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Politics & Government

Town Notebook: Discussions to Close Sanitation Department on Wednesdays, Flagpole Donation, and More

Issues on the table at the Saturday town board meeting.

The East Hampton Town Board held its monthly weekend meeting on Saturday and discussed several topics.

  • The town board has discussed closing the on Wednesdays and some holidays as a way to cut costs, starting as early as April 6. Supervisor Bill Wilkinson said it will not be summer holidays, such as Labor Day. Check back more on this story on East Hampton Patch on Monday.
  • The supervisor announced that Carl Reimerdes, a longtime member of the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee, has donated money for a new flagpole. The main flagpole in Montauk was rusted and was going to be replaced using $17,000 from a Suffolk County community block grant. Wilkinson said, "I promised that it would be up for Memorial Day," but that there was not enough time to follow proper protocol and take it down for the .
  • Fees for commercial slips will be increasing this season. The town board has discussed increasing the price by $10. Fees for boats over 40,000 tons have not increased since 2007.
  • Fred Overton and his staff will be making the move from the old town hall to the new town hall building as early as this Wednesday. The room originally slated to be a conference room is being transformed into a town clerk's office with a counter for handling permit applications.
  • The town's IT department is working out the glitches on the new , which include agendas and applications before the planning and zoning boards not being accessible.
  • Deputy Supervisor Theresa Quigley said that 25 housing related cases have been introduced in since Jan. 1. In 2008, then supervisor Bill McGintee said promised stop illegal housing, she said. But between Jan. 7 and April, there were only two housing cases brought to court. Of the 25 cases presented so far in 2011, 64 percent began within the code enforcement department and 36 percent were initiated from public complaints, she said.
  • Michael Wudyka of has asked the town board's permission to sublet the space he leases from the town to three different businesses. He said the organizers of the are interested in leasing office space, whether or not their application to move the festival from Amagansett to the is approved. Quigley told Wudyka that as long as it is a suitable tenent with the correct use, the board could not disapprove. Wudyka's lease from the town is for another 37 more years.
  • The town's contract Cablevision expires within the next month. The town board wants to address things such as gaining revenue for the town from LTV viewership on the internet. They want to address the issue of getting a part-time service office in East Hampton and fixing the sound quality problem. They think they need to find a professional to discuss the negotiation.
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