HomeMy WebLinkAboutTB-08/12/1999-FIAUGUST 12, 1999 SOUTHOLD TOWN BOARD
REGULAR MEETING
A Regular Meetin9 of the Southold Town Board was held on August
12, 1999~ at Fishers Island, Southold, New York. Supervisor Cochran
opened the meeting at 1:30 P.M. with the P edge~of Allegiance to the Flag.
Present:
Absent:
Supervisor Jean W. Cochran
Councilwoman Alice J, Hussie
Justice Louisa P. Evans
CounCilman William D. Moore
Councilman John M. Romanelli
Town Clerk Elizabeth A. Neville
Town Attorney Gregory, F. Yakaboski
Councilman Brian C. Murphy
SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: I understand we have a special treat [oday. We
are 9oing to have a presentation from IPP.
NANCY HUNT: Nancy Hunt, President of the Civic Association, and we
have Sam Horn, and I believe her name is Chelsea Skinner, and Clint,
who is a counselor from IPP, and the children have made something for
the Board to say, thank you very, very much for the purchase of the
property that is behind Dock Beach. We all appreciate it, but the children
most of all, and we look forward to working with the Board, and with the
island people, and With the Southold Parks and Recreation Department., and
the children, and Alice I am so sorry. Apparently th6"letter was written
and we forgot to mention your name. It was my 'fault, but it was
inadvertent. I think it was Highway Department, but sorry. So, the
children will do the presentation now.
CHELSEA SKINNER: My name is Chelsea Skinner. On behalf of IPP
we would like to thank the Town's fathers and mothers for purchasing the
parking lot by Dock Beach.
SAM HORN: Thank you. My name is Sam Horn.
SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Thank you. Very nice. What do we have here?
Very, very nice. This is going to go in Town Hall over on the mainland.
We are going to hang it up. We will tell them about the land acquisition and
being able to now develop a playground, picnic tables for all you young
people, and older people, too. We thank you. Each year we go through the
introductions of officials. I stand here, and last year, I believe Bill
helped me read all the names, and we have a nice turnout, and it does give
County and both our local municipality, and County, and State, the
opportunity to greet and meet people of Fishers Island, but also any
business. I know Lieutenant Cochran had some appointments, and the
firemen have a meeting, and so on and so forth, so it is utilized for
business in addition to just the pleasure of arriving at Fishers Island. I
think what I am going to do, because I would like everybody to know who
is here, I am going to let you introduce yourself this year. It may take a
moment, but each year I just read through these names and nobody has a
.face and a name together. I think it is important that when you hear a
name you can at least picture the face that goes with it. So, Mary, I am
going to ask you to start. We are going to go up and down here, then we
are going to go up .and down here, then we are going to hi~, there and
SOUTHOLD TOWN BOARD AUGUST 12~ 1999
across the back. I think you can all project, and say what your name is
who you are.
Mary Wilson, Assistant Town AttOrney. Maureen Porter .and my husband·
Elliot Porter, residents of the Island. Nancy Hunt· resident of the Island,
and President of the. Fishers Island Civic Association. Chip DuPont,
resident of the Island· and Fishers Island Ferry Commissioner. Ellen
Parker. Peter Rugg. I have been here on and off for seventy years. Still
coming iback. Mike McCree, year round resident. Brad Burnham. Sue
Horn· year round resident, and member of the School Board. Ray Cowen,
Regional Director of the New York State DEC over in Stony Brook on the
mainland of the United states of America. Katherine MUrphy, DEC Regional
Office. John Ski, island pilot, and bulldozer operator. Mark Lowery NeTM
York State DEC Public Service Advisor Stony Brook· Scott Russell one of
of Southold, Mark Cerrara DEC, Steve .Jones
Bob Scott one of the Assessors. Gerald
the
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Peter
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member
Friends of Fort
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our 350th
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· Land Preservation
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S6Uthold. George
Kevin McAIlister
ce of the Ag
nn Thatcher,
on the Southold ToWn Tran
Iter Island.
York Emergency Man~
of Ethics. Fred Dan
Probation Department.
John Raynor,
fear round resident.
Schlos, SuffolkCounty ..Clerk
Chief. Bill Bleyer, NeW.~da¥.
New York State DEC.
'. Don Fredericks,
;hers Island Conser
USDA Plum
Agency. Ed Hubbard
ToWn Of Sootho!d.
FaXeS. Harris
Preservation
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of Ethics. Glenn Just,
hers Island Schoo!l. Kydd,
New York DiEC Loreh~e,
Suffolk Cou
ounty Division of Real
Doug McKay, New York State
]ricultural Advisory
of Health. Salvatm
Norris. Robin Palmer.
Director's Assistant. Rict 3rd of
County Department
y's Office. Norman
ly Rhodes-Teague, Suffolk County the
a, Cornell Cooperative Ex,tension. Thomas
Chief's Council. Chris smith, Co,nell
Brendon Vail, Suffolk County Clerk's Office,
Ik County Red Cross, Town ~atkir~s, Greenp0rt
Motorola. Patricia Zielenski, NeW York State
si, !RVISOR COCHRAN: :l'hank you one :and all. My staff, Ruthanne
ull, she usc~allyI answers the phone, and we have Melanie Doroski,
al: we bear.to;wed one from Betty's office, Liz Stathis. Thank you for
ladies. I !will send you all flowers tomorrow. They will hold me to
it, At I would like to introduce to you our State
A-. Acampora, who would like to offer greetings to the
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ASSEMBLYWOMAN ACAMPORA: I don't know how this came out. Did your
Town Board introduce themselves? It is my pleasure to be here, and I
always like to take the opportunity to make this trip, because it is kind of
difficult to get here, and of course after you spend a long session in
Albany I look upon today, even though it was raining, as my boat cruise
and one day of vacati6n. It is also very good to be here .because we get to
actually put the face to the name that we talk to people on the phone, and
of course, Fishers Island has had it's problems with variqus departments in
the State of New York over the past few years, and of course, it has been
my pleasure to always· be the advocate, and. work W'th;~-
those problems. I notice there are the Superintendents here from the school
district. We did gOod this year for Fishers Island. I 4hink you will be
happy. ! don't know if you still have the State Aid, but they are good,
and there were some things we did good in the bUd~et.~: Ther~ were some
things that we could have done better, and I guess
has to keep going around. We need to do my
honor to .cbm~ here, and t°~ have the commun th
advocating on behalf of those things that are im of
Fishers Island, certainly on behalf of all the residents: of York when
we are talkin~ about a~eas of the environment, and' the Long
Island Sound. That is One Of the reasons why this~
while all of Long Island: and the First' Assembly D[stri
and we all know that if we don't :take care Of
we don~t care of'our environment that there is
here; it is sonde, thing that is truly important to
to . .o working with al of you. John Thatcher iai
contact and office member, I think, because we do on
the Phone, but John has never steered me wrong, a ha:s been
very helpful in.' educating me to a lot of the issues to
all of us here in, this room. sO, I will be a~round, if g
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they 'feel
and 'it
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have a
year
need to tell me, come on over and
that we only get to come here once a '
fdi~ all of you because I don't
kind of opportunity to have
and all the different agencies,
and want to do the
some new friends, and i w
part of' my
'rom various
and' want tO
SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Thank you, Pat. I ~would like to introduce to
you now the Board, and then I have two presentations I would like to
make. On my left is Councilman John Romanelli. Next to John is Alice
HUs~?, COuncilWoman, DePuty 'Supervisor and CoUncilman Bill MOore. On
my right 'ils: our Town Clerk Betty Neville, and your favorite COuncilwoman
Louisa Ev~ans, and' On the end is our Town Attorney Cre~ Yakaboski. That
is the team that works together. Brian Murphy, he is in the wholesa!e
busln'ess for nursery stock, and he is up in Canada right ndw! buying his
Christmas trees, so. we do miss Brian today. I have two presentations I
would like to make, and one is to the Fishers Island Fire Department. As
you 'may, 'or may not know, and maybe you saw some of It, but we do have
some ip~ctures of the airlift over here. Now, we were s~ttlng over in Orient
Point; with fog'so thick we couldn't see our hand in' front of oui' face, and
the Natlona A~r Guard was able to fy over, but they couldn t see us. I
mean~the 'whole world, was sunshine except Orient Point, so we were unable
to C~mplete the mmsioni but the mission has been rescheduled for
September 11th. The same people' will be involved. Colonel Ittiny has
already ordered a second sling, and we will be working With twoI helicopte~-s
this time, so there are ten cars left. We expect to move them on September
10th and do it~ all in one day. So, that will be out of the way, but there
were ~a= lot of different~groups. If you notice the sign, one of which was the
Fishers Island Fire Department, and the Orient Point Fire Department that
helped us, so I believe the Chief is here. Would you please? We would llke
to present you with this certification of appreciation, because we are going
to ask you to be available again September 11th. A Certificate of
Appreciation presented to the Fishers Island Fire Department, it'~s voluntary
assistance of it's fire-fighters and rescue personnel helped the New York
Army National Guard towards the completion of it's mission regarding the
project of Fishers Island Auto Air Lift, July 23 to 25, 1999. With
collaboration of th'~~ New York State Parks and Recreation and Historic
I~relirVildOn, NeW ,Y~Pk ~f, ll~,e Department, of Envlr~nmentmi
5uff Ik County O~p~rtm~nt of Parks, Recrea~mn, Preser~tmn and
SOUTHOLD TOWN BOARD AUGUST 12, 1999
Conservation, and the Town of Southold. So, we say thank you to your
men for helping us out. You will get another letter on the 11th. Ray, I
am going to give this to you. We had Captain Conklin, excellent,
excellent member of the Department. He was supposed to be here today,
but the weather may have changed his mind. I know that the people of
Fishers Island were very appreciative of the open space we were able to
buy here, and we felt it was important for you also. You have your beach
there. It is where the. kids have their swimming lessons. It was a long
road, but thanks to people like our speaker we were able to get there, and
the ToWn now owns the Fitzgerald property, both by .the beach and
and the and yes, the RecreatiOn Committee is
meet with some of your people, or what
your ~ey, so we certainly~can't build sheds,
and buil s, feel that we can put some play equipment~ .or picnic
table; to 'enhance the .area~ for the residents of Fishers ['~land, so we would
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~¢ommunicate back and forth with that with you... One of the
so hard to bring t.h. is all abo.u.t was Dick Ryan.: Dick
the Land Preservation Committee, '~and he is One 0f
nment that makes a lot.of things happen, and
g as much land asr we can is a good
Is going to share some of~: land :pr.ese~vation
let's give him a warm we!.Cdme. D~¢k Ryan.
DI ,i: the kind words, Jean. i feel like we ought to
ha up on stage here already for a performance. Jean
ha share with you all where we are at with respect to
ou the~ town, So, I put together~ some information,
some statistics here in the front at least that I extracted out of the
ag~|ct that is in the formative stages at the moment,
th~/c' to where we are going to go with our farmland
~e town at least. Within all of that data is some
to share with you. That our town is comprised of
ap[ of~ land,, that the community preservation plan,
whi . of the enactment of the 2% transfer tax
last now is in place, and within that plan has
idm about 6,5u~5 acres comprising about 500 parcels, that are
in this preservation plan, as being protected in some manner
that area represents about 98% of the Town's total
our town we have a little over 10,000 acres, that
is Itu~e Production in one form or another. That makes up about
been: identified through the inventory process we did
as lY. We have pending in our acquisition efforts
on our plate in front of our committee, and I
bors of our committee, that are here today.
Je a shot at that, but I want to recognize them again.
~Joe Krukowski, and Peter Burr are members of this
and as a Chairman I can tell you I greatly appreciate their
attendance at the meetings, and the contributions to our
In the 'fairmland component of our land preservation efforts we
iUp on our plate now that total ab6ut 180 acres, and
cost of about 1.8 million in the purchase of development
ow we succeed is largely depe~:dent on what kind
of, owners give back to us as we make an offer to
bu We try hard enough that'l like to feel that
we of the success of being ablei to buy these 180
our open space component of our-land preservation
it there are five properties that in~. a process leading
base and preservation. The total is around 155 acres,
an=;~ estimated .cost of about $2,000,000 to those; They
rur[ shore fronts to wetlands. They are all considered to
nsitive. As one uses those words that three proposals
on is somewhat restrictive because of the
so hopefully we will be able to buy them at a
rather limited potential sense of development, but
.ill reflects that they do have values ~n the overall
and 'the world we are living in, in the Town of
icularl¥1~ whether they are wetlands or woodlands, or shore
We are going to pay the price that the market suggests they
These; p~oposed acquisitions are candidates also for matching
gr~ant Ifunding from the State and/or the. County, and/or
pr groups. Son~etimes during the pi-ocess of acquisit on often times as
a end result of a successful acquisition once they are owned by the town
then you can make an application for some supplemental funding to the cost
of those purchases. La nd Preservation Committee and Community
Preservation Project Plan funded by this Board and our town are one and
the same. They are both legislatively created entities that are made up of
~ixty volunteers. The'~e are farmers on them, There are retired State
employees on them. There is County employees on. There is retired
business administrators.' on. They are male and female. We have a great
time. We wOrk well together. We think we are accemplishing a lot. We are
continuously recommending proposed land preservation projects for purchase
to the ToWn Board; At,the present t~he Town has something in the area of
$2,000,000 in acquisition funds available to. suppert these purchases that we
are workina. As I said those will be supplemented by, additional funds from
other SourCes, hopefully. The Town's program of~ land preservation~,i~
voluntarY, that is to say we need participation of the property /ne
only mechanism we are using to acquire these lands ting
purchase:, so ~it is' important ~ that we stay in harmony, I be
sensitive to the needs and the wishes and the
owners as. we try to balance that with our
wishes and of: the community. Land
Preservation who are here, have me1 the
Fishers Island f 'to explore some avenues, vehicles
some fort land areas here on Fishers Island, and i suSpeCt o Peter
Burr~ and Louisa, -and~ perhaps us on the committee II
that directly ~to ': propertY owners, and in probably m~re
Sl~and c ies. I hope that we halve.
see accomplish and insure lands that are
important to Island. Thank you very
SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Thank you, Dick. Our !~ext speaker is Kevin
MCAIli~ h he is baykeeper of the Peconic Bay, which is on
the ,the mainland, rather ~e two forks, but
I some he has to share with be of interest to
you e'is a very knowledg, eab e young man;~ When I start saying
young, boy, I am ih trouble. Kevln is going t° :shaire with us some of not
only his duties; but Ithink some issues in this area.
KEVIN MCALLISTER: Perhaps. Good afternoon everyone. I would
certainly like to acknOWledge Jean first and foremost,:Ifor inviting me today.
Thank you, and ce~i~tainly for the opportunity to si to everyone. I would
,also like to ackn6~ledge the board for their support. From the
inception of my w~rk they have been behind me o,n ~ number of initiatives.
Thank you very, mdch~ I guess I wil start with a~ li~tle history to what the
-~aykeei~er~ I~loveme"~ i;, or the keeper movement, :Back,in the 70's there
Was so~ie Serious :~:oncern about pollution 'issues in the Hudson River. There
was a fishermen=s !group that felt that they were having difficu, lty dealing
with some of 1he~ issues. Perhaps our government wasn't paying enough
attention t(~ ~t; Bi,g, ~ndustry had a great deal ~at they weren,t
changing so they felt they had to control of themselves.
So, fr the inception of the Hudso~ iver Keeper. That is
really modeled: aft~ basical y the British Isles. Ti re was one individual
that oversaw par~icuiar rivers and streams. Since that time between an
individual John? Cronin, the Hudson River Keeper, andi Robert Kennedy,
Jr., they have!had monumental success in cleanin~g up. t, he vital estuary. It
took twenty years time, a lot of battles, but ~erta ni~' if you read the
papers that stay abreast of the issues the Hudson River today is in a lot
better shape than,it was twenty years ago. Tha~ g~ave birth to the Keeper
Movement. Frem that time Keeper started popping up all.over. So, there is
now 36 of us':th~oughout the country and Canada:' There is a lot more
abroad. Our ~ole,ii~,to act as. really a watchdog of a particular water body,
and represent that Water body. So, in respect to Pecon[c System first and
,foremost I represent:' the bays. My employer is you folks, the public. That
is who I answer to~; the accountability of myself, mY own soul in what is
right, 'but again,' being an on .government organization it is really the
public's will at the end. So, I rely on public as.well as foundation support
for my work. I guess with respect to the Peconlcs, I try to be a
watchdog out here staying abreast, of what the issues are, spending time on
the water to have first, hand knowledge, work to make a full time
commitment to the ~rotection of the environmental economic health of the
estuary. We should all know, and this is a tremendous place, and again I
thank you for the. hospitality of Fishers. Island. Our estuaries are at
SOUTHOLD TOWN BO_A~I/D AUGUST 12, 1999
crossroads. Now is the time .when ,we have to start really .paying attention
to the demand from our pubhc officials that they. do the right thing. With
that said I see a key role with respect to the PecOnlc system. Very soon
will be advanced the comprehensive plan. With. that plan there are a lot of
initiatives~ recommendations, but in some sense they are generalized
initiatives. I think 'my role is really to try to galvanize the public
together and to advance those initiatives. Again, we are at crossroads. We
have got a great opportunity to keep moving forward. On a local level I
Would certainly like to thank John Thatcher for the tour I had today. This
is m~ first opportunity' ~to visit the island, and it is tremendous, and I
~ant to. share, wi.th .you, I. guess a couple of observations. My background
Ps .essentially b!ol0g!cal,~ .marine .biOlogy, marine ecology:, . and coastal
zonng management, academc trainm§, as well as
so out and about any place I
the Clearly I llke to applaud
~!of their land. That impressed me, in
pa 'ienced in Long Island is wha~
mar . .. There is more more trend for )es
~to areas,~, vast lawns, and with
fertilizers ultimately work their Wa'
boc /lng here I could .sense here
ye. They are trying to. live with nature to really
~e second item is really
where the Scottish
and the chemical a
d c~learly see there is a great
green as opposed to
m So, they told me they
because we do
island. You have
I would certainly like to
for as the Conservancy, so
I lye a jewel of a home here
c( water, because make no m~
we are not good stewards
k lng with that a whole
,. Thank you . to
nlty. Last word I would
ion of my purview I want
rea are issues out
u.n~ the extent I can hel
I am there.
you can, when you
be Of ,.some help, and know that I wc you. ~i~k
SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Thank you.
which iwe are holding. Our Labor Attorney
and he!called us the first thing this morning
bad weather he missed the boat, and
tlon until we have some more opportunity
my update as far as the 199~
lng finished up in my office, ~nd
ers, and so forth, so I will be giving
next BOard meeting next week.
~ new numbers there. We
- 11th will be the date, and
ecause they have ordered a sec
get the opportunity to go
third item on my
island. Scratch out
not Bay (~onstable, the third one. I
a Islandi for quite some time. I think it
, considers it. We did do interviews today'.
and you have one person retirin
'st, and then hopefully throuc
~ext coming year we can go on
three for you people, and ho
some young people coming
get more and more
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of constables on the island, and training and some of the other things that
go along with it, we will be doing that. At this time the Town Board has a
policy that if you would llke to address the Town-Board on any given topic
which is Town Board business we would be very happy to entertain your
comments at this time. Is there anyone that would like to share Something,
or address the Town [~0ard?
PETER BURR: I just wanted to acknowledge on the behalf of the Civic
Association, and also the Fishers Island residents how much we appreciate
what Ed Dart and his Tree'Committee' have done for us. We have received
trees every 'year. Fie has' been consistent and 'has followed through. The
Highway Department has been helpful, and if the hurricanes don't take
them all down we hope they grow to be as tall as some of the others. We
really, really do appreciate it. It is a terrific program. Thank you.
SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: You are welcome. I haven't had the opportunity
to talk to Ed yet~ but I think he is going to be~ needed down in New
SuffOlk. As you kn~.w we had a tornado. It was severe as a hurricane can
be~Withobt the flooding, bUt the damage to the environment; and the trees.
I t~hink we lost four roofs off houses in different areas..'it touched down in
Mattituck down Park' Avenue, and then it stopped over~ Kimogenor Point,
and then New Suffolk, and then it: bounced over across Cutchogue Bay,
and across Nassau 'Point. Again, I would hike to say 'thank you to all the
people that were involved from the Cutchogue Fire;! Department, ~and they
called in mutual aid, Southold, and Greenport, and~Mat~titUck, and within
ten minutes after .the happening they wer.e go.ng door.~to.; door makl.ng sur
tha?~ no One was injured. No one was injured. We Ci0n'~'?like~ to th. nk any
further than l~hat.~ There was a time that we thought iperhaps we could
haVe..we had some capsized boats out in the bay, and we sent a diver
out. We' felt they all had to checked, and they~ weYe~.Checked, and thank
Go~l the~e was ho 10ss'0f llfe, but it has done a grea~deal bf damage to .t. he
en.~ironment, so 'between the Highway Department, . and the Pohce
De~artmei~t, and the .Fire Departments, and we db:have the Emergency
Preparedness Plan in Southold, and :throUgh .training they all know their
jo~~, and. 'everyone went and did their job. We had' ~uffolk County come out
wit~ their command post.~ We thank you again, and l~hr0ugh the cooperation
of'i every agency tha;~= Was involved everything went Yery Well. Rayl Jacobs,
out'Highway Superintendent felt he would have mo~t :of it cleaned up by
ye~l~erday noon, but :then of course Once we clean the. highways e~erYbody
dr~gs, it from 'the yard, but we are being., good neighbors. We are going to
ta~ it a'll. It is g~oing into the Land,fill free. If :anyone has d.a. mage to the
ho~se we are giving ~them emergendY building permits, so it,really has
be~r~, asr. i Said to one of the papers, SouthOld p~ople have .a.spirit, and I
kr~o~v the people here on Fishers Island have the .~same spirit> and when
something like this happens you just pick yourself up off the floor, and
keep going, so that is what Southold has done.
JOHN THATCHER: Thank you Jean for those words. I just wanted to
congratulate and thank the entire Town Board for their work over the last
Year or so, particularly on environmental issues, and issues such as
Iobstering, which is so difficult to handle, and the dumplng situation
only a mile off our shores, and lastly pat Acampora has been a gem for
.FiSl~ers Island. I don't know how many people in this room know What she
has done. for us, but. it is substantial, and believe me ver~y much
appreciated. I also~.~want to thank the two members of Cornell CoOperative
Extension who were.' here to primarily inform Fishers-Islanders on such
thii~gs as raising the mussels commerciallyx things like that. It all has
come together today. I just wanted to thank one andr'all. Thank you.
SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Thank you,. ~ John. Anyone else like to address the
Board?
FRANK BURR: Frank Burr. First I want to thank you very much for
addressing the matter of the third Constable. I .d. id speal~ to the Board last
year at ~his time on behalf of Fishers Island C~vic Association, the Police
Action C~mmittee, and Fishers Island Development Corporation. I think .you
understand that we have an awful lot .of months out here where there is no
presence of the excellent New York State Police, who are here basically
from May until December. Even though during those times, which are
obviously are our busiest times with two constables, which are obviously
part time pos|tlons, and the fact that our troopers need time off while they
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are here as well. There are many times when there, is no coverage
whatsoever, and you know of course that there is no presence from full
time police from Southold here. So, frankly, in the months of December
through May the Constables are the law enforcement on Fishers Island, and
given the fact that t.hey are part-time jobs, and they have lives to live,
and jobs to leave, the need for' a third constable to us is' absolutely
essential, and the fact that you are considering it this year is something
that I think we all say, thank you very much for that. 1, .also, want to
just address you for a moment on the subject of the year-round
population. As you know, we, under Brad Burnham's leadership.in the late
80's created the first growth plan for Fishers Island, which has been
updated by subsequent Civic Associations, and one of the tenets of that
report was the fact that the year-round population had declined to over 500
in 1960 to approximately 300 in the late 80's, and to our knowledge the
number today:is appro~(imately 27,5 people. It is a number that concerns us
great ¥. Both the culture of th.s island, the greatness this island, as
services of this island ride on fewer and backs, if you
were g forward e engaged .in a number to try to
if anything, it is fl~ down,
[~as not grown, .and it continues not to to be of
great i;cclncern. ObviOusly, we have' most recently to save
the lobster industry for this island by way of all the have
been undertaken, and try and keep the shores and are~ to Fishers
Island from being fished out by people who are Practices that
are not constant with their own. But, beyond that we is you know an
importan~ that is the Current homes,
wit~ those homes. Walsh I to seek
for the purpose of rental as o~nership. We
t.=,i~s:.deing it's best to maintain with 75 or 80
them coming on the We have .been
suc in. securing a full town Hand, for this
isla ha;yE initiatives in the area of varibus sundry ways of
impro¥ creating more activities, in our
place that people want tO stay on a
year, that one of the issues that the least
t~ha~c we. talked about the original the growth
the reason I stand before yetJ bring
concerned that Fishers ~i=l ant
and this whole community has on; ;the subje 'is to
thinkin.g, we would ask yo~ to i.tl~ink behalf
that m.ght be in Town g~ver~n~nt could be
~ that come to your attention3 ;lin terms of
don't fit there, or could fit th6re as well as here.
we the cottage industry, the ~Sm~tl flight industry the
s islan, d to another level~ ai3dI it i.s espe.cially
ipp~ol ,rmte employment for v~omeh.~ Th? ~.s tended to
guys have found employment ahd.: things that they
have not really been too successful in I~a¥~ng ~h;e same for
that the kinds of things that we envision are
that two, three, four, five peopl~ se it is not only
mai a living, is also is a social environment that most of us
in other ways in our owh business envi'ronment~ so I would just say
.a~s ~¥our work if you could think of o~Jr needs,. I think it
'we~ and we would be responsive ~n terms of
to find housing, and tryin~ to support industry
building, or something like ~that, or spaces here
There is definitely interest, and definitely
le on this end to facilitate people he~e, so we would very
ThanEs.
SUPERVIiSQR COCHRAN: Thank you. Anyone like to address the Town
B&ard?' (~No responses.) If not, I will call on Board members to offer their
g~eetingS or comments to Fishers Island. John Romanelli?
CO~NCIEMAN ROMANELLI: I just want to say, thank-you again. This is
my second time here. Last year I sat here, and said it was my first, so I
s~ill enj6~ the island. I also want to let you know thati-I honestly believe
that Loui~$a comes over every other week and represents the pepple of the
island p~-etty well. She lays issues on the table, and can be stubborn and
pushy for them sometimes, but she represents you real well.
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SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Alice Hussie?
COUNCILWOMAN HUSSIE: It is nice to see you again. This is my eighth
visit. I counted eight. Also, I was counting the people last time we were
here, and I see that .us officials are still outnumbering the Fishers Island
people by three, to one, but it is better than it was last time. It is very
nice to see you all, and I finally, have gotten to the point where I could
associate the names with the faces, and it has nothing to do with Fishers
Island except that Kevin McAIlister mentioned trophy lawns, and I wanted
to let him know that I am in the forefront of the movement not to have one.
Mine'would never qualify. It is nice to be here.
SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Councilman Moore?
COUNCILMAN MOORE: It is great to back. The first time I came over was
four years ago, and I came in a suit, jacket, and tie, and I stuck out llke
a sore thumb. So, I have learned my lesson. We now have the official attire
of the Town Board, and you will know that Fishers Island is actually
setting fashion' trends over on What Jean like to call the mainland, which I
get kick. out of, 'because we are an island too, ~but relative to Fishers
Islan~l. We actually have summer dress code noW. for the Town Councilman.
The woman haven't~ quite joined us.
COUNCILWOMAN HUSSIE: We didn't know there was one.
COUNCILMAN MOORE: We didn't share the news, but ~now you know. In
case you hadn't noticed the Councilman, the men anyway, are wearing
shorts and golf shirts, the Town Board on their work days through the
summertime. So, congratulations to you guys for having us loosen up a
little bit~ I am very happy that we acquired the property, and Dick Ryan
did a great job of negotiating on behalf of the. town. That was not an easy
proposition. It was quite tortured at times, and that was highs, and there
were lows, an~d we weren't sure what was going to happen, so it is a great
opportunity to see taxpayer money used back here. I know there is always
a tension when.. Washington and the States, we give so much there, what
do we get back in return? So, I can appreciate the sentiment from the
island, and boy, it is nice to have some of 'it come back! on something that
is going to be used by a lot of people: That is a terrific thing. I ditto
what John said about Louisa. She gives persistent, I won't say stubborn,
but she does a nice job of .p. resenting the point; of view, and the concerns,
and interest of the ¢ommun ty to the Tow~ .Board. The phones exist, but
somehow 'we don't seem to use them back and forth. Please, you don't have
to rely ~solely on Louisa. Reach out and if you have a question or concern
get a h~ld of us or drop us a line, 'becauSe we do seem so disconnected
geograpl~iically. There is no need to have it quite the way, it is, but Louisa
does a f.lne job [n sharing what we th.nk of most of our concerns. Aga.n, It
is great to be here. I look forward to another visit back next year, and
thank you again.
SUPERVISOR COCHRAN:
don't know.
Thank you, Bill.
Louisa? After all of this I
JUSTICE EVANS: Thank you all for the kind words; That was very nice,
and I usually end up thanking' everybody here, the School Board for
allowing us to use the building, and the school superintendent, the
Highway Department for helping me set up all the chairs and cable,
Ruthanne for doing the meal, so that took a chore off my back, all the
islanders who help me at the boat, and do everything else, so that the
people that came had people to take them around, and it was more
enjoyable.: Thank you everyone else for coming, the people who come to
the meeting from the island, and the people who have come to the meeting
from the island, and the people who have come here so that the Fishers
Island people have a chance to meet you face 'to face, and I think that is
really important to make the connection, because as Bill says, it shouldn't
always be me. I am happy to-relay things to people, but I am also happy
for everyone to call 'people on their own, too. I think you coming here
gives them that opportunity to speak one on one, so, thank you.
SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Betty, would you like say something?
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TOWN CLERK NEVILLE: Yes, good afternoon everyone. It is always a
pleasure to be here to meet some new faces, and to meet with the faces that
I speak on the phone with all the time. This is my second visit as Town
Clerk, but one of many visits over the years in my other capacities wil~h
other departments. Twenty-eight years, I believe, it is this year. But,
again, thank you. It is a pleasure to be here. If my office can ever assist
you, Town Clerk's Office. Some of you do call, and send in, please,
continue to do so. Thank you.
SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Thank you, Betty. I would just like to add that
I mentiohed earlier that is nice that we are having more and more young
people involved, so,. 'we have a balance of the seasoned older person, that
can share their knowledge with some of these young people with
enthusiasm, and think they know all the answers, but they don't always,
but it makes a nice balance. It really does, and it is different with the
shorts between Brian and Bill, and you know these men~ are always coming
into the Town Board meeting with shorts, but they are behind the dais, so
they figure nobody can see them. So, we live with it. I don't know about
Alice, but I dOn't intend to put shorts on.* Once again, it is always our
pleasure to come over here. We only do it once a year, and it would be
nice if we could do it more often. I would like to thank all the agencies
once again from State and County, and our local people for coming today.
It iS a nice feeling. We. thank you for all your kind words. We are going to
continue to look at issues on Fishers Island, and your needs, and we are
aH.here to. w. ork together, so that is what we are all about. Thank you
again for jOln.ng Us.
Ovfadby. COuncil~o. ma.n. Hussie, seconded by Supervisor Cochran, it was
ESOLVI~D that this Town Board meeting be and hereby is adjourned at
2:3.0 P.M.
Vot Board: Ayes: Councilman Romanelli, Councilman Moore,
Cbuncilwoman Hussie, Supervisor Cochran.
was duly ADOPTED.
Southold Town Clerk