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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTB-08/10/2011ELIZABETH A. NEVILLE TOWN CLERK REGISTRAR OF VITAL STATISTICS MARRIAGE OFFICER RECORDS MANAGEMENT OFFICER FREEDOM OF INFORMATION OFFICER OFFICE OF THE TOWN CLERK SOUTHOLD TOWN BOARD ANNUAL FISHERS ISLAND MEETING Town Hall, 53095 Main Road PO Box 1179 Southold, NY 11971 Fax (631) 765-6145 Telephone: (631) 765 - 1800 southoldtown.no~hfork.net MINUTES August 10, 2011 1:30 PM A Annual Fishers Island Meeting of the Southold Town Board was held Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at the Fishers Island, 53095 Main Road, Fishers Island, Ny. Supervisor Russell opened the meeting at 1:30 PM with the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. I. Call to Order 1:30 PM Meeting called to order on August 10, 2011 at Fishers Island, Fishers Island School, Fishers Island, Ny. Opening Comments SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: Can I ask everybody to please rise so we can start with the Pledge of Allegiance? Thank you. Before we get into the regular meeting I want to take a couple of seconds to thank some people. First I want to thank the Fishers Island school for being, as usual, a gracious host for the use of this facility. I want to thank the Fishers Island Ferry District for transportation to Fishers Island and back. I want to thank the folks at Plum lsland for allowing us the use of their ferry landing facility. Of course, I want to thank the Fishers Island residents who have been in regular contact with us, so that we can bring the resources here that we want to speak of today. I want to thank Louisa Evans who has been tremendous in helping us coordinate this. The custodial staff, JJ, Tim, Eric, Shawn, thank you all for all of your hard work for getting this done. I wanted to thank the Town Board, I want to thank town officials. There is someone I want to especially thank. This is a tremendous undertaking each year to do this meeting, with coordination with the food, the transportation, the RSVP's. Ruthanne Woodhull and Sandi Berliner do a tremendous job. I thank you both for all your help. I also want to thank the Fishers Island highway department. I want to thank Kelly (?), who was running around fixing the audio for us a little bit ago. Thank you for organizing the community meetings that were held at the community center. I want to thank, anybody else on the list that I am forgetting. Let me just quickly announce all of the people that are here and 1 will apologize in advance for the names that I am bound to mispronounce. We have and this is alphabetical by first name, so it is in completely random order. Alexandm Sabatino from the Planning Department, Amanda Nunemaker from the Assessors Office, Drew Biondo from Senator Lavalle's office, Tony Berkoski Chief of the Cutchogue Fire Department, Antone Volinski, ST Chiefs Council; Audrey Horton, CAC; Benjamin Sosa, Plum Island security; Beth Young, Suffolk Times; of course, our August 10, 2011 Page 2 Southold Town Board Meeting Minutes great Town Clerk, Betty Neville; Bob Scott, Assessor; Brian Culahane, Commissioner SC Environment and Energy; Brian Cummings, Planning Department; Brian Haseman, FEMA; Carol Hydell, Town Clerk's office; newly minted Chief Martin Flatley, Southold Police Department; Chris Pickerill, Comell Cooperative Extension; Curt Davids, Highway Department; Dan Bunchuck, Youth Advisory Council; Dan Losquadro, who is our NYS Assemblyman; Dan O'Connell, Business Development Center Stony Brook; Dave Bergen, one of our Trustees; David Zatlin, NYS EMO; Dennis Ryan, SC District Attorney's office; Diana Whitecavage, Accounting Office; Don Feiler, Landmark Preservation Commission; Donna Waide, SC Department of Environment and Energy; Edward Romaine, SC Legislator; Elaine White, Youth Advisory Council; Erik Haas, DPW; Ernest Lamtro NY DEC; Frank Carbone, NYS DEC Police; Frank Pterignani, Assemblyman Losquadro's office; George Homing, from the ZBA, representing your island very well; Heather Lanza, Planning Department; Holly Rhodes-Teague, Office of the Aging; Jamie Richter, Town Engineer; James Garretson, Landmark Preservation Commission; Janet Longo, SC Real Property Division; Jason Hime SC Department of Health Services. I am going to pass this on to Albert. COUNCILMAN KRUPSKI: I was going to make a motion to adjourn, but I guess not yet. Jen Andaloro, Assistant Town Attorney; Jeremy Eastwood, NYS DEC Police; Jim Dinizio, ZBA; Jim McMahon, DPW; Jim Rich, Planning Board; Joanne Liquori, Legislative Aide to Assemblyman Romaine; John Jerome, DPW; John Sepenoski, Land Preservation Committee; Josh Mednick, SC Department of Health Services; Karen McLaughlin, Human Resource Director; Karol Sarian, SC Department of Health Services; Kelly Cassidy, Youth Advisory Council; Ken Schneider, ZBA; Kevin Webster, Assessor; Kimberly Bracken, Youth Advisory Council; Laura Klahre, Land Preservation Department; Laura Weir, Assemblyman Losquadro's office; Leonard Marchese, SCHD Director of Management & Research; Lillian Ball, Land Preservation Committee; Linda Randolph, Planning Department; Liz Camps, USDA-NRCS District LI Soil Conservationist; Lloyd Reisenberg, Data Processing; Louisa Evans, Town Board member; Lt. Anthony Miserendino, NY State Police; Mark Terry, Planning Department; Martin Finnegan, Town Attorney; Mary Hydell, Assessor's office; Mary LaFlair, SC Department of Health Services; Meghan Burke, Conservation Advisory Council; Melanie Doroski, Land Preservation Department; Melissa Spiro, Land Preservation Coordinator; Michael Taylor, NYS EMO; Mike Nocerino, NYS Department of Ag and Markets; Nancy Foote, DPW; Paul TeNyenhuis, SC Soil and Water Conservation; Peter Young, CAC; Phillip Beltz, Special Events Coordinator and Deputy Supervisor; Robert Cleveland, Allen Video; Robert Delagi, SC Health Department, EMS Division; Rudolph Bmer, Town Justice; Ruthanne Woodhull, Supervisor's office; Sam Bail, SC Department of Environment and Energy; Sandra Berliner, Supervisor's office; Scott Russell, Supervisor; Sgt. Brodie Schult, NYS Police; Sgt Paul Slevinski, NYS Police; Shawn Byrnes, DPW; Shawn McCready, SC Assistant District Attorney; Stacey Altherr, Newsday; Stefanie Fisher, Aide to Legislator Fisher; Susan Boyle, Wright Risk Management; Sydney Morgan Campbell, Youth Advisory Council; Ted Fisch. NYS EMP; Tim Abrams, DPW; Thomas Iwanejko, SC DPW; Tom Lateulere, SC Health Department, EMS Division; Tom Sawicki, USDA Plum Island; Vincent Orlando, Town Board; Vivian Viloria-Fisher, SC Legislator, 5th District. SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: I just want to quickly mention, there are a few people that made the August 10, 2011 Page 3 Southold Town Board Meeting Minutes boat, they didn't get on the reservation list but they are here. Jim King, our Town Trustee; Jill Doherty, Town Trustee; Judy McLeery, works for the Recreation Department; Tom Watts, representing just about every fire agency out there; Pete Harris, our Highway Superintendent; Randee Daddona, on behalf of Newsday and Doug Hardy, who is part of our Conservation Advisory Council. If I have missed any of you that are here that aren't on this list, I apologize and we will certainly announce you if you want to let me know. What I would like to do is have the Town Board all introduce themselves quickly. Okay, we have a fairly brief agenda. What I would like to do now is have anybody that would like to come up and address the Town Board on any of these issues that are on the agenda to please feel free right now? Okay, we will get the work out of the way and then we will go to the open mic right after this. V. Resolutions 2011-580 CATEGOR~ DEPARTMEN~ Set Meeting Town Clerk Set Next Town Board Meeting RESOLVED that the next Regular Town Board Meeting of the Southold Town Board be held at 4:30 PM on Tuesday~ August 16~ 2011 at the Southold Town Hall, Southold, New York Vote Record - Resolution RES-2011-580 [] Adopted rn Adopted as Amended [] Defeated Yes/Aye No/Nay Abstain Absent [] Tabled William Ruland Voter [] [] [] [] [] Withdrawn Vincent Orlando Voter [] [] [] [] [] Supervisor's Appt Christopher Talbot Seconder gt [] [] [] [] Tax Receiver's Appt Albert Krupski Jr. Voter [] [] [] [] [] Rescinded Louisa P. Evans Initiator [] [] [] [] [] Town Clerk's Appt Scoi~ Russell Voter [] [] [] [] [] Supt Hgwys Appt [] No Action 2011-581 CATEGOR~ DEPARTMEN~ Close/Use Town Roads Town Clerk Bike-A-Thon RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby DENIES permission to the Bicycle Shows USA to use the following roads Bike-A-Thon on August 28~ 2011 beginning at 6:30AM: Route 25, Moore's Lane, Route 48, Sound View Avenue, Sound View Avenue Ext., and Chapel Lane, Greenport; Lighthouse Road, Soundview Avenue, Horton' Lane, North Sea Drive, and Keuny's Road, Southold; Mill Road, Peconic; Bridge Lane and Oregon Road, Cutchogue; Oregon Road, East Mill Road, Reeve Road, Grand Avenue, Wickham Avenue, Westphalia Road, Cox Neck Road, Bergen Avenue, and Sound Avenue, Mattituck; Peconic Bay Blvd. and Bay Avenue, Laurel; New Suffolk Avenue, Jackson Street, First Street, Orchard August 10, 2011 Page 4 Southold Town Board Meeting Minutes Street, and Fifth Street, New Suffolk; Village Lane, King Street, and Narrow River Road, Orient, provided they file with the Town Clerk a One Million Dollar Certificate of Insurance naming the Town of Southold as an additional insured, submit a Special Events fee for $100.00, a $250.00 clean-up deposit, and notify Chief Flatley, upon receipt of this resolution, to coordinate traffic control. Support is for this year only, as the Southold Town Board continues to evaluate the use of town roads. Vote Record - Resolution RES-2011-581 [] Adopted 1~ Adopted as Amended [] Defeated Yes/Aye No/Nay Abstain Absent [] Tabled William Ruland Initiator [] [] [] [] [] Withdrawn Vincent Orlando Voter [] [] [] [] [] Supervisor's Appt Christopher Talbot Voter [] [] [] [] [] Tax Receiver's Appt Albert Krupski Jr. Voter [] [] [] 13 [] Rescinded Louisa P. Evans Seconder [] [] [] [] [] Town Clerk's Appt Scott Russell Voter [] [] [] [] [] Supt Hgwys Appt [] No Action 2011-582 CA TEGOR Y: DEPARTMENT: Grants Land Preservation Grant Submission OPRHP EPF Open Space Acquistions RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby authorizes submission of a grant orooosal requesting open space property, acquisition funds from the New York State Office of Park~ Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP)~ under the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) SFY2011/2012 Grant Program. This is a matching grant program for the acquisition of fee title to land identified as high priority for protection in the Peconie Estuary Program Critical Lands Protection Plan. Vote Record - Resolution RES-2011-582 1~ Adopted [] Adopted as Amended [] Defeated Yes/Aye No/Nay Abstain Absent [] Tabled William Ruland Voter [] [] [] [] [] Withdrawn Vincent Orlando Initiator [] [] [] [] [] Supervisor's Appt Christopher Talbot Voter [] [] [] [] [] Tax Receiver's Appt Albert Krupski Jr, Seconder ~ Fl [] [] [] Rescinded Louisa P. Evans Voter [] [] [] [] [] Town Clerk's Appt Scott Russell Voter [~ [] [] [] [] Supt Hgwys Appt [] No Action 2011-583 cA TE GO R Y: Legal DEPARTMENT: Justice Court Judge Price Riverhead Court August 10, 2011 Page 5 Southold Town Board Meeting Minutes RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby authorizes Town Justice William H. Price, Jr. to provide judicial services to the Riverhead Justice Court and the Southampton Justice Court, when sitting as the East End Regional Intervention Court at no additional compensation. Vote Record - Resolution RES-2011-583 [~ Adopted [] Adopted as Amended [] Defeated Yes/Aye No/Nay Abstain Absent [] Tabled William Rui~d Seconder [] [] [] [] [] Withdrawn Vincent Orlando Voter [] [] [] [] [] Supervisor's Appt Christopher Talbot Voter [] [] [] [] [] Tax Receiver's Appt Albert Krupski Jr. initiator [] [] [] [] [] Rescinded Louisa P, Evans Voter [] [] [] [] [] Town Clerk's Appt Scort Russell Voter [] [] [] [] [] Supt Hgwys Appt [] No Action 2011-584 CATEGORD DEPARTMEN~ Attend Seminar Police Dept Grant Permission to Chief Martin Flatley to Attend Seminar RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby grants permission to Chief Martin Flatle¥ to attend the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference & Law Enforcement Education & Technology Exposition in Chicago~ Illlnois~ from October 22~ 2011 to October 26~ 2011. All expenses for registration, travel and lodging to be a legal charge to the 2011 Police Training budget line, A.3120.4.600.200. Vote Record - Resolution RES-2011-584 gl Adopted [] Adopted as Amended [] Defeated Yes/Aye No/Nay Abstaiu Absent [] Tabled William Ruland Voter [] [] [] [] [] Withdrawn Vincent Orlando Voter [] [] [] [] [] Supervisor's Appt Christopher Talbot Seconder [] [] [] [] [] Tax Receiver's Appt Albert Krupsk! Jr Voter [] [] [] [] [] Rescinded Louisa P. Evans initiator [] [] [] [] [] Town Clerk's Appt Scott Russell Voter [] [] [] [] [] Supt Hgwys Appt [] No Action 2011-585 cA TE GOR Y: DEPARTMENT: Committee Resignation Town Clerk Accept Resignation of ,loel Reitman from Transportation Commission and Advertise for Resumes. RESOLVED the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby accepts the resignation of Joel Reitman from the Southold Town Transportation Commission and be it FURTHER RESOLVED the Town Board authorizes and directs the Town Clerk to advertise August 10, 2011 Page 6 Southold Town Board Meeting Minutes for resumes to fill the vacancy created by his resignation. Vote Record - Resolution RES-2011-585 [] Adopted [] Adopted as Amended [] Defeated Yes/Aye No/Nay Abstain Absent [] Tabled William Ruland Voter [] [] [] [] [] Withdrawn Vincent Orlando Voter [] [] [] [] [] Supervisor's Appt Christopher Talbot Initiator [] [] [] [] [] Tax Receiver's Appt Albert Krupski Jr Voter [] [] [] [] [] Rescinded Louisa P. Evans Seconder [] [] [] [] [] Town Clerk's Appt Scoti Russell Voter [] [] [] [] Supt Hgwys Appt [] No Action Comments regarding resolution 585 COUNCILMAN TALBOT: Before I move it, that is not a bad commission to be on. It meets once a month on a M~nday, 10:00 and it actually reviews any of the Planning Board site plan reviews that are coming in front of the Planning Department and also any questions that come up that call for stop sign, speed limit reviews. It is not a bad commission to be on, so if anybody has any interest, please offer it. 2011-586 CA TE GOR Y: DEPARTMENT: Local Law Public Hearing Town Attorney Set PH for 8/30/11 ~ 7:34PM - LL/Parking Restrictions & Pedestrian Safety WHEREAS, there has been presented to the Town Board of the Town of Southold, Suffolk County, New York, on the l0th day of August, 2011, a Local Law entitled "A Local Law in relation to Amendments to Chapter 189~ Parking~ and Chapter 260~ Vehicles and Traffic~ in connection with Parking Restrictions and Traffic and Pedestrian Safety" now, therefore, be it RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold will hold a public hearing on the aforesaid Local Law at Southold Town Hall, 53095 Main Road, Southold, New York, on the 30th day of August, 2011 at 7:34 p.m. at which time all interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard. The proposed Local Law entitled, "A Local Law in relation to Amendments to Chapter 189~ Parking~ and Chapter 260~ Vehicles and Traffic~ in connection with Parking Restriction~ and Traffic and Pedestrian Safety" reads as follows: LOCAL LAW NO. 2011 A Local Law entitled, "A Local Law in relation to Amendments to Chapter 189~ Parkin~ and Chapter 260~ Vehicles and Traffic~ in connection with Parking Restrictions and Traffic and Pedestrian Safety". August 10, 2011 Page 7 Southold Town Board Meeting Minutes BE IT I. II. ENACTED by the Town Board of the Town of Southold as follows: Purpose. The purpose of this local law is to improve safety for pedestrians and vehicles, as well as dealing with impacts to the public's health, safety and welfare resulting from vehicle parking and standing in certain areas, more specifically described below: An amendment to § 189-2 imposing parking limitations at Bailie Beach Road in Mattituck. An amendment to §260-4 to provide for stop signs on Washington Avenue in Greenport and West Drive in Southold. An amendment to §260-15 to restrict parking on Alvah's Lane in Cutchogue. Chapters 189 and 260 of the Code of the Town of Southold are hereby amended as follows: §189-2. Designation of parking area requiring permits. B. The following road end areas are hereby designated as Town of Southold "Parking by Southold Town Permit Only" areas: (47) Bailie Beach Road, Long Island Sound, Mattituck, along both sides from the terminus south c^~ ....................... and east to Southside Drive (a/k/a East Side Avenue). §260-4. Stop intersections with stop signs. At Intersection Location Stop Sign on Direction of Travel With (Hamlet) Washington Avenue West Booth Place Greenport West Drive North Leeton Drive Southold §260-15. Parking or standing prohibited during certain times. The parking or standing of vehicles is hereby prohibited during the months and hours (both inclusive) in any of the following locations: During Months Name of Street Side and Hours Alvah's Lane Both At all times Location Cutchogue from the south side of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (L.I.R.R.) property southerly for a distance of 3,321 feet. August 10, 2011 Page 8 Southold Town Board Meeting Minutes III. SEVERABILITY If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part of this Local Law shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the judgment shall not affect the validity of this law as a whole or any part thereof other than the part so decided to be unconstitutional or invalid. IV. EFFECTIVE DATE This Local Law shall take effect immediately upon filing with the Secretary of State as provided by law. Vote Record - Resolution RES-2011-586 [] Adopted [] Adopted a~ Amended [] Defeated Yes/Aye No/Nay Abstain Absent [] Tabled William Rula~d Initiator [] [] [] [] [] Withdrawn Vincent Orlando Seconder [] [] [] [] [] Supe~visor's Appt Christopher Talbot Voter [] [] [] [] [] Tax Receiver's Appt Albe~I Kmpski Jr Voter [] [] [] [] [] Rescinded Louisa P Evans Voter ~ [] [] [] [] Town Clerk's Appt Scott Russell Voter [] [] [] [] [] Supt Hgwys Appt [] No Action Closing Statements SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: Okay, what I would like to do is open up the meeting to anybody that would like to address the Town Board on any issue. One thing I had many people ask me was the status of the road work project that is underway. As you know, the site known Lake Mobile, etc. we have done substantial amount of roadwork and some sidewalk repair. The work is not done, we have been in touch with the contractor who is scheduling work for the 7th or 8th of September I believe? TOWN ATTORNEY FINNEGAN: The 7th. SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: The 7th of September. He has coordinated the transportation through Cross Sound Ferry to get the asphalt here, so he can finish putting the top coat on that location. He is well aware of his obligations and by all accounts, will be keeping those obligations to finish that project. Now I will invite anybody that would like to come up and address us on any issue. We took a boat over, ask something. JUSTICE EVANS: Can I just remind the Fishers Island people that are here that there is a meeting at 5:30 today with Heather Lanza, who is the head of the Town Planning Department and Mark Terry, who is also in the Planning Department to do the communities character chapter for Fishers Island, specifically to talk about that. So I would urge as many of you to come down to the community center at 5:30, if you can. CHARLES KADUSHIN: I am Charles Kadushin of Fishers Island. We have a serious coyote problem here as I am sure that most of the residents know. They have been increasing in Connecticut and unfortunately, they are rather good swimmers. So they are here and they attack August 10, 2011 Page 9 Southold Town Board Meeting Minutes our cats, dogs and anything that is loose (inaudible). They take special expertise in trapping and catching and I wonder whether the town can do anything to help us with that? SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: I tell you what we can do. We will certainly talk to the DEC, the wildlife management. I know we have some officials here from the DEC, if they want to address the issue now or we can go back and schedule a meeting to try to address it. I have to be candid, I wasn't aware that coyotes were becoming an increasing problem on Fishers Island. I am aware of it up north. I wish I could marry your coyote problem to my deer problem on my side of the island. But certainly we can talk to the DEC, wildlife management, the professionals there and try to come up with a solution. I will certainly bring it to their attention and contact them. Thank you. Would anybody else like to address the Town Board on any issue? JUSTICE EVANS: I will make another announcement. The town has been doing, the Recreation Department has been doing a survey which you can fill out online or there are also brochures from the Recreation Department and the survey here if anyone would like to fill it out. And also, back behind here, there are emergency Millstone plans, information, if people want to pick it up. SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: We are not going to let you go. We are going to sit here until someone else asks a question. Please? VIVIAN VILORIA-FISHER: First of all, I would to thank you for your hospitality. This is the first time I have ever been to Fishers Island, my name is Vivien Viloria-Fisher, I am the deputy presiding officer of the Suffolk County legislator. And again, I want to thank you. This is such a beautiful place and it has been a wonderful day. I noticed when we visited the community center here that there is a sign for (inaudible). My office has been actively involved in trying to form a network among all of the different community gardens, small farms, farms and CFA across Suffolk County. We have an interactive map that we tried to develop so that people know where local food can be obtained or how they can start growing their own garden and I would like to just give you our address, our facebook address which is Suffolk.com/Suflblkgardens or oar twitter is ~suffolkgardens and our web page is gis.co.suffolk.newyork.us/gardens. I would love to have and this is not so much for the council, it is for the people who are here from Fishers Island. I would like everybody from Suffolk County to feel free to go on our website or become friends on our facebook, so that we can have out IT department have this interactive map complete with every place that people in Suffolk County can find locally grown food. Thank you. SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: Thank you. KEN EDWARDS: Ken Edwards, Fishers Island resident. Motor Vehicle Department (inaudible) any return on our request to get Motor Vehicle to come to Fishers Island? It is a hardship for elderly people and the young people that are trying to get licenses. They have to go to the mainland, take the day off and sometimes two days. And they have to go to Riverhead or White Plains or somewhere. I would like to ask the Town Board, the people from the county to try to put some pressure on the state, the Motor Vehicle Department to realize our hardship here August 10, 2011 Page 10 Southold Town Board Meeting Minutes on Fishers Island because of our geographical location. 1 request it again, I think this is the third year in a row that I have been up singing the same song. COUNCILMAN ORLANDO: But I thought there was a representative from DMV here last year. JUSTICE EVANS: Ken, Scott wrote a letter recently and got an answer. SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: I made a formal request again to the DMV. It was declined because of budget constraints. I know Assemblyman Losquadro and Senator LaValle are very aware of it and are fighting to institute what is called the mobile outreach program of the DMV. I am going to give you an idea to please address it. ASSEMBLYMAN DAN LOSQUADRO: Hello, Assemblyman Dan Losquadro. Senator LaValle and I are aware of this. I spent seven years as a county legislator before becoming state assemblyman and we used to avail ourselves of that mobile outreach service to some of the larger senior communities throughout my district and I became painfully aware of it when the state cut that out several years ago. Senator LaValle, myself and Supervisor Russell have all made this request to the DMV, we have all been similarly denied but Senator LaValle and I are obviously making a special hardship case given as you put it, the geographic location. If there ever was an area that was in need of mobile outreach, it would certainly be an island cut off even from the rest of Long Island. So this is something that we are aware of. Senator LaValle and I are trying to find a way to get that back in this year. If not, we are certainly going to work to get it reinstated to next years budget, so that the DMV does not have the excuse that they don't have the money for it. MR. EDWARDS: Great. I appreciate your effort and I hope we see some success there. ASSEMBLYMAN LOSQUADRO: As do we. It is something Senator LaValle and I, as I said, we are aware of and we are trying to work on coverage. MR. EDWARDS: Great. Thank you for your help. ASSEMBLYMAN LOSQUADRO: Thank you. SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: Would anybody else like to come up? SARAH MCLEAN: My name is Sarah McLean, I am an island resident and I am a member of the fire department. Specifically, I am the captain of the EMS part of the fire department. And one of our big concerns for a long time now is to be able to continue to train EMT's out here. Two years ago when the community center opened, we were told that a state of the art communication system would be provided to us by, I believe, the Town of Southold. Is that correct? Louisa, I am .... JUSTICE EVANS: I don't think it is state of the art, video conferencing... August 10, 2011 Page 11 Southold Town Board Meeting Minutes MS. MCLEAN: But video to allow us to have video conferencing .... JUSTICE EVANS: And we, that has been worked on for the past year or more and we seem to have hit a little bit of a roadblock. We have had the person from the town working on it and also Bill Ridgeway has been helping too, and we think that the intemet capacity is one of the issues right now but we need to work with the utility company to see if that really is the problem. And that is a work in progress. The equipment is there, sometimes it works and most of the time it doesn't. MS. MCLEAN: Is the equipment of sufficient quality level to allow for distance learning? JUSTICE EVANS: I think they tested that. I would have to defer to Bill or Lloyd because I am not a tech person. Lloyd, would you come up and speak a little on this? I am not a tech person. MS. MCLEAN: We met this moming with the EMS of Suffolk County and for EMS education, this is really a major issue for us going forward, as to how we are going to train EMT's and it is sort of going on for two years now as to whether or not we are ever going to get video conferencing out here and we would love an answer. LLOYD REISENBERG: Data Processing for the Town. The equipment is in place both here on Fishers Island and back at town hall, there is also equipment at our annex. Everything appears to be working fine equipment wise. The issue now that we are looking at is the intemet connectivity here. George Homing is working on it and we are hoping to get something better. It is not so much more we can do with the equipment, it is state of the art as far as the level of our spending the money applied to this project. It is a matter of the (inaudible) and once that works, it should be good to go. I spoke to Jeremy Doucette earlier, your assistant fire chief, and talked to him about this and said we are available if you want to, I know that (inaudible) you have been using it, so it is available, it is matter of getting the connectivity on this side. JUSTICE EVANS: It is available but the quality is horrible. MR. REISENBERG: Until the connectivity here to the intemet gets better, we might have to live with a little bit of downgrade quality as far as the audio and the video. COUNCILMAN TALBOT: I have a question on that. Regarding the EMS, how would you have to, would you have to video conference into an actual class going on? MS. MCLEAN: Inaudible comments from audience. COUNCILMAN TALBOT: Yes, because they wouldn't take place at Town Hall. I know that there is an EMT class going on starting in September at the Southold fire department. Would you end up having to do the video conferencing from there? JUSTICE EVANS: Well, you can, because the program, you can video conference anywhere August 10, 2011 Page 12 Southold Town Board Meeting Minutes as long as the other place has equipment. TOM LATEULERE, SD DOH, EMS Division: Inaudible comments from audience. Right now New York State is looking at a pilot program in which we would be able to have an EMT class in a central location in the county and we would be able then, to be able webcast here for the EMT's. It is still a pilot program, I haven't approached the state officially on this, I just have to make sure that we have all the equipment. Currently in Hauppauge, in the EMS office, we do have that equipment to webcast. We were hoping that we could have the same equipment here and we can work on something for that. COUNCILMAN KRUPSKI: It is a different issue. We have used it, I know we have used it in the past with Louisa, in bad weather or something and she can't make it. JUSTICE EVANS: Lloyd, that is a question for you, too. Whether the equipment that we have is compatible with whatever that gentleman has in Suffolk County, to do the webcasting of the EMT's .... MR. REISENBERG: Yes. Inaudible. What we supply here is a brand new laptop, brand new projector, a new screen, a webcam and very good quality microphone and speakers. Inaudible. If you need help, if you need my card, I will be glad to work with you. COUNCILMAN TALBOT: Where did you first get trained to be an EMT? MS. MCLEAN: Inaudible comments from audience. COUNCILMAN TALBOT: Yes. MS. MCLEAN: Inaudible. COUNCILMAN TALBOT: It would be nice also if they could maybe extend that three years to four or five years instead of having to recert every three years, right? MS. MCLEAN: Inaudible. SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: Would anybody else like to address any other issue? COUNCILMAN RULAND: I would, Scott. Just quic, kly, our Assemblyman, the issue that the lady raised about the reciprocity of EMT's who can t get certified in New York but can in Connecticut, she said torturous process was it? MS. MCLEAN: Inaudible comments from audience. Is that up until four or five years ago, we could get certified in Connecticut, gain reciprocity in NYS and then go into their continuing medical education program to recertify, which meant that we didn't have to attend classroom courses elsewhere. We could do it here on our own time. That is no longer allowed, for Connecticut trained EMT's. August 10, 2011 Page 13 Southold Town Board Meeting Minutes COUNCILMAN RULAND: Do you know why? MS. MCLEAN: No, I don't want to go there. I don't know why but we had a new class of EMT's that were trained by Connecticut instructors 2 V2 years ago. They then got New York reciprocity and when it came time for them to recertify in New York, they had to go back to square one and take the whole course as if they never took it. COUNCILMAN RULAND: Sounds like the common sense approach didn't meet with someone's approval because it was just plain common sense. Is that something that you can look into? MS. MCLEAN: I don't know. Maybe (inaudible) ASSEMBLYMAN LOSQUADRO: I certainly don't know the answer as to how New York State treats reciprocity in training for the EMT's but it is something that at least my staff and I are aware of now and we will look into and if you could either you have the information on the cards that we left or give us your information and we contact you directly and get you the answer for that and we will also obviously be in touch with the town regarding that bandwith issue for the continuing training for the .... MS. MCLEAN: Well, it is really more ideally to be trained right from the beginning by New York State instructors. ASSEMBLYMAN LOSQUADRO: Exactly. MS. MCLEAN: The protocols and you know, Suffolk County instructors is even better because then we are specific to Suffolk County which is our government body. So... ASSEMBLYMAN LOSQUADRO: I know we have a lot of representatives here from the county as well, so we will coordinate with them and we will certainly get you that answer. MS. MCLEAN: Thank you. G. CARTER SEDNAOUI: Hi, I am Carter Sednaoui, I have got a few questions and some of them are probably stupid but one, is the paving of the road right at the foot of Lake Mobile, does that include the rest, you know, finishing the paving around the town as well? As opposed to over by the mobile station? SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: Yes, it is all of the work that was done and it is actually, Lake Mobile became the catch phrase because of, for historic reasons. All the work was that was done, the base coat is done, we need to get the top coat. There is, part of this is, there is a pretty long punch list of work that still needs to be done including aprons down where you bring the emergency vehicles. All that is part of the punch list, it is scheduled to be resumed and finished starting on September 7th. August 10, 2011 Page 14 Southold Town Board Meeting Minutes MR. SEDNAOUI: Okay, secondly, stupid question. Why did you schedule a meeting at 7:34 PM? COUNCILMAN TALBOT: Public hearing. SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: Oh, it is a public hearing. We are required to make sure that the public hearing is started, we can't start a public hearing prior to its being noticed so in other words if we schedule it for 8:00 for instance and the meeting ended at 7:40, we would have to sit around for 20 minutes before we can have that public hearing. So the Town Clerk notices the meeting shortly after the regular meeting starts, that way anybody that is there can comment on that public hearing, is not going to be left out of the process. MR. SEDNAOUI: Third question, invasivc species such as this bamboo. Is there anything from Southold that helps get rid of this stuff?. JUSTICE EVANS: Knotweeds. MR. SEDNAOUI: No, not weeds. JUSTICE EVANS: No, that is what we have, that you think is bamboo, it is usually knotweed. MR. SEDNAOUI: Oh, well it is not what, people call it bamboo, it is not the bamboo I grew up with so I am just telling you what they call it. So it is a knotweed. Now do you get rid of not weed? SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: I will tell you there are some challenges. Bamboo, for instance, there is talk from some towns, they are talking about regulating or legislating away bamboo because of the basic nature of it and the incursion on, we don't have any current legislation that proposes to do that. MR. SEDNAOUI: You can legislate it away but unfortunately it takes elbow grease... SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: Just like the phragmites we wrestle with. The most effective way of getting rid of phragmites is digging them out and we get a lot of college interns each summer to help us eradicate the phragmites in the various eco-systems. But is anybody here from any of the agencies that want to comment on this? COUNCILMAN KRUPSKI: To me they are knotweeds. It is a broad leaf and grows like... MR. SEDNAOUI: It is hollow, the stems are... COUNCILMAN KRUPSKI: And it comes up every year. Maybe Paul has some more information. I struggle with it on my place. August 10, 2011 Page 15 Southold Town Board Meeting Minutes MR. SEDNAOUI: And it spreads. COUNCILMAN KRUPSKI: Yes. PAUL TENYENHUIS: Paul TeNyenhuis, I am with the Suffolk County Soil and Water Conservation district. We have a person in our office that is a specialist on invasive species. I can give you my card and you can contact our office (inaudible). I will give you my card. JUSTICE EVANS: Can you give your phone number now? MR. TENYENHUIS: Sure. The number for us is 727-2315 extension 3. COUNCILMAN TALBOT: The Town of Smithtown this week just regulated bamboo, can't plant it within 10 feet of your neighbors property. The first town on Long Island to regulate it. That is not going to stop it though. COUNCILMAN KRUPSKI: This isn't really bamboo though. MR. SEDNAOUI: I don't know anybody who plants it. SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: You are talking about the knot weed? MR. SEDNAOUI: Yes. SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: Understood. Would anybody else like to address this Town Board on any other issue? (No response) Okay. I will close this meeting by saying if there is anybody on this list that you didn't get a hold of today and want their contact information, feel free to contact my office, 765-1889, we will get you all the contact information and phone numbers that you need. Thank you. Motion To: Adjourn Town Board Meeting RESOLVED that this meeting of the Southold Town Board be and hereby is declared adjourned at Southold Town Clerk RESULT: ADOPTED [[JNANIMOIJSl MOVER: Christopher Talbot, Councilman SECONDER: Albert Krupski Jr., Councilman AYES: Ruland, Orlando, Talbot, Krupski Jr., Evans, Russell 2:07P.M.