[5. Continue the public hearing to adopt a new local law to implement a six-month moratorium in the City of Rye temporarily prohibiting the review, processing or approval of any new application (after April 7, 2021) related to a subdivision or re-subdivision of property development on steep slopes or the placement of a residential structure with its front not oriented towards a front yard for the duration of this moratorium. All public hearing comments should be emailed to publichearingcomments@ryeny.gov with “moratorium” as the subject no later than 3:00 pm on the day of the hearing.]

SARA GODDARD RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: THIS EXERCISE, YOU KNOW IT CAN BECOME PART OF A PUBLIC DISCUSSION WHICH I DO THINK IT'S AN IMPORTANT ONE, TO MAKE IT A PUBLIC ONE.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: AND WE STILL HAVE A HAND UP SORRY.

CATE MARGILOFF: YES.

CATE MARGILOFF: I CAME OFF AGAIN UM, I WOULD LIKE TO TOUCH BACK ON COUNCILMAN CARLOS POINT, I THINK.

CATE MARGILOFF: THE LGBT Q PLUS COMMUNITY DID WIN BIG AND I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT.

CATE MARGILOFF: THE COMMUNITY YOU KNOW RECOGNIZES THAT AND THE CITY COUNCIL.

CATE MARGILOFF: RECOGNIZES THAT THEY KIND OF PUT A LITTLE BIT OF A DAMPER ON WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO DO SO, WHILE I DO UNDERSTAND YOU SAYING WE I DO THINK THAT THE LG BT Q PLUS COMMUNITY WAS MORE OF THE WINNERS HERE THAT'S IT THANK YOU.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: THANK YOU.

KRISTEN WILSON: OH SORRY ONE MORE.

ESME: HI.

ESME: I'M REALIZE LOT OF PEOPLE SPEAKING TWICE, CAN YOU ALL HEAR ME THIS TIME, YES, GOOD.

ESME: I JUST WANTED TO SAY ONE MORE THING, AND ONCE THEN I'M SO GRATEFUL THAT YOU'VE GOT A FLAG UP, AND I KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS AND I'M SO PROUD OF ALL THE KIDS WHO SPOKEN.

[00:45:04]

ESME: I'M SO PROUD OF ALL THE COUNCILMAN AND THE COUNCIL WOMEN WHO HAVE STOOD UP FROM US LAST IN THE VERY BEGINNING AND WHO VOTED TO PUT THE FLAG UP.

ESME: BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN, THIS IS THE LAST TIME, THE LGBT YOUTH IN THIS COMMUNITY IS GOING TO HAVE TO STAND UP FOR OURSELVES AND IT'S NOT GOING TO BE EITHER THAT'S IT.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: THANK YOU.

KRISTEN WILSON: DON'T HAVE ANY MORE HANDS OF A THOUGHT.

KRISTEN WILSON: OKAY.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: OKAY, WELL, THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO'S SPOKEN.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: AND WILL NOW MOVE TO.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: OUR NEXT ITEM WHICH IS.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: WERE SIX PURCHASE.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: PLUS UPDATE WITH CONSIDERATION TO EXTEND THE COLD WEATHER PLAN UNTIL JUNE 15 GREG IF YOU WOULD LEAD US HERE.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: SURE, GOOD EVENING IS EVERYONE KNOWS THERE'S BEEN OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF CONVERSATION ABOUT PURCHASE PLAZA FOLLOWING LAST YEAR AND AND THE PLANS THAT WE UNDERTOOK OVER THE WINTER.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: BE CHAMBERS BEEN WORKING HARD TO TRY TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH ALL OF THE RESIDENTS ALL THE BUSINESSES, ALL THE RESTAURANTS DOWNTOWN TO TRY TO GAUGE INTEREST FOR THIS YEAR.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: AND TO COME UP WITH SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE CITY TO CONSIDER LAST WEEK, THE CHAMBER DID COME TO STAFF WITH A COUPLE OF IDEAS WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF EVALUATING HOW BEST TO ACCOMPLISH THAT THOSE POTENTIAL PLANS, WHETHER THAT BE FOR PARTIAL CLOSINGS FULL CLOSURE ONE WAY.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: YOU KNOW, GIVEN.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: GIVEN THE FACT THAT WE NEED TO CONSIDER BOTH PUBLIC SAFETY.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: COSTS ETC THAT'S GOING TO TAKE A FEW MORE DAYS TO DO SO, MY EXPECTATION IS THAT BY THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING WILL HAVE A PROPOSAL OR A AN IDEA FOR THE COUNCIL TO CONSIDER, AT LEAST AS IT RELATES TO THE OPERATIONAL CLOSURE OR THE CREATION OF PURCHASE PLAZA FOR THE FOR THIS YEAR.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: BUT AGAIN, THAT YOU KNOW THE CHAMBER HAS BEEN VERY, VERY HELPFUL TO US AND IN IN THAT ENDEAVOR ONE THING I WOULD RAISE THEM AS PART OF THAT.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: UPDATE IS THAT THE WINNER CLOSING EXTENSION TOOK US UNTIL MAY 15 AND SINCE THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING AS MAY 19 MY RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE FOR YOU JUST TO EXTEND THAT CURRENT CLOSURE, WHICH AGAIN IS NOT ANY ROADS.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: IT'S A SMALL SECTION OF ONE OF THE PARKING LOT THAT YOU JUST CAN'T BE CONTINUE THAT UNTIL JUNE 15 BUT WITH AN EXPECTATION THAT BY THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING, WE WILL HAVE A PLAN IN FRONT OF YOU, FOR YOU TO CONSIDER, FOR IF IN FACT YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING FOR THIS SEASON.

CAROLINA JOHNSON RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: I HAVE A QUESTION, DO WE HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON SECOND STREET WHAT WE'RE RIGHT GRILL AND BAR AND TOWN DOG HAD USED BEFORE, IS THAT, BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE SORT OF SEPARATE FROM PURCHASE STREET ARE THEY INTERESTED IN DOING THAT, OR ARE THEY NOT OR.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: I KNOW THAT THE RESTAURANTS ON SECOND STREET ARE INTERESTED IN THE CLOSURE.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: AND SO, WHATEVER WE'RE GOING TO DO, AND I, AND I APOLOGIZE CURLING HERE RIGHT WHEN I SAY PURCHASE STREET I MEAN THE DOWNTOWN BUSINESS DISTRICT SO.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: ANYTHING THAT WE WOULD DO, WHETHER IT BE ON FIRST STREET WITH SUNRISE, WHETHER IT BE ON SECOND STREET, WHETHER IT BE IN THE REAR PARKING LOTS OR ANYTHING ELSE IT'S ALL AND TO CLARIFY THAT IT'S ALL INCLUDED I'M JUST USING PURCHASE STRAIGHT AS A AS A SHORT SHORT SHORT STROKE.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: TO WHAT WE NEED A MOTION TO EXTEND THE COLD WEATHER PLAN TO MEET YOU MAN, YOU DID I MIGHT GET.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: SECOND.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: SECOND, ALL IN FAVOR.

RICHARD MECCA DEPUTY MAYOR: AYE AYE.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: OK, SO NOW WE MOVE TO EXCUSE ME OF LIKE HEARING.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: TO ADOPT A NEW LOCAL LAW TO IMPLEMENT A SIX MONTH MORATORIUM IN THE CITY OF RIGHT TEMPORARILY.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: PROHIBITING THE REVIEW PROCESSING OR APPROVAL OF ANY NEW APPLICATION AFTER APRIL 2 RELATED TO A SUBDIVISION OR RE SUBDIVISION OF PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: ON STEEP SLOPES OR THE PLACEMENT OF RESIDENTIAL STRUCTURE WITH ITS FRONT NOT ORIENTED TOWARDS THE FRONT YARD FOR THE DURATION OF THIS MORATORIUM.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: ALL PUBLIC HEARING COMMENTS SHOULD BE EMAILED TO PUBLIC HEARING COMMENTS AT RYAN NEW YORK.GOV WITH MORATORIUM IS THE SUBJECT, NO LATER THAN 3PM ON THE DAY OF THE HEARING.

SARA GODDARD RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: AND MR MAYOR I'M GOING TO BE RECUSING MYSELF.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: THANK YOU.

[00:50:10]

KRISTEN WILSON: WE HAVE A FEW HANDS RAISED, MR MAYOR, DID YOU WANT.

KRISTEN WILSON: TO HAVE ME GO THROUGH SOME RECENT AMENDMENTS TO THE MORATORIUM.

KRISTEN WILSON: YES, PLEASE SURE SO.

KRISTEN WILSON: WHAT HAS BEEN POSTED HAS BEEN SLIGHTLY MODIFIED.

KRISTEN WILSON: IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS WITH RESPECT TO SECTION.

KRISTEN WILSON: SECTION TO BE ONE.

KRISTEN WILSON: IT WILL IT SHOULD NOW READ ANY WETTELAND AND WATER COURSE PERMIT.

KRISTEN WILSON: AREA VARIANCE DESIGN REVIEW PERMIT BUILDING PERMIT TREE REMOVAL PERMANENT SETTLEMENT AND EROSION CONTROL PERMIT BLASTING PERIMETER ROCK REMOVAL PERMIT.

KRISTEN WILSON: INVOLVING ANY RESIDENTIAL BUILDING OR STRUCTURE THAT INCLUDES GROUND OR VEGETATION DISTURBANCE WITHIN 15 FEET THAT USED TO BE 20 FEET IT'S NOW 15 FEET.

KRISTEN WILSON: OF SLOPES GREATER THAN 25% WHICH SLOPE SHELBY DEFINED AS ANY CONTIGUOUS LAND AREA GREATER THAN 1000 SQUARE FEET, THEY USED TO BE 100 SO IT'S NOW 1000 SQUARE FEET.

KRISTEN WILSON: HAVING A TOPOGRAPHICAL GRADIENT OF 25% OR MORE, IE RATIO OF VERTICAL DISTANCE TO HORIZONTAL DISTANCE AND A MINIMUM OF HORIZONTAL DISTANCE OF 25 FEET, THAT WAS THE FIRST CHANGE THE SECOND CHANGE IS SECTION THREE.

KRISTEN WILSON: WHICH IS THE APPEALS AND WAIVER SECTION THREE SEE AT THE LAST LINE SHOULD NOW READ AND GRANTING A WAIVER, IN WHOLE OR IN PART THE PLANNING COMMISSION MUST FIND THAT THE WAIVER WILL NOT SUBSTANTIALLY CONFLICT WITH THE PURPOSE OF THIS LOCAL LAW.

KRISTEN WILSON: AND INSTEAD OF THE WORDS ADVERSELY AFFECT AFFECT DO NOW SAYS SUBSTANTIALLY CONFLICT.

KRISTEN WILSON: WE HATE ME.

KRISTEN WILSON: WE HAVE ONE HAND UP SO FAR.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: YES, LET'S HEAR THE HAND.

JUDGE CYPHER.

KRISTEN WILSON: AS YOU CAN SPEAK.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: ARE YOU MUTED.

BOB CYPHER: I THINK I WAS CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW AS THEY SAID OKAY GOOD.

BOB CYPHER: YEAH I'VE BEEN DOING A LOT OF ZOOM DEPOSITIONS OVER THE PAST YEAR I.

BOB CYPHER: PROBABLY WILL GET IT RIGHT AT SOME POINT, ANYWAY, WELL, I WANTED TO JUST COMMENT ON IS JUST TO GIVE YOU.

BOB CYPHER: A LITTLE BIT OF THE BENEFIT OF MY EXPERIENCE ON THE CITY COUNCIL SO AS MAYBE SOME OF YOU ARE AWARE OF I SAT IN YOUR.

BOB CYPHER: SET YOUR POSITION, A LITTLE LESS THAN 20 YEARS AGO, AND WHEN I WAS LISTENING TO JONATHAN CROWD LAST TIME HE JOGGED MY MEMORY ABOUT WHEN THIS EVENT, WHEN THIS ISSUE CAME UP WITH US BACK IN JANUARY OF 2003 UM THE ISSUE THERE WAS.

BOB CYPHER: RESIDENTS OF GREEN HAVEN.

BOB CYPHER: HAD SOME SERIOUS ISSUES WITH SOME BUILDING THAT WAS GOING ON THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD AND THEY PETITIONED THE COUNCIL FOR A CITYWIDE BUILDING MORATORIUM NOW GRANTED THIS WAS THIS IS EXTREMELY BROAD AND IT WANTED TO PLACE IT PUT A MORATORIUM ON ALL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION.

BOB CYPHER: WELL, THE WHAT THE COUNCIL DEAD AFTER MUCH DISCUSSION WAS WE STARTED A BIG HOUSE AND OTHER PEOPLE TO REVIEW THE ISSUE THEY INCLUDED THE.

BOB CYPHER: CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW HORSE'S NECK EVER HAS STILL WITH US OF ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS JOHNSON CROWD OF COURSE AND JUDY STUDEBAKER THE PLANNING COMMISSION.

BOB CYPHER: I'M ALSO IN THE ISSUE WAS ALSO INVOLVED WITH SURGE LEVEL AND CALL BENEFITS AGAIN YOU HAVEN'T HAD A GOOD CROSS SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE ON.

BOB CYPHER: WE REJECTED THE CITY WIDE MORATORIUM, BECAUSE IT WAS FELT IT WOULD IT WOULD POSE AN UNDUE HARDSHIP ON A LOT OF PEOPLE FOR A LOT OF DIFFERENT REASONS.

BOB CYPHER: HOWEVER, WE GET REFERRED TO THE VARIOUS COMMITTEES TO SEEK THEIR INPUT AND NO FINAL DECISION WAS MADE AT THAT TIME OF THE PUBLIC HEARINGS REOPENED ON FEBRUARY 5 2003 AND WE HAVE THE INPUTS OF THE VARIOUS.

BOB CYPHER: COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS THE PLANNING COMMISSION.

BOB CYPHER: REJECTED.

BOB CYPHER: YOU KNOW, JOE LAST ONE CURRENT CITY JUDGE MY FORMER COLLEAGUE ON THE BENCH OF ALSO LAID IN WAS SETTING THE PLAN WAS FLAWED.

BOB CYPHER: AND

[00:55:02]

BOB CYPHER: PROMULGATED TO QUICKLY BEFORE JOE.

BOB CYPHER: SENT TO THE BENCH, OF COURSE, HE WAS A VERY WELL KNOWN MUNICIPAL AND WIND US ATTORNEY SO HE CAME HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT, THEN, AS HE STILL DOES UM.

BOB CYPHER: AFTER WE WENT THROUGH IT AND WE HEARD THE VARIOUS OF STAKEHOLDERS MAKE THEIR POINTS, THE MORE THE IDEA, THE MORE INFORMED WAS REJECTED ANONYMOUSLY, AND WHAT I WOULD.

BOB CYPHER: WHAT I WOULD SUGGEST TO YOU IS THAT, RATHER THAN ACT HASTILY ON THIS YOU DO IT, WE DID.

BOB CYPHER: GO TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION GOING GO TO THE BOARD OF APPEALS SEE WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY, GET THE INPUT OF PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE.

BOB CYPHER: INVOLVED IN THIS AND WE'LL HAVE A GREAT DEAL OF EXPERTISE IN THIS ONE THING WE DON'T LACK IN THIS COMMUNITY IS EXPERTISE FROM A BROAD RANGE OF PEOPLE AND.

BOB CYPHER: THAT WOULD BE THAT WOULD BE MY SUGGESTION TO YOU AND THAT'S REALLY ALL I HAVE TO SAY AND I'M LOOKING AT THE TIRE AND I THINK I WONDER, I THINK I'VE MADE IT.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: THANK YOU.

KRISTEN WILSON: LEO NAPIER.

LEO NAPIOR: THE COUNCIL.

LEO NAPIOR: WITH THE.

LEO NAPIOR: MOST RECENT STATUS CHANGES I'M NOT SURE OF THE.

LEO NAPIOR: REACHING IMPACT OF THE.

LEO NAPIOR: REVISED MORATORIUM ON MY EXISTING CLIENT BASE, WE DID.

LEO NAPIOR: EARLIER TODAY, TO THE COUNCIL JUST NOTING THAT WE HAVE WRITING CLIENTS THAT.

LEO NAPIOR: ARE BOTH IN THE PROCESS, BUT WOULD POTENTIALLY STILL BE CAUGHT UP AS MANY TIMES GETTING A BUILDING PERMIT CAN BE A MULTI STEP PROCESS THAT REQUIRES.

LEO NAPIOR: DIFFERENT APPROVALS FROM VARIOUS DIFFERENT BOARDS AND SO, IF YOU'RE, NOT YET AT THE BUILDING PERMIT PROCESS, WE CAN GET THROUGH, FOR EXAMPLE, A WEAPON PERMIT PROCESS OF PLANNING COMMISSION.

LEO NAPIOR: WE HAVE NOT BEEN FILED FOR A BUILDING PERMIT AND SOME OF THOSE PROJECTS MAY BE SWEPT UP IN THE MORATORIUM.

LEO NAPIOR: AND LARGELY ECHOING WHAT GEORGE SEIFERT JUST MENTIONED SEXUALLY VERSION, THE COUNCIL TO JUST TAKE A STEP BACK AND REFLECT UPON.

LEO NAPIOR: IF A PROPER ANALYSIS HAS BEEN GIVEN AS TO HOW MANY PROPERTIES THIS MORATORIUM COULD IMPACT, HOW MANY PROJECTS THAT COULD IMPACT AND WHETHER IT'S IT'S REALLY NEEDED HER THE ATTENTION SHOULD REALLY BE SPENT ON.

LEO NAPIOR: WHAT THE CHANGES TO THE LAW ARE THAT YOU'RE TRULY WISHING TO ADDRESS AND UTILIZING YOUR LOCAL LEVELS BOARDS IN YOUR PROFESSIONAL STAFF TO TO BETTER UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS YOU'RE ACTING ON UM AND THEN JUST NOTING.

LEO NAPIOR: I'M NOT SURE I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUBSTANCE AND CONFLICT OR ADVERSE EFFECTS, BUT IT WOULD ALMOST SEEM LIKE A WAIVER FROM A MORATORIUM.

LEO NAPIOR: IS THAT IS WHAT THE PURPOSE OF THE MORATORIUM SO THERE'S A SOMEWHAT CIRCULAR ARGUMENT YOU'RE REQUIRING AN APPLICANT TO PURSUE.

LEO NAPIOR: THAT THEIR APPLICATION ISN'T AT ODDS WITH THE MORATORIUM, EVEN THOUGH THE ART SWEPT UP IN THE MORATORIUM AND HOW'D YOU GET THERE, IN ADDITION TO THE SUBSTANTIAL HARDSHIP STANDARD AND PUTTING THAT BIRDMAN CAN BE A DIFFERENT DIFFICULT BURDEN TO SUSTAIN.

LEO NAPIOR: SO THAT THAT'S ALL AGAIN THAT GO INTO IT SO FOR THE ACCOUNTS CONSIDER WHAT IT IS YOU'RE DOING AND PERHAPS CREATE A SUBCOMMITTEE AND ATTENDANCE FOREST AND TO THINK ABOUT THIS AND MORE.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: THANK YOU.

KRISTEN WILSON: LINDA WHITEHEAD.

LINDA WHITEHEAD: GOOD EVENING MELINDA WHITE HAD A PARTNER WITH THE FIRM MCCULLOUGH GOLDBERGER AND STOUT SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF SAM AND LESLIE COLEMAN AND MILLIE RY LLC.

LINDA WHITEHEAD: AS WELL AS SEVERAL OTHER CLIENTS OF OUR FIRM WHO OWN PROPERTY AND RYE, WHICH COULD POTENTIALLY BE IMPACTED BY THE MORATORIUM.

LINDA WHITEHEAD: AND THEREFORE WE OPPOSE THE MORATORIUM, I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING THAT'S BEEN SAID BY THE PREVIOUS TWO SPEAKERS.

LINDA WHITEHEAD: WE SUBMITTED A LETTER I ALSO SPOKE AT THE LAST MEETING IN THE LETTER I ADDRESS SPECIFICALLY HOW THE TWO CLIENTS I'VE REFERENCED ARE IMPACTED.

LINDA WHITEHEAD: ONE OF THEM I'M NOT SURE IF WITH THE CHANGE THAT WE ARE JUST HEARING ABOUT, FOR THE FIRST TIME TONIGHT, IF THEY ARE STILL IMPACTED.

LINDA WHITEHEAD: THEY MAY BE, I HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING THAT AND I, WE WERE NOT AWARE OF THAT CHANGE UNTIL JUST NOW, THE OTHER ONE IT HAS THE ISSUE OF A LOT, WHERE THE APPROPRIATE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LOT WOULD HAVE THE FRONT YARD.

LINDA WHITEHEAD: THERE WERE THE FRONT DOOR ESSENTIALLY FACING THE SIDE, NOT THE FRONT YARD AND, IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT MY LETTER AND THE EXHIBITS WE PROVIDED WITH IT, YOU WILL.

LINDA WHITEHEAD: SEE WHY IT MAKES NO SENSE AND YOU SHOULD REALLY GO ALONG WITH THE RECOMMENDATION THAT CAME FROM PLANNING COMMISSION MEMBERS THAT THAT'S AN ISSUE THAT SHOULD BE ADDRESSED BY THE BA ARE ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS, BECAUSE EVERY LOT IS VERY DIFFERENT.

[01:00:01]

LINDA WHITEHEAD: SO WE'VE ADDRESSED THOSE I DON'T WANT TO TAKE MY TIME HERE TO GO THROUGH THOSE AGAIN, I URGE YOU TO TAKE A LOOK AT MY LETTERS.

LINDA WHITEHEAD: BUT I THINK YOU HAVEN'T REALLY THOUGHT ABOUT THE IMPACT ON PROPERTY OWNERS THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF RIGHT.

LINDA WHITEHEAD: EVEN WITH THE CHANGE WHICH WAS JUST STATED, FOR EVERY BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATION.

LINDA WHITEHEAD: THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT IS GOING TO HAVE TO DETERMINE IF THERE ARE AREAS OF QUALIFY AS STEEP SLOPES, AND WHETHER ANY WORK IS GOING TO BE WITHIN THAT AREA EVEN SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS A PATIO OR AN ADDITION TO A DECK.

LINDA WHITEHEAD: THAT'S GOING TO REQUIRE EVERY ONE OF THOSE PROPERTY OWNERS TO HAVE A TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEY PREPARED IT'S GOING TO BE A FULL EMPLOYMENT ACT FOR THE SURVEYORS BUT THAT TAKES TIME AND MONEY.

LINDA WHITEHEAD: SO JUST TO MAKE THAT INITIAL DETERMINATION, EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT ULTIMATELY DETERMINED TO BE SUBJECT TO THE MORATORIUM THAT TIME AND MONEY IS STILL GOING TO HAVE TO BE SPENT AND THAT'S GOING TO DELAY PROJECT AND AND IMPACT ALL PROPERTY OWNERS IN THE CITY.

LINDA WHITEHEAD: I WANT TO ADDRESS THE WAIVER PROCESS AND AND LEO JUST ALLUDED TO ONE OF MY COMMENTS IS, AND THIS IS ALSO ADDRESSED IN OUR LETTER.

LINDA WHITEHEAD: BUT EVEN WITH THE CHANGE IN LANGUAGE, IT SEEMS TO BE AN IMPOSSIBLE STANDARD TO MEET.

LINDA WHITEHEAD: BECAUSE THE PURPOSE OF THE LOCAL LAWS TO STOP THESE APPLICATIONS FROM PROCEEDING, SO HOW CAN THAT NOT BE ADVERSELY IMPACTED OR CONFLICT WITH ALLOWING THOSE APPLICATIONS TO GO AHEAD, WOULD, BY DEFINITION, CONFLICT WITH THE PURPOSE.

LINDA WHITEHEAD: OF THE LOCAL LAW SO YOU'RE YOU'RE, THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM FOR PROPERTY OWNERS AND AND THE ANSWERS THAT WERE GIVEN BY THE COUNCIL AT THE LAST MEETING WHERE WHY YOU COULD APPLY FOR A WAIVER WELL IT'S NOT THAT SIMPLE.

LINDA WHITEHEAD: YOU SHOULD ALSO ASK THE PLANNING COMMISSION THANKS OF THAT PROCESS THERE'S BEEN NO FORMAL REFERRAL TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION.

LINDA WHITEHEAD: THEY'RE, THE ONES WHO ARE GOING TO HAVE TO HEAR THESE WAIVER APPLICATIONS WITH THE VERY UNCLEAR STANDARDS AND PROBABLY END UP HAVING TO HAVE SEVERAL EXTRA MEETINGS TO.

LINDA WHITEHEAD: GET TO ALL THESE APPLICATIONS THAT THEY'RE GOING TO GET AND I KNOW MY TIME IS UP, BUT I ASKED YOU TO PLEASE.

LINDA WHITEHEAD: READ THE LETTERS THAT WE'VE SUBMITTED CONSIDER THIS CAREFULLY REFER IT BACK TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION OR REFER TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION IT'S NEVER BEEN REFERRED TO THEM AND REALLY THINK CAREFULLY ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING, THANK YOU.

KRISTEN WILSON: SAM COLEMAN.

SAMUEL COLEMAN: SURE, CAN YOU HEAR ME.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: YES, YES.

SAMUEL COLEMAN: YES, SO THIS IS SAM COHEN, MY WIFE LESLIE AND I HAVE ARRIVED FOR 25 YEARS WE RAISE OUR CHILDREN TO 89 GRACE CHURCH STREET.

SAMUEL COLEMAN: LINDA WHITEHEAD JUST REFERRED, BRIEFLY, TO OUR OUR ISSUE, I JUST WANT TO ADD IN MY TESTIMONY OF THE SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE EFFECT THAT THIS MORATORIUM AND THESE ADDITIONAL STIPULATIONS.

SAMUEL COLEMAN: COULD HAVE OR WILL HAVE AND HAVE HAD ON US INDIVIDUALLY SO UPON MY RETIREMENT, WE STARTED THE PROCESS OF SELLING OUR PROPERTY AND TWO LOTS CONSISTING OF A MAIN HOUSE ON 2.2 ACRES IN THE SECOND UNDEVELOPED LOT 1.1 ACRES.

SAMUEL COLEMAN: WE UNDERTOOK A LENGTHY AND EXPANSIVE EXPENSIVE PROCESS TO GET THE APPROVALS FOR THE SUBDIVISION AND WHAT I'D LIKE TO CONVEY HERE IS THAT WE THINK THE PLANNING PROCESS WHICH IS YOU KNOW.

SAMUEL COLEMAN: OBVIOUSLY, THOUGHTFUL PLANNING IS IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE IN RIGHT, WE THINK IT WAS VERY THOROUGH AND PROFESSIONAL.

SAMUEL COLEMAN: THE PLANNING COMMISSION DID ITS JOB ACROSS MULTIPLE MEETINGS AND MANY DISCUSSIONS, IT COULD HAVE SAID IT, THE TOPOGRAPHY, THEY CONSIDER THE WETLANDS AND SETBACKS.

SAMUEL COLEMAN: THE CHARACTER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD THE SIZE OF THE STRUCTURE, ETC, OUR NEIGHBORS WERE NOTIFIED AND WE RECEIVED NO NEGATIVE COMMENTS.

SAMUEL COLEMAN: IN FACT, THE ONLY COMMENTS WE RECEIVED WERE SUPPORTIVE SO ACCORDINGLY, WE AFTER THIS DUE PROCESS, WE RECEIVED THE TOWN AND THE COUNTY'S APPROVALS AND WE PLACE GREAT RELIANCE ON THE TERMS OF THESE OF THESE APPROVALS.

SAMUEL COLEMAN: WE'RE ABOUT TO CLOSE ON THE SALE OF THE MAIN HOUSE, IT WAS A CONTRACT WE ENTERED IN JANUARY, THEN SUBSEQUENTLY AND NOW, TO OUR GREAT SHOCK.

SAMUEL COLEMAN: WE FIND THAT THE CITY IS CONSIDERING A MORATORIUM AND POSSIBLY ADDING NEW STIPULATIONS ON DEVELOPMENT IN WHICH RENDER THE SECOND LOT WHICH WE'VE RETAINED UNSALABLE OR DRAMATICALLY COMPROMISED IN VALUE.

SAMUEL COLEMAN: THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL HARDSHIP TO US, WHICH WE NEVER SAW COMMON, AS I SAY, I THINK, THOUGHTFUL PLANNING IS VERY IMPORTANT, WE KNOW AND WE LOVE RYE, WE LOVE NATURE, WE LOVE THE TREES, WE LOVE IT ALL, BUT WE THINK THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION WAS BOTTOM UP DETAILED THOUGHTFUL.

[01:05:05]

SAMUEL COLEMAN: AND WE THINK IT'S SERVE THE COMMUNITY WELL WE PLACE GREAT RELIANCE ON THEIR DECISIONS AND WE ASKED THE CITY COUNCIL NOT TO IMPOSE FURTHER TOP DOWN AND HARMFUL STIPULATIONS AS SET FORTH IN THIS MORATORIUM.

SAMUEL COLEMAN: THANK YOU.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: THANK YOU.

KRISTEN WILSON: KATHY GRANGER HEAVENS.

KATHY GRAINGER HOBBINS: HI EVERYBODY CAN HEAR ME.

KATHY GRAINGER HOBBINS: YES, GOOD EVENING, AND THANK YOU WELL.

KATHY GRAINGER HOBBINS: JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS HERE.

KATHY GRAINGER HOBBINS: I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I'VE LISTENED TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION ON A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT OCCASIONS AND THE PLANNING COMMISSION OFTEN SAYS THAT THEIR HANDS ARE TIED.

KATHY GRAINGER HOBBINS: BECAUSE OF THE LAWS IF THEY DON'T LIKE A PARTICULAR PROJECT THERE'S NOTHING THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT, THERE ARE PROJECTS THAT THEY DON'T LIKE THEY NEED THE CITY COUNCIL TO CHANGE THE LAWS THEY KEEP ASKING THAT, AS DO OTHER COMMISSIONS.

KATHY GRAINGER HOBBINS: AND KATHY GRAINGER HOBBINS: THEY ARE ASKING THE CITY COUNCIL TO REVIEW THE LAWS THEY ARE NOW OUTDATED, THEY ARE VERY OUTDATED, AS YOU KNOW FROM MANY PROJECTS THAT ARE GOING AROUND IN TOWN, CAN YOU PLEASE, PLEASE LISTEN TO THE RESIDENTS THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE HERE.

KATHY GRAINGER HOBBINS: WE CONTINUALLY HEAR OH IT'S THE RESIDENTS IT'S THE RESIDENTS COMPLAINING OH WHAT'S THE RESIDENTS COMPLAINING, BUT THE RESIDENTS ARE THE ONES WHO LIVE HERE.

KATHY GRAINGER HOBBINS: SO I'D LOVE YOU TO LIVE UP TO YOUR CAMPAIGN PROMISES ON NUMBER OF YOU, NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE IN ABOUT THREE AND A HALF YEARS HAVE YOU MOVED ON YOUR CAMPAIGN PROMISES THE DISASTER AT 95 AND 97 OPEN BE JOB NO WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED.

KATHY GRAINGER HOBBINS: PLEASE.

KATHY GRAINGER HOBBINS: PLEASE DO YOUR DUTY FOR THE RESIDENTS, NOT THE ATTORNEYS THAT ARE SPEAKING ON THE CALL FOR THE RESIDENTS OF RYE.

KATHY GRAINGER HOBBINS: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, AND THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: THANK YOU.

KRISTEN WILSON: ARE YOU DON'T HAVE ANY MORE HANDS RAISED.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: OKAY, SO KRISTEN TO PROCEED TO COUNSEL DISCUSSION WE CLOSED PUBLIC HEARING.

KRISTEN WILSON: CORRECT IF YOU'RE READY TO THAT WOULD BE THE NEXT PROCEDURAL STUFF.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: THEY MAY HAVE EMOTION, TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: I MOVED TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.

RICHARD MECCA DEPUTY MAYOR: ON A SECOND.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: ALL IN FAVOR.

AH.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: SO WE HAVE IN OUR.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: WE HAVE IS OUR PROPOSAL, A MORATORIUM.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: ON CERTAIN SUBDIVISIONS STEEP SLOPES LOT LINES AND HOUSES THAT DON'T ADDRESS THEIR FRONT YARDS.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: KRISTEN YOU MIGHT WANT TO, IF YOU WOULD REVIEW ONCE AGAIN FOR PEOPLE, THE CHANGES.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: ARE NEW TODAY.

KRISTEN WILSON: SO THE FIRST CHANGES TO SECTION TWO, WHICH IS ENTITLED NACHMAN A MORATORIUM PROHIBITED ACTIONS IT'S.

KRISTEN WILSON: SECTION TWO SUBSECTION B ONE.

KRISTEN WILSON: AND KRISTEN WILSON: IT STATES THE FOLLOWING NOW ANY WETLAND AND WATER COURSE PERMIT AREA VARIANCE DESIGN REVIEW PERMIT BUILDING PERMIT TREE REMOVAL PERMIT.

KRISTEN WILSON: SEDIMENT AND EROSION CONTROL PERMIT LASTING PERMIT OR ROCK REMOVAL PERMIT INVOLVING ANY RESIDENTIAL BUILDING OR STRUCTURE.

KRISTEN WILSON: THAT INCLUDES GROUND OR VEGETATION DISTURBANCE WITHIN 15 FEET OF SLOPES GREATER THAN 25% WHICH SLOPE SHALL BE DEFINED AS ANY CONTIGUOUS LAND AREA GREATER THAN 1000 SQUARE FEET.

KRISTEN WILSON: HAVING A TOPOGRAPHICAL GRADIENT OF 25% OR MORE, IE RATIO OF VERTICAL DISTANCE TO HORIZONTAL DISTANCE AND A MINIMUM HORIZONTAL DISTANCE OF 25 FEET.

KRISTEN WILSON: THE SECOND CHANGE IS IN SECTION THREE, WHICH IS THE APPEALS SLASH WAIVER PROCESS AND IT'S SUBSECTION SEE THAT DEALS WITH.

KRISTEN WILSON: THE PLANNING COMMISSION'S AUTHORITY AND WHAT THEY SHOULD CONSIDER WHEN GRANTING A WAIVER, AND IT NOW STATES LAST SENTENCE IN GRANTING A WAIVER, IN WHOLE OR IN PART THE PLANNING COMMISSION MUST FIND THAT THE WAIVER WILL NOT SUBSTANTIALLY CONFLICT WITH THE PURPOSE OF THIS LOCAL LAW.

[01:10:12]

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: OKAY, SO.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: IT MAY BE HELPFUL VERY THERE WAS.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: DISCUSSION OF THE.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: LANGUAGE OF SECTION THREE C AND THE QUESTION OF THE PURPOSE OF THIS LOCAL LAW AND.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: IT THE, THE PURPOSE OF THE LANGUAGE WAS ACTUALLY TO MAKE CLEARER THAT.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: THE PLANNING COMMISSION DOES HAVE.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: LIBERAL IN FACT WAIVER A WAIVER AUTHORITY.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: THE.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: PURPOSE OF THE LAW IS.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: IS IT WAS SAID BY ONE COME ONE ONE COMMENTATOR TO.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: STOP CERTAIN ACTIVITY, BUT ITS PURPOSE IS NOT SIMPLY TO STOP THAT ACTIVITY, IT IS TO AVOID THE HARMS THAT ARE ARTICULATED IN THE, IN PARTICULAR IN THE WHEREAS CLAUSES AND THE FINDINGS AND PURPOSE CLAUSE, SO I JUST WANTED TO PUT PUT THAT OUT THERE AS A POSSIBLE QUALITY LEGISLATIVE FOOTNOTE.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: IF.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: IT EVER BECOMES AN ISSUE OF WONDERING.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: WHAT THAT LANGUAGE IS ACTUALLY INTENDED TO DO, AND.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: TO UNDERSCORE THE FACT THAT WE ARE NOT CREATING A WAIVER PROVISION THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO USE THAT IS ILLEGAL NONSENSE.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: SO.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: WITH WITH THAT I WOULD.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: ASK PEOPLE TO.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: DO PEOPLE WANT TO HAVE DISCUSSION OR PROCEED TO HAVE A.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: CAM.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: THANK YOU MAYOR.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: LET ME START WITH SAYING THAT I GENERALLY DO NOT BELIEVE MORATORIUMS ARE GOOD THING, I THINK THAT THEY ARE.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: WELL, THE SUPREME COURT HAS SAID THERE A TEMPORARY TAKING AND I COULDN'T AGREE MORE, IT AFFECTS YOU YOUR ABILITY TO DEVELOP YOUR PROPERTY.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: IT AFFECTS YOUR ABILITY TO JUST CHANGE SOMETHING THAT MAYBE WILL MAKE YOU HAVE A GREATER JOY ENJOYMENT OF YOUR LAND I DON'T LIKE THEM.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: AT THE LAST MEETING, IT BECAME CLEAR TO ME THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING VERY SERIOUSLY BROKEN, I THINK WE USE THAT WORD THE TIME AND I CONCUR THAT THERE ARE SOME THINGS SERIOUSLY BROKEN.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: MY PROBLEM WITH THIS EXISTING LAW AND IT'S NO SURPRISE, THEY THINK IS THAT I THINK IT'S TOO BIG AN APPROACH, IT IS TOO WIDE RANGE IT'S NOT TARGETED I DON'T BELIEVE WE COULD ACCOMPLISH.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: DOING MAKING ANY SORT OF CHANGE IN SIX MONTHS, THAT WOULD BE USEFUL TO THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY OR RESIDENCE.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: I ACTUALLY MET WITH THE RESIDENT THAT.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: I THINK WAS SIGNIFICANTLY IF NOT ECONOMICALLY I THINK SHE WAS EMOTIONALLY HARMED BY THE SUBDIVISION AT 9597.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: SHE WAS HOME, IT WAS STRESSFUL FOR HER TO HEAR THE SOUND I'VE HEARD PEOPLE ON LONDON HAVE SAID THE SAME THING ABOUT THE THE BLASTING THAT HAS GONE ON THERE, AND HOW YOU CAN HEAR IT BLOCKS AWAY.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: WE HAVE FOLLOWED THE STATE LAW VERY CAREFULLY ON BLASTING A FEW YEARS AGO, WE DID A LAW ON ROCK CHIPPING AND WE NOW COUNT THE PERMITS THAT WE ISSUE, AND YOU CAN GO ONLINE AND LOOK AT THEM AND I COUNTED OVER 60 SOME OF THEM ARE REPEATS MANY ARE REPEATS BUT, IN MY MIND, THE ISSUE HERE.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: IS BLASTING AND ROCK CHIPPING I AGREE THAT WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH TREES.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOMETHING DONE ON THAT AS WELL, I AGREE THAT THERE'S A CONVERSATION TO BE HAD ON FLAG LOTS NOT SURE I BELIEVE WE SHOULDN'T HAVE FLAG LOTS AND I AGREE THAT THE SLOPES ARE PART OF WHAT CAUSES THE BLASTING AND CHIPPING TO SOME EXTENT.

[01:15:09]

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: BUT I CAN'T FOR THE LIFE OF ME FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET FROM A TO Z HERE THIS LAW AS MUCH AS I'D LIKE TO PASS IT BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAVE A BROKEN SYSTEM.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: DOESN'T PASS THE MUSTER OF TAKING AWAY IN MY MIND THE DEVELOPERS RIGHTS UNLESS WE FIGHT OFF A SMALL OBTAINABLE PIECE.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: AND I WOULD LIKE, FOR THIS COUNCIL TO CONSIDER DOING SOMETHING SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE HAVE HERE, PERHAPS STRIKING THE AREA ABOUT THE SLOPE, BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S A BIGGER ISSUE.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: AND MAYBE DEALING JUST WITH FLAG LOTS TO GET STARTED OR OTHER PROPERTIES AND DO IT LET'S DO THIS RIGHT LET'S BE CAREFUL LET'S BE THOUGHTFUL LET'S DO THIS RIGHT AND.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: HAVE A SMALLER IMPACT ON THE COMMUNITY AS WE GO THROUGH AND DO THINGS AND WE MIGHT FIND WE DON'T NEED TO DO MORATORIUMS ON OTHER ISSUES, AND IF WE DO.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: WE CAN SIMPLY COME BACK AND DO IT, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A LITTLE BIT OF A SORT OF ALTER THE WAY WE HANDLE THIS PARTICULAR MORATORIUM LAW.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: OTHERS.

CAROLINA JOHNSON RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: WELL I'LL REPEAT MYSELF WHEN I SAID LAST TIME THAT THERE'S NEVER A GOOD TIME FOR FOR SOMETHING LIKE THESE, BUT LIKE CATHY HOFFMAN SAID, IT IS NOW OVERDUE, AS I HAVE ALSO MET WITH PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS AND PAST PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS.

CAROLINA JOHNSON RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: THESE HAS.

CAROLINA JOHNSON RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: BEEN TRIED BEFORE, NOTHING HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL, I THINK THE LOSS OF TREES IS IS A HUGE.

CAROLINA JOHNSON RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: LOSS FOR THE WHOLE TOWN.

CAROLINA JOHNSON RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: I THINK WE ARE SOME PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE DEVELOPERS, BUT I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IMPACTED BY THOSE DEVELOPERS, WHO ARE THE THE RESIDENTS OF RIGHT.

CAROLINA JOHNSON RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: AND SO I THINK THAT IF WE LOOKED AND WE ASKED CHRISTIAN HOW MANY SUBDIVISIONS ARE APPLIED FOR EACH YEAR AND WE LOOKED AT HOW MANY HOUSES WILL GO ON SIDEWAYS.

CAROLINA JOHNSON RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: AND WE LOOKED AND WE MODIFIED THE STEEP SLOPES, AND THE PROXIMITY TO A STEEP SLOPE, I THINK WE HAVE A NARROW MORATORIUM, AND I THINK IT'S.

CAROLINA JOHNSON RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: I THINK WE SHOULD GIVE IT A GO.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: I I, I AGREE WITH CAROLINA I THINK WILL BE.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: TAKING ON.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: IN IMPORTANT STUFF I THINK IN, PARTICULARLY IN THE CASE IT'S STEEP SLOPES, A MAJORITY OF THE MUNICIPALITIES IN WESTCHESTER HAVE STEEP SLOPE LEGISLATION IT'S A WELL TRODDEN PATH WHICH DOES NOT MEAN THAT THERE WON'T BE CHALLENGES FOR US, BUT THAT, IN PARTICULAR.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: LEGISLATION IN THAT AREA AND A PROTECTIVE MORATORIUM TO BEGIN WITH, CAN HELP WITH ISSUES OF JUST PLAIN OF DENSITY GREEN SPACE VERY TOPOGRAPHY VISUAL BUFFERS.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: IMPORTANT THINGS AS I HEAR REALLY CONTINUOUSLY FROM MY RESIDENTS THAT THEY FEEL THAT RY IS LOSING THE SENSE OF SPACE OF GREENNESS THAT THAT REALLY MADE BRIAN.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: UNIQUE AMONG THE WESTCHESTER TOWNS CERTAINLY THAT I VISITED WHEN I WAS LOOKING FOR A HOUSE 30 YEARS AGO AND SETTLED IN RYE.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: AND IT WAS REMARKABLY DIFFERENT AND I TO FEAR THAT WE ARE LOSING THAT DIFFERENCE, AND I THINK THAT THIS MORATORIUM AND WORKING HARD ON THESE LAWS IS SOMETHING THAT WE VERY MUCH DO.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: MAN, I ASKED MR MAYOR IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CHANGING.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: DENSITY OF USES, HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT THE RIGHT DENSITY WOULD BE, HOW DO WE KNOW BECAUSE YOU'RE SAYING YOU KNOW WHERE WE, WE NEED TO DO THIS AND I'M NOT DISAGREEING WITH YOU, IT IS DIFFERENT 13 YEARS AGO THIS PLACE WAS DIFFERENT THAN IT IS TODAY DON'T GET ME WRONG.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: UM HOW WOULD YOU HOW WOULD YOU GO ABOUT DOING THIS WITH.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: THAT MASTER PLAN WITHOUT A KNOWLEDGE OF DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS AND WITH DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COMMUNITY ONE, WE WOULD NEED TO HAVE REACH OUT TO THEM NOW WE'RE TALKING.

[01:20:03]

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: AND WE.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: WE WE WE WILL DO A MASTER PLAN.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: WE PROMISED TO DO A MASTER PLAN AND WE PUT IT OFF TO DO A WORK ON OUR CAP CAPITAL PLAN WHICH IS NOW MOVING FO.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: AND THEN WE OF COURSE EXPERIENCE THE PANDEMIC VERY DIFFICULT TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS OF MASTER PLANNING DURING A PANDEMIC AND.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: FACTUALLY WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHERE THE PANDEMIC WILL LEAVE US IN TERMS OF HOW PEOPLE IN RIVE WANT TO LIVE, BUT THESE ARE THINGS THAT I THINK THAT THAT WE CAN LOOK AT IN IN SMALLER SCOPE WE DON'T HAVE TO DECIDE.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: THE OVERALL ISSUE OF DENSITY OR NEIGHBORHOOD DENSITY, WE CAN LOOK AT OTHER AT OTHER TOWNS STEEP SLOPE REGULATIONS, FOR EXAMPLE, AND SEE WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO PRESERVE VIEW SHED AND THE LIKE, AND GREENERY AND THE LIKE, AND.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: I THINK THAT'S.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: I THINK THAT'S A GOOD IN A REASONABLE PATH FORWARD FOR US.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: JULIE.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: I DON'T I DON'T ACTUALLY DON'T HAVE A COMMENT HERE, I HAVE A REQUEST AND IT'S.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: RICHARD MECCA DO YOU HAVE THOUGHTS HERE AND I WANT TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR THEM IF YOU'RE WILLING TO SHARE THEM.

RICHARD MECCA DEPUTY MAYOR: SURE YOU PUT ME RIGHT ON THE SPOT THAT'S OKAY, SO IT AIN'T YOUR CITY COUNCIL DOES FOR YOU THE THE ONE OF THE REASONS FOR THE MORATORIUM.

RICHARD MECCA DEPUTY MAYOR: IS AS WORD GETS OUT THAT WE MAY WANT TO MAKE CHANGES, THIS IS A VERY ACTIVE AND MIRIAM.

RICHARD MECCA DEPUTY MAYOR: SAY VERY ACTIVE MARKET REAL ESTATE WISE AND YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE PEOPLE SOLICITING OTHER PEOPLE TO SAY HEY YOUR PROPERTY CAN BE SUBDIVIDED PROPERLY TO FLAG LOT.

RICHARD MECCA DEPUTY MAYOR: AND IF YOU DON'T DO THIS NOW YOU'RE GONNA LOSE YOUR OPPORTUNITY FOREVER BY HAVING A MORATORIUM OR SENDING OUT THE SIGNAL THAT THOUGH WE DON'T GET A LOT OF THEM WE DON'T GET A LOT OF THEM, BECAUSE IT IS THE LAW, YOU START TO CHANGE THE LAW, YOU WILL GET A LOT OF THEM, THAT IS, THE.

RICHARD MECCA DEPUTY MAYOR: I WOULD SAY THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF EVERY LAW WE'VE EVER MADE HAS BROUGHT US TO ANOTHER PROBLEM AND, OF COURSE, HAVING A MORATORIUM IS GOING TO BRING UP.

RICHARD MECCA DEPUTY MAYOR: ANOTHER PROBLEM THAT THEY COULD BIGGER ISSUES CAN WE SOLVE THIS PROBLEM WITH SIX MONTHS OF OF HARD WORK AND IF NOT, WE CAN COME BACK AND SAY.

RICHARD MECCA DEPUTY MAYOR: WHAT LIKE WHAT ANY COUNCIL BUT WE TRIED TO DO SOMETHING AND WE FIND THAT EITHER WE NEED MORE TIME WE HAVE TO GO BACK SO.

RICHARD MECCA DEPUTY MAYOR: RIGHT NOW, IF YOU WERE TO SAY, WELL, NO MORE TORREON THEY THEY KNOW IT'S ON OUR ON OUR THOUGHT AND THEY KNOW IT'S GOING TO STAY.

RICHARD MECCA DEPUTY MAYOR: SOMEWHERE IN THIS COUNCILS OF GREATER SUBCONSCIOUS AND I AND I'M WONDERING WHETHER OR NOT.

RICHARD MECCA DEPUTY MAYOR: THE WORD IS OUT THERE, LOOK YOU'RE GOING TO DO THIS ANYWAY LET'S GET AS MANY PROPERTIES SUBDIVIDED AS WE CAN.

RICHARD MECCA DEPUTY MAYOR: WHILE WE CAN SO THAT THAT'S ONE ARGUMENT LET'S SAY FOR THE MORATORIUM ONE ARGUMENT AGAINST IT WOULD BE THAT WE HAVE TO ENGAGE OUR BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AND WE ALSO HAVE A LOT ON OUR PLATE WITH THE.

RICHARD MECCA DEPUTY MAYOR: UPCOMING A CAPITAL APPROVAL, SO IS THE TIMING RIGHT DO CAN WE GET ANSWERS OVER THE SUMMER FROM OUR BOARDS AND COMMISSION AND CAN AND CAN WE.

RICHARD MECCA DEPUTY MAYOR: CONTINUE WITH THIS PROCESS OF SPENDING THIS MONEY THAT WE NEED TO SPEND WE'VE BEEN KICKING DOWN THE ROAD FOR A VERY LONG TIME.

RICHARD MECCA DEPUTY MAYOR: SO DO DO WE DIVERT OUR EFFORTS FROM SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR YEARS FOR SOMETHING THAT'S A CURRENT ISSUE SO JULIE, I THINK YOU'RE VERY SORRY, YOU ASKED MY OPINION BECAUSE.

RICHARD MECCA DEPUTY MAYOR: THE MORE I HEAR THE MORE I'M NOT SO SURE THAT THE TIMING IS RIGHT, THE NEED IS RIGHT SO I'M NOT SURE HOW TO RECONCILE THE TWO HOW WE CAN GO GO ABOUT AND.

RICHARD MECCA DEPUTY MAYOR: LOOK AT SOME OF THESE LAWS AND CHANGING THEM BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN SOMETHING WE HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING FOR YEARS AND IS THE TIME NOW AND HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS TO STEAL OTHER PEOPLE'S TIME, SUCH AS OUR STAFF OUR BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, WHO ARE ALSO VERY BUSY TO STEAL, THIS TIME FROM THEM.

RICHARD MECCA DEPUTY MAYOR: TO GET US AN ANSWER IN SIX MONTHS, SO AGAIN, ARE YOU SORRY, YOU ASKED ME.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: THIS IS NOT HELPFUL I DO I'M SURE I'M STRUGGLING HERE, I REALLY AM I FEEL LIKE I'M.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: AND RIGHT NOW, WHAT SORT OF.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: LIVING IN MY BRAIN IS THAT WE'VE SET UP A FLARE RIGHT LIKE THE FLARES THEY'RE LIKE AND SO NOW I AM NERVOUS THAT IT'S GOING TO ATTRACT PEOPLE LIKE GET IN WHILE YOU CAN SORT OF STUFF AND SO.

[01:25:11]

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: SO THE MORATORIUM STEMS THAT FROM HAPPENING RIGHT, I DO THINK IN I THINK ONE OF THE I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: LEO OR LINDA BUT SOMEBODY MENTIONED, YOU KNOW DO HAVE A SENSE OF WHAT'S CAUGHT UP IN QUEUE AND WE, I THINK WE DO, AND WE THINK IT'S A IT'S ACTUALLY A FAIRLY SMALL NUMBER UM.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: SO THAT GIVES ME SOME COMFORT BECAUSE IT'S NOT YOU KNOW WE'RE NOT GETTING A BUNCH OF PEOPLE IN THIS WEIRD LIMBO STATE.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: I DO.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: I MEAN THE THE TIMING THING IS MORE LIKE WITH EVERYTHING ELSE ON OUR PLATE, AND WITH THE FACT THAT YOU KNOW, TO THE EXTENT THAT WE COULD HAVE DONE THIS EARLIER OR WHATEVER, I MEAN.

[6. Presentation of preliminary 2020 financials summary from City Comptroller, Joe Fazzino. ]

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: THEIR COVERT THROWS A CURVEBALL RIGHT, SO I THINK THAT WE'RE TRYING TO GET BACK ON THE HORSE ON THIS ONE AND.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: I JUST I JUST WANT TO KNOW THAT WE CAN WE CAN WE HAVE PLACES TO PULL FROM TO DO THIS EXPEDIENTLY AND THOUGHTFULLY IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, HOW THIS EVEN CAME UP AND THESE THREE TOPICS CAME UP WAS YOU KNOW SORT OF TALKING BACK BACK TO WHAT KATHY GRANGER HAVIN SAID.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: THAT THE PLANNING COMMITTEE RECOGNIZE THESE SORT OF ISSUES THAT HAVE BEEN ONES WHERE THEY FEEL, PERHAPS, MAYBE, THESE ARE THE EXAMPLES WHEN THEY FELT THAT THEIR HANDS WERE TIED, AND SO YOU KNOW I DON'T THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THIS COUNCIL MADE UP ON THEIR OWN THIS CAME FROM THE THE.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: THE LAND USE BOARDS.

CAROLINA JOHNSON RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: ALSO JULIE, WHEN YOU AND I IN RICH WE'RE WORKING ON THE TRIANGLE AND WE DISCOVERED THAT OH THERE'S A LOOPHOLE THEY USE, AND THEN THEY CLEAR CUT THE LANDS.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: YEAH NO THAT'S THAT'S A BIG ISSUE LIKE I THE THE BIGGEST ACCORDING TO SOME OF THEM ARE SMARTER THAN ME ABOUT THIS, THE BIGGEST SORT OF PERPETRATOR OF.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: RAISING TREES, IS THIS FLAG LOT THING WHERE YOU'RE TRYING TO WEAR ONE HOUSE OUT ON A PROPERTY NOW TWO HOUSES AND OR MORE AND YOU'RE.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: YOU KNOW, CUTTING BACK AND AND LOOK THAT'S NOT THE SOLE REASON, THERE ARE PEOPLE THEMSELVES WHO DECIDE TO CLEAR CUT THEIR OWN LOTS FOR POOLS, OR WHATEVER RIGHT SO I'M NOT JUDGING ANYBODY I JUST.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: KNOWING THAT THAT IS PROBABLY THE BIGGEST ISSUE THERE I AM I AM ADMITTEDLY PROBABLY A LITTLE PREDISPOSED TO SORT OF HOLD THAT.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: IN A MORATORIUM STATUS.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: RECOGNIZING THAT THERE BE A WAIVER LAWS SO IF THE COLEMAN'S ARE NOT THE INTENT OF THIS AND IT'S I MEAN IF YOU HAVE 3.3 ACRES AND YOU'RE DIVIDING IT BY TWO I DON'T THINK THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH HERE, I FEEL LIKE THAT'S THAT WILL GET SORTED OUT IN A WAIVER PROCESS.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: THE SIDEWAYS HOUSE THING SEEMS REASONABLE TO ME TO LIKE YOU KNOW YOU KNOW THE PROPERTY OR.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: HEY KEVIN.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: NOW, BECAUSE I'M RAMBLING I DON'T KNOW.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: THEY SO THERE'S BEEN REFERENCED TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION WE DIDN'T DO A FORMAL REFERRAL AND WE'RE NOT ACTUALLY REQUIRED TO DO A FORMAL REFERRAL.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: BUT WE DID GET A MEMO WHICH I HAS BEEN MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC, DATED MARCH 30.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: AND IT STATES THE PLANNING COMMISSION BELIEVES THAT A MORATORIUM SHOULD BE USED TO PROVIDE A SPECIFIC TIME PERIOD IN WHICH CERTAIN LAND USE ISSUES CAN BE STUDIED DISCUSSED AND SOLUTIONS PROPOSED.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: THE PLANNING COMMISSION WOULD LIKE THE COUNCIL TO CONSIDER RESTRICTIONS ON FLAG LOTS AND GERRYMANDERED LOTS FOR ALL NEW SUBDIVISIONS, OR AT LEAST ON SUBDIVISIONS IN THE SMALLER RESIDENTIAL ZONES.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: THE PLANNING COMMISSION WOULD LIKE THE COUNCIL TO CONSIDER ELIMINATION OF STEEP SLOPES IN THE AREA CALCULATIONS FOR ALL NEW SUBDIVISIONS.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: AND CONSIDERATION OF REMOVING STEEP SLOPES FROM FAR CALCULATIONS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW HOMES ON EXISTING PARCELS CONSIDERATION SHOULD ALSO BE GIVEN TO THE PRESERVATION OF NATURAL FEATURES AND THE EFFECTS OF CONSTRUCTION OR JASON TO STEEP SLOPES ON ADJACENT PROPERTIES, SO WE.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: INDIVIDUALLY, WE HAVE SPOKEN TO PEOPLE.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: PLANNING COMMISSION THOUGHTS HAVE BEEN COLLECTED.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: I WOULD LIKE TO ASK FOR A VOTE I WOULD RESOLVE I WOULD OFFER RESOLUTION TO.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: TO.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: PUT IN PLACE THE MORATORIUM THAT IS IS DESCRIBED IN IN OUR PROPOSAL, AS AMENDED BY AS AS AS MEN DID BY CHRISTIAN.

[01:30:12]

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: AND I DON'T THINK A CHRISTIAN I DON'T THINK I NEED TO SAY ANYTHING MORE THAN THAT, TOO, I.

KRISTEN WILSON: KNOW THAT THAT'S FINE.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: SO.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: MAY HAVE A SECOND.

CAROLINA JOHNSON RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: I'LL SECOND.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: IS THIS ROLL CALL THIS IS ROLL CALL YES.

CAROLYN D'ANDREA RYE CITY CLERK: THAT'S A WOMAN GOT HER.

RICHARD MECCA DEPUTY MAYOR: SHE IS RECUSED WHO'S.

CAROLYN D'ANDREA RYE CITY CLERK: COUNCILWOMAN JOHNSON.

CAROLYN D'ANDREA RYE CITY CLERK: YES, COUNCILMAN MECCA.

CAROLYN D'ANDREA RYE CITY CLERK: YES, COUNCILWOMAN SOUZA.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: YES.

CAROLYN D'ANDREA RYE CITY CLERK: COUNCILMAN STACKS.

YES.

CAROLYN D'ANDREA RYE CITY CLERK: COUNCILWOMAN TARLOW.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: YES.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: I'D LIKE TO THANK EVERYBODY WHO'S PARTICIPATED.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: CERTAINLY, THE COUNCIL STAFF.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: AND WE'LL.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: TAKE IT FROM HERE.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: OUR NEXT.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: TOPIC IS PRESENTATION OF PRELIMINARY 2020 FINANCIALS SUMMARY FROM CITY COMPTROLLER JOE FUZZY NO.

JOE FAZZINO: THANK YOU, MR MAYOR.

JOE FAZZINO: THIS IS A VERY BROAD OVERVIEW OF THE FINANCIALS FOR.

JOE FAZZINO: WE HAD OUR AUDITORS COME IN THE WEEK OF APRIL 11 THEY WERE ON SITE FOR ABOUT A WEEK.

JOE FAZZINO: DID A LOT OF.

JOE FAZZINO: PULLING OF INVOICES INFORMATION CASH RECEIPTS THINGS LIKE THAT LAST YEAR WAS COMPLETELY A OFF SITE VIRTUAL AUDIT, SO IT WAS NICE TO ACTUALLY GET SOME FACE TO FACE WITH THEM AND.

JOE FAZZINO: I THINK THINGS SOMETIMES GO A LITTLE BIT BETTER WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE TO TALK TO THEM IN PERSON, THEY GET TO SEE THINGS WE'VE ASKED MORE QUESTIONS.

JOE FAZZINO: IN TERMS OF THE STAFF, SO IT WAS VERY HELPFUL TO HAVE THEM BACK THIS YEAR AS SAYING THAT THE AUDIT IS STILL GOING ON, THEY ARE STILL DOING A LOT OF THINGS REMOTELY.

JOE FAZZINO: STILL WE'RE STILL PROVIDING THEM INFORMATION ELECTRONICALLY SO WE'RE ALMOST THERE WE'VE GOT A FEW MORE ITEMS TO CHECK OFF THE LIST AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE FINAL FINANCIAL RESULTS WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS.

JOE FAZZINO: WANTED TO FOCUS ON THE GENERAL FUND TONIGHT AND ALL ADJUSTMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE FOR THE GENERAL FUND SO THESE NUMBERS ARE PROBABLY 99%.

JOE FAZZINO: ACCURATE AND WHAT YOU'LL SEE WHEN THE ORDERS COME BACK, PROBABLY IN JULY TO DO A OVERALL YOU KNOW PRESENTATION OF THE FINANCIAL RESULTS AND GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW AS WELL, SO.

JOE FAZZINO: THESE NUMBERS SHOULDN'T SURPRISE ANYONE IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS, THEY SHOULD BE THE SAME SO I'M GOING TO SHARE MY SCREEN NOW AND.

JOE FAZZINO: GET UP A FEW SLIDES FOR YOU.

OKAY.

JOE FAZZINO: EVERYONE SEE THAT.

JOE FAZZINO: OKAY, SO THIS IS THE GENERAL FUND OPERATING RESULTS FOR 2020 IT'S JUST A BASICALLY A HIGH LEVEL SUMMARY LIKE I SAID OF.

JOE FAZZINO: SOME OF THE REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES SO JUST KIND OF GOING THROUGH THIS PRETTY QUICKLY.

JOE FAZZINO: WE HAVE BROKEN OUT PROPERTY TAXES AND REVENUES, OTHER THAN PROPERTY TAXES IN THE FIRST TWO LINES.

JOE FAZZINO: OF ABOUT SO IN TOTAL ABOUT $38 MILLION GENERAL FUND OPERATING EXPENDITURES ABOUT 35 MILLION LITTLE LESS, AND THEN WE HAVE THE GENERAL FUND CAPITAL INVESTMENT, WHICH IS A USE OF FUN BALANCE TO FUND OUR CAPITAL ITEMS WHICH WE'LL GET TO IN A MOMENT.

JOE FAZZINO: OF 4.1 MILLION AND THEN FOR COMPARISON PURPOSES JUST WANTED TO SHOW THE 2019 GENERAL FUND ON ASSIGN FUND BALANCE OF 3.8 MILLION VERSUS THE 2020 GENERAL FUND UNASSIGNED FUND BALANCE OF ABOUT 4.3 MILLION.

JOE FAZZINO: AS OUR POLICY, A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO WE ADOPTED WE WANTED A 10%.

JOE FAZZINO: RATIO OF FUND BALANCE TO 22 THE APPROPRIATIONS OF THE NEXT BUDGET YEAR SO HAPPY TO SAY WE'RE ABOVE THAT 10% WE HAVE SOME WIGGLE ROOM.

JOE FAZZINO: SO OUR OVERALL PERCENT IS 10.67% OF 2021 BUDGET OF EXPENDITURES FUND BALANCE IN EXCESS OF THAT 10% IS $270,000 WHICH GREG AND I WILL MAKE A RECOMMENDATION AS TO WHERE TO APPLY THOSE FUNDS.

JOE FAZZINO: UM ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT, BEFORE I JUMP TO THE NEXT PAGE.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: ACTUALLY YEAH JOE.

[01:35:01]

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: THE WE ARE GETTING SOME MONEY I'M GUESSING FROM ARPA OR WHATEVER YOU CALL IT THAT THE FUNDS FROM THE FROM CONGRESS.

JOE FAZZINO: YEAH THE FEDERAL CARE ZACH.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: NO IT'S NOT A CARES ACT IT'S KIND OF A I THINK IT'S CALLED AR AR AR AR AR AR A ANYWAY, I WAS.

JOE FAZZINO: LOW CAP SO YES, SOMETHING DIFFERENT SO.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: YEAH AND THAT THOSE FUNDS THERE'S QUITE A SIZABLE AMOUNT OF MONEY, I THINK THAT'S COMING TO THE CITY CORRECT.

JOE FAZZINO: YES, THERE IS, I BELIEVE IT'S 1.3.

JOE FAZZINO: MILLION 1.4 MILLION YEP.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: IS THAT YOU ARE THE PROPERTY TAX NUMBER.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: NO THAT'S NOT FUNNY THAT.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: NUMBER KNOW.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: HALF HALF OF THAT WILL BE, IT WILL BE RECEIVED IN THE NEXT PROBABLY 60 DAYS, THE OTHER HALF IS RECEIVING NEXT YEAR, SO THAT IS NOT ACCOUNTED FOR, OBVIOUSLY THE 2020 NUMBERS, IT WILL BE ACCOUNTED FOR.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: IN OUR YOU KNOW YEAR AND BALANCE FOR THIS YEAR, AS WELL AS SOME RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE GO THROUGH THE YEAR ABOUT WHERE TO APPLY ANY EXCESS HERE, AS WELL AS THOSE BED MONIES.

SARA GODDARD RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: IS THAT ARE YOU REFERRING HIM TO THAT UM IT'S LIKE THE PATRIOT.

SARA GODDARD RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: ACT, IT WAS, I THINK, 1.4 $1.7 MILLION.

JOE FAZZINO: AMERICAN RESERVE RESCUE PLAN I'M SORRY I HAD.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: RIGHT OKAY, THE CURES ACT WAS THE FIRST ROUND IS THE EQUIVALENT OF THE SECOND ROUND WITH.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: A PORTION THAT MUNICIPALITIES, I BELIEVE, JOE ARE OUR PROPORTION CHAIR WAS APPROXIMATELY 1.3 BUT I MAY BE WRONG.

JOE FAZZINO: YES, IT, YES, I KNOW IT WAS BETWEEN 1.3 1.4.

JOE FAZZINO: SO YEAH OBVIOUSLY THAT'S NOT INCLUDED IN 2020 IS SOMETHING WE DON'T ACCRUE OBVIOUSLY ACCORDING TO THE AUDITOR IS IT'S IT'S PAST THEIR TIME.

JOE FAZZINO: PERIOD FROM THE END OF THE YEAR, AND IT IS A 2021 ITEM ANYWAY, BUT WE'LL GET ACTUALLY WE'LL JUMP BACK TO THAT IN A MINUTE ONCE WE GET TO THE NEXT SLIDE.

JOE FAZZINO: ANY OTHER QUESTIONS.

JOE FAZZINO: OKAY.

JOE FAZZINO: SO THESE ARE BASICALLY THE REVENUES THAT WE DEFINED AS MAYBE AT RISK OR ONE'S WORTH KEEPING AN EYE ON DURING.

JOE FAZZINO: HAPPY TO SAY, WITH A COUPLE OF EXCEPTIONS WE ACTUALLY EXCEEDED OUR BUDGET AND MOST CASES.

JOE FAZZINO: LARGEST ONE JUMPS TO MIND IS THE SALES TAX, WE WENT INTO A BUDGET PRETTY BLIND NOT KNOWING WHAT TO EXPECT WITH A 1% TAX RATE INCREASE SALES TAX CAME IN ABOUT 250 $3,000 MORE THAN WE HAD BUDGETED FOR.

JOE FAZZINO: AND BASED ON FIRST QUARTER RESULTS IN 2021 COMPARING APPLES TO APPLES A FULL YEAR OF THE SAME.

JOE FAZZINO: TAX RATE FOR THE FIRST QUARTER IT'S UP ABOUT 17% SO THAT'S REALLY GOOD NEWS FOR SALES TAX FOR THIS YEAR I'M.

JOE FAZZINO: LOOKING AT THESE NUMBERS ALSO JUST TO KIND OF GENERALIZE OTHER THAN HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX WHICH KIND OF IS STILL DOWN AS PEOPLE ARE NOT OBVIOUSLY STILL NOT STAYING IN HOTELS JUST YET THAT NUMBER WE DON'T HAVE MUCH INFORMATION ON, BUT I EXPECT THAT TO BE.

JOE FAZZINO: AS WE BUDGETED FOR 2021 WE DID LOWER THAT BUDGET SIGNIFICANTLY SO HOPEFULLY WE'LL HIT THAT NUMBER AND VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC AND FINES, I SPOKE TO KRISTEN.

JOE FAZZINO: EARLIER THIS WEEK AND YOU KNOW THERE'S STILL A BACKLOG ON YOU KNOW OUTSTANDING, PLEASE, FOR YOU KNOW MOVING VIOLATION SO AT SOME POINT WE WILL EXPECT SOME MONEY COMING EVEN FROM LAST YEAR INTO THIS YEAR FOR VEHICLE TRAFFIC FINE, BUT WE DID CONSERVATIVELY BUDGET THAT NUMBER TWO.

JOE FAZZINO: AGAIN, BUILDING PERMIT REVENUE WAS DOWN IN 2020 260 7000 COMPARED TO BUDGET, BUT YOU KNOW WE DROPPED OUR BUDGET A LITTLE BIT FOR 2021 AND, AS FAR AS RESULTS GO SO FAR, YOU KNOW WE SEEM TO BE ON TRACK TO HIT THAT NUMBER.

JOE FAZZINO: STATE REVENUE SHARING WE ORIGINALLY WERE FORECASTING LAST YEAR BECAUSE WE HAD HEARD FROM THE STATE THAT IT WILL BE DOWN ABOUT 20% WHICH EQUATES TO ABOUT $240,000.

JOE FAZZINO: GIVEN THIS AMERICAN RELIEVERS I'M SORRY RESCUE PLAN IT CAME IN AT ONLY $60,000 UNDER BUDGET AS THE FEDERAL.

JOE FAZZINO: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THE STATE GOVERNMENT WHOLE THEY WERE ABLE TO THEN MAKE US WHOLE SO NOT ONLY DID WE GET ANOTHER WE GOT 95% OF THE TOTAL WE'RE EXPECTED TO GET THAT LAST 5% AT SOME POINT, THIS YEAR AND IT'LL BE UNFORTUNATELY RECOGNIZING THE 2020 NUMBER 21 NUMBERS AND NOT 2020.

SARA GODDARD RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: SO, JOE JUST A QUESTION ABOUT THE BUILDING PERMIT REVENUE.

SARA GODDARD RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: YES, THAT'S INTERESTING THAT IT'S IT'S DOWN VERSUS BUDGET IS IT BECAUSE I'VE HEARD THAT THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF.

SARA GODDARD RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: RENOVATIONS GOING ON, BUT IS IT BECAUSE THEY'RE SMALL RENOVATIONS OR WHAT, WHAT IS YOUR.

JOE FAZZINO: WELL, THIS IS 2020.

JOE FAZZINO: SO THIS IS NUMBERS DOWN COMPARED TO BUDGET FOR 2020 BUT THE 2021 NUMBERS DO LOOK VERY GOOD THE NUMBERS ARE WHETHER IT SHOULD BE COMPARED TO BUDGET FOR THIS YEAR.

[01:40:04]

SARA GODDARD RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: YEAH.

JOE FAZZINO: OKAY, SO YEAH I'M NOT SEEING ANY SIGNS THERE THAT YOU KNOW THOSE NUMBERS ARE SO AGAIN, WE JUST WE TOOK THESE NUMBERS LAST YEAR, BECAUSE THESE ARE THE ONES WE IDENTIFIED AS AT RISK AND WE JUST WANTED TO KIND OF REVISIT AND SEE WHERE WE WOUND UP.

JOE FAZZINO: HERE.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: IT WAS PROBABLY SARAH SITTING AT PEOPLE SITTING IN THEIR HOUSE IN 2027 OH MY.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: GOD THIS HAS TO CHANGE RIGHT AND THEY MIGHT.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: NOT MAKING THE PLANS LIKE KICK IT OVER TO 21.

SARA GODDARD RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT I'M JUST THINKING BACK TO LAST MONDAY, WHEN I SAT THROUGH A ALMOST FIVE HOUR BA OUR MEETING BECAUSE IT WAS SIX PAGES, OR MAYBE IT WAS LAST WEEK SIX PAGES OF OF APPLICATION SO.

SARA GODDARD RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: I FORGOT 2020 EVERYBODY WAS HUNKERED DOWN NOW TO YOUR POINT JULIE 2021 EVERYBODY'S GETTING OUT THERE RENOVATING.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: WE WILL BE, WE WILL BE DOING AS WE, AS WE WERE DOING LAST YEAR FOR DIFFERENT REASONS, BUT WE WILL BE DOING, YOU KNOW PERIODIC FINANCIAL UPDATES FOR 21.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: PROBABLY STARTING IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS, BUT WE DIDN'T THINK IT WAS IMPORTANT, GIVEN HOW MUCH TIME WE SPENT REVIEWING EVERY MONTH LAST YEAR AS THE EPIDEMIC WAS GOING ON, WE THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: AS SOON AS WE HAD CONFIDENT NUMBERS TO SHOW YOU HOW WE SPEND THIS YEAR VERSUS LAST.

JOE FAZZINO: KNOW JUNE 30 RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER SO WE'LL DO OUR SIX MONTH RESULT PRESENTATION BE HARD TO COMPARE, BUT WE WILL 2022 2021 YOU CAN EXPECT THAT IN JULY.

JOE FAZZINO: ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON REVENUES.

JOE FAZZINO: OKAY JUMPING OVER TO EXPENDITURES AGAIN, THESE WERE ITEMS THAT WE IDENTIFIED AND A LARGE YOU SEE A LOT OF.

JOE FAZZINO: ITEMS COMING IN LESS THAN BUDGET AGAIN DIRECT RESULT OF THE HIRING FREEZE THAT WAS IMPLEMENTED A YOU KNOW LATE SPRING LAST YEAR, YOU KNOW SALARIES AND WAGES ARE DOWN.

JOE FAZZINO: POLICE OVERTIME REIMBURSEMENT, WHICH WAS ATTRIBUTED TO A LOT OF THE UTILITY PROJECTS GOING ON, WE SAID THAT WE'D HAVE A NET COST OF 405,000 IT ACTUALLY CAME IN ABOUT 250 8000 BETTER THAN WE HAD BUDGETED.

JOE FAZZINO: AGAIN RETIREMENT EXPENSE LIKE EXPENSE, THEY TIE INTO LESS EMPLOYEES ON THE BOOKS SO LESS EXPENSE ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE EXPENDITURES WORKERS COMPENSATION.

JOE FAZZINO: RESULT OF CITIES PREMIUM CONTINUALLY GOING DOWN AS WE HAVEN'T HAD KNOCK ON WOOD ANY LARGE CLAIMS AND LESS CLAIMS ACTUALLY DUE TO CERTAIN SAFETY PRECAUTIONS PUT IN PLACE BY CITY STAFF.

JOE FAZZINO: EMPLOYEE HEALTH INSURANCE AGAIN WE ALWAYS CONSERVATIVELY BUDGET A HIGH, NOT A HIGH RATE, BUT ABOUT A 10% INCREASE EACH YEAR FOR HEALTH INSURANCE.

JOE FAZZINO: THAT CUP WAS, AND THAT OBVIOUSLY THE NUMBER OF PREMIUM WAS ACTUALLY LESS THAN WE HAD BUDGETED FOR, COUPLED WITH AND LESS EMPLOYEES ON THE BOOKS RETIREE HEALTH INSURANCE IS BASICALLY A RESULT OF YOU KNOW LESS I'M SORRY LOWER RATES THAN WE HAD BUDGETED FOR.

JOE FAZZINO: ANOTHER POSITIVE ITEM RECREATION NET COST WE HAD SAID WOULD BE ABOUT A LOSS OF USE OF FUNDS ABOUT 1.8 MILLION CAME IN ABOUT $80,000 BETTER SO ATTRIBUTED TO SALLY AND HER STAFF DOING A GREAT JOB IMPLEMENTING NEW PROGRAMS DURING THE PANDEMIC CERTAINLY HELPED WITH THAT NUMBER AS WELL.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: AS YOU PROBABLY ALL RECALL, BECAUSE WE WERE SO UNSURE LAST YEAR.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: BY THE TIME WE GOT TO MAY OF HOW OUR REVENUE FORECAST WAS GOING TO GO, THE ONLY THING WE REALLY COULD FOCUS ON WHERE WE'RE EXPENSES.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: AND SO YOU KNOW THE DEPARTMENT HEADS AND I WERE ASKED AGGRESSIVELY TO ADDRESS EXPENSE REDUCTIONS, WHETHER THAT BE HEADCOUNT, WHETHER THAT BE CONSULTANTS, WHETHER IT BE PROJECT EXPENDITURES.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: IN ANTICIPATION OF A YEAR BEING MUCH WORSE FROM A REVENUE STANDPOINT THAT IT ACTUALLY TURNED OUT TO BE SO, YOU KNOW WE DID WE DID.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: WELL, ON REVENUES VERSUS WHERE WE THOUGHT WE COULD HAVE ENDED UP, BUT WE WERE EXTRAORDINARILY AGGRESSIVE ON EXPENSES AND ANTICIPATION OF ARE NOT KNOWING WHERE REVENUES ARE GOING TO BE, AND SO THAT, FRANKLY, IS KIND OF WHY WE ENDED UP THE YEAR AS WELL AS WE DID.

JOE FAZZINO: CORRECT OBVIOUSLY THE ONE BOTTOM NUMBER HERE THE COVERT EXPENDITURES.

JOE FAZZINO: ALL IN WITH 170 $6,000 SPOKE WITH OUR PLANNING DEPARTMENT, THE OTHER DAY, THE TOTAL AMOUNT SUBMITTED FOR REIMBURSEMENT TO FEMA IS ABOUT $62,000.

JOE FAZZINO: WISH I HAD AN UPDATE AS TO WHEN WE'RE GOING TO GET THAT MONEY WE ACTUALLY JUST GOT MONEY FOR SUPERSTORM SANDY FOR A COUPLE OF PROJECTS, A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO, SO OBVIOUSLY THAT'S NINE YEARS AGO ALREADY SO THEY SOMETIMES TAKE THEIR TIME GETTING BACK TO US ON CERTAIN ITEMS SO TO BE CONTINUED.

[01:45:03]

BEN STACKS RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: SO, JOE THAT'S THE ONLY REIMBURSED EXPENSE YOU THINK OF THIS LINE ITEM.

JOE FAZZINO: I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT YEAH ABOUT SIX THAT'S WHAT AND YOU KNOW.

JOE FAZZINO: SPEAKING TO THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, MELISSA HAS SPOKEN SHE DIDN'T WORKING CLOSELY WITH OUR.

JOE FAZZINO: REPRESENTATIVES AT FEMA SO THOSE NUMBERS ARE PRETTY SOLID, I WOULD SAY ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE ACTUALLY GOOD TO ALLOW I MEAN WE'VE SEEN WE SUBMITTED EVERYTHING WE.

JOE FAZZINO: WE GAVE THEM ALL OF OUR INFORMATION AND THAT'S WHAT THEY CAME BACK WITH SO I FEEL PRETTY CONFIDENT IN THAT NUMBER, NOT TO SAY THAT WE'RE EVER GOING TO GET IT ALL, BUT THOSE EXPENSES THAT WE'RE SUBMITTING ARE KIND OF AT THEIR YOU KNOW YOU KNOW DIRECTION I'VE.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: BEEN THE BIGGEST ONE OF THE BIGGEST EXPENSES FOR US WAS IN TECHNOLOGY IN TERMS OF SETTING UP EMPLOYEES TO WORK REMOTELY TO.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: RECALIBRATE CITY, SO THAT WE CAN DO EVERYTHING VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING ONLINE OR OR REMOTE AND NONE OF THOSE TECHNOLOGY EXPENSES QUALIFIED ARE QUALIFIED UNDER FAMOUS REIMBURSING THAT'S THE BAD NEWS THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THAT IS.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: YOU KNOW THAT IS INVESTMENT FOR TECHNOLOGY FOR THE FUTURE, SO IT'S NOT IT'S NOT WASTED MONEY BUT THAT'S THE REASON WHY THERE'S SUCH A BIG DELTA BETWEEN WHAT WE SPEND AND WHAT WE EXPECT TO BE REIMBURSED FOR THANK YOU CORRECT.

JOE FAZZINO: AS ANYTHING THAT WAS KIND OF THEIR TEMPORARY THING IS THAT WOULD BE REIMBURSED FOR ANYTHING THAT'S PERMANENT THINGS THAT WE GET TO KEEP OR NOT REALLY COVER.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: ANY QUESTIONS RECENT INVESTMENTS NOW.

JOE FAZZINO: YES, ABSOLUTELY I'M SITTING HERE BECAUSE OF IT, SO I'M ABLE TO DO THAT SO.

JOE FAZZINO: OKAY, AND JUST WANTED TO JUMP OVER TO CAPITAL INVESTMENTS OR 2020.

JOE FAZZINO: YOU KNOW ONE THING WE DID SAY, AND I DID MENTION THROUGHOUT THE YEAR IS LET'S BE PATIENT LET'S NOT MAKE ANY DECISIONS LET'S NOT CUT BACK ON ANY SPENDING LET'S SEE HOW THE YEAR GOES, WE CAN ALWAYS ACCRUE THESE EXPENSES AND THAT'S KIND OF WHAT WE'VE DONE HERE 2020 CAPITAL INVESTMENTS.

JOE FAZZINO: YOU KNOW, HAPPY TO SAY ALL EVERYTHING WE HAD BUDGETED FOR IN.

JOE FAZZINO: IN THE 2020 BUDGET IS HERE IN FRONT OF YOU AGAIN IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE'VE SPENT THIS MONEY ALREADY IT MEANS THAT IT'S GENERAL FUND HAS GIVEN THIS MONEY TO THE SPECIFIC PROJECTS.

JOE FAZZINO: CASE IN POINT HERE, WE WANTED TO GET A LITTLE MORE SPECIFIC INTO STREET RESURFACING AS YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A CONVERSATION IN A FEW MINUTES ABOUT IT.

JOE FAZZINO: JUST THE BREAKDOWN OF WHAT WE ACTUALLY GOT FROM STRICTLY SURFACING 1.3 MILLION CAME FROM THE GENERAL FUND, WE GOT 370 3000 FROM STATE AID.

JOE FAZZINO: AND ACTUALLY THAT'S 80% OF THE TOTAL THAT WE WERE ALLOWED FOR AGAIN STATE BEING MADE WHOLE WE CAN EXPECT THAT ADDITIONAL 20% REIMBURSEMENT COMING TO US AT SOME POINT, THIS YEAR.

JOE FAZZINO: JUST A COUPLE OTHER FOOTNOTES HERE, WE OBVIOUSLY WE DID.

JOE FAZZINO: DELAY SOME OF THE PAVING AND DUE TO SOME WHETHER WE DIDN'T GET TO DO EVERYTHING WE WANT TO DO IN THE FALL OF 2020 SO WE HAVE ABOUT $770,000 OF MONEY LEFT TO PAY IN 2020 AND I THINK 2021, YOU WILL SEE THAT I GUESS, PROBABLY IN THE PRESENTATION COMING UP.

JOE FAZZINO: AND AGAIN, THIS IS ANOTHER LIST OF WHAT WE PUT ASIDE FOR IN 2020.

[7. Presentation of 2021 street resurfacing plan.]

JOE FAZZINO: LARGEST ONE IS OBVIOUSLY THE PW VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT COMING FROM THE BUILDING AND VEHICLE MAINTENANCE FRONT AND THE POLICE VEHICLES, ALSO FOR THE BUILDING VEHICLE MAINTENANCE FUN EVERYTHING ELSE CAME FROM THE GENERAL FUND.

JOE FAZZINO: THAT LARGE NUMBER AT THE BOTTOM OBVIOUSLY CAPITAL RESERVE FUND MONEY THAT WAS ABLE TO BE TRANSFERRED OUT.

JOE FAZZINO: ABLE TO USE IT ON ANY KIND OF PROJECTS, YOU KNOW WE HAVE A LOT OF PRODUCTS IN THE PIPE IN TERMS OF BONDING PROJECTS OR DO WE USE THIS MONEY, SO WE HAVE OPTIONS HERE WITH THE CAPITAL RESERVE, WHICH STANDS ABOUT 5.69 AT THE MOMENT.

JOE FAZZINO: OKAY.

JOE FAZZINO: AND JUST JUMPING OVER TO THE ENTERPRISE FUNDS REAL QUICK I KNOW WE HAVE A COUPLE OF PEOPLE THAT ARE INTERESTED IN THESE NUMBERS.

JOE FAZZINO: AGAIN 2020 PRELIMINARY WATER RESULTS FOR THE BOTH BASE AND FUND, WHICH MEANS THESE NUMBERS ARE PRETTY ACCURATE IN TERMS OF REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES, HOWEVER THERE'S SOME GADSBY ADJUSTMENTS FOR.

JOE FAZZINO: OTHER POST EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND NET PENSION LIABILITY ITEMS THAT HAVE TO BE BOOKED ON OUR FINANCIALS THEY'RE NOT EXPENDITURES THAT WE FORESEE SPENDING MONEY ON BUT THAT YOU HAVE TO BE REPORTED ON THE BALANCE SHEET SO THAT KIND OF SKEWS SOME OF THESE NUMBERS, A BIT.

JOE FAZZINO: BOTH BASE AND NUMBERS ARE A LITTLE FURTHER ALONG THAN THE GOLF CLUB, SO WE ARE CONFIDENT IN THIS NUMBER OF THE $2.79 MILLION IN UNRESTRICTED NET ASSETS STRIPPING OUT OTHER POST EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND PENSION LIABILITY THAT'S OUR NUMBER.

JOE FAZZINO: GOLF CLUB FUND, WE ARE STILL WAITING ON A COUPLE OF ITEMS WERE NEGOTIATING WITH A CATER CATERING COMPANY, WE HAVE SOME IN A COUPLE OF ITEMS LEFT IN TERMS OF THIS FORM OF GOLF PRO AND SOLD US MERCHANDISE SO WE'RE JUST KIND OF FINISHING UP THOSE NUMBERS.

JOE FAZZINO: AGAIN OPERATING REVENUES VERSUS EXPENDITURES, WE HAD ABOUT A $500,000 LOSS WHICH IS BETTER THAN WE THOUGHT ORIGINALLY GOING INTO THE BUDGET LAST YEAR.

[01:50:11]

JOE FAZZINO: SO AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WE HAD AN UNRESTRICTED NET ASSETS OF ABOUT 3.4 MILLION, WE CAN EXPECT TO HAVE ABOUT 2.9 WHILE THESE NUMBERS AREN'T FINALIZED, YET YOU KNOW IT'S IT'LL BE IN THE BALLPARK.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: JOE CAN YOU JUST FOR TWO SECONDS TALK ABOUT BILL BASED ON YEAR OVER YEAR.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: BECAUSE I KNOW IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE HERE.

YES.

JOE FAZZINO: BOTH FACING HAD A PROFIT OF ABOUT 200,000 IN.

JOE FAZZINO: THIS YEAR THE PROFITS CLOSER TO 490,000 WE HAD AN ADDITIONAL $200,000 OF REVENUES YEAR OVER YEAR.

JOE FAZZINO: FUND BALANCE BETWEEN OTHER POST EMPLOYMENT BENEFIT CHANGES AND THIS PROFIT OF 490,000 WE WERE ABLE TO ADD ABOUT $840,000 TO THE UNRESTRICTED NET ASSETS SO THAT'S A BIG WIN FOR THE BOAT BASIN, THIS YEAR, BUT A GREAT WORK BEING DONE NOW DOWN THERE.

JOE FAZZINO: SO YEAH.

JOE FAZZINO: REALLY HAPPY TO.

JOE FAZZINO: BE ABLE TO REPORT THAT.

BEN STACKS RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: SORRY, SO YOU DOUBLED YOUR NET INCOME, WHAT WAS THE WHAT WERE THE DRIVERS OF THAT.

JOE FAZZINO: DIRECTIONAL SLIPS IT LOOKS LIKE ADDITIONAL SLIP FEES DURING THE SUMMER AND ALSO WINTER STORAGE AS WELL GOES TO THE LARGE.

JOE FAZZINO: LARGE DRIVERS OF THAT NUMBER THAT I COULD TELL ANYWAY EXPENSES WEREN'T YOU KNOW MUCH CHANGE THERE, BUT IT WAS DEFINITELY IN THE STORE IN THE SLIPS AND THE WINTER STORAGE NUMBERS.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: SO LET ME UM LET ME EXPAND A LITTLE BIT ON THAT, THEN THE.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: THE FOR THE FIRST TIME WE ARE NOW DOING COMPREHENSIVE MAUREEN AND HORSEMEN ALL THROUGH THE BASE, AND THAT INCLUDES GREEN HAVEN INCLUDES THE BASE AND.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: AS RECENTLY AS TWO WEEKS AGO, OF COURSE, BUT OF MORNINGS, AND IN THE NURSING WATERS IN THE DIRECTION OF PORCHESTER SO THAT'S HAD A LOT TO DO WITH IT.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: WE'VE HAD WE HAVEN'T VERY GOOD PARTNERSHIP GOING NOW WITH CAREFREE AND JUST SIGNED A FIVE YEAR AGREEMENT WITH CARE, FREE, WHICH INCLUDES A AN ADDITIONAL $10,000.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: OF CALL IT A CORPORATION EXPENSE, PLUS THE SLIP SLIP OF RENTALS AND I THINK JUST, GENERALLY SPEAKING, YOU KNOW MUCH, MUCH LIKE RECREATION GENERALLY WE'VE BENEFITED FROM THE FACT THAT THERE'S A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF DEMAND.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: AT THE BASE AND AS THE RISK PROFILE OUTDOOR RECREATION AND I THINK THE FINAL THING IS IT'S SPEAKING TO THE WINTER STORAGE.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: IS THAT RODRIGO AND JOKER CORA AND THE COMMISSION HAVE DONE A TREMENDOUS JOB AND JUST REORGANIZE AND CLEANING UP THE BOATYARD, AND SO WE ACTUALLY.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: I BELIEVE THIS WHEN ARE WE SCORED I THINK IT WAS ABOUT 30 MORE VOTES.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: THAN I'VE EVER BEEN STORE DOWN THERE BEFORE, BECAUSE WE WERE ABLE TO GET RID OF ABANDONED BOATS MOVE SOME SALVAGE AND JUST REARRANGE THINGS SO I MEAN I THINK ALL THIS REALLY SPEAKS TO.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: THE WORK THAT RODRIGO AND YOUR JOB BEFORE ON THE COMMISSION DOWN DOWN THERE THIS YEAR IT'S REALLY IT'S BEEN A HUGE ADVANCEMENT.

BEN STACKS RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: GREAT JOB YEAH THAT'S FABULOUS.

JOE FAZZINO: THANK YOU TALK ABOUT ALMOST $70,000 ADDITION OVER BUDGET FOR WINTER STORAGE FEES SO THAT'S A BIG NUMBER.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: GIVE ME GREAT.

JOE FAZZINO: REALLY, ALL I HAVE FOR TONIGHT ANY QUESTIONS I'M HAPPY TO TAKE THEM OBVIOUSLY IT'S A MUCH BROADER VIEW OF OVERVIEW OF THE FINANCIALS ANY QUESTIONS CAN ALWAYS EMAIL ME AND GREG AND WE'LL TAKE IT FROM THERE AND GETTING MORE DETAIL IF YOU NEED IT, THANK YOU.

RICHARD MECCA DEPUTY MAYOR: GREAT THANK YOU.

BEN STACKS RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: RIGHT IT'S TRUE.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: OKAY, SO WE GO TO PRESENTATION OF THE 2021 STREET RESURFACING PLAN AND.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: I'LL.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: LEAD OFF FOR A MOMENT, SO WHEN I AND MY COLLEAGUES BEGAN ON THE COUNCIL IN 2018.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: WE FOUND OURSELVES WITH A LEGACY BUDGET OF A MILLION DOLLARS FOR ROAD REPAIR AND AN ACCOMPANYING PHILOSOPHY.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: THAT, IF THE CITY DID A MILLION DOLLARS SO FORTH AH, HERE WE EVENTUALLY CATCH UP WITH THE DISMAL CONDITION OF OUR DETERIORATING ROADS.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: FACTS ON THE ROAD, SO TO SPEAK, SEEM TO CONFLICT WITH THAT PHILOSOPHY WE SAID ABOUT HIRING A ROAD CONSULTANT TO EVALUATE OUR ROADS AND HOW WE WERE PROCEEDING.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: THAT LED US IN OUR FIRST BUDGET YEAR 2019 TO DEDICATE INSTEAD OF A MILLION DOLLARS $1.8 MILLION TO ROADS, WE HAD THE CONSULTANT RATE OUR ROADS, SO THEY COULD BE PRIORITIZED FOR REPAIRS, WE SET A POLICY OF WORST FIRST TO EFFECTIVELY TAKE THE POLITICS, OUT OF PAVING.

[01:55:03]

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: COVEN DEALT OUR CASH FLOW THEIR CITIES CASH FLOW AND OUR ROAD PROGRAM OF BLOW IN 2020 RATHER THAN SPEND ANOTHER 1.8 MILLION WE WERE REDUCED TO SPENDING AS JOE HAS INDICATED, APPROXIMATELY 1.1 MILLION.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: IN 2021 WE INTEND TO REINVIGORATE ROAD RESURFACING WITH A $2.1 MILLION SPEND, WE HOPE THAT WILL PRODUCE IMMEDIATELY VISIBLE RESULTS.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: BEFORE GIVING THIS OVER TO GREG AND RYAN TWO POINTS, FIRST WE HAVE COUNTY ROADS AND RYE AND THE COUNTY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR MAINTENANCE WE CAN'T TOUCH THEM.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: THEODORE FRIEND IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF COUNTER OF THE COUNTY ROAD BADLY NEEDING REPAIR THE COUNTY HAD PROMISED TO DO FRIEND IN 2020 BUT THE COUNTED GUESS MAIN WORK TOOK PRIORITY THE COUNTY NOW SAYS, AND OUR FINGERS ARE CROSSED THAT IT WILL BE LATE IN THE.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: BUILDING SEASON.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: SECOND IT'S SPRING AND POTHOLE REPAIR IS FORGIVE ME HOT TOPIC.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: THAT WORK IS IS ONGOING, BUT THAT IS SEPARATE WORK FROM THE ROAD RESURFACING AND IN THE ROAD RESURFACING BUDGET.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: GREG AND RYAN WILL LET US HAVE A FULLER PICTURE OF WHAT WE CAN EXPECT IN THE WORK SEASON.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: BOTH FROM THE CITY AND OTHERS.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: ALRIGHT, GOOD A GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY I'LL.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: I'LL SHARE MY SCREEN HERE.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: TO GO OVER LIST OF ROADS SO WE'RE CURRENTLY OUT TO BID.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: BID FOR THIS WORK, THE BIDS ARE DUE BACK NEXT WEEK, YOU WILL.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: HAVE A BIT TOWARD RESOLUTION ON YOUR DAY IS FOR THE NEXT MEETING.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: SO WE DON'T HAVE BID PRICES, YET, HOWEVER, WE ARE WORKING WITH THAT $2.1 MILLION BUDGET, THE ROAD SHOWN HERE IN GREEN OUR ROADS THAT ARE PROPOSED TO BE PAVED AND THE ROADS IN BLUE WILL ARE THE NEXT LINE OF CANDIDATES TO BE PAID SHOULD ADDITIONAL FUNDS OR YOU KNOW BID PRICES COME BACK.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: BENEFICIAL YES.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: TO JUST CLARIFY, BECAUSE I KNOW WE DID SORT OF A HEAT MAP THE GREEN ROADS ARE ACTUALLY THE BREAD ROADS RIGHT AND THE HEAT MAP.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: WE LIKE TO DO TO FLIP IT UP ON IT, YES, BUT THE GREEN ROADS ARE THE WORST ROADS THEY'RE SHOWN HERE IN GREEN, BUT THE GREEN ROADS ARE THE RED ROADS ON THE HEAT MAP OR AND THE NEXT LINE OF THEM.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: UP PAGE SO JUST TO GO THROUGH THE LIST IF YOU SEE A ROAD YOU LIKE THAT'S GREAT THUMBS UP.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: SOME BIGGER ROADS SOUNDVIEW AVENUE LONGER ANYWAY, IS IN PRETTY BAD SHAPE NURSING AVENUE.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: SECTION OF MILTON ROAD DOWN BY STUYVESANT AT THE SOUTH END OF THE POINT THERE.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: AND OBVIOUSLY SOME OTHER ROADS IN BETWEEN SO.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: NOTICE, YOU HAVE NICK WHICH.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: MAKING THE LIST.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: SO PACK IS YOU KNOW PER THE HEAT MAP.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: ELIGIBLE OR YOU KNOW UP FOR PAVING THIS YEAR.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: A COUPLE OF THINGS HAVE HAVE HAPPENED THERE ONE IS CON ED HAS COME IN TO DO GAS MAIN WORK ON MICHIGAN AVENUE AND WITH DOING SO THEY'VE GONE UP PACK TO GIVE.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: I BELIEVE.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: WE'LL GET SERVICE OR REPLACE GUEST SERVICE TO TO THE COLONY SO CON EDISON WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR A PORTION OF PECK AVENUE NEAR MIDLAND.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: AND THEN OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: WE HAVE THE AVON PROJECT BUT BUT PECK IS PROPOSED TO BE PAID THIS THIS YEAR.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: DO WE NOT ANTICIPATE ANY MORE LIKE LAST MILE STUFF TRUDGING ALONG THAT STREET.

I THINK.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: I THINK WE'RE GOOD ON PACK, YOU KNOW MILLION AVENUE MIGHT BE ANOTHER STORY.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: MILLIONAIRES ANYWAY RIGHT.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: YEAH THEY THAT'S IT'S ANOTHER COUNTY ROAD BILLING THEY DO HAVE THEY ARE IN DESIGN.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: THE DESIGN PHASE OF PAVING MIDLAND AVENUE NOW I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT WOULD HAPPEN THIS YEAR, BUT IT SEEMS TO BE AT THE AT THE TOP END OF THEIR PRIORITY, ALSO FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS, WHENEVER THAT MAY BE.

[02:00:02]

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: IF I CAN INTERJECT ONE THING IN TERMS OF PACK AS YOU'RE AWARE THEY'RE THERE WHAT IS AN AGREEMENT OR WASN'T AGREEMENT WITH THE.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: WITH THE DEVELOPER ON FOR THE AVON PROPERTY IN TERMS OF THE CONTRIBUTION TO IMPROVEMENT ON PECK AVENUE THAT AGREEMENT IS IN PROCESS, WE EXPECT IT WILL BE.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: SIGNED OVER IN THE NEXT, I WOULD SAY A COUPLE OF MONTHS KRISTEN'S BEEN WORKING ON THAT.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: AND WITH THAT CONTRIBUTION SIMPLY MEANS THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO USE THOSE FUNDS ON SCHOLAR FUNGIBLE MONEY TO APPLY TO OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: AND SO THAT'S THE REASON WHY IT'S IMPORTANT YOU KNOW WE FOCUS ON WHAT THE NEXT GROUP OF ROAD IS IS THAT ONE BECAUSE BITS MAKE THEM IN MORE ATTRACTIVE.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: BUT EVEN WITH THAT SAID, BECAUSE AS RYAN SAID MONIES THAT WE THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO SPEND ON TECH.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: THAT ARE BEING TORN UP MY CONTENT WILL BE REPAID BACK ON IT AND THEN THERE'S ALSO THE CONTRIBUTION TO THE PACK AVENUE IMPROVEMENTS.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: THAT WILL ALL SET MONIES THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SPEND OR CAN BE USED OFFSET MONEY SPENT ELSEWHERE FOR PAYMENT, SO THE PAYMENT PROGRAM THEY'LL ALL IN COULD BE AN ALARM WILL BE I WOULD EXPECT LARGER THAN THE 2.1 MILLION.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: IS CURRENTLY SCHEDULED.

SO YOU.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: I'M SORRY.

SARA GODDARD RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: I JUST HAD A QUESTION, JUST TO CLARIFY GREG WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS IS THAT THAT MONEY THAT'S COMING IS NOT INCORPORATED INTO THIS BUDGETING SO IT'S SORT OF THIS IS VERY CONSERVATIVE SO.

SARA GODDARD RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: YOU HAVE A GOOD CHANCE OF LOOKING UP BUT BUT IT'S GOOD THAT WE'RE STAYING CONSERVATIVE IN THIS.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: LINE, CAN I ASK, I JUST HAVE TWO QUESTIONS FOR YOU, SINCE YOU BROUGHT UP CON ED SO WHEN SHE DID IT THE FLOODGATES OPEN, DO YOU KNOW THE TIME FRAME THAT WHICH CONTENT IS GOING TO BE ON PACK AND MILTON I MEAN MIDLAND.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: THEY'RE THERE NOW ON PACK IF THEY'RE NOT IF THEY'RE NOT DONE ALREADY, WITH THE GUESSWORK THAT WILL BE SHORTLY MOVING AVENUES ANOTHER STORY OF THEIR THEIR.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: THEIR SCHEDULE THAT I WAS AFFORDED A GLANCE AT HAS THEM WORKING THROUGH AUGUST.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: SO THEY'RE REPLACING A GAS MAIN FROM PORCHESTER TO ELLIS COURT.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: TENNIS COURT PARKING LOT AT THE REC.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: SO WHEN WE HAVE THEM COME IN AND DO OUR STREETS DO WE MAKE THEM DO A CURB TO CURB.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: REPLACEMENT, OR DO WE JUST LET THEM CUT INTO THE STREET HALFWAY OR LEAVE THEIR PLATES AND TAKE OFF FOR SIX MONTHS, HOW DO WE HANDLE THE CON ED DILEMMA.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: SO A YEAR OR SO AGO, THE COUNCIL ADOPTED.

[8. Open a public hearing to amend a local law, Chapter 161 “Sewers” of the Rye City Code. All public hearing comments should be emailed to publichearingcomments@ryeny.gov with “Chapter 161” as the subject no later than 3:00 pm on the day of the hearing.]

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: NEW PAVEMENT RESTORATION REQUIREMENTS FOR STREET OPENING PERMITS AND IF YOU OPEN MORE THAN 50 LINEAR FEET OF A ROADWAY YOU'RE REQUIRED TO PAY OF CURB TO CURB SO.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: THE CON EDISON AND PECK OUT AND USE CASE WILL BE REQUIRED TO PAY PAVE CURB TO CURB FOR THE LENGTH OF THE WORK THAT THEY DID THEY'VE DONE.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: I THINK IT WAS MORE THAN A YEAR AGO, THOUGH, BECAUSE I DIDN'T VOTE ON THAT, BUT I'M GLAD I'M GLAD.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: SO THAT'S THE PAVING PLAN, WE ALSO.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: ARE AS AS.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: PART OF THIS WORK AND AS PART OF THE CONSULTANTS WORK.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: WITH WITH A MORE ROBUST LOOK AT ALL OF OUR ROADWAYS WE ARE PROPOSING A CRACK CEILING PLAN THIS YEAR.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: WHICH WILL PUT ABOUT $100,000 INTO CRACK CEILING ENGINEERS, LIKE THEIR COLORS SO THIS SIDE OF THESE CYAN COLORED LIGHT BLUE COLORED ROADWAYS ARE PROPOSED TO.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: HAVE A CRACK CEILING DONE, THE PURPOSE OF THAT WILL BE TO TO ADDRESS CRACKS IN THESE ROADS NOW BEFORE THEY DETERIORATE.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: AT A FASTER RATE AS OTHER ROADS DO SO THESE ROADS THAT YOU SEE ARE IN BETTER SHAPE THAN THE ONES THAT ARE PROPOSED TO BE PAVED AND HOPEFULLY WILL.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: EXTEND THE LIFE OF THOSE TO KEEP THEM OUT OF THAT RED ZONE ON THE HEAT MAP FOR A FEW MORE YEARS, ALSO IN THAT THAT 2.1 IS A FEW DOLLARS TO REPAIR SOME NECESSARY SECTIONS OF CONCRETE ROADWAYS.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: THAT ARE THAT ARE IN BAD SHAPE THAT IS EXPENSIVE WORK, BUT THAT IS PROPOSED SO THERE'S A COUPLE SECTIONS OF STEPHESON AND THE DOUBLE AN AREA THAT MIGHT GET SOME SOME SPOT REPAIRS AS NEEDED.

SARA GODDARD RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: RIGHT AND I JUST HAD A QUESTION ABOUT THE THE MIDDLE END IN THE COMMENT PIPES GOING IN DO YOU SINCE THAT'S A COUNTY ROAD.

[02:05:05]

SARA GODDARD RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: DO YOU HAVE DO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY'RE PAVING PROTOCOL IS OR IS IT THE SAME WILL THEY HAVE TO REPAY ALL OF MIDLAND.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: SO, AS WITH THE CASE OF THEATER FROM THE MIDDLE AND.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: THE CON EDISON AND THE COUNTY.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: WORKOUT WHO DOES WHAT, FIRST, SO THE COUNTY IS GOING TO PAVE THE ROAD THEY LET CON EDISON KNOW KIND OF MEDICINE DOES THEIR GUESTS WORK, I BELIEVE, AFTER THAT.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: THE COUNTY STILL PAVES THE ROAD I'M NOT SURE THEIR LOGISTICS, BUT THE REASON WHY THE GAS MAIN I BELIEVE IS BEING REPLACED THIS YEAR SO THAT THE COUNTY CAN COME THROUGH AND PAVE AFTER THAT.

SARA GODDARD RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: THANKS.

BEN STACKS RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: OH, I ACTUALLY THOUGHT THE QUESTION WAS DOES THE COUNTY HAVE THE SAME REQUIREMENT TO TO.

BEN STACKS RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: OUR CURB TO CURB AS WE DO.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: I DON'T KNOW I BELIEVE THEY DO FOR A MAIN REPLACEMENT IN THAT, AND MY ANSWER WAS SKIPPED AHEAD A LITTLE BIT, WHICH WAS, I THINK THE COUNTY IS GOING TO PAVE THIS ROAD, AS OPPOSED TO.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: HAVING KINDNESS AND PAVE THE COUNTY I BELIEVE THERE'S A BUNCH OF CURB WORK AND SOME SIDEWALKS IT'S MORE THAN JUST A PAVING JOB.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: I'M NOT SURE IF THE COUNTY'S PAVING REQUIREMENTS, BUT I I'M PRETTY SURE FOR A JOB, LIKE KIND OF SINCE THEY WOULD, IF THE COUNTY WEREN'T PAVING THE ROAD KINDNESS AND WOULD ALSO HAVE.

BEN STACKS RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: THANK YOU.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: OKAY.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: MORE RYAN.

I'M.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS I'M DONE WE'LL BE BACK IN TWO WEEKS WITH A BIT AWARD AND.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: A BUSY SUMMER.

AND JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: I THINK YOU GUYS DO THIS REGULARLY ANYWAY, BUT WE'LL JUST POST IT TO THE WEBSITE SO PEOPLE CAN FIND OUT IF THEY'RE THEY'RE STREET OR THOSE THAT THEY REVERSE ON A DAILY BASIS ARE.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: YEP IT'S IN THIS IN THIS MEETINGS AGENDA PACKET BUT WILL SURELY POSTED AND AND THE BIG DOCUMENTS ARE POSTED AND.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: SOUNDS GOOD.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: AWESOME THANKS VERY MUCH.

BEN STACKS RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: GREAT AND JUST BREAK REALLY QUICKLY, WE WILL GIVE FOLKS AMPLE.

BEN STACKS RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: NOTICE THAT THEIR STREETS ARE ABOUT TO GET.

BEN STACKS RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: OKAY CORRECT BEFORE WE DO IT.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: YEAH TO THAT POINT, THEN THE WORK THAT'S GOING TO GO ON, OR AS LIKELY TO HAPPEN THIS SUMMER AROUND TOWN IS GOING TO BE MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE THAN JUST OUR SMALL LITTLE REPAVING PROGRAM.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: WE ARE WORKING DILIGENTLY NICOLE IS LEADING THE CHARGE ON THIS, BUT WE'RE ACTUALLY TRYING TO DEVELOP AS SOMEWHAT OF A A REGULAR MAP.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: WHETHER IT WILL BE AN APP OR WHETHER IT'S SEPARATE WILL BE ON THE CITY WEBSITE SO THAT, WHEN SOMEONE SEES WORK BEING DONE ON THEATER OR FROM.

GREG USRY INTERIM CITY MANAGER: THEY CAN CALL CONTENT AND NOT YELL AT RYAN, OR IF THEY SEE RESURFACING BEING DONE IT STYLIST AND THEY CAN APPLAUD RYAN, AND NOT THINK SO, SO WE'RE WE'RE HOPING TO HAVE THAT UP AND RUNNING BY THE TIME WE GET TO YOU.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: GREAT THANKS GREG THANKS RYAN.

RYAN COYNE, CITY ENGINEER: GOOD NIGHT.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: OKAY, SO WE NOW GET TO OPEN A PUBLIC HEARING TO AMANDA LOCAL LAW CHAPTER 161 SEWERS OF THE RICE CITY CODE ALL PUBLIC HEARING COMMENTS SHOULD.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: BE EMAILED TO PUBLIC HEARING COMMENTS THAT'S ONE WORD AT RYAN NEW YORK.GOV WITH CHAPTER 161 IS THE SUBJECT, NO LATER THAN 3PM ON THE DAY OF THE HEARING.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: SO RICK SOME MOTION OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING.

PAM TARLOW RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: SECOND.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: ALL IN FAVOR.

SARA GODDARD RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: AYE AYE.

KRISTEN WILSON: MR MEHRA YOU WOULD LIKE, I DO HAVE A SHORT COUPLE SLIDES POWERPOINT THAT I CAN GO THROUGH QUICKLY FOR THE COUNCIL ON THE POLLOCK VERY BRIEF OVERVIEW OF WHAT THIS LAW DOES OR WHAT THESE AMENDMENTS DO.

JOSH COHN RYE CITY MAYOR: THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL, THANK YOU.

KRISTEN WILSON: SO CURRENTLY IN YOUR EVERYONE CAN SEE THE POWERPOINT YES GREAT.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: CURRENTLY FANCY KRISTIN I'M ALL.

KRISTEN WILSON: I HAVE TO GIVE CREDIT TO KRISTIN PILATI FOR THE DESIGN OF US SO.

JULIE SOUZA RYE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: VERY NICE VERY SOOTHING TO ME.

KRISTEN WILSON: SO CURRENTLY UNDER YOUR CITY CODE CHAPTER 161 REGULATES SEWERS AND AS PART OF THE SAVE THE SOUND SETTLEMENT THAT THE COUNCIL AUTHORIZED.

[9. Open the public hearing to consider an application from Rye Town Park to install a communications facility that will allow for Verizon Wireless and AT&T to co-locate equipment within the same structure located at 95 Dearborn Avenue, Rye, New York. All public hearing comments should be emailed to publichearingcomments@ryeny.gov with “RTP Wireless” as the subject no later than 3:00 pm on the day of the hearing.]

KRISTEN WILSON: BACK IN JANUARY, FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR, THIS IS ONE OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE FOR THE CITY.

[02:10:03]

KRISTEN WILSON: SO BRIEFLY IN 2015 SAY THE SOUND FILED A FEDERAL LAWSUIT AGAINST MULTIPLE MUNICIPALITIES WITHIN WESTERN WESTCHESTER COUNTY ON LONG ISLAND SOUND, WE WERE ONE OF NINE.

KRISTEN WILSON: COMMUNITIES, INCLUDING THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER AND THE LAWSUIT ALLEGED VIOLATIONS OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT AND COUNTIES TO OR ACT.

KRISTEN WILSON: SO FOR SEVERAL YEARS, WE NEGOTIATED WITH SAVE THE SOUND AND BACK IN EARLIER THIS YEAR WE WE DID COME TO A SETTLEMENT IN FEBRUARY OF 24TH 2021 THE COURT DID SO ORDER OUR SETTLEMENT.

KRISTEN WILSON: AND PART OF THE SETTLEMENT REQUIRES US TO MAKE SEVERAL UPDATES TO OUR CITY CODE, ONE OF WHICH IS TO AMEND.

KRISTEN WILSON: AND EXPAND CHAPTER 161 SEWERS THE MAIN GOAL IS TO UPDATE THE CODE TO ENSURE REDUCTION OF INFLOW INTO THE SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM TO PREVENT X FILTRATION INTO GROUNDWATER AND WATERWAYS.

KRISTEN WILSON: FOLLOWING AMENDMENTS SO ARTICLE OUR ARTICLES ONE IN THREE ARE BEING AMENDED, THE OBJECTIVE IS TO DEFINE UNAUTHORIZED SEWER CONNECTIONS AUTHORIZED THE CITY TO MAKE NECESSARY INSPECTIONS.

KRISTEN WILSON: TO DETECT UNAUTHORIZED CONNECTIONS AND INCLUDE A PENALTY PROVISION FOR PROPERTY OWNERS RESPONSIBLE FOR THESE UNAUTHORIZED CONNECTIONS.

KRISTEN WILSON: WE ADDED PROVISIONS TO ARTICLE ONE, USE OF PUBLIC SEWERS AND THE FOLLOWING WAYS PREVENTING THE DISCHARGE OF NON SEWAGE FLOW INTO THE CITY'S PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEM.

KRISTEN WILSON: CONNECTIONS TO THE PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEM FOR NON SEWAGE FLOW, SUCH AS FROM SOME PUMPS OR RAIN GUTTERS OR UNAUTHORIZED THIS PROHIBITION PREVENTS OVERFLOWING OF THE SEWER SYSTEM, WHICH RESULTS IN X FILTRATION OF SEWAGE INTO GROUNDWATER.

KRISTEN WILSON: AND WATERWAYS AND IT AUTHORIZES THE CITY TO CONDUCT INSPECTIONS OF PUBLIC SEWER CONNECTIONS TO IDENTIFY THESE UNAUTHORIZED CORRECTIONS CONNECTIONS, RATHER, AND IT ALSO INCLUDES PENALTIES.