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1 TOWN OF SOUTHOLD
COUNTY OF SUFFOLK : STATE OF NEW YORK
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SOUTHOLD TOWN BOARD
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7 Southold, New York
8 May 5 , 2026
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16 ALBERT KRUPSKI JR, SUPERVISOR
17 KATE STEVENS , JUSTICE
18 JILL DOHERTY, COUNCILWOMAN
19 BRIAN MEALY, COUNCILMAN
20 ANNE SMITH, COUNCILWOMAN
21 ALEXA SUESS , COUNCILWOMAN
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1 PUBLIC COMMENTS
2 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Tom, do
3 you have something to add?
4 TOM STEVENSON : Can you guys
5 hear me?
6 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Yes .
7 TOM STEVENSON : Okay . Great . I
8 have questions on two of the agenda
9 items . The first one is 2026-296 .
10 This is regarding the Peconic Estuary
11 Programming or partnership . And my
12 question is , why did the agenda item
13 change today from a one year deal
14 with PEP at $70 , 000 plus , to a two
15 year deal at $ 136 , 000 ?
16 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
17 believe it ' s because they -- for
18 whatever reason, they did not get
19 paid last year, and I think it was an
20 issue . So this is payment for last
21 year and this year . And we take --
22 we take -- we don ' t use -- other
23 towns use their Community
24 Preservation Fund to pay this , we do
25 not . We did not let it divert money
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1 away from the main purpose of the
2 Community Preservation Fund, which is
3 land preservation . This is the Town
4 Board --
5 TOM STEVENSON : We ' re not
6 allowed to use our CPF for that .
7 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Well
8 --
9 TOM STEVENSON : My main
10 question is , will these monies be
11 used to spread misinformation about
12 our oyster farmers ? Does this money
13 go to Stony Brook, to Dr . Christopher
14 Goldler? I ' m sure you all saw the
15 news about how flesh eating bacteria
16 is in our waters . And, man, it ' s
17 really hurting . I don ' t grow
18 oysters . I ' m not a oyster farmer,
19 but let me tell you, it ' s really hurt
20 our industry to have that type of
21 news go national . And I would not
22 want to spend any of our taxpayer
23 money, if that ' s what we ' re going to
24 get out of it . I think you should
25 really be careful about it and find
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1 out exactly where the money is
2 going . And if we owe them from last
3 year, that sounds like a them
4 problem, but I would table this and
5 find out more information and make
6 sure that we are not getting hurt .
7 Our local farmers are not getting
8 hurt from our own taxpayer money .
9 So that ' s my question .
10 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
11 Thank you for saying that, Tom,
12 because there ' s absolutely nothing
13 wrong -- We ' ve done so much water
14 quality work to try to maintain our
15 water quality . There ' s nothing
16 wrong with local oysters , and people
17 should eat them as often as they
18 want . They ' re water-certified, and
19 they ' re clean . So I ' m glad you
20 brought that up . And as far as
21 Peconic Estuary partnership, I do
22 sit on a couple of the committees .
23 I ' m active with that, and I have
24 been for a long time . No, they
25 are not part of what Dr . Goldler
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1 proclaimed as some sort of flesh
2 eating bacteria outbreak . So , no,
3 that was unfortunate to try
4 to paint an industry as being unsafe
5 when it is actually, could only
6 encourage people to eat local
7 issues .
8 TOM STEVENSON : Absolutely,
9 and I do appreciate that . That ' s
10 good clarification because it ' s a
11 little unclear . And I know they do
12 good work . They ' ve worked with
13 Oyster Pond School . I would be
14 there in person, but I ' m going to
15 my Oyster Pond School Board
16 meeting here in a few minutes , a
17 two and a half hour meeting . So, I
18 won ' t prolong anymore . The other
19 question was 2026-407 . This is
20 the drone purchase . My question
21 was , how many drones do we already
22 have? I thought we had a one
23 already, and what will this one
24 be used for?
25 TOM STEVENSON : We asked the
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1 Chief today, and this is -- with our
2 police department, this is part of a
3 grant . It was money left over, and
4 it seemed like the best use of it
5 was a drone . So the drones are used
6 for public safety purposes . Not
7 only for missing people or vehicles ,
8 but they ' re also used to see if
9 there ' s bonfires on the beach and
10 that sort of thing . It ' s easier to
11 send a drone out to look at that .
12 They use them for safety purposes
13 during parades and public events .
14 And they receive training for
15 interior drone use , just, God
16 forbid, in case there ' s some sort
17 of a horrible incident inside of a
18 building . They can send -- instead
19 of sending an officer in, they can
20 send a drone in to do recognizance to
21 see what the situation is like inside
22 the building .
23 TOM STEVENSON : I appreciate
24 that . I just have all the concern
25 about Flock cameras and surveillance ,
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1 which are a lot of them . A lot of
2 that concern, I just wouldn ' t want to
3 add to that . From self public
4 safety and a lot like our
5 surveillance . People are not at a
6 problem when it ' s making a safe --
7 but when it ' s surveilling us for
8 who knows who ' s getting this
9 information . We ' ve really got to
10 walk carefully through there . So I
11 do appreciate it . Signing out .
12 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
13 Thank you, Tom . You have a good
14 meeting at the school board .
15 TOM STEVENSON : Thank you .
16 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : All
17 right . Does anyone else have any
18 agenda -- Thank you . Does anyone
19 else have any agenda items they ' d
20 like to bring up before we vote ?
21 (No Response . )
22 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : All
23 right . Seeing none . Go ahead .
24 Start the agenda .
25 (Whereupon, the meeting
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1 continued on to the Resolutions at
2 this time . )
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4 PUBLIC COMMENTS
5 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : That
6 concludes the Regular Agenda . At the
7 end there , we can address the Board
8 on any topic . Would anyone like to
9 address the Board? Welcome .
10 ANNE MURRAY : Thank you . Good
11 evening . I ' m Beth Doyle , the
12 Superintendent of Greenport Schools .
13 I ' m here with our Board president ,
14 Jamie Martilotta . And I ' m here to
15 talk about our school ' s budget . So
16 I know many of you are taxpayers
17 here, not educators . So I ' m going to
18 keep it very straightforward . So
19 over the past several years the
20 District has relied on fund balance
21 and reserves to balance the budget .
22 The simplest way to think about
23 that is those are savings accounts .
24 So those are one time funds that
25 were set aside in prior years .
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1 They can help you get through a
2 tough year, but you can ' t use them
3 year after year because once they ' re
4 gone, they ' re gone . At the same
5 time our costs continue to rise
6 every year . So over time that
7 creates a gap between what we spend
8 and what we bring in . Right now we
9 are dealing with two things at once .
10 We have an ongoing gap of about
11 $3 . 1 million dollars for next year
12 and we are also currently spending
13 more than we are bringing in this
14 year . That second piece is
15 important because it means this is
16 not just something we ' re planning
17 for, it ' s something we ' re actively
18 managing right now . The proposed
19 budget for next year is $25 , 995 , 000 ,
20 which is actually a decrease from
21 last year by 3 . 580 , about $ 900 , 000
22 less . I also want to address
23 something that may feel confusing .
24 So I was here in March asking for
25 support for a capital reserve vote to
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1 improve our athletic complex . I just
2 want to be clear that that vote
3 allows the District to use funds that
4 are already set aside for specific
5 building and facility improvements .
6 Those funds are restricted to that .
7 They ' re not sitting there available
8 to pay for salaries or day-to-day
9 operating expenses . So while the
10 timing may feel connected, that vote
11 did not cause this situation and it
12 is not a direct solution to it .
13 There are very limited circumstances
14 where reserve funds could be
15 repurposed, but that would require
16 more action and voter approval . This
17 situation developed over time . Costs
18 have gone up . State aid has not kept
19 pace . Staffing increased
20 significantly in the 24-25 school
21 year, which raised our ongoing costs .
22 At the same time, one-time funds were
23 used to support those ongoing
24 expenses . So that combination is not
25 sustainable . Over the past several
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1 months , we ' ve been working to correct
2 that . We looked at revenue , we ' ve
3 reduced spending where we could . We
4 didn ' t replace any staff that left
5 the district this year, and we were
6 making some very difficult staffing
7 reductions . This budget that the
8 Board has adopted has included a
9 reduction of 21 positions . Those are
10 real people, and these are not easy
11 decisions , but they are necessary to
12 put the district on stable footing .
13 On the handout that the Trustees
14 received this evening, you ' ll see
15 three options . There ' s a contingency
16 budget, there ' s a tax cap budget, and
17 then the Board adopted budget, which
18 is a 7 . 91 tax levy increase . I ' m not
19 going to walk through every number,
20 but I do want to explain what that
21 means . New York State limits how
22 much a district can increase taxes
23 each year for schools . Staying
24 within that limit requires a simple
25 majority vote . Going above that, as
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1 this adopted budget does , requires a
2 60% voter approval . Greenport has
3 stayed within that tax cap for the
4 past six years . This year, given the
5 size of the gap, the Board chose a
6 budget that goes above the cap to
7 preserve as much as possible for our
8 students . The other options , the
9 contingency and the at cap, would
10 require deeper cuts in staff and
11 fewer opportunities for kids . So the
12 question for the community is whether
13 to support the budget that was
14 adopted and the level of programming
15 that it maintains . At the end of the
16 day, it comes down to something
17 simple . We need to bring what we
18 spend in line with what we can
19 sustain . And that ' s what this budget
20 is working to do . This is not an
21 easy situation, but it ' s a clear one .
22 We ' re addressing it now, so the
23 district is on stable footing moving
24 forward, while still protecting as
25 much as we can for our students . So
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1 please come out and vote on May 19th
2 from 2 : 00 to 8 : 00 p . m . in our
3 elementary gym . Thank you so much .
4 I ' m happy to answer any questions .
5 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : First
6 of all , I just want to say thank you
7 for coming . Having been in your
8 position, I know how challenging it
9 is to educate the public on this
10 complicated process . And you ' re
11 doing a great job of helping the
12 community understand kind of what the
13 school board and the superintendent
14 goes through . So I appreciate your
15 active engagement and always being
16 out in the community . Thank you .
17 Thank you for having me .
18 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Just to
19 support what Anne said, you ' re
20 looking at a former Mattituck
21 Cutchogue school board member . So I
22 know where Jamie ' s sitting, and I
23 know the support of the great work of
24 the community is strong and vital .
25 And one of the reasons , you know --
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1 one of the reasons you were chosen as
2 a superintendent is to deal with the
3 difficult situation because of your
4 very vital financial background . So
5 I ' m glad that the right person is in
6 the right time, at the right place,
7 and I hope that the good people of
8 Greenport make the right decision .
9 Good luck to you .
10 BETH DOYLE : Thank you so much .
11 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Good
12 luck, and this is very well laid out .
13 It ' s very good document . So it
14 should help people make a decision .
15 BETH DOYLE : Thank you so much .
16 And all of our presentations can be
17 found on our website too . All of our
18 budget presentations .
19 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : And
20 just as a reminder to everyone , check
21 the district , school district you
22 live in . Everyone votes on the same
23 day, but the hours are not always the
24 same . So please make sure your voice
25 is heard on all your school budgets .
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1 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Thank
2 you .
3 JOHN BOGOVICH : Good evening .
4 My name is John Bogovich . Sheila
5 Spence and I reside at 600 Little
6 Peconic Bay Road in Cutchogue . We
7 are joined here tonight in person and
8 by phone by five other Nassau Point
9 residents , who own homes on the
10 Wunneweta Pond Tidal Reserve and Bird
11 Sanctuary . It ' s an additional six
12 supportive residents that could not
13 attend this evening and a much larger
14 group that all share our concerns .
15 I ' m also the President of the
16 Wunneweta Pond Association, which
17 includes more than 30 families that
18 own homes on the pond . We are here
19 tonight to communicate our serious
20 concerns regarding the contemplated
21 transformation of 500 Little Peconic
22 Bay Road from a three-bedroom home to
23 a 13-bedroom housing complex, with
24 two auxiliary dwelling units and a
25 waterside swimming pool , all on less
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1 than an acre of land . The property
2 owner -- The property owner has
3 already commenced extensive septic
4 and roadway infrastructure excavation
5 and construction without any
6 permitting, other than a wetlands
7 permit for the pool and in violation
8 of a two plus year old Stop Work
9 Order . In short, we are deeply
10 concerned that this plan
11 transformation is already becoming an
12 example of disregarding and
13 disrespecting the law and regulation
14 by deceptively moving ahead without
15 even requested, much less receiving
16 the required permissions . In other
17 words , asking for forgiveness rather
18 than permission . Since first
19 learning of this alarming
20 transformation via a site plan that
21 was slipped into the notice for the
22 October 15th Wetlands Permit Hearing,
23 we ' ve witnessed ever increasing
24 levels of excavation and construction
25 activity at the property . We ' ve
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1 engaged counsel from Twomey and
2 Latham at our own expense, and have
3 spent much of the last five months
4 trying to understand the current
5 status of the property and the extent
6 to which the contemplated
7 transformation had been reviewed or
8 permitted by the town . Our work has
9 discovered the presence of the two
10 year old Stop Work Order that was
11 never visibly posted or enforced
12 until April 16th of this year,
13 following our repeated calls and
14 letters and remains to this day
15 incomplete and inaccurate . The
16 failure to obtain required Suffolk
17 County Health Department permits or
18 complete required stormwater studies
19 prior to excavation . The use of the
20 property ' s detached garage as an
21 auxiliary dwelling unit, and perhaps
22 as a cash flowing rental property
23 without permission, and the absence
24 of any application for or approval of
25 a permit for this transformation
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1 despite its massive impact . Our work
2 has created great concern that the
3 only rational explanation for the
4 expansion of the property to a
5 13-bedroom multi-structure compound
6 is to create a cash flow focused
7 operating hospitality business , a
8 room rental/event facility, which is
9 at odds with the letter and intent of
10 town laws and regulations , as well
11 as , the best interest and quiet
12 enjoyment of the residents . This is
13 especially concerning given the
14 contemplated legalization of
15 short-term rentals in the town . Also
16 worryingly there is reason to believe
17 that the contractors on the site were
18 tipped off to depart before the
19 resident prompted April 16th visit of
20 Code Enforcement to the property, to
21 avoid having to record their presence
22 as a violation of the Stop Work
23 Order . Our presence here this
24 evening is also out of frustration
25 after months of trying to work within
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1 the normal processes and procedures
2 to secure the engagement of the town
3 government around this alarming
4 matter . Despite multiple
5 conversations with the Building
6 Department , an in-person meeting on
7 March 16th between Sheila, Martha
8 Reichert from Twomey, Latham and Mike
9 Verity, many reports of non-permitted
10 activity to Code Enforcement and
11 lengthy letters to the Town
12 Attorney ' s Office on April 21st and
13 22nd detailing our concerns . We ' ve
14 received no response whatsoever from
15 the Town, other than a combative call
16 from Code Enforcement with an initial
17 denial of the existence of the Stop
18 Work Order . Our objectives tonight
19 raising this matter to the attention
20 of the Town Board and Supervisor
21 Krupski this evening are , Number 1 ,
22 to request full comprehensive public
23 disclosure , formal town and public
24 review and input, and completion of
25 all required approvals of the entire
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1 plan and intended use of the property
2 before any further work is permitted
3 on the property . Number 2 , to
4 request that all permitting and
5 approval processes are followed to
6 the letter of the law with ample
7 advance notice to all town and Nassau
8 Point residents of any public hearing
9 that is related to this alarming
10 plan . Number 3 , to request timely,
11 accurate communication amongst all
12 parts of the town ' s organizations ,
13 including the Building Department and
14 Code Enforcement, as well as ,
15 relevant County and State agencies
16 and departments to ensure that all
17 laws and regulations are strictly
18 enforced, and that the findings of
19 all agencies and matters , such as
20 Stop Work Orders are immediately
21 communicated to and vigorously
22 enforced by Code Enforcement . We
23 have already tried our best to engage
24 with the Town in the most
25 constructive possible way, but now we
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1 need the Town to engage with us all
2 to make sure that both the spirit and
3 the letter of the Town ' s Laws and
4 regulations are vigorously enforced
5 to avoid the negative impact of this
6 horrific plan on the town, its
7 residents and the environment . We
8 strongly believe that this more than
9 justifies the Town ' s time and energy .
10 We look forward to your timely and
11 comprehensive communication of your
12 next steps on this important matter
13 as requested in our multiple letters .
14 Please let me know if you have any
15 questions that we can answer now, and
16 we do have copies of the site plan,
17 as well as , our letters to the Town
18 Attorney ' s Office for your
19 convenience . I will note for the
20 record that there has been a recent
21 change in the Town Attorney and given
22 the posting date of these they may
23 have preceded your Mr . Johnson, your
24 seating in this post .
25 ASST . TOWN ATTORNEY BENJAMIN
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1 JOHNSON : Sure . I am aware of what
2 you have said . Have your attorney
3 call my office tomorrow .
4 JOHN BOGOVICH : Okay . We will
5 -- we will happily do that . And we
6 just want all of the code law
7 regulations that you all have put in
8 place to be followed and enforced .
9 That is really in a nutshell what
10 we ' re asking for this evening .
11 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
12 Thank you for coming tonight .
13 Whereabouts on Wunneweta?
14 JOHN BOGOVICH : So Little
15 Peconic Bay Road is -- the compass is
16 always a bit elusive there, but it ' s
17 on the south side of the pond . So
18 you come in the main inlet from the
19 bay and turn left . And if you go
20 north -- I ' m sorry, I see that my
21 compass is not great, but my left and
22 right is pretty good as you come in
23 that the inlet you turn left . Left,
24 if you proceed left straight, you
25 will almost come right into contact
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1 with this property at 500 Little
2 Peconic Bay Road . And editorializing
3 and off of the formal statement, it
4 is a -- when you see the plan, it ' s a
5 shocking plan on a small property .
6 The main house, which is three
7 bedrooms now, the plan is to have
8 that be a nine-bedroom house .
9 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
10 Well , you mentioned a few very
11 relevant things about the short-term
12 rentals and trying to -- there ' s over
13 a thousand in town, right .
14 JOHN BOGOVICH : Yes .
15 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : And
16 then none of them are legal . So,
17 this is quite the ambitious proposal
18 here that you ' re defining .
19 JOHN BOGOVICH : And we do have
20 copies that we ' ll -- we can give you
21 now that do have the site plan . And
22 this is the plan, by the way, that
23 was appended . We didn ' t kind of come
24 up with the plan . This was the one
25 that was appended to the Wetlands
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1 Permit Hearing Notice back in
2 October . Thank you very much .
3 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : And
4 as far as the size of the home , we
5 are --
6 JOHN BOGOVICH : And this is 0 . 8
7 acres in size .
8 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
9 Yeah . We used to have one past a
10 house law . And it was a very good
11 attempt at trying to break the size
12 of homes with smaller lots . We are
13 currently actively working on an
14 amendment that means that we ' ve
15 engaged people to do modeling . So
16 the Board have a better idea of what
17 these proposed homes would actually
18 look like on a lot, instead of a
19 formula that nobody could quite get
20 the sky plain and all that . So I
21 think this will be a good test for
22 that . But in the meantime, we ' ll
23 make sure that the code is being
24 complied with . And this is -- this
25 is very concerning . Thank you for
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1 coming tonight .
2 JOHN BOGOVICH : And thank you
3 for your time and all of your
4 attention . We appreciate it . We
5 look forward to engaging with you
6 kind of comprehensively on this . So
7 thank you very much .
8 SHARON KELLY : Hi , I ' m Sharon
9 Kelly . I live in Cutchogue . And I
10 came tonight to talk about support
11 for the Tree Code . It sounds like
12 from a little bit of the brief
13 reading that it was considered in
14 2024 . And now it ' s two years later .
15 And they ' re reconsidering putting in
16 a Tree Code prior to the zoning .
17 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : The
18 problem is the Zoning Update is
19 almost on year five, and it ' s been a
20 good public outreach . We ' ve done a
21 lot of information gathering, but it
22 was too much to take on in one bite .
23 So now we ' re doing things like the
24 cell tower and public hearing that ' s
25 been done as we ' ve worked on that for
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1 a year . We ' re working on short-term
2 rentals with meaningful code with
3 meaningful enforcement . We ' re doing
4 that also at the same time . So
5 we ' re -- and then we ' re gonna do some
6 public outreach, but most people have
7 really seen the need for some sort of
8 Affordable Housing . And that ' s gonna
9 take up quite a bit of time between
10 Attorney ' s Office, Planning, ZBA,
11 everyone ' s gonna have to kind of lean
12 into that to do some code changes to
13 facilitate some Affordable Housing
14 being built . The Tree Code that was
15 proposed a couple of years ago was a
16 complicated matter and it was -- it
17 was difficult to administer . And a
18 lot of other things that I ' ve
19 mentioned, you kind of got in front
20 of them as being more of a priority .
21 So this is something that I borrowed
22 from Southampton . I was speaking to
23 a Southampton Town Councilman like a
24 month ago, who were talking about an
25 unrelated topic . And he mentioned
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1 that they were going through this .
2 It ' s more of a clearing tone . And so
3 what was received from him is a draft
4 of what they ' re proposing in
5 Southampton . And it would set a
6 limit . You could clear so much
7 without a permit . And after that
8 limit, then you need a permit . You
9 need a full Site Plan Review of
10 whatnot and full review on a
11 residential parcel . So we already
12 have something for commercial
13 parcels , but this would cover
14 residential parcels . So this is
15 something, and I distributed it to
16 the Board . I ' d like the Board to
17 look at it . Most of it ' s relevant to
18 Southold Town . There obviously has
19 to be a few changes to make it to the
20 Southold Town as opposed to
21 Southampton Town . But I think
22 it ' s -- we need something that can be
23 enforced . Since enforcement ' s a good
24 theme tonight, we need something that
25 can be enforced . The Tree Code was
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1 very difficult and it was going to be
2 very difficult to comply with it to
3 enforce . So this is something that
4 we ' ll be bringing out to the public
5 soon when it ' s kind of polished up
6 for Southold Town . But we hope we
7 can get people supported . You ' ve
8 seen a lot of clearing that ' s taken
9 place because there ' s nothing in the
10 code preventing it .
11 SHARON KELLY : Yeah, just one
12 piece that you might want to consider
13 to strengthen the code if it ' s
14 possible to enforce, is to
15 specifically or especially be more
16 conservative with native trees that
17 are already existing . Because like
18 cutting down Privet is probably a
19 good thing because that ' s an invasive
20 species , but cutting down like an Oak
21 is creating a lot more harm to the
22 ecosystem . So, you know, there ' s a
23 list of keystone native trees that
24 exist on Long Island that support
25 biodiversity and quite a bit of
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1 wildlife , that are threatened by all
2 the invasive species that oftentimes
3 nurseries are still selling and
4 people are unaware that these
5 invasive species are taking up even
6 land in the preserves .
7 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : They
8 do get -- I ' m sorry, they do get
9 planted occasionally . There ' s New
10 York State Ag and Market does do
11 enforcement on invasive species being
12 brought in nurseries and sold in
13 nurseries on Long Island . They do
14 accurately enforce that . But they
15 still manage to get it .
16 COUNCILWOMAN ALEXA SUESS : I
17 have read through the code from
18 Southampton and they do include
19 specifications for native versus
20 invasive species . So that is
21 something that we could consider
22 here .
23 SHARON KELLY : Yeah, please do .
24 And I think that you said a 22-inch
25 limit is that the circumference of
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1 the tree that would have to --
2 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Or
3 18 .
4 SHARON KELLY : Maybe it could
5 even be smaller for the natives , is
6 what I ' m saying, like just even if
7 there ' s -- just to be more
8 conservative . Like put a highlight
9 on those native species . It would be
10 something to consider, and I don ' t
11 know how that would get enforced or
12 written up, but I think it ' s vitally
13 important . Thank you .
14 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
15 Thank you .
16 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Thank
17 you for supporting that .
18 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
19 Welcome Anne .
20 ANNE MURRAY : Can you hear me?
21 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Yes .
22 ANNE MURRAY : Okay, great .
23 Thank you . Anne Murray here from
24 East Marion . I ' m speaking as the
25 Southold Land Use Coordinator for the
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1 North Fork Environmental Council .
2 And I just wanted to let you know
3 that during Winterfest, we were
4 asking all the folks that stopped by
5 our table about trees , and some
6 people just came up to us and said,
7 you know, they ' re clear-cutting
8 everything in my neighborhood . So
9 anyway, long story short, we ' ve got
10 85 people who signed up, who want to
11 take action on getting the Town Board
12 to make a Tree Code . I think your
13 discussion this morning on doing a
14 simple tree clearing code is an
15 excellent place to start . I realize
16 it ' s a very complicated issue , but it
17 sounds like the Supervisor has a good
18 solution here with a simple code that
19 would be easy to enforce . And I
20 really hope that you can examine it,
21 and come to a decision soon, and
22 maybe bring it to public hearing
23 because you ' ll find a lot of people
24 showing up to talk about this issue .
25 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
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1 Thank you, Anne .
2 ANNE MURRAY : Thank you .
3 NICKI MUDD : Hi , good evening .
4 I did prepare the statement tonight .
5 I ' m glad I did a summary, because I
6 think you ' ve all been here long
7 enough . All right . So good evening .
8 I know many of you know me up there
9 from many different roles . Tonight
10 I ' m here with my mom hat on . So good
11 evening . My name is Nicki Mudd . I ' m
12 a lifelong resident of Southold Town
13 and I ' m raising my three sons here in
14 this community . I did not come to
15 this meeting as a critic tonight . I
16 came as someone who has spent less
17 time in my own home and I have it
18 sports with my own children . I ' ve
19 coached, I volunteered and I ' ve come
20 tonight because it ' s what you do when
21 you love your community, and you want
22 it to be better for the families that
23 are here , and those that are coming
24 up behind us . I ' ve driven off this
25 island to New Jersey, New England,
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1 Pennsylvania for travel games , for
2 tournaments . I ' ve walked into
3 facilities and fields and other
4 towns . I ' ve seen Brookhaven, Islip
5 and Smithtown has , and I ' m a little
6 jealous of them, honestly . Because
7 what we have here in Southold is not
8 even comparable . Not because
9 Southold lacks heart . I grew up
10 here . I know the heart that we have .
11 But that alone, the heart does not
12 keep fields playable in July . It
13 doesn ' t give 400 soccer kids and 150
14 little leaguers somewhere to train in
15 January . So when I watched the April
16 21st work session, I know you did
17 briefly state before that this has
18 been tabled for a bit . But I heard
19 the Justice Court suggested the
20 Peconic Community Center, this very
21 building . This was my art classroom .
22 I grew up here . The one that our
23 Recreation Director fills with
24 programs . This building serves as
25 the number one emergency shelter for
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1 this town and the cooling station, it
2 was somehow available and
3 underutilized . They made a comment
4 that they were coming here to claim
5 it . That was the language used . No,
6 no . This court does need a home . And
7 I think we can all agree on that .
8 But the Town has purchased land in
9 Peconic for exactly that purpose .
10 Supposedly an architecture firm,
11 almost half a million dollars in 2024
12 to design the court and the police
13 station . It was a little difficult
14 to get information because the Town
15 records are still inaccessible . So I
16 did try to do my best, if the numbers
17 are a little bit off, I do apologize .
18 But the answer to the long-deferred
19 problem of courts here for the Town
20 cannot be to take away the only
21 community space that we have for
22 people who depend on it every day .
23 The Community Center was renovated on
24 community block grants . And that is
25 to be used by the community, not for
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1 the court system . Our Recreation
2 Director has built something really
3 extraordinary . She has programs that
4 fill up, kids that beg to join . And
5 the community really talks about her
6 programs with pride . She ' s doing it
7 in spite of the space that she has
8 not because of it . Our park staff
9 shows up every single day trying to
10 keep the fields usable without
11 irrigation, infrastructure that they
12 actually need to be successful at
13 their job . These are great people
14 doing their absolute best . They
15 deserve better tools and so do our
16 kids , and so do our community . The
17 Town spent over a hundred and fifty
18 million dollars preserving farmland
19 in the last 20 years and I do believe
20 as a life long resident coming from a
21 farm family that is worth
22 celebrating . I mean it and I mean
23 that, but a town is not only its
24 land, it ' s its people . It ' s the
25 families that are here around . The
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1 kids who deserve somewhere to go in
2 February when it ' s freezing and the
3 season has not started yet . The
4 seniors who need a warm room and a
5 reason to get out of the house . And
6 right now we are serving those needs
7 minimally and the budget proves it .
8 Southold has built a 65 , 000 square
9 foot indoor facility on town land at
10 zero cost to taxpayers . The
11 community nonprofit raised the money,
12 built the building, gifted it to the
13 town, and it runs on very modest
14 membership fees . It has been running
15 successfully for over 20 years . We
16 have the land, we have the need, and
17 we have the model . The Carroll
18 Avenue parcel , all 10 . 2 acres of it,
19 was bought with every taxpayers money
20 for recreational use . It ' s sitting
21 there right now waiting for someone
22 to decide that that matters . I do
23 have a few questions tonight . Given
24 that the Town has already purchased
25 land in Peconic and supposedly paid
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1 nearly half a million dollars to the
2 architect, Nelson and Pope, to design
3 the new police and court complex on
4 that site . Why is this Peconic
5 Community Center even being discussed
6 as a location for the court?
7 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : We
8 are looking at it . ( Inaudible) .
9 NICKI MUDD : But the property
10 was purchased for the police station
11 and the court system, and plans were
12 drawn up, correct?
13 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
14 Plans are being drawn up for the
15 police station .
16 NICKI MUDD : If the pending sale
17 of the portion of the 10 . 2 acres on
18 Carroll Avenue that was earmarked for
19 workforce housing to Georgica Green
20 Ventures is ultimately blocked by the
21 courts , will the Board be returning
22 the full Carroll Avenue parcel to
23 recreational use, the purpose for
24 which it was purchased with the
25 taxpayer ' s funds ?
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1 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : So
2 there is a lawsuit there .
3 ASST . TOWN ATTORNEY BENJAMIN
4 JOHNSON : We are actively exploring
5 our options . It ' s now back and we ' re
6 at Supreme Court and we are -- we are
7 actively addressing the issue , but
8 who we are , it is a matter of
9 litigation . It has to be . We can ' t
10 speak about it all . We are
11 addressing that issue almost every
12 week .
13 NICKI MUDD : And if that does
14 not go through, is there intentions
15 to return that to full recreational
16 use?
17 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
18 don ' t know if that ' s -- we ' re not
19 there yet because we need to see
20 where it ' s gonna go in the lawsuit .
21 As Supervisor and Board of all of
22 that, as County Legislator, and
23 normally when the Town makes it open
24 space, County and the Town that
25 ( inaudible ) the apartments in
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1 purchasing them, purchase and then
2 stewardship . In this case, the towns
3 have done -- they didn ' t want to
4 partner with the County because they
5 had other plans for it, besides just
6 passing open space . So as far as I
7 know, legally, there ' s other options
8 there, but we have to let it go
9 through the system as a legal system
10 right now .
11 NICKI MUDD : Okay . Would the
12 Board be opening to issue other
13 requests for proposals modeled on the
14 Southampton Youth Center services
15 structure? This if -- you could
16 speak a little bit to maybe what the
17 YMCA maybe that was part of it . I
18 feel like that we all kind of found
19 out about that meeting in the
20 newspaper, which I think -- I mean as
21 a resident here with children, I was
22 amazed to hear about -- I think that
23 it ' s wonderful . So I ' d just like to
24 hear a little bit more about that .
25 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : Sure .
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1 So there is a local sort of
2 grassroots group, who started looking
3 at potential locations for recreation
4 facility with a variety of indoor
5 possibilities . That led them to
6 meeting with the YMCA of Long Island
7 and that ' s what that meeting was
8 about . So Councilman Mealy and I , as
9 Recreation Department liaisons have
10 attended those meetings , as well as
11 Suess came to a few of the meetings .
12 They took it quite a long distance
13 and trying to get a partnership going
14 with the YMCA, but as of right now,
15 they are -- the Y is focusing their
16 attention on their Riverhead project .
17 As a result that committee has kind
18 of reconvened to try to like get back
19 to where they started, which is still
20 exploring possibilities for exactly
21 what you ' re describing . In fact, I ' m
22 taking the field trip over to
23 Southampton next week . Just sort of
24 look at models . I don ' t think
25 outside the box a little bit . But
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1 this is not a Town Committee doing
2 this investigation, this is a
3 community focused committee , so that
4 would be who you ' d want to get in
5 touch with . Keeping that
6 conversation going because it was a
7 packed house at that meeting, at
8 Trinity Church . A lot of support and
9 we definitely know that those goals
10 about this stretch of property in the
11 town as the recreation hub and right
12 against the plan, the community --
13 the Recreation Committee is really
14 taking a hard look at what is in that
15 plan . But certainly health wellness ,
16 certainly the work that I ' ve done
17 with mental health and prevention,
18 kind of keeping our youth engaged,
19 certainly our outdoor fields are
20 really important to us . So I
21 appreciate all of your questions and
22 we ' ll make sure that they get the
23 attention they need .
24 NICKI MUDD : Okay . The only
25 other thing I just wanted to touch
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1 base on real quick, I guess I ' ll just
2 kind of summarize this . Just to
3 reiterate , I know that the
4 Comprehensive Plan calls for
5 acquiring additional playing fields .
6 It ' s been documented several times
7 that fields are extremely overused
8 here . There ' s over 400 kids in North
9 Fork United alone, 150 kids in Little
10 League . We do have minimal fields
11 here that are available for these
12 kids . And they ' re not in the
13 greatest shape and it ' s at no fault
14 to the people that are trying to
15 maintain them . I know if irrigation
16 is something that is not considered,
17 and I know that we have our own laws
18 with that now . It would be something
19 -- and I don ' t think it ' s worth not
20 looking into, to possibly do turf
21 fields . I know that they are an
22 initial extreme expense . However,
23 the caretaker of them afterwards is
24 extremely minimal . And it would be
25 something worth looking at . We also
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1 talk about keeping the next
2 generation on the North Fork .
3 Nostalgia alone is not going to keep
4 people here . We need more fields .
5 We need more space . We need a real
6 community center that ' s worthy of
7 this community . We have the land .
8 The community is deserving of it . So
9 I am asking for action .
10 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : So the
11 good news is that the grant required
12 a lot of planning and sometimes when
13 those plans are already done, and a
14 priority in the town helps the next
15 time . It was a good use of
16 everyone ' s time and really started
17 great conversation exactly about what
18 you ' re talking about with the fields .
19 NICKI MUDD : Thank you .
20 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
21 Thank you .
22 CLAY COFFEY : Hello, Supervisor
23 Krupski and the Board . My name is
24 Clay Coffey . I ' m a local Southold
25 resident and Assistant Coach to
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1 Nicki . We are both coaches of the
2 Whalers . It ' s a 10 and under team .
3 And it ' s a great honor, and that ' s
4 primarily what I ' m here for . But I ' m
5 a father, and a member of the
6 community and a licensed architect .
7 So I have a fair amount of experience
8 in town and have been part of the
9 town since really 2016 . And as part
10 of that, my wife and I founded
11 Issac-Rae . We ' ve spent a lot of time
12 investing in the community in
13 Greenport and Southold, and have been
14 trying to raise our kids here in that
15 way . It ' s been a fun and productive
16 10 years . We were honored last week
17 to actually receive a Merit Award
18 from the AAA for our work with McCall
19 Vineyards for a historic preservation
20 and adaptive reuse . And I ' ll only
21 mention that because it ' s relevant to
22 what I ' d like to discuss about
23 adaptive reuse with buildings like
24 this , buildings like the Town Hall
25 Annex, buildings like the Calvary
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1 Hall , the Police Department . And I
2 really appreciate Nicki for bringing
3 this up in conversations during our
4 practices . And I think she has a
5 pretty well-researched letter that I
6 appreciate . As a point of entry, the
7 fields that we play on, as she
8 mentioned, these ones , the Laurel and
9 Peconic, right down the road, are
10 extremely over-utilized and under
11 maintained . Every other weekend on
12 our travel team, we ' re going to , you
13 know, Sachem, Stony Brook,
14 Southampton, Medford, all over the
15 Suffolk County . And it ' s not just
16 noticeable to us as the coaches , but
17 it ' s noticeable to the kids and to
18 our families that their fields and
19 facilities are better maintained than
20 ours , which is just a kind of
21 question mark, right? Why is that
22 happening? But it also brings me to
23 my larger point here . And also a
24 question of what we need to do as a
25 private club and what these guys have
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1 done, which I think at North Fork
2 United has been kind of amazing . You
3 know, they ' ve tried to -- I know you
4 guys are working, it sounds like
5 you ' re working with grants , but
6 they ' ve also worked in the community
7 to provide and secure private funding
8 to help, you know, revitalize the
9 fields and maintain them . I would
10 ask the Board to consider how that
11 may work with the volunteer
12 submittals . I think if our teams can
13 provide waivers of insurance to play
14 on the fields , waivers of liability,
15 that eventually independent
16 contractors can do the same thing .
17 The construction industry and
18 architecture industry, we understand
19 that insurance and liability is an
20 important aspect of this , but it
21 seems that if we have volunteers in
22 the community that are willing to
23 maintain the fields , that we should
24 allow that to happen via some means .
25 And I also just want to briefly
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1 discuss this building and the kind of
2 large investment that the town has
3 been doing . So it ' s very clear that
4 the Town has spent millions of
5 dollars through the Community
6 Preservation Fund, and other
7 mechanisms to preserve open land .
8 Recently there was a 14-acre parcel
9 by my house in Southold, but then
10 there ' s also this parcel , 52 acres on
11 Main Road . And I think these are
12 worthy investments , but preservation
13 of land, without reinvestment of the
14 people that live in it, is only half
15 division for this community . I
16 propose that preserving the landscape
17 while letting -- we ' re essentially
18 preserving the landscape while
19 letting social fabric . For not
20 reinvesting in public facilities for
21 our town . Additionally, I think it ' s
22 great that the Town is prepared to
23 spend significant money on the Police
24 Department and new Justice Court
25 facility, but I would propose that we
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1 should be thinking bigger . I would
2 propose that we should be thinking
3 about ways to adaptively reuse the
4 structures that we already have ,
5 right? This structure, it ' s a
6 beautiful piece that we can
7 adaptively reuse as a Town Recreation
8 Center in the lot that we have
9 without going out and looking for
10 some bigger lot . I can very easily
11 envision a multi-story building
12 that ' s attached to this that could be
13 a beautiful Town Recreation Center
14 that ' s very adjacent to what we have ,
15 right? And so, in closing, what I ' d
16 like to do is just propose an
17 alternative approach . Do we need a
18 modern police facility? Obviously,
19 yes we do, right? Anyone who ' s been
20 over there sees that need . Do we
21 need a court and a reimagined court?
22 Anyone who ' s been in Town Hall may
23 obviously say, yeah, absolutely . We
24 need that investment . Honestly, do
25 we need an improved Town Hall ? Yeah,
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1 you guys need federal offices , right?
2 But we also need to invest in
3 Southold Town families . And I would
4 argue that investing in this building
5 and investing in a Town recreation
6 facility that is effectively a YMCA
7 for our town, that is town owned,
8 town led, town developed is a vital
9 piece of infrastructure that you guys
10 can do, and that you can do much
11 easier than an outside developer who
12 has to then find the right piece of
13 property for the right zoning, the
14 right parking and everything else ,
15 right? So , I don ' t think these goals
16 are in conflict . I think it requires
17 planning and imagination . And I
18 think it ' s a great opportunity for
19 you guys to take a look at . And I ' m,
20 as a local architect, I ' d be happy to
21 help in any way that I can .
22 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
23 Thank you .
24 CLAY COFFEY : Thank you .
25 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
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1 wouldn ' t mind if you came in some day
2 to talk .
3 CLAY COFFEY : Absolutely .
4 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : The
5 CPF, the Community Preservation Fund,
6 is a dedicated fund . That money is
7 dedicated for -- right now, the way
8 that the program is designed is
9 farmland and open spaces . That money
10 can ' t be used for other things .
11 CLAY COFFEY : I don ' t think
12 that ' s -- I ' m saying yes and, I ' m
13 saying do that . I ' m not saying don ' t
14 do that . I ' m saying absolutely do
15 that, but also do this .
16 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : The
17 conditions of the fields , and I just
18 had th ' s conversation last week, they
19 have a hard time when the fields are
20 being used . During the summer, they
21 can ' t do any preparation on it
22 because they ' re being used . So you
23 can ' t -- You can ' t use them and
24 renovate them and rest them and
25 restore them at the same time .
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1 CLAY COFFEY : Yeah, no, I ' m
2 familiar with the chicken and egg .
3 Absolutely . I understand that one
4 thing comes before the other . And
5 it ' s hard to tell , which one does ,
6 but without --
7 NICKI MUDD : We have been very
8 accommodating with not using fields
9 while fertilizer can be put down,
10 overseeing . We ' ve been very
11 accommodating .
12 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
13 Well , I mean, you can ' t do both . So
14 you have to --
15 CLAY COFFEY : Yeah, I completely
16 agree with you . There is an absolute
17 chicken and egg aspect of this . And
18 I think Marco and the club are
19 absolutely aware of that as well .
20 We ' re here to advocate for a
21 solution . Anyway, thank you very
22 much for your time . I appreciate it .
23 Thank you .
24 ANTHONY MITAROTONDO : Dr .
25 Anthony Mitarotondo . I know a couple
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1 of people up there in podium, and
2 Denis . I think that we just hit on
3 something important . They always
4 said, yes , and, I mean, of course ,
5 sports , recreation, youth, very
6 important . Land preservation, very
7 important . And this ties in with
8 John ' s remarks on 500 Little Peconic
9 Bay Road, because it is a land use
10 thing . I would ask that everybody on
11 the podium take five minutes to go
12 there . Car pool or whatever, but you
13 have to see it firsthand . I ' ve lived
14 at 950 Little Peconic Bay Road since
15 1989 . And this is -- to say the
16 least, disturbing as you use the
17 word . Egregious is better . And if
18 it happens , it would be more
19 egregious than if it ' s just in the
20 planning stage, and nipped in the
21 butt . If this is a land use and a
22 social issue , this would irrevocably
23 change the character of the
24 neighborhood . You ' d probably need
25 all sorts of variances . Septic would
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1 be huge . I ' m sure there aren ' t
2 enough kitchens . There can ' t be
3 enough bathrooms where you would put
4 them . 13 bedrooms in total . And how
5 many people to a bedroom? And
6 there ' s probably a legal definition
7 of a bedroom in Southold Town that I
8 don ' t know . But in New York City,
9 there ' s to be something like 10 X 12 ,
10 and have a window, so you don ' t die
11 on fire . These are constraints ,
12 which probably can ' t be overcome
13 given the proposed scope of this
14 work . And let ' s not forget, not
15 everybody who would go to this
16 proposed motel -- I ' ll call it a
17 motel , probably gonna ride through a
18 bicycle or walk . Where do these
19 people park? We talk about traffic
20 control for a wedding on Route 48 ,
21 this is in perpetuity . And I happen
22 to know that the proposed
23 three-bedroom carriage house is
24 really a garage . So where do those
25 cars go? This doesn ' t make any
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1 sense, any stretch of the
2 imagination . So I ' d like to amplify
3 and enlarge on John ' s comments . This
4 is just totally disturbing . Thank
5 you .
6 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
7 Thank you .
8 MARCO DA FONTE : Good evening .
9 Marco Da Fonte, resident of
10 Mattituck . With my two kids , I moved
11 here 10 years ago . We started the
12 club 10 years ago from one team of
13 seven kids with Eric McKenna, a
14 teacher, started the club . And now
15 we ' re at 472 players , Town of
16 Southold residents . My role as a
17 Sporting Director is just to manage
18 the players , create programs , educate
19 the 40 plus volunteer coaches that we
20 have, like Nicki and Clay and to
21 really build a community and culture
22 within the club . You mentioned
23 before about taking time off at Gene
24 Cochran . Gene Cochran hasn ' t been
25 used during the Fall season . We move
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1 over to Aldridge . So it gives us the
2 opportunity between, you know,
3 September and November or whenever
4 that first snow is to really better
5 those fields . And like Nicki
6 emphasized, with Eric Haus being
7 there, it was something that he
8 inherited over there . Last year the
9 fields was probably in the worst
10 condition it ' s ever been . So we did
11 move a lot of our programs over here
12 to the Rec Center, but when you ' re
13 speaking about four or five teams
14 because we have a very small window
15 of opportunity to host these
16 practices , you know 4 : 30 is our
17 earliest time . And whenever it gets
18 dark, we have to close up . I sent an
19 e-mail on March 16th to Janet . Just
20 seeing what we can do . I spoke to
21 some local business owners that maybe
22 would be willing to donate, whether
23 it ' s materials for the fields or
24 something that happened recently
25 right before the Winter, where the
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1 shed got broken into and vandalized .
2 Right now the shed is operating . The
3 flooring is found -- is fine . The
4 foundation is fine . The siding is
5 absolutely destroyed . And if you
6 walk into that shed, we basically had
7 to cover a lot of slurs that is
8 really just not appropriate for our
9 kids to be walking in there and
10 seeing . So if there ' s anything that
11 we can do as a club to better those
12 fields short-term wise, Eric did put
13 fertilizer down . And I think the big
14 problem with the field is you can ' t
15 dribble or walk across that field
16 without potentially rolling an ankle
17 or getting injured . And when these
18 families come from all over Long
19 Island, we ' re talking 14 teams ,
20 everyone coming in, just giving them
21 the North Fork experience of enjoying
22 sports . And, you know, going to the
23 local brewery, restaurants . Whatever
24 it might be, it ' s something that we
25 encourage and we want visitors to
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1 enjoy . So there was a, I guess I
2 need to put some sort of letter of
3 resolution together on what we can
4 offer or do in order to short-term,
5 improve the fields , and then whatever
6 we can do for that shed without
7 asking for you guys to go into any
8 sort of budget dollars to go towards
9 that . So if you have any questions
10 or anything like that, I ' m definitely
11 always available . You ' ll find me on
12 the fields . I know Supervisor
13 Krupski was trying to enjoy the
14 baseball game the other day, and I
15 introduced myself without taking too
16 much of his time, trying to be
17 respectful , but it is something that
18 we continue to try to improve as the
19 numbers do grow, you know, long-term .
20 How do we find more space short-term?
21 How do we better the experience for
22 our players ?
23 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : So
24 how do you -- I know this came up
25 years ago about use of the fields and
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1 the condition of the fields and it
2 was the same , really the same
3 concerns . And I know there was some
4 collaboration with the schools
5 because the schools -- and we just
6 had a school here -- the schools are
7 a big part of our tax use and
8 everything . We spend a lot of money
9 on the schools . We should -- they
10 have a lot of fields that they
11 maintain also . And I ' m thinking
12 about the one at West Country over
13 there, and it ' s a beautiful field
14 there . So how do you collaborate
15 with the schools to use, to get the
16 full use of all the fields that we ' re
17 all paying for to be used?
18 MARCO DA FONTE : You know, we do
19 collaborate with the schools . We
20 work very closely with all the
21 schools . To give you an example,
22 during the Fall , the Mattituck,
23 Southold, Greenport girls varsity
24 team is utilizing that Cutchogue West
25 fields from 4 : 00 , to let ' s just say
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1 6 : 00 o ' clock . By -- we ' re talking
2 Fall -- by 6 : 00 o ' clock . So even
3 during the Winter, we work very
4 closely with Greenport . We actually
5 offer a lot of free community
6 programs for that school , but again
7 space is very limited . When you ' re
8 competing against internal programs
9 and everything else that ' s going on .
10 Southold has recently just been open
11 to us . We started using a lot of
12 that turf fields in this past Fall ,
13 but it just -- it really just comes
14 down to -- we ' re talking not only 14
15 teams from ages you know U8 to U19 ,
16 we ' re also talking about multiple
17 programs , Rec program, developmental
18 program for our 4 through 7
19 year-olds . So it ' s just -- I
20 understand space being limited, and I
21 understand that ' s something that
22 we ' re going to continue to work on .
23 But my short term is how do we make
24 the current fields an overall better
25 experience for the coaches that are
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1 trying to teach, whether it ' s passing
2 drills , whatever it might be , but
3 also for the players to, you know,
4 show up and be excited to be playing
5 there .
6 NICKI MUDD : And just to comment
7 on the fields as well , there ' s
8 multiple size fields that are also
9 needed . And we ' re not at liberty as
10 the club to make smaller fields on
11 the school property . They have the
12 field line for the school sports .
13 The younger kids all play on smaller
14 size fields that we have to line
15 weekly here, and then at Aldridge in
16 Mattituck as well .
17 MARCO DA FONTE : And we have
18 our -- yeah, we use Cutchogue and
19 School District . It ' s -- I think
20 Anne has a lot of experience with
21 that while she was with Mattituck .
22 And we do use -- we use Cutchogue
23 East during the Fall , on Wednesdays .
24 So we do utilize -- we just -- we ' re
25 limited based on the amount of kids
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1 that we actually have part of the
2 club . So if there ' s anything else
3 that we can do or we can offer to ,
4 you know, to the fields , and of
5 course , the shed over there . And the
6 shed is used not only for, you know,
7 storage or equipment or blossom pound
8 sort of situation . We actually do a
9 lot of educational , tactical , I
10 guess , for the players ; just to
11 understand positions and everything
12 like that . It ' s almost like a little
13 gathering place as well , but we
14 haven ' t really been doing that since .
15 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
16 ( Inaudible ) .
17 MARCO DA FONTE : The one in the
18 middle . The south, yeah, the
19 southeast corner I think is the
20 Osprey ' s . That was built . I think
21 last year . I don ' t think it needs to
22 be -- it ' s usable . Like I said, the
23 flooring and foundation is there . I
24 just think it needs a lot of love .
25 And if you walk in there , you ' ll see
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1 the spray paints and you ' ll see what
2 we had to cover in order to, for them
3 not to be visible for coaches and
4 everything .
5 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : And
6 just so you ' re aware, I know you ' ve
7 been in touch with Georgica and that
8 has this topic of yours has come up
9 at our meeting . So we ' ll be in touch
10 and working through the
11 possibilities . Thank you .
12 MARCO DA FONTE : Thank you all .
13 I appreciate it .
14 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
15 Margaret on the Zoom . Welcome ,
16 Margaret .
17 MARGARET DE CRUZ : Hi , thank
18 you . Yes , I live in Greenport . It ' s
19 funny because Al when you
20 mentioned -- what did you mention? I
21 was just thinking -- I ' m sitting here
22 listening and I ' m thinking of the big
23 field off of Moore ' s Lane that
24 Greenport School owns . And that --
25 there ' s a large field that ' s not used
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1 by the kids . You know, they ' re
2 closer to the school or there ' s two
3 baseball fields there , but then
4 there ' s a large area that ' s not used
5 at all . So, I don ' t know if that ' s a
6 possibility to make another . But I
7 don ' t see a lot of kids playing
8 there . Maybe they don ' t come to
9 Greenport as much as staying in
10 Southold and Mattituck and Cutchogue .
11 And then with this whole idea of our
12 school needing so much money, I know
13 that the idea of combining schools
14 has been floated before . I don ' t
15 know why it hasn ' t happened, but it
16 just seems like maybe that topic
17 should come up again . Because we
18 don ' t want to fire teachers and
19 decrease whatever we offer the
20 children . So, I don ' t know . I think
21 we should talk about that again . The
22 other thing is with Greenport and
23 this desire to create a ice skating
24 rink, and there ' s now a fundraising
25 campaign . And in my opinion, ice
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1 skating rinks , even if you have a
2 Zamboni , with the weather and the
3 warm winters , which will probably
4 keep happening, it doesn ' t seem like
5 a smart thing to do when there ' s a
6 real desire for a swimming pool
7 somewhere in Southold or Greenport .
8 And I would really love to see people
9 change their minds a little bit . I
10 know that there ' s already a thing in
11 motion to get an ice skating rink .
12 And I love ice skating, but I don ' t
13 think it makes sense . I think more
14 people would use a pool of all ages .
15 And the other thing I wanted to
16 mention, oh trees , that ' s my main
17 reason I ' m here . I know you cannot
18 regulate residential trees , but I
19 would love to because I ' ve seen so
20 many people cut down trees . But I
21 really think one of the answers is
22 educating people on the value of
23 trees . I don ' t think they realize
24 how important they are . And I ' m
25 wondering if more education could be
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1 around emergency -- not emergency
2 management , but the importance of
3 trees is storms and emergencies like
4 that . And I know people think trees
5 are a liability because of the wind
6 and they can fall down, but the other
7 part of trees is they hold water like
8 a lake . And it ' s silly to cut them
9 down when they have this root system
10 that absorbs so much water and
11 creates , you know, a wonderful
12 ecosystem for nature . We need trees .
13 I don ' t think people realize the
14 value of them . And I would love to
15 see somehow our Town work on getting
16 people to do it . See their value so
17 that they don ' t just cut them down .
18 And then they think, well , I ' ll cut
19 down a big tree and I ' ll plant
20 another little one . And that ' s going
21 to make the difference . And it has
22 no equipment at all . So those are my
23 three cents .
24 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : So
25 Margaret, we have a very active Tree
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1 Committee that plants trees every
2 year . Jill is the liaison . I don ' t
3 know, maybe you want to talk about
4 the work that they do . And I don ' t
5 know, Margaret, there might be a
6 vacancy of the Tree Committee .
7 COUNCILWOMAN JILL DOHERTY : I
8 do . We do education through the
9 schools . The Peggy Murphy started
10 years ago . And every year we do a
11 poster contest to educate when Arbor
12 Day started and the importance of
13 trees . And we go and speak to the
14 schools . We talk about trying to do
15 more education for the adults . We do
16 a lot of different programs . And
17 we ' re in charge of the street trees .
18 So a lot of people think that we can
19 regulate trees on residential
20 properties . That ' s not what the
21 committee ' s for . Excuse me , I don ' t
22 know, I ' m losing my voice . Home day,
23 I guess . But we have a good program .
24 We work with the Highway Department
25 when they have to take diseased trees
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1 down, because trees do die out and
2 some trees do have to be taken down,
3 we replant . A good example is right
4 here . A lot of the trees became old .
5 They were taken down and we planted
6 new trees . And we maintain them and
7 water them . And we usually plant
8 them in the Fall , because that ' s the
9 best time for planting, for survival
10 through the winter, because they can
11 absorb the groundwater and survive .
12 So we ' re always looking for ways to
13 educate the public more . You know,
14 it ' s been successful , so thank you .
15 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY :
16 Margaret, this is Brian Mealy, your
17 friend . How are you?
18 MARGARET DE CRUZ : Good .
19 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : I just
20 wanted to take an opportunity to
21 thank you for being at the center of
22 the months and months of planning for
23 the Environmental Expo and for the
24 repair cafe . I know that ' s something
25 you ' re passionate about, not just
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1 throwing your lamp away, and not just
2 kicking the toaster down into the
3 basement . So just thanks for your
4 years of advocacy and talking about
5 what our community to do, and talking
6 about the people that have the skills
7 to repair things . So it was a great
8 success this past last Saturday . We
9 talked to Nick Krupski in his
10 capacity as the Waste Management
11 Coordinator, and what he was talking
12 about and rain barrels and food scrap
13 recycling . So just thank you, thank
14 you, thank you for being at the
15 center of that, and encouraging a
16 town community cooperative effort .
17 And people care about these
18 restorative efforts to protect our
19 communities . Thank you, thank you,
20 thank you .
21 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
22 Yeah, thanks for mentioning that
23 Brian .
24 MARGARET DE CRUZ : Well , you ' re
25 very welcome . And I wish we could
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1 create a center for when you take
2 dismantling and staking all those
3 things that people trash when they ' re
4 dismantling these beautiful homes .
5 That ' s one of my dreams . You know,
6 so we could create jobs and have a
7 center and stuff like that . But
8 anyway, I still want to say, let ' s
9 connect trees with emergencies and
10 floods , and maybe that will make
11 people realize, oh, I don ' t want to
12 cut this tree down . It ' s very
13 important for, you know, our future .
14 And thank you very much . Thanks ,
15 Brian .
16 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
17 Thank you . Thank you, Margaret .
18 BENJA SCHWARTZ : But I do want
19 to just touch on what the prior
20 speaker was talking about . Benja
21 Schwartz , Cutchogue . Prior speaker
22 was talking about the trees . And I
23 love trees , but I couldn ' t give a
24 hoot about trees compared to my
25 passion for the wetlands and watching
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1 them die every day . And nobody ' s
2 doing anything about that . Maybe we
3 need a Wetlands Committee . That ' s a
4 joke . But I would like to know
5 what ' s going on . And I have some
6 suggestions for other people who
7 would like to know what ' s going on .
8 And I have some questions , if I may,
9 for the Town Board . So I did a
10 little search to try and find out
11 who ' s the webmaster for the Town of
12 Southold website . Actually, I ' ve
13 been trying to find that out for it
14 since the website began by my friend
15 Al from Pequash, built it for Gene
16 Cochran . It appears to me -- I ' ve
17 come to the conclusion that you, the
18 Town Board, are the webmaster . Of
19 course , you ' re not active . When is
20 the website going to be updated? We
21 still have Greg Dorowski on there as
22 the liaison of several of the
23 committees . I thought we were also
24 doing a review of the committees and
25 their structure and their purpose and
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1 their organization and their
2 procedures . You know, these
3 committees are operating without
4 providing any minutes . They ' re
5 issuing opinions , which are in
6 conflict with the discussions that we
7 can observe through the videos . But
8 to sit through some of these videos
9 of long committee meetings where
10 there ' s very little direction,
11 there ' s little organization . I don ' t
12 even -- I don ' t understand the role
13 of the Town Board liaisons to the
14 committees . The Chairman of the
15 committees are supposed to be running
16 the committees , but the Town Board
17 liaisons , I think it ' s an important
18 position, and I think it ' s -- I
19 believe that ' s -- has to do with the
20 fact that the committees are there to
21 advise the Town Board, but the Town
22 Board is there, is here, to govern on
23 behalf of the public . So I ' d like to
24 see more of a -- committees providing
25 information and working with and
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1 interacting with the public . Of
2 course , all of this stuff is very
3 difficult to find information on
4 these days because the Laserfiche is
5 still down . So the timeline, that
6 was about Thanksgiving of last year,
7 the Laserfiche went down, and the
8 online access from services through
9 the Town was quickly updated for the
10 Tax Receiver ' s Office . I mean, you
11 gotta do that . And the Police
12 Department , that ' s important , but
13 it ' s been over six months , and we ' ve
14 had no ETA of when we can expect,
15 except that, because they keep
16 asking, and I finally was told two
17 weeks ago, that it would be about a
18 week ago, that the Laserfiche was
19 expected to be back online in two
20 weeks , which would be one week from
21 today . Can anybody confirm that and
22 give me a little more information
23 about that process ?
24 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : That
25 is still certainly the goal . You
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1 know, we mentioned the computer hack
2 that we had before Thanksgiving . And
3 you also mentioned that town service
4 would be restored . I give a lot of
5 credit to the departments in town and
6 the employees . They were tasked from
7 Day One to keep the bills turning in
8 their individual departments .
9 BENJA SCHWARTZ : The wheels
10 aren ' t turning now . Not for the
11 public .
12 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : No ,
13 but they are , because the Police
14 Department figured out how to make
15 work in partners with their head --
16 Town Police Department to some kind
17 of sheriff . We never closed the
18 landfill for a day . And all the
19 departments that issued permits , the
20 ZBA, Planning, Trustees , all continue
21 to function, despite having the real
22 -- to complete computer problems and
23 to have a clerk, and find a way to
24 continue with all the clerk business .
25 The Assessors can find a way to
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1 continue . Every department kept the
2 wheels turning while the system was
3 being restored . The only thing
4 that ' s left is that unlimited public
5 access . All the town records . So
6 there is still access to Town
7 records , but it ' s back to the old
8 method of, you have to file a Freedom
9 of Information Act . And then you
10 have to wait until Town staff has
11 enough time to actually get the
12 records to provide it for you .
13 BENJA SCHWARTZ : That ' s not a
14 substitute , though . And the
15 Laserfiche , similar to the website,
16 doesn ' t have anybody, any
17 webmaster -- or does nobody -- I
18 don ' t know if it ' s -- I always
19 thought it should be some duty of the
20 Town Clerk ' s Office or someone in the
21 Town Clerk ' s Office should be
22 assigned to oversee . And there is
23 someone in the Town Clerk ' s Office
24 who scans in documents , but
25 apparently the Information
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1 Technology Department is the
2 webmaster and also in charge of
3 how the Laserfiche works . And I
4 don ' t think they ' re doing their
5 job . That ' s my opinion . I ' m here
6 to try and help you, Al , but I
7 can ' t do it if you say everything I
8 say is not true . If there ' s a
9 problem and you want to fix it,
10 then you have to face it,
11 recognize it . And then are you
12 involved in overseeing the
13 website? Do you review the
14 website and see what pages and
15 offer assistance to the various
16 departments that have pages up?
17 COUNCILWOMAN ALEXA SUESS : I ' ll
18 speak up here . I am one of the
19 liaison to the Communications
20 Committee , or currently a Task Force ,
21 with Councilman Mealy . So, when
22 looking at the website and just to
23 answer your question, their IT
24 Department is currently the
25 webmaster . For our website , but we
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1 are looking at a plan right now and a
2 timeline on how to update that
3 because it was identified to us by
4 community members as a very high
5 priority . We need you to get your
6 information clearly, quickly, and
7 effectively . So trust me, that is on
8 top of the priority list for that
9 Task Force and then most likely the
10 upcoming committee .
11 BENJA SCHWARTZ : Okay . The
12 Communications Committee had this
13 survey not too long ago, but then it
14 disappeared . And I don ' t see the
15 Communications Committee in the
16 committee list on the website .
17 COUNCILWOMAN ALEXA SUESS : Sure ,
18 yeah . So that ' s important --
19 BENJA SCHWARTZ : Maybe it ' s the
20 Laserfiche , but I don ' t have time to
21 make Freedom of Information Requests
22 every time I want to see something in
23 the information . And I don ' t think
24 anybody does .
25 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
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1 Well , we were operating at a, you
2 know, with a great deal of caution
3 after we had the computer hack . We
4 are trying to make sure that
5 everything that we do is to secure,
6 not only the Town system, but the
7 public ' s information . And right now
8 the Laserfiche is operable in turn .
9 But not to the general public .
10 COUNCILWOMAN ALEXA SUESS : And
11 to answer your question about the
12 communications survey, that survey
13 has concluded . We are currently
14 collating and analyzing all that
15 information . It hasn ' t been
16 presented to the Board yet, but it
17 will be shortly .
18 BENJA SCHWARTZ : So are the
19 meetings of the Communications
20 Committee available? Do they keep
21 minutes ?
22 COUNCILWOMAN ALEXA SUESS : We
23 currently do not keep minutes .
24 BENJA SCHWARTZ : And when I
25 tried to look up the Communications
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1 Committee , it appeared to me that it
2 was just a number of members of the
3 emergency -- what is it called, the
4 Emergency Response Committee or
5 something . Emergency Management
6 Team that have been designated as
7 the Communications Committee Members .
8 That ' s what I -- Well , that ' s what it
9 appears when you --
10 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Some
11 of those people are ( inaudible ) .
12 BENJA SCHWARTZ : Well , you
13 know, the on-line is the on-line,
14 and that ' s -- the most important is
15 in-person, who we are . We ' re all
16 very busy . I ' m not prepared to
17 talk today, but I ' d like to make
18 an appointment with the Town
19 Attorney and speak to him about a
20 particular application pending,
21 something to do with chickens .
22 Apparently, because farmers farm
23 chickens . They ' re more important
24 than people, but --
25 ASST . TOWN ATTORNEY BENJAMIN
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1 JOHNSON : Sure . If you ' d like to set
2 up a time --
3 BENJA SCHWARTZ : I ' d like to set
4 up a time to talk to you, to try
5 to find out behind . I ' ll give
6 you a call tomorrow . If you have
7 time --
8 ASST . TOWN ATTORNEY BENJAMIN
9 JOHNSON : I will set a time .
10 BENJA SCHWARTZ : Okay . Because
11 it ' s -- the application is rolling .
12 It should be stopped now . Thank
13 you .
14 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
15 Would anyone else like to address the
16 Town Board?
17 (No Response . )
18 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
19 don ' t see anyone on Zoom .
20 COUNCILWOMAN JILL DOHERTY :
21 Motion to adjourn .
22 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Second .
23 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : All
24 in favor?
25 COUNCILWOMAN JILL DOHERTY : Aye .
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1 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Aye .
2 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : Aye .
3 COUNCILWOMAN ALEXA SUESS : Aye .
4 JUSTICE KATE STEVENS : Aye .
5 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Aye .
6 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Someone
7 just raised their hand .
8 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
9 hate to not let the public speak, so
10 please go . We did close the meeting,
11 but please , the Zoom is still open,
12 so go right ahead .
13 COUNCILWOMAN JILL DOHERTY : Are
14 you there Jill ?
15 MS . JILL : Can you hear me?
16 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Yes .
17 COUNCILWOMAN JILL DOHERTY : Go
18 ahead .
19 MS . JILL : Okay . I just wanted
20 to mention about the Laserfiche .
21 It ' s kind of unfair that you really
22 put a lot of burden on the Town
23 Clerk ' s Office, looking for records .
24 It ' s also not fair when you have
25 stuff actively going on with other
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1 boards in there . You ' re trying to
2 find out information and you ' re
3 limited to being dependent on the
4 Town Clerk ' s Office . They ' re not
5 open nights , they ' re not open
6 weekends . So they ' ve really been --
7 I know I ' ve been overburdened with a
8 lot of FOILS lately, and it ' s kind of
9 not fair . I just wanted to say that .
10 And also about -- I don ' t know what ' s
11 going on with the Justice Court,
12 because I just turned on the
13 meeting, and saw you were still on .
14 But when my mom worked in court,
15 she was there for 52 years , but I
16 don ' t remember how long she was in
17 the trailer, but she was in the
18 trailer for a very long time, and
19 it was supposed to be something
20 temporary . And I know several of
21 the people that worked in the
22 trailer for years ended up with
23 cancer . And some of them have
24 other medical issues that -- is
25 it possibly related to them
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1 working in that trailer? So
2 that ' s something that maybe
3 you should be looked into .
4 Just a thought .
5 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : All
6 right . Thank you .
7 MS . JILL : Mr . Mealy, you
8 didn ' t tell me thank you last time
9 for talking to you, and you thank
10 everybody else, but me . Have a good
11 evening .
12 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : We ' re
13 grateful to everybody that informs
14 us and lets us know what ' s going
15 on . So thank you . Have a good
16 evening .
17 MS . JILL : You too , bye .
18 COUNCILWOMAN JILL DOHERTY : I ' ll
19 make a motion to adjourn .
20 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Second .
21 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : All
22 in favor?
23 COUNCILWOMAN JILL DOHERTY : Aye .
24 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Aye .
25 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : Aye .
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2 JUSTICE KATE STEVENS : Aye .
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