetings .
6 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Mr .
7 Schwartz , can you say when that
8 approximation occurred?
9 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : That was May
10 6th . Last month . But the meetings
11 have been limited to Zoom for the last
12 four or five years . I do have a
13 chronology . I ' d be happy to share with
14 you, but basically we don ' t just need
15 to change the way the procedures that
16 they ' re following, we need to change
17 the attitude of that committee . And if
18 you wish to be what I believe you want
19 to be, is an inclusive government for
20 the Town of Southold, I ' d be happy to
21 work with you, see how that goes .
22 Right now, this one incident triggered
23 investigations . And the problem ' s with
24 all the committees . There ' s a new
25 Committee Handbook . It has an
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1 Appendix, which cites in full the
2 statute by New York State of the open
3 -- I think it ' s the Open Meetings Law .
4 I don ' t think the whole FOIL law is
5 included . But to the contrary, to the
6 New York State law, which is included
7 in this document, the Local Law of the
8 Town of Southold is -- it ' s apparently
9 paraphrased, but it ' s incorrect . It ' s
10 the reverse of what the actual law is ,
11 what ' s stated . And it ' s not all that
12 complicated . This -- somehow this
13 document was apparently approved by the
14 Town Board, the Town Attorney ' s Office .
15 There ' s just a whole mess of people
16 that were involved in this document .
17 What I don ' t find in this document is
18 who wrote it, who was responsibility,
19 where the buck stops here . Because
20 there are problems that need to be
21 addressed . So if you wish to address
22 them, I ' d be happy to help you . I
23 don ' t want to take up your time
24 tonight, but the Town of Southold Law
25 is incorporated in Section 1 . 1 .
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1 There ' s a very short introductory
2 Section 1 . But after that, Section 1 . 1
3 is essentially the first real section
4 of this new document . And it sites --
5 Paraphrases Town of Southold LAW, two
6 sections , Section 101 , I think it ' s 102
7 and 103 , but it calls them both 102 or
8 something like that . They both have
9 the same section number . You can ' t
10 have two sections with the same section
11 number . It also cites the --
12 paraphrases that part of that law that
13 says that these committees -- and right
14 in the title of the document it says
15 that this is about Volunteer Resident
16 Committees . Well , they don ' t all have
17 to be residents . The priority -- the
18 law says priority is given to
19 residents , but if we have a visitor or
20 someone who has knowledge and they ' re
21 willing to help us out, they should be
22 welcome . And as far as volunteering
23 go, this town is lucky to have had all
24 the volunteers throughout the years
25 that have been welcomed and
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1 incorporated into the process . And
2 also the volunteers like myself, that
3 are not always so welcomed, and have
4 not been incorporated into the process .
5 And Supervisor Russell said I would
6 never be on a committee . Well , we ' ll
7 see, I ' m still young . Supervisor
8 Russell attended a Land Preservation
9 Committee meeting after the governor
10 had rescinded that order . I think it
11 was several years afterwards . And he
12 told that committee that they needed to
13 re-admit the public to their meetings
14 so that people could observe and see
15 what ' s going on . He didn ' t mention the
16 part about limiting the Executive
17 Session, but his statement is recorded
18 in the minutes of that meeting . It ' s
19 on the record . Now it ' s four years
20 later and there ' s still -- the public
21 is still being excluded . The top of
22 that agendas have no option for
23 attendance in person . The attendance
24 is limited by Zoom or telephone . Well .
25 I don ' t think we should be running the
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1 government that way . And I hope that
2 it will change and maybe the new
3 appointee of that committee will help .
4 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : We ' re
5 grateful that she ' s willing to
6 volunteer and we ' re sure that she ' ll be
7 an active participant . I don ' t know if
8 our Land Preservation Committee liaison
9 would like to say --
10 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : Yeah .
11 Our meetings are on Tuesday evenings at
12 7 o ' clock at the Annex upstairs in the
13 conference room, and we have had
14 people, they ' re open to the public .
15 There is seating in that room besides
16 the committee members --
17 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : And you can
18 say whatever you want . If you ' re going
19 to contradict me --
20 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : No, no,
21 no, I ' m just telling you my experience .
22 I would just -- what I am going to do
23 is --
24 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : Look at the
25 agenda . Read the agenda . You have --
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1 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Can you
2 just let her finish, please? You had
3 your time .
4 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : I know, but
5 she is saying that what I am saying was
6 not true .
7 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Well ,
8 just let her --
9 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : All I
10 know is that people have come to those
11 meetings just to listen until we get
12 into Executive Session . If they
13 want -- if they are invited because
14 they ' re presenting something, then of
15 course they ' re on the agenda to speak .
16 But basically that ' s how the meetings
17 have gone . I will look at what is
18 giving you the impression that people
19 aren ' t able to comment . There ' s
20 something written in there that ' s
21 wrong . We ' ll correct that . People are
22 able to also participate by Zoom, which
23 they do in terms of being at the
24 meeting, but it ' s not the only way --
25 at least it shouldn ' t be . I don ' t know
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1 why that ' s your impression .
2 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : You said
3 participate, I think you meant observe .
4 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : That ' s
5 how all of the committees are run
6 unless we have people on the agenda or
7 it ' s a discussion of some kind . Most
8 committees -- people can attend
9 meetings , but they don ' t always
10 participate .
11 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : Do you feel
12 that observing via Zoom is the
13 equivalent of observing in person?
14 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH :
15 Absolutely, not .
16 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : Thank you .
17 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : But we
18 do allow people to attend in person .
19 I ' m not sure why .
20 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : Well , I could
21 bring in a witness who will tell you
22 that they were refused to come in
23 person .
24 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : I will
25 look into it --
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1 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : -- the agenda
2 since the pandemic . Since the
3 pandemic . That agenda has not
4 reinserted the invitation .
5 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : Okay .
6 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : You know,
7 there ' s some very good things in this
8 Committee Handbook .
9 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : If
10 there ' s a correction in there, I can
11 make sure we take care of that .
12 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : You know, I
13 mean, it ' s a handbook .
14 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : It ' s
15 meant to guide new members who are
16 joining committees .
17 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : Well , first of
18 all , to guide anybody, it has to be
19 available .
20 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : It ' s on
21 the website .
22 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : Where ?
23 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : Under
24 the tab that says Government
25 Committees . It ' s one of the first tabs
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1 --
2 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : That ' s not the
3 website . It is the Laserfiche .
4 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : It ' s
5 also there .
6 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : No, that ' s
7 where it is .
8 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : I was
9 told and shown by the IT Department
10 today that it ' s now there as a tab .
11 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : On the
12 southoldtown . ny . gov?
13 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : On the
14 Town website .
15 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : There is not a
16 Town website . There are about six
17 website ' s -- official website ' s . This
18 time there ' s one main website . It ' s
19 not on that .
20 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : I was
21 shown that it was there today, and IT
22 was able to open it . So I ' ll see why
23 you --
24 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : On the
25 Laserfiche .
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1 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : Benjamin,
2 can we ask you to --
3 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : Sure, I ' ll
4 come back at the end of the meeting .
5 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : Yeah, thank
6 you .
7 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : Thank you .
8 TOWN ATTORNEY PAUL DECHANCE : Let
9 me remind everybody that comments prior
10 to a hearing would pertain to the
11 matters on the agenda . Those that do
12 not pertain to the matters on the
13 agenda should wait until the end of the
14 meeting .
15 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : Well , thank
16 you . Thank you, sir .
17 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Is
18 there anyone who ' d like to speak to any
19 item that is listed on the agenda
20 before we vote?
21 (No Response) .
22 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I see
23 none , and I have to suitly acknowledge
24 our colleague , Justice Evans from
25 Fishers Island, who was here all day .
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1 Glad you made it back home safe .
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3 SUBSIDY FRAMEWORK AND IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
4 TOWN CLERK DENIS NONCARROW : So
5 the purpose of tonight ' s public hearing
6 is to consider an implementation plan
7 and subsidy framework system for the
8 Community Housing Fund expenditures ,
9 which implementation plan and subsidy
10 framework, shall be an amendment to the
11 Community Housing Plan, and future
12 changes shall be adopted by the Town
13 Board by resolution . Legal notices for
14 this public hearing are published no
15 less than ten days prior to the public
16 hearing in an eligible legal Town
17 newspaper . The Town Clerk ' s Office has
18 received the Affidavit of Service from
19 that newspaper, indicating that the
20 notice was properly published . The
21 Town Clerk file also includes an
22 Affidavit of Posting of the public
23 hearing on the Town Clerk bulletin
24 board at Town Hall .
25 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Mr .
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1 DeChance, has the hearing been properly
2 noticed?
3 TOWN ATTORNEY PAUL DECHANCE : Yes ,
4 Mr . Supervisor . The notice documents
5 are in order .
6 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Thank
7 you . Now before we start the public
8 hearing and comment period, Town
9 Attorney Julie McGivney is going to
10 give us some information about the
11 implementation plan for the subsidies .
12 And it will be -- and this is the
13 result of the all -- a lot of hard work
14 of some of these Board members up here,
15 as well as , some of the community
16 members that are here tonight, and I do
17 appreciate the work and the insight and
18 we ' re after years of work . We ' re
19 finally here with the public hearing .
20 ASST . TOWN ATTORNEY JULIE
21 MCGIVNEY : Good evening, before we
22 begin the presentation, I would like to
23 recap how we arrived here today, and
24 that is due to the housing shortage,
25 the Peconic Bay Community Housing Act
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1 authorizes the Town to collect a half a
2 percent transfer tax to create a fund
3 for housing . Included in that, the
4 Town is required to establish a
5 Community Housing Plan, which has been
6 done and adopted . And pursuant to the
7 plan, the Town has to create an
8 implementation plan for the process , as
9 well as , a framework for subsidies for
10 projects . Just so you know, the
11 framework and the implementation plan
12 are based off of a project that would
13 be developed as opposed to assisting a
14 first time homeowner . And that ' s
15 because we have some projects that have
16 been in discussions . So as this is a
17 document that will continue to be
18 changed and updated, we will also be
19 including things when it is applicable .
20 Like for the down payment assistance .
21 So, let me move to the next . Okay . So
22 the funds are authorized to be used for
23 the following reasons . Financial
24 assistance for first time homeowners ,
25 production of community housing for
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1 eligible individuals , production of
2 community -- excuse me . Production of
3 housing for sale and for rent when the
4 town partners with the public or
5 private partnership . Additionally,
6 rehabilitation of existing buildings ,
7 acquisition, interest in real property,
8 and counseling services . So, as I
9 said, this is going to be based off of
10 a project based project . The
11 pre-submission meeting obviously it ' s
12 not a requirement in the implementation
13 plan ; however, strongly advised because
14 you need to have some zoning, as well
15 as , any sanitary flow credits . At the
16 bottom, you can see that I ' ve included
17 what happens with the Village . If the
18 Village opts to -- opt into this
19 implementation plan and community plan,
20 they would have to go through the
21 Village process and then come to the
22 Town for the funds . They wouldn ' t go
23 to this Planning Department . So it ' s
24 just a side note . So the next is a
25 notice of funding availability .
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1 Probably annually in the beginning of
2 the year, the Town will put out a
3 statement or release a statement
4 stating how much money is in the fund,
5 and how they ' ll be allocating it . For
6 instance, they could say this year,
7 we ' re going to designate two million
8 dollars to go towards production for
9 housing with private partnerships and a
10 million dollars for down assistance
11 payment . Excuse me . Down payment
12 assistance . And then on to the request
13 for applications . So the Town will put
14 out a request for applications for any
15 project . The application will normally
16 include a narrative of viable project .
17 Explaining what it would be, where it
18 will be , etcetera . The experience of
19 the developer, the builder, the funding
20 sources that they will be looking for
21 besides the Town, and how they will
22 handle post-award monitoring . Once
23 that ' s done, the applications start
24 coming in, then they ' ll be submitted to
25 the Town Clerk and the government
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1 liaison then, as well as , the Community
2 Housing Team will take them from the
3 Clerk and go through them . They will
4 make sure that all the documents are
5 included and that they have what they
6 need to be able to give this to the
7 Community Housing Advisory Board .
8 Pursuant to the statute, the Community
9 Housing Advisory Board is required to
10 be established with -- it has seven to
11 ten members . One has to be in the
12 banking community, one must be in the
13 real estate community . This group is
14 the ones that go over the applications
15 and suggest to the Town Board whether
16 or not they ' re a viable project . If
17 they make that recommendation, the Town
18 Board will discuss it . They ' ll
19 determine whether or not they want to
20 approve it . If so, then the contract
21 will be sent out to the developer . And
22 then a public hearing -- when the
23 contract comes back, a public hearing
24 will be scheduled . And at that point,
25 that the Town will know exactly
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1 everything about the project . Once the
2 project is in contract, then there ' ll
3 be covenants and restrictions that will
4 have to be filed, and that will be to
5 ensure affordability and perpetuity .
6 Also, there ' ll be a funding
7 disbursement schedule . Again,
8 depending on the project, it ' s how the
9 funding disbursement schedule will go .
10 Performance bond will be required .
11 When and how the project will be
12 completed, how they are going to do
13 post-reward monitoring . And then also,
14 if it ' s for rentals , they would be
15 required to -- the projects would be
16 required to have annual reporting to
17 make sure that the tenants are in
18 compliance with the regulations for
19 Affordable Housing . Once that ' s done ,
20 then the project said it ' s basically
21 complete . Now we ' re gonna look back
22 and we ' re gonna go back over the
23 timetable of events . And I ' m gonna say
24 how long did this take ? What could we
25 have done differently? Double checking
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1 to see, was the project effective or
2 was the process effective ? The Town
3 Board will ask for feedback from the
4 community . The Community Housing
5 Advisory Board, which are probably now
6 here more often called CRAB, and from
7 developers . Any policies that need to
8 be updated will be done and the Town
9 Board will make any resolutions for
10 changes , if they have to . The plan is
11 required to be updated every five
12 years ; however, because it ' s a new
13 plan, it will most likely be updated
14 every year for any changes that come .
15 So that ' s the basic idea behind the
16 implementation plan . It is skeletal at
17 best because this is a new territory .
18 So the Town will be going through this
19 as a first time . So, we move on .
20 Okay . So that was the implementation
21 plan . The next is the subsidy
22 framework . So this again is a guide
23 that shows how the Town will allocate
24 funds for a project to establish
25 community housing . Here we go . The
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1 subsidy framework, this had been
2 formulated before the implementation
3 plan . And there was a public
4 information session on it . I ' m going
5 to go through it though and basically
6 go through the examples of how they
7 arrived at the different subsidy
8 amount . So the Housing Department and
9 the Planners and the Housing Advisory
10 Committee, when this plan was put
11 together, they had to come up with a
12 way of allocating funds . So they
13 wanted to make sure that they were
14 transparent and everybody could
15 understand why this person got this and
16 why this person . So they had to come
17 up with a formula for that . So if
18 you ' ll see at the top, it says
19 "priority area" and then It says "bonus
20 per unit" and then amount per unit if
21 they subsidy is $55 , 000 and then
22 rationale . So the Town came up --
23 excuse me . I keep saying the Town .
24 They came up with $ 55 , 000 as being the
25 subsidy amount per unit . So that would
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1 go for any project . And then as you
2 see, looks to the next line on adaptive
3 reuse, if you ' re gonna use an existing
4 structure, they ' re gonna give you a 500
5 bonus . So that would be an additional
6 $27 , 500 and that would be to support
7 the logistics of repurposing existing
8 buildings and keeping the community
9 character . Deeper affordability . What
10 that means is that if you ' re going to
11 have a project with services families
12 that are up to the 80% AMI , then you ' re
13 going to get a 20% bonus . And that is
14 because that will help offset the
15 reduced revenue for the developers
16 because of the lower income rents that
17 that would be collected . The septic
18 upgrade of 20% bonus , home ownership
19 opportunities would be a 20% bonus .
20 And the reason for that one is to
21 incentivize long-term stability in the
22 community . After that, it ' s diversity
23 of unit sizes . I know there was talk
24 today about somewhere in between that .
25 The 10% bonus for two units or more
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1 versus the 15% bonus for four units or
2 more -- four bedrooms or more, excuse
3 me . I think that three bedroom
4 families were considered . Again, this
5 is just a framework to get started . If
6 it ends up being that that is what the
7 Town Board decides , and they can do a
8 resolution to change that . And then to
9 go down further, environment stability .
10 That ' s solar panels , maybe, or Green
11 Energy Star . And then the last one is
12 proximity to public transit . So that
13 would be a 10% bonus if you were going
14 to half a mile of public transit .
15 Those are the subsidy framework .
16 That ' s the subsidy framework . And now
17 the next page is , I don ' t know if you
18 saw this before but these are just
19 three examples of different projects .
20 This is not a project that is even
21 being discussed . These are made up .
22 Just to show you different ways . So
23 Project A is for 10 one-bedroom
24 apartments . So the base subsidy is
25 $ 55 , 000 . And if you see the
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1 development cost based subsidy under
2 Number 1 . So 10 one-bedroom rentals
3 would be $ 550 , 000 subsidy . Number 2 ,
4 if you are going to use building over
5 adaptive reuse, you will also receive
6 the base times 10 times the 500 , would
7 be an extra $275 . Sceptic upgrade
8 would be another 200 . Proximity to
9 transit was another 100 . So all told,
10 this particular project, if it were
11 going to be approved, would have
12 subsidies of up to $ 990 , 000 . The next
13 one is a project that is maybe going to
14 have 24 two-bedroom home ownership
15 units . So the base subsidy stays the
16 same at $55 , 000 per unit . And you
17 would have 24 two-bedroom units . That
18 would be a total of $ 1 , 320 , 000 just for
19 the units themselves . The priority
20 bonus subsidies added to that, the
21 diversity of unit size , home ownership
22 opportunities , those are calculated and
23 included . And this particular --
24 particular project would have a subsidy
25 of $ 1 , 716, 000 . The last one is 8
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1 four-bedroom mixed income units . So
2 Number 1 , 8 four-bedroom units is
3 $ 440 , 000 and then the priority bonuses
4 would be the diversity of unit size,
5 deeper affordability, environmental
6 sustainability . Again, these are all
7 just examples of different ways of
8 formulating the subsidies . And that
9 would bring this particular project, a
10 total subsidy of $ 638 , 000 . So those
11 are just a couple of the examples of
12 how the subsidies will work . And this
13 is so that everyone that is on board
14 and everyone knows up front, this is
15 how much money ' s available and
16 everyone ' s having the opportunity to
17 apply for every different subsidy and
18 it will be transparent and across the
19 board . Everyone will be treated
20 fairly . So that is the basis of the
21 subsidy framework . I probably went
22 over that a little quicker because I
23 know there was an information session
24 about it already; however, it ' s also on
25 the website if you wanted to go back
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1 and take a look at it again . So that
2 is really the implementation plan and
3 framework that the Town Board is going
4 to vote on . If the vote is that they
5 adopt it, then this is basically going
6 to be the guideline for how projects
7 can proceed . And I hope that we start,
8 you know, proceeding as soon as
9 possible .
10 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Julie,
11 thank you very much for that . And
12 before we take any other comments , is
13 there anything any thing for a Town
14 Board member would like to add to,
15 explain to --
16 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : Yes , I want
17 to thank Mark from the Planning
18 Department and Julie . Ann and myself
19 have had a lot of hours working with
20 them . And they ' ve really collaborated
21 and come up with this . And Julie ' s
22 really dealt through all the different
23 sections of the code and the statute
24 that we have to go by . So it ' s really,
25 you know, well thought out vetted
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1 process . This is just the beginning as
2 we ' ve said that we have the framework
3 of the housing, and we ' ve got to put
4 the wheels on now on the framework .
5 And this is just a couple of spokes .
6 The next -- once we get this done, the
7 group will be working on subsidies for
8 individuals for gaining access to
9 attainable housing . So that will come
10 next . But for this , just for tonight,
11 we ' re talking about the subsidies for
12 contractors , as Julie explained it .
13 And it ' s complicated issues , a lot more
14 going on with it . So if anybody has
15 any questions or comments , that ' s what
16 we ' re here for .
17 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : Yeah,
18 and I would just like to add, again,
19 thank you to Jill and the Housing
20 Advisory Board, who spent many hours or
21 well over a year, I think, creating the
22 actual plan that we ' re now
23 implementing . And also as a former
24 resident volunteer on the Housing
25 Advisory Commission, and now as a
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1 liaison, thank our HAC, we have one HAC
2 member here today, for their persistent
3 work over the years and advocating to
4 solve this really important issue that
5 we ' re facing in the Town . And again
6 I ' ll echo thanks to Julie and to Mara
7 and Mark . The diligence that went into
8 this , we did have several opportunities
9 to talk about this at work session . We
10 brought in actual developers to make
11 sure they saw that it made sense in the
12 variety in ways that they might be
13 approaching a project . Also checking
14 out what the other towns are doing in
15 their process . I feel really confident
16 in this application process , in the
17 vetting process , and our ability to, as
18 Jill said, finally get going with
19 getting some of these projects off the
20 ground and supporting the members of
21 our community who are struggling to
22 find affordable places to live and
23 thrive in our community . So thanks ,
24 Jill , and thanks , everybody .
25 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : All
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1 right . So you ' ve seen the presentation
2 by Julie . Thank you very much . Would
3 anyone like to comment on the subsidy
4 framework?
5 ROBERT DUNN : I just have a
6 question about the third example you
7 gave us when the eight units , three
8 bedrooms , was the last set .
9 ASST . TOWN ATTORNEY JULIE
10 MCGIVNEY : The 8 four-bedroom mixed
11 income units .
12 ROBERT DUNN : Mixed income . Yes .
13 So that would mean that would mean they
14 could be lower income people or higher
15 income people , right?
16 ASST . TOWN ATTORNEY JULIE
17 MCGIVNEY : Correct .
18 ROBERT DUNN : But the town would
19 still be subsidizing the unit for the
20 higher income people because they ' d be
21 paying for rent?
22 ASST . TOWN ATTORNEY JULIE
23 MCGIVNEY : No . Well , the higher income,
24 there ' s the income limits for
25 affordability . That ' s what I was
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1 saying, the 80o AMI . And I believe --
2 ROBERT DUNN : So if you made more
3 than that, you don ' t get in there at
4 all ? Is that it?
5 ASST . TOWN ATTORNEY JULIE
6 MCGIVNEY : No, that ' s not it . Some
7 affordable ' s can be 80o AMI or 1000
8 AMI . They have they can allocate how
9 many units that they want to have the
10 80o AMI or 100o AMI . This could also
11 add in what I believe you ' re speaking
12 to which is market rate .
13 ROBERT DUNN : Correct .
14 ASST . TOWN ATTORNEY JULIE
15 MCGIVNEY : Yes , so that they there
16 would be no subsidies for market rate
17 It ' s based on affordability . All
18 affordable housing .
19 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : And I ' ll
20 add these funds are going to the
21 developer in order to afford to build
22 it and then sustain --
23 ROBERT DUNN : Yes . You ' re giving
24 him the money up front or her to build
25 it . But then he rents you that at
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1 market where --
2 ASST . TOWN ATTORNEY JULIE
3 MCGIVNEY : They can ' t .
4 ROBERT DUNN : Okay . That ' s all I
5 wanted to know .
6 ASST . TOWN ATTORNEY JULIE
7 MCGIVNEY : I probably went over it a
8 little quick . I ' m sorry . Now they
9 have to -- they ' ll be covered in
10 covenants and restrictions and have to
11 be filed Affordable Housing in a
12 Affordable Housing District . Those
13 rules will also ensure that the
14 affordability stays .
15 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : The
16 Town has been quite an investment here .
17 So to start with you know, you ' ve got
18 those two committees , the Housing
19 Advisory Committee and then that
20 community Housing Advisory Board .
21 ROBERT DUNN : I ' m sure you have .
22 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : But
23 then we ' ve got the Community Housing
24 Fund .
25 ROBERT DUNN : -- leaving here with
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1 doubt .
2 ROBERT DUNN : But then we ' ve just
3 hired somebody . So years ago the
4 government liaison who was originally
5 hired 20 plus years ago, to work on
6 affordable housing . A few years ago,
7 the Town Board put more housing
8 responsibilities into that office . And
9 now we ' ve just hired someone to work in
10 that office . So the Town ' s made, not
11 only is this subsidy less something
12 that will help actually build units ,
13 but we ' ve got that whole infrastructure
14 that ' s got to be in place . Because to
15 your point, you know, if you ' re in an
16 affordable housing, either rental , in a
17 rental unit, you have to apply for, you
18 know, a yearly permit . And on the
19 agenda tonight, we just had a transfer
20 of cottages , which is an Affordable
21 Housing Community there in Mattituck .
22 One was just transferred to someone,
23 but you ' ve got to do all the
24 verification on, you know, first time
25 home buyer and all those things has to
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1 be done . So the Town ' s made a huge
2 investment in that infrastructure to
3 support the Affordable Housing Program.
4 And I tell you, I give a lot of credit
5 to a lot of people in the community,
6 who have worked for years to get to
7 today .
8 ROBERT DUNN : And the cottages all
9 have a deed restriction on them . If
10 they want to transfer the deed, they
11 have to get approval --
12 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Yes .
13 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : There was a
14 contract on years ago before they
15 bought it they knew they can only cap
16 out it so much .
17 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : So
18 it ' s affordable .
19 ROBERT DUNN : This whole thing
20 with housing is going to get a lot
21 worse out here . And it ' s going to
22 affect the economy . Because what with
23 the pressure that ' s coming from the
24 White House now and for the next 4
25 years about getting undocumented out .
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1 So those people are going to get
2 nervous . Some of them are going to
3 leave on their own . Some of them will
4 get pushed out . And then we have a
5 problem of affordability . You could
6 find yourself two years , three years
7 down the road with big employment
8 shortages here for the farmers , for the
9 retailers . You know, on a lower scale
10 job .
11 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : We
12 have that across the whole range of --
13 the whole range of employees .
14 ROBERT DUNN : If a president is
15 successful and she can have them out or
16 frighten you so they go home , it ' s
17 going to be getting even tighter . So
18 you are going to need some of these
19 people who live . Otherwise, they ' re
20 going to go live for the job or they ' re
21 going to get jobs where they live .
22 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Thank
23 you . Yes , sir .
24 OZ HANLEY : Hi , I don ' t need to
25 mic .
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1 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : No,
2 you know, we have to, for the record .
3 OZ HANLEY : Hi , and thank you very
4 much for your presentation . I have a
5 couple of --
6 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I ' m
7 sorry, you have to state your name --
8 OZ HANLEY : Rumpel stiltskin, no .
9 My name is Oz Hanley, I ' m a recent
10 resident . I ' ve lived here for about
11 two years in Southold . And I ' m happy
12 to be involved and I ' m interested in
13 housing . I was a housing attorney in
14 New York City for 50 years . So this is
15 something that ' s kind of about my
16 alley . Affordable in many ways . A
17 couple of broad questions that I have
18 is the implementation plan was prepared
19 by this Board? Was the implementation
20 plan put together that ' s on the
21 website ? I assume this is on the
22 website , right?
23 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Yes .
24 It was The Special Committee that CRAB
25 were referring to that worked on this
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1 plan, and it was a requirement of the
2 law, the Community Housing Fund Law
3 that was passed by the Town -- enabled
4 by the State, passed by the Town to
5 collect money from the transfer tax to
6 fund these projects .
7 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : The statute
8 to implement the housing plan came from
9 the governor, so it came from the
10 State .
11 OZ HANLEY : Okay . Thank you .
12 Now, with respect -- And this is the
13 broad question of what ' s the
14 expectation in terms of, you know, past
15 experience and perhaps hopeful going
16 forward with the amount of money that
17 this fund -- this Community Housing
18 Fund can raise? Is it a million?
19 Because it seems to me that there ' s a
20 lot of money that could be eaten up
21 with one project, if you only raise $2
22 million .
23 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : That ' s
24 absolutely true . Southold collects
25 only based on what the real estate
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1 transfers are . And so there is
2 definitely a limit . There ' s also a
3 limit, and there was something that was
4 in the presentation, the sanitary flow
5 credits . We collect, every time we
6 preserve a piece of open space that
7 would have been available for
8 development, we take those sanitary
9 flow credits off, and we put them in a
10 bank . So when people need higher
11 density in certain areas for some of
12 these housing projects , we give them to
13 the developer and in working with the
14 Health Department, Suffolk County
15 Health Department, the sanitary flow
16 credits to enable that higher density
17 there . So we have those that are
18 banked . But as open space, we ' ve
19 preserved an awful lot of open space in
20 town . So there is just a quantifiable
21 number of those .
22 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : So there ' s
23 other ways that we can give subsidies
24 besides --
25 OZ HANLEY : Right, I was going to
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1 ask, does that add to the
2 subsidization?
3 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : Yes .
4 OZ HANLEY : Okay . And I assume
5 the subsidies to the developers are --
6 come to some tax reform as well ?
7 They ' re not taxable to the developer?
8 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : That ' s
9 a good question .
10 OZ HANLEY : The funds .
11 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I ' m
12 looking at Julie .
13 ASST . TOWN ATTORNEY JULIE
14 MCGIVNEY : I ' m looking at the
15 Supervisor .
16 OZ HANLEY : And I don ' t know .
17 ASST . TOWN ATTORNEY JULIE
18 MCGIVNEY : Are you talking about tax
19 credits from the State or from the
20 community?
21 OZ HANLEY : No, I ' m talking about
22 subsidies . The list that you just went
23 through comes out of the Community
24 Housing Fund . That money that comes
25 out, it ' s , you know, $ 55 , 000 and then
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1 the other, which adds up to about, I
2 think, for one of your projects , almost
3 a million dollars . I ' d just like to
4 know if that is something that the
5 developer or -- I assume it doesn ' t
6 have to be a professional developer .
7 Could it be somebody like myself who
8 buys a piece of property here and
9 decides that I want to build a
10 Affordable Housing?
11 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Yes ,
12 yes . I mean to qualify, I mean you
13 need to have some -- you should rather
14 you should have some experience in the
15 construction trades , right . You know
16 it ' s a comp -- that ' s a complicated
17 business in itself with a lot of
18 regulatory partners that are suddenly
19 your regulatory partners business .
20 OZ HANLEY : Right .
21 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : So it
22 is usually going to attract people who
23 have some experience in that arena .
24 OZ HANLEY : Okay . So we ' ll wait
25 for a future answer on the taxable
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1 cost?
2 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : I would say
3 that that would be for the person
4 receiving the funds on how they run
5 their business and what their business
6 is . And they would have tax
7 consequences on whatever it is .
8 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
9 Contact my office, please . We ' ll get
10 you an answer .
11 ASST . TOWN ATTORNEY JULIE
12 MCGIVNEY : The subsidies though are for
13 the developer to defray its costs , so I
14 don ' t know that that ' s not income . I
15 don ' t know quite sure -- I ' m not quite
16 sure . I don ' t see it as something as
17 being a taxable event, but I ' m not
18 quite sure that accounting would
19 definitely --
20 OZ HANLEY : I would neither . I
21 was just wondering if there ' s something
22 in the local code that I wasn ' t aware
23 of that might have happened .
24 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : There ' s
25 nothing in the State Statute and
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1 nothing in the local code .
2 OZ HANLEY : All right . Broadly
3 speaking, is there any sort of a goal
4 over the next two, three, five, ten
5 years that is hopeful that will create
6 any given number of units ? I mean, is
7 there a goal of creating 10 units ? Is
8 there a goal of creating 20 ?
9 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : No,
10 because it ' s an opportunity to find
11 someone who ' s capable of building
12 something . And then operating within
13 this framework of these subsidies . And
14 sometimes they layer other subsidies ,
15 getting money from State -- County,
16 State, Or Federal monies to layer in to
17 help pay for the project . But that ' s
18 going to be their business model . So
19 then you consider the cost of the
20 supply chain of construction materials
21 and labor . It ' s going to be -- we ' re
22 optimistic that we will create
23 Affordable Housing .
24 OZ HANLEY : Well , with no specific
25 idea of a goal of so many units per
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1 year?
2 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : The
3 money would be intended to spend it .
4 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : And when we
5 were implementing -- I was the liaison
6 for the group that put this plan
7 together . And we had lengthy
8 conversations of that . And there ' s so
9 many variables that it ' s hard to
10 quantify, you know, amounts of units
11 and everything . And you know, of
12 course, we ' d love to say, oh, well you
13 know, we have this many people needing
14 houses . We ' d love to fill this void .
15 But it ' s really hard to say -- I mean
16 we first of all , we need people to step
17 forward to, you know, develop under
18 this program, which is a very difficult
19 thing to do because it ' s not a money
20 maker . And also, real estate is so
21 fluctuate . Look at it now, real estate
22 is down . It ' s really hard to quantify
23 a goal of how many units we perceive in
24 a year or two years or three years or
25 four years . We do have some -- several
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1 consultants , contractors that we ' re
2 working with . We have two viable
3 projects that we feel will move
4 forward . One sooner than the other .
5 So we ' re very hopeful that we ' re going
6 to get units on the ground within the
7 next few years .
8 COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI : Right .
9 Just if I can add to that . There was a
10 discussion when we were putting the
11 implementation plan together, whether
12 we were going to establish a goal , but
13 we felt like that would be more demand
14 based . You know, we know there ' s a
15 great need in the community . There ' s
16 hundreds of people on the Affordable
17 Housing List, but we felt like it
18 didn ' t really address the supply
19 constraints . And we felt like it made
20 sense to actually put the plan
21 together . Start rolling out some
22 projects . Look to see exactly how much
23 money the plan brought in . And
24 currently in the account, there ' s about
25 $2 . 5 million that we ' ve collected in a
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1 little over a year .
2 OZ HANLEY : Thank you . I was
3 going to ask you that .
4 COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI : Yeah .
5 We feel like that ' s good, but as you
6 look at the cost of housing, it ' s not a
7 lot . If you look at some of the State
8 tax credits , they ' re receiving $350 , 000
9 per unit . So if the Town, for sake of
10 argument, was to do something similar,
11 we ' re only talking about a really
12 limited number of units . This is
13 where, as we ' re looking at the
14 framework, we give some consideration
15 to other sources of income that
16 developers are receiving . And we felt
17 like it made sense just to focus our
18 efforts on getting the plan in action .
19 We have , as Jill mentioned, two
20 developers that we feel have feasible
21 projects , and this is really the first
22 step to giving them the money that they
23 need from the town side, to get these
24 projects going . I do think over time
25 it does warrant a discussion of what
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1 the priorities are, what the goals are,
2 and we can potentially look at other
3 funding sources . This is just one
4 revenue stream. And other towns have
5 let ' s say used bonding to purchase
6 parcels of land . There ' s different
7 models that we can employ here . This
8 really is just part of this Community
9 Housing Fund --
10 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : Which is a
11 living document and continue to be a
12 living document . It ' s -- We ' re never
13 going to get to the point where , okay,
14 we ' re done . This time ' s changed, I
15 mean, what happened in the last five
16 years . So this is a fluid thing that
17 we ' re just going to keep building and
18 as we experience , it ' s going to get
19 better and better . And I do want to
20 mention the Town had an existing
21 housing account, which has a million in
22 it . So all total , we have about three
23 and a half million .
24 OZ HANLEY : Okay, great .
25 ASST . TOWN ATTORNEY JULIE
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1 MCGIVNEY : Sorry, I just wanted to add
2 to that . Also, I think to start the
3 every year when there ' s a Notice of
4 Availability comes out, that would be a
5 better start as to how much money that
6 their goal is to spend that particular
7 year . If it was , as I said before ,
8 about down payment assistance, maybe a
9 million dollars this year . And that
10 would probably be the best way to start
11 their goals because for all the reasons
12 that they have, the Town Board members .
13 OZ HANLEY : Well , the irony in
14 some of this is that, you know, as the
15 cost of houses goes up and up and up,
16 you ' re going to raise more money, then
17 it ' s going to make a lot of that
18 housing uncomfortable . You know, to
19 the new people who are moving in . Okay .
20 I thank you, sir, very much for your
21 time . I just have two more questions .
22 I assume none of this applies to ADU ' s ;
23 right? ADU ' s are a totally separate
24 category? Any of this money would be
25 used for ADU ' s ?
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1 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : They
2 haven ' t subsidized yet . I have met
3 with other East End towns , and that is
4 part of the discussion because the
5 other East End towns also have this
6 fund . Everyone ' s kind of in the same
7 boat . Trying to figure out the best
8 way to utilize it . And, you know, near
9 a point of housing, to utilize it as
10 quickly as possible .
11 OZ HANLEY : All right .
12 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : And this
13 plan is stackable with other programs .
14 OZ HANLEY : Has there been any
15 thought to giving developers a real
16 estate credit --
17 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : So in order
18 to do some kind of abatement, the Town
19 would have to get approve from the
20 State . So we ' re not doing that right
21 now .
22 COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI : And one
23 thing, you know, local municipalities
24 that you can consider, and this could
25 be another potential subsidies . You
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1 know, State can provide the tax
2 abatement . There ' s a question whether
3 we could use the money collected to
4 make the Town whole on those taxes that
5 would have been collected . Real estate
6 taxes are how the Town funds our
7 activities . And one of the concerns
8 with, for instance, the use of co-op ' s ,
9 there ' s a lower tax base for them. And
10 the challenge of budgeting is real .
11 Especially as the cost of healthcare
12 goes up . And something that we really
13 need to look at, something that, you
14 know, our State representatives are
15 looking at . It ' s not as simple as just
16 getting a local law pass . It ' s really
17 looking at how we fill those gaps .
18 OZ HANLEY : Great, one final
19 question . With respect to the changes
20 that are going on now in the Zoning
21 Resolution, how are they being thought
22 about in terms of degrading it in with
23 the implementation plan? Or does it
24 gotta be land upon which you either --
25 If you find land to build this stuff
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1 on, the land has to be zoned for
2 residential use . Is that being
3 coordinated somehow with the change in
4 the Zoning Resolution and the
5 implementation plan?
6 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Yes ,
7 and we ' ve got a lot of opportunities to
8 listen to the public about that and
9 about where they ' d be located . And
10 also, speaking to businesses , there ' s
11 something that was put into the Zoning
12 update that would allow caretaker units
13 for businesses , which will relieve some
14 of the pressure . Because they could
15 build their own . And if they ' re
16 building a caretaker unit on a business
17 site , the Town doesn ' t have to be the
18 manager there . They ' re going to be the
19 manager who they hire . It ' s going to
20 be their employees . And so it just
21 relieves some of the pressure on every
22 other housing stock .
23 OZ HANLEY : All right . Perhaps
24 this is my final question . The
25 Community Housing Fund money, is that
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1 going to be used both for development
2 of the housing, as well as , the
3 subsidies for the tenants who may live
4 in them?
5 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : Yes , as
6 we ' re explaining, our next project is
7 to develop that .
8 OZ HANLEY : Okay . All right .
9 Thank you very much . I ' m sorry to
10 take . It so much too late .
11 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : No, no .
12 That ' s all right .
13 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Good
14 questions . Thank you . We ' re learning
15 a lot .
16 ERIC MCCLURE : Hi . Eric McClure,
17 Mattituck . I just wanted to commend
18 the work that ' s been done on the
19 Housing Plan and the subsidy framework .
20 I think it seems very thoughtful , and
21 the structure seems to make a lot of
22 sense . I was happy to read in the East
23 End Beacon today that the Love Lane
24 project is probably in line for support
25 from the Community Housing Plan, which
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1 I think would be great . It ' s been a
2 long time since the Capital One
3 building has been empty . So it would
4 be great to see that move forward,
5 especially with the projected structure
6 for that project . So I just wanted to
7 say good work and thank you .
8 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Thank
9 you . Anyone else like to comment?
10 (No Response) .
11 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
12 Checking for Zoom.
13 COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI : I
14 apologize if I didn ' t see your hand
15 raised .
16 UNKNOWN SPEAKER : I ' m on the
17 Housing Advisory Committee . I ' ve been
18 commissioned -- hey, how are you? And
19 I ' ve been on for, I think like five,
20 six years now, something like that .
21 Anyway, what we had talked about
22 before -- what you talked about before,
23 this is a long time coming . And I
24 think all the work that the Community
25 Housing Group did and all the work that
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1 all of you are doing legally, and all
2 of that is awesome . We ' re getting very
3 excited . Our commission is really
4 advocacy . And we also look at things
5 that the Town send us to see , you know,
6 get our opinions on because we do live
7 here also . And I think this -- I ' m
8 really excited . We ' re all excited that
9 we ' re finally going to see some things .
10 And as far as the questions that this
11 gentleman asked about the subsidy . As
12 far as the rest of the Community
13 Housing Plan, there are places in that
14 Community Housing Plan for people who
15 are doing ADU ' s and also people who are
16 first time home buyers and things like
17 that . That Community Housing Plan took
18 a while and the people that worked on
19 it, my hats off to them because they
20 really and truly -- we all got serious
21 about this finally . We ' ve been pushing
22 it down the road for a long time . And
23 that Community Housing Plan that we now
24 have in place really touches on every
25 single issue of Affordable Workforce
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1 Housing in the Town . And this is a
2 really exciting time for all of us . So
3 thanks to everybody .
4 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : Thank you .
5 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Thank
6 you for your work .
7 UNKNOWN SPEAKER : Oh, well . I ' m
8 just one of those volunteers .
9 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
10 Margaret, welcome .
11 MARGARET DE CRUZ : Yes . My
12 question is about Greenport . Can you
13 just tell me, are we included in this ?
14 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Yes .
15 MARGARET DE CRUZ : You just
16 mentioned something --
17 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Yes .
18 Yes , absolutely . Julie, can you give
19 the specifics of how the Village would
20 be able to take advantage of this
21 program?
22 ASST . TOWN ATTORNEY JULIE
23 MCGIVNEY : So now that there is an
24 implementation plan and framework
25 hopefully going to be adopted tonight,
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1 the Village now can see that and opt
2 into by resolution, opt into the plan .
3 When they do that, then the Town Board
4 will accept it and there ' ll be an
5 inter-municipal agreement between the
6 Village and the Town of Southold to
7 formalize everything that will be going
8 on between the Village and the Town .
9 So yes .
10 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : And I ' ll
11 just add to that . How we see it is if
12 there ' s a developer that wants to
13 develop something in the Village of
14 Greenport, the Village of Greenport has
15 to develop their process of accepting a
16 project under their rules and
17 regulations . Because they have their
18 own Building and Zoning and Planning .
19 And then they would have to send us
20 send us something formally that they
21 accept this project for Affordable
22 Housing . And then we could vet it
23 through our program . But we , you know,
24 we don ' t want to start vetting a
25 project through the program of the
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1 Village of Greenport, it it ' s not
2 willing to see it through .
3 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : There
4 might, you know, there might be
5 something in the Village that they have
6 to take action on before it could be
7 built . So we want to start with the
8 Village . So the short answer is yes
9 and the long answer is , yes .
10 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Anyone
11 else ?
12 (No Response) .
13 COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI : All
14 right . I will make a motion that we
15 close this public hearing .
16 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : Second .
17 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : All in
18 favor?
19 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : Aye .
20 COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI : Aye .
21 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Aye .
22 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : Aye .
23 JUSTICE LOUISA EVANS : Aye .
24 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Aye .
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1 PUBLIC COMMENTS
2 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : All
3 right . Now is there anyone who would
4 like to speak to any matter?
5 BARBARA NOSOS : Hi . I am Barbara
6 Nosos with North Fork Beach Condos on
7 Route 48 . I just wanted to start by
8 saying thank you . Every time I attend
9 a meeting, either through Zoom or in
10 person, I learn a lot and I feel more
11 involved in the community . And tonight
12 learned that I could potentially give
13 back by joining a committee and having
14 something else to offer . Another
15 reason I came was to bring up I guess
16 observation and concern . A few members
17 asked me to reach out to the Town . So
18 I called Public Works . I spoke to Tim
19 and also Recreation and Janet
20 concerning the Town Beach, which is now
21 Lieutenant George R . Sullivan Beach .
22 And they explained that they put sand
23 down and just in a week ' s time, the
24 storm just washed everything away,
25 which kind of blew my mind . I had no
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1 idea and then I took a walk myself and
2 saw where the I guess new -- like high
3 high -- high tide watermark is and --
4 yeah, the waves were just crashing and
5 it just created that three foot drop
6 where they did put the sand . And we
7 also explained that it ' s hard finding
8 and in order to replenish and keep the
9 beach there in good condition . And
10 they are aware, but there ' s just not
11 much you could do with the forces of
12 nature . I don ' t know . I ' d like to
13 help on a committee like that . First
14 of all , I started coming up with ideas ,
15 I ' m sure . Michael the engineer ' s got
16 some work to do there and some thought
17 process . I don ' t know if it ' s on
18 anyone else ' s minds or --
19 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Yeah .
20 Thank you for offering or appreciate
21 that . And thanks to Tim Abrams and
22 DPW, the Highway Department, they
23 cobbled together quite a bit of sand
24 there over the Winter . A lot of
25 questions why is it sand pile there and
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1 the answer was easy, we want to save
2 that sand till the last possible moment
3 before Memorial Day . Spread it . So
4 we ' ll have a beach for the summertime
5 at least . And they did that . They
6 spread the sand and within one day
7 Mother Nature reclaimed it all . And
8 that was that was the end of the beach .
9 So it just shows you how, you know, sea
10 level rise has really affected that
11 beach . It ' s affected a lot of our
12 waterfront . That beach, it ' s really
13 traumatic . ' Cause everyone can see
14 what happened . So the plan has been
15 for the past year, working with our
16 government liaison, working with our
17 Highway Superintendent, Dan Goodwin, of
18 course our engineer, Michael Collins ,
19 and working with Long Island Sound to
20 pull the parking lot back a little and
21 try to build a dune system and vegetate
22 it, to provide some sort of a buffer .
23 And that ' s , I think they ' re gonna be
24 successful in that effort, but really
25 it ' s up to Mother Nature to see what ' s
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1 gonna survive there . We ' re also
2 working with Suffolk County DPW on the
3 elevation of the Road . That ' s been
4 identified in their County ' s resiliency
5 plan . It ' s a County road . It ' s got
6 very low elevation . That section by
7 Town Beach and it ' s also by Mattituck
8 Inlet, it ' s very low . And there is
9 going to be money in Suffolk County
10 Public Works to start the process of
11 engineering . You know, elevating those
12 roads because it ' s a major roadway in
13 the Town . Raising the whole road
14 there, yeah . Because if you look at
15 the elevation of the road at the beach,
16 it ' s very it ' s very close . You have a
17 front row seat there you see what how
18 high the water gets so .
19 BARBARA NOSOS : It ' s just the time
20 though, it just happens so quick . I
21 don ' t think anyone was expecting it .
22 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Yeah,
23 so that ' s quite a lesson for us all .
24 So thank you for your offer . Please
25 contact my office .
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1 BARBARA NOSOS : Yeah, thank you so
2 much .
3 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : And I just
4 wanted for the people that don ' t know,
5 the Town also has to get permits when
6 we do jobs on the beach and stuff from
7 other agencies . So that ' s something
8 that we ' re limited on . We ' re told, you
9 know, it ' s not like we can just find
10 sand and dump there . We have to get
11 approval .
12 BARBARA NOSOS : Wait and approval .
13 And again, time, no one is expecting it
14 to get so bad . It ' s okay . So, yeah .
15 Thank you very much .
16 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Thank
17 you .
18 COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI : Thank
19 you .
20 ERIC MCCLURE : Hi , Eric McClure
21 from Mattituck . So I came in a couple
22 weeks ago, the last meeting, to raise
23 my ongoing concerns about the noise
24 coming from Strong ' s Water Club and
25 Windemere . But you know it continues
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1 pretty much every time there ' s a
2 performance . And I had told you a
3 couple weeks ago that I had called the
4 police one of those instances . And
5 Officer Deering came and he said he
6 spoke to them and they said they were
7 monitoring it and the sound was
8 bouncing around . And something sat
9 with me after that, but it occurred to
10 me, because you know, I ' ve kind of
11 always thought that with the way that
12 water amplifies sound and
13 scientifically that the sound waves
14 bounce off the water, that maybe it was
15 quieter on their side and they ' re
16 actually monitoring it and it gets
17 louder as it comes across the water to
18 our side of the creek . So I actually
19 drove in there one afternoon the
20 following weekend . Just to see if that
21 was the case . And I rolled the window
22 down in the car, and I couldn ' t believe
23 how loud it was . As loud as it is on
24 our side of the water, it was louder at
25 the source . So I went back a couple
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1 times over the weekend with the decibel
2 meter . And there were stretches where
3 I recorded where the entire song
4 exceeded the Town Code of 65 decibels .
5 It was bouncing around above 60 into
6 the 70 ' s for the entire song . So
7 either they have a faulty decibel
8 meter, or they ' re not telling the truth
9 about how loud it is . And they ' re not
10 really making any effort to moderate
11 the noise and mitigate the situation .
12 So a long way around of saying, I
13 really implore the Town to do something
14 about this . I don ' t know how often
15 someone actually goes over there from
16 the Town with a decibel meter to take
17 readings , but you know this was two
18 days in a row, two nights in a row,
19 Friday and Saturday . Where they were
20 consistently beyond the noise level .
21 And it doesn ' t -- this -- it actually
22 does dissipate coming across the water
23 a little bit, but not a lot, because we
24 consistently get readings that are
25 above the code level . So I also would
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1 like to just take this opportunity to
2 say I ' ve been coming for a few years .
3 My entities have not changed that
4 outcome at all . So if Mr . Supervisor,
5 if I could come talk to you about this
6 and get members of the Board, who would
7 like to join in on that, I think a
8 meeting is warranted because I would
9 like to figure out a way to make it
10 better .
11 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : You ' re
12 welcome to come in .
13 ERIC MCCLURE : Okay, I will reach
14 out . I ' ve got a busy week, but I will
15 do so as soon as I can . And I ' ll just
16 also say that I ran into a neighbor
17 last night in town on Love Lane , who
18 asked about the sound . She lives about
19 a third of a mile north of us . So Wood
20 cliff and Grand Avenue . So farther
21 away . And she said they can hear the
22 sound whenever the bands are playing .
23 They go in their house . If they close
24 the door or the window, they don ' t hear
25 it anymore . They don ' t get the
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1 vibration and the window shaking and
2 boom, boom, boom of the bass and drums
3 that we get that we just can ' t shut
4 out . So no matter how tightly you
5 close the door or the window .
6 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Not
7 that I ' d see you tonight, but I was
8 speaking to the Chief the other day,
9 and this did come up about looking at
10 the way the Sound Code , the Noise Code
11 is written, because amplified music is
12 one of the biggest complaints that he
13 gets through his department . And it ' s
14 that we recognize as a quality of life
15 issue .
16 ERIC MCCLURE : Thanks . I
17 appreciate that . I know my neighbors
18 don ' t come in and say the same things
19 that I do . I know there is concern, at
20 least with some people in the
21 neighborhood . They have their reasons
22 for not coming forward the way I have ,
23 but I appreciate you guys listening as
24 always and the work the Board does .
25 And I will reach out and see if we can
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1 sit down .
2 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Very
3 good .
4 ERIC MCCLURE : Thank you .
5 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Thank
6 you .
7 COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI : Just if
8 I can add, I know we have discussed
9 potentially amending the overall Sound
10 Code and as we ' re looking at the
11 Special Events Code . It ' s my belief
12 that we may be able to mitigate some of
13 the concerns with just general events
14 that maybe are getting pushed in the
15 Special Event Category . If we do some
16 work on the amplified sound side of
17 code and really kind of being stricter
18 on what ' s allowed, and what ' s not
19 allowed, and what one needs to do to
20 play amplified music, especially
21 outdoors .
22 ERIC MCCLURE : Great . Thank you
23 for that . I did note that the one
24 event at your farm required a Special
25 Event Permit .
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1 COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI : He ' s
2 looking for a refund .
3 ERIC MCCLURE : I will speak out in
4 favor of before -- when it ' s on the
5 agenda . But in that light, there are
6 83 outdoor music events on the calendar
7 for this season at Strong ' s Water Club,
8 none of which are permitted . So that
9 clearly is a hole in the system that
10 doesn ' t work .
11 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Yep .
12 ERIC MCCLURE : Thank you . I
13 appreciate it .
14 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Thank
15 you .
16 ROBERT DUNN : Robert Dunn,
17 Peconic . As you noted, amplified sound
18 brought in order to have amplified,
19 somebody has to turn it up . It ' s not
20 like somebody driving a car in a
21 muscle . Wow . And they have no control
22 over . I mean, with amplified sounds ,
23 somebody would know that and turned the
24 knob around . So why not consider a law
25 that says , if amplified sound breaks
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1 the loop, the second offense , the place
2 can be closed down . For the day or the
3 night . The police can come and order,
4 shut your door . Just like the fire
5 department could, if you were
6 overpopulated . Just -- okay . We were
7 here last week, you got a ticket . You
8 didn ' t pay that ticket yet and we ' re
9 here to give you another ticket we ' re
10 along with this kid ticket comes to
11 shut down order for the rest of today .
12 Hurt him in his pockets . I guarantee
13 you sound will stop .
14 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Thank
15 you .
16 ROBERT DUNN : These people are
17 about money .
18 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : We
19 passed that Sound Code a number of
20 years ago . We tried to really do the
21 best we could, but it was -- it ' s not
22 an easy it was not an easy code to
23 enforce .
24 ROBERT DUNN : We don ' t want to be
25 -- we don ' t want to be saying the same
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1 thing in five years , you know we tried
2 it .
3 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Thank
4 you .
5 RALPH RYDERSEN : My name is Ralph
6 Rydersen and I ' m from Southold Hamlet .
7 And since noise seems to be the ongoing
8 theme I ' d like to speak about the gas
9 powered leaf blowers and perhaps have
10 the Town consider a way to transition
11 out of that incredibly loud noise,
12 polluting . I will be brief ' cause I ' m
13 freezing in here . My teeth are
14 chattering and I ' m not nervous . The
15 pollution factor, the dust that ' s
16 thrown all around, the incredible
17 noise, the State is considering a
18 subsidy to the landscapers to help
19 transition this . Perhaps the Town
20 could show their encouragement toward
21 it . This is a quality of life . We
22 live in a bucolic rustic area, which is
23 spoiled a great deal by this type of
24 noise . And I was hoping that the Town
25 could consider, in some way,
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1 transitioning, perhaps , limiting the
2 amount of time to two seasons . The
3 Spring cleanup and the Fall cleanup,
4 not this incessant blowing the grass
5 and so on . I understand it ' s an
6 economic factor, but there has to be
7 some sort of mitigating factor that
8 would allow the landscapers to
9 transition to electric or God forbid,
10 brakes .
11 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : This
12 has been something that we ' ve heard for
13 quite a while . And all the communities
14 have tried to address it . We are
15 leading in the Zoning update right now,
16 which has taken up quite a bit of our
17 attention as well as other things . So
18 we ' re not going to -- I can ' t promise
19 that you ' re going to jump right into it
20 at the moment, but we do take your
21 concern very seriously .
22 RALPH RYDERSEN : Thank you . But
23 as I ' m saying, if the State is
24 considering the Town of Southold could
25 say to them, we recognize this might be
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1 a very good first step to the
2 implementation and helping us implement
3 it .
4 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
5 wonder what the State is there -- do
6 you know what the State ' s proposing?
7 RANDY WADE : Randy Wade,
8 Greenport . I just want to, you ' re
9 surrounded by towns that have already
10 passed legislation . There ' s already
11 legislation in other parts of Long
12 Island . And I spoke to Serenity
13 Robotic Lawn Care, and he was claiming
14 that his tune of how backpack blowers
15 electric cost him roughly $ 1 , 200 a
16 year, and they saved $2 , 000 in gas .
17 Not to mention the time wasted going to
18 the filling stations to get the gas .
19 And they ' re quite efficient now . The
20 prices have gone down . So honestly,
21 I ' m sorry, I don ' t care about any kind
22 of subsidies . We in, Greenport, now
23 have a new law, and you could save
24 time , you could just copy it and paste
25 it . Or you could take some other
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1 Town ' s Law and copy and paste it . You
2 could send it to the lawyer . You don ' t
3 have to all be talking about it for a
4 long time, like the Rezoning Update .
5 And I know I heard you meeting this
6 morning, you ' re dealing with a lot of
7 stuff, and it ' s a lot of work . But
8 there are so many people, it drives
9 crazy and I feel guilty now because
10 it ' s gotten quieter where I live in
11 Greenport . They passed a law and the
12 funny thing is , even if they aren ' t
13 going around monitoring, most people
14 want to do the legal thing . So I had
15 the guy across the street all the
16 landscapers work on the South Fork also
17 where they ban it . So they have to
18 have electric equipment already . He
19 came over to do the blowing you know
20 afterwards . And I look and it ' s an
21 electric thing and I ' d already argued
22 with them a couple of years ago . Oh,
23 no . He likes his gas-powered leaf
24 blower . So it ' s completely doable .
25 It ' s not a big thing . It ' s
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1 embarrassing that the Town has not
2 addressed it so far . When I talked to
3 people they said, "oh, I signed a
4 petition a couple of years ago .
5 They ' re not going to do anything . " I
6 said that is so not true . I just
7 talked to Al Krupski at the water
8 meeting and he said he is gonna take
9 care of other towns getting our water
10 for filling up for swimming pools .
11 Shelter Island and the South Fork are
12 not gonna get a water anymore . If you
13 set your mind to do something, I said
14 Al Krupski will take care of it . So
15 thank you so much .
16 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
17 guess , thank you .
18 RANDY WADE : You ' ll get in the
19 mail tomorrow a petition that ' s been
20 signed by 99 people .
21 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Thank
22 you .
23 NANCY DUVAL RYDERSEN : So I ' m
24 Nancy Duval Rydersen, Ralph ' s wife .
25 And I did speak at Greenport a year and
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1 a half ago, but I was wearing a red
2 t-shirt . Now I ' m wearing a marble wild
3 t-shirt . So, you as farmers , as native
4 plant enthusiasts , as gardeners , you
5 know that this is such an important
6 issue . Because there ' s the insect
7 apocalypse . We need to save our
8 insects . We need to save our
9 pollinators . We need the birds and
10 butterflies . And everybody loves birds
11 and butterflies . In fact, three of you
12 at least will be honoring the Monarch
13 Way station on Friday at 11 o ' clock .
14 I ' ll be baking cookies by the way . So
15 I hope all of you will come and at
16 Custom Preserve . So we know you ' ve got
17 your heart in the right place . We know
18 that you ' re environmentalists . And as
19 I told Ralph, as we were walking in,
20 yes , you can multi-task because the
21 kids can do it, but you guys can do it
22 better because you ' re smarter . So
23 let ' s get that . Do I give them this
24 now? Oh, I have gifts for you .
25 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : I just
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1 also want to share I was able to go to
2 the Universalist Church . What was the
3 group presenting that night? It was
4 like for Earth Day, Armory Day, the
5 Earth Day panel . And they actually had
6 a contest between a leaf blower and a
7 rake . Pushing leaves across the same
8 distance, the same amount of leaves ,
9 and the rake won . And it was much
10 quieter . They were a little tired .
11 But it was really fascinating .
12 MARJORIE FIELD : I went to that .
13 Marjorie Field, Southold . I just want
14 to say, I ' ve lived here for 50 years ,
15 and things have changed quite a bit .
16 People come and do landscaping . One
17 day is lawn mowing . The other day is
18 blowing the leaves , and then trimming
19 the hedges . It ' s endless . It doesn ' t
20 sound like it takes much to change it .
21 Please . Even if some restrictions .
22 Just come on Fridays . You know,
23 because it seems like one landscaper is
24 one day and then another landscaper is
25 another day and another . We have an
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1 electric lawnmower and we absolutely
2 love it . It doesn ' t throw dust up in .
3 It ' s easier . It ' s easier starting .
4 Everything about it is wonderful .
5 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Thank
6 you .
7 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY :
8 Supervisor, can I just share the work
9 of the Conservation Advisory Council
10 that ' s been investigating this issue
11 for over a year and has reported to the
12 board and given the best information .
13 And is not just looking at it as
14 something that ' s noise , but something
15 as a health concern . And we are
16 consistently researching it, but to
17 Al ' s point, we are also looking at the
18 Zoning Update . We ' re looking at the
19 current water talk with the Suffolk
20 County Water Pipe . So what I just want
21 to tell the public and Chair,
22 Conservation Advisory Council is
23 actively looking at this and looking at
24 new data . Looking at how it affects
25 our neighbors and looking at a path
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1 forward for Southold . So I don ' t want
2 you to think that we ' re not doing
3 anything . And I just want to encourage
4 everybody that spoke to come to the
5 Conservation Advisory Council . Share
6 your data . Share the way that it
7 affects our community and that we have
8 a growing concern for the men and women
9 that operate those machines , and that
10 savvy business owners are already doing
11 the switchover to electric . So how do
12 we engage the stakeholders and the
13 landscapers that are doing this work?
14 And some of them are savvy in investing
15 in these future technologies already .
16 So I don ' t want you to think that the
17 people investing in their companies are
18 not investing in these things that
19 you ' re saying are healthier, and less
20 noise and less annoying and less
21 everything . Less more quality of life .
22 So I just want to make sure that you
23 understand that we are looking at this .
24 And I always encourage any public
25 citizen to come and report to the
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1 Conservation Advisory Council and that
2 will be reported to the Board .
3 RANDY WADE : When would the CAC be
4 invited to speak to the Board? What ' s
5 the schedule?
6 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : We ' re
7 going to discuss it . And I ' ve
8 mentioned to you personally that
9 they ' re looking at the Zoning Update
10 and they ' re currently engaged in that
11 work . So perhaps once the Zoning
12 Update . And, you know, it ' s one thing
13 to have your set of timing, but we have
14 to have the appropriate set of timing
15 for the Town and for the CAC . I will
16 never rush any testimony that ' s crucial
17 to the Board to hear . And the people
18 of the Conservation Advisory Council
19 say that themselves . That they want to
20 make sure they have all their ducks in
21 a row and want to give a proper report .
22 So I can ' t give you a specific date,
23 but I want you to know that there ' s a
24 continual work . And if you have
25 something to share with the CAC, come
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1 to the CAC and share it .
2 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : To
3 your question, the Town Board has asked
4 the Planning Director, who ' s running
5 the Zoning Update, to ask the request
6 from all the Town Committees that are
7 applicable , to get involved and engage
8 in the Zoning Update process . Because
9 we want all the information up front so
10 we can end the Zoning Update process .
11 So they ' re -- they ' re all -- or most of
12 the volunteer committees have been
13 tasked with working on that --
14 RANDY WADE : As I believe they
15 have . Whatever information they ' ve got
16 at this point, I would highly encourage
17 you to accept it . Forward to the Town
18 Attorney and say copy any one of the
19 codes of the Town ' s surrounding us . We
20 need to do something . We ' re not going
21 to waste time talking about it, because
22 we ' re too busy going and listening on
23 the Rezoning Update . So, Attorney, we
24 can trust you to just pick one .
25 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
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1 There ' s more than that too . You know,
2 it rained today, and I can guarantee
3 you there were a number of automatic
4 lawn sprinklers .
5 RANDY WADE : That ' s a good one .
6 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Still
7 running, and we ' re trying to --
8 RANDY WADE : No, I ' m glad you got
9 the Attorney working on that . That ' s
10 great . You ' re doing a lot of good
11 things .
12 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Very
13 active on that also .
14 RANDY WADE : Yeah, just add this .
15 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Thank
16 you for advocating .
17 TOWN ATTORNEY PAUL DECHANCE : And
18 let me say, I appreciate your comments ,
19 Ms . Wade, but my office doesn ' t copy
20 codes from other towns . So I ' m not
21 sure that we would do that .
22 RANDY WADE : Oh, okay .
23 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : Well , yeah,
24 there ' s a lot more to it . We just
25 don ' t copy and paste .
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1 COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI : He ' s
2 pride of authorship .
3 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Is
4 there anyone else who would like to
5 address the Board?
6 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : I promise I
7 will be brief . Benjamin Schwartz . So,
8 this new book is , it is -- it is not
9 titled Volunteer Committee . And yet,
10 in the Town Code , it says very simply,
11 "Members shall serve without
12 compensation . " But in this book, it
13 says , "Members shall serve without
14 compensation unless specified otherwise
15 in the Resolution Creating Committee . "
16 Why is there a discrepancy? Are there
17 any committee members that are being
18 paid at present, or are they being
19 paid?
20 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Yes .
21 And Paul , I ' d like if you could -- we
22 are looking into that, how that came to
23 be, and if in fact that should
24 continue .
25 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : Thank you .
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1 TOWN ATTORNEY PAUL DECHANCE : Mr .
2 Schwartz , why don ' t I ask you to
3 contact my office . I ' d be happy to
4 provide you with any information that
5 you need . It ' s difficult when you ' re
6 just reading one thing and trying to
7 compare it to another . We can explain
8 to you maybe in a little bit more depth
9 what you ' re looking at and hopefully
10 that would resolve some of the issues
11 that you believe that you have .
12 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : I will try
13 again . I have contacted your office
14 and your office has been very helpful ,
15 as have most of the offices in Town
16 are . You know, last time I did that,
17 people were permitted into the meeting,
18 but the agenda for the following
19 meeting still lacks the category that
20 used to be there . Permitting
21 attendance in person . So I would hope
22 that if we do discuss something,
23 there ' ll be a follow-up through .
24 TOWN ATTORNEY PAUL DECHANCE : I
25 think you ' re referring to the LPC
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1 again . Again, why don ' t you contact my
2 office, we can talk about whatever
3 you ' d like .
4 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : I will
5 also take a look at how the agenda is
6 stated, just to be sure .
7 TOWN ATTORNEY PAUL DECHANCE :
8 Thank you . I have some background
9 info .
10 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : One last
11 thought that you just reminded me of,
12 there ' s Records Advisory Board, has
13 that met recently? I ' m unable to find
14 any minutes from it .
15 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
16 don ' t recollect that .
17 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : You know, the
18 Town ' s website, it ' s in the section of
19 10 lawful under the title Records . And
20 it establishes a Records Advisory
21 Board . In the website it says there ' s
22 a Town Board liaison to be appointed .
23 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : So one
24 of the next steps in the committee
25 update work that will happen next
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1 because we focused first on
2 functioning, getting the committees
3 functioning properly . The next step is
4 to create a directory and go through
5 all of the committees that are listed
6 on the website . Find the resolution or
7 code that established those and be sure
8 those committees , A, may or may not
9 still exist and work for whatever
10 reason or never deleted . And then to
11 update their mission statements to be
12 sure they ' re aligned with the current
13 Comprehensive Plan . But that ' s going
14 to take us some time . In that vein,
15 the Town website was first posted in
16 one forum on November 28 , 2001 .
17 Approximately two dozen years ago . The
18 current Town website was posted
19 September 12 , 2012 . 12 years ago and
20 counting . The Town still doesn ' t have
21 a web developer, web designer position .
22 The Data Processing Department was
23 renamed to the Information Management
24 Technology Department . And it ' s still
25 adding things to the website , but
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1 there ' s nobody that ' s going through
2 there . And I think that should be a
3 function . Article 59 records should
4 probably be brought up in front of the
5 Town Code Committee , which, by the way,
6 is also missing in action from the
7 website , with the exception of a recent
8 meeting from which the video is posted .
9 But the Code Committee , I would ask if
10 it would consider revising Article 59
11 records to recognize the existence of
12 the website ' s , including the Laserfiche
13 database, on which most of the Town
14 relies now for record keeping . Article
15 59 records is all about paper records .
16 And I ' m not even sure that it records
17 exist anymore .
18 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : I also
19 wanted to clarify your earlier question
20 on the website under Government and
21 then "committee ' s " they ' re listed by
22 alphabetically A through D there are
23 four sections dividing up the alphabet .
24 Categorizing all of the committees and
25 the first link that you ' ll see under
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1 each of those sections is Town of
2 Southold Committee Handbook . And
3 that ' s where you ' ll find the -- besides
4 the Laserfiche, you ' ll find the
5 recently posted copy of the handbook .
6 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : In the
7 committees ?
8 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : Yeah .
9 Where it says Committees A through D,
10 and then it says agriculture .
11 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : I looked there
12 yesterday, I didn ' t find it .
13 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : It
14 probably just got up late yesterday
15 because he said it to me yesterday .
16 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : No, well , you
17 know, I have another job, too .
18 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : I just
19 wanted you to know where it was in case
20 you want to see the digital form.
21 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : I will look
22 tonight . Okay . There ' s still no web
23 page for the Town Supervisor and the
24 Town . And if you like , if you need
25 help writing the content for that, I ' d
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1 be happy to help you . The confusion,
2 you speak of the page about committees .
3 There ' s a page about departments that
4 includes the Zoning Board of Appeals as
5 a Department . The Zoning Board of
6 Appeals was created by State Law as a
7 Board . And there ' s also confusion
8 between the committees that have
9 exclusive -- only advisory authority
10 and there are committees , which boards
11 created, which have both mandatory
12 advisory authority and other
13 quasi-judicial powers . The problem
14 with the confusion that exists is that
15 those boards don ' t always do their
16 duties . Because they don ' t know --
17 they don ' t understand their duties .
18 Well , it ' s not just the public .
19 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
20 think that the Handbook will help to
21 reorganize and direct them and like I
22 said, they ' ve been directed down to
23 work on the specific tasks on the
24 zoning update .
25 BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ : If the
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1 Handbook is clarified and corrected, it
2 might be helpful .
3 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Thank
4 you . All right . Is there any other
5 comment here?
6 (No Response) .
7 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I ' m
8 looking at the Zoom .
9 COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI : I will
10 make a motion we adjourn .
11 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : Second .
12 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : All in
13 favor?
14 COUNCILWOMAN DOHERTY : Aye .
15 COUNCILMAN GREG DOROSKI : Aye .
16 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Aye .
17 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : Aye .
18 JUSTICE LOUISA EVANS : Aye .
19 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Aye .
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22 adjourned . )
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8 I further certify that I am not
9 related either by blood or marriage to
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11 that I am in no way interested in the
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