Part-Time Code Enforcement Officers Hit the Streets

The new part-time East Hampton Town code enforcement officers were on the job this Memorial Day weekend, their first of the season.

Patrick Gunn, the town attorney who oversees the code enforcement division, said Jillian Griffith, Andrew Rodriguez, Aldi Binozi, and Christian Sanchez spent the weekend under supervised field orientation and foot patrol in three designated sectors which include downtown Montauk, the Montauk dock area, and Amagansett's Main Street. 

"The rain curtailed much of the foot patrol activity early in the weekend, which gave them a chance to get their bearings and learn what to look for by riding with full time Ordinance Inspector Scott Rodriguez, who did an excellent job at supervising and training the new staff," Gunn said. 

The four new code enforcement officers are the first in the seasonal pilot program designed to increase code enforcement presence in the busy hamlets during the summer months, Gunn said. 

The town budgeted $20,000, and the officers will work until Labor Day.

Supervisor Bill Wilkinson said, "We're finally at a period where
staffing levels align with seasonality of the population." 

He said it doesn't make sense for the town to have the same staffing for the year-round population of 22,000 as the seasonal population of 100,000.

"When you shrink the workforce, which we have done, you are going to need to augment that workforce from time to time," he said, adding that the town does so with traffic control officers and police already.