On Government: Southold & CPF Money for Water Quality, Public Safety, Irrigation, Tree Clearing and Cell Towers
Good Morning!
• We’re expecting sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 89 degrees and a west wind around 9 miles per hour. It will be mostly cloudy overnight, with a low around 70 and a 20 percent chance of showers after 2 a.m. Skies will clear on Wednesday, with a high near 86, and it will be mostly sunny on Thursday, with a high near 86 and a 40 percent chance of showers after 2 p.m.
• Greenport Village Trustee Mary Bess Phillips writes in this week with an op-ed on how “Southold’s Agenda Priorities Leave Water Quality Behind — And Greenport at Risk,” just ahead of another Southold Town Boared Work Session at which the board is slated to discuss open space priorities for using Community Preservation Fund money but not water quality uses of the fund. Read Her Column.
• The Southold Town Board will continue its “discussion and review of essential public safety items,” discuss a new police work chart, water sampling and Suffolk County Health Department initiatives, hear an update on the town’s housing code, a possible request for proposals for a cell tower on town property and an update on the town’s CPF project plan regarding open space at its 9 a.m. work session this morning at town hall. The board has no public hearings scheduled for its regular meeting this evening at 6 p.m., also at town hall. Here are the documents for both meetings, here’s the Zoom login for the morning work session, and for the evening meeting.
• The East Hampton Town Board will discuss rent-restricted, employer-sponsored housing, a new deer management data approach and proposed town code changes regarding tree protection and lawn irrigation at its 11 a.m. work session this morning at the Montauk Library. Here’s the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live on LTV’s YouTube channel.
• The Southampton Town Board has public hearings scheduled at its 1 p.m. meeting this afternoon on potential CPF acquisitions at several locations in Eastport, Speonk, Remsenburg and Northampton and in North Sea, on allowing non-profit animal shelters to exceed 15,000 square feet and on allowing non-resident golf club memberships at the Hills Southampton golf course in East Quogue in exchange for the dedication of 32 acres of public parkland. Here’s the agenda, here are the public hearing notices and the meeting can be viewed live on Sea-TV’s YouTube channel.
• The Shelter Island Town Board will discuss the town’s irrigation code and wireless communication master plan, a filming application from Rory Hibbler and an outdoor assembly application for the Shelter Island Fire Department’s Country Fair at the board’s 9 a.m. meeting this morning. Here’s the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live on the town’s YouTube channel.
• Towns throughout the East End, including Southold, Shelter Island and Riverhead, are warning the public of fraudulent emails impersonating town government asking members of the public for money for items such as “application reviews,” “permit processing” or “approval fees.” They’re urging members of the public to directly contact the department the emails appear to be coming from to verify whether they are legitimate requests for money, and to not click on any links or attachments in the emails.
Today’s high tides on the East End are as follows:
August 11
Plum Gut Harbor: 9:10 a.m., 9:34 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 8:07 a.m., 8:37 p.m.
Greenport: 10:07 a.m., 10:24 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 10:47 a.m., 11:06 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 10 a.m., 10:19 p.m.
New Suffolk: 10:58 a.m.,11:28 p.m.
South Jamesport: 11:34 a.m., 11:51 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 8:26 a.m., 8:46 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 6:51a.m., 7:15 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at first light here today.
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