1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 SUFFOLK COUNTY LEGISLATURE 12 13 14 GENERAL MEETING 15 16 TENTH DAY 17 18 July 21, 2020 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 MEETING HELD AT THE 27 28 WILLIAM H. ROGERS LEGISLATURE BUILDING 29 30 IN THE ROSE Y. CARACAPPA LEGISLATIVE AUDITORIUM 31 32 725 VETERANS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY 33 34 SMITHTOWN, NEW YORK 35 36 VIA VIDEO CONFERENCING 37 38 39 40 Taken By 41 Diana Flesher & Lucia Braaten - Court Stenographers 42 43 Transcribed By 44 Diana Flesher, Lucia Braaten, Alison Mahoney & 45 Kim Castiglione - Legislative Secretary 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56

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1 (*The meeting was called to order at 9:36 a.m.*) 2 3 (*The following testimony was taken by Diana Flesher - 4 Court Stenographer & was transcribed by 5 Kim Castiglione - Legislative Secretary*) 6 7 P.O. CALARCO: 8 We are going to get started here. Welcome this morning to the 9 General Meeting of the Suffolk County Legislature. Madam Clerk, 09:36AM 10 call the roll. 11 12 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 13 14 LEG. KRUPSKI: 15 Here. 16 17 LEG. FLEMING: 18 Present. 19 09:36AM 20 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 21 Here. 22 23 LEG. MURATORE: 24 Here. 25 26 LEG. ANKER: 27 Here. 28 29 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 09:37AM 30 Here. 31 32 LEG. GONZALEZ: 33 (Inaudible). 34 35 MS. ELLIS: 36 Gonzalez. 37 38 LEG. GONZALEZ: 39 (Indicating) I'm here, I'm here. 09:37AM 40 41 LEG. CILMI: 42 Here. 43 44 LEG. FLOTTERON: 45 Here. 46 47 LEG. KENNEDY: 48 Here. 49 09:37AM 50 LEG. TROTTA: 51 Here. 52 53 LEG. McCAFFREY: 54 Here. 55 56

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1 LEG. RICHBERG: 2 (Not present) 3 4 LEG. BERLAND: 5 Here. 6 7 LEG. DONNELLY: 8 Here. 9 09:37AM 10 LEG. SPENCER: 11 Here. 12 13 D.P.O. HAHN: 14 Present. 15 16 P.O. CALARCO: 17 Present. 18 19 MS. ELLIS: 09:37AM 20 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 21 22 P.O. CALARCO: 23 Thank you. Welcome, everyone, to this morning's General Meeting. 24 If we could all please rise for the salute to the flag led by 25 Legislator McCaffrey. 26 27 Salutation 28 29 Okay. And at this time I would like to recognize Legislator 09:38AM 30 McCaffrey for the purpose of introducing our clergy this morning. 31 32 Invocation 33 34 LEG. McCAFFREY: 35 Thank you, Mr. Presiding Officer. At this time I'm proud to 36 introduce Deacon Ricardo Garcia, our Lady of Grace Church in West 37 Babylon. Deacon Ricardo was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia. 38 He emigrated to the United States when he was 17-years-old to 39 attend the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. He graduated from the 09:38AM 40 Academy with a Bachelor's Degree in Natural Science in 1981. Upon 41 graduation, he embarked on a 39-year career in the marine insurance 42 industry, provided specialized insurance to companies engaged in 43 oil and natural gas exploration. 44 45 After a successful career and completion of the Pastoral Formation 46 Program, Deacon Ricardo entered the Permanent Diaconate Program of 47 the Diocese of Rockville Center. He studied at the Seminary of the 48 Immaculate Conception and was ordained a permanent Deacon in 2000. 49 His first assignment was to the Parish of the Holy Spirit in New 09:39AM 50 Hyde Park. 51 52 In 2007, his professional career took him to Woodlands, Texas. 53 While in Texas, he served as the Parishes of the Sacred Heart in 54 St. Anthony's of Padua for 12 years until his return to West 55 Babylon. In October last year Deacon Ricardo Garcia was assigned 56 to the Parish of our Lady of Grace in West Babylon where he serves

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1 the people of God in Suffolk County today. 2 3 Deacon Ricardo was married for 38 years to his wife Kathy, who 4 recently lost her battle with ALS this past January. He has two 5 children, his son Richard and daughter Abigail, and two 6 grandchildren, Francine and Milo. 7 8 It's my pleasure to welcome Deacon Garcia to our meeting for our 9 invocation. Deacon, if you would. 10 11 DEACON RICARDO: 12 Good morning to all of you, and let us pray. 13 14 Almighty God, your son called us to come to him as he blessed us 15 lovingly. As we gather on this day, he invites all of us, 16 Legislators and the people of Suffolk County, to come together to 17 serve the needs of these vibrant towns and communities. Grant all 18 of us your divine wisdom, knowledge, understanding, counsel, 19 perseverance, patience and grace to find ways to improve the lives 09:40AM 20 of all. 21 22 Loving God, it has been your will that these elected Legislators, 23 their staffs and those who help them carry out the responsibilities 24 being instilled with utmost care, love and consideration for all. 25 In your mercy, bless them and bless their days of service. May 26 they be attentive to the words spoken here and with listening 27 hearts and minds find pathways to achieve just and fair 28 legislations for the people of this County; that their concern {be 29 chum} when they embark to pursue noble goals in search of truth and 09:40AM 30 justice while they challenge themselves to work with each other in 31 a spirit of collaboration, support and able to lean on each other 32 to achieve the best results. 33 34 May they be always people of prayer and peace in love and service 35 for others. May their own faith guide them to seek what is best 36 and to work for what is good. May they be able to navigate through 37 unchartered areas and filled with courage, tackle the problems and 38 discover that within their God-given gifts and talents lies 39 solutions that bring unity and common ground to promote harmony, 09:41AM 40 peace and understanding to all. 41 42 May the channels of communication remain always open to listen and 43 hear their constituents and convey a sentiment of concern and care 44 that embraces the hearts of all those who look at creation trying 45 to preserve the beauty and the splendor of the land over which they 46 legislate. 47 48 May we also cherish today the gift of all those who will 49 participate in this meeting. May we all recognize their personal 09:42AM 50 value and be motivated to realize that we are important to others 51 as we acknowledge how important they are us to. May they put 52 forward thoughts and ideas filled with grace, wisdom and creativity 53 to enhance the work of this body. 54 55 56

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1 Heavenly Father, allow us to take a moment to raise our prayers in 2 support for those afflicted with the pandemic. May your healing 3 touch let them experience your presence and give them a strength 4 and hope to recover and continue to be active members of our 5 communities. Remember also those who have died from this Corona 6 Virus and open your arms that they may be embracing to you glory 7 and shower their families, relatives and friends with consolation 8 and comfort to go on living with the peace and the companionship of 9 all of us who journey with them. Glory be to God whose power 09:42AM 10 working in us can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine if 11 we place our trust in him, and we ask this through your son, Jesus 12 Christ, amen. 13 14 (Amend said in unison) 15 16 LEG. McCAFFREY: 17 Thank you, Deacon. 18 19 DEACON RICARDO: 09:43AM 20 You're welcome. 21 22 P.O. CALARCO: 23 Thank you very much, Deacon. We appreciate you being here with us 24 this morning and those words of wisdom. 25 26 All right. At this time today we will have a moment of silence. 27 Today we remember two civil rights icons, Representative John Lewis 28 and Robert C.T. Vivian, who died Friday after dedicating their 29 lives to fight for freedom and equality. 09:43AM 30 31 John Lewis, a leading advocate for voting rights, was the last 32 surviving speaker from the 1963 March on Washington. A follower 33 and colleague of Martin Luther King, Jr., he was one of the 34 original 13 Freedom Riders who challenged segregated buses. In 35 1965, he lead the famous March from Selma to Montgomery to demand 36 equal voting rights for Black Americans. His fight continued when 37 he entered Congress where he served as a U.S. Representative from 38 Georgia for more than 30 years and became known as the conscience 39 of the Congress. 09:44AM 40 41 C.T. Vivian was also a Freedom Rider. He worked alongside Martin 42 Luther King, Jr., and helped found the National Christian 43 Leadership Conference, an affiliate of the Southern Christian 44 Leadership Conference, that organized sit-ins and civil rights 45 marches. He later continued his work by creating educational 46 programs, holding leadership conferences and founding an 47 anti-racism organization. 48 49 Both Representative Lewis and Reverend Vivian received Presidential 09:44AM 50 Medals of Freedom, the highest civilian honor. They embodied the 51 ideals of our nation and never backed down, even after suffering 52 physical beatings for standing up for civil rights. May their 53 unwavering dedication to confronting injustices be an inspiration 54 to all of us. 55 56

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1 Let us also remember those we have lost to the COVID-19 crisis, 2 including nearly 2000 residents of Suffolk County. We keep their 3 families in our hearts during this difficult time. May we also 4 pray for the safety and protection of all workers and residents 5 both here in Suffolk County and across the nation as States grapple 6 with the continuing Coronavirus pandemic and its impacts. And as 7 always, let us remember all the men and women who have lost their 8 lives in service to our country and those who continue to sacrifice 9 and put themselves in harm's way to ensure our freedoms. 09:45AM 10 11 MOMENT OF SILENCE OBSERVED 12 13 P.O. CALARCO: 14 Okay, welcome, everyone, to this morning's meeting. We do have a 15 number of speakers this morning. If you give me a minute I'll 16 start bringing them into the room for the Public Portion. I should 17 say as per the Governor's Executive Order we are continuing to hold 18 our meetings via Zoom, and as such we will not -- do not have 19 anybody coming directly to our building. However, we have been 09:46AM 20 able to implement Public Hearings and Public Portion via the Zoom 21 application and we do have speakers who have signed up as well as 22 people who have sent in comments ahead of time. So our first 23 speaker for the Public Portion this morning is Marc Schneider. 24 Mr. Schneider, are you there? Mr. Schneider? 25 26 MR. SCHNEIDER: 27 Yes. 28 29 P.O. CALARCO: 09:46AM 30 Okay, very good. Welcome and you are our first speaker for the 31 Public Portion this morning. The way Public Portion works is you 32 get three minutes to speak. You can speak on any topic that you 33 wish. We do not have the opportunity to ask you questions during 34 the Public Portion, unlike the Public Hearings that you're more 35 used to. And you can begin whenever you are ready, Mr. Schneider. 36 37 MR. SCHNEIDER: 38 No problem. Thank you very much. Good morning, everyone. As you 39 may recall, I have appeared a number of times regarding IR 1015. I 09:47AM 40 am here this morning to once again speak on behalf and in support 41 of IR 1015. I think this is very important legislation that needs 42 to get passed. This legislation affects the public health, welfare 43 and safety of the residents of Suffolk County. 44 45 As many of you are aware, I represent many, many, many community 46 associations on Long Island, as well as in New York City, but 47 focusing this morning especially on Long Island and this 48 legislation so that it can ban smoking inside of units, primarily 49 units that are attached. These are significant issues that 09:48AM 50 community associations face and I implore you to pass this 51 legislation as it will help eradicate our problem. 52 53 Much like the mask wearing issue that we're all faced with today, 54 we know that we're asking people to wear a mask so that they 55 protect others, not necessarily just themselves. This legislation 56 is very similar in that it is a legislation that is passed to

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1 protect others. The others that we're talking about are the 2 majority of the citizens of Suffolk County who do not smoke and do 3 not want to suffer the consequences of secondhand smoke that seeps 4 from one unit into another. We are well aware that the 5 construction of many of the communities issue in this legislation 6 are -- were done back in the '80's and '90's and smoke does emanate 7 from one unit into another and there is a very significant issue 8 that community associations are faced with, and I do believe that 9 this legislation will help eradicate the issue as well as keep the 09:48AM 10 residents of Suffolk County safer. Thank you. 11 12 P.O. CALARCO: 13 Thank you, Mr. Schneider. We appreciate your time this morning. 14 Our next speaker is Daniel Rodgers. Mr. Rodgers, can you hear us? 15 Mr. Rodgers? Daniel? He was here a second ago. Okay, we're going 16 to skip over Mr. Rodgers and see if we can't get him back. So our 17 next speaker is Lynn McCormick. Lynn? You've got to unmute 18 yourself. 19 09:49AM 20 MS. McCORMICK: 21 Is that working? 22 23 P.O. CALARCO: 24 There you go. We can hear you, Ms. McCormick. Okay. Welcome to 25 our meeting. You are signed up for our Public Portion. The rules 26 of the Public Portion is you get three minutes to speak on any 27 topic that you wish. We do not have questioning during the Public 28 Portion and you may begin whenever you are ready. 29 09:50AM 30 MS. McCORMICK: 31 Okay. This for the same bill, the 1015. I moved into my condo 32 Christmas of 2007 after losing my daughter to cancer. I gutted the 33 entire place so she would have a sterile environment. I had mild 34 asthma at the time which was under control. A year later my 35 neighbor moved in and I started smelling smoke in my home. Our 36 bedrooms meet and the smoke comes in under the molding and through 37 electrical outlets. I smell it in my bathroom, kitchen, laundry 38 areas and everywhere there are pipes in unsealed areas. It's much 39 worse when it rains and during humid weather when the air is heavy. 09:50AM 40 When I put my heat or air-conditioning on the duct work in the 41 attic sucks her smoke in and circulates it throughout my home. 42 This woman makes a chain smoker seem mild. 43 44 It took seven years of fighting the Board of Managers to approve an 45 attic fan at my expense. After it was installed the neighbor 46 complained of it making noise. The board removed it, charging me 47 for the damage to the roof. It took another couple of years 48 through the Fair Housing Act to force the board to put the fan in. 49 The fan helps a little, but with the volume of smoke it's not 09:51AM 50 enough. I have a $2000 ionic air purifier and several smaller 51 ones. Nothing gets rid of these horrible toxins. 52 53 I have had many trips to Urgent Care yearly with low oxygen levels, 54 difficulty breathing, among other health issues related to the 55 smoke. There are no firewalls and we share the same attic. When I 56 moved in I was mountain biking 16 miles every other day. Now I

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1 can't even ride around the block without being winded or having an 2 asthma attack. This neighbor is taking years off my life. I get 3 expensive specialty shots every month and have to carry an EpiPen 4 wherever I go. I use two inhalers daily and take steroids to keep 5 my lungs clear. I wish I could have arrested her for poisoning me. 6 7 Cigarettes are full of toxins and fill-ins like arsenic, jet fuel, 8 cyanide, formaldehyde, ammonia, uranium, which is radioactive, 9 nicotine, benzine, carbon monoxide, etcetera. Seventy of these 09:52AM 10 chemicals are known to cause cancer. I choose not to poison my 11 lungs with cigarettes. Why does my neighbor have the right to 12 force me to breathe these poisons in my own home? Please pass this 13 bill so I and others like me can have the quality of life we're 14 entitled to. I have been suffering for over 11 years. Thank you. 15 16 P.O. CALARCO: 17 Thank you, Miss McCormick, for your time this morning. And to all 18 of our speakers, I unfortunately will be putting people back in the 19 waiting room as we move along in order to make sure I have room in 09:52AM 20 the screen to bring the next speakers in, but we appreciate your 21 time this morning. 22 23 Mr. Rogers, I see you're back. Can you hear us? 24 25 MR. RODGERS: 26 Can you hear me? 27 28 P.O. CALARCO: 29 We can, we can. So this is -- you will have three minutes to speak 09:53AM 30 on any topic you wish and you can begin whenever you are ready. 31 32 MR. RODGERS: 33 To begin I'd like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to 34 speak this morning. I'm speaking before you today in support of 35 the resolution to create an Independent Office of Inspector General 36 for Suffolk County. A quote from FDR. "The only thing we have to 37 fear, is fear itself. Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror 38 which paralyzes." I say fear because it seems the only logical 39 explanation why this important piece of legislation would not gain 09:53AM 40 your full support, particularly at this critical moment in history. 41 I say critical because it has become apparent that our citizens are 42 demanding change. They want accountability, they want 43 transparency. So what are we afraid of? What is the fear? 44 45 You see, I've spoken before this committee before. You know that I 46 know fear. After the unexpected death of my mother at age 11, a 47 Suffolk County Family Court Judge had me locked up in an eight by 48 ten-foot cell in the Children's Shelter before sentencing me to a 49 maximum term in a State reform school, even though I had never been 09:54AM 50 arrested or committed any crime. That is fear. 51 52 It should be understood that much of what happens in Family Court 53 happens behind closed doors. We do that to protect the children. 54 I, for one, can tell you very few good things happen to our 55 children behind closed doors. What recently happened to young 56 Thomas Valva is a startling example of that.

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1 Here's another fact. In 2019, a highly critical report was issued 2 admonishing all Family Court Judges in Suffolk County for 3 continuing the practice of detaining children who had not committed 4 any crimes, and this at a rate that far outpaced any other county 5 in the State of New York. I remember when that happened to me like 6 it was just yesterday. That was 40 years ago and they're still 7 doing it, folks. 8 9 Here's the critical part; that report was never made public, and 09:54AM 10 isn't that the point, the public's right to know? Our system of 11 justice in Suffolk County is deeply flawed. Everyone in this room 12 knows that. Significant reform is required. But let's start with 13 something simple. How about honest, straightforward facts, like a 14 flashlight in a darkened room. So I ask, what is the fear among 15 you? Is it the light? 16 17 Louis Brandeis from the Supreme Court once said, "If the broad 18 light of day could be let in upon men's actions, it might purify 19 them as the sunlight disinfects." Why is everyone so afraid of the 09:55AM 20 light? Is it the party bosses? Is it the powerful police unions? 21 Remember, when you took an oath to serve your primary purpose is 22 not reelection; it's to serve the citizens who sent you here. So, 23 please, I ask you as a witness, not a victim, I ask you to embrace 24 the light. Do it for young Thomas Valva, do it for the citizens of 25 Suffolk County, do it for history. Thank you for your time today. 26 27 P.O. CALARCO: 28 Thank you, Mr. Rodgers. We appreciate your time this morning. 29 Okay, our next speaker is Bob DeLuca. Mr. DeLuca, can you hear us? 09:56AM 30 31 MR. DeLUCA: 32 Yes, I'm good. 33 34 P.O. CALARCO: 35 Okay. You have three minutes to speak. You can begin whenever 36 you're ready, Mr. DeLuca. 37 38 MR. DeLUCA: 39 Thank you. Good morning, Mr. Presiding Officer, members of the 09:56AM 40 Legislature. My name is Bob DeLuca and I serve as President of 41 Group for the East End for the record. The group represents the 42 conservation and community planning interests of several thousand 43 member households, businesses and individuals from across the five 44 towns of eastern Suffolk County. 45 46 I'm here today to urge your support for IR 1559. This funding 47 appropriation will transfer 3.7 million in needed funds from the 48 County sewer infrastructure funds to the County Septic Improvement 49 Program to provide for additional wastewater infrastructure grants 09:56AM 50 for County homeowners. 51 52 Over the course of just the last few years the County successfully 53 launched one of the most important wastewater improvement 54 initiatives in its history, and the public is responding strongly 55 to the need to improve our septic systems, improve our drinking 56 water and protect our surface water quality. Today we see the

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1 County has received over 1600 applications and we're closing in on 2 500 system upgrades with nearly 350 additional homeowners located 3 in priority areas awaiting approval and financial support for their 4 advanced treatment change outs. 5 6 This proposed increase in funding provided by IR 1559 is especially 7 important in our area when we have to confront the combined 8 challenges of the highest concentration of private and shallow 9 wells in Suffolk County, very shallow depths to groundwater in 09:57AM 10 variable groundwater conditions, old seasonal systems now being put 11 into heavy year round use and many of those systems at risk of or 12 currently failing and a second home and tourist based economy that 13 relies on the health of our coastal ecosystem. 14 15 Taken together, the combined long-term benefits of the Septic 16 Improvement Program offer us the best and most affordable option 17 for upgrading our badly outdated wastewater infrastructure and 18 sufficient funding in the program is key to advancing and 19 accelerating its implementation. Like so many other environmental 09:57AM 20 investments, the Septic Improvement Program provides direct 21 benefits to each and every individual who participates in the 22 program while laying the foundation for a long-term water quality 23 improvement strategy that'll benefit every Suffolk County resident 24 and our coastal economy for decades to come. 25 26 For these reasons, I ask you to adopt IR 1559 and continue to 27 provide robust support for this all-important water quality 28 program. Thank you. 29 09:58AM 30 P.O. CALARCO: 31 Thank you, Mr. DeLuca. We appreciate your time this morning. 32 Our next speaker is Cathie Norton-Doherty. Miss Doherty, are you 33 there. 34 35 MS. NORTON-DOHERTY: 36 Yes. Good morning, everybody. 37 38 P.O. CALARCO: 39 Good morning. 09:58AM 40 41 MS. NORTON-DOHERTY: 42 I'm here about Resolution 1543, voluntary registry for female 43 veterans in Suffolk County. I'm not thinking there's going to be 44 any opposition to this. We with the Women Veterans Advisory Board 45 suggested this feeling like it would be a good idea. Recently, we 46 tried to put together an event for Women Veterans Appreciation Day. 47 We realized in many of the districts we just don't who our women 48 veterans are. When we're looking for male veterans to offer 49 resources, connect them with certain services, we seem to be able 09:59AM 50 to go to the Legions, AMVETS, different places, but not hard to 51 find. Women veterans tend to come home, blend in a little bit 52 more. If they're not reaching out already in some way for services 53 we tend to not know who they are, and not only do we want to honor 54 them, but we want to let them know what is out there in this County 55 available to them. So we presented this to Legislator Berland. We 56 think it's a wonderful idea and we hope you all support it. Thank

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1 you. 2 3 P.O. CALARCO: 4 Thank you, Miss Doherty. We appreciate your time this morning and 5 your willing to come out and testify on the subject. Okay, our 6 next speaker is Ryan McGarry. Ryan, are you there? 7 8 MR. McGARRY: 9 Good morning, Presiding Officer, Members of the Legislature. 10:00AM 10 Can you hear me okay? I'm having a little technical difficulty. 11 12 P.O. CALARCO: 13 We got you, Ryan. You can start whenever you are ready. 14 15 MR. McGARRY: 16 Fantastic. Good morning, everyone. Again, thank you so much for 17 hearing our Public Portion this morning. Again, Ryan McGarry, 18 representing Suffolk AME here to support 1414, which is on the 19 agenda today in front of you. Obviously I've had the pleasure of 10:00AM 20 speaking with many of you myself. I know those who I haven't have 21 probably spoken either with President Levler or other 22 representatives of the organization. We definitely thank you for 23 your accessibility and your open door and open phone. 24 25 Just wanted to, again, you know the talking points on this bill, I 26 don't want to belabor it. We're still -- our position has not 27 changed on 1414. We support it and we hope to see it pass today. 28 We thank you for your leadership and recognize that a vote to 29 approve this measure is a vote to support the vital services this 10:01AM 30 County government provides and the men and women who provide them. 31 So, again, we thank you all for your leadership and hope to see 32 this thing pass today. Thank you. 33 34 P.O. CALARCO: 35 Thank you very much, Mr. McGarry. We appreciate your time this 36 morning. Okay, our next speaker is Staceyann Castro-Tapler. 37 Ms. Tapler, are you there. 38 39 MS. TAPLER: 10:01AM 40 Yes, I am. Good morning. 41 42 P.O. CALARCO: 43 Good morning. Welcome. You will get three minutes and you can 44 start whenever you're ready. 45 46 MS. TAPLER: 47 Good morning, Legislators. I just want to thank you for being so 48 flexible in this time. The fact that we can all do this is just 49 amazing. I just wanted to take a few minutes today to talk to you 10:01AM 50 about 1543, which is what Cathie brought up. The Women's Advisory 51 Board is looking for an anonymous registry so that these women can, 52 you know, get their contact information on it. It's not going to 53 have much more personal information than that. We're just looking 54 to make sure that we can reach out to the women and give them 55 permanent information, make sure that they're receiving the 56 services that they need, make sure that they know where to go to

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1 ask questions, to get some guidance if they need some services, and 2 I think it's imperative that we do that, not only for the veterans 3 that we have in Suffolk County now, but the ones that going to be 4 coming back. If we make this a regular practice, hopefully, you 5 know, we'll be able to find them a lot easier. That's really all I 6 have to say today. Thank you so much for your time. 7 8 P.O. CALARCO: 9 Thank you very much, Ms. Tapler. We appreciate your time this 10:02AM 10 morning. Thank you for joining us. Okay, I have one last speaker 11 who signed up for the Public Portion this morning and that's Kevin 12 McAllister. Mr. McAllister, are you there? 13 14 MR. McALLISTER: 15 Good morning, Legislators. Can you hear me? 16 17 P.O. CALARCO: 18 I can hear you, Mr. McAllister. You have three minutes. You can 19 start whenever you're ready. 10:02AM 20 21 MR. McALLISTER: 22 (Muted) 23 24 P.O. CALARCO: 25 You have to turn off your live stream. 26 27 MR. McALLISTER: 28 Yes. Good morning, Legislators. Can you hear me okay? 29 10:03AM 30 P.O. CALARCO: 31 Kevin, you got to turn off your live stream. You have the 32 duplication going on. You're muted. Mr. McAllister, you're muted. 33 Mr. McAllister, you're muted. 34 35 MR. McALLISTER: 36 I don't know if you can hear me. 37 38 P.O. CALARCO: 39 Now we can hear you. Okay. Mr. McAllister, why don't you start 40 over -- 41 42 MR. McALLISTER: 43 We're having problems. 44 45 P.O. CALARCO: 46 Yeah. Mr. McAllister, why don't you start over fresh and you get 47 three minutes. Whenever you're ready to start you can begin. 48 Your live stream is on, Mr. McAllister. You have to turn the live 49 stream off. 10:04AM 50 51 MR. McALLISTER: 52 I apologize. I think we're having some technical difficulties, 53 but thank you. 54 55 P.O. CALARCO: 56 Do you have your live stream off, Mr. McAllister? He's gone.

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1 He has left the room. All right. That was the last speaker I 2 have. If he joins back in the waiting room we'll come back to it, 3 but at that thank you to all of our speakers. I'm going to put the 4 last other speakers back in the waiting room. Does anybody want to 5 make a motion to close the public hearing. 6 7 LEG. FLEMING: 8 (Indicating) 9 10:04AM 10 LEG. CILMI: 11 Do we -- I mean, I don't want to cut Kevin off so. 12 13 P.O. CALARCO: 14 If he comes back in I'll go back to him, but we have to make the 15 motion to move on. 16 17 LEG. MURATORE: 18 Motion. 19 20 P.O. CALARCO: 21 Motion by Legislator Muratore to close the Public Hearing or the 22 Public Portion, excuse me. 23 24 LEG. CILMI: 25 I'll second. 26 27 P.O. CALARCO: 28 Second by Legislator Cilmi. Roll call. 29 10:05AM 30 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 31 32 LEG. MURATORE: 33 Yes. 34 35 LEG. CILMI: 36 It's off to a great start. Yes. 37 38 LEG. KRUPSKI: 39 Yes. 10:05AM 40 41 LEG. FLEMING: 42 Yes. 43 44 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 45 Yes. 46 47 LEG. ANKER: 48 Yes. 49 10:05AM 50 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 51 Yes. 52 53 LEG. GONZALEZ: 54 Yes. 55 56

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1 LEG. FLOTTERON: 2 Here. (Sic) 3 4 LEG. KENNEDY: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. TROTTA: 8 Yes. 9 10:05AM 10 LEG. McCAFFREY: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. RICHBERG: 14 (Not present) 15 16 LEG. BERLAND: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. DONNELLY: 10:05AM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. SPENCER: 23 Yes. 24 25 D.P.O. HAHN: 26 Yes. 27 28 P.O. CALARCO: 29 Yes. 30 31 MS. ELLIS: 32 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 33 34 P.O. CALARCO: 35 Okay. The Public Portion is closed. 36 37 I'll take a motion -- we're on the Consent Calendar. I'll make 38 the motion to approve. Please note that IR 1539 was withdrawn. 39 10:06AM 40 LEG. GONZALEZ: 41 Second. 42 43 P.O. CALARCO: 44 Second by Legislator Gonzalez. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 45 46 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 47 48 P.O. CALARCO: 49 Yes. 10:06AM 50 51 LEG. GONZALEZ: 52 Yes. 53 54 LEG. KRUPSKI: 55 Yes. 56

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1 LEG. FLEMING: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. MURATORE: 8 Yes. 9 10:06AM 10 LEG. ANKER: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. CILMI: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. FLOTTERON: 10:06AM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. KENNEDY: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. TROTTA: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. McCAFFREY: 29 Yes. 10:06AM 30 31 LEG. RICHBERG: 32 (Not present) 33 34 LEG. BERLAND: 35 Yes. 36 37 LEG. DONNELLY: 38 Yes. 39 10:06AM 40 LEG. SPENCER: 41 Yes. 42 43 D.P.O. HAHN: 44 Yes. 45 46 MS. ELLIS: 47 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 48 49 P.O. CALARCO: 10:07AM 50 Okay, it is approved. 51 52 We're moving on to Tabled Resolutions. 53 54 IR 1015 - Adopting Local Law No. -2020, A Local Law to prohibit 55 smoking within multiple dwelling units (Gonzalez). Legislator 56 Gonzalez.

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1 LEG. GONZALEZ: 2 Motion to table. 3 4 LEG. CALARCO: 5 Motion to table by Legislator Gonzalez. 6 7 LEG. TROTTA: 8 I'll second it. 9 10:07AM 10 P.O. CALARCO: 11 Second by Legislator Trotta. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 12 13 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 14 15 LEG. GONZALEZ: 16 Yes to table. 17 18 LEG. TROTTA: 19 Yes to table. 10:07AM 20 21 LEG. KRUPSKI: 22 Yes to table. 23 24 LEG. FLEMING: 25 Yes. 26 27 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 28 Yes. 29 10:07AM 30 LEG. MURATORE: 31 Yes to table. 32 33 LEG. ANKER: 34 Yes. 35 36 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 37 Yes. 38 39 LEG. CILMI: 10:07AM 40 Yes. 41 42 LEG. FLOTTERON: 43 Yes. 44 45 LEG. KENNEDY: 46 Yes. 47 48 LEG. McCAFFREY: 49 Yes. 10:07AM 50 51 LEG. RICHBERG: 52 (Not present) 53 54 LEG. BERLAND: 55 Yes. 56

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1 LEG. DONNELLY: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. SPENCER: 5 Yes. 6 7 D.P.O. HAHN: 8 Yes. 9 10:08AM 10 P.O. CALARCO: 11 Yes. 12 13 MS. ELLIS: 14 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 15 16 P.O. CALARCO: 17 Okay, it is tabled. 18 19 IR 1025 - Directing the Suffolk County Department of Economic 20 Development and Planning to analyze the Saint James – Stony Brook 21 25A Corridor (Hahn). 22 23 D.P.O. HAHN: 24 Motion to table. 25 26 P.O. CALARCO: 27 Motion to table by Legislator Hahn. 28 29 LEG. GONZALEZ: 30 Second. 31 32 P.O. CALARCO: 33 Second by Legislator Gonzalez. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 34 35 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 36 37 D.P.O. HAHN: 38 Yes. 39 10:08AM 40 LEG. GONZALEZ: 41 Yes. 42 43 LEG. KRUPSKI: 44 Yes. 45 46 LEG. FLEMING: 47 Yes. 48 49 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 10:08AM 50 Yes. 51 52 LEG. MURATORE: 53 Yes. 54 55 LEG. ANKER: 56 Yes.

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1 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. CILMI: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. FLOTTERON: 8 Yes. 9 10:08AM 10 LEG. KENNEDY: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. TROTTA: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. McCAFFREY: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. RICHBERG: 10:08AM 20 (Not present) 21 22 LEG. BERLAND: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. DONNELLY: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. SPENCER: 29 Yes. 10:09AM 30 31 P.O. CALARCO: 32 Yes. 33 34 MS. ELLIS: 35 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 36 37 P.O. CALARCO: 38 Okay, it is tabled. 39 10:09AM 40 IR 1204A - the Bond Resolution - Appropriating funds in connection 41 with the Historic Restoration and Preservation Fund (CP 42 7510)(County Executive). 43 44 I'm being told the Administration is asking to table this for 45 another cycle, so I'll make that motion. 46 47 LEG. BERLAND: 48 Second. 49 10:09AM 50 LEG. FLEMING: 51 I'll make a motion to approve. 52 53 P.O. CALARCO: 54 Tabling motion is seconded by Legislator Berland. Motion to 55 approve by Legislator Fleming. Anybody want to second the motion? 56

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1 D.P.O. HAHN: 2 Second. 3 4 P.O. CALARCO: 5 Ms. Amendola, perhaps you can explain why the Administration's 6 looking for a tabling for this cycle? 7 8 MS. AMENDOLA: 9 We actually are planning to amend the resolution so we want to 10:09AM 10 table it for a cycle. There have been conversations happening 11 regarding this funding. 12 13 P.O. CALARCO: 14 Okay. 15 16 LEG. FLEMING: 17 Could we have more detail, Mr. Presiding Officer, about what the 18 amendment is? We just spent a great deal of time discussing this 19 both at the Capital Working Group and in Public Works as well as 10:10AM 20 offline, and this is the first I'm hearing that there is any 21 appetite by the County Executive to put it over. 22 23 P.O. CALARCO: 24 Sure. I'll let -- Legislator Berland, do you want to answer that 25 question? 26 27 LEG. BERLAND: 28 Sure. So apparently in this resolution there's 600,000. 29 Five-hundred thousand was for the project in Legislator Fleming's 10:10AM 30 district and $100,000 was for the Little Red Schoolhouse in my 31 district. And it's for planning money to do renovations for the 32 Little Red Schoolhouse, and I felt at this time with our economy 33 the way it is and our budget issues the way they are, I didn't 34 think it was appropriate to spend $100,000 on planning money for a 35 plan to renovate the little schoolhouse, which is probably going to 36 cost, you know, a million plus, if not two million. I mean, I have 37 no idea, but the e-mail that I got said that it needs 38 air-conditioning and heating and floors and roofs and windows, 39 which seems to me a lot of money to spend that we don't have. 10:11AM 40 So I told them I didn't think it was appropriate to put the 41 $100,000 toward planning for that at that time, so they're going to 42 -- I asked them to, you know, amend the resolution and take that 43 100,000 out at this time. I just didn't think that that was the 44 economically prudent thing to do. So that's why they asked to 45 amend it. 46 47 LEG. FLEMING: 48 As many of my colleagues know, we have been working very, very hard 49 on this project at the Third House. We've had a great deal of 10:11AM 50 discussion at Capital Working Group and at Public Works, as well as 51 individually with Legislators who have graciously supported this 52 very important revenue producing project, which is critically 53 important to the community and has been underway for a great deal 54 of time. 55 56

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1 I had absolutely no notice that there was going to be this turn in 2 the road here. I would ask the Administration if -- we had the 3 support to pass this bond resolution, which is a bit of a challenge 4 these days, and I appreciate my colleagues in the Minority Caucus 5 supporting this. I would ask the County Executive's Office if 6 they, with this very late notice that we're taking this turn, if 7 they could consider bringing this forward later in the day in a 8 form that would be acceptable to Legislator Berland? It's really 9 disappointing at this point that we're moving in the wrong 10:12AM 10 direction on the Third House renovations after all the work that's 11 been done to garner political support. 12 13 Nicole, is there a possibility of bringing this back in a form that 14 would be acceptable to Legislator Berland? 15 16 MS. AMENDOLA: 17 I was actually just notified that we could probably just move 18 forward with this and we just won't borrow the 100,000 for the 19 planning. So we'll move forward with borrowing for the money for 10:13AM 20 Third House and appropriating and we should be fine. 21 22 LEG. FLEMING: 23 I'd reiterate my motion to approve this resolution. 24 25 D.P.O. HAHN: 26 And I reiterate my motion to second it. 27 28 P.O. CALARCO: 29 Okay. Legislator Hahn seconds the motion to approve. Legislator 10:13AM 30 Berland, I'll let you go back and then Legislator Krupski's next on 31 the list. Go ahead. 32 33 LEG. BERLAND: 34 I guess the question is so you appropriate 600,000 and you bond 35 500,000? 36 37 MS. AMENDOLA: 38 Yeah, we'll borrow -- the bond resolution is just approval to bond, 39 so we would just bond for the 500 instead. 10:13AM 40 41 LEG. BERLAND: 42 All right, so you have to amend that resolution? I mean, if you 43 want to bring it back as a CN later in the afternoon I don't have a 44 problem with that. I just didn't think we should bond for 600,000 45 when I only have a problem with the 100,000 that's mine. I mean, 46 you know, most Legislators, I guess, we're not used to giving up 47 money for our district, but I felt that, you know, we all need to 48 give a little and this particular project, you know, should 49 probably wait as much as I think it's important to the people in my 10:14AM 50 district as well. I couldn't in good conscious go forward with 51 $100,000 in planning money for something that, you know, we're 52 probably not going to be able to afford to do for a long time. So, 53 you know, I didn't ask for it to be put in in the first place and 54 have been trying for, you know, the last three cycles or two 55 cycles, however long this has been going on, to get the specific 56 information which I finally only got yesterday. And I'm just not

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1 comfortable with it being in there. I think I'm doing the right 2 thing by the people of the County by taking it out. So you can put 3 it in in some way before the end of the meeting with 500 instead of 4 600, I have no problem with that. I don't think we should be 5 voting for 600 when we only need five. 6 7 MS. AMENDOLA: 8 I just want to reiterate that the bond resolution is -- think of it 9 as a cap. We can borrow up to 600. Like I said, we're fine 10:15AM 10 with -- 11 12 P.O. CALARCO: 13 I think the concern, Miss Amendola, to be quite honest, is that it 14 gives you the ability to go back to the 100,000 at some other point 15 in time without coming back to us. It probably would be a lot 16 smoother, just bring us a CN, if that's amenable to all my 17 colleagues. 18 19 MS. AMENDOLA: 10:15AM 20 We can try, but I can't guarantee that I'll be able to get a bond 21 resolution drafted and put forward today as a CN. I can reach out 22 to Bond Counsel but I can't guarantee that that's going to be able 23 to happen. 24 25 LEG. FLEMING: 26 Ask if you're able to just amend the bond resolution to delete a 27 portion of the borrowing and see if -- the thing is they're 28 looking at a cap. It's likely that Bond Counsel is amenable to 29 reducing the borrowing amount. 10:15AM 30 31 MS. AMENDOLA: 32 If you want, we can pass it today and then we can do an amending 33 reso later to take out the hundred. I just, you know, to 34 Legislator Fleming's point, you know, we want to move forward with 35 the project. 36 37 LEG. BERLAND: 38 No. 39 10:16AM 40 P.O. CALARCO: 41 Legislator Krupski. 42 43 LEG. KRUPSKI: 44 I appreciate Legislator Fleming wants to finish a project, but I 45 really appreciate Legislator Berland's point of not starting a 46 project and getting into something that we don't know where it's 47 going end. 48 49 I did reach out to Parks yesterday, I don't think we got an answer 10:16AM 50 back yet here, about what the Third House is actually costing us, 51 because so many of these projects that we do, they're characterized 52 as revenue generators, but if they're costing a lot of money to 53 create and a lot of money to maintain and manage, then revenue 54 generally doesn't offset that in a meaningful way. So you might be 55 taking in some money, but it's no way near going to cover the 56 actual cost, so we have to consider those projects going forward.

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1 So I appreciate Legislator Berland's, you know, responsible 2 attitude towards starting something that we didn't even know where 3 it's going to end, especially on a building that we were -- there 4 was great consent for the County selling only a few years ago, that 5 we didn't feel like we had the need of. But on the other hand, to 6 Legislator Fleming's point of view, we're in the middle of this 7 project and, you know, you want to see it through. Thank you. 8 9 P.O. CALARCO: 10:17AM 10 Okay, how about we do this, folks. Let's pass over this one and 11 we'll give the Administration time to see if they can't get a CN or 12 an amendment to the bond resolution done so we do it for the 13 $500,000 and still move the Third House project along. Does that 14 work for everyone? 15 16 LEG. FLEMING: 17 Thank you, Mr. Presiding Officer. I appreciate the consideration. 18 19 P.O. CALARCO: 10:18AM 20 Absolutely. Okay, let's -- IR 1347 - Adopting Local Law No. -2020, 21 A Local Law requiring animal shelters and rescues to provide an 22 animal’s behavioral and bite history prior to adoption (Gonzalez). 23 Legislator Gonzalez? 24 25 MS. SIMPSON: 26 This needs to be tabled. 27 28 P.O. CALARCO: 29 This needs to be tabled. I'll take a motion by Legislator Gonzalez 10:18AM 30 to table for the public hearing. 31 32 D.P.O. HAHN: 33 Second. 34 35 P.O. CALARCO: 36 Second by Legislator Hahn. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 37 38 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 39 10:18AM 40 LEG. GONZALEZ: 41 Yes to table. 42 43 D.P.O. HAHN: 44 Yes. 45 46 LEG. KRUPSKI: 47 Yes. 48 49 LEG. FLEMING: 10:18AM 50 Yes. 51 52 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 53 Yes. 54 55 LEG. MURATORE: 56 Yes.

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1 LEG. ANKER: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. CILMI: 8 Yes. 9 10:18AM 10 LEG. FLOTTERON: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. KENNEDY: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. TROTTA: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. McCAFFREY: 10:18AM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. RICHBERG: 23 (Not present) 24 25 LEG. BERLAND: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. DONNELLY: 29 Yes. 10:18AM 30 31 LEG. SPENCER: 32 Yes. 33 34 P.O. CALARCO: 35 Yes. 36 37 MS. ELLIS: 38 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 39 10:19AM 40 P.O. CALARCO: 41 Okay, it is tabled. 42 43 IR 1357 - Appropriating funds in connection with Complete Streets 44 Fund (CP 3313)(County Executive). 45 46 LEG. CILMI: 47 Motion to table. 48 49 P.O. CALARCO: 10:19AM 50 Motion to table by Legislator Cilmi. 51 52 LEG. TROTTA: 53 Second. 54 55 P.O. CALARCO: 56 Second to table by Legislator Trotta. Anybody else want to make

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1 any other motions? 2 3 MS. AMENDOLA: 4 I just want to make sure that everyone is aware that the bond reso 5 was withdrawn. We're just appropriating today, or we're seeking 6 just to appropriate. 7 8 D.P.O. HAHN: 9 Motion to approve. 10 11 LEG. SPENCER: 12 Second. 13 14 P.O. CALARCO: 15 Motion to approve by Legislator Hahn; second by Legislator Spencer. 16 17 LEG. CILMI: 18 I'll withdraw my tabling motion. Thank you, Nicole, for that 19 clarification. 10:19AM 20 21 P.O. CALARCO: 22 Legislator Cilmi withdraws the tabling motion. Anybody on the 23 issue? Roll call. 24 25 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 26 27 D.P.O. HAHN: 28 Yes. 29 10:19AM 30 LEG. SPENCER: 31 Yes. 32 33 LEG. KRUPSKI: 34 Yes. 35 36 LEG. FLEMING: 37 Yes. 38 39 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 10:20AM 40 Yes. 41 42 LEG. MURATORE: 43 This is to table, correct? Oh, no, this is to pass. 44 45 P.O. CALARCO: 46 This is to approve, but this is just the underlying resolution. 47 48 LEG. MURATORE: 49 Yes to approve. 10:20AM 50 51 LEG. ANKER: 52 Yes. 53 54 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 55 Yes. 56

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1 LEG. GONZALEZ: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. CILMI: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. FLOTTERON: 8 Yes. 9 10:20AM 10 LEG. KENNEDY: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. TROTTA: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. McCAFFREY: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. RICHBERG: 10:20AM 20 (Not present) 21 22 LEG. BERLAND: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. DONNELLY: 26 Yes. 27 28 P.O. CALARCO: 29 Yes. 10:20AM 30 31 MS. ELLIS: 32 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 33 34 P.O. CALARCO: 35 Okay, it is approved. 36 37 IR 1358A - the Bond Resolution - Appropriating funds in connection 38 with Median Improvements on Various County Roads (CP 5001). 39 40 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 41 Motion. 42 43 LEG. CILMI: 44 Motion to approve. 45 46 P.O. CALARCO: 47 Motion by Legislator Piccirillo, second by Legislator Cilmi, 48 I believe was the order. Anybody on the issue. 49 10:20AM 50 LEG. CILMI: 51 On the motion, quickly. 52 53 P.O. CALARCO: 54 Sure. Go ahead, Legislator Cilmi. 55 56

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1 LEG. CILMI: 2 I just wanted to express my appreciation again to Nicole, the 3 Administration, certainly Commissioner Brown for arranging for a 4 site visit. Again, this was proven to be helpful. Unfortunately, 5 I did not get an opportunity to see both sites, but I did visit the 6 Nicolls Road site and clearly something needs to be done here. It 7 is a public safety issue in my view, so I'll be -- I'm happy to 8 support it today. 9 10:21AM 10 P.O. CALARCO: 11 Thank you, Legislator Cilmi. Anybody else on the issue? Okay, 12 roll call. 13 14 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 15 16 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. CILMI: 10:21AM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. KRUPSKI: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. FLEMING: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 29 Yes. 10:21AM 30 31 LEG. MURATORE: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. ANKER: 35 Yes. 36 37 LEG. GONZALEZ: 38 Yes. 39 10:21AM 40 LEG. FLOTTERON: 41 Yes. 42 43 LEG. KENNEDY: 44 Yes. 45 46 LEG. TROTTA: 47 Yes. 48 49 LEG. McCAFFREY: 10:22AM 50 Yes. 51 52 LEG. RICHBERG: 53 (Not present) 54 55 LEG. BERLAND: 56 Yes.

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1 LEG. DONNELLY: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. SPENCER: 5 Yes. 6 7 D.P.O. HAHN: 8 Yes. 9 10:22AM 10 P.O. CALARCO: 11 Yes. 12 13 MS. ELLIS: 14 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 15 16 P.O. CALARCO: 17 Okay, IR 1358, the underlying resolution, we'll do same motion, 18 same second. Roll call. 19 10:22AM 20 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 21 22 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. CILMI: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. KRUPSKI: 29 Yes. 10:22AM 30 31 LEG. FLEMING: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 35 Yes. 36 37 LEG. MURATORE: 38 Yes. 39 10:22AM 40 LEG. ANKER: 41 Yes. 42 43 LEG. GONZALEZ: 44 Yes. 45 46 LEG. FLOTTERON: 47 Yes. 48 49 LEG. KENNEDY: 10:22AM 50 Yes. 51 52 LEG. TROTTA: 53 Yes. 54 55 LEG. McCAFFREY: 56 Yes.

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1 LEG. RICHBERG: 2 (Not present) 3 4 LEG. BERLAND: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. DONNELLY: 8 Yes. 9 10:22AM 10 LEG. SPENCER: 11 Yes. 12 13 D.P.O. HAHN: 14 Yes. 15 16 P.O. CALARCO: 17 Yes. 18 19 MS. ELLIS: 10:23AM 20 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 21 22 P.O. CALARCO: 23 Okay, it is approved. 24 25 IR 1408 - Appropriating funds in connection with Restoration of 26 Facades at Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum (CP 7441)(Presiding 27 Officer Calarco). 28 29 I'm going to ask that we table this for another cycle. I'll make 30 the motion. 31 32 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 33 Second. 34 35 P.O. CALARCO: 36 Second by Legislator Spencer. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 37 38 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 39 10:23AM 40 P.O. CALARCO: 41 Yes. 42 43 LEG. SPENCER: 44 Yes. 45 46 LEG. KRUPSKI: 47 Yes to table. 48 49 LEG. FLEMING: 10:23AM 50 Yes. 51 52 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 53 Yes. 54 55 LEG. MURATORE: 56 Yes.

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1 LEG. ANKER: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. GONZALEZ: 8 Yes. 9 10:23AM 10 LEG. CILMI: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. FLOTTERON: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. KENNEDY: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. TROTTA: 10:23AM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. McCAFFREY: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. RICHBERG: 26 (Not present) 27 28 LEG. BERLAND: 29 Reluctantly, yes. 10:23AM 30 31 LEG. DONNELLY: 32 Yes. 33 34 D.P.O. HAHN: 35 Yes. 36 37 MS. ELLIS: 38 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 39 10:23AM 40 P.O. CALARCO: 41 Okay, it is tabled. 42 43 IR 1512A, the Bond Resolution, Amending the 2020 Capital Budget and 44 Program in connection with the County Share for the Downtown 45 Montauk Stabilization Project, Town of East Hampton (CP 5383) 46 (County Executive). 47 48 LEG. FLEMING: 49 Motion. 10:24AM 50 51 P.O. CALARCO: 52 Motion by Legislator Fleming. 53 54 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 55 Second. 56

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Second by Legislator Piccirillo. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 3 4 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 5 6 LEG. FLEMING: 7 Yes. 8 9 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 10:24AM 10 Yes. 11 12 LEG. KRUPSKI: 13 Pass. 14 15 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 16 Yes. 17 18 LEG. MURATORE: 19 Pass. 10:24AM 20 21 LEG. ANKER: 22 Yes. 23 24 LEG. GONZALEZ: 25 Yes. 26 27 LEG. CILMI: 28 Yes. 29 10:24AM 30 LEG. FLOTTERON: 31 Yes. 32 33 LEG. KENNEDY: 34 Yes. 35 36 LEG. TROTTA: 37 Yes. 38 39 LEG. McCAFFREY: 10:24AM 40 Yes. 41 42 LEG. RICHBERG: 43 (Not present) 44 45 LEG. BERLAND: 46 Yes. 47 48 LEG. DONNELLY: 49 Yes. 10:25AM 50 51 LEG. SPENCER: 52 Yes. 53 54 D.P.O. HAHN: 55 Yes. 56

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. KRUPSKI: 5 No. 6 7 LEG. MURATORE: 8 No. 9 10:25AM 10 MS. ELLIS: 11 Fifteen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 12 13 P.O. CALARCO: 14 Okay, it is approved. 15 16 IR 1512, the underlying resolution. We'll do same motion, same 17 second. Roll call. 18 19 (*Roll Called by Ms. Ellis - Clerk of the Legislature*) 20 21 LEG. FLEMING: 22 Yes, and I thank my colleagues for your support. 23 24 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 25 Yes. 26 27 LEG. KRUPSKI: 28 No. 29 10:25AM 30 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 31 Yes. 32 33 LEG. MURATORE: 34 No. 35 36 LEG. ANKER: 37 Yes. 38 39 LEG. GONZALEZ: 10:25AM 40 Yes. 41 42 LEG. CILMI: 43 Yes. 44 45 LEG. FLOTTERON: 46 Yes. 47 48 LEG. KENNEDY: 49 Yes. 10:25AM 50 51 LEG. TROTTA: 52 No to the bond. 53 54 LEG. McCAFFREY: 55 Yes. 56

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1 LEG. RICHBERG: 2 (Not present) 3 4 LEG. BERLAND: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. DONNELLY: 8 Yes. 9 10:26AM 10 LEG. SPENCER: 11 Yes. 12 13 D.P.O. HAHN: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. CALARCO: 17 Yes. 18 19 MS. ELLIS: 10:26AM 20 Fourteen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 21 22 P.O. CALARCO: 23 Introductory Resolutions: 24 25 Budget & Finance 26 27 IR 1327 - Directing the Suffolk County Legislative Budget Review 28 Office to conduct a feasibility study examining the impact of 29 waiving certain fees for small businesses and non-profit 10:26AM 30 organizations (Fleming). 31 32 Legislator Fleming, would you like to make that motion? 33 34 LEG. FLEMING: 35 Yes, motion. Thank you. 36 37 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 38 Second. 39 40 P.O. CALARCO: 41 Motion by Legislator Fleming; second by Legislator Piccirillo. 42 Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 43 44 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 45 46 LEG. FLEMING: 47 Yes. 48 49 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 10:26AM 50 Yes. 51 52 LEG. KRUPSKI: 53 Yes. 54 55 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 56 Yes.

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1 LEG. MURATORE: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. ANKER: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. GONZALEZ: 8 Yes. 9 10:27AM 10 LEG. CILMI: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. FLOTTERON: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. KENNEDY: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. TROTTA: 10:27AM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. McCAFFREY: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. RICHBERG: 26 (Not present) 27 28 LEG. BERLAND: 29 Yes. 10:27AM 30 31 LEG. DONNELLY: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. SPENCER: 35 Yes. 36 37 D.P.O. HAHN: 38 Yes. 39 10:27AM 40 P.O. CALARCO: 41 Yes. 42 43 MS. ELLIS: 44 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 45 46 P.O. CALARCO: 47 Okay, it is approved. 48 49 (*The following testimony was taken and transcribed by 10:27AM 50 Diana Flesher - Court Stenographer*) 51 52 IR 1414, (Adopting Local Law No. -2020,) A Charter law to transfer 53 excess funds in the Sewer Assessment Stabilization Reserve Fund to 54 the Suffolk County Taxpayers Trust Fund and to eliminate the 55 requirement that Interfund Transfers be made from the General Fund 56 to the Sewer Assessment Stabilization Fund (County Exec.).

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1 LEG. TROTTA: 2 Motion to table. 3 4 LEG. GONZALEZ: 5 Motion to approve. 6 7 LEG. FLOTTERON: 8 Second to approve. 9 10 P.O. CALARCO: 11 Motion to approve by Legislator Gonzalez. A motion to table by 12 Legislator Trotta; a second to the approval by Legislator 13 Flotteron. Does the tabling have a second? 14 15 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 16 Second. 17 18 P.O. CALARCO: 19 A second by Legislator Piccirillo. Anybody on the issue? 10:28AM 20 Legislator Fleming, your hand is up. 21 22 LEG. FLEMING: 23 Yes, thank you. You know, this is one of two resolutions that were 24 put forward by the County Executive to try to begin to deal with 25 the devastating financial impact of the Corona pandemic. I 26 recognize the challenges that the Executive faces and that we in 27 the Legislature face in trying to ensure that the services that are 28 expected and, you know, required by our constituents can continue. 29 Obviously they're going to continue in a very, very limited way and 10:28AM 30 we're going to have to look, as many of our discussions at recent 31 meetings have reflected, we're going to have to look to make cuts 32 just about everywhere we can find. 33 34 I think it's critically important from my perspective that we 35 ensure that our decisions have the most -- the least impact on 36 human beings, on families, on workers, people who are bringing 37 paychecks home to their families and at the same time that we learn 38 the lessons that the Coronavirus has sort of demonstrated, 39 including the fact that we as humans are invading wildlife habitat 10:29AM 40 more and more across the globe and there are real impacts to that. 41 42 So, I appreciate the effort that was put forward by the County Exec 43 and his staff to try to figure some of this out and to look for 44 opportunities to find ways to cover costs. I am adamantly opposed 45 to 1413 raiding the Open Space Program in order to achieve this. 46 And although I will be voting to close the public hearing on that, 47 I've let Mr. Bellone know that in no certain terms will I be able 48 to support using Open Space funding to try to close budget gaps. 49 10:30AM 50 On the other hand, this is a tax stabilization fund. We have 51 certain obligations that I've been assured we're going to follow 52 through with based on, you know, recent litigation. I'm assured 53 that our sewer infrastructure will be maintained with the funding 54 that will be maintained in this fund in order to ensure that clean 55 water supply continues to be available and that our surface waters 56 continue to be impacted. So, this is a tough, tough situation.

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1 And at the same time I recognize that the balance has to be struck. 2 I don't love having to look to these funds to support County 3 services, but at the same time I recognize the strain that this 4 terrible unprecedented pandemic has imposed upon us. 5 6 I implore our Federal representatives to help us out here. I 7 understand there's another CARES Act version -- another -- a 8 version of the CARES Act that is pending at the moment. We were 9 reassured by our Congressman just yesterday on a phone call that 10:31AM 10 efforts are being made by his office and others to get us some 11 relief on the Federal side; in which case we may not have to resort 12 to what's being proposed here. But if we do, we do. And, you 13 know, it's difficult to cast these kinds of votes, but I do support 14 moving forward with 1414. Sorry for the long speech. Thank you. 15 16 P.O. CALARCO: 17 Thank you, Legislator Fleming. Legislator Trotta. 18 19 LEG. TROTTA: 10:32AM 20 I think Legislator Flotteron has something to say first. 21 22 P.O. CALARCO: 23 Okay, sure, if you want to defer to Legislator Flotteron. 24 25 LEG. FLOTTERON: 26 Yeah, I didn't raise my hand right. Yeah, I want to withdraw my 27 second. 28 29 P.O. CALARCO: 30 Okay, Legislator Flotteron withdraws his second on the approval. 31 32 LEG. DONNELLY: 33 I'll second the motion. 34 35 P.O. CALARCO: 36 Legislator Donnelly is making the second to the approval motion. 37 Okay, Legislator Trotta. 38 39 LEG. TROTTA: 10:32AM 40 Yeah, you know, I've been here now for six-and-a-half years and I 41 consider this probably the most important vote any of us will take. 42 It was back in 1987, the public entrusted us with using this money 43 for Suffolk County Drinking Water Protection Plan and that's what 44 it was used for. That's what it was supposed to be used for. And 45 that's the words that -- what you call it on the own legislative 46 website, this is the Clean Water Fund. This is what the public 47 entrusted us to do and we haven't done it. 48 49 What we've done in 2014, we put a referendum on the ballot that 10:33AM 50 called it the Taxpayer Stabilization Plan. And the public voted 51 for it and in Doc's words not reading the fine print. And what it 52 did is it drained $200 million of money that could have been 53 diverted to put sewers, cesspools, advanced wastewater treatment 54 plants, all the things the County Executive has been crowing about 55 for the past eight years, that drinking water is his number one 56 concern and nitrogen is the enemy.

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1 Now, let's talk about the state of the County. Before the pandemic 2 happened we were number 62 out of 62 with a grade of 24. We were 3 headed for disaster. And since the pandemic hit, our sales tax 4 revenue's down 73 million; we're probably down another 27 million, 5 so a round number $100 million in revenue. But through the Federal 6 government with the help our Congressmen, especially Lee Zeldin, 7 secured not 257 million, but 273 million, I believe, it was with 8 the 26 he just secured for the buses, which far outweighs the 9 hundred million that we're short so far. So, we have $275 million 10:34AM 10 in the bank. At this point of the year we have $1.1 billion 11 dollars in cash in the bank. This time last year we only had 800 12 million in the bank. 13 14 So, to say that we need to go into this now just has no basic in 15 fact -- no basis in fact. Now, people are going to say that oh, 16 this money can't be used for that. Well, guess what? It can be 17 used for it. I read all the directions; I called the Treasury 18 Department; I called the Congressmen. Our County Comptroller will 19 get on this phone and say that, of course, it could be used for it 10:34AM 20 because the criteria is very broad; extremely broad on what it 21 could be used for. And the County Executive doesn't even have to 22 ask for any approval before he spends it. But what they're trying 23 to do is also to sort of double-dip, but I don't sort of blame 24 them. They're going to try to get FEMA money also and they don't 25 want to confuse it. So, to go in and to take this money that the 26 taxpayers entrusted in us to clean our water is just irresponsible. 27 28 Now, let's look at the lawsuits. We've lost every single lawsuit. 29 Every one. And it comes down -- and we have letters from legal 10:35AM 30 counsel, from the old Legislative Counsel, Paul Sabatino, that says 31 you can't legislate a court ruling. But what's going to happen 32 there? We're going to have more lawsuits. This is just fiscally 33 irresponsible and it's morally irresponsible. We're not -- we're 34 in a bad place but we were in a bad place before. And to take this 35 money and then to tell the public in 2014 that we're going to pay 36 it back and then years later say we're not going to pay it back -- 37 and I hate to say it, but they're using the Coronavirus as an 38 excuse. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's morally wrong; it's morally 39 bankrupt to do it. And it's wrong for our children to not spend 10:36AM 40 the money as it was supposed to be spent for. 41 42 I mean, I really could go on for hours. And it's very odd that the 43 fiscally conservative Republican, who is here battling and going -- 44 pleading with my colleagues to save the Clean Water Fund, it's 45 really -- it's a strange, strange phenomenon. We'll get through 46 this. We don't need to raid it. You know -- and unfortunately, 47 you know, I think it will probably pass, which is sad; very sad. 48 Because we owe it. We owe it to the people that we represent who 49 asked for this and you're going to say, oh, but they're going to be 10:37AM 50 able to vote for it, it's only going on the ballot. Well, the way 51 it states, it sounds oh, a taxpayer relief. You know as well as I 52 know the people don't read the details. They don't. And this is 53 where it's our responsibility while we're hired to look at the 54 details and to be the person who represents the public. 55 56

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1 Now, I'm sure if you sat down anybody, 95 percent of the people 2 will say, listen, that's wrong, given the circumstances that I just 3 laid out, it's wrong. And I think all of you in your hearts know 4 it's wrong, but the political pressure that's being put on you is 5 swaying you. And that's even worse. So I implore you to please do 6 not support this. Thank you. 7 8 P.O. CALARCO: 9 Thank you, Legislator Trotta. Legislator Donnelly. 10:37AM 10 11 LEG. DONNELLY: 12 Thank you, Mr. Presiding Officer. Good morning. Just, you know, I 13 would more echo Legislator Fleming's comments. You know, we're in 14 extraordinary times. Alls we're doing is giving the County 15 Executive the ability to send this to the voters. I think that we 16 owe it to our municipality workforce as well to do everything in 17 our power to avoid layoffs as their representatives in government. 18 Legislator Trotta referenced our obligation to our citizens. You 19 know, I feel a very deep obligation to those that we serve in 10:38AM 20 government with who keep this County running. So, you know, I'm 21 going to second the motion and I'm going to support this 22 resolution. 23 24 And to Legislator Trotta's point, you know, about working together, 25 you know, I was honored once again to stand alongside my colleague, 26 Legislator Kevin McCaffrey, yesterday in a bipartisan effort with 27 Islip Town Supervisor Angie Carpenter and Babylon Town Supervisor 28 Rich Schaeffer and again asking the Federal government to support 29 the efforts to restore and assist local government -- local 10:38AM 30 governments, not only the County government but the town and 31 village governments as well with the second Federal government 32 stimulus package. So, these are extraordinary times. 33 34 And, you know, we could -- we could debate this all day. There are 35 those that would just want to burn the house down, so to speak, or 36 blow everything up. And I'm equally going to be proud to support 37 Legislator Kennedy's request for money for his office. And that's 38 the way government should work, in a bipartisan fashion. You know, 39 if the idea is to blow the other side up just for the path to 10:39AM 40 power, you know, I don't subscribe to that. You know, and I'll 41 push back on our side. And the Presiding Officer and the majority 42 leader know that, I will push back on our side. But in this case 43 alls we're doing is sending this resolution out to the voters. 44 That's all we're doing. So, thank you. 45 46 P.O. CALARCO: 47 Thank you, Legislator Donnelly. Legislator Sunderman. 48 49 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 10:39AM 50 Yes, to Nicole: Nicole, do you know if this at all affects the 51 future of the Forge River Watershed Sewer District? 52 53 MS. AMENDOLA: 54 No, it does not. 55 56

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1 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 2 So this will take no effect at all for the future of the upcoming 3 district? 4 5 MS. AMENDOLA: 6 No, not at all. 7 8 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 9 Okay, thank you. 10:40AM 10 11 P.O. CALARCO: 12 Okay, Legislator Kennedy, did you have your hand up? 13 14 LEG. KENNEDY: 15 I did. I have to say that I agree about 95 percent with what 16 Legislator Trotta said. I also have a fear by doing this we reduce 17 the equivalent of collateral when we go out to bond and we're 18 tenuous as it is. And my other statement is our drinking water is 19 paramount. We're putting money into the new improved cesspool 10:40AM 20 systems, but we're taking out the ability of our land to percolate 21 to make our water clean. We've already appealed and lost. If this 22 is voted through the Pine Barrens, we'll immediately go to court 23 again and we will lose again, but we will have spent the money and 24 then we'll owe another $29.4 million. I don't think it's wise. I 25 really don't think it's wise. There are other ways to reduce our 26 expenditures. I just can't do this. Thanks. 27 28 P.O. CALARCO: 29 Thank you, Legislator Kennedy. Legislator Berland. 10:41AM 30 31 LEG. BERLAND: 32 Thank you, Presiding Officer. Now these are crazy economic times 33 given COVID and what we're going through. Look, I wanted to take a 34 hundred thousand dollars from my district for something that I 35 didn't think we should be spending extra money on. You have extra 36 money in the Tax Stabilization Fund. And the fund has really 37 always been significantly for tax stabilization. When the 38 environmental component was added, the people voted for the 39 majority of that to be in a tax stabilization fund. There's more 10:42AM 40 in there than you need for the tax stabilization. 41 42 So, I have no problem putting this to the voters. And I do 43 disagree with Legislator Trotta, I think we have a very intelligent 44 electorate and I think they do read. And I think they pass 45 environmental legislation, you know, overwhelmingly because we care 46 about our water and our open space. But we -- you know, we also 47 have to at this point in time think about our employees and think 48 about, you know, the workers who have been, you know, front and 49 center for all of us through this crisis. And I'm not willing to 10:42AM 50 lay anybody off. 51 52 So, wherever we can pick up money, whether it's $100,000 from the 53 other resolution or it's the money from this tax stabilization 54 fund, we as elected officials, I think, have a responsibility to 55 make decisions when they're in our purview or put it to our 56 electorate and the people who put us in office to decide these

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1 issues when it's their purview to do that. I don't think that we 2 need to run from the fact that litigation might be filed, because 3 the litigation was filed because decisions were made without 4 putting it to the electorate. So now decisions will be made by the 5 electorate, which I think takes it out of the realm of having a 6 judicial challenge. So, I encourage my colleagues to support this 7 and let your constituents decide the ultimate choice, whether they 8 want this money, you know, used this way or not. So, I'm going to 9 support the resolution. Thank you. 10:43AM 10 11 P.O. CALARCO: 12 Thank you, Legislator Berland. Legislator Cilmi. 13 14 LEG. CILMI: 15 Thanks, Mr. Presiding Officer. So, you know, I find myself 16 agreeing with parts of what each previous speaker has said. When I 17 first joined this Legislature, before I was elected, I found myself 18 oftentimes seeing things in very black and white terms. As time 19 has gone on, I have grown, I think, and learned that there are 10:44AM 20 many, many, many shades of gray and many different considerations 21 to each vote that we take. And this is certainly one of those 22 situations. 23 24 I don't like having to do this. Under normal circumstances we 25 wouldn't be doing this. And certainly I wouldn't support doing 26 this. We are approving a bill that calls for a public referendum. 27 Like Legislator Berland, I, too, agree that the electorate is smart 28 enough to make an informed decision. And I'm sure that there will 29 be ample information out there for the voters to make that informed 10:45AM 30 decision in November of this year on this bill. 31 32 I do have one question for the Administration. Nicole, perhaps, 33 you can answer this question. I want to be sure that the purpose 34 for which this fund was approved, which is, in fact, to stabilize 35 taxes in the sewer districts throughout Suffolk County, will the 36 fund be able to fulfill that purpose moving forward if we approve 37 -- well, certainly if we approve this resolution, it doesn't really 38 do much of anything except give the voters an opportunity. But if 39 the voters were to approve of the referendum in November, will 10:45AM 40 there be funding in this fund to serve the fund's purpose next year 41 and the year after and the year after that? 42 43 DIRECTOR NAUGHTON: 44 Legislator Cilmi, I'll answer that. I'm sorry. 45 46 MS. AMENDOLA: 47 Go ahead, Eric, sorry. 48 49 DIRECTOR NAUGHTON: 50 So, yes, in our modeling we made sure that there is sufficient 51 funding to continue to stabilize the rates and actually grew that 52 amount by each year just as a -- to be cautious. 53 54 LEG. CILMI: 55 Thank you, Nicole and thank you, Eric. I appreciate those answers. 56 Mr. Presiding Officer, thanks for the time.

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Thank you, Legislator Cilmi. Anybody else? Legislator Piccirillo, 3 go ahead. 4 5 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 6 I have a question for the County Attorney's Office through the 7 Chair if they're here or maybe Nicole happens to know the answer. 8 9 P.O. CALARCO: 10:46AM 10 Sure, go ahead. 11 12 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 13 Please come up. 14 15 P.O. CALARCO: 16 We have Dennis Cohen here. 17 18 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 19 Hi, Dennis, how are you? 10:46AM 20 21 MR. COHEN: 22 Hi, Legislator. Good. 23 24 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 25 I'm good, thanks. Is any part of this under appeal after the last 26 time we lost? Has the County appealed again in any way, shape or 27 form? 28 29 MR. COHEN: 10:46AM 30 Yeah, we have a Notice of Appeal pending in the Appellate Division 31 of Judge Farneti's last order. 32 33 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 34 Thank you, Mr. Cohen. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So, I was told by 35 some of my colleagues, who I respect as former attorneys and a 36 former federal prosecutor, that we should not move legislation that 37 is under appeal; that we should not intervene in the judicial 38 process. 39 10:47AM 40 So, I put it to my colleagues why are we doing it with 1414 but not 41 other pieces of legislation? If it's under appeal, it's under 42 appeal. And we should wait until the final verdict is cast. Not 43 to come back and go back and forth and what's good for the goose 44 isn't good for the gander. So, I can't support something that's 45 under appeal that a judge hasn't made a final decision yet. And 46 the County did its job, I understand why they appealed, but I think 47 we have to wait to see what the decision is. And to move this now 48 is just not prudent. I yield back, Mr. Chair. Thank you. 49 10:47AM 50 P.O. CALARCO: 51 Thank you, Legislator Piccirillo. Legislator Trotta. 52 53 LEG. TROTTA: 54 Yeah, I noticed that no one talked about the fact that we're down a 55 hundred million dollars and Congressman Zeldin got us 276 million 56 and that we actually have more money on hand and there'll be no

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1 need to lay anybody off. The only people that talked about laying 2 anybody off is the County Executive's people. And what do they 3 want to do? They want to cover up for their misdeeds of the past. 4 The fact that we're 62 out of 62 counties, rated the worst fiscal 5 county before this happened. We shouldn't be doing this. It's 6 wrong. It's morally wrong. And to Nicole, the Forge River, can 7 you explain where the Forge River money is coming from if it's -- 8 can you tell us where that is? 9 10:48AM 10 MS. AMENDOLA: 11 It's Federal money, but I think Peter Scully, who's also on the 12 line, can talk more to that. 13 14 LEG. TROTTA: 15 Okay. 16 17 MR. SCULLY: 18 The Forge River Watershed Sewer District project is a post Sandy 19 resiliency project that's being funded through Hazard Mitigation 10:49AM 20 grant Program funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. 21 22 LEG. TROTTA: 23 Through the State? 24 25 MR. SCULLY: 26 Federal funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA. 27 28 LEG. TROTTA: 29 And where does it go through? Does it get administered through the 10:49AM 30 State? 31 32 MR. SCULLY: 33 We are working with the Governor's Office of Storm Recovery on the 34 post Sandy resiliency sewer projects, yes. 35 36 LEG. TROTTA: 37 So it comes to the State. Now, the State is in deep financial 38 problems; correct? 39 10:49AM 40 MR. SCULLY: 41 I can't really speak to State finance, but from what I read in the 42 media, yeah, they're suffering some revenue shortfalls just like 43 the County is. 44 45 LEG. TROTTA: 46 Okay. And isn't it true that those are administered by the State 47 and they can be diverted, not the projects related to this, but not 48 necessarily this project? 49 10:49AM 50 MR. SCULLY: 51 No. My understanding is that the Federal Emergency Management 52 Agency has a mitigation grant program; fundings are secure. 53 They're Federal funds, not State funds and the State wouldn't 54 control those disbursements. 55 56

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1 LEG. TROTTA: 2 The State doesn't control the disbursements? 3 4 MR. SCULLY: 5 No, my understanding is that they're Federal funds. 6 7 LEG. TROTTA: 8 I'm not saying they're not Federal funds, but who controls the 9 disbursements? I know the answer to this. 10:50AM 10 11 MR. SCULLY: 12 I'd have to check to get a very clear answer for you. Happy to do 13 that. 14 15 LEG. TROTTA: 16 Okay. The point -- isn't it true that this money that we're about 17 to -- the 200 million -- I'm sorry -- $250 million, we could have 18 just as easily put something on the ballot saying we want to use 19 that money for the Forge River, for Kings Park or for Oakdale, for 10:50AM 20 Sayville or for Port Jeff or somewhere else? Isn't that true that 21 we couldn't do and that money could have been used to put sewers in 22 there? 23 24 MR. SCULLY: 25 I defer to Counsel on that. 26 27 LEG. TROTTA: 28 Okay. All right. I think the point is pretty clear. We have more 29 money today than we did a year ago; substantially more money. And 10:51AM 30 there's no threat of any layoff because we have more money and we 31 can make the payroll. But because we want to cover up for the 32 mistakes in the past -- it's just a sad situation. Thank you. 33 34 P.O. CALARCO: 35 Okay, Legislator. I'll put you back on the list, Legislator 36 Piccirillo. 37 38 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 39 Thank you. 40 41 P.O. CALARCO: 42 I got a long list now. Legislator Berland. 43 44 LEG. BERLAND: 45 Thank you, Mr. Presiding Officer. I would just through the Chair 46 would like to ask Dennis Cohen to actually answer the question that 47 Legislator Piccirillo posed but never let you answer. Would you be 48 so kind? 49 10:51AM 50 MR. COHEN: 51 Thanks, Legislator. So the two issues are unrelated. So, we filed 52 a Notice of Appeal of the requirement to immediately pay back $29.4 53 million into the ASRF. What the local law is doing and what the 54 voters hopefully will have a chance to vote on is once the money is 55 put back into the ASRF, can it then be transferred to the 56 taxpayers' trust fund? So, regardless of the appeal, if this goes

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1 forward, if the local law goes forward and the voters approve it, 2 we would just withdraw the appeal and not move forward. 3 4 LEG. BERLAND: 5 Okay. So, one is not in lieu of the other. I mean, they can both 6 go forward, the appeal can go forward and this resolution can go 7 forward. They're not opposed? 8 9 MR. COHEN: 10:52AM 10 Absolutely, correct. 11 12 LEG. BERLAND: 13 Okay. All right, thank you. And I also just, you know, we do have 14 other Congress people that represent us. I know that Legislator 15 Trotta likes to refer to Congressman Zeldin, who we all know is 16 very close with our President. But we do have Congressman Suozzi 17 as well who if we're getting any funding and we had the press 18 conference with Senator Gillibrand yesterday and Senator Schumer. 19 And so our, you know, entire delegation is working to get whatever 10:53AM 20 funds that they can to help State and local government. 21 22 So, you know, that being said, I just can't follow Legislator 23 Trotta's logic. One minute we have more money than we ever had in 24 the world and the next minute we're totally broke. So he really 25 needs to pick a side of that and stick to one or the other. But, 26 again, I think the issue is clear that it needs to go to our 27 constituents to let them decide. Thank you. 28 29 P.O. CALARCO: 10:53AM 30 Thank you, Legislator Berland. Legislator Flotteron. 31 32 LEG. FLOTTERON: 33 Yes. Is Director Naughton available? 34 35 P.O. CALARCO: 36 We had him. It looks like we have his blinds. 37 38 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 39 His blinds (laughter). 40 41 DIRECTOR NAUGHTON: 42 Okay, yes. 43 44 LEG. FLOTTERON: 45 I just want to understand and clarify. Legislator Cilmi asked a 46 question before about if this went forward and if it passed, would 47 there be funds for stabilization. How is that going to work in 48 this -- I thought it was pretty much everything gets drained out 49 for this resolution if it passes and there will be no funds for the 10:54AM 50 stabilization of sewer districts. 51 52 DIRECTOR NAUGHTON: 53 No, that's not the case. All we're doing is we're taking $15 54 million that we decided is excess funding outside of having funds 55 available for the stabilization. So, what we did in our modeling 56 was we assumed the same level of funding going to stabilize rates

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1 plus growing it by about 3 percent a year and we will still end up 2 with about -- ranging from about 11 to $14 million a year remaining 3 in the fund. 4 5 LEG. FLOTTERON: 6 Okay. Thank you for the clarification. 7 8 DIRECTOR NAUGHTON: 9 You're welcome. 10:54AM 10 11 P.O. CALARCO: 12 Okay. Legislator Spencer. 13 14 LEG. SPENCER: 15 Thanks, Mr. Presiding Officer. I did want to -- because this is on 16 the record, my colleague Legislator Trotta's assessment of the 17 County finances and I would love to hear from either Director 18 Naughton and our Budget Review Office. I mean, I'm hearing stated 19 on the record that we are flush with cash that we received from the 10:55AM 20 Federal government and there's no need for any mitigation, that we 21 can meet our obligations. 22 23 So, I'll start with Director Naughton. What is our financial 24 status? And just a very basic overview as far as our expenses that 25 we are facing to meet our payroll, and the money that we've 26 received from the Federal government, why do we need to do any of 27 these things? Is that a correct assessment by my colleague? 28 Or can you give us a -- kind of a financial overview. 29 10:55AM 30 DIRECTOR NAUGHTON: 31 Sure, I'll be more than happy to. I think it was made very clear 32 at the last Budget and Finance meeting that the cash is mostly 33 restricted cash. In fact, $300 million we have covers in 34 outstanding TAN. We also have a payment due next month of roughly 35 $80 million. Some of this money also has to be paid back to the 36 town for their property taxes. The CARES Act money, we still do 37 not have clear guidance on what expenses it will definitely offset. 38 There are -- there is an FAQ out there that says there is some 39 presumption but, you know, we still want to be cautious. And in 10:56AM 40 conversations with the Comptroller, he does not want us to be in a 41 position where we actually have to pay back money next year because 42 we overestimated the amount of money that can come from the CARES 43 Act. 44 45 In terms of the budget itself, I think -- I won't speak for Lance, 46 but I think we both still feel that, you know, we are facing a 47 roughly $400 million problem this year; 300 million next year. So, 48 even if by chance we could use all of the CARES money, we would 49 still have a problem of roughly $500 million over the next two 10:57AM 50 years. So this is a measure that we came up with that will help to 51 mitigate this and, you know, we are in a process, I think, you know 52 negotiating with the unions and making cuts with the departments. 53 So, to say that we don't need to do anything is a false statement. 54 55 56

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1 LEG. SPENCER: 2 Thank you, Director Naughton. Lance, do you have anything? At 3 least I want to hear from both budget experts. What's your 4 assessment? Would you be in agreement of Mr. Trotta's assessment 5 or Mr. Naughton's assessment? I just want to make sure -- there's 6 a very concrete statement that has been leveled by Mr. Trotta to 7 the public on the live record with regards to our finances and I 8 would like to hear from our budget expert. 9 10:58AM 10 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 11 Sure. As far as Legislator Trotta goes in the 1.5 billion that's 12 in the bank in cash at least as of that last cash report that we 13 saw, that money is restricted. As Eric Naughton had said, 300 plus 14 -- 300 million plus is for payment of TAN. I know we have the $80 15 million payment. There's restricted funds for Capital Projects, 16 which you can't use capital money to pay operating costs. 17 18 So, the bottom line is there was about 120 million available for 19 County operations. And when you have a payroll of around $37 10:58AM 20 million every two weeks, you know, to run a county this size, 21 that's cutting it close in terms of free cash or cash for 22 operations. 23 24 As far as the shortfall, on a cash basis for sales tax looking at 25 checks year-to-date compared to last year year-to-date, we're about 26 $73 million short. That translates going forward on a cash basis 27 of $260 million shortfall. Translating to budget that's a $325 28 million shortfall because the budget has a 3.65 percent growth in 29 sales tax, which obviously we're not going to have. 10:59AM 30 31 And then -- and that's the way we look today. I'd like to just say 32 that, you know, in the times that we're at, you know, I think 33 you're going to see projections swing widely. And, you know, if we 34 do better in terms of the economy, COVID, you know, does not come 35 back to New York, to Suffolk County, maybe we'll do a little 36 better. If it comes back, maybe we'll do a lot worse. 37 38 So, I'd like to say I'm comfortable with our projection, but I'm 39 also going to say that we can't look into the future at this point 11:00AM 40 in time and our projections could swing widely. But right now what 41 Eric Naughton said is -- I'm pretty much in agreement on what he 42 said. 43 44 LEG. SPENCER: 45 Thank you very much. I think it's really important that we as 46 leaders, that we do plan when we see something that is as 47 unprecedented as this crisis is. I think that we have been 48 extremely conservative in some of the projects that we're 49 approving. I think that we are looking everywhere to try to 11:00AM 50 prepare for the future, to try to continue the essential services 51 that we need for safety, for health. And I think that this is 52 difficult. No one wants to take these types of steps. But after, 53 you know, hearing from the financial experts, this isn't a time for 54 politics. I do believe in the people. I think it's -- I think 55 where I disagree with my colleague the most is the statement that 56 the people aren't able to make an informed decision. They've

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1 gotten it right since the founding of this country. They put us in 2 these positions to be able to make important decisions. And at 3 times where it comes to where we need to change course to be able 4 to give it back to the people to be able to make a decision, is a 5 wise thing. And I will be supporting this. Thank you. 6 7 (*The following was taken and transcribed by 8 Lucia Braaten - Court Stenographer*) 9 10 P.O. CALARCO: 11 Thank you, Legislator Spencer. Legislator Piccirillo. 12 13 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 14 To either of -- to Mr. Cohen again. I'm just curious if he could 15 point me to any case law or statutory law that says a ballot 16 referendum can overturn a lawsuit that the County has -- that the 17 County lost and would have to make payments back. 18 19 MR. COHEN: 11:00AM 20 Yeah, Legislator, this is not overturning a Judge's decision. The 21 Judge merely ordered the money to be put back into the ASRF. What 22 this Local Law would do, is once it's transferred back into the 23 ASRF, it would authorize the money to be taken out and transferred 24 to the Taxpayers Trust Fund. That's the same thing that we're 25 doing with the rest of the money. The only way to move it out is 26 through the referendum. 27 28 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 29 Right. 11:00AM 30 31 MR. COHEN: 32 That's what this Local Law is doing. 33 34 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 35 All due respect, does the referendum cancel the payback schedule, 36 the 5% a year until 2029? 37 38 MR. COHEN: 39 Does it -- I'm sorry, say that again. 40 41 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 42 Does it cancel the payback schedule of 5% a year every year until 43 2029, when then a balloon payment is due? 44 45 MR. COHEN: 46 Yes, it repeals the two sections of the Charter that requires that 47 money to be paid back. 48 49 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 11:01AM 50 So that is my question, can a ballot referendum overturn a payback 51 schedule? 52 53 MR. COHEN: 54 The ballot referendum is repealing the sections of the Charter that 55 requires it to be paid back, so yes. 56

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1 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 2 In your legal opinion, it can be done? 3 4 MR. COHEN: 5 Correct. 6 7 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 8 Okay. Three other lawyers I spoke to yesterday said it's never 9 been done before. 10 11 MR. COHEN: 12 Okay. 13 14 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 15 So I know you've always said, "Oh, it's always one lawyer's 16 opinion," and I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. 17 18 P.O. CALARCO: 19 Okay. Legislator Fleming. 11:01AM 20 21 LEG. FLEMING: 22 Thank you, Mr. Presiding Officer, my questions were answered. 23 24 P.O. CALARCO: 25 Thank you, Legislator Fleming. Legislator Trotta. 26 27 LEG. TROTTA: 28 To Lance. 29 30 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 31 Yes. 32 33 LEG. TROTTA: 34 I'll ask you the same question that I asked you in the committee 35 meeting. The year before, we had $800 million, and we had very 36 similar payback schedules, the TAN, the RAN, whatever we had to pay 37 back, and what was your answer then? 38 39 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 11:02AM 40 Yeah. I think we had less money in the -- in cash. Is that what 41 you're referring to? 42 43 LEG. TROTTA: 44 That's my point, yes. 45 46 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 47 The cash statement from the year -- from the year before, yes. 48 49 LEG. TROTTA: 50 Yeah. 51 52 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 53 It was 850 million, perhaps. So I'm going off memory. 54 55 LEG. TROTTA: 56 And now we have 257 million from --

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1 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 2 The CARES Act. 3 4 LEG. TROTTA: 5 From our Congressman, which, you know, clearly is -- is cash money. 6 7 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 8 Yes, it's cash in the bank. 9 11:02AM 10 LEG. TROTTA: 11 And to -- so we have more money than we did last year. And while 12 we're down 73 million in sales tax, what's your estimate by the end 13 of the year? 14 15 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 16 On a cash basis, a $260 million shortfall. That's a cash basis. 17 Budget basis, 323 to 325 million just on -- 18 19 LEG. TROTTA: 11:03AM 20 How do you come up -- how do you come up with the cash basis if 21 we're down 73 now when we're six months, seven months through the 22 year? 23 24 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 25 Well, and that's what I was saying, that, you know, our projections 26 can vary based on how the economy does. It's making certain 27 assumptions going forward that the economy is going to be down. 28 Loss of jobs, unemployment, loss of buying power is going to be a 29 drag on the economy through the rest of the year. So we anticipate 11:03AM 30 that sales tax will be down significantly during the next year. 31 And, you know, the first quarter of 2020 was -- the sales tax was 32 doing very well. That's in the mix, but we anticipate shortfalls 33 going forward. 34 35 LEG. TROTTA: 36 So given the fact that we had a 30% infection rate, now we're at 37 less than 1% infection rate, businesses are now back up and working 38 and running, things are looking better. I mean, so you're saying 39 that in the first half we lost 70 million, and we're going to be 11:04AM 40 down 200 million in the second half? 41 42 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 43 On a cash basis, right, that's right. 44 45 LEG. TROTTA: 46 In sales tax? 47 48 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 49 That's 260 million, that's correct. 11:04AM 50 51 LEG. TROTTA: 52 260 million. So we've been down 70 so far. It's an additional 53 260 million? 54 55 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 56 No, that's -- no. It would be at the end of the year you're down a

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1 total of 260. 2 3 LEG. TROTTA: 4 That's another 190 million in the next six months. 5 6 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 7 Correct. 8 9 LEG. TROTTA: 11:04AM 10 Minus the 70. 11 12 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 13 Right. 14 15 LEG. TROTTA: 16 $190 million. And what's the figure that our Congressman got them? 17 18 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 19 In terms of -- well, you mean, the CARES Funds, not counting the 11:04AM 20 transit money? 21 22 LEG. TROTTA: 23 Yeah. 24 25 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 26 It was two hundred and, I think, fifty-six million. 27 28 LEG. TROTTA: 29 Okay, plus the -- so, you know, it doesn't take a math whiz to 11:04AM 30 figure out that 270 million is more than 160 million. Thank you 31 very much. This is a disgrace. 32 33 P.O. CALARCO: 34 Okay. Thank you, Legislator Trotta. Legislator Kennedy. 35 36 LEG. KENNEDY: 37 Just two quick questions, one reflective of what Legislator Berland 38 and Legislator Spencer said. Just to make the record clear, I do 39 think that our people are cognitive, know how to read. They 11:05AM 40 already voted for the quarter cent clean water tax once. It's how 41 it's written and how it's advertised. The way it's going to be 42 written does not clearly state exactly what's going on. But since 43 we're fair, how much money do we have in an advertising budget in 44 order to advertise what actually is happening here? My guess would 45 be nothing. My guess would be we're not going to advertise what 46 actually is going to be going on here. 47 48 And then I have another question for Eric Naughton. You said we're 49 spending 15 million. Then why did the bill discuss the 11:06AM 50 29.4 million? And is the -- is it somewhere in writing, or is just 51 another -- is this just another verbal thing that all we're going 52 to be spending is 15 million out of this? 53 54 DIRECTOR NAUGHTON: 55 Just to clarify, the 29.4 refers to the -- to the lawsuit payback. 56 The $15 million, there's a provision that says we're taking the

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1 excess money in there, and the County Attorney can refer you to the 2 proper section for that. 3 4 LEG. KENNEDY: 5 Okay. Dennis? 6 7 MR. COHEN: 8 All right. So it's -- it's Subdivision 5 where it sets forth what 9 money is being transferred to the Taxpayer Trust Fund. It's a 11:06AM 10 total of $44.4 million, which is including the $29.4 million, which 11 has not yet been paid back into the ASRF. 12 13 LEG. KENNEDY: 14 But that doesn't say we are only spending $15 million, correct? 15 16 MR. COHEN: 17 I don't understand your question about spending $15 million. 18 19 LEG. KENNEDY: 11:07AM 20 Well, Eric Naughton said we will only be spending 15 million. 21 22 MR. COHEN: 23 We're transferring 15 million out of the ASRF into the Taxpayers 24 Trust Fund, along with the $29.4 million that has not yet been paid 25 into the ASRF. 26 27 LEG. KENNEDY: 28 Okay. So then we're transferring for spending a heck of a lot more 29 than 15 million, correct? Fifteen plus 29, is that what you're 11:07AM 30 saying? 31 32 MR. COHEN: 33 The $29.4 million is not yet in the ASRF. 34 35 LEG. KENNEDY: 36 What's the 44 million? 37 38 MR. COHEN: 39 Fifteen plus 29. 11:08AM 40 41 LEG. KENNEDY: 42 All right. And how much will be -- will we be -- how much will we 43 be spending? 44 45 MR. COHEN: 46 I don't understand the spending question, I don't know if Eric 47 does. 48 49 LEG. KENNEDY: 11:08AM 50 Okay. We're taking it out of one fund for what purpose? 51 52 MR. COHEN: 53 We're transferring it to the Taxpayers Trust Fund. 54 55 LEG. KENNEDY: 56 Okay. And what are we going to do with it when it gets there?

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1 MR. COHEN: 2 Eric, what do we do with it then? 3 4 (*Laughter*) 5 6 DIRECTOR NAUGHTON: 7 You make debt payments. 8 9 LEG. KENNEDY: 11:08AM 10 We're going to spend it. 11 12 DIRECTOR NAUGHTON: 13 I think what the Legislator is referring to is that -- 14 15 LEG. KENNEDY: 16 We're going to spend it. 17 18 DIRECTOR NAUGHTON: 19 On a net basis, the funding would lose -- 11:08AM 20 21 LEG. KENNEDY: 22 We're going to spend it. 23 24 DIRECTOR NAUGHTON: 25 Compared to today, the fund is -- will be losing $15 million. 26 27 LEG. KENNEDY: 28 You're cutting in and out, Eric. 29 11:08AM 30 DIRECTOR NAUGHTON: 31 Okay. Let me redo my connections back. So on a net basis compared 32 to today, the fund will lose $15 million, because we'll pay in the 33 29.4 and then transfer it to the tax stabilization -- to the 34 Taxpayer Protection Fund. So on the net basis, it's a $15 million 35 impact. 36 37 LEG. KENNEDY: 38 Okay. Is that written anywhere, or is that just you're going just 39 budgetarily, not in writing? 11:09AM 40 41 DIRECTOR NAUGHTON: 42 No. I think the law makes it clear to me, at least. 43 44 LEG. KENNEDY: 45 Right. It's written for an accountant, yeah. So it's not written 46 any other place. All right. I -- I don't know what to say. I 47 really -- I honestly -- I'm not feeling good about this. I think 48 we're lying to the people. We're asking them to vote for the same 49 thing, really, a second time when they clearly stated in the first 11:09AM 50 referendum we want the clean water money to go to clean water, not 51 to pay previous debts. There are other ways we can pay debt, and 52 to take it out of -- anyone who votes for this, I don't understand 53 how they could possibly vote for the new cesspool system, because 54 this is clean water in the utmost and we're taking from it. So 55 I -- and we're not advertising it correctly. I really have an 56 issue with it this, but thank you.

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Okay. Thank you, Legislator Kennedy. Legislator Spencer, I have 3 you next. But I'm going to chime in here quickly, because I'm kind 4 of -- I wasn't going to say anything. I thought Legislator Cilmi 5 kind of got it right, right on the head. Nobody likes doing this, 6 but we have specific challenges that we're facing. 7 8 Lance, the budget challenges we're facing, you're saying that we're 9 going to end this year on budget, because, remember, folks, our 11:10AM 10 budget is about $3.3 billion. So yes, Legislator Kennedy, every 11 dollar that we're asking the voters to let us take out of this fund 12 is going to be used to spend to cover the cost of our Operating 13 Budget, that is absolutely the case. This is a budget mitigation 14 measure, because we have huge revenue shortfalls. 15 16 LEG. KENNEDY: 17 Correct. 18 19 P.O. CALARCO: 11:11AM 20 Lance, our revenue shortfall on sales tax alone, compared to what 21 we budgeted -- let's rid of this cash thing. 22 23 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 24 Right. 25 26 P.O. CALARCO: 27 We're $73 million short of what we collected as of this time last 28 year. 29 30 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 31 Right. 32 33 P.O. CALARCO: 34 It has nothing to do with the fact that what our budget calls for, 35 because our budget called for what, 3.65% increase in sales tax 36 growth? 37 38 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 39 That's correct, growth at three point -- 11:11AM 40 41 P.O. CALARCO: 42 It was a pretty conservative estimate at the time, and we were well 43 surpassing that at the end of the first quarter -- 44 45 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 46 Absolutely. 47 48 P.O. CALARCO: 49 -- and then the COVID crisis hit. What is -- what is -- 11:11AM 50 51 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 52 Absolutely. 53 54 P.O. CALARCO: 55 And you, and I think Director Naughton, and I know that the New 56 York State Association of Counties have chimed in, the County

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1 Executive had his own special Task Force take a look at this. 2 Everybody is projecting we're going to come up somewhere between 3 3 and 400 million short on our sales tax collections alone, correct? 4 5 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 6 Oh, absolutely. 7 8 P.O. CALARCO: 9 Okay. 11:12AM 10 11 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 12 I mean, given what we know today. 13 14 P.O. CALARCO: 15 Yeah, unless -- 16 17 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 18 Compared to budget. 19 20 P.O. CALARCO: 21 Unless there's a miracle turnaround in the economy, because, 22 remember, like while we may be open, the rest of the country is 23 surging with cases right now. We have a travel restriction, which 24 is severely hurting sales tax collection on the East End, who would 25 normally be doing tremendous tourism business right now. 26 Certainly, they have some people from the City have come out to 27 stay there, because they want to get out of the urban area, but 28 it's not the same as the tourism that we usually get during this 29 time of year. The restaurants are operating at half capacity at 11:12AM 30 best. So we're at least 3 to 400 million short on sales tax, 31 right, Lance? 32 33 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 34 Yeah, three -- you know, our estimate today is 325, $325 million 35 shortfall for 2020, as compared to budget. 36 37 P.O. CALARCO: 38 On property taxes, I was being told that we've come up pretty short 39 on collections for property taxes this year. Now remember, we have 11:12AM 40 to make the Towns everybody else whole, so when the Town of, say, 41 Riverhead doesn't collect enough money t cover their own warrant, 42 we've got to pay out of our pocket to do that. Do you know what 43 we're short on that, Lance? Mr. Reinheimer, do you know? 44 45 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 46 Well, I don't think the numbers are fully in, but I think we are 47 looking at somewhere about a $30 million shortfall. Eric, I don't 48 know if you have updated information, but we're running behind, 49 absolutely. 11:13AM 50 51 DIRECTOR NAUGHTON: 52 Right. The taxes are still coming in, but we would say between 53 actual property tax collections and the interest and penalties 54 associated with those taxes, $30,000,000 would be the estimate. 55 56

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Okay. So that's another 30 million short. And then, of course, 3 we're coming short on a whole bunch of other things, whether it's 4 revenue out of the Traffic Violations Bureau, or revenues from the 5 other fees associated. We're in a pretty, pretty tough spot right 6 now and -- 7 8 DIRECTOR NAUGHTON: 9 And, you know, we've even had -- I'm sorry. You know, Jake's 58, 11:13AM 10 the casino, we budgeted $25 million, we'll get $1 million this 11 year. 12 13 P.O. CALARCO: 14 So our revenues are short in all sorts of places. And, hopefully, 15 the Federal Government says that the whole CARES Act can be spent 16 to pay off current expenses. But my understanding is the law was 17 pretty explicit in that it could only be spent for new costs 18 associated with response to the COVID crisis, meaning that if we 19 had a police officer out there doing enforcement on the shutdown of 11:14AM 20 a business, or a police officer doing enforcement on keeping a 21 restaurant, you know, social distancing, we can't use that 22 CARES Act money to pay for that officer's work, unless he was doing 23 it as an additional, on top of what it would normally be, a sector 24 car or police officer on the job. So we probably even have our 25 Public Health Nurses, who are on the job and are doing contact 26 tracing, not eligible for their salaries to be covered by the 27 CARES Act, because they would be working otherwise; is that about 28 accurate, Director Naughton? 29 11:15AM 30 DIRECTOR NAUGHTON: 31 Yes, that's a fair description of the -- of the CARES Act. 32 33 P.O. CALARCO: 34 It's only for new expenses, as far as we are understanding at this 35 point in time, which is why the Town of Hempstead is handing out 36 money to food pantries and hospitals and not using it for their 37 budgetary needs. 38 39 DIRECTOR NAUGHTON: 11:15AM 40 Correct. 41 42 P.O. CALARCO: 43 Okay. So I hope the Federal Government changes that rule and 44 allows us to use that, but even if they do, the math doesn't add 45 up. And I feel like I'm in some sort of, you know, alternate 46 universe where Legislator Trotta is all of a sudden telling us that 47 we're flush with cash, and everything's rosy, and we don't need to 48 be worrying about our budget. And, folks, like we can't cut our 49 ways out of this. Like these numbers are far too big to think that 11:15AM 50 we're going to be cutting it. And cuts in Suffolk County 51 government right now, because of how tight our budget is, means 52 people. It means services to the public, which means employees. 53 54 To the referendum issue that Legislator Piccirillo was asking 55 about, because he was -- he was -- it was an interesting line of 56 questioning. Do we have Mr. Cohen still, Dennis?

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1 MR. COHEN: 2 Yeah, go ahead. 3 4 P.O. CALARCO: 5 So Legislator Piccirillo, I believe, was actually referencing not 6 the most recent lawsuit, because remember, we're talking about two 7 lawsuits, the Levy lawsuit and then the Bellone lawsuit. So the 8 referendum I think Legislator Piccirillo was talking about or the 9 action was actually relating to the settlement with the Bellone 11:16AM 10 lawsuit, the one that came subsequent, and that one was settled and 11 part of the settlement was going out to the voters to do the 12 referendum. Is that -- is that correct, is that how you recall it? 13 14 MR. COHEN: 15 So not exactly. I mean, there are no written settlement 16 agreements. So in 2014, the voters passed the Local Law, well, 17 voted for the Local Law that was adopted by the Legislature. It 18 set forth a payback schedule that was placed into the Charter, and 19 those sections are being repealed through this Local Law, which the 11:17AM 20 voters would have a chance to vote on. 21 22 P.O. CALARCO: 23 So we're -- that amendment would be an amendment to the law that 24 the voters created by referendum, and this referendum would have 25 that changed. 26 27 MR. COHEN: 28 Correct. 29 11:17AM 30 P.O. CALARCO: 31 Did we have an actual settlement with the parties that sued us on 32 that issue, or was the settlement saying that we were just going to 33 put this out to the voters? What was the -- what was the action 34 there? 35 36 MR. COHEN: 37 I'd have to look at whatever was drafted, but nothing -- there was 38 no signed settlement. I mean, that's part of what led to the other 39 lawsuit. 11:17AM 40 41 P.O. CALARCO: 42 So that was -- all parties let it go, and we went out to the voters 43 and did the referendum that required us to pay the 20 -- to do the 44 $29.4 million worth of spending on a collective of issues, which we 45 have done at this point in time, as well as allowed us to borrow on 46 the ASRF with a payback schedule. 47 48 MR. COHEN: 49 Correct. 11:17AM 50 51 P.O. CALARCO: 52 Okay. So we -- you know, we've changed this program a number of 53 times since it was initially created. In fact, I think in the 54 initial creation of the program, some parts that are in there now 55 weren't even there, including the water quality spending portion. 56 And over time, the program has changed. We've changed the schedule

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1 in terms of how we did open space acquisitions. That was back in 2 2007, when we used to only pay cash for open space acquisitions. 3 And at the time, the argument from the environmental community was 4 that we had to buy land quicker, because it was so expensive and it 5 was going to run out. So we borrowed against future revenues, 6 which is part of why we don't have enough money to buy land now, 7 because we did that and we're paying back those bonds. 8 9 We changed the program and that we changed percentages in how much 11:18AM 10 was going to ASRF, where that number was less than it is currently. 11 And we've -- so all of those changes have gone to the voters. And 12 what had gotten us in trouble in the past was we -- when we pulled 13 money out of the ASRF for the purpose of stabilizing other taxes 14 without going back to the voters for their permission, and that's 15 what -- that's the essence of the rulings and the lawsuits. And at 16 this point in time, we're asking to go back to the voters again and 17 let them reconsider this. And I think that's the real distinction 18 between this action and what the County did during the Levy 19 Administration and what the County did at the beginning of the 11:19AM 20 Bellone Administration. And, again, it's really -- you got to have 21 faith in the voters that they're going to make a decision, and that 22 they are wise enough to do that, and I certainly have that faith in 23 them. 24 25 To the point of whether or not they will understand the issue, I'm 26 sure there'll be a lot of discussion. I'm sure Newsday and other 27 outlets will print stuff on it. But it's my understanding that we 28 passed a law as well that requires the Board of Elections to put a 29 narrative up on their website that clearly explains what a 11:19AM 30 referendum is doing; is that accurate? I guess that question is to 31 Counsel. 32 33 MS. SIMPSON: 34 I -- 35 36 MR. COHEN: 37 So I'm not familiar with that, that law, but there's an abstract -- 38 39 P.O. CALARCO: 11:20AM 40 I think Counsel -- I think Ms. Simpson can answer the question, 41 Dennis. 42 43 MR. COHEN: 44 All right, good. 45 46 MS. SIMPSON: 47 I was going to say we do, we do provide an abstract with a summary 48 of what the law does when we submit those ballot referendums for 49 BOE to publish on their website. 11:20AM 50 51 P.O. CALARCO: 52 Okay, thank you. And I just want to make clear again, the ASRF is 53 an Assessment Stabilization Reserve Fund. Assessment is really 54 just another word for tax levy. And so it is intended to be a 55 stabilization reserve fund to avoid taxes in any of the sewer 56 districts from exceeding basically a 3% increase in any given year,

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1 and Director Naughton has testified that there would be sufficient 2 revenue left in the fund to do that. So at the end of the day, 3 what we're really asking the voters to do is provide -- to take 4 funding from one tax stabilization fund to put into another tax 5 stabilization fund to avoid their property taxes having to increase 6 dramatically to cover these revenue losses that we're experiencing 7 over the next two years. And I think that is not really asking a 8 heavy lift of the voters. And I can certainly understand the more 9 concerns from people regarding the resolution that potentially has 11:21AM 10 impacts on the open space fund, though I think that maybe it 11 doesn't based on the provisions of that law. 12 13 This is really a pretty simple, straightforward issue in terms of 14 can we take from one Tax Stabilization Fund to use in the other 15 tax stabilization fund. It still leaves revenues to do the septic 16 replacement program, it still leaves revenues to do some of the 17 septic replacement and sewer initiatives that we're giving some of 18 the towns to do some of the issues. So I don't think this is 19 onerous, and then at the end of the day, it's a referendum, and 11:21AM 20 I've got to -- I've got to have faith in the voters in a 21 referendum. 22 23 Legislator Spencer, your hand's up, and I created a whole new list. 24 25 LEG. SPENCER: 26 So, just very briefly, I just wanted to respond to my colleague, 27 Legislator Kennedy's remark that the voters have already weighed in 28 on this. I would argue that things have changed substantially with 29 what's happened in this entire world, and the voters should have an 11:22AM 30 opportunity to reconsider in light of the new circumstances. 31 That's all. 32 33 P.O. CALARCO: 34 Legislator Trotta. 35 36 LEG. TROTTA: 37 Yeah, I just -- I actually forgot what I was going to respond to, 38 but it had something to do with the alternate universe where I 39 thought -- I think we're flush. I never said we're flush with 11:22AM 40 money, I just said we're incompetent, and this is not going to save 41 our incompetency. I mean, with all due respect to the Budget 42 people of the County, we're number 62, we're last. We don't get 43 any worse than us. And this is a mistake, because this money could 44 have been used for sewers in Kings Park, in Oakdale, in Sayville, 45 and all these other places that would have made the economy better 46 and did all these things we talked about and now it's not going to 47 be. So you're actually killing yourself by doing this. You're 48 digging yourself into a deeper hole. This is wrong. Now all of 49 you all think you're right, but guess what, we're number 62. 11:23AM 50 It doesn't get any bigger than that, last, dead last. 51 52 P.O. CALARCO: 53 Thank you, Legislator Trotta. Legislator Piccirillo. 54 55 56

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1 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 2 Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And through the Chair to Legislative 3 Counsel. Hi, Sarah. Sarah, I'm just reading here, and maybe you 4 could help me out. The standard for the wording of a proposition 5 under New York Municipal Home Rule Law is that it must accurately 6 and concisely summarize the purpose and effect of the proposed law. 7 Does the ballot referendum accurately and precisely summarize the 8 purpose and effect of the proposed law? 9 11:23AM 10 MS. SIMPSON: 11 I'm going to just read it real quick so that I can refresh. I 12 mean, I'm reading this. The proposition that's being put to the 13 voters and that will be printed on the ballot says, "Shall 14 Resolution 2020 adopting a Local Law, a Charter Law to transfer 15 excess funds in a Sewer Assessment Stabilization Reserve Fund to 16 the Suffolk County Taxpayers Trust Fund and to eliminate the 17 requirement that interfund transfers be made from the General Fund 18 to the Sewer Assessment Stabilization fund be approved," I think 19 that does accurately reflect what is being done in this resolution. 11:24AM 20 21 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 22 Right. So accurately and concisely. Do you think that this 23 concisely states -- 24 25 MS. SIMPSON: 26 That's as concise as it's going to get. This is -- 27 28 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 29 Well, and for a layman, concisely to me would say, "And the payback 11:24AM 30 of 29.X million dollars that we lost in a lawsuit." If that said 31 that, then I would probably say that's accurate and concise, but it 32 doesn't say that. And I think that we're buffaloing the public 33 into voting for something that's not clear and concise for the New 34 York Municipal Home Rule Law. I mean, I've made my case, that was 35 my summation. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, I yield back. 36 37 P.O. CALARCO: 38 Thank you, Legislator Piccirillo. Legislator Fleming. 39 11:25AM 40 LEG. FLEMING: 41 Thank you. I just wanted to clarify one thing that you said, Rob, 42 with regard to the impact of this Local Law. My understanding is 43 that it does not seek to undermine or act in contravention to Judge 44 Farneti's ruling. The Judge ruled that the 29.4 million has to go 45 back into the ASRF, and we are, in fact -- I think the County 46 Executive is appealing that, and that's a separate matter that's 47 being undertaken by them. But this law in Section, Subsection 5, 48 as I read it, requires that that 29.4, in fact, be put into the 49 ASRF, but then provides that should there be enough funding in the 11:26AM 50 ASRF to ensure that its purpose is fulfilled in that it provides 51 tax stabilization at the level required by the law, should there be 52 excess funding, which may include the 29.4 million, then, if the 53 voters approve it, that will be available to serve the purpose that 54 we are now talking about, that is, you know, to helping out in a 55 very challenging fiscal scenario. Can I ask Mr. Cohen, is that 56 correct, or am I misreading it?

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1 MR. COHEN: 2 Yeah, that's pretty accurate, Legislator. So, you know, the reason 3 we accounted for the $29.4 million is because presently it's not in 4 the ASRF. So we couldn't just say that a Local Law is transferring 5 $44.9 million out of the ASRF to the Suffolk County Taxpayers Trust 6 Fund, because the $44 million is not presently there. You have 15, 7 you have some -- you have some extra money in there. I think 8 there's a total of about 35. So we had to account for the fact 9 that 29.4, which is required to be paid into the ASRF, is not there 11:27AM 10 yet. So, again, if the voters approved of the Local Law, then the 11 money would be transferred back. There'll be sufficient excess 12 funds to make the $44.9 million transfer from the ASRF into the 13 Taxpayer Trust Fund. 14 15 LEG. FLEMING: 16 So it is not undoing the Judge's order or acting in contravention 17 to the Judge's order, it's, in fact, moving forward with the 18 Judge's order by putting the 29.4 first into the ASRF. 19 11:27AM 20 MR. COHEN: 21 Correct. 22 23 LEG. FLEMING: 24 Okay, thank you. That's my only question. 25 26 P.O. CALARCO: 27 Thank you, Legislator Fleming. Legislator Trotta, did you want one 28 more go at this? 29 11:28AM 30 LEG. TROTTA: 31 I have two things, actually. Can you -- Sarah, could you read 32 that back to me again? I mean, I think what you said was the -- 33 I'll read it to you, tell me if I'm wrong. "Charter Law to 34 transfer excess funds in the Sewer Assessment Stabilization Reserve 35 Fund to the Suffolk County Taxpayers Trust Fund to eliminate the 36 requirement of interfund transfer made," blah, blah, blah. Is that 37 what -- is that what it's going to say? 38 39 MS. SIMPSON: 11:28AM 40 That is what will be on the ballot, yes. 41 42 LEG. TROTTA: 43 What is the Suffolk County Taxpayers Trust Fund? I've never heard 44 of that before. 45 46 MS. SIMPSON: 47 That's the tax -- that's the General Fund stabilization. 48 49 LEG. TROTTA: 11:28AM 50 So why doesn't it say the General Fund? Who put the word "Trust 51 Fund" -- 52 53 MS. SIMPSON: 54 Because this the -- this is the -- this is the fund name that is 55 officially in the Charter. 56

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1 LEG. TROTTA: 2 The Trust Fund is in the Charter? 3 4 MS. SIMPSON: 5 The Taxpayer Trust Fund, yes. 6 7 LEG. TROTTA: 8 That's -- that's in, currently in the Charter? 9 11:29AM 10 MS. SIMPSON: 11 I believe so. Let me go find the section for you. 12 13 LEG. TROTTA: 14 Take an -- and, also, there was some other point that I wanted to 15 bring up, but, you know, it just -- it seems like -- look, I'd be 16 shocked if it said the Taxpayers Trust Fund, and I wouldn't have an 17 argument, but I just -- the General Fund? 18 19 LEG. CILMI: 11:29AM 20 If I may, it's -- I don't think the General Fund itself is known as 21 the Taxpayer Trust Fund. I think there is a Taxpayer Trust Fund 22 within the General Fund. I just wanted to -- 23 24 MS. SIMPSON: 25 That is correct. 26 27 LEG. TROTTA: 28 Which section is that? 29 11:29AM 30 MS. SIMPSON: 31 No. What I was saying was what Legislator Cilmi just said, the 32 General Fund isn't the General Fund, it's -- the Taxpayers Trust 33 Fund is within the General Fund. Let me get you the section. 34 35 LEG. TROTTA: 36 Yeah. To eliminate the requirement -- 37 38 P.O. CALARCO: 39 While we wait for Counsel, anybody else has any other questions, 11:30AM 40 comments? 41 42 LEG. TROTTA: 43 And what do you mean by the -- eliminate the requirement that 44 transfers made from the General Fund to the Sewer Assessment Fund? 45 What the heck does that mean? I'll let you find that first. 46 47 LEG. KENNEDY: 48 (Raised hand) 49 11:31AM 50 P.O. CALARCO: 51 All right. While we wait for Counsel to look that up, Legislator 52 Kennedy has her hand up. Legislator Kennedy. Go ahead, Legislator 53 Kennedy. 54 55 LEG. KENNEDY: 56 Doesn't -- doesn't this bill create that trust fund?

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1 MS. SIMPSON: 2 There had been a Taxpayers Trust Fund in Section 4 of the Charter 3 that was repealed. I'm going to have to look. 4 5 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 6 Oh. 7 8 LEG. TROTTA: 9 So we're going to send it to a fund that doesn't exist? 11:31AM 10 11 LEG. KENNEDY: 12 I think this one is -- 13 14 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 15 It creates it. 16 17 LEG. KENNEDY: 18 -- creating it. 19 11:31AM 20 LEG. TROTTA: 21 Well, wait a minute, time out. Anthony, would you read back what 22 the requirement is for a -- 23 24 MS. SIMPSON: 25 Yes. 26 27 LEG. KENNEDY: 28 What? Wait. 29 30 MS. SIMPSON: 31 There's a Taxpayers Trust Fund created by Article XII of the 32 Charter. 33 34 LEG. KENNEDY: 35 There it is. 36 37 LEG. TROTTA: 38 Say it again. So it says it, but it's not -- it doesn't tell 39 you're creating it? I don't think that's a valid -- 11:32AM 40 41 MS. AMENDOLA: 42 I just wanted to note that it's in the Charter already. 43 It's C12-2(c). That's where it -- 44 45 LEG. TROTTA: 46 What is it? What article? 47 48 MS. SIMPSON: 49 Thank you, Nicole. That's what I -- I was trying to find the 11:32AM 50 reference. 51 52 LEG. TROTTA: 53 Article? 54 55 MS. AMENDOLA: 56 Twelve.

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1 MS. SIMPSON: 2 C12-2(c) is what the Administration is saying. 3 4 LEG. KENNEDY: 5 C12-2(c)? 6 7 MS. SIMPSON: 8 Yes. The Charter is always a C -- is always a C before it. 9 11:32AM 10 LEG. KENNEDY: 11 Okay, thank you. 12 13 LEG. TROTTA: 14 C12, what? 15 16 LEG. KENNEDY: 17 2(c). 18 19 MS. SIMPSON: 11:32AM 20 2(c). 21 22 P.O. CALARCO: 23 All right, guys. I think we're grasping at straws now. Let's -- 24 I think it's time to call the vote. We've been at this for a good 25 hour-and-a-half. I have a motion. Madam Clerk, remind me of the 26 motions we have. 27 28 MS. ELLIS: 29 Yes. We have a motion and a second to table, and a motion and a 11:32AM 30 second to approve. 31 32 P.O. CALARCO: 33 Okay. Can we call the vote, guys? We have a motion to table and a 34 motion to approve. Tabling motion goes first. Roll call. 35 36 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 37 38 LEG. TROTTA: 39 Yes. 11:33AM 40 41 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 42 Yes. 43 44 LEG. KRUPSKI: 45 No to table. 46 47 LEG. FLEMING: 48 No. 49 11:33AM 50 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 51 No. 52 53 LEG. MURATORE: 54 Yes to table. 55 56

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1 LEG. ANKER: 2 No. 3 4 LEG. GONZALEZ: 5 No to table. 6 7 LEG. CILMI: 8 No. 9 11:33AM 10 LEG. FLOTTERON: 11 Yes to table. 12 13 LEG. KENNEDY: 14 Yes to table. 15 16 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 17 No. 18 19 LEG. RICHBERG: 11:33AM 20 (Not Present) 21 22 LEG. BERLAND: 23 No to table. 24 25 LEG. DONNELLY: 26 No to table. 27 28 LEG. SPENCER: 29 No. 11:33AM 30 31 D.P.O. HAHN: 32 No. 33 34 P.O. CALARCO: 35 No. 36 37 MS. ELLIS: 38 Five. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 39 11:33AM 40 P.O. CALARCO: 41 Tabling motion fails. Motion to approve goes next. Roll call. 42 43 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 44 45 LEG. GONZALEZ: 46 Yes. 47 48 LEG. DONNELLY: 49 Yes. 11:34AM 50 51 LEG. KRUPSKI: 52 Yes. 53 54 LEG. FLEMING: 55 Yes. 56

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1 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. MURATORE: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. ANKER: 8 Yes. 9 11:34AM 10 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 11 Pass. 12 13 LEG. CILMI: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. FLOTTERON: 17 Pass. 18 19 LEG. KENNEDY: 11:34AM 20 No. 21 22 LEG. TROTTA: 23 No. 24 25 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. RICHBERG: 29 (Not Present) 11:34AM 30 31 LEG. BERLAND: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. SPENCER: 35 Yes. 36 37 D.P.O. HAHN: 38 Yes. 39 11:34AM 40 P.O. CALARCO: 41 Yes. 42 43 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 44 No. 45 46 LEG. FLOTTERON: 47 Yes. 48 49 MS. ELLIS: 11:34AM 50 Sorry. Flotteron. 51 52 LEG. FLOTTERON: 53 Yes. 54 55 MS. ELLIS: 56 Fourteen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg)

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1 (*The following was taken by Lucia Braaten - Court Reporter & was 2 transcribed by Kim Castiglione - Legislative Secretary*) 3 4 P.O. CALARCO: 5 Okay, it was approved. 6 7 Excuse me. I.R. 1517 - A Charter Law to provide greater 8 flexibility in the override of vetoes relating to budgets. 9 (Calarco) I'll make a motion to approve. 11:35AM 10 11 LEG. GONZALEZ: 12 Second. 13 14 P.O. CALARCO: 15 Second by Legislator Gonzalez. Anybody on the issue? 16 17 LEG. CILMI: 18 Mr. Presiding Officer. 19 11:35AM 20 P.O. CALARCO: 21 Go ahead, Legislator Cilmi. 22 23 LEG. CILMI: 24 Before we -- before we go here, just I'm questioning the vote tally 25 on 1414. Oh, never mind. Jason's not -- so we have Kennedy, 26 Trotta and Piccirillo as opposed, and Jason absent, right? 27 28 MS. ELLIS: 29 Yes, that's correct. 11:35AM 30 31 LEG. CILMI: 32 Okay. Thank you. Move on. 33 34 P.O. CALARCO: 35 Okay. All right. So 1517, I have a motion and a second. 36 Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 37 38 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 39 11:36AM 40 P.O. CALARCO: 41 Yes. 42 43 LEG. GONZALEZ: 44 Yes. 45 46 LEG. KRUPSKI: 47 Yes. 48 49 LEG. FLEMING: 11:36AM 50 Yes. 51 52 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 53 Yes. 54 55 LEG. MURATORE: 56 Yes.

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1 LEG. ANKER: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 5 Sorry about that. Yes. 6 7 LEG. CILMI: 8 Yes, and please list me as a cosponsor. 9 11:36AM 10 LEG. FLOTTERON: 11 Yes, and cosponsor. 12 13 LEG. KENNEDY: 14 Sorry about that. Yes. 15 16 LEG. TROTTA: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 11:36AM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. RICHBERG: 23 (Not Present) 24 25 LEG. BERLAND: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. DONNELLY: 29 Yes. 11:36AM 30 31 LEG. SPENCER: 32 Yes. 33 34 D.P.O. HAHN: 35 Yes. 36 37 MS. ELLIS: 38 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 39 11:36AM 40 P.O. CALARCO: 41 It is approved. 42 43 I.R. 1522 - A Local Law to establish a limited reserve fund to 44 temporarily aid cultural arts organizations receiving funding 45 through the County's Hotel Motel Tax. (Kennedy) Legislator Kennedy, 46 you'd like to make the motion? 47 48 LEG. KENNEDY: 49 (Nodded). 11:37AM 50 51 P.O. CALARCO: 52 She's nodding her head yes. 53 54 LEG. KENNEDY: 55 Thank you. 56

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1 LEG. FLEMING: 2 Second, second. 3 4 P.O. CALARCO: 5 Second by Legislator Fleming. Anybody on the issue? 6 7 LEG. FLEMING: 8 If Legislator Kennedy would welcome a cosponsor, I'd love to 9 cosponsor it. 11:37AM 10 11 LEG. KENNEDY: 12 That would be great, thank you. 13 14 LEG. FLEMING: 15 Thank you. 16 17 LEG. GONZALEZ: 18 If you would accept that cosponsor. 19 11:37AM 20 P.O. CALARCO: 21 Okay. 22 23 LEG. KRUPSKI: 24 (Raised hand). 25 26 P.O. CALARCO: 27 Legislator Krupski, you have your hand up. 28 29 LEG. KRUPSKI: 11:37AM 30 I'd like to ask our Budget Review Office a question on this. Is 31 this -- does this money transfer to '21 or in other years also? 32 Does it transfer further out not knowing what's going to happen 33 next year? 34 35 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 36 Okay. Really it's reserving appropriations, it's not cash. 37 So it's trying to be -- I think the intent and, of course, the 38 sponsors can answer to that, there was one resolution that's 39 allowing nonprofits to use the funds this year that they received 11:38AM 40 for purposes other than what they were contracted for to close 41 their operating deficits. 42 43 The intent, I believe, for this legislation was to reserve the 44 appropriations for other nonprofits that have no operating 45 expenses, such as they were a community organization that was 46 sponsoring a concert. That's their only expense. They're not 47 holding the concert this year so say the 25,000 in appropriations 48 that they were budgeted for this year would go into 2021. 49 11:38AM 50 And the short answer on your question, this fund or appropriations, 51 would dissolve at the end of 2021 -- by March of 2022. So one of 52 the issues here is, you know, this fund is strictly funded by 53 Hotel/Motel funds. There's a little interest, but 99% is 54 Hotel/Motel funds. We anticipate about a 45% drop in revenue, so 55 there isn't going to be a lot of funds to meet the appropriations 56 that are in this year's budget.

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1 And I did put out a memo in response to the committee the other day 2 which went out to all Legislators that kind of summarized how it 3 looks like the County Executive is going to administer this fund, 4 which means it's a departure from the past. I have to say that I 5 think it's prudent to do this, so they're budgeting in what I would 6 call realtime what revenue comes in in 2020 would be used for, and 7 for the various community organizations, the Vanderbilt Museum, 8 Discover Long Island, and the transfer to the General Fund would 9 all be cut proportionately. So we're looking at a $6.5 million or 11:40AM 10 $6.2 million shortfall, which means that agencies probably won't 11 get the full amount that they were appropriated for this year 12 anyway. 13 14 I don't know if that answers your question or it gives it kind of a 15 broad view of what Hotel/Motel fund is doing in response to these 16 two resolutions, the one you're considering today and the one that 17 you passed I think it was at the last meeting. 18 19 LEG. KRUPSKI: 11:40AM 20 It does. Thank you very much. I'm ready to vote, Mr. Presiding 21 Officer. 22 23 P.O. CALARCO: 24 Thank you, Legislator Krupski. Legislator Berland. 25 26 LEG. BERLAND: 27 Yeah. I'm fully in support. I just want to thank the sponsor for 28 agreeing to make changes, which I know are already in the works 29 going forward. So thank you and I'll be supporting it. 11:40AM 30 31 P.O. CALARCO: 32 Thank you, Legislator Berland. Anybody else? Okay, so we have a 33 motion and a second. Roll call. 34 35 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 36 37 LEG. KENNEDY: 38 Yes. 39 11:41AM 40 LEG. FLEMING: 41 Yes. 42 43 LEG. KRUPSKI: 44 Yes. 45 46 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 47 Yes. 48 49 LEG. MURATORE: 11:41AM 50 Yes. 51 52 LEG. ANKER: 53 Yes. 54 55 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 56 Yes.

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1 LEG. GONZALEZ: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. CILMI: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. FLOTTERON: 8 Yes. 9 11:41AM 10 LEG. TROTTA: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. RICHBERG: 17 (Not Present) 18 19 LEG. BERLAND: 11:41AM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. DONNELLY: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. SPENCER: 26 Yes. 27 28 D.P.O. HAHN: 29 Yes. 11:41AM 30 31 P.O. CALARCO: 32 Yes. 33 34 MS. ELLIS: 35 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 36 37 LEG. KENNEDY: 38 Thank you. 39 11:41AM 40 P.O. CALARCO: 41 Okay, it is approved. 42 43 I.R. 1574 - Approving County funding for a contract agency 44 (East Northport Chamber of Commerce). (Trotta) 45 46 LEG. TROTTA: 47 Motion to approve, I guess. 48 49 P.O. CALARCO: 11:41AM 50 Motion by -- 51 52 LEG. SPENCER: 53 Second. 54 55 P.O. CALARCO: 56 -- Legislator Trotta. Second by Legislator Spencer. Anybody on

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1 the issue? Roll call. 2 3 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 4 5 LEG. TROTTA: 6 Yes. 7 8 LEG. SPENCER: 9 Yes. 11:42AM 10 11 LEG. KRUPSKI: 12 Yes. 13 14 LEG. FLEMING: 15 Yes. 16 17 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 18 Yes. 19 11:42AM 20 LEG. MURATORE: 21 Yes. 22 23 LEG. ANKER: 24 Yes. 25 26 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 27 Yes. 28 29 LEG. GONZALEZ: 11:42AM 30 Yes. 31 32 LEG. CILMI: 33 Yes. 34 35 LEG. FLOTTERON: 36 Yes. 37 38 LEG. KENNEDY: 39 Yes. 11:42AM 40 41 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 42 Yes. 43 44 LEG. RICHBERG: 45 (Not Present) 46 47 LEG. BERLAND: 48 Yes, and please list me as a cosponsor. 49 11:42AM 50 LEG. DONNELLY: 51 Yes. 52 53 D.P.O. HAHN: 54 Yes. 55 56

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Yes. 3 4 MS. ELLIS: 5 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 6 7 P.O. CALARCO: 8 Okay. It is approved. 9 11:42AM 10 Economic Development, Planning & Housing 11 12 I.R. 1527 - Authorizing the County Executive to execute a Foreign 13 Trade Zone Operating Agreement with Elm Global Logistics, Inc. 14 (County Executive) 15 16 LEG. CILMI: 17 Motion. 18 19 P.O. CALARCO: 11:42AM 20 Motion by Legislator Cilmi. Do we have a second to the motion? 21 I'll second the motion. Anybody on the issue? We do have Ms. 22 Broughton here in case there's questions. Seeing none, roll call. 23 24 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 25 26 LEG. CILMI: 27 Yes. 28 29 P.O. CALARCO: 11:43AM 30 Yes. 31 32 LEG. KRUPSKI: 33 Yes. 34 35 LEG. FLEMING: 36 Yes. 37 38 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 39 Yes. 11:43AM 40 41 LEG. MURATORE: 42 Yes. 43 44 LEG. ANKER: 45 Yes. 46 47 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 48 Yes. 49 11:43AM 50 LEG. GONZALEZ: 51 Yes. 52 53 LEG. FLOTTERON: 54 Yes. 55 56

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1 LEG. KENNEDY: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. TROTTA: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 8 Yes. 9 11:43AM 10 LEG. RICHBERG: 11 (Not Present) 12 13 LEG. BERLAND: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. DONNELLY: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. SPENCER: 11:43AM 20 Yes. 21 22 D.P.O. HAHN: 23 Yes. 24 25 MS. ELLIS: 26 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 27 28 P.O. CALARCO: 29 I.R. 1545 - Authorizing the County Executive to execute an 11:43AM 30 Agreement with the United States of America for joint use of the 31 Airfield with the Air National Guard at Francis S. Gabreski 32 Airport. (County Executive) 33 34 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 35 Motion. 36 37 P.O. CALARCO: 38 Motion by Legislator Piccirillo. 39 11:43AM 40 LEG. FLEMING: 41 (Raised hand). 42 43 P.O. CALARCO: 44 Second by Legislator Fleming. Anybody on the issue? We do have 45 Mr. Ceglio here if there's a question. Seeing none, roll call. 46 47 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 48 49 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 11:44AM 50 Yes. 51 52 LEG. FLEMING: 53 Yes. 54 55 LEG. KRUPSKI: 56 Yes.

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1 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. MURATORE: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. ANKER: 8 Yes. 9 11:44AM 10 LEG. GONZALEZ: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. CILMI: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. FLOTTERON: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. KENNEDY: 11:44AM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. TROTTA: 23 Yes. 24 25 MC CAFFREY: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. RICHBERG: 29 (Not Present) 11:44AM 30 31 LEG. BERLAND: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. DONNELLY: 35 Yes. 36 37 LEG. SPENCER: 38 Yes. 39 11:44AM 40 D.P.O. HAHN: 41 Yes. 42 43 P.O. CALARCO: 44 Yes. 45 46 MS. ELLIS: 47 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 48 49 P.O. CALARCO: 11:44AM 50 Okay, it is approved. 51 52 I.R. 1565 - Authorizing the sale of tax lien certificates on 344 53 Merrick Road, Amityville, NY (SCTM No. 0101-008.00-04.00-010.000) 54 to the Suffolk County Landbank Corporation. (Richberg) 55 56

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1 LEG. DONNELLY: 2 Motion to approve. 3 4 P.O. CALARCO: 5 Motion by Legislator Donnelly. 6 7 LEG. CILMI: 8 Second. 9 11:44AM 10 P.O. CALARCO: 11 Second by Legislator Cilmi. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 12 13 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 14 15 LEG. DONNELLY: 16 Yes. 17 18 LEG. CILMI: 19 Yes. 11:44AM 20 21 LEG. KRUPSKI: 22 Yes. 23 24 LEG. FLEMING: 25 Yes. 26 27 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 28 Yes. 29 11:45AM 30 LEG. MURATORE: 31 Yes. 32 33 LEG. ANKER: 34 Yes. 35 36 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 37 Yes. 38 39 LEG. GONZALEZ: 11:45AM 40 Yes. 41 42 LEG. FLOTTERON: 43 Yes. 44 45 LEG. KENNEDY: 46 Yes. 47 48 LEG. TROTTA: 49 Yes. 11:45AM 50 51 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 52 Yes. 53 54 LEG. RICHBERG: 55 (Not Present) 56

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1 LEG. BERLAND: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. SPENCER: 5 Yes. 6 7 D.P.O. HAHN: 8 Yes. 9 11:45AM 10 P.O. CALARCO: 11 Yes. 12 13 MS. ELLIS: 14 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 15 16 P.O. CALARCO: 17 Okay. It is approved. 18 19 I.R. 1568 - To reappoint Ronald Becker as a member of the Suffolk 11:45AM 20 County Citizens Advisory Board for the Arts. (Donnelly) 21 22 I'll take a motion -- 23 24 LEG. DONNELLY: 25 Motion. 26 27 P.O. CALARCO: 28 -- from Legislator Donnelly. I'll second the motion. Anybody on 29 the issue? Roll call. 11:45AM 30 31 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 32 33 LEG. DONNELLY: 34 Yes. 35 36 P.O. CALARCO: 37 Yes. 38 39 LEG. KRUPSKI: 11:45AM 40 Yes. 41 42 LEG. FLEMING: 43 Yes. 44 45 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 46 Yes. 47 48 LEG. MURATORE: 49 Yes. 11:45AM 50 51 LEG. ANKER: 52 Yes. 53 54 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 55 Yes. 56

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1 LEG. GONZALEZ: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. CILMI: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. FLOTTERON: 8 Yes. 9 11:46AM 10 LEG. KENNEDY: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. TROTTA: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. RICHBERG: 11:46AM 20 (Not Present) 21 22 LEG. BERLAND: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. SPENCER: 26 Yes. 27 28 D.P.O. HAHN: 29 Yes. 11:46AM 30 31 MS. ELLIS: 32 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 33 34 P.O. CALARCO: 35 It's approved. 36 37 Environment, Parks & Agriculture 38 39 I.R. 1528 - Authorizing an appraisal for the Purchase of 11:46AM 40 Development Rights of Farmland under the Suffolk County Drinking 41 Water Protection Program, as amended by Local Law No. 24-2007 – 42 George A. Muller, Jr. Property – Town of Huntington (SCTM Nos. 43 0400-269.00-01.00-023.001 p/o and 0400-269.00-01.00-023.002 p/o). 44 (Donnelly) 45 46 LEG. DONNELLY: 47 (Raised hand). 48 49 P.O. CALARCO: 11:46AM 50 I'll take a motion from Legislator Donnelly. 51 52 LEG. KRUPSKI: 53 Second. 54 55 P.O. CALARCO: 56 Second by Legislator Krupski. Anybody on the issue?

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1 LEG. DONNELLY: 2 (Raised hand). 3 4 P.O. CALARCO: 5 Legislator Donnelly, go ahead. 6 7 LEG. DONNELLY: 8 Thank you, Rob. Just as an FYI, so this project, I'm actually 9 assisting Supervisor Lupinacci once again in the spirit of 11:46AM 10 bipartisanship. They had requested that this appraisal be done. 11 I'm not a land expert so I asked Legislator Krupski for some 12 advice. He was pretty helpful in kind of helping guide it through. 13 I think he has a few comments on it as well. So thank you, Mr. 14 Presiding Officer. 15 16 P.O. CALARCO: 17 Thank you, Legislator Donnelly. Legislator Krupski. 18 19 LEG. KRUPSKI: 11:47AM 20 Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Presiding Officer. So this parcel of 21 land in Huntington, it is farmed land. It is good soil. It went 22 through the Suffolk County Farmland Committee. The Farmland 23 Committee has a member from every town in Suffolk County, so it's 24 well represented, and people have familiarity with these parcels. 25 So they recommended it. I think that even though that our Land 26 Preservation Program basically has no money in it right now, there 27 is money that comes in through sales tax revenues every day that is 28 dedicated. It's a dedicated funding stream for these type of 29 purchases. 11:47AM 30 31 There used to be a great deal of agriculture, real viable, 32 meaningful, production agriculture in the Town of Huntington, and 33 this is one of the last remnants of that. And it's because of that 34 it's an important parcel and we should consider it. We should do 35 the appraisals and we should consider it for acquisition and 36 preserve it as farmland. And not today, not because it's 37 Legislator Donnelly's district, no offense Tom, but we're doing it 38 for the next generation because it will always be preserved as 39 farmland. So I would hope everyone would support this appraisal 11:48AM 40 motion. 41 42 P.O. CALARCO: 43 Thank you, Legislator Krupski. Legislator Hahn. 44 45 D.P.O. HAHN: 46 Yes, I just wanted to -- I support preservation of farmland and 47 open space, especially on the West End where there's limited 48 amounts of these properties. However, I just want to make sure 49 that the sponsor, you know, puts on the record that he's reached 11:48AM 50 out to the owners and made it clear, and this is in an effort to 51 preserve the integrity of this program, that it is clear to the 52 owner that we do not have money right now. There are properties 53 that have been in the process for over a year or more that are at 54 the closing stage and we are not writing checks right now. 55 56

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1 And I think that that has to be crystal clear to the owner, and I 2 just would like you to put on the record that that is true. We 3 don't want in any way to misrepresent our ability to buy this land 4 at this moment. Hopefully, we get to a place where those dollars 5 are available again to us, so that we can complete the purchase, 6 and we want nothing more than to do that. And I just -- we're in a 7 very difficult spot with land acquisition money, and you know, so 8 it's been sort of somewhat controversial to move forward with 9 something when we don't have cash. We know we don't have cash 11:50AM 10 going forward. So I just -- we need to make that clear to the 11 landowner. 12 13 LEG. DONNELLY: 14 Legislator Hahn, both the Town and the owner are well aware of our 15 constraints right now, so they just asked that the appraisal be 16 approved so that it can go into the pipeline with the others that 17 you mentioned. 18 19 D.P.O. HAHN: 11:50AM 20 Thank you. 21 22 P.O. CALARCO: 23 Okay. Legislator Anker. 24 25 LEG. ANKER: 26 Again, I support continued effort to preserve both open space and 27 farmland. We can't give up at this point. You know, we have to 28 keep literally plowing through this as our symbol is, you know, 29 what we have as a Legislature. 11:50AM 30 31 So I do have a concern. I'll address Sarah Lansdale. I have a 32 parcel that's being held up because of, I guess, the Comptroller's 33 borrowing the cash to help pay down the bills. Do we have any idea 34 when that will be available? Evidently the towns don't realize 35 that we're in this type of situation. Any effort to try to move 36 those acquisitions along? 37 38 DIRECTOR LANSDALE: 39 I will definitely reach out and seek clarity. 11:51AM 40 41 LEG. ANKER: 42 Okay, thank you. But, again, I just want to put on the record we 43 can't give up. We have to continue to have these parcels 44 preserved. You know, all the Legislators here no doubt have areas 45 in their district that -- that need support. And, of course, you 46 know, one of our top priorities is preserving open space, you know, 47 for water quality, and we took a really hard vote, including 48 myself. But in our hearts, we know that we're going to continue to 49 do what's right, and this is why Suffolk County residents are here 11:51AM 50 and will continue to fight the good fight. Thank you. 51 52 P.O. CALARCO: 53 Thank you, Legislator Anker. Anybody else? Okay. We have a 54 motion and a second. Roll call. Oh, did I miss somebody? Nope? 55 Okay. I think Legislator Gonzalez is speaking off the -- off the 56 mic there. Go ahead, Madam Clerk.

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1 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 2 3 LEG. DONNELLY: 4 Yes. 5 6 LEG. KRUPSKI: 7 Yes. 8 9 LEG. FLEMING: 11:52AM 10 Yes. 11 12 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 13 Yes. 14 15 LEG. MURATORE: 16 Yes. 17 18 LEG. ANKER: 19 Yes. 11:52AM 20 21 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 22 Yes. 23 24 LEG. GONZALEZ: 25 Yes, and I apologize for the yell. 26 27 LEG. CILMI: 28 Yes. 29 11:52AM 30 LEG. FLOTTERON: 31 Yes. 32 33 LEG. KENNEDY: 34 Yes. 35 36 LEG. TROTTA: 37 Sorry, yes. 38 39 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 11:52AM 40 Yes. 41 42 LEG. RICHBERG: 43 (Not Present) 44 45 LEG. BERLAND: 46 Yes, and please list me as a cosponsor. 47 48 LEG. SPENCER: 49 Yes. 11:52AM 50 51 D.P.O. HAHN: 52 Yes. 53 54 P.O. CALARCO: 55 Yes. 56

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1 MS. ELLIS: 2 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 3 4 P.O. CALARCO: 5 Okay, it is approved. 6 7 I.R. 1544 - Authorizing use of Smith Point County Park in Shirley 8 for a Holiday Light Show Fundraiser. (County Executive) 9 11:53AM 10 I'll make the motion. 11 12 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 13 Motion. 14 15 P.O. CALARCO: 16 Second by Legislator Sunderman. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 17 18 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 19 11:53AM 20 P.O. CALARCO: 21 Yes. 22 23 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 24 Yes. 25 26 LEG. KRUPSKI: 27 Yes. 28 29 LEG. FLEMING: 11:53AM 30 Yes. 31 32 LEG. MURATORE: 33 Yes. 34 35 LEG. ANKER: 36 Yes. 37 38 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 39 Yes. 11:53AM 40 41 LEG. GONZALEZ: 42 Yes. 43 44 LEG. CILMI: 45 Yes. 46 47 LEG. FLOTTERON: 48 Yes. 49 11:53AM 50 LEG. KENNEDY: 51 Yes. 52 53 LEG. TROTTA: 54 Yes. 55 56

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1 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. RICHBERG: 5 (Not Present) 6 7 LEG. BERLAND: 8 Yes. 9 11:53AM 10 LEG. DONNELLY: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. SPENCER: 14 Yes. 15 16 D.P.O. HAHN: 17 Yes. 18 19 MS. ELLIS: 20 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 21 22 (*The following was taken and transcribed by 23 Lucia Braaten - Court Stenographer*) 24 25 P.O. CALARCO: 26 Okay. I.R. 1547 - Confirming the appointment of Jason Smagin as 27 Commissioner of the Department of Parks, Recreation and 28 Conservation. (Co. Exec.) 29 30 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 31 (Raised hand) I make a Motion. 32 33 LEG. DONNELLY: 34 (Raised hand) Motion to approve. 35 36 LEG. KRUPSKI: 37 (Raised hand) 38 39 P.O. CALARCO: 11:54AM 40 I'll take a motion from Legislator Krupski. 41 42 LEG. CILMI: 43 Second. 44 45 LEG. GONZALEZ: 46 (Raised hand) 47 48 P.O. CALARCO: 49 Second by Legislator Donnelly. Everybody is raising their hand. 11:54AM 50 It must be a good sign, Mr. Smagin. 51 52 LEG. KENNEDY: 53 Yes, yes. 54 55 P.O. CALARCO: 56 We have Mr. Smagin here in the room with us. Does anybody have any

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1 questions on the issue? 2 3 LEG. KRUPSKI: 4 (Raised hand) 5 6 P.O. CALARCO: 7 Legislator Krupski. 8 9 LEG. KRUPSKI: 11:54AM 10 Yes, thank you. You know, I asked the Presiding Officer if I could 11 make the motion on this, because -- first of all, I want to start 12 off by thanking Phil Berdolt, who served as Commissioner for a 13 while in Parks. And when we heard the news that he was going to be 14 transferred, there was a lot of concern in the First District about 15 who would -- who would fill this important post. We have a number 16 of parks here that are -- and a lot of them aren't supervised 17 parks. They're beautiful open space parcels that are used by the 18 public, some have water access, some don't. Some have been 19 purchased in a 50-50 partnership with the Town, and some are solely 11:55AM 20 by the County over the years, and they're managed in a variety of 21 fashion by the County. 22 23 There was a lot of concern over -- especially with the pandemic, 24 with all the people fleeing from the City coming out to the East 25 End to seek solace in the open spaces in a peaceful nature. Who 26 was going to oversee all this, because it's -- it was -- we were 27 under siege by a lot of people who were not County residents. And 28 Jason has stepped up into the void and into the breach really 29 admirably, and he is terrifically responsive. He is one of -- one 11:55AM 30 of the -- I think one of his best qualities is that he is really 31 willing to work with local municipalities on decision-making, on 32 enforcement, to try to protect -- to try to protect our -- the 33 natural resources that we have out here, and they're being heavily 34 used and heavily being taken advantage of now. People are seeking 35 the outdoors, they're seeking beach access, they're seeking open 36 spaces. 37 38 And Jason's also very -- I have to say, very organized. We were 39 very impressed by the way he gets things done, and he gets things 11:56AM 40 done quickly. So it's been a real privilege to work with him to 41 keep our parks and beaches accessible and clean for our residents, 42 and, you know, I couldn't be more pleased. So thank you, thank 43 you, Acting Commissioner Smagin. 44 45 P.O. CALARCO: 46 Thank you, Legislator Krupski. Legislator McCaffrey. 47 48 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 49 Thank you. And I just want to echo Legislator Krupski's 11:57AM 50 compliments for Jason, although the closest thing I have to a 51 County park is the Southwest Sewer District plant on Bergen -- at 52 Bergen Point. I am happy to say that I'm sure Jason will do a 53 great job with the Parks Department. He was very responsive 54 when -- in Economic Development, any issues I had with it, and I 55 just think he's going to do a great job. And I will miss Phil 56 Berdolt, and look forward to him working -- working with him in --

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1 back in DPW. Jason, I look forward to working with you. 2 Thank you, and I'll be supporting it. 3 4 P.O. CALARCO: 5 Thank you, Legislator McCaffrey. Legislator Gonzalez. 6 7 LEG. GONZALEZ: 8 Yeah. Listen, I think eloquently everything that Legislator 9 Krupski, and I hate to use the word "eloquently" sometimes with the 11:57AM 10 Legislator, and Legislator McCaffrey (laughter). 11 12 Jason, I don't usually come forward too much with speaking so 13 highly about someone that's going into a particular office, but 14 everything that I have asked you, I've asked your help in the past, 15 you've always sat present. Even while you were even sick, I 16 remember that one day going into your office, and you were like in 17 the office and I was in the hall. Jason, you know, this -- I'm 18 just so pleased as well that you are now taking over this position. 19 11:58AM 20 I'm going to this brief. Congratulations. I will be supporting 21 this today. And my apologies for not going to see the movie a 22 couple of weeks ago. Things just happened to come about, but I 23 will -- I will be waiting for your next invitation. But thank you, 24 and I will be supporting it. 25 26 P.O. CALARCO: 27 Thank you, Legislator Gonzalez. Legislator Sunderman. 28 29 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 11:59AM 30 Well, first, I'd like to say congratulations to Jason, because I 31 will tell you, you know, Legislator Calarco, you know you always 32 give me Smith Point when there's an issue, so I thank you for that. 33 But Jason -- 34 35 (*Laughter*) 36 37 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 38 He's laughing, because Jason knows, I have to give him a call all 39 the time when we have issues at Smith Point. But, Jason, I truly 11:59AM 40 will support this. And congratulations, I know you'll do a great 41 job. Thank you. 42 43 P.O. CALARCO: 44 Okay. Legislator Berland. 45 46 LEG. BERLAND: 47 Hi. I just want to echo everybody's sentiments on Jason. He's 48 always been there to, you know, work with me on the housing issues. 49 And, you know, we had a lot of fun like, you know, batting heads, 11:59AM 50 and going through things and trying to come up with new ways of 51 looking at things. And I think, Jason, you're going to do a great 52 job in this and I support you wholeheartedly. Good luck. 53 54 P.O. CALARCO: 55 Okay. Legislator Kennedy. 56

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1 LEG. KENNEDY: 2 Just a couple of words for Jason: Fair, equitable, reasonable, 3 knowledgeable. If he does half as good a job as he did with 4 Real Estate, we are lucky people. And you know me, I barely say 5 that about anyone, so. 6 7 (*Laughter*) 8 9 P.O. CALARCO: 12:00PM 10 Thank you, Legislator Kennedy. Legislator Trotta, and don't 11 mention Burke. 12 13 (*Laughter*) 14 15 LEG. TROTTA: 16 It sounds like everyone loves Jason. It sounds like a movie, a TV 17 program. Congratulations, good work, and I'll see you out there. 18 19 P.O. CALARCO: 12:00PM 20 Thank you, Legislator Trotta. Legislator Hahn. 21 22 LEG. TROTTA: 23 Make me a cosponsor, please. 24 25 LEG. GONZALEZ: 26 Me three. 27 28 D.P.O. HAHN: 29 And as Chair of the Parks Committee, I would like to echo what 12:00PM 30 everyone has said. I would like to thank Phil Berdolt. We're just 31 glad we're keeping him in Suffolk County, and so appreciative to 32 all he did for the Parks Department. 33 34 Jason, you really outdid expectations immediately, which is always 35 a good thing. Incredible crisis. You know, we're at cataclysmic 36 times, that the words "unprecedented" that have been used 37 previously just don't even cover this, what we're facing. And it's 38 been every department that has had to change, that has had to come 39 up with new procedures, and systems, and purchase new equipment, 12:01PM 40 and figure it out for the first time ever, and so your leadership 41 has really helped that along. But your willingness to just really, 42 you know, dig down deep and get in there and visit every park, and 43 meet with people, and see for yourself with your own eyes what's 44 going on and what the communities are facing. 45 46 As we all know, during these very difficult times people need our 47 parks, they need an escape. Our residents have lost family 48 members, our residents have lost jobs, our residents have lost 49 their life savings in some cases, and our parks are a respite. 12:02PM 50 And, you know, we're very grateful to have such dedicated public 51 service people who, you know, are willing to protect our parks for 52 our residents, and are willing to work so hard during very 53 difficult times, so thank you. I look forward to working with you 54 on the vision of the Parks Department moving forward and beyond 55 COVID. 56

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Okay. Thank you, Legislator Hahn. Legislator Anker. 3 4 LEG. ANKER: 5 And ditto what she said, to be -- to be quicker here. But I just 6 want to thank Jason for all the work that he's done, especially in 7 my district, Cordwood Landing, and Chandler Estate, Heritage Park. 8 9 You know, like Legislator Hahn had mentioned, folks are not able to 12:03PM 10 get out to do their normal routine, whether it's go to work, the 11 kids playing sports. You know, these different types of 12 activities, we're now limited, and we're in a different world right 13 now, and that world basically requires us to stay at home, and stay 14 in place, and really staycation, and that's what our residents are 15 doing right now. 16 17 So, Jason, good luck. It's a -- I know it's going to be a 18 challenging job at times, but I hope it will be more rewarding, 19 because, again, that's what we try to do here in Suffolk County, is 12:03PM 20 really help our residents enjoy what Suffolk has to give, and that 21 is, you know, our parks, open space, farmland protection, as 22 Legislator Krupski is a great advocate for. So, again, good luck. 23 And I'm very proud to have you not only as our Parks Commissioner, 24 but as one of my constituents. Good luck. 25 26 P.O. CALARCO: 27 Okay. Legislator Flotteron. 28 29 LEG. FLOTTERON: 12:04PM 30 Jason, I hope you're -- I don't know you well enough to add to your 31 wonderful eulogy today, but hopefully you're enjoying all -- 32 33 (*Laughter*) 34 35 But again, from everything I hear from everybody, you have my full 36 support. 37 38 P.O. CALARCO: 39 All right. Any -- oh, Legislator Cilmi. 12:04PM 40 41 LEG. CILMI: 42 I just didn't want to be conspicuously absent from this parade of 43 cheer for Jason. I did, I did text Jason privately, but 44 congratulations, Jason. Thanks for your responsiveness. As 45 somebody who is a business person, customer service is paramount, 46 in my opinion, always. And so responsiveness to us, in many ways, 47 we as Legislators are your customers. And I just really appreciate 48 the responsiveness, and not only -- not only just getting back, but 49 getting back with information, and getting things done when we need 12:05PM 50 to get things done. So congratulations again, and appreciate your 51 service to our County. 52 53 P.O. CALARCO: 54 Okay. Legislator Spencer. 55 56

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1 LEG. SPENCER: 2 Jason, you're wonderful. 3 4 (*Laughter*) 5 6 P.O. CALARCO: 7 Well put, nice and succinct. Anybody else? 8 9 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 12:05PM 10 I can't be the only one. Jason, welcome to the Eighth Legislative 11 District. I look forward to seeing you in West Sayville at work. 12 And I'll be sure to bring you a care package from my mother. 13 14 (*Laughter*) 15 16 P.O. CALARCO: 17 All right. Anybody else? All right. Mr. Smagin, it sounds like 18 you have the votes, so you're probably better off keeping your 19 mouth shut at this point in time. 12:05PM 20 21 (*Laughter*) 22 23 All right. We have a motion and a second. Roll call. 24 25 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 26 27 LEG. KRUPSKI: 28 Yes. 29 12:05PM 30 LEG. DONNELLY: 31 Yes. 32 33 LEG. FLEMING: 34 Yes. 35 36 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 37 Yes. 38 39 LEG. MURATORE: 12:05PM 40 Absolutely. 41 42 LEG. ANKER: 43 Yes. 44 45 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 46 Yes. 47 48 LEG. GONZALEZ: 49 Yes. 12:05PM 50 51 LEG. CILMI: 52 Yes. 53 54 LEG. FLOTTERON: 55 Yes. 56

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1 LEG. KENNEDY: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. TROTTA: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 8 Yes. 9 12:06PM 10 LEG. RICHBERG: 11 (Not Present) 12 13 LEG. BERLAND: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. SPENCER: 17 Yes. 18 19 D.P.O. HAHN: 12:06PM 20 Yes. 21 22 P.O. CALARCO: 23 Yes. 24 25 MS. ELLIS: 26 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 27 28 P.O. CALARCO: 29 It's approved. Congratulations, Mr. Smagin. 30 31 (*Applause*) 32 33 (*The following was taken by Lucia Braaten - Court Stenographer and 34 transcribed by Kim Castiglione - Legislative Secretary*) 35 36 I.R. 1569 - Making a SEQRA determination in connection with the 37 proposed Construction of a Dune Crossover in Davis Park, CP 5385, 38 Town of Brookhaven. (Presiding Officer Calarco) 39 12:06PM 40 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 41 Motion. 42 43 P.O. CALARCO: 44 I'll make a motion. Second by Legislator Piccirillo. Anybody on 45 the issue? 46 47 LEG. KRUPSKI: 48 On the motion. 49 12:06PM 50 P.O. CALARCO: 51 On the motion, Legislator Krupski. 52 53 LEG. KRUPSKI: 54 I have a question for Commissioner Smagin. 55 56

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 I don't think this one's in his bailiwick, but we can -- 3 4 LEG. KRUPSKI: 5 Oh, okay. Who -- 6 7 P.O. CALARCO: 8 DPW will be constructing the crossover and then transferring it to 9 the Town of Brookhaven's Highway Department. 12:07PM 10 11 LEG. KRUPSKI: 12 This is the SEQRA determination. Are we going to have another 13 opportunity here to vote on this? 14 15 P.O. CALARCO: 16 We voted on the appropriation to build the crossover already. 17 We have not done the bond. 18 19 LEG. KRUPSKI: 12:07PM 20 Thank you. 21 22 P.O. CALARCO: 23 You're welcome. Anybody else? Okay. Roll call. 24 25 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 26 27 P.O. CALARCO: 28 Yes. 29 12:07PM 30 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 31 Yes. 32 33 LEG. KRUPSKI: 34 Yes. 35 36 LEG. FLEMING: 37 Yes. 38 39 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 12:07PM 40 Yes. 41 42 LEG. MURATORE: 43 Yes. 44 45 LEG. ANKER: 46 Yes. 47 48 LEG. GONZALEZ: 49 Yes. 12:07PM 50 51 LEG. CILMI: 52 Yes. 53 54 LEG. FLOTTERON: 55 Yes. 56

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1 LEG. KENNEDY: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. TROTTA: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 8 Yes. 9 12:07PM 10 LEG. RICHBERG: 11 (Not Present) 12 13 LEG. BERLAND: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. DONNELLY: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. SPENCER: 12:07PM 20 Yes. 21 22 D.P.O. HAHN: 23 Yes. 24 25 MS. ELLIS: 26 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 27 28 P.O. CALARCO: 29 Okay, it is approved. 12:08PM 30 31 Government Operations, Personnel, Information Tech & Diversity 32 33 I.R. 1549 - Approving the reappointment of Luis Valenzuela, Ph.D., 34 to the Suffolk County Human Rights Commission (County Executive). 35 36 LEG. MURATORE: 37 Motion. 38 39 LEG. GONZALEZ: 12:08PM 40 Second. 41 42 P.O. CALARCO: 43 Motion by Legislator Muratore, second by Legislator Gonzalez. 44 Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 45 46 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 47 48 LEG. MURATORE: 49 Yes. 12:08PM 50 51 LEG. GONZALEZ: 52 Yes. 53 54 LEG. KRUPSKI: 55 Yes. 56

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1 LEG. FLEMING: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. ANKER: 8 Yes. 9 12:08PM 10 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. CILMI: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. FLOTTERON: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. KENNEDY: 12:08PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. TROTTA: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. RICHBERG: 29 (Not Present) 12:08PM 30 31 LEG. BERLAND: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. DONNELLY: 35 Yes. 36 37 LEG. SPENCER: 38 Yes. 39 12:08PM 40 D.P.O. HAHN: 41 Yes. 42 43 P.O. CALARCO: 44 Yes. 45 46 MS. ELLIS: 47 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 48 49 P.O. CALARCO: 12:09PM 50 I.R. 1550 - Approving the reappointment of Lynda Perdomo-Ayala, 51 to the Suffolk County Human Rights Commission. (County Executive) 52 53 I'll take a motion from Legislator Gonzalez. 54 55 LEG. GONZALEZ: 56 (Raised hand).

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Second from Legislator Hahn. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 3 4 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 5 6 LEG. GONZALEZ: 7 Yes. 8 9 D.P.O. HAHN: 12:09PM 10 Yes. 11 12 LEG. KRUPSKI: 13 Yes. 14 15 LEG. FLEMING: 16 Yes. 17 18 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 19 Yes. 12:09PM 20 21 LEG. MURATORE: 22 Yes. 23 24 LEG. ANKER: 25 Yes. 26 27 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 28 Yes. 29 12:09PM 30 LEG. CILMI: 31 Yes. 32 33 LEG. FLOTTERON: 34 Yes. 35 36 LEG. KENNEDY: 37 Yes. 38 39 LEG. TROTTA: 12:09PM 40 Yes. 41 42 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 43 Yes. 44 45 LEG. RICHBERG: 46 (Not Present) 47 48 LEG. BERLAND: 49 Yes. 12:09PM 50 51 LEG. DONNELLY: 52 Yes. 53 54 LEG. SPENCER: 55 Yes. 56

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Yes. 3 4 MS. ELLIS: 5 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 6 7 P.O. CALARCO: 8 Okay, it's approved. 9 12:09PM 10 I.R. 1551 - Approving the appointment of Lynda Perdomo-Ayala as 11 Chair of the Suffolk County Human Rights Commission. (County 12 Executive) 13 14 I'll take same motion, same second. Anybody on the issue? 15 Roll call. 16 17 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 18 19 LEG. GONZALEZ: 12:10PM 20 Yes. 21 22 D.P.O. HAHN: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. KRUPSKI: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. FLEMING: 29 Yes. 12:10PM 30 31 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. MURATORE: 35 Yes. Yes. Yes. 36 37 LEG. ANKER: 38 Yes. 39 12:10PM 40 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 41 Yes. 42 43 LEG. CILMI: 44 Yes. 45 46 LEG. FLOTTERON: 47 Yes. 48 49 LEG. KENNEDY: 12:10PM 50 Yes. 51 52 LEG. TROTTA: 53 Yes. 54 55 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 56 Yes.

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1 LEG. RICHBERG: 2 (Not Present). 3 4 LEG. BERLAND: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. DONNELLY: 8 Yes. 9 12:10PM 10 LEG. SPENCER: 11 Yes. 12 13 P.O. CALARCO: 14 Yes. 15 16 MS. ELLIS: 17 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 18 19 P.O. CALARCO: 12:10PM 20 Okay. I.R. 1554 - Requiring diversity and inclusion training for 21 all County employees annually. (Richberg) 22 23 LEG. FLEMING: 24 Motion. 25 26 P.O. CALARCO: 27 Motion by Legislator Fleming, second by Legislator Hahn. Anybody 28 on the issue? 29 12:11PM 30 LEG. FLOTTERON: 31 (Raised hand). 32 33 P.O. CALARCO: 34 Legislator Flotteron. 35 36 LEG. FLOTTERON: 37 Yeah, just clarification. One, in general I'm supportive of this. 38 My question is how long are these classes going to be, and is this 39 for all -- all employees and management, everyone? 12:11PM 40 41 MS. SIMPSON: 42 The bill does say that the training will be for everyone. There is 43 no specific time in the resolution as to how long the training will 44 last, but everyone will be trained. 45 46 LEG. FLOTTERON: 47 And the reason of my questioning, just because there might be -- 48 with our budget right now and even there might be layoffs and 49 stuff, how are we going to -- I'm just guessing the number. Say 12:11PM 50 the class is two hours long. How are we going to get, say, 911 51 Operators, 311 Operators, all other employees since we're short all 52 over, are they going to be able to take the time out of their 53 schedule? And we have to cover it with overtime probably, to get 54 this education done. And, again, I didn't see the cost of what 55 that might be for that overtime. 56

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1 MS. AMENDOLA: 2 Could I just chime in? The Administration is working with 3 Legislator Richberg on this. This is something we're definitely 4 looking forward to doing. The training will be based off of the 5 Police Academy training that's already done with the new cadets, 6 and HR -- not HR, I'm sorry. Civil Service will be using that and 7 tailoring it to all employees. All employees will be required to 8 do it online and Supervisors and Commissioners will be required to 9 do it in person. And it will be on -- not on overtime, it will be 12:12PM 10 on County time, like all our other trainings are. 11 12 LEG. FLOTTERON: 13 But I'm saying wouldn't we have to like say, for example, a 911 14 Operator works 9 to 5, say. They would have to then take that time 15 off and we would need someone -- they would need to take that time 16 to take this education and we would need someone to cover them. 17 18 MS. AMENDOLA: 19 It will be covered on -- they'll have to do it on their time when 12:13PM 20 they work. They do it now, so on straight time. 21 22 LEG. FLOTTERON: 23 Okay. 24 25 MS. AMENDOLA: 26 There's also harassment training. There's a number of other 27 trainings that we do online that are required every year. This 28 would be similar to that. 29 12:13PM 30 LEG. FLOTTERON: 31 Okay. 32 33 P.O. CALARCO: 34 Okay. Legislator Trotta. 35 36 LEG. TROTTA: 37 I think she answered my question. It's done online, it's not you 38 have to drive somewhere to take it, correct? 39 12:13PM 40 MS. AMENDOLA: 41 Correct. Yeah, it would be done online for employees. 42 43 LEG. FLOTTERON: 44 Okay. 45 46 MS. AMENDOLA: 47 Only for Commissioners and Supervisors would do in person. 48 49 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 12:13PM 50 Oh, online. 51 52 P.O. CALARCO: 53 Okay. Legislator Sunderman. The list is growing. 54 55 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 56 It says in the legislation, I support it, but the first one says in

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1 person. It doesn't say specific to what Nicole was saying. 2 3 MS. AMENDOLA: 4 There's an amended version. I don't know what you're looking at. 5 6 MS. SIMPSON: 7 It was amended. It was amended last Monday on the 13th to 8 specifically say that all employees that are not management 9 employees will do it online, even for the first year. 12:14PM 10 11 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 12 Okay. And is there a timeline when this is going to be implemented 13 in that? 14 15 MS. SIMPSON: 16 There is no specific timeline on when it's going to be implemented. 17 I don't know if the Administration has more information. 18 19 MS. AMENDOLA: 12:14PM 20 We're hoping to have everyone trained for the first time by June of 21 next year. That's our time frame, so that's when we hope to have 22 everyone trained for the first time. 23 24 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 25 Do you know if by June of next year our employees will be back to 26 work, that we have so many employees currently out due to COVID? 27 28 MS. AMENDOLA: 29 They can do it online, so I'm hoping they can do it from home or 12:14PM 30 working from home. 31 32 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 33 We still have no timeline when we anticipate our employees coming 34 back to work, Nicole? 35 36 MS. AMENDOLA: 37 No. 38 39 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 12:15PM 40 No. Okay. Thank you. 41 42 P.O. CALARCO: 43 Okay. Legislator Berland. 44 45 LEG. BERLAND: 46 Yeah. I just wanted it on the record I'm working with the sponsor 47 on this that whatever classes we do that they are CLE credit 48 certified, so that any employees who, you know, have to take CLE's 49 don't have to take duplicative classes. So the sponsor said he 12:15PM 50 would work with that to try to make sure that whatever company we 51 use going forward is CLE certified. So I support it with that 52 proviso. Thanks. 53 54 P.O. CALARCO: 55 Okay. Legislator Spencer. 56

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1 LEG. SPENCER: 2 Just very briefly, just to the sponsor who's taking care of his 3 child and is unable to be here to speak, but it sounds as if there 4 is support that's out there. But I do want to just sort of also 5 put on the record how timely this is, especially as, you know, 6 we've been dealing with just a very difficult climate with the 7 state of the economic and the pandemic, what we've seen over the 8 last couple of months with the unrest that -- with racial issues. 9 And I think that everything that we can do to recognize diversity 12:16PM 10 and have conversations and to be able to have something like this 11 in our County Government I think sets an example for other 12 governments. And I think that when we look at our workforce to 13 have a more sensitive, informed workforce will only really pay 14 dividends in the future serving the public. So I ask for your 15 support on this, and I would like to be a cosponsor. Thank you. 16 17 P.O. CALARCO: 18 Okay. Legislator Kennedy. 19 12:17PM 20 LEG. KENNEDY: 21 My question is I'm thinking about since Jason is not here, a motion 22 to table, because Susan said whatever company we work with, and 23 what I thought had been said at the last meeting was that we were 24 going to do this inhouse and see -- 25 26 MS. AMENDOLA: 27 We are doing it inhouse. 28 29 LEG. KENNEDY: 30 We are. Okay. 31 32 MS. AMENDOLA: 33 I think he just wants to make sure that the class is tailored to 34 allow for CLE credits to be issued. 35 36 LEG. KENNEDY: 37 Right. 38 39 MS. AMENDOLA: 12:17PM 40 Which we will work with the Legislator on that to see if we can 41 accommodate that. 42 43 LEG. KENNEDY: 44 Okay, thank you. 45 46 P.O. CALARCO: 47 Okay. Was that a motion to table, Legislator Kennedy, or no? 48 49 LEG. KENNEDY: 12:17PM 50 Well, no, because I got my answer. 51 52 P.O. CALARCO: 53 Okay, very good. Legislator Krupski. 54 55 LEG. KRUPSKI: 56 My questions were answered. Thank you.

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Legislator McCaffrey. 3 4 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 5 Yes. And I know Jason is not here but maybe, Nicole, you could 6 answer some questions about this. So I'm hearing like bits and 7 pieces of we haven't really -- we don't know how long the training 8 is going to be. Is that fair to say or? 9 12:18PM 10 MS. AMENDOLA: 11 Yeah. We are going to tailor it from the training that P.D. 12 already has put together. I don't know -- I don't know how long 13 it's going to be, no. 14 15 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 16 All right. Because that's like in person and that was -- I think 17 that was four hours or something, right, P.D.'s? 18 19 MS. AMENDOLA: 12:18PM 20 Yeah, yes. 21 22 D.P.O. HAHN: 23 It was actually reduced to four hours when they did it for us. 24 25 MS. AMENDOLA: 26 It's generally a full day training. 27 28 D.P.O. HAHN: 29 Yeah. 12:18PM 30 31 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 32 Is the expectation that this will be a full day training, like four 33 hours? 34 35 MS. AMENDOLA: 36 I don't think it's expected to be a full day training for 37 employees, no. 38 39 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 12:18PM 40 Is there anything that we can -- who controls what it is? I mean, 41 we're voting on something we don't know if it's full day, if it's 42 four hours. I mean, where is it in the legislation and who 43 determines how long it's going to be? 44 45 MS. AMENDOLA: 46 The Civil -- so it's Civil Service in conjunction with the Human 47 Rights Commission is going to put together the training. They 48 already have discussed taking the P.D. version and just tailoring 49 it to employees, not Police Officers. Chief Diversity Officer 12:19PM 50 Retha Fernandez is actually spearheading this, so she is the one 51 who will be putting it together for our employees. 52 53 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 54 Okay. So we would expect it to be at least four hours then, 55 correct? 56

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1 MS. AMENDOLA: 2 Not necessarily, no. I mean, especially because we're going to do 3 an online version. So I would assume -- I think the harassment 4 training is a cumulate like an hour maybe, so I would assume it 5 will be in the realm of that for online and in person. 6 7 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 8 I did my online sexual harassment and it was an hour-and-a-half I 9 think. 12:19PM 10 11 MS. AMENDOLA: 12 It's an hour and 22 minutes, yes. 13 14 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 15 An hour and 22 minutes. And I passed, by the way. 16 17 MS. AMENDOLA: 18 Me, too. 19 12:20PM 20 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 21 All right, good. I thought you would. So we're looking at that 22 type of a block, like, you know, probably between two hours or 23 something like that, similar to what we do for the other training. 24 That's all I'm asking. 25 26 MS. AMENDOLA: 27 Right. 28 29 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 12:20PM 30 I know it's important, but it should be similar to the other types 31 of training that we do online, correct? 32 33 MS. AMENDOLA: 34 That's what we expect, yes. 35 36 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 37 Okay. And it was a valid question that was asked by the 311 38 Operators and the 911 Operators. What do they do, because they 39 don't have any downtime. You know, they're not sitting there 12:20PM 40 waiting, you know, for stuff. I mean, the phone's ringing and 41 things like that. So we are going to have to -- there is going to 42 be an expensive if we're going to train all these people that 43 aren't necessarily just sitting at their desks, you know, I'm not 44 saying looking for something to do, but have some time within their 45 -- you know, where their phone's not ringing consistently, you 46 know. I hope we budget that time and I hope that the Financial 47 Impact Statement reflects that. 48 49 MS. AMENDOLA: 12:20PM 50 Yes, we will. Yes. 51 52 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 53 Okay. Very good. Thank you. 54 55 P.O. CALARCO: 56 Okay. I don't have anybody else on my list. Am I missing anyone?

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1 Okay, no. We have a motion and a second. Roll call. 2 3 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 4 5 LEG. FLEMING: 6 Yes. 7 8 D.P.O. HAHN: 9 Yes. 12:21PM 10 11 LEG. KRUPSKI: 12 Yes. 13 14 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 15 Yes. 16 17 LEG. MURATORE: 18 Yes. 19 12:21PM 20 LEG. ANKER: 21 Yes. 22 23 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 24 Yes. 25 26 LEG. GONZALEZ: 27 Yes. 28 29 LEG. CILMI: 12:21PM 30 Yes. 31 32 LEG. FLOTTERON: 33 Yes. 34 35 LEG. KENNEDY: 36 Yes. 37 38 LEG. TROTTA: 39 Yes. 12:21PM 40 41 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 42 Yes. 43 44 LEG. RICHBERG: 45 (Not Present) 46 47 LEG. BERLAND: 48 Yes. 49 12:21PM 50 LEG. DONNELLY: 51 Yes. 52 53 LEG. SPENCER: 54 Yes. 55 56

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Yes. 3 4 MS. ELLIS: 5 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 6 7 P.O. CALARCO: 8 Okay. It is approved. 9 12:21PM 10 Health 11 12 I.R. 1529 - Approving the reappointment of J. Ronald Gaudreault as 13 a member of the Suffolk County Board of Health. (Spencer) 14 15 I'll take a motion from Legislator Spencer. 16 17 LEG. BERLAND: 18 Second. 19 12:22PM 20 P.O. CALARCO: 21 Second by Legislator Berland. Anybody on the issue? Role call. 22 23 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 24 25 LEG. SPENCER: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. BERLAND: 29 Yes, and list me as a cosponsor. 12:22PM 30 31 LEG. KRUPSKI: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. FLEMING: 35 Yes. 36 37 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 38 Yes. 39 12:22PM 40 LEG. MURATORE: 41 Yes. 42 43 LEG. ANKER: 44 Yes. 45 46 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 47 Yes. 48 49 LEG. GONZALEZ: 12:22PM 50 Yes. 51 52 LEG. CILMI: 53 Yes. 54 55 LEG. FLOTTERON: 56 Yes.

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1 LEG. KENNEDY: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. TROTTA: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 8 Yes. 9 12:22PM 10 LEG. RICHBERG: 11 (Not Present) 12 13 LEG. DONNELLY: 14 Yes. 15 16 D.P.O. HAHN: 17 Yes. 18 19 P.O. CALARCO: 12:22PM 20 Yes. 21 22 MS. ELLIS: 23 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 24 25 P.O. CALARCO: 26 It's approved. 27 28 Public Safety 29 12:22PM 30 I.R. 1285A - Bond Resolution - Appropriating funds in connection 31 with Improvements to the County Correctional Facility C – 141- 32 Riverhead (CP 3014). (Riverhead) 33 34 I'll take a motion from Legislator Donnelly. 35 36 LEG. KRUPSKI: 37 Second. 38 39 P.O. CALARCO: 12:23PM 40 Second by Legislator Krupski. Anybody on the issue? 41 42 LEG. DONNELLY: 43 On the motion, Presiding Officer. 44 45 P.O. CALARCO: 46 Legislator Donnelly, go ahead. 47 48 LEG. DONNELLY: 49 So I believe my staff has somebody from the Sheriff's Office on the 12:23PM 50 line, but they had requested this to go forward. It had been 51 tabled for several cycles. I do think it's basic infrastructure 52 work at the Correctional Facility that does have to get done. 53 54 P.O. CALARCO: 55 Thank you, Legislator Donnelly. Legislator Kennedy. 56

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1 LEG. KENNEDY: 2 I just have a question for the Sheriff's Office. Are they still on 3 the line, Tom? 4 5 P.O. CALARCO: 6 Usually Mr. Sharkey joins us and he didn't today. What's the 7 question? Perhaps we'll be able to get an answer for you. 8 9 LEG. KENNEDY: 12:23PM 10 It's the kitchen and the showers and some furniture as far as I can 11 remember. Since we -- and we do need this done eventually, but as 12 long as there's bail reform in place and we only have 500 and 13 change, can't our newer jail send food over to our older jail 14 temporarily? 15 16 P.O. CALARCO: 17 Yeah, to that, I spoke with Chief Sharkey on Friday afternoon after 18 our Capital Budget Work Group. This is not for the kitchen. The 19 kitchen is an additional $7 million and they have actually agreed 12:24PM 20 to postpone that for the time being and put it into future years in 21 the Capital Budget. This is for the showers and some other 22 maintenance needs of that building. As we all know, the Riverhead 23 facility is very old and we need to continue all maintenance to 24 keep it up and running because it is a 24/7 operation there. 25 26 And they are -- very much want to be able to make sure that they 27 can keep the Riverhead facility operational because of the design 28 of the facility is a linear correctional facility where they have 29 individual cells that they could put inmates into when they have 12:25PM 30 that specific need, whereas Yaphank is all a pod design where you 31 have the direct supervision where the guards are in the same area 32 as the inmates. So that is why they're looking or move this, so 33 they can keep the facility operating while they are -- and have 34 that option for the type when they need it, when an inmate poses a 35 hazard and they feel they need to put the person into that type of 36 facility. 37 38 LEG. KENNEDY: 39 Okay. 12:25PM 40 41 LEG. DONNELLY: 42 Rob? 43 44 P.O. CALARCO: 45 I hope I answered your question, Legislator Kennedy. 46 47 LEG. KENNEDY: 48 So it's just showers and I would assume all the leakage for 49 1,500,000? 12:25PM 50 51 P.O. CALARCO: 52 I believe so. Legislator Donnelly, did you get additional from Mr. 53 Sharkey? 54 55 LEG. DONNELLY: 56 No, just everything -- to reiterate, it was everything that you

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1 talked about, and the other it was a procedural point. If we don't 2 move it, it's going to have to get reintroduced. That's why the 3 Sheriff's Office, you know, was requesting that we try and move 4 this along. 5 6 P.O. CALARCO: 7 Oh, it was going to time out. 8 9 LEG. DONNELLY: 12:26PM 10 Yes. 11 12 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 13 Did you say seven million for a kitchen? 14 15 P.O. CALARCO: 16 The cost for the complete build-out of the kitchen in Riverhead was 17 projected at seven million, correct. 18 19 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 12:26PM 20 Some kitchen. 21 22 P.O. CALARCO: 23 It wasn't just replacing a stove. It was a pretty extensive -- 24 25 LEG. DONNELLY: 26 Anthony, you should go up there and visit it. You'll get a better 27 analysis of it. 28 29 P.O. CALARCO: 12:26PM 30 They've given us all the tour. 31 32 LEG. BERLAND: 33 Yeah. 34 35 P.O. CALARCO: 36 Legislator Kennedy, you still have the floor. Do you have 37 additional questions? I'm sorry. 38 39 LEG. KENNEDY: 12:26PM 40 Can we hold off on this one and get somebody on the line after 41 lunch? 42 43 P.O. CALARCO: 44 Sure. If you want to -- we could pass over this and I'm sure I can 45 get the Chief on the line if you have additional questions for him. 46 47 LEG. KENNEDY: 48 Thank you. 49 12:26PM 50 P.O. CALARCO: 51 Is that all right for everyone? Legislator Trotta, you had your 52 hand up. Are you willing to wait? 53 54 LEG. TROTTA: 55 I'll wait, yeah. 56

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Okay. So we'll reach out to the Chief and see if we can't get him 3 on the Zoom after the public hearings. 4 5 LEG. KENNEDY: 6 Thank you. 7 8 P.O. CALARCO: 9 Okay. All right. So we're going to pass over 1285A. We may be 12:27PM 10 able to get a couple more in quick before the break. 11 12 I.R. 1538 - Authorizing the Probation Department to apply to the 13 U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Treasury for 14 the transfer of federally seized and forfeited property and to 15 receive, expend, and utilize such property in accord with the 16 provisions of the U.S. Attorney General’s Guidelines on seized and 17 forfeited property. (County Executive) 18 19 LEG. DONNELLY: 12:27PM 20 Motion. 21 22 P.O. CALARCO: 23 Motion by Legislator Donnelly. 24 25 LEG. GONZALEZ: 26 Second. 27 28 P.O. CALARCO: 29 Second by Legislator Gonzalez. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 12:27PM 30 31 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 32 33 LEG. DONNELLY: 34 Yes. 35 36 P.O. CALARCO: 37 Hold on. Legislator Kennedy, did you have a question? 38 39 LEG. KENNEDY: 12:27PM 40 I did. Isn't this in the process of a lawsuit? 41 42 P.O. CALARCO: 43 I don't believe so. I did bring in Ms. Neubauer. I think this is 44 not -- 45 46 MS. SIMPSON: 47 I can't speak to that, unfortunately. 48 49 LEG. KENNEDY: 12:27PM 50 Where is she? I don't see her. 51 52 DIRECTOR NEUBAUER: 53 I am here. 54 55 LEG. KENNEDY: 56 Hello. Is this bill -- is some of the issues in this bill in the

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1 middle of a lawsuit? 2 3 DIRECTOR NEUBAUER: 4 Not to my knowledge. 5 6 LEG. KENNEDY: 7 No? Okay. 8 9 LEG. MURATORE: 12:28PM 10 What number is this? 11 12 LEG. KENNEDY: 13 1538, correct? 14 15 P.O. CALARCO: 16 I'm not familiar. What lawsuit are you referencing, Ms. -- 17 Legislator Kennedy? 18 19 LEG. KENNEDY: 12:28PM 20 I don't know how to classify a lawsuit, Rob. 21 22 P.O. CALARCO: 23 No, I'm just asking what specific lawsuit you're speaking to. 24 25 LEG. KENNEDY: 26 I don't know what specific. 27 28 P.O. CALARCO: 29 I know there was some larger litigation that went to the Supreme 12:28PM 30 Court regarding asset forfeitures. 31 32 LEG. KENNEDY: 33 Correct. 34 35 P.O. CALARCO: 36 Specifically about property being seized that was well in excess of 37 what was reasonable -- 38 39 LEG. KENNEDY: 12:28PM 40 Yes. 41 42 P.O. CALARCO: 43 -- compared to the punishment extracted when a person was found 44 guilty. But I don't think that that necessarily impacts this or 45 the ability to have certain funds still made available through the 46 asset forfeiture programs. If that answers your question. 47 48 LEG. KENNEDY: 49 Yeah, that does. Okay. 12:29PM 50 51 P.O. CALARCO: 52 Okay? 53 54 LEG. KENNEDY: 55 Thank you. 56

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Anybody else? 3 4 LEG. KENNEDY: 5 That's it. 6 7 P.O. CALARCO: 8 We have a motion and a second. Roll call. 9 12:29PM 10 (*Roll Call by Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 11 12 LEG. DONNELLY: 13 Yes. 14 15 LEG. GONZALEZ: 16 Yes. 17 18 LEG. KRUPSKI: 19 Yes. 12:29PM 20 21 LEG. FLEMING: 22 Yes. 23 24 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 25 Yes. 26 27 LEG. MURATORE: 28 Yes. 29 12:29PM 30 LEG. ANKER: 31 Yes. 32 33 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 34 Yes. 35 36 LEG. CILMI: 37 Yes. 38 39 LEG. FLOTTERON: 12:29PM 40 Yes. 41 42 LEG. KENNEDY: 43 Yes. 44 45 LEG. TROTTA: 46 Yes. 47 48 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 49 Yes. 12:29PM 50 51 LEG. RICHBERG: 52 (Not Present) 53 54 LEG. BERLAND: 55 Yes. 56

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1 LEG. SPENCER: 2 Yes. 3 4 D.P.O. HAHN: 5 Yes. 6 7 P.O. CALARCO: 8 Yes. 9 12:30PM 10 MS. ELLIS: 11 Seventeen. (Not Present: Legislator Richberg) 12 13 P.O. CALARCO: 14 Okay. Folks, it is now 12:30 so we are going to break for lunch 15 and we'll come back at two o'clock for the public hearings. 16 17 (*The meeting was recessed at 12:30 p.m.*) 18 19 ******************** 20 21 (*The following testimony was taken and transcribed by 22 Diana Flesher - Court Stenographer*) 23 24 (*The meeting was reconvened at 2:05 p.m.*) 25 26 P.O. CALARCO: 27 All right, we are back and resuming our meeting. Everybody's good? 28 Madam Clerk, can you call the roll? 29 02:05PM 30 (*Roll call by Mr. Dubois, Chief Deputy Clerk of the Legislature*) 31 32 LEG. KRUPSKI: 33 Here. 34 35 LEG. FLEMING: 36 (No response) 37 38 LEG. FLEMING: 39 (No response) 02:05PM 40 41 LEG. CILMI: 42 Madam Clerk, you've changed. 43 44 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 45 Here. 46 47 LEG. MURATORE: 48 (No response) 49 02:05PM 50 LEG. FLEMING: 51 Sorry, Fleming's here. Sorry, Dan. 52 53 LEG. MURATORE: 54 (No response) 55 56

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1 LEG. ANKER: 2 Here. 3 4 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 5 Present. 6 7 LEG. GONZALEZ: 8 Here. 9 02:05PM 10 LEG. CILMI: 11 Present. 12 13 LEG. FLOTTERON: 14 Here. 15 16 LEG. KENNEDY: 17 Here. 18 19 LEG. TROTTA: 02:05PM 20 Here. 21 22 LEG. McCAFFREY: 23 Here. 24 25 LEG. RICHBERG: 26 (Not present) 27 28 LEG. BERLAND: 29 Here. 02:06PM 30 31 LEG. DONNELLY: 32 Here. 33 34 LEG. SPENCER: 35 Here. 36 37 LEG. HAHN: 38 Present. 39 40 P.O. CALARCO: 41 (No response) 42 43 P.O. CALARCO: 44 Present. 45 46 LEG. MURATORE: 47 (No response) 48 49 MR. DUBOIS: 02:06PM 50 Sixteen. 51 52 P.O. CALARCO: 53 Hold on, I think we have one more Legislator coming in the room. 54 55 LEG. RICHBERG: 56 Here.

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1 MR. DUBOIS: 2 Seventeen. 3 4 P.O. CALARCO: 5 Okay. 6 7 LEG. FLEMING: 8 How is he? 9 10 LEG. CILMI: 11 Jason, you good? 12 13 LEG. RICHBERG: 14 He's doing all right. He's playing with trucks and blocks. 15 16 LEG. FLEMING: 17 Good. 18 19 LEG. CILMI: 02:06PM 20 Perfect. 21 22 P.O. CALARCO: 23 We're all happy to hear that. 24 25 PUBLIC HEARINGS 26 27 P.O. CALARCO: 28 Okay, folks, we're going to move into the public hearings. We are 29 conducting our public hearings via Zoom in compliance with the 02:07PM 30 Governor's executive order. 31 32 Our first public hearing is IR 1252, (Adopting Local Law No. 33 -2020,) A Local Law to prohibit the feeding of wild animals in 34 Suffolk County. (Cilmi). I do not have any speakers who have 35 signed up to speak on this issue. Legislator Cilmi, what is your 36 preference? 37 38 LEG. CILMI: 39 I'm going to make a motion to close today. 02:07PM 40 41 LEG. FLOTTEREON: 42 Second. 43 44 P.O. CALARCO, 45 Motion to close by Legislator Cilmi; second by Legislator 46 Flotteron. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 47 48 (*Roll call by Mr. Dubois, Chief Deputy Clerk of the Legislature*) 49 02:07PM 50 LEG. CILMI: 51 Yes. 52 53 LEG. FLOTTERON: 54 Yes. 55 56

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1 LEG. KRUPSKI: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. FLEMING: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 8 No. 9 02:07PM 10 LEG. MURATORE: 11 (No response) 12 13 LEG. ANKER: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. GONZALEZ: 02:07PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. KENNEDY: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. TROTTA: 26 No. 27 28 LEG. McCAFFREY: 29 Yes. 02:08PM 30 31 LEG. RICHBERG: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. BERLAND: 35 Yes. 36 37 LEG. DONNELLY: 38 Yes. 39 02:08PM 40 LEG. SPENCER: 41 Yes. 42 43 LEG. HAHN: 44 (No response) 45 46 LEG. HAHN: 47 Yes. Sorry, I was on mute. 48 49 P.O. CALARCO: 02:08PM 50 Yes. 51 52 MR. DUBOIS: 53 Fifteen. 54 55 P.O. CALARCO: 56 Okay, it is closed.

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1 IR 1413, (Adopting Local Law No. -2020,) A Charter Law increasing 2 the percentage of sales tax that is allocated to the Suffolk County 3 Taxpayers Trust Fund and decreasing the percentage of sales tax 4 that is allocated to the Suffolk County Environmental Programs 5 Trust Fund for three years. (County Exec). I do have a number of 6 speakers on this item. To the speakers, you'll each get three 7 minutes to address the Legislature on this issue and there is an 8 opportunity for Legislators to ask you a question. And I will 9 apologize to the speakers in advance that I will be moving you out 02:09PM 10 of the room as we move through in order to make room. So, I won't 11 be able to keep everybody up. I'll have to put you in the waiting 12 room once you've had the opportunity. 13 14 Our first speaker is someone who already knew the rules, our former 15 Legislator and current Supervisor Town of Brookhaven, Ed Romaine. 16 Supervisor, you have the floor, whenever you're ready. You're 17 muted, Ed. 18 19 SUPERVISOR ROMAINE: 02:09PM 20 There we go. Thank you very much. I'll keep it very short. 21 I know you're on a tight schedule. I'm going to read a short 22 statement and say a few words. In April of this year our County 23 Executive, Steve Bellone, proposed two measures, which would be 24 subject to voter referendum in November to offset budget problems 25 that have plagued the County. And these problems have plagued for 26 more than ten years. 27 28 The first proposal would divest -- would divest for three years 29 money set aside since 1987 for sales tax for open space and other 02:10PM 30 property acquisitions. The second proposal, which you voted on 31 this morning, would rip up the voter-approved agreement to repay 32 171 million that you borrowed, County borrowed from sewer 33 stabilization fund to plug earlier budget holes. Secondly, it 34 would take another 15 million from the same sewer fund to use for 35 general purposes; and, thirdly, it would negate a recent court 36 order that directed the County to repay 29.4 million from yet an 37 earlier raid on this fund during the Levy administration. 38 39 I would just say a continuous raiding and redirecting of public 02:10PM 40 funds out of voter-approved environmental programs will result in 41 undermining public confidence. But you know what, I sat where you 42 all sat. I know what this is about. And I got to tell you, back 43 in 1987 I was the co-sponsor of both of these. So, I look around, 44 I'm the last public official still in office that voted for this. 45 And I could tell you what the debate was in 1987. You don't want 46 the County to be overdeveloped. We want to set aside some open 47 spaces. We want to set aside some farmland preservation. We want 48 to make sure that this County develops in a certain way. Let's 49 commit the quarter percent. Now that benefitted mostly the eastern 02:11PM 50 end of this County. And for the western end, well, we have the 51 Southwest Sewer District and we have other sewer districts. And as 52 you know, we received federal funds to build three more very large 53 sewer districts, which hopefully that is not being delayed. 54 55 56

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1 And one of the things that happens with sewer districts is rates go 2 up. So while you get the quarter percent of part of it for open 3 space, the west end was going to get, although it applies all over 4 the County now, municipal sewer districts were going to get rate 5 stabilization. So if the rate went up more than 4 percent, we 6 stabilize it. It was something that we felt was very worthwhile. 7 Maybe I'm speaking from past experience, but I'm the last guy in 8 elective office that sponsored this. I think it's a mistake to do 9 away with this. I think we should continue to invest. I 02:12PM 10 understand you have financial problems. It did not develop 11 overnight. These problems, even as I was leaving the Legislature 12 in 2012, these problems were there. You take what the voters have 13 approved and throw it out, I think, it's a mistake so I'll stop 14 there. 15 16 P.O. CALARCO: 17 Thank you, Mr. Supervisor. And if you hold on one second, 18 Legislator Spencer has a question for you. 19 02:13PM 20 SUPERVISOR ROMAINE: 21 Doctor, how are you, sir? 22 23 LEG. SPENCER: 24 I'm very good, Mr. Supervisor. It's good to see you and my 25 memories of when I was a first-year Legislator was -- serving with 26 you was always an honor. 27 28 I guess my question, Mr. Supervisor, relates to -- and first of all 29 thank you for your legacy. I support these programs and open 02:13PM 30 space. And I understand that the voters made this decision and 31 it's a sacred trust. In light of the unprecedented circumstances, 32 and I know we've had our financial troubles, but this takes us to a 33 whole different stratosphere as well as the whole world. Why is it 34 objectionable to let the voters have an opportunity to weigh in on 35 this? I would agree with you for us to do this unilaterally, to 36 makes these decisions would be unwelcome. Why do you object to the 37 voters having an opportunity to make that decision? 38 39 SUPERVISOR ROMAINE: 02:14PM 40 Well, because they made the decision once. It was supposed to be a 41 lockbox. And the thing is that over the years that lockbox all for 42 the sewer stabilization fund, open space have been raided, so much 43 so that courts have ruled against the County repeatedly against 44 raiding this. So you've shown bad faith as a county in the past. 45 And you are compounding it. The only good thing about the proposal 46 before us today is the fact that it is voter-approved. And I know, 47 and I will weigh in with the voters of this County, and use 48 whatever influence I have as Supervisor of this town to urge that 49 they defeat this referendum because I think it's the wrong way to 02:15PM 50 go. 51 52 When you tell voters we're going to take this money and put it 53 aside and it's going to be for these purposes and you have our 54 guarantee, our promise and our pledge, and then you continuously 55 raid this money, so much so that the court actions that are long 56 and lengthy and costly rule against you repeatedly, and then you're

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1 proposing this again, it means that no matter what you do by 2 referendum, it doesn't matter. Because you can undue it. So, I 3 think it sets a bad precedent. I hope I've answered your question. 4 5 LEG. SPENCER: 6 Yes, sir, you have. I understand your position and actually agree 7 with a lot of it. I think that what's different here, this is 8 something that although we've had our financial issues, this is 9 something that no one could predict the depth and how far this 02:16PM 10 goes. And I think that we have to try to do everything we can. 11 I'm hoping that the Federal government will help us out. I think 12 that, you know, that they may be printing money, but I think that 13 the only people that are qualified to break that sacred bond are 14 the people that made it in the first place and those are the 15 voters. And I'm just wondering if I look at a menu of options of 16 how I can best serve the people of this County, and whether or not 17 it would be a decrease in services or layoffs, and I know you can 18 argue it's been bad faith in the past, I think any opportunity I 19 have to let the voters kind of weigh in. And they made that 02:16PM 20 decision in the past but there's new information that they may want 21 to consider. And giving them that option, even if -- I may work 22 with you to defeat it, but giving the voters that option, I think, 23 isn't a bad thing. But I appreciate your position. I respect what 24 you do, Mr. Supervisor, and I thank you very much. 25 26 SUPERVISOR ROMAINE: 27 Thank you. 28 29 P.O. CALARCO: 02:17PM 30 Thank you, Legislator Spencer. Legislator Krupski. 31 32 LEG. KRUPSKI: 33 Thank you. Welcome, Supervisor Romaine. Sitting here in your old 34 office trying to keep cool. I sent you a letter at least a month 35 ago and you responded about the bill 1413. And I know you've been 36 an advocate for open space and farmland preservation. Has the 37 County's program helped your town in the past eight years? 38 39 SUPERVISOR ROMAINE: 02:17PM 40 Yes. Yes, but it's -- when you say county program, it's a sales 41 tax collected from all the people in Suffolk County. It's a 42 percentage of sales tax that's collected for a specific purpose. 43 My point, and I appreciate Dr. Spencer's comments, my point is the 44 County has shown bad faith with these lockbox bonds that voters 45 approve. Yes, we've had referendums in the past and the County's 46 ignored them and tried to raid these funds. I think that's a bad 47 mistake. There's no guarantee with any of this. If you show bad 48 faith, you break trust with the voter. 49 02:18PM 50 LEG. KRUPSKI: 51 All right, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Presiding Officer. 52 53 P.O. CALARCO: 54 Thank you, Legislator Krupski. 55 56

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1 SUPERVISOR ROMAINE: 2 Thank you, Legislator Krupski. Because I think you're with me on 3 this issue. 4 5 LEG. KRUPSKI: 6 I sent you the letter. 7 8 P.O. CALARCO: 9 Thank you, Legislator Krupski. Does anybody else have questions 02:18PM 10 for the Supervisor? 11 12 LEG. KENNEDY: 13 Thank you. 14 15 SUPERVISOR ROMAINE: 16 God speed what all of you, whatever you decide. I know it's not 17 an easy burden. If you think the Town of Brookhaven's any 18 different than Suffolk county -- it's a little bit different, we're 19 a little bit in financial better shape, but we're still facing the 02:18PM 20 challenges that you face. I understand the pressures you're under. 21 I wish you good luck in making a good decision. Thank you very 22 much. 23 24 LEG. KENNEDY: 25 Thank you. 26 27 P.O. CALARCO: 28 Thank you, Supervisor. Thank you for joining us today. 29 02:19PM 30 SUPERVISOR ROMAINE: 31 I have to go back to work but thank you. 32 33 P.O. CALARCO: 34 I was putting you in the waiting room anyway. 35 36 SUPERVISOR ROMAINE: 37 That's okay. I know what you guys are going to say. 38 39 P.O. CALARCO: 40 Thank you, Supervisor. 41 42 SUPERVISOR ROMAINE: 43 Great seeing some of the other guys. Thank you. 44 45 P.O. CALARCO: 46 Okay, our next speaker is Lou Viscusi. Lou, you there? 47 48 MR. VISCUSI: 49 Yes, I am. 02:19PM 50 51 P.O. CALARCO: 52 Okay. You have three minutes. You start whenever you're ready, 53 Lou. 54 55 56

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1 MR. VISCUSI: 2 Good afternoon. I hope you're all doing well. My name is Lou 3 Viscusi. I'm the President of the Suffolk County Correction 4 Officer Association. 5 6 First, I want to thank all of you who voted in favor of 1414. 7 Thank you for your support. I've been here for the past two 8 meetings and my message today is pretty much the same. The County 9 is projecting extreme financial shortfalls and there are very few 02:19PM 10 options to help get through it. I was listening earlier and I know 11 there has been some dispute about how dire the financial situation 12 actually is. But our only opportunity to have this as an option in 13 November is to close the public hearing on 1413 today. 14 15 Also, in regards to Supervisor Romaine, who I have a lot of respect 16 for, the decision back then was based on the situation that existed 17 at that time. And now times have changed. I think our financial 18 situation is much different than it was when the voters first voted 19 on this. If I tell my kids that I'm going to take them to Disney 02:20PM 20 World and then get laid off from work, I'm going to cancel that and 21 I'm going to pay my mortgage just to get by so we don't end up 22 homeless. These are tough decisions and this is what we have to do 23 today based on today's financial situation. It's not going to be 24 based on what it was decades ago. This is today. 25 26 My members as well as the rest of the County workforce should not 27 be the ones to pay the price. We went to work everyday during the 28 pandemic. There were no Zoom meetings or work-from-home options 29 for correction officers. We had a duty and we performed it very 02:20PM 30 well. We cannot withstand any further disruption in pay. I urge 31 you to close the hearing and pass 1413. Thank you. 32 33 P.O. CALARCO: 34 Thank you, Mr. Viscusi. Does anybody have any questions for Lou? 35 Seeing none, Lou, thank you for joining us today and please convey 36 to your members that we appreciate their hard work and dedication 37 especially during the pandemic. They were coming in everyday and 38 we appreciate that. 39 02:21PM 40 MR. VISCUSI: 41 Thank you. 42 43 P.O. CALARCO: 44 Okay, our next speaker is Bob DeLuca. Bob, you there? 45 46 MR. DeLUCA: 47 Can you hear me? 48 49 P.O. CALARCO: 02:21PM 50 We can hear you. 51 52 MR. DeLUCA: 53 Great. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Presiding Officer and members of 54 the Legislature, thank you for listening to me twice in one day. 55 Bob DeLuca, Presiding of Group for the East End. I've testified in 56 opposition to IR 1413 previously. And today what I'll do is just

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1 rather than re-stating those comments, I just want to offer you 2 four final thoughts as you look at closing out this hearing. 3 4 The first is it's been stated more than a few times that this fund 5 is a tax stabilization fund. And I know that can make a hard 6 decision seem easier, but it's really not the fact of the case. In 7 fact, over my shoulder, right back there, (indicating) I realized 8 today is the original signing proclamations for this program. And 9 it says, the Charter Law amending the Suffolk County Charter to add 02:22PM 10 a new Article 12 establishing a program to protect Suffolk County's 11 drinking water supply. That's why the Charter amendment was 12 adopted. That's why the program is called what it's called, but it 13 also always provided for a balance between conservation and budget 14 relief. And to that end, it's important, and I don't know how many 15 people know this and particularly the workforce, I used to be a 16 county worker so I get it, this program has provided over $300 17 million in budget relief since its inception and it's likely to 18 provide another $200 million more by the time the program ends. 19 That's 500 million in budget relief by 2030. 02:22PM 20 21 The program also currently pays for 80 staff positions in a fund 22 that was clearly set aside for specific clean water projects. That 23 was never agreed to by anybody. That just happened and we live 24 with it. The program also provided over $150 million of borrowing 25 to help budget relief from the ASRF that this morning you decided 26 to put on a ballot proposition that may not have to be paid back. 27 So, I just ask you to consider how much this fund has already given 28 to the need that you have in light of what its original policy goal 29 was when you're contemplating how much more should be taken from 02:23PM 30 this fund or put at risk. 31 32 The second issue is that the environmental community is not a 33 single entity. You know, you've received letters from a dozen 34 conservation organizations from all across Suffolk County that 35 oppose IR 1413 and IR 1414. Yet it's been vigorously argued by 36 some people that we are all somehow in the environmental community 37 an extension of the Long Island Pine Barrens Society and your 38 ongoing litigation battles with that organization. We're not. You 39 know, I'm not part of some mindless conspiracies. Some of you know 02:23PM 40 me for a longtime. I've been at this for a while. And to have all 41 of our organizations cast in that lot, I'm sure you know better, 42 but it's very shortsighted; it's offensive. And it really does -- 43 it should be offensive to all of you in terms of what the people 44 who professionally and volunteer their time do to dedicate their 45 lives to the protection of the resources of this County, that 46 Suffolk County residents have long considered a priority for 47 investment. We're not just one thing. If you don't like what we 48 have to say, that's fine. We're not just one entity. We're not 49 one organization. 02:24PM 50 51 The third issue is the Capital Budget repayment doesn't guarantee 52 repayment. That's been the concern. How does that happen? Most 53 of you know this. So -- by the way, we also just saw $150 million 54 that was supposed to come back to the ASRF now not coming back to 55 the ASRF. But setting that aside, once you put this money into the 56 Capital Budget, the Legislature then has to decide what to do with

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1 it. And in the upcoming years I can pretty much bet taking on 2 additional debt is not going to be something that the Legislature 3 wants to do. 4 5 So, I understand the argument that says all the money's going to 6 come back over the next three years, we're going to get it in the 7 Capital Budget. And once it's in the Capital Budget it can be 8 spent. I just don't think that's going to happen. Because if it 9 does get in there, and I have no reason to believe that the County 02:25PM 10 wouldn't try to put it in there, you then have to decide on how to 11 obligate that money and you got a million things in your Capital 12 Budget that are going to need attention and we just added to that 13 multiple millions of dollars that we're going to then be asking you 14 to spend. And it worries me. And I don't think the argument that 15 there's going to be no potential impact to this really holds water 16 when you look at how the actions of the County have played out over 17 time. 18 19 P.O. CALARCO: 02:25PM 20 Bob, your three minutes are up. Actually you got a little extra 21 time. Does anybody have any questions for Mr. DeLuca? 22 Legislator Trotta, go ahead. 23 24 LEG. TROTTA: 25 Yes, so I guess your argument is, is this your argument, that 26 you're going to borrow money, which is the reason we're in the 27 place right now, from borrowing too much money. 28 29 MR. DeLUCA: 02:25PM 30 Well, I don't know if that's the only reason, but certainly 31 borrowing and just having a structural budget problem are the 32 issues that I see as problematic. And the COVID thing makes it 33 worse. I get that. 34 35 LEG. TROTTA: 36 It's part of the reason we're in the position now because we 37 borrowed all this money from the pension fund, from the Clean 38 Water, for everything. We just borrow. 39 02:26PM 40 MR. DeLUCA: 41 I think the Legislature's going to be amendable to saying, yeah, 42 that's right, we don't have any money and you guys are now asking 43 for 20 or $30 million, let me just throw that into the Capital 44 Budget. I just don't see it. 45 46 LEG. TROTTA: 47 Okay, thank you. 48 49 P.O. CALARCO: 02:26PM 50 Okay, anybody else? Okay, Mr. DeLuca, thank you very much for your 51 time this afternoon. 52 53 MR. DeLUCA: 54 Thank you. 55 56

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Our next speaker is Ryan Stanton. Ryan, are you there? 3 4 MR. STANTON: 5 Rob, I'm here. Presiding Officer, thank you. First I just want to 6 say, Jason, I hope everything worked out this morning. And to the 7 rest of the Legislature, I hope everybody's doing well under the 8 current circumstances. Also, thank you for approving IR 1414 9 earlier today. Much of what I'm about to say you probably heard 02:26PM 10 from our Executive Director at the Long Island Federation of Labor, 11 Roger Clayman, about a month ago. But I'll jump right to it. 12 13 We as a federation are just urging you Suffolk County Legislature 14 to close the public hear on IR 1413 and ultimately vote to approve 15 it. This measure should proceed and be given the opportunity for 16 public approval. The Legislature with bipartisan support earlier 17 today approved 1414, which to me is the body collectively 18 acknowledging the gravity of the financial challenges facing 19 Suffolk County on the road ahead. This measure gives Suffolk 02:27PM 20 County an additional avenue to utilize existing revenue and bonding 21 tools to meet expenditure demands resulting from the extraordinary 22 crisis and allow vital public services to be maintained for County 23 residents. 24 25 It's clear that Suffolk County and for that matter the nation and 26 the world are experiencing the worst health crisis seen in 27 generations. Heroic efforts by frontline workers in the private 28 sector side by side with County employees and leaders such as 29 yourself and government enabled our region to get past the high 02:28PM 30 water mark of this medical emergency and gradually reduce infection 31 rates. 32 33 However, our progress was achieved in part by shutting down normal 34 activities of all sorts, which comes at a huge cost to the Long 35 Island economy. I think all of you know that. Suffolk County 36 estimates a budget shortfall of anywhere from 800 million to 37 one-and-a-half billion over the next three years, a crisis in local 38 government we already see across New York State and likely to 39 develop nationwide. We're not special. 02:28PM 40 41 The revenue contained in the HEROES Act, on which the AFL-CIO, our 42 national organization, has called upon Congress to pass and the 43 President to support all our state and local governments to 44 continue to deliver the services we've come to rely on as we 45 navigate this unprecedented and global pandemic. Unfortunately 46 opposition to the HEROES Act by the Senate Majority Leader and the 47 President makes the outcome of these necessary funds unclear and 48 creates circumstances that require extraordinary action by local 49 leaders. 02:29PM 50 51 IR 1413 will give the voting public a chance to decide whether or 52 not they wish to maintain vital public services working families 53 depend on; on Suffolk County healthcare, addiction services, public 54 safety, human services and others. This resolution along with the 55 passage of IR 1414 place trust in the public to decide if their 56 dollars can be reinvested in the taxpayer trust fund to meet this

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1 historic moment; and allows the open space fund to be repaid with 2 capital funds and the assessment stabilization reserve fund to be 3 financed in a manner that is sufficient to meet its obligation to 4 stabilize sewer rates. 5 6 So, we ask that you make the best possible use of taxpayers' 7 dollars during this healthcare and economic crisis. We urge you to 8 move forward with revenue enhancements this resolution will bring 9 to the County. And I appreciate your consideration. 02:29PM 10 11 And the previous speaker, you know, mentioned that there was no 12 guarantee from the resolution that the funds would ultimately be 13 paid back if the bonds were not approved. But in the event the 14 bonds are not approved, the way the resolution's structured, it 15 automatically reverts to quarter percent back into its original 16 designated purpose. So, there is built-in protections in the 17 resolution. So, we, again, would urge you to support the 18 resolution. Thank you. 19 02:30PM 20 P.O. CALARCO: 21 Thank you, Mr. Stanton, and your time is up. Does anybody have any 22 questions for Mr. Stanton at this time? No? Ryan, thanks again 23 and we appreciate it. And please convey to all the different 24 members of the different membership unions that we appreciate the 25 work they did during the crisis and still continue to do during 26 this crisis. I know a lot of those employees are essential 27 employees and are showing up everyday and we appreciate it. 28 29 MR. STANTON: 02:30PM 30 Thank you all. And thank you for your leadership. Have a good 31 day. 32 33 P.O. CALARCO: 34 Thank you, Ryan. All right, our next speaker is John Becker. 35 John, are you there? 36 37 MR. BECK: 38 Good afternoon. 39 02:30PM 40 P.O. CALARCO: 41 Good afternoon. It's good to see you. You have three minutes and 42 you can start whenever you're ready, John. 43 44 MR. BECK: 45 Very good. Presiding Officer Calarco, members of the Legislature, 46 thank you for the opportunity to speak today and I promise I will 47 be brief. On behalf of the Deputy Sheriff's PBA, I wanted to speak 48 in support of IR 1413. I have spoken previously to the Legislature 49 in regards to this issue and our position remains unchanged. We 02:31PM 50 ask that you support the measures being put forth by the County 51 Executive. I am deeply concerned about a potential negative 52 financial impact on my membership due to the current budgetary 53 shortfall. Your consideration in this matter is greatly 54 appreciated. Great seeing all of you and I wish you well. 55 Thank you. 56

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Thank you, Mr. Becker. Does anybody have any questions for John at 3 this time? Seeing none, John, thank you, again, for coming. And 4 please convey along to your membership that we appreciate their 5 hard work during these past few months. It's been tough between 6 the pandemic and the protests and we appreciate they've been doing 7 their job everyday in a professional manner and it is deeply 8 appreciated. 9 02:32PM 10 MR. BECK: 11 Much appreciated. Thank you. 12 13 P.O. CALARCO: 14 Thank you, John. Okay, our next speaker is James Roddin. Jim, you 15 there? 16 17 MR. RODDIN: 18 I'm here. Can you hear me? 19 20 P.O. CALARCO: 21 We can hear you. 22 23 MR. RODDIN: 24 Okay, great. Good afternoon, Mr. Presiding Officer, and members of 25 the Legislature. My name is James Roddin; I'm the Second Vice 26 President of the Suffolk County Security Officers Association. I'm 27 speaking today in support of IR 1413. I urge you to support this 28 bill, which would allow the voters to decide in November if funds 29 from the environmental programs trust fund may be transferred to 02:32PM 30 the Suffolk County taxpayers' trust fund. 31 32 We believe it's in the best interest of the taxpayers to decide if 33 they wish to use these funds to provide substantial relief -- 34 budget relief in light of the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has 35 caused serious unforeseen economic impact to the County. We 36 understand that these funds were originally intended for one 37 purpose, but tough times call for a reexamination of our 38 allocations. 39 02:33PM 40 So, again, I urge you to close this hearing today, allow the bill 41 to move forward, let the voters decide where their money should be 42 spent. As several of you have stated earlier while debating 1414, 43 I believe the voters are smart enough to make an informed decision. 44 The bill would provide taxpayer relief while still maintaining and 45 funding this important program. So, thank you for your 46 consideration. 47 48 P.O. CALARCO: 49 Thank you, Mr. Roddin. Does anybody have any questions for Mr. 02:33PM 50 Roddin at this time? Seeing none, Jim, thank you again for coming. 51 And as I said to your colleagues, thank you very much to all of 52 your members and the hard work they've been putting in over these 53 last few months and their professionalism. It's truly appreciated. 54 55 56

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1 MR. RODDIN: 2 Thank you very much. Thank you for your support. I appreciate it. 3 4 P.O. CALARCO: 5 Thank you. Okay, our next speaker is George Michels. George, are 6 you there? 7 8 MR. MICHELS: 9 Can you hear me? 02:34PM 10 11 P.O. CALARCO: 12 We can hear you, George. 13 14 MR. MICHELS: 15 Good afternoon, Mr. Presiding Officer, and members of the Suffolk 16 Legislature. My name is George Michels. I represent the men and 17 women of the Suffolk County Detective's Association. I appear 18 today before you to ask and urge your support for passage of IR 19 1413 to give the voting public the opportunity to vote on a Charter 20 Law change to allocate funds from our environmental fund for the 21 next three years. I appreciate the vote that was taken earlier on 22 IR 1414, the passage. I think it showed a lot of courage on behalf 23 of your membership. I thank you for your time and I thank you for 24 your service. 25 26 P.O. CALARCO: 27 Thank you, Mr. Michels. Does anybody have any questions for Mr. 28 Michels at this time? Seeing none, George, thank you again. And 29 to all of your members as well, thank you for their hard work and 02:34PM 30 dedication and professionalism over these last few months. We know 31 it's been trying times. 32 33 MR. MICHELS: 34 Thank you to all of you and all your families. 35 36 P.O. CALARCO: 37 Thank you. Our next speaker is Lou Tutone. Lou, you there? Lou? 38 I think you're muted, Lou. 39 02:34PM 40 MR. TUTON: 41 Sorry about that. 42 43 P.O. CALARCO: 44 There we go. 45 46 MR. TUTONE: 47 Thank you, Presiding Officer Calarco, and the rest of the 48 Legislature for the opportunity to speak in front of you today. 49 I'm Lou Tutone, First Vice President of the Suffolk County PBA. 02:35PM 50 I'm here today to speak on IR 1413. I strongly ask for your 51 support on it and allow your constituents to decide whether it is 52 needed or not. After listening to this morning's session, most of 53 you trust your constituents and have faith that they understand the 54 issue. 55 56

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1 Suffolk County Labor and specifically the Suffolk PBA has always 2 been willing to do our part and help the County's finances when 3 needed. In October of 1991 under former County Executive Robert 4 Gaffney, PBA members deferred ten holidays. In October 2009 under 5 former County Executive Steve Levy, PBA members deferred $12 6 million. And as recent as April of this year, we deferred our 7 longevity check. 8 9 I have heard some Legislators around the horseshoe say that 02:36PM 10 everyone needs to feel some pain. And we agree. The PBA does not 11 support BRO's options that include layoffs, a lag payroll and a 12 pension amortization and ask that you close and approve IR 1413 and 13 that an additional burden is not placed on our workforce. 14 15 Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. And additionally I 16 want to thank all the Legislators who have publically and privately 17 been supporting Suffolk County Law Enforcement acknowledging the 18 great job that our police officers are doing and the tremendous 19 restraint that they have shown during these challenging times. 02:36PM 20 Thank you. 21 22 P.O. CALARCO: 23 Thank you, Mr. Tutone. Does anybody have any questions for Mr. 24 Tutone at this time? Seeing none, Lou, thank you again for coming. 25 And please convey to all of your members that we appreciate their 26 hard work and their professionalism. And as you said, it has been 27 very difficult months and they have certainly shown that they are 28 some of Suffolk's finest. We appreciate it. 29 02:36PM 30 MR. TUTONE: 31 They appreciate your support also. Thank you. 32 33 P.O. CALARCO: 34 Okay. And our last speaker on this public hearing is Ryan McGarry. 35 Ryan? 36 37 MR. McGARRY: 38 Good afternoon, Presiding Officer, members of the Legislature. 39 Do you have me. 02:37PM 40 41 P.O. CALARCO: 42 We have you, Ryan. You can get started whenever you're ready. 43 44 MR. McGARRY: 45 Fantastic. Thank you, everyone again for the leadership you 46 displayed morning in passing 1414. As all of you know, AME has 47 supported both that effort and this current resolution 1413 as we 48 see it as vital to ensure ongoing services, county services 49 continue and that the members we represent are able to continue to 02:37PM 50 provide those services to the public. 51 52 So, we definitely appreciate any and all support on this measure as 53 well as 1414. And more importantly as this vote is really just to 54 close the public hearing, I think it's tremendously important to 55 get this measure out of the public hearing stage and let it be 56 heard on its merits and acted on the floor of the Legislature.

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1 Something of this magnitude should not have its fate decided by 2 whether or not a public hearing is remained opened or closed. 3 4 So at the very least we do ask you to close this public hearing, 5 discuss and debate the bill on its merits. Again, nothing has 6 changed on our position. That's already been put on the record by 7 both myself and President Levler. You know the bill. You know why 8 we support it. And on behalf of the men and women of AME, we thank 9 you for your consideration. Thank you, Presiding Officer. 02:38PM 10 11 P.O. CALARCO: 12 Thank you, Mr. McGarry. Does anybody have any questions for Mr. 13 McGarry at this time? Seeing none, Ryan, thank you again. And 14 please convey to the membership of AME that we appreciate their 15 hard work during the COVID crisis. Many of them are essential 16 employees showing up everyday and we truly appreciate it. 17 18 MR. McGARRY: 19 And we appreciate that. Thank you, Presiding Officer. 02:38PM 20 21 P.O. CALARCO: 22 Okay, I have no other speakers on this public hearing. 23 Would anybody like to make a motion. 24 25 LEG. DONNELLY: 26 Motion to close. 27 28 P.O. CALARCO: 29 Motion to close by Legislator Donnelly; second by Legislator 02:39PM 30 Berland. Do I have any other motions? 31 32 LEG. KRUPSKI: 33 Motion to recess. 34 35 P.O. CALARCO: 36 Motion to recess by Legislator Krupski. 37 38 LEG. TROTTA: 39 Second. 40 41 P.O. CALARCO: 42 Second by Legislator Trotta. Anybody on the issue? Seeing none, 43 roll call and the recess goes first. 44 45 (*Roll call by Mr. Dubois, Chief Deputy Clerk of the Legislature*) 46 47 LEG. KRUPSKI: 48 Yes. 49 02:39PM 50 LEG. TROTTA: 51 Yes. 52 53 LEG. FLEMING: 54 No. 55 56

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1 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. MURATORE: 5 No to recess. 6 7 LEG. ANKER: 8 No. 9 02:39PM 10 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 11 Yes to recess. 12 13 LEG. GONZALEZ: 14 (No response) 15 16 LEG. GONZALEZ: 17 No to recess. 18 19 LEG. CILMI: 02:39PM 20 No. 21 22 LEG. FLOTTERON: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. KENNEDY: 26 Yes to recess. 27 28 LEG. McCAFFREY: 29 (No response) 02:40PM 30 31 LEG. McCAFFREY: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. RICHBERG: 35 No to recess. 36 37 LEG. BERLAND: 38 No to recess. 39 02:40PM 40 LEG. DONNELLY: 41 No. 42 43 LEG. SPENCER: 44 No to recess. It's too hot. 45 46 LEG. HAHN: 47 No. 48 49 P.O. CALARCO: 02:40PM 50 No. 51 52 MR. DUBOIS: 53 Seven. 54 55 P.O. CALARCO: 56 Okay, motion fails. Motion to close goes next, roll call.

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1 (*Roll call by Mr. Dubois, Chief Deputy Clerk of the Legislature*) 2 3 LEG. DONNELLY: 4 Yes to close. 5 6 LEG. BERLAND: 7 Yes to close. 8 9 LEG. KRUPSKI: 02:40PM 10 No. 11 12 LEG. FLEMING: 13 Yes. 14 15 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 16 No. 17 18 LEG. MURATORE: 19 Yes to close. 02:41PM 20 21 LEG. ANKER: 22 Yes. 23 24 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 25 No. 26 27 LEG. GONZALEZ: 28 Yes to close. 29 02:41PM 30 LEG. CILMI: 31 Yes to close. 32 33 LEG. FLOTTERON: 34 No to close. 35 36 LEG. KENNEDY: 37 No to close. 38 39 LEG. TROTTA: 02:41PM 40 No -- yes, yes, to close. No, no, no to close. No, no. 41 42 LEG. McCAFFREY: 43 No to close. 44 45 LEG. RICHBERG: 46 Yes to close. 47 48 LEG. SPENCER: 49 Yes. 02:41PM 50 51 LEG. HAHN: 52 Yes to close. 53 54 P.O. CALARCO: 55 Yes. 56

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1 MR. DUBOIS: 2 Eleven. 3 4 P.O. CALARCO: 5 Okay, it is closed. All right, I'm going to put everyone who 6 wasn't put back in the waiting room in the waiting room. Thank you 7 everyone for your time today. 8 9 Okay, IR 1530, (Adopting Local Law No. -2020,) A Charter Law to 02:42PM 10 further expedite the consideration of grant funding resolutions by 11 the County Legislature (Richberg). I do not have anybody signed up 12 for this public hearing. Legislator Richberg, what is your 13 preference? 14 15 LEG. RICHBERG: 16 Motion to recess. 17 18 P.O. CALARCO: 19 Motion to recess by Legislator Richberg. 20 21 LEG. GONZALEZ: 22 Second. 23 24 P.O. CALARCO: 25 Second by Legislator Gonzalez. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 26 27 (*Roll call by Mr. Dubois, Chief Deputy Clerk of the Legislature*) 28 29 LEG. RICHBERG: 02:42PM 30 Yes. 31 32 LEG. GONZALEZ: 33 Yes. 34 35 LEG. KRUPSKI: 36 To recess? Now everyone votes yes? Yes. 37 38 MR. DUBOIS: 39 Is that a yes? 02:42PM 40 41 LEG. KRUPSKI: 42 That's a yes. 43 44 LEG. FLEMING: 45 Yes. 46 47 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 48 Yes. 49 02:42PM 50 LEG. MURATORE: 51 Yes to recess. 52 53 LEG. ANKER: 54 Yes. 55 56

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1 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. CILMI: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. FLOTTERON: 8 Yes. 9 02:43PM 10 LEG. KENNEDY: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. TROTTA: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. McCAFFREY: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. BERLAND: 02:43PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. DONNELLY: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. SPENCER: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. HAHN: 29 Yes. 02:43PM 30 31 P.O. CALARCO: 32 Yes. 33 34 MR. DUBOIS: 35 Eighteen. 36 37 P.O. CALARCO: 38 Okay, it's recessed. 39 02:43PM 40 IR 1552, (Adopting Local Law No. -2020,) A Local Law to amend the 41 County Human Rights Law to include false reporting of a crime based 42 on a bias (Richberg). I do have one speaker, I'm sorry, give me 43 one second so I can bring her into the room. I should have done 44 that before. Okay, so we are on IR 1552. We do have one speaker 45 signed up for this, Emily Kaufmann. Miss Kaufmann, are you there? 46 Sorry, I brought you in at the last minute. 47 48 MS. KAUFMANN: 49 Yes, hi, I'm here. Sorry, I was muted. 02:44PM 50 51 P.O. CALARCO: 52 Great, no problem. Thank you, Miss Kaufmann. Welcome. We are on 53 IR 1552, a Local Law to amend the County Human Rights Law to 54 include false reporting of a crime based on a bias. (Richberg). 55 You will get three minutes to speak on this topic. And at the end 56 of anybody has questions for you, they can -- we can open it up for

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1 questions. And you can begin whenever you are ready. 2 3 MS. KAUFMANN: 4 All right, cool. So, I'm here as a member of the Long Island 5 Network For Change. I'm a resident of Huntington. And Long Island 6 Network For Change is a group of progressive individuals who form 7 about 600 members. And so we wanted to just publically say that 8 we're strongly in support of this resolution. 9 02:45PM 10 There's been, I understand, an uptick in false reports of crimes. 11 I just got off the phone with someone who said there has been over 12 a hundred potential hate crimes or hate instances. And I know 13 there's some parsing on that in just July -- June and July alone. 14 So, I think it's incredibly important that we protect our most 15 vulnerable and marginalized brothers and sisters, specifically our 16 black Muslim, Latinx and indigenous communities from those kinds of 17 false reports. I'm highly backing that. 18 19 I also wanted to talk just in general about the work that Long 02:45PM 20 Island Network For Change and we're working with a coalition with 21 the Long Island Black Alliance and about 36 other groups who have 22 been established on Long Island in addition to hundreds of folks 23 about the community. We're taking a look at what it means to 24 reimagine community safety to ensure the safety of all of our 25 citizens specifically our black, brown and indigenous citizens and 26 looking at what it would mean to truly invest in those communities 27 and dial back our policing budget in order to -- say again -- in 28 order to truly invest in evidence-based programs and models that 29 address community safety in ways that keep our community members 02:46PM 30 safe; and also what police officers are being asked to do, the 31 scope of their job is unreasonable and unfair to them. And it's 32 creating unsafe conditions, continuing to maintain unsafe 33 conditions for our community members. 34 35 We know that policing doesn't prevent crime. They come after a 36 crime. We need models that can invest in housing, in food. We 37 have different models to respond and be first responders to 38 substance abuse issues, to homelessness issues, to mental health 39 issues, to traffic stops that we can create a new model of 02:46PM 40 community safety and we look forward to groups on Long Island that 41 are educating ourselves about this by continuing to talk with the 42 Legislature about how we can relook at and reimagine community 43 safety on Long Island. 44 45 I'm happy to talk more about the researches that we are studying, 46 the groups that we are working with throughout the country who have 47 alternative models and we're really excited to bring them to Long 48 Island in order to ensure full community safety and thriving 49 communities, specifically for black, brown indigenous Muslim, 02:47PM 50 Latinx communities who have been dis-invested from and who are not 51 being kept safe right now from our current inactions. I don't know 52 if anyone has questions. If you want, I'm happy to keep talking. 53 I don't know if I'm at my three-minute mark. 54 55 P.O. CALARCO: 56 You gotta about twenty seconds left, Miss Kaufmann.

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1 MS. KAUFMANN: 2 I'd recommend and maybe I'll pass around, we just did an 3 educational forum with Professor Alex Vitale. He is a professor 4 who's working on looking at evidence-based models that work better 5 with community safety instead of having intervention only being 6 police officers with guns. We need to take them out of specific 7 roles. I'm happy to send our Zoom educational forum we just did 8 with Professor Vitale who's worked for decades on this issue. 9 We had a robust Zoom forum and I think everyone would really do 02:48PM 10 ourselves good if we all continue to educate together on this, to 11 keep working on this. 12 13 P.O. CALARCO: 14 Great, thank you, Miss Kaufmann. Does anybody have any questions 15 for Miss Kaufmann at this time? Seeing none, Miss Kaufmann, thank 16 you very much for your time this afternoon. We appreciate it. 17 I have no other speakers signed up for this public hearing. 18 Legislator Richberg, what is your preference. 19 02:48PM 20 LEG. RICHBERG: 21 Motion to recess. 22 23 P.O. CALARCO: 24 Motion to recess by Legislator Richberg. 25 26 LEG. GONZALEZ: 27 Second. 28 29 P.O. CALARCO: 02:48PM 30 Second by Legislator Gonzalez. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 31 32 (*Roll call by Mr. Dubois, Chief Deputy Clerk of the Legislature*) 33 34 LEG. RICHBERG: 35 Yes to recess. 36 37 LEG. GONZALEZ: 38 Yes. 39 02:48PM 40 LEG. KRUPSKI: 41 Again, yes, on the recess. 42 43 LEG. FLEMING: 44 Yes. At the request of the sponsor I'm happy to support the recess 45 motion. 46 47 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 48 Yes. 49 02:49PM 50 LEG. MURATORE: 51 Yes to recess. 52 53 LEG. ANKER: 54 Yes. 55 56

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1 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 2 Yes to recess. 3 4 LEG. CILMI: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. FLOTTERON: 8 Yes. 9 02:49PM 10 LEG. KENNEDY: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. TROTTA: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. McCAFFREY: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. BERLAND: 02:49PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. DONNELLY: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. SPENCER: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. HAHN: 29 Yes. 02:49PM 30 31 P.O. CALARCO: 32 Yes. 33 34 MR. DUBOIS: 35 Eighteen. 36 37 P.O. CALARCO: 38 Okay, it is recessed. Miss Kaufmann, I'm going to put you back in 39 the waiting room. 40 41 Okay, IR 1553, (Adopting Local Law No. -2020,) A Local Law to amend 42 Resolution No. 421-2020 and clarify its construction with other 43 laws (Fleming). I do not have anybody who signed up for this 44 public hearing. Legislator Fleming, what is your preference. 45 46 LEG. FLEMING: 47 Motion to close, please. 48 49 LEG. RICHBERG: 02:50PM 50 Second. 51 52 P.O. CALARCO: 53 Motion to close by Legislator Fleming; second by Legislator 54 Krupski? 55 56

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1 LEG. RICHBERG: 2 Legislator Richberg. 3 4 P.O. CALARCO: 5 Legislator Richberg, I'm sorry. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 6 7 (*Roll call by Mr. Dubois, Chief Deputy Clerk of the Legislature*) 8 9 LEG. FLEMING: 02:50PM 10 Yes. 11 12 LEG. RICHBERG: 13 Yes. 14 15 LEG. KRUPSKI: 16 At the request of the sponsor, yes, to close. 17 18 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 19 Yes. 02:50PM 20 21 LEG. MURATORE: 22 Yes to close. 23 24 LEG. ANKER: 25 (No response) 26 27 LEG. ANKER: 28 Yes. 29 02:50PM 30 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 31 Yes. 32 33 LEG. GONZALEZ: 34 Yes. 35 36 LEG. CILMI: 37 Yes. 38 39 LEG. FLOTTERON: 02:50PM 40 Yes. 41 42 LEG. KENNEDY: 43 Yes. 44 45 LEG. TROTTA: 46 Yes. 47 48 LEG. McCAFFREY: 49 Yes. 02:50PM 50 51 LEG. BERLAND: 52 Yes. 53 54 LEG. DONNELLY: 55 Yes. 56

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1 LEG. SPENCER: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. HAHN: 5 Yes. 6 7 P.O. CALARCO: 8 Yes. 9 02:51PM 10 MR. DUBOIS: 11 Eighteen. 12 13 P.O. CALARCO: 14 Okay, it is closed. 15 16 IR 1557, (Adopting Local Law No. -2020,) A Charter Law to divert 17 funding from the Fair Elections Matching Fund to the County General 18 Fund for three years (Flotteron). I do not have any speakers on 19 this public hearing. Legislator Flotteron, what is your 02:51PM 20 preference. 21 22 LEG. FLOTTERON: 23 Yeah, I'd like to make a motion to recess. From input from other 24 members, I might be making little tweaks and will notify everyone. 25 26 P.O. CALARCO: 27 I appreciate that. Thank you, Legislator Flotteron. We have a 28 motion to recess. I'll second the motion. Anybody on the issue? 29 Roll call. 02:51PM 30 31 (*Roll call by Mr. Dubois, Chief Deputy Clerk of the Legislature*) 32 33 LEG. FLOTTERON: 34 Yes. 35 36 P.O. CALARCO: 37 Yes. 38 39 LEG. KRUPSKI: 02:51PM 40 Yes. 41 42 LEG. FLEMING: 43 Yes. 44 45 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 46 Yes. 47 48 LEG. MURATORE: 49 Yes. 02:51PM 50 51 LEG. ANKER: 52 Yes. 53 54 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 55 Yes. 56

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1 LEG. GONZALEZ: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. CILMI: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. KENNEDY: 8 Yes. 9 02:52PM 10 LEG. TROTTA: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. McCAFFREY: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. RICHBERG: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. BERLAND: 02:52PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. DONNELLY: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. SPENCER: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. HAHN: 29 Yes. 02:52PM 30 31 MR. DUBOIS: 32 Eighteen. 33 34 P.O. CALARCO: 35 It is recessed. 36 37 IR 1563, (Adopting Local Law No. -2020,) A Local Law providing 38 taxpayers with transparency in the use of tax dollars to support 39 Suffolk County Community College. (Calarco). I do not have any 02:52PM 40 speakers on this public hearing. I'd like to make a motion to 41 close. 42 43 LEG. RICHBERG: 44 Second. 45 46 LEG. BERLAND: 47 Second. 48 49 P.O. CALARCO: 02:52PM 50 Second by Legislator Richberg. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 51 52 (*Roll call by Mr. Dubois, Chief Deputy Clerk of the Legislature*) 53 54 P.O. CALARCO: 55 Yes. 56

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1 LEG. RICHBERG: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. KRUPSKI: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. FLEMING: 8 Yes. 9 02:52PM 10 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. MURATORE: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. ANKER: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 02:53PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. GONZALEZ: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. CILMI: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. FLOTTERON: 29 Yes. 02:53PM 30 31 LEG. KENNEDY: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. TROTTA: 35 Yes. 36 37 LEG. McCAFFREY: 38 Yes. 39 02:53PM 40 LEG. BERLAND: 41 Yes. 42 43 LEG. DONNELLY: 44 Yes. 45 46 LEG. SPENCER: 47 No response. 48 49 LEG. SPENCER: 02:53PM 50 Yes. 51 52 LEG. HAHN: 53 Yes. 54 55 MR. DUBOIS: 56 Eighteen.

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Okay, it is closed. 3 4 All right, I'm going to make a motion and set the date for the 5 following public hearings for September 19th, 2020 at 2 PM at the 6 Rose Caracappa Auditorium in Hauppauge with the caveat that we may 7 still have to be doing the public hearings remotely depending on 8 what the Governor does in the state of the pandemic, in which case 9 we will do them via Zoom: 02:53PM 10 11 IR 1347, a Local Law requiring animal shelters and rescues to 12 provide that animal's behavioral and bite history prior to 13 adoption; IR 1601, a Local Law to amend section 814-26 of the 14 Suffolk County Administrative Code to provide a time for 15 payment of the Planning Commission referral fees; IR 1628, a 16 Local Law to strengthen the County's school bus photo 17 violation monitoring program; IR 1641, a Local Law to amend 18 Resolution No. 549 of 2020 to permit the transfer of 19 unexpended funds between organizations. 02:54PM 20 21 Motion seconded by Legislator Cilmi. Anybody on the issue? 22 Roll call. 23 24 (*Roll call by Mr. Dubois, Chief Deputy Clerk of the Legislature*) 25 26 P.O. CALARCO: 27 Yes. 28 29 LEG. CILMI: 02:54PM 30 Yes. 31 32 LEG. KRUPSKI: 33 I do have a question for the Presiding Officer. 34 35 P.O. CALARCO: 36 I'm sorry, go ahead, Legislator Krupski. 37 38 LEG. KRUPSKI: 39 So, these are being noticed for September 9th. When does the 02:55PM 40 Governor's executive order expire for public notice? 41 42 MS. SIMPSON: 43 So, the public hearing notice currently expires on August 6th for 44 the public hearings to be only virtually. That said, he's been 45 extending it on the date it expires for an additional 30 days since 46 the pandemic began. I don't know if he's going to continue doing 47 that or not. 48 49 LEG. KRUPSKI: 02:55PM 50 And I understand that -- you know, no one seems to know if he will 51 continue to extend it. These are being set for September 9th. The 52 reason I'm concerned about that is because if they are -- if they 53 are -- if it doesn't get extended on September 6th or there abouts, 54 what do we do about these hearings that have been noticed for the 55 9th? Are we reaching out to the Governor to ask him for some 56 guidance on what we do with hearings that have already been noticed

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1 that all of a sudden are now not properly noticed? 2 3 MS. SIMPSON: 4 So, I have been staying in constant contact with the Governor's 5 Office on the Executive Orders associated with the waiver of Open 6 Meetings Law as well as the tolling of public hearings in person. 7 So, I will be speaking with them in August before they -- to find 8 out if they're going to extend. And if they extend at that time 9 I'm going to -- I've been advising them and we have meetings in 02:56PM 10 close proximity to the end date so that they can give us a guidance 11 as to whether or not they intend to extend. 12 13 LEG. KRUPSKI: 14 Thank you, Sarah. I appreciate that. Thank you, Mr. Presiding 15 Officer. 16 17 P.O. CALARCO: 18 You're welcome. I would just add to that, you know, I'm hopeful 19 that we'll be able to have the alterations made to the Legislature 02:56PM 20 so that we can resume, at least the majority of us in person, for 21 the September meeting; that will be a very ambitious schedule. And 22 if we're not able to do that, we may not be able to hold the public 23 hearings in person at that time anyways. But about two weeks 24 before is when we publish the notices to the public. So, if we are 25 looking like we won't get there, then we will publish it for a Zoom 26 public hearing. 27 28 LEG. KRUPSKI: 29 Thank you. 02:57PM 30 31 P.O. CALARCO: 32 You're welcome, Legislator Krupski. 33 34 (*Continued roll call by Mr. Dubois, 35 Chief Deputy Clerk of the Legislature*) 36 37 LEG. KRUPSKI: 38 So my vote is yes. 39 40 LEG. FLEMING: 41 (No response). 42 43 MR. DUBOIS: 44 Fleming? 45 46 LEG. FLEMING: 47 I'm sorry. Yes. 48 49 P.O. CALARCO: 02:57PM 50 Legislator Cilmi, did you have your hand up? Do you have a 51 follow-up to that? 52 53 LEG. CILMI: 54 I did actually, but I don't want to interrupt the vote as it's 55 going on. I'm sorry, I know it's out of order. 56

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Okay. 3 4 LEG. CILMI: 5 I'll ask the question. You can answer whenever you want to answer 6 it. Basically my question is, I know that the State Legislature is 7 meeting in person at this point. And so I was wondering what's 8 different about the way we meet versus the way the State 9 Legislature meets that's preventing us from meeting in person at 02:57PM 10 this point. 11 12 MS. AMENDOLA: 13 I don't think they are meeting in person. They are doing their 14 committees virtually right now. 15 16 LEG. CILMI: 17 But they're -- so they're doing committees virtually, but are they 18 doing their regular session in person? 19 02:58PM 20 MS. AMENDOLA: 21 I think they're allowing for a virtual option for their members. 22 I'm not sure if they're meeting in person. 23 24 LEG. CILMI: 25 Okay. 26 27 MS. AMENDOLA: 28 But I know they're definitely doing their committees virtually for 29 sure. 02:58PM 30 31 LEG. CILMI: 32 Okay. All right, thanks. 33 34 P.O. CALARCO: 35 I don't think they're bringing the full complement into the chamber 36 at any given time. 37 38 LEG. CILMI: 39 Okay. Thanks. 02:58PM 40 41 (*Continued roll call by Mr. Dubois 42 - Chief Deputy Clerk of the Legislature*) 43 44 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 45 Yes. 46 47 LEG. MURATORE: 48 Yes. 49 02:58PM 50 LEG. ANKER: 51 Yes. 52 53 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 54 Yes. 55 56

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1 LEG. GONZALEZ: 2 (No response). 3 4 MR. DUBOIS: 5 Gonzalez. 6 7 LEG. GONZALEZ: 8 (No response) 9 02:58PM 10 LEG. FLOTTERON: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. KENNEDY: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. TROTTA: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. McCAFFREY: 02:59PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. RICHBERG: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. BERLAND: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. DONNELLY: 29 Yes. 02:59PM 30 31 LEG. SPENCER: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. SPENCER: 35 Yes. 36 37 LEG. HAHN: 38 Yes. 39 02:59PM 40 MR. DUBOIS: 41 Seventeen. (Absent: Leg. Gonzalez) 42 43 P.O. CALARCO: 44 Okay, thank you everyone. 45 46 We're going to go back to the agenda. We'll try to -- okay, I'm 47 being told that Chief Sharkey will be with us around three o'clock. 48 So, let's go back to where we left off, and then once he comes into 49 the waiting room we'll go back to that item. So I think we're on 02:59PM 50 page six in Public Works. 51 52 PUBLIC WORKS, TRANSPORTATION & ENERGY 53 54 IR 1531, Authorizing the filing of a grant application for Federal 55 Fiscal Years 2018 and 2019 FTA Section 5339 Formula Funds for mass 56 transportation projects for Suffolk County Transit. (County Exec.).

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1 LEG. FLEMING: 2 Motion to approve. 3 4 P.O. CALARCO: 5 Motion by Legislator Fleming. 6 7 LEG. CILMI: 8 Second. 9 10 P.O. CALARCO: 11 Second by Legislator Cilmi. Anybody on the issue? Seeing none, 12 roll call. 13 14 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 15 16 LEG. FLEMING: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. CILMI: 03:00PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. KRUPSKI: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. MURATORE: 29 Yes. 03:00PM 30 31 LEG. ANKER: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 35 Yes. 36 37 LEG. GONZALEZ: 38 Yes. 39 40 LEG. FLOTTERON: 41 (No response). 42 43 MS. Ellis: 44 Flotteron. 45 46 LEG. FLOTTERON: 47 Yes, yes. 48 49 LEG. KENNEDY: 03:00PM 50 Yes. 51 52 LEG. TROTTA: 53 Yes. 54 55 LEG. McCAFFREY: 56 Yes.

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1 LEG. RICHBERG: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. BERLAND: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. DONNELLY: 8 Yes. 9 03:00PM 10 LEG. SPENCER: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. HAHN: 14 Yes. 15 16 P.O. CALARCO: 17 Yes. 18 19 MS. ELLIS: 03:01PM 20 Eighteen. 21 22 P.O. CALARCO: 23 IR 1532, Authorizing the filing of a grant application for Federal 24 Fiscal Year 2018 FTA Section 5307 Formula Funds for mass 25 transportation projects for Suffolk County Transit. (County Exec). 26 27 LEG. CILMI: 28 Motion. 29 03:01PM 30 P.O. CALARCO: 31 Motion by Legislator Cilmi. 32 33 LEG. KRUPSKI: 34 Second. 35 36 P.O. CALARCO: 37 Second by Legislator Krupski, I believe, that was. Anybody on the 38 issue? Roll call. 39 03:01PM 40 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 41 42 LEG. CILMI: 43 Yes. 44 45 LEG. KRUPSKI: 46 Yes. 47 48 LEG. FLEMING: 49 Yes. 03:01PM 50 51 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 52 Yes. 53 54 LEG. MURATORE: 55 Yes. 56

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1 LEG. ANKER: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. GONZALEZ: 8 Yes. 9 03:01PM 10 LEG. FLOTTERON: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. KENNEDY: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. TROTTA: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. McCAFFREY: 03:01PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. RICHBERG: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. BERLAND: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. DONNELLY: 29 Yes. 03:01PM 30 31 LEG. SPENCER: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. HAHN: 35 Yes. 36 37 P.O. CALARCO: 38 Yes. 39 03:01PM 40 MS. ELLIS: 41 Eighteen. 42 43 P.O. CALARCO: 44 IR 1533, Accepting FTA Section 5307 Cares Act funding (County 45 Exec). 46 47 LEG. CILMI: 48 Motion. 49 50 P.O. CALARCO: 51 Motion by Legislator Cilmi; second by Legislator Krupski. Anybody 52 on the issue? Roll call. 53 54 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 55 56

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1 LEG. CILMI: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. KRUPSKI: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. FLEMING: 8 (No response) 9 03:02PM 10 LEG. FLEMING: 11 Yes, yes, yes. 12 13 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. MURATORE: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. ANKER: 03:02PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. GONZALEZ: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. FLOTTERON: 29 Yes. 03:02PM 30 31 LEG. KENNEDY: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. TROTTA: 35 Yes. 36 37 LEG. McCAFFREY: 38 Yes. 39 03:02PM 40 LEG. RICHBERG: 41 Yes. 42 43 LEG. BERLAND: 44 Yes. 45 46 LEG. DONNELLY: 47 Yes. 48 49 LEG. SPENCER: 03:02PM 50 Yes. 51 52 LEG. HAHN: 53 Yes. 54 55 P.O. CALARCO: 56 Yes.

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1 MS. ELLIS: 2 Eighteen. 3 4 P.O. CALARCO: 5 IR 1559, Appropriating funds in connection with the Sewer 6 Infrastructure Program to provide funding for the Suffolk County 7 Septic Improvement Program (County Exec). 8 9 LEG. KRUPSKI: 03:03PM 10 Motion. 11 12 P.O. CALARCO: 13 Motion by Legislator Krupski, was it; second by Legislator 14 Donnelly, was it? Legislator Donnelly, were you the second? 15 16 LEG. DONNELLY: 17 Yes. 18 19 P.O. CALARCO: 03:03PM 20 Anybody on the issue? 21 22 LEG. KRUPSKI: 23 On the motion. 24 25 P.O. CALARCO: 26 On the motion, Legislator Krupski, go ahead. 27 28 LEG. KRUPSKI: 29 Yeah, I just want -- there's been a lot of work put into this 03:03PM 30 program by Suffolk County Planning and DPW and the Health 31 Department, and all with the support and leadership of the County 32 Executive. And I'm happy to see this program funded. It's been -- 33 there's a lot of interest in it out here. And there will be 34 continued interest as they have run the program well. So, I hope 35 everyone supports the extra funding for it and continues to support 36 that. 37 38 P.O. CALARCO: 39 Thank you, Legislator Krupski. Anybody else on the issue? 03:03PM 40 Legislator Kennedy. 41 42 LEG. KENNEDY: 43 Did we bond out for this already? Or will this be a new bond now? 44 45 P.O. CALARCO: 46 I don't believe these are bonds. Lance, do you want to answer that 47 question? 48 49 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 03:04PM 50 Yeah, this is cash. This is not bonds. For 1559, right? 51 52 LEG. KENNEDY: 53 Correct. 54 55 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 56 Yeah, there are funds there for that purpose.

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1 LEG. KENNEDY: 2 This is the State funds; the funds that the State gave us a while 3 back? Is that what that is? 4 5 P.O. CALARCO: 6 Lance, you're muted. 7 8 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 9 Yeah, I'm just trying to -- it's fund 406. 03:04PM 10 11 P.O. CALARCO: 12 I believe 406 is paid for through the Quarter Penny Program, right? 13 14 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 15 Yeah. 16 17 P.O. CALARCO: 18 That fund that we've been talking about so much today? 19 03:04PM 20 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 21 Well, 406 is a different fund, but -- 22 23 P.O. CALARCO: 24 It receives its funding through the quarter -- from the ASRF 25 portion of this fund; correct? 26 27 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 28 Right, right. 404 transfers to 406, which comes from the Quarter 29 Cent ultimately. So this is cash. 03:05PM 30 31 P.O. CALARCO: 32 And it's $2 million a year that goes into that fund, if I'm not 33 mistaken, right? 34 35 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 36 Correct. 37 38 P.O. CALARCO: 39 Okay? Anybody else? 40 41 LEG. FLOTTERON: 42 Yes. 43 44 P.O. CALARCO: 45 Legislator Flotteron, go ahead. 46 47 LEG. FLOTTERON: 48 I just want clarification. If 1413 or 1414 passes, will that 49 affect these funds in the future for these programs? 03:05PM 50 51 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 52 No. And Eric Naughton said the same thing. And we ran our own 53 scenario on 1414 passing and the impact on Fund 404 and there's 54 sufficient funds and 404 will grow a little bit. Our projections 55 have about an $800,000 increase. And that's assuming we look to 56 the past five year averages on expenditures such as this, the 2

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1 million or $4 million going into 406. Yes, there's adequate funds 2 to do what you did earlier and to fund this. 3 4 LEG. FLOTTERON: 5 Thank you. 6 7 DIRECTOR REINHEIMER: 8 You're welcome. 9 03:06PM 10 P.O. CALARCO: 11 Okay, anybody else? All right, we have a motion and a second, roll 12 call. 13 14 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 15 16 LEG. KRUPSKI: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. DONNELLY: 03:06PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. FLEMING: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. MURATORE: 29 Yes. 03:06PM 30 31 LEG. ANKER: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 35 (No response) 36 37 MS. ELLIS: 38 Piccirillo. 39 40 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 41 Yes. 42 43 P.O. CALARCO: 44 I believe he said yes, Madam Clerk. 45 46 MS. ELLIS: 47 Okay, thank you. 48 49 LEG. GONZALEZ: 03:06PM 50 Yes. 51 52 LEG. CILMI: 53 Yes. 54 55 LEG. FLOTTERON: 56 Yes.

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1 LEG. KENNEDY: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. TROTTA: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. McCAFFREY: 8 Yes. 9 10 LEG. RICHBERG: 11 (No response) 12 13 MS. ELLIS: 14 Richberg. 15 16 LEG. RICHBERG: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. BERLAND: 03:06PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. SPENCER: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. HAHN: 26 Yes. 27 28 P.O. CALARCO: 29 Yes. 03:07PM 30 31 MS. ELLIS: 32 Eighteen. 33 34 P.O. CALARCO: 35 Okay, it's approved. 36 37 Seniors & Human Services 38 39 Page 7, IR 1525, To appoint member of Suffolk County Youth Board 03:07PM 40 Coordinating Council representing Legislative District No. 7 (Pat 41 Policastro). I'm going to make a motion to table that. We have an 42 issue that we need to clear up before -- before we move forward 43 with this. Do I have a second? 44 45 LEG. RICHBERG: 46 Second. 47 48 P.O. CALARCO: 49 Second by Legislator Richberg. Roll call. 03:07PM 50 51 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 52 53 P.O. CALARCO: 54 Yes. Excuse me; motion to table, yes. 55 56

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1 LEG. RICHBERG: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. KRUPSKI: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. FLEMING: 8 Yes. 9 03:07PM 10 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. MURATORE: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. ANKER: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 03:08PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. GONZALEZ: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. CILMI: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. FLOTTERON: 29 Yes. 03:08PM 30 31 LEG. KENNEDY: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. TROTTA: 35 Yes. 36 37 LEG. McCAFFREY: 38 Yes. 39 03:08PM 40 LEG. BERLAND: 41 Yes. 42 43 LEG. DONNELLY: 44 Yes. 45 46 LEG. SPENCER: 47 Yes. 48 49 LEG. HAHN: 03:08PM 50 Yes. 51 52 MS. ELLIS: 53 Eighteen. 54 55 56

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1 (*The following testimony was taken by Diana Flesher - 2 Court Stenographer and was transcribed by 3 Kim Castiglione - Legislative Secretary*) 4 5 VETERANS & CONSUMERS AFFAIRS 6 7 P.O. CALARCO: 8 Okay, let's go back. We do have Chief Sharkey coming in now,. 9 I believe. Hold on, let's do one more while we wait for him to 03:08PM 10 connect. We're on page seven still, Veterans and Consumers. 11 IR 1541, To certain not-for-profit -- I think we have a typo here 12 -- To certain not-for-profit Veterans Organizations to receive net 13 proceeds from the 2019 Suffolk County Marathon. (County Exec). 14 15 LEG. BERLAND: 16 Motion. 17 18 P.O. CALARCO: 19 I feel like I'm missing a portion of that title. 03:09PM 20 21 LEG. BERLAND: 22 Yeah, it's missing a word. 23 24 LEG. TROTTA: 25 Motion to approve anyway. 26 27 P.O. CALARCO: 28 Motion by Legislator Berland, second by Legislator Trotta, to 29 approve anyway. Anybody on the issue? 03:09PM 30 31 MS. SIMPSON: 32 The typo is only on the agenda. 33 34 P.O. CALARCO: 35 Anybody on the issue? 36 37 LEG. BERLAND: 38 It's not on the resolution, it's in the agenda. 39 03:09PM 40 P.O. CALARCO: 41 Okay. Roll call. 42 43 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 44 45 LEG. BERLAND: 46 Yes. 47 48 LEG. TROTTA: 49 Yes. 03:09PM 50 51 LEG. KRUPSKI: 52 Yes. 53 54 LEG. FLEMING: 55 Yes. 56

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1 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. MURATORE: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. ANKER: 8 Yes. 9 03:09PM 10 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. GONZALEZ: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. CILMI: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. FLOTTERON: 03:09PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. KENNEDY: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. McCAFFREY: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. RICHBERG: 29 Yes. 03:09PM 30 31 LEG. DONNELLY: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. SPENCER: 35 Yes. 36 37 D.P.O. HAHN: 38 Yes. 39 03:09PM 40 P.O. CALARCO: 41 Yes. 42 43 MS. ELLIS: 44 Eighteen. 45 46 P.O. CALARCO: 47 All right, folks. Let's go back to the prior page in Public 48 Safety, IR 1285A (Bond Resolution of the County of Suffolk, New 49 York authorizing the issuance of $1,600,000 Bonds to finance 03:09PM 50 Renovations and Improvements to the County Correctional Facility 51 C-141 Riverhead (CP 3014.330 and .524). There were some questions. 52 We have Chief Sharkey now with us. Chief, are you there? You're 53 muted, Chief. 54 55 CHIEF SHARKEY: 56 Yes.

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 There we go. Okay, we have Chief Sharkey with us. Legislator 3 Kennedy, you had some questions? Go ahead. 4 5 LEG. KENNEDY: 6 Hi, Chief. Thank you for coming out. I just have a few questions. 7 This 1,500,000 is solely for showers and what else? 8 9 CHIEF SHARKEY: 03:10PM 10 No. 11 12 LEG. KENNEDY: 13 Furniture was what I am hearing. 14 15 CHIEF SHARKEY: 16 No, it is not just for showers and furniture. It's for any general 17 maintenance that we need at the Riverhead Correctional Facility. 18 Those items would be included, but it's not exclusively for that. 19 03:10PM 20 LEG. KENNEDY: 21 Do we know what else we need or will it go into a pot waiting for 22 something else to go wrong? 23 24 CHIEF SHARKEY: 25 It will go into a, you know, a general funding that we access along 26 with DPW for anything that's coming up. I mean, you now, right now 27 we have sections of roof that need to be replaced, things like 28 that. There's always something -- as you know, this building was 29 built in I think the mid-60's so there is always things that need 03:11PM 30 to be repaired. 31 32 LEG. KENNEDY: 33 Okay. So we've been tabling this for a while. Is the reason why 34 we're pushing it forward now because we might have to put in 35 another bill because it expires, or is it because there's only 500 36 people there and more work can get done. 37 38 CHIEF SHARKEY: 39 Well, the reason that we were -- we had agreed to table for several 03:11PM 40 cycles, but we were, you know, reminded by the County Executive's 41 folks that, you know, the resolution expires after six months and 42 would have to be resubmitted. So we're asking for it to move 43 forward now just so it's approved. You know, that doesn't 44 necessarily mean that you're going to be doing any bonding, just 45 looking to -- we can't miss a -- we can't miss a year's funding on 46 this project is what it comes down to. 47 48 LEG. KENNEDY: 49 All right. Thank you. 03:12PM 50 51 CHIEF SHARKEY: 52 Thank you. 53 54 P.O. CALARCO: 55 Legislator Trotta. 56

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1 LEG. TROTTA: 2 So you said some interesting words there. Maintenance? This is 3 money just for maintenance? You don't have a maintenance budget? 4 5 CHIEF SHARKEY: 6 When I say maintenance, I'm not saying maintenance -- you may think 7 of, you know, cleaning, or, you know, maintenance. I'm saying 8 general maintenance of the building meaning if, as you said, if all 9 the showers have to be replaced, if there has to be a section of 03:12PM 10 roof replaced. I'm trying to think of things off the top of my 11 head. I mean, there's any number of things that are large capital 12 expenditures here that happen over time. 13 14 LEG. TROTTA: 15 All right. Look, the place is a dump. I understand. Thank you. 16 17 CHIEF SHARKEY: 18 Okay. 19 03:13PM 20 P.O. CALARCO: 21 Okay, anybody else? All right. Madam Clerk, we had a motion on 22 this one, right? 23 24 MS. ELLIS: 25 Correct. 26 27 P.O. CALARCO: 28 Okay. So we have a motion and a second to approve I believe. 29 03:13PM 30 MS. ELLIS: 31 Yes. 32 33 P.O. CALARCO: 34 Yes. 35 36 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 37 38 LEG. DONNELLY: 39 Yes. 03:13PM 40 41 LEG. KRUPSKI: 42 Yes. 43 44 LEG. FLEMING: 45 Yes. 46 47 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 48 Yes. 49 03:13PM 50 LEG. MURATORE: 51 Yes. 52 53 LEG. ANKER: 54 Yes. 55 56

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1 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 2 Yes, and maybe you can throw Al an air-conditioner with the 1.5 3 million. 4 5 LEG. GONZALEZ: 6 Yes. 7 8 LEG. CILMI: 9 Yes. 03:13PM 10 11 LEG. FLOTTERON: 12 Yes. 13 14 LEG. KENNEDY: 15 Yes 16 17 LEG. TROTTA: 18 Yes. 19 03:13PM 20 LEG. McCAFFREY: 21 Yes. 22 23 LEG. RICHBERG: 24 Yes. 25 26 LEG. BERLAND: 27 Yes. 28 29 LEG. SPENCER: 03:13PM 30 Yes. 31 32 D.P.O. HAHN: 33 Yes. 34 35 P.O. CALARCO: 36 Yes. 37 38 MS. ELLIS: 39 Eighteen. 03:14PM 40 41 P.O. CALARCO: 42 Okay, it is approved. IR 1285 (Appropriating funds in connection 43 with Improvements to the County Correctional Facility C GÇô 141- 44 Riverhead (CP 3014), the underlying resolution, we'll do the same 45 motion, same second, roll call. 46 47 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 48 49 LEG. DONNELLY: 03:14PM 50 Yes. 51 52 LEG. KRUPSKI: 53 Yes. 54 55 LEG. FLEMING: 56 Yes.

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1 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. MURATORE: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. ANKER: 8 Yes. 9 03:14PM 10 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. GONZALEZ: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. CILMI: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. FLOTTERON: 03:14PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. KENNEDY: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. TROTTA: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. McCAFFREY: 29 Yes. 03:14PM 30 31 LEG. RICHBERG: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. BERLAND: 35 Yes. 36 37 LEG. SPENCER: 38 Yes. 39 03:14PM 40 D.P.O. HAHN: 41 Yes. 42 43 P.O. CALARCO: 44 Yes. 45 46 MS. ELLIS: 47 Eighteen. 48 49 P.O. CALARCO: 03:14PM 50 It is approved. All right. Thank you, Chief. 51 52 CHIEF SHARKEY: 53 Thank you. 54 55 P.O. CALARCO: 56 All right, folks, I'm going to -- if we go up the page just a

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1 couple of items. I'm going to make a motion to reconsider IR 1554, 2 Requiring diversity and inclusion training for all County employees 3 annually (Richberg). Since Legislator Richberg is with us he'd 4 like to vote on this. He'll second the motion. 5 6 LEG. KRUPSKI: 7 Depends on how he votes. 8 9 P.O. CALARCO: 03:15PM 10 Roll call. 11 12 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 13 14 P.O. CALARCO: 15 Yes. 16 17 LEG. RICHBERG: 18 Yes. 19 03:15PM 20 LEG. KRUPSKI: 21 Yes to reconsider. 22 23 LEG. FLEMING: 24 Yes. 25 26 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 27 Yes. 28 29 LEG. MURATORE: 03:15PM 30 Yes. 31 32 LEG. ANKER: 33 Yes. 34 35 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 36 Yes. 37 38 LEG. GONZALEZ: 39 Yes. 03:15PM 40 41 LEG. CILMI: 42 Yes. 43 44 LEG. FLOTTERON: 45 Yes. 46 47 LEG. KENNEDY: 48 Yes. 49 03:15PM 50 LEG. TROTTA: 51 Yes. 52 53 LEG. McCAFFREY: 54 Yes. 55 56

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1 LEG. BERLAND: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. DONNELLY: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. SPENCER: 8 Yes. 9 03:15PM 10 D.P.O. HAHN: 11 Yes. 12 13 MS. ELLIS: 14 Eighteen. 15 16 P.O. CALARCO: 17 Okay, it's back before us. I'll take a motion from Legislator 18 Richberg to approve, seconded by Legislator Spencer. 19 20 LEG. SPENCER: 21 Mr. Presiding Officer. 22 23 P.O. CALARCO: 24 Yes, Legislator Spencer. 25 26 LEG. SPENCER: 27 I apologize if I'm -- I just wanted to just make sure, on the 28 motion to reconsider, is Jason allowed to second since he wasn't 29 here? Doesn't that have to be two members on the prevailing side? 03:16PM 30 Or he can second the motion. I just wanted to double-check so 31 there wouldn't be any technicality. 32 33 MS. SIMPSON: 34 He can second the motion. The main motion must come from an 35 individual who is on the prevailing side, so since the Presiding 36 Officer was on the approving side it's fine for Jason to second. 37 38 LEG. SPENCER: 39 Sorry, Mr. Presiding Officer. I just wanted to be certain. 03:16PM 40 Thank you. 41 42 P.O. CALARCO: 43 You can check my procedural (inaudible) acumen any time. 44 45 LEG. SPENCER: 46 No, sir, it wasn't a check against you. Thank you. 47 48 P.O. CALARCO: 49 All right. So it is now before us and I have a motion and a second 03:17PM 50 to approve. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 51 52 LEG. RICHBERG: 53 I just want to thank my colleagues for their indulgence on this. 54 55 P.O. CALARCO: 56 Absolutely. We thank you for bringing it forward, Legislator

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1 Richberg. Anybody else? Roll call. 2 3 (*Roll Call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 4 5 LEG. RICHBERG: 6 Yes. 7 8 LEG. SPENCER: 9 Yes. 03:17PM 10 11 LEG. KRUPSKI: 12 Yes. 13 14 LEG. FLEMING: 15 Yes. 16 17 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 18 Yes. 19 03:17PM 20 LEG. MURATORE: 21 Yes. 22 23 LEG. ANKER: 24 Yes. 25 26 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 27 Yes. 28 29 LEG. GONZALEZ: 03:17PM 30 Yes. 31 32 LEG. CILMI: 33 Yes. 34 35 LEG. FLOTTERON: 36 Yes. 37 38 LEG. KENNEDY: 39 Yes. 03:17PM 40 41 LEG. TROTTA: 42 Yes. 43 44 LEG. McCAFFREY: 45 Yes. 46 47 LEG. BERLAND: 48 Yes. 49 03:17PM 50 LEG. DONNELLY: 51 Yes. 52 53 D.P.O. HAHN: 54 Yes. 55 56

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Yes. 3 4 MS. ELLIS: 5 Eighteen. 6 7 P.O. CALARCO: 8 All right, it's approved. Congratulations, Legislator Richberg. 9 03:18PM 10 LEG. RICHBERG: 11 Thank you. 12 13 P.O. CALARCO: 14 Okay, back to page seven, guys. 15 16 Veterans & Consumer Affairs (Cont'd) 17 18 IR 1543, Establishing a voluntary registry for female veterans 19 living in Suffolk County. (Berland). I'll take a motion from 03:18PM 20 Legislator Berland. 21 22 LEG. GONZALEZ: 23 Second. 24 25 P.O. CALARCO: 26 Second by Legislator Gonzalez. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 27 28 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 29 03:18PM 30 LEG. BERLAND: 31 Yes. 32 33 LEG. GONZALEZ: 34 Yes, and cosponsor. 35 36 LEG. KRUPSKI: 37 Yes. 38 39 LEG. FLEMING: 03:18PM 40 Yes. 41 42 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 43 Yes. 44 45 LEG. MURATORE: 46 Yes. 47 48 LEG. ANKER: 49 Yes, and cosponsor. 03:18PM 50 51 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 52 Yes. Cosponsor, thank you. 53 54 LEG. CILMI: 55 Yes and cosponsor, please. 56

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1 LEG. FLOTTERON: 2 Yes, and cosponsor. 3 4 LEG. KENNEDY: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. TROTTA: 8 Yes. 9 03:18PM 10 LEG. McCAFFREY: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. RICHBERG: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. DONNELLY: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. SPENCER: 03:19PM 20 Yes. 21 22 D.P.O. HAHN: 23 Yes. 24 25 P.O. CALARCO: 26 Yes. 27 28 MS. ELLIS: 29 Eighteen. 03:19PM 30 31 P.O. CALARCO: 32 Okay, it is approved. Congratulations, Legislator Berland. 33 34 LEG. BERLAND: 35 Thank you. 36 37 Ways & Means 38 39 P.O. CALARCO: 03:19PM 40 IR 1472, Bond Resolution of the County of Suffolk, New York, 41 authorizing the issuance of $1,800,000 Bonds to finance planning 42 costs associated with upgrading the Suffolk County Integrated 43 Financial Management System (IFMS) (CP 1782.113). 44 45 LEG. RICHBERG: 46 Motion. 47 48 P.O. CALARCO: 49 Motion by Legislator Richberg; second by Legislator Donnelly. 03:19PM 50 Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 51 52 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 53 54 LEG. RICHBERG: 55 Yes, seeing that it's older than I am. 56

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1 LEG. DONNELLY: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. KRUPSKI: 5 Well, that's not saying much. Yes. For a young guy. 6 7 LEG. FLEMING: 8 Yes. 9 03:19PM 10 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. MURATORE: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. ANKER: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 03:20PM 20 No. 21 22 LEG. GONZALEZ: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. CILMI: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. FLOTTERON: 29 Yes. 03:20PM 30 31 LEG. KENNEDY: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. TROTTA: 35 Yes. 36 37 LEG. McCAFFREY: 38 Yes. 39 03:20PM 40 LEG. BERLAND: 41 Yes. 42 43 LEG. SPENCER: 44 Yes. 45 46 D.P.O. HAHN: 47 Yes. 48 49 P.O. CALARCO: 03:20PM 50 Yes. 51 52 MS. ELLIS: 53 Seventeen. 54 55 56

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Okay, it's approved. IR 1515, Adopting Local Law No. -2020, A 3 Charter Law to Codify the Position of Counsel to the Legislature 4 (Richberg). I take a motion from Legislator Richberg; I'll second 5 the motion. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 6 7 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 8 9 LEG. RICHBERG: 03:20PM 10 Yes. 11 12 P.O. CALARCO: 13 Yes. 14 15 LEG. KRUPSKI: 16 Yes. 17 18 LEG. FLEMING: 19 Yes. 03:20PM 20 21 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 22 Yes. 23 24 LEG. MURATORE: 25 Yes. 26 27 LEG. ANKER: 28 Yes. 29 03:21PM 30 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 31 Yes. 32 33 LEG. GONZALEZ: 34 Yes. 35 36 LEG. CILMI: 37 Yes. 38 39 LEG. FLOTTERON: 03:21PM 40 Yes. 41 42 LEG. KENNEDY: 43 Yes. 44 45 LEG. TROTTA: 46 Yes. 47 48 LEG. McCAFFREY: 49 Yes. 03:21PM 50 51 LEG. BERLAND: 52 Yes. 53 54 LEG. DONNELLY: 55 Yes. 56

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1 LEG. SPENCER: 2 Yes. 3 4 D.P.O. HAHN: 5 Yes. 6 7 MS. ELLIS: 8 Eighteen. 9 03:21PM 10 P.O. CALARCO: 11 Okay, it is approved. 12 13 IR 1519, Adopting Local Law No. -2020, A Charter Law to clarify 14 residency requirements for Legislators (Richberg). Take a motion 15 from Legislator Richberg. 16 17 LEG. GONZALEZ: 18 Second. 19 20 P.O. CALARCO: 21 Second by Legislator Gonzalez. Legislator Krupski, do you have a 22 question? 23 24 LEG. KRUPSKI: 25 Yeah, it's about the legality of this. I mean, it's -- I know that 26 I'm kind of familiar with residency laws and are we able to say -- 27 are we able to enforce this and are we able to legally do this 28 actually, to mandate that you have to be a resident for more than a 29 year. I don't have a problem with it at all, just that in my 03:22PM 30 experience with residency laws this is a challenge. I think this 31 is a -- you know, legally I'd like to get our opinion of our 32 Counsel. 33 34 MS. SIMPSON: 35 I think that as a proposition we have set the terms for when our 36 elected officials have to be in residence at the time of 37 nomination. I don't think that this is legally infirm idea. There 38 are some offices that you can run for without actually living in 39 district, so I think saying that you have to live in district one 03:22PM 40 year prior is within the Legislature's authority. 41 42 LEG. KRUPSKI: 43 As opposed to like getting a resident permit for a beach use or a 44 shellfish permit or something you have to prove residency. You 45 have to be a resident at that moment, you don't have to be a 46 resident for a year prior. 47 48 MS. SIMPSON: 49 Right. You already have to be a resident at the time of 03:23PM 50 nomination. This is just saying you have to be a resident one year 51 prior to being elected. 52 53 LEG. KRUPSKI: 54 No, I understand the language in it. I'm just -- as long as you're 55 clear that it's -- because I'll be happy to support it as long as 56 you're clear that it's legal.

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1 MS. SIMPSON: 2 I don't see any legal infirmities with this. 3 4 LEG. KRUPSKI: 5 Thank you. 6 7 P.O. CALARCO: 8 Okay. Legislator Gonzalez? 9 03:23PM 10 LEG. GONZALEZ: 11 I had something but I think Legal Counsel answered it. 12 13 P.O. CALARCO: 14 Okay. I think, Legislator Krupski, to your point, the language 15 here I think actually mirrors what the State requires to run for 16 State office, that you have to be a resident of the district you're 17 running in for at least one year prior to running for that seat. 18 19 LEG. KRUPSKI: 03:23PM 20 No, that's fine with me. I just wanted to make sure. Thank you. 21 22 P.O. CALARCO: 23 No problem. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Roll call. 24 25 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 26 27 LEG. RICHBERG: 28 Yes. 29 03:24PM 30 LEG. GONZALEZ: 31 Yes. 32 33 LEG. KRUPSKI: 34 Yes. 35 36 LEG. FLEMING: 37 Yes. 38 39 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 03:24PM 40 Yes. 41 42 LEG. MURATORE: 43 Yes. 44 45 LEG. ANKER: 46 Yes. 47 48 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 49 Yes. 03:24PM 50 51 LEG. CILMI: 52 Yes. 53 54 LEG. FLOTTERON: 55 Yes. 56

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1 LEG. KENNEDY: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. TROTTA: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. McCAFFREY: 8 Yes. 9 03:24PM 10 LEG. BERLAND: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. DONNELLY: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. SPENCER: 17 Yes. 18 19 D.P.O. HAHN: 03:24PM 20 Yes. 21 22 P.O. CALARCO: 23 Yes. 24 25 MS. ELLIS: 26 Eighteen. 27 28 P.O. CALARCO: 29 Okay, it is approved. 03:24PM 30 31 IR 1556, Authorizing certain technical correction to Adopted 32 Resolution No. 358-2020. (County Exec.). 33 34 LEG. CILMI: 35 Motion. 36 37 P.O. CALARCO: 38 Motion by Legislator Cilmi; I'll second. Anybody on the issue? 39 Roll call. 03:25PM 40 41 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 42 43 LEG. CILMI: 44 Yes. 45 46 LEG. BERLAND: 47 Yes. 48 49 LEG. KRUPSKI: 03:25PM 50 Yes. 51 52 LEG. FLEMING: 53 Yes. 54 55 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 56 Yes.

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1 LEG. MURATORE: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. ANKER: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 8 Yes. 9 03:25PM 10 LEG. GONZALEZ: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. FLOTTERON: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. KENNEDY: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. TROTTA: 03:25PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. McCAFFREY: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. RICHBERG: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. DONNELLY: 29 Yes. 03:25PM 30 31 LEG. SPENCER: 32 Yes. 33 34 D.P.O. HAHN: 35 Yes. 36 37 P.O. CALARCO: 38 Yes. 39 03:25PM 40 MS. ELLIS: 41 Eighteen. 42 43 P.O. CALARCO: 44 Okay, it is approved. 45 46 IR 1562, Approval of auction rules for the disposition of surplus 47 property acquired under the Suffolk County Tax Act. (County Exec.). 48 49 LEG. KRUPSKI: 03:25PM 50 Motion. 51 52 P.O. CALARCO: 53 Motion by Legislator Cilmi, second by Legislator Krupski. Anybody 54 on the issue? 55 56

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1 LEG. CILMI: 2 On the motion. 3 4 P.O. CALARCO: 5 On the motion, Legislator Cilmi, go ahead. 6 7 LEG. CILMI: 8 Just can we confirm that the rules have not changed since last -- 9 03:25PM 10 MS. AMENDOLA: 11 I believe Sarah Lansdale should be in the waiting room to answer 12 questions on this. I think the only thing that has changed is to 13 allow for I think videoconferencing capabilities just with 14 everything that's going on, but if she's in the waiting room she'll 15 be able to confirm that. 16 17 P.O. CALARCO: 18 Who are we looking for? I'm sorry. 19 03:26PM 20 MS. AMENDOLA: 21 Sarah Lansdale. 22 23 P.O. CALARCO: 24 Sarah Lansdale. All right, I do have Miss Lansdale here. Give me 25 a second, I'm bringing her in the room. I apologize, I probably 26 knew I was supposed to bring her in. Miss Lansdale, are you with 27 us now? Sarah? 28 29 DIRECTOR LANSDALE: 03:26PM 30 Hi. How are you? 31 32 P.O. CALARCO: 33 There we go. All right. Miss Lansdale, we have before us right 34 now IR 1562, which is the rules for the auction and Legislator 35 Cilmi had a question. 36 37 LEG. CILMI: 38 Good afternoon, Sarah. 39 03:27PM 40 DIRECTOR LANSDALE: 41 Hi. 42 43 LEG. CILMI: 44 Just wanted to ask what, if anything, has changed in the rules this 45 year as compared to last year. 46 47 DIRECTOR LANSDALE: 48 Sure. Two things. One is to allow for the option to explore 49 online auction as Nicole referenced given, you know, CDC guidelines 03:27PM 50 about large gatherings. So that's one thing, to provide that 51 flexibility. The second is it makes clear on page 16 -- 52 53 LEG. GONZALEZ: 54 Are you online? I didn't know. Okay. 55 56

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Go ahead. 3 4 LEG. CILMI: 5 Sam, you're not muted. 6 7 P.O. CALARCO: 8 Sam is a perpetual interrupter of Zoom meetings. Go ahead, 9 Legislator Lansdale -- or Miss Lansdale. 03:27PM 10 11 DIRECTOR LANSDALE: 12 So page 16, paragraph 35, mentions Local Law 33 of 2019 which 13 requires the installation of advanced septic systems. That was a 14 local law approved by the Legislature last year. Those are the 15 changes. 16 17 LEG. CILMI: 18 Okay, thank you. 19 03:28PM 20 P.O. CALARCO: 21 Okay, thank you. Anybody else on the issue? Okay, we have a 22 motion and a second. Roll call. 23 24 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 25 26 LEG. CILMI: 27 You know what? I'm going to withdraw my motion to approve. As I 28 recall, I was not in favor of that change in the law, so. Thanks. 29 03:28PM 30 D.P.O. HAHN: 31 I'll make the motion. 32 33 P.O. CALARCO: 34 Okay, the motion has been withdrawn. I think Legislator Hahn said 35 she will make the motion. 36 37 LEG. KRUPSKI: 38 I'll second. 39 40 P.O. CALARCO: 41 And we'll keep the same second. Okay. Anybody want to debate the 42 issue? Seeing none, roll call. 43 44 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 45 46 D.P.O. HAHN: 47 Yes. 48 49 LEG. KRUPSKI: 03:29PM 50 I had my hand up when the Presiding Officer said -- 51 52 P.O. CALARCO: 53 I'm sorry, Legislator Krupski. Go ahead. 54 55 LEG. KRUPSKI: 56 That's all right, debate it. What are the -- I don't understand

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1 the objection. This is to Legislator Cilmi. What are your 2 objections? 3 4 LEG. CILMI: 5 If I'm not mistaken -- through the Chair, if I may respond. 6 7 P.O. CALARCO: 8 Yes, go ahead. Of course, yes. 9 03:29PM 10 LEG. CILMI: 11 Thank you. If I'm not mistaken, Al, I objected to the original 12 requirement and to be perfectly honest with you, I don't recall 13 exactly what the original requirement was, but if my memory serves 14 it was that when we sell in auction -- a property at auction it's 15 got to be -- there's got to be at least a commitment, I think, to 16 replace the septic system with an IA system within a certain period 17 of time. Am I correct? 18 19 DIRECTOR LANSDALE: 03:30PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. CILMI: 23 What was that period of time, Sarah? 24 25 DIRECTOR LANSDALE: 26 It's within 15 months to take the title to the property. 27 28 LEG. CILMI: 29 Thank you. And as I recall, and I haven't looked, but as I recall 03:30PM 30 I was opposed to that change or that requirement when that was 31 brought before us. And so that's what my objection is, Al. 32 33 LEG. KRUPSKI: 34 All right, thank you. Thank you. My vote is yes. Thank you, 35 though, for that indulgence. 36 37 P.O. CALARCO: 38 All right, anybody else on the issue? Go ahead, Madam Clerk. 39 03:30PM 40 (*Roll call by Ms. Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 41 42 LEG. FLEMING: 43 Yes. 44 45 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 46 No. 47 48 LEG. MURATORE: 49 No. 03:31PM 50 51 LEG. ANKER: 52 Yes. 53 54 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 55 Yes. 56

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1 LEG. GONZALEZ: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. CILMI: 5 Abstain. 6 7 LEG. FLOTTERON: 8 Yes. 9 03:31PM 10 LEG. KENNEDY: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. TROTTA: 14 No. 15 16 LEG. McCAFFREY: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. RICHBERG: 03:31PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. BERLAND: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. DONNELLY: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. SPENCER: 29 Yes. 03:31PM 30 31 P.O. CALARCO: 32 Yes. 33 34 MS. ELLIS: 35 Fourteen. 36 37 P.O. CALARCO: 38 Okay, it is approved. 39 40 (*The following was Taken by Lucia Braaten - Court Stenographer & 41 Transcribed by Kim Castiglione - Legislative Secretary*) 42 43 P.O. CALARCO: 44 I.R. 1567 - Requiring the Suffolk County Board of Elections to 45 publish translated election notices in a Spanish language newspaper 46 (Gonzalez). 47 48 LEG. GONZALEZ: 49 Motion to approve. 03:29PM 50 51 D.P.O. HAHN: 52 Second. 53 54 P.O. CALARCO: 55 Motion by Legislator Gonzalez, second by Legislator Hahn. Anybody 56 on the issue? Legislator Kennedy, go ahead.

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1 LEG. KENNEDY: 2 I just have a question. I'm fine with it, but what I found out was 3 we already (inaudible) and that this has been law since 1965, the 4 Voting Rights Act, so. 5 6 LEG. GONZALEZ: 7 That is correct. The Department of Justice in 2019 had put 8 something to enforce it. Nassau County went through -- forward. 9 We are doing it through Newsday, okay? So Newsday is actually 03:30PM 10 doing this for Spanish speaking individuals in our County, of which 11 they are putting it in at $30 per column, per inch. And so this is 12 dictating and allowing that a Spanish speaking newspaper, a 13 legitimate Spanish speaking newspaper, be allowed to put the 14 published translations for elections in their newspaper, and the 15 largest being Noticia. Noticia is the largest Spanish speaking 16 newspaper. It's cheaper. We're living in an economical world 17 right now, and it is cheaper and now those people that speak and 18 read Spanish are actually going to actually be able to get a 19 newspaper and read it. Because nobody -- these Spanish speakers 03:31PM 20 and readers are not picking up newspaper so they could see that 21 published election in the paper. 22 23 LEG. KENNEDY: 24 So, Legislator Gonzalez, what you're telling me is they're not 25 doing it in any Spanish newspaper? 26 27 LEG. GONZALEZ: 28 Not at all. 29 03:31PM 30 LEG. KENNEDY: 31 That they're doing it in Spanish in Newsday? 32 33 LEG. GONZALEZ: 34 That is correct. 35 36 LEG. KENNEDY: 37 Oh, that's not what I was told, but thank you. 38 39 LEG. GONZALEZ: 03:31PM 40 You're welcome. 41 42 P.O. CALARCO: 43 Okay. Legislator Krupski. 44 45 LEG. KRUPSKI: 46 I guess the -- if I could, Mr. Presiding Officer, ask the sponsor, 47 how is this newspaper selected and where is it distributed? 48 49 LEG. GONZALEZ: 03:32PM 50 It is at -- the Spanish newspaper is distributed through Suffolk, 51 through Nassau, and in parts of the Five Boroughs. So that's -- 52 and on top of that is it is a newspaper that is free to the 53 community. That's number one. Number two, it was actually 54 instituted back when the Department of Justice said that it had to 55 be done in a Spanish speaking newspaper. I sent that out before 56 and now finally we're able to introduce this the correct way. You

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1 know, to put this out and ask that all those who speak and read 2 Spanish to pick up the Newsday, you know, newspaper, is just -- is 3 just completely wrong, they're not going to do that. 4 5 So now, through the Department of Justice, which Nassau County 6 adhered to, and now entering this resolution so that Suffolk County 7 can now do the same thing correctly, not through an English 8 newspaper, I think it just benefits everyone so that everyone 9 understands on this particular date there is the primaries, on this 03:33PM 10 particular date it's the regular elections. I think it's something 11 that just needs to be. 12 13 P.O. CALARCO: 14 I think -- 15 16 LEG. KRUPSKI: 17 That wasn't my question. 18 19 P.O. CALARCO: 03:33PM 20 Legislator Krupski, I think Counsel had her hand up. I think she's 21 going to answer the question. 22 23 LEG. KRUPSKI: 24 Thank you. 25 26 MS. SIMPSON: 27 So the resolution does not specifically name Noticia. It just says 28 that the advertisements must be published in the Spanish language 29 newspaper with the largest circulation in the County. So if 03:34PM 30 another Spanish language newspaper were to come in to the County 31 and have a larger circulation than Noticia, they would be the ones 32 that we would advertise with. 33 34 LEG. KRUPSKI: 35 Who would make that determination? 36 37 MS. SIMPSON: 38 The resolution specifically says whatever Spanish language 39 newspaper has the largest circulation, so it's a policy decision 03:34PM 40 that's being made in this resolution. 41 42 LEG. KRUPSKI: 43 By? Who makes that decision? 44 45 MS. SIMPSON: 46 By the Legislature. 47 48 LEG. KRUPSKI: 49 We go out and personally find that? I mean, who makes that 03:34PM 50 decision? 51 52 MS. SIMPSON: 53 Well, I mean, you can objectively look at the numbers to see who 54 has the largest circulation. I'm not sure I understand the 55 question. 56

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1 LEG. KRUPSKI: 2 Someone has to make a call, I'm going to pick Noticia or I'm going 3 to pick the other one. So who makes that decision? 4 5 MS. SIMPSON: 6 You would have to look at their subscriber numbers and whoever has 7 the largest subscriber numbers -- 8 9 P.O. CALARCO: 03:34PM 10 This says the Board of Elections, correct? 11 12 LEG. GONZALEZ: 13 That is correct, the Board of Elections. 14 15 MS. SIMPSON: 16 Correct. 17 18 LEG. KRUPSKI: 19 Thank you. So the other question, the other part of the question 03:35PM 20 was, where -- besides the Five Boroughs and Nassau County, where is 21 it distributed in Suffolk County? 22 23 LEG. GONZALEZ: 24 Everywhere. 25 26 LEG. KRUPSKI: 27 Everywhere. So if I go into a place that sells newspapers it's 28 going to be there. 29 03:35PM 30 LEG. GONZALEZ: 31 Yes. 32 33 LEG. KRUPSKI: 34 I didn't want to name a store. Okay. All right. I will look for 35 it. Thank you. 36 37 P.O. CALARCO: 38 The Spanish language papers tend to circulate in businesses that 39 cater to a Spanish speaking population. I know if you go into 03:35PM 40 Bravo, which is a little grocery store in Downtown Patchogue, which 41 tends to get a large customer base from our Hispanic population, 42 you'll find La Noticia as well as another Spanish language paper 43 there. 44 45 LEG. KRUPSKI: 46 I will look for it, and if I see it, since it's free, I'll get 47 Legislator Gonzalez a copy. 48 49 P.O. CALARCO: 03:35PM 50 Very good. 51 52 LEG. GONZALEZ: 53 Thank you. 54 55 LEG. RICHBERG: 56 There's one down on Great Neck Road.

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 I have a long list, I have a long list. Legislator Trotta is next. 3 4 LEG. TROTTA: 5 I don't have anything to say, let's vote. 6 7 P.O. CALARCO: 8 All right. Legislator Muratore, you were next. 9 03:36PM 10 LEG. MURATORE: 11 My question is how are you going to determine the circulation. If 12 it's free, where do they get their circulation numbers from? 13 People aren't subscribing to it, they're picking it up in a bodega 14 or in a delicatessen or even in a supermarket. So where are they 15 getting their numbers from? 16 17 LEG. GONZALEZ: 18 Tom, each location that Noticia, I'm using Noticia as the 19 newspaper, okay? They come here. They drop to me approximately 30 03:36PM 20 newspapers here. There is an active count for every single 21 location, just like Daily News would. They go into your grocery 22 store, they go into your area and they drop 20 or 25 Daily News 23 newspapers, and when they come back, they take that front page of 24 the newspaper that has not been sold and they write this down or 25 they put it into their tablet, and that is how circulations 26 manually are counted. 27 28 LEG. MURATORE: 29 So they drop off 50 and they -- 03:37PM 30 31 LEG. GONZALEZ: 32 The drop 50 to me, 40 to you. 33 34 LEG. MURATORE: 35 And they take back 39 or 49 from you, so what's their circulation, 36 one? I mean, what are they basing on? 37 38 LEG. GONZALEZ: 39 Whatever the circulation, if that's what it is, that's what it is, 03:37PM 40 Tommy, it's one. But the thing is, we're talking about every 41 single location that this newspaper is dropped, okay? So if it's 42 one here and 100 there, you know, one back and 100 sold, then you 43 got 99 newspapers out there that were given out. 44 45 LEG. MURATORE: 46 And we're going to have to pay for this advertising? Who pays for 47 this advertising? 48 49 LEG. GONZALEZ: 03:37PM 50 We right now are paying for the same advertisement, Tom, in 51 Newsday, an incorrect newspaper for Spanish speakers, at $30 per 52 column, per inch. Right now this resolution, if it is Noticia who 53 has the highest circulation, their numbers are $19 per column, per 54 inch. So right now we're looking at even a $10 savings across the 55 board. 56

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1 LEG. MURATORE: 2 But we're still spending money to save money. 3 4 LEG. GONZALEZ: 5 We're still spending because it's a requirement by the Department 6 of Justice that require this to have this in a Spanish speaking 7 newspaper. 8 9 LEG. MURATORE: 03:38PM 10 Do we have the cost? I mean, do we have any kind of number here as 11 far as what it's going to cost us? 12 13 LEG. GONZALEZ: 14 It's going to cost us $10 less than what Newsday is charging us 15 right now. 16 17 LEG. MURATORE: 18 But it's $19 more. So what is that $19 -- 19 03:38PM 20 LEG. GONZALEZ: 21 No, no, no, no, no, no. That has to be removed from Newsday. It 22 has -- that advertisement for Spanish speaking for the -- for 23 elections has to be put in a Spanish paper, okay? Not Spanish in 24 an American newspaper. So that is not what we're saying. We're 25 saying that the Board of Elections will pick up that paper and it's 26 going to be at their current price of $19, not 30. 27 28 LEG. MURATORE: 29 They don't do this already. The Board of Elections doesn't do 03:39PM 30 this. They don't publish the results in Spanish, other than 31 Newsday. 32 33 LEG. GONZALEZ: 34 Other than Newsday right now? No. And in speaking to both sides 35 of the Board of Election, they are ready to roll with this because 36 they're -- that is a way for them to reach out to both sides of the 37 aisle to let them know that there's voting. Okay? There are 38 Latinos out there that vote, Tommy. They vote. 39 03:39PM 40 LEG. MURATORE: 41 Of course. I want them to know about it, sure. 42 43 LEG. GONZALEZ: 44 Exactly, and they don't know when, you know, these primaries were 45 or where they're located or nothing, you know? It was a real 46 cluster, it was a real cluster this past -- 47 48 LEG. MURATORE: 49 Okay. Thanks, Sam. 03:39PM 50 51 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 52 Thomas. 53 54 P.O. CALARCO: 55 Okay. Legislator Fleming. 56

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1 LEG. FLEMING: 2 My question was answered. Thank you. 3 4 P.O. CALARCO: 5 Asked and answered. Okay, Legislator Cilmi. 6 7 LEG. CILMI: 8 Thank you. I'm not sure if Sammy's the best person to answer this 9 question. Maybe it's better put to Counsel because, frankly, I was 03:40PM 10 a little -- and I'm supportive, but I was a little confused by 11 Legislator Gonzalez's response to Legislator Kennedy's question 12 with respect to whether or not this is required. What I heard was 13 that the -- Sam, what was the -- what was the -- who mandated that 14 we do something like this? What Federal agency? 15 16 LEG. GONZALEZ: 17 Department of Justice put this out in 2019. 18 19 LEG. CILMI: 03:40PM 20 Okay. 21 22 LEG. GONZALEZ: 23 And was not enforced and they're enforcing that they put this in a 24 Spanish speaking newspaper. And it's -- 25 26 LEG. CILMI: 27 Hold on, hold on for a second. So let me just make sure I 28 understand. So they -- when they put it out in 2019, they said 29 that it's got to be in a Spanish speaking newspaper? 03:40PM 30 31 LEG. GONZALEZ: 32 That is what the Department of Justice said, yes. 33 34 LEG. CILMI: 35 Okay. And we didn't do that. 36 37 LEG. GONZALEZ: 38 No, sir. 39 03:41PM 40 LEG. CILMI: 41 We instead put it in Newsday. 42 43 LEG. GONZALEZ: 44 That is correct, sir. 45 46 LEG. CILMI: 47 Okay. So for however long you're saying that we were in violation 48 of the Department of Justice requirement? 49 03:41PM 50 LEG. GONZALEZ: 51 Yes, sir. 52 53 LEG. CILMI: 54 Okay. And this will bring us into compliance? 55 56

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1 LEG. GONZALEZ: 2 Yes, sir. 3 4 LEG. CILMI: 5 Now I understand. Thank you very much. 6 7 P.O. CALARCO: 8 Okay. Thank you, Legislator Cilmi, that was clear. 9 03:41PM 10 LEG. GONZALEZ: 11 Al, where's Al Krupski? Where is he? 12 13 P.O. CALARCO: 14 Anybody else? All right, I'm calling the vote. Roll call. 15 16 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 17 18 LEG. GONZALEZ: 19 Yes. 03:41PM 20 21 D.P.O. HAHN: 22 Yes. 23 24 LEG. KRUPSKI: 25 Yes. 26 27 LEG. FLEMING: 28 Yes. 29 03:41PM 30 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 31 Yes. 32 33 LEG. MURATORE: 34 Absolutely. 35 36 LEG. ANKER: 37 Yes. 38 39 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 03:41PM 40 Yes. 41 42 LEG. CILMI: 43 Yes. 44 45 LEG. FLOTTERON: 46 Yes. 47 48 LEG. KENNEDY: 49 Yes. 03:42PM 50 51 LEG. TROTTA: 52 Yes. 53 54 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 55 Yes. 56

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1 LEG. RICHBERG: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. BERLAND: 5 Yes, and cosponsor if I'm not already. I couldn't -- I can't 6 remember. 7 8 MS. ELLIS: 9 Sure. 03:42PM 10 11 LEG. DONNELLY: 12 Yes. 13 14 LEG. SPENCER: 15 Yes. 16 17 P.O. CALARCO: 18 Yes. 19 03:42PM 20 MS. ELLIS: 21 Eighteen. 22 23 P.O. CALARCO: 24 Okay. It is approved. I.R. 1571A - the Bond Resolution - Amending 25 the 2020 Capital Budget and Program and appropriating funds in 26 connection with Equipment for Legislature Technology Upgrades and 27 Maintenance (CP 1832). 28 29 I'll make a motion -- 03:42PM 30 31 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 32 Motion. 33 34 P.O. CALARCO: 35 -- to approve. 36 37 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 38 Second. 39 03:42PM 40 P.O. CALARCO: 41 Second by Legislator Piccirillo. Anybody on the issue? Just so 42 everybody knows, this is to make the upgrades to the horseshoe here 43 so that we can start having meetings here again and do it 44 effectively where we would have a number of Legislators here but 45 still have the ability to have a number of Legislators remoting in 46 and us maintain social distancing. Legislator Cilmi, you had your 47 hand up? 48 49 LEG. CILMI: 03:43PM 50 Yes, thanks, Presiding Officer. Can you describe just in general 51 what the most expensive of those upgrades is? 52 53 P.O. CALARCO: 54 Yeah. The biggest issue that we have to deal with is we have to -- 55 in order to basically make the auditorium a Zoom participant and 56 then also ensure that we're complying with Open Meetings Law in

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1 doing that, we need to get some sound canceling technology or 2 software so that multiple microphones around the horseshoe are not 3 kind of feeding into the audio feed. So we would be one audio feed 4 in and then other Legislators remoting in from their offices or 5 other spaces will be another audio feed into the Zoom meeting, 6 right? 7 8 In addition, we have to install some monitors so that the public 9 can see better what's going on. So we'll be installing three 03:43PM 10 monitors above -- above the horseshoe, and we have to install some 11 monitors in the horseshoe so that Legislators can see what is going 12 on with the Zoom participants at the same time as a presentation 13 and still be able to use their laptops for their needs. And that's 14 the crux of the project. 15 16 I am in discussions with the Administration. I believe this should 17 be covered under the CARES Act funding, but they think it's more 18 appropriate to get a FEMA reimbursement for this expenditure. But 19 either way, the intent is to try to get Federal dollars to pay for 03:44PM 20 this upgrade to the horseshoe. 21 22 LEG. CILMI: 23 Okay. You'll keep us updated on how that's going? 24 25 P.O. CALARCO: 26 I will. We had -- we have one more walk-through with the company 27 that's providing the services that provides the technology for us 28 now for the video recording I think later this week, if I'm not 29 mistaken. Tomorrow morning. And then, hopefully, they'll be able 03:44PM 30 to get it going. We were hoping to have this done for September. 31 That's a really ambitious schedule at this point in time and it may 32 not be done until the October meeting. 33 34 LEG. CILMI: 35 Okay. I was just more interested in the -- who's going to pay for 36 it. So if you could just keep us posted as to whether or not we 37 decide it's CARES Act funding or FEMA funding, that would be great. 38 39 P.O. CALARCO: 03:45PM 40 Absolutely. 41 42 LEG. CILMI: 43 All right. Thanks. 44 45 P.O. CALARCO: 46 Legislator Krupski. 47 48 LEG. KRUPSKI: 49 I'm good, thank you. 03:45PM 50 51 P.O. CALARCO: 52 Legislator Muratore. 53 54 LEG. MURATORE: 55 Will this new technology enable us to Skype now rather than -- 56 besides Zooming?

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Yeah. I mean, it will allow us to use any platform we think is the 3 appropriate one. So this is an extension of what Legislator 4 Berland was looking for last year. There were technological 5 challenges which is what this will allow us to overcome. And the 6 perspective here, and what I think we need to be able to do, I 7 don't feel comfortable bringing all 18 of us plus the Counsel 8 sitting around the horseshoe at this point in time, and probably 9 not for the remainder of this year. But this will allow for us to 03:46PM 10 have 10 to 12 of us around the horseshoe maintaining a pretty good 11 social distancing and the remaining of the Legislators remoting in 12 from their offices or other public space should the Governor not 13 continue to extend the meeting waiver, which is the real challenge 14 that we have to make sure we have a long-term solution. 15 16 LEG. MURATORE: 17 I appreciate that. Thank you very much. That's a nice thought on 18 your part. Thank you. 19 03:46PM 20 P.O. CALARCO: 21 Legislator Berland. 22 23 LEG. BERLAND: 24 I just wanted to add that whatever format we're going forward with 25 it should be no surprise to anyone that I support fully. So, thank 26 you, Presiding Officer, for, you know, bringing us into this 27 century. It's a nice thing. 28 29 P.O. CALARCO: 03:46PM 30 Thank you, Legislator Berland. Okay. Anybody else? All right, 31 we have a motion and a second. Roll call. 32 33 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 34 35 P.O. CALARCO: 36 Yes. 37 38 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 39 Yes. 03:46PM 40 41 LEG. KRUPSKI: 42 Yes. 43 44 LEG. FLEMING: 45 Yes. 46 47 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 48 Yes. 49 03:47PM 50 LEG. MURATORE: 51 Yes. 52 53 LEG. ANKER: 54 Yes. 55 56

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1 LEG. GONZALEZ: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. CILMI: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. FLOTTERON: 8 Yes. 9 03:47PM 10 LEG. KENNEDY: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. TROTTA: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. RICHBERG: 03:47PM 20 Yes, and cosponsor. 21 22 LEG. BERLAND: 23 Yes, and cosponsor. 24 25 LEG. DONNELLY: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. SPENCER: 29 Yes. 03:47PM 30 31 D.P.O. HAHN: 32 Yes. 33 34 MS. ELLIS: 35 Eighteen. 36 37 P.O. CALARCO: 38 Okay. I.R. 1571, the underlying resolution, we'll do the same 39 motion, same second, roll call. 03:47PM 40 41 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 42 43 P.O. CALARCO: 44 Yes. 45 46 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 47 Yes. 48 49 LEG. KRUPSKI: 03:47PM 50 Yes. 51 52 LEG. FLEMING: 53 Yes. 54 55 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 56 Yes.

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1 LEG. MURATORE: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. ANKER: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. GONZALEZ: 8 Yes. 9 03:47PM 10 LEG. CILMI: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. FLOTTERON: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. KENNEDY: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. TROTTA: 03:48PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. RICHBERG: 26 Yes, and cosponsor. 27 28 LEG. BERLAND: 29 Yes, and cosponsor. 03:48PM 30 31 LEG. DONNELLY: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. SPENCER: 35 Yes. 36 37 D.P.O. HAHN: 38 Yes. 39 03:48PM 40 MS. ELLIS: 41 Eighteen. 42 43 P.O. CALARCO: 44 Okay, it is approved. Thank you, everyone. 45 46 All right, let's go to the manila folder. We'll do our Local Law 47 40s. I.R. 16 -- everybody is with me here, the Local Law 40s? 48 You have some sort of folder that came from the Clerk on this, an 49 e-mail. Everyone have it? 03:48PM 50 51 I.R. 1604 - Accepting and appropriating 100% Federal Stimulus Funds 52 through the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental 53 Appropriations Act, from the New York State Office for the Aging in 54 the total amount of $62,973 for the Aging and Disability Resource 55 Center (ADRC) Program administered by the Suffolk County Office for 56 the Aging (County Executive).

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1 LEG. RICHBERG: 2 Motion. 3 4 LEG. KENNEDY: 5 Motion. 6 7 P.O. CALARCO: 8 Motion by Legislator Kennedy, second by Legislator Richberg. 9 Anybody on the issue? I am bringing in Ms. Rhodes-Teague, our 03:49PM 10 Director over there at Aging. Seeing none, roll call. 11 12 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 13 14 LEG. KENNEDY: 15 Yes. 16 17 LEG. RICHBERG: 18 Yes. 19 03:49PM 20 LEG. KRUPSKI: 21 Yes. 22 23 LEG. FLEMING: 24 Sorry, yes. 25 26 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 27 Yes. 28 29 LEG. MURATORE: 03:49PM 30 Yes. 31 32 LEG. ANKER: 33 Yes. 34 35 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 36 Yes. 37 38 LEG. GONZALEZ: 39 Yes. 03:49PM 40 41 LEG. CILMI: 42 Yes. 43 44 LEG. FLOTTERON: 45 Yes. 46 47 LEG. TROTTA: 48 Yes. 49 03:49PM 50 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 51 Yes. 52 53 LEG. BERLAND: 54 Yes. 55 56

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1 LEG. DONNELLY: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. SPENCER: 5 Yes. 6 7 D.P.O. HAHN: 8 Yes. 9 03:50PM 10 P.O. CALARCO: 11 Yes. 12 13 MS. ELLIS: 14 Eighteen. 15 16 P.O. CALARCO: 17 Okay, it is approved. Thank you, Holly. 18 19 All right. I.R. 1644 - Accepting and appropriating 100% federal 20 grant funds awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice for Covid-19 21 Project Grant to the Suffolk County Departments of Probation, 22 Police, Sheriff and District Attorney’s Office (County Executive). 23 24 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 25 Motion. 26 27 P.O. CALARCO: 28 Motion by Legislator Piccirillo. 29 03:50PM 30 LEG. FLEMING: 31 Second. 32 33 P.O. CALARCO: 34 Second by Legislator Fleming. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 35 36 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 37 38 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 39 Yes. 03:50PM 40 41 LEG. FLEMING: 42 Yes. Can I cosponsor this? 43 44 MS. ELLIS: 45 Sure. 46 47 LEG. KRUPSKI: 48 Yes. 49 03:50PM 50 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 51 Yes. 52 53 LEG. MURATORE: 54 Yes. 55 56

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1 LEG. ANKER: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. GONZALEZ: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. CILMI: 8 Yes. 9 03:50PM 10 LEG. FLOTTERON: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. KENNEDY: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. TROTTA: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 03:50PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. RICHBERG: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. BERLAND: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. DONNELLY: 29 Yes. 03:51PM 30 31 LEG. SPENCER: 32 Yes. 33 34 D.P.O. HAHN: 35 Yes. 36 37 P.O. CALARCO: 38 Yes. 39 03:51PM 40 MS. ELLIS: 41 Eighteen. 42 43 P.O. CALARCO: 44 Okay, it is approved. 45 46 All right. Let's go to the red folder, CNs. Everybody find your 47 CN folder in your e-mails. We'll start with I.R. 1579 - Amending 48 Resolution No. 439-2020 to include additional members in the 49 working group (Donnelly). 03:51PM 50 51 I'll take a motion from Legislator Donnelly. 52 53 LEG. CILMI: 54 Second. 55 56

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Second by Legislator Cilmi. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 3 4 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 5 6 LEG. DONNELLY: 7 Yes. 8 9 LEG. CILMI: 03:51PM 10 Yes. 11 12 LEG. KRUPSKI: 13 Yes. 14 15 LEG. FLEMING: 16 Yes. 17 18 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 19 Yes. 03:51PM 20 21 LEG. MURATORE: 22 Yes. 23 24 LEG. ANKER: 25 Yes. 26 27 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 28 Yes. 29 03:51PM 30 LEG. GONZALEZ: 31 Yes. 32 33 LEG. FLOTTERON: 34 Yes. 35 36 LEG. KENNEDY: 37 Yes. 38 39 LEG. TROTTA: 03:52PM 40 Yes. 41 42 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 43 Yes. 44 45 LEG. RICHBERG: 46 Yes. 47 48 LEG. BERLAND: 49 Yes. 03:52PM 50 51 LEG. SPENCER: 52 Yes. 53 54 D.P.O. HAHN: 55 Yes. 56

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 Yes. 3 4 MS. ELLIS: 5 Eighteen. 6 7 P.O. CALARCO: 8 Okay, it's approved. 9 03:52PM 10 I.R. 1639 - Extending existing one percent sales and compensating 11 use tax for the period beginning December 1, 2020 and ending 12 November 30, 2023, pursuant to authority of Section 1210 of Article 13 29 of the Tax Law of the State of New York (County Executive). 14 15 LEG. RICHBERG: 16 Motion. 17 18 P.O. CALARCO: 19 Motion by Legislator Richberg. Second. 03:52PM 20 21 LEG. KRUPSKI: 22 What number? I'm sorry, Mr. Presiding Officer. 23 24 P.O. CALARCO: 25 1639. I'll second the motion. I was told Lynne Bizzarro was going 26 to be able to answer any questions if anybody has any, but this is 27 basically an existing 1% sales tax that does need to be renewed 28 from time to time and that's what this would do. Does anybody have 29 any questions on the issue? Legislator Krupski? 03:53PM 30 31 LEG. KRUPSKI: 32 No, thank you. I just wanted to make sure I knew what I was voting 33 on. Thank you. 34 35 P.O. CALARCO: 36 Absolutely. Anybody? Okay, seeing none, we have a motion and a 37 second. Roll call. 38 39 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 03:53PM 40 41 LEG. RICHBERG: 42 Yes. 43 44 P.O. CALARCO: 45 Yes. 46 47 LEG. KRUPSKI: 48 Yes. 49 03:53PM 50 LEG. FLEMING: 51 Yes. 52 53 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 54 Yes. 55 56

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1 LEG. MURATORE: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. ANKER: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 8 Yes. 9 03:53PM 10 LEG. GONZALEZ: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. CILMI: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. FLOTTERON: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. KENNEDY: 03:53PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. TROTTA: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. BERLAND: 29 Yes. 03:53PM 30 31 LEG. DONNELLY: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. SPENCER: 35 Yes. 36 37 D.P.O. HAHN: 38 Yes. 39 03:53PM 40 MS. ELLIS: 41 Eighteen. 42 43 P.O. CALARCO: 44 Okay. I.R. 1592A - Bond Resolution - Amending the 2020 Adopted 45 Capital Budget and authorizing the execution of a 100% grant 46 agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration for a Pavement 47 Management Program at Francis S. Gabreski Airport in the amount of 48 $253,233 (CP 5739)(County Executive). 49 50 LEG. FLEMING: 51 Motion. 52 53 P.O. CALARCO: 54 Motion by Legislator Fleming. 55 56

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1 LEG. RICHBERG: 2 Second. 3 4 P.O. CALARCO: 5 Second by Legislator Richberg. Anybody on the issue? 6 7 LEG. KRUPSKI: 8 On the motion. 9 03:54PM 10 P.O. CALARCO: 11 Legislator Krupski, go ahead, and then Legislator Cilmi. 12 13 LEG. KRUPSKI: 14 Aren't these usually Federally subsidized projects? 15 16 LEG. KENNEDY: 17 It is. 18 19 P.O. CALARCO: 03:54PM 20 We do have Tony Ceglio here. Tony -- Mr. Ceglio. 21 22 MR. CEGLIO: 23 Yes, Legislator Krupski, it is a Federally subsidized project. 24 It's 100% funded by the Federal Aviation Administration. We're 25 doing it at their request and it's part of the FAA grant 26 assurances, one of the assurances that the County says they're 27 going to adhere to every time we accept a grant. 28 29 LEG. KRUPSKI: 03:55PM 30 Thank you. 31 32 P.O. CALARCO: 33 Okay. Legislator Cilmi? 34 35 LEG. CILMI: 36 My question was answered. Thank you. 37 38 P.O. CALARCO: 39 Okay. Anybody else? All right. We have a motion and a second. 03:55PM 40 Roll call. 41 42 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 43 44 LEG. FLEMING: 45 Yes. 46 47 LEG. RICHBERG: 48 Yes. 49 03:55PM 50 LEG. KRUPSKI: 51 Yes. 52 53 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 54 Yes. 55 56

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1 LEG. MURATORE: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. ANKER: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 8 Yes. 9 03:55PM 10 LEG. GONZALEZ: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. CILMI: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. FLOTTERON: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. KENNEDY: 03:55PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. TROTTA: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. BERLAND: 29 Yes. 03:55PM 30 31 LEG. DONNELLY: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. SPENCER: 35 Yes. 36 37 D.P.O. HAHN: 38 Yes. 39 03:55PM 40 P.O. CALARCO: 41 Yes. 42 43 MS. ELLIS: 44 Eighteen. 45 46 P.O. CALARCO: 47 Okay, it is approved. I.R. 1592, the underlying resolution, we'll 48 do same motion, same second. Roll call. 49 03:56PM 50 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 51 52 LEG. FLEMING: 53 Yes. 54 55 LEG. RICHBERG: 56 Yes.

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1 LEG. KRUPSKI: 2 Yeah. 3 4 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. MURATORE: 8 Yes. 9 03:56PM 10 LEG. ANKER: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. GONZALEZ: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. CILMI: 03:56PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. FLOTTERON: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. KENNEDY: 26 Yes. 27 28 LEG. TROTTA: 29 Yes. 03:56PM 30 31 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. BERLAND: 35 Yes. 36 37 LEG. DONNELLY: 38 Yes. 39 03:56PM 40 LEG. SPENCER: 41 Yes. 42 43 D.P.O. HAHN: 44 Yes. 45 46 P.O. CALARCO: 47 Yes. 48 49 MS. ELLIS: 03:56PM 50 Eighteen. 51 52 P.O. CALARCO: 53 Okay. We've got one last one, guys. 54 55 56

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1 I.R. 1204A - Bond Resolution of the County of Suffolk, New York, 2 authorizing the issuance of $600,000 Bonds to finance the 3 Stabilization, Preservation and Restoration of Historic Structures 4 and Buildings at County Parks, Historic Restoration and 5 Preservation Fund (CP 7510.131 and .348) 6 7 This is the amendment from the resolution earlier today. So I'll 8 take a motion from Legislator Fleming, second by Legislator 9 Berland. 03:57PM 10 11 LEG. FLEMING: 12 Excuse me. Mr. Presiding Officer. 13 14 P.O. CALARCO: 15 Yes, go ahead. 16 17 LEG. FLEMING: 18 My motion is to commit this to EPA. I don't have the support of 19 everyone for a CN today, so we'll have to wait to issue the RFP 03:57PM 20 until the fall. 21 22 P.O. CALARCO: 23 Okay. So I have a motion to recommit. 24 25 LEG. MURATORE: 26 Second. 27 28 P.O. CALARCO: 29 Seconded by Legislator Muratore. Would you like to just table this 03:57PM 30 until next cycle, Legislator Fleming? 31 32 LEG. FLEMING: 33 No, I think it needs to go through committee, according to Counsel 34 at the Executive's Office. But I'm open to guidance. We want to 35 get it done. Can I ask Counsel? 36 37 MS. SIMPSON: 38 It can be tabled on the floor. 39 03:57PM 40 LEG. FLEMING: 41 Okay. 42 43 MS. SIMPSON: 44 It can be tabled on the floor today if you'd like to table it until 45 the next General Meeting. 46 47 LEG. FLEMING: 48 Thank you, Mr. Presiding Officer, for that suggestion. Then I 49 absolutely would prefer, unless Nicole, you're aware of any reason 03:58PM 50 why I should make the motion to commit? 51 52 MS. AMENDOLA: 53 (Shook head no.) 54 55 LEG. FLEMING: 56 All right. So I'm sorry, it is a motion to table. Thank you.

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1 P.O. CALARCO: 2 So we have a motion to table. 3 4 LEG. MURATORE: 5 And I'll second the motion to table. 6 7 P.O. CALARCO: 8 Seconded by Legislator Muratore. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 9 03:58PM 10 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 11 12 LEG. FLEMING: 13 Yes. 14 15 LEG. MURATORE: 16 Yes. 17 18 LEG. KRUPSKI: 19 Yes. 03:58PM 20 21 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 22 Yes. 23 24 LEG. ANKER: 25 Yes. 26 27 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 28 Yes. 29 03:58PM 30 LEG. GONZALEZ: 31 Yes. 32 33 LEG. CILMI: 34 Yes. 35 36 LEG. FLOTTERON: 37 Yes. 38 39 LEG. KENNEDY: 03:58PM 40 Yes. 41 42 LEG. TROTTA: 43 Yes. 44 45 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 46 Yes. 47 48 LEG. RICHBERG: 49 Yes. 03:58PM 50 51 LEG. BERLAND: 52 Yes. 53 54 LEG. DONNELLY: 55 Yes. 56

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1 LEG. SPENCER: 2 Yes. 3 4 D.P.O. HAHN: 5 Yes. 6 7 P.O. CALARCO: 8 Yes. 9 03:58PM 10 MS. ELLIS: 11 Eighteen. 12 13 P.O. CALARCO: 14 Okay. It is tabled, and that means 1204 is -- we can hold off on 15 that one for now, too. 16 17 I have no other items there so we'll go to our yellow folder. I'll 18 make a motion to waive the rules and lay the following resolutions 19 on the table. Which one? 03:59PM 20 21 LEG. MURATORE: 22 Disregard. 23 24 P.O. CALARCO: 25 Okay. So I make a motion to waive the rules and lay the following 26 resolutions on the table. 27 28 I.R. 1642 to Health and setting the Public Hearing for 29 September 9th at two p.m. in Hauppauge; and I.R. 1643 to 03:59PM 30 Health. 31 32 Seconded by Legislator Cilmi. Anybody on the issue? Roll call. 33 34 (*Roll Call By Amy Ellis, Clerk of the Legislature*) 35 36 P.O. CALARCO: 37 Yes. 38 39 LEG. CILMI: 03:59PM 40 Yes. 41 42 LEG. KRUPSKI: 43 Yes. 44 45 LEG. FLEMING: 46 Yes. 47 48 LEG. SUNDERMAN: 49 Yes. 03:59PM 50 51 LEG. MURATORE: 52 Yes. 53 54 LEG. ANKER: 55 Yes. 56

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1 LEG. PICCIRILLO: 2 Yes. 3 4 LEG. GONZALEZ: 5 Yes. 6 7 LEG. FLOTTERON: 8 Yes. 9 03:59PM 10 LEG. KENNEDY: 11 Yes. 12 13 LEG. TROTTA: 14 Yes. 15 16 LEG. MC CAFFREY: 17 Yes. 18 19 LEG. RICHBERG: 04:00PM 20 Yes. 21 22 LEG. BERLAND: 23 Yes. 24 25 LEG. DONNELLY: 26 (Not Present). 27 28 LEG. SPENCER: 29 Yes. 04:00PM 30 31 D.P.O. HAHN: 32 Yes. 33 34 LEG. DONNELLY: 35 (Not Present). 36 37 MS. ELLIS: 38 Seventeen. 39 04:00PM 40 P.O. CALARCO: 41 Okay. That's all we have for the agenda today, guys. I appreciate 42 all your time. I hope you all have an enjoyable summer, and plan a 43 staycation because we need those tax dollars to stay here. Thanks, 44 everyone. 45 46 (*The meeting was adjourned at 4:00 p.m.*) 47 48 ******************** 49 50 (*The following correspondence section was prepared by 51 Alison Mahoney - Court Stenographer*) 52 53 ******************** 54 55 Correspondence Received for July 21st, 2020 General Meeting 56

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1 ******************** 2 3 Addendum A 4 5 Public Hearing/Written & E-mailed Testimony Submissions 6 7 8 ********************************************* 9 10 Correspondence Related to Public Hearing on IR 1413-20 11 12 1413-20 - Adopting Local Law No. -2020, A Charter Law increasing 13 the percentage of sales tax that is allocated to the Suffolk County 14 Taxpayers Trust Fund and decreasing the percentage of sales tax 15 that is allocated to the Suffolk County Environmental Programs 16 Trust Fund for three years. 17 18 ******************** 19 20 Hands off DWPP. 21 22 -- Steve Horbatiuk, 30 Valley Drive, East Moriches, N.Y 11940 23 24 ********** 25 26 My wife are opposed to IR-1413 and IR-1414. Money set aside by the 27 voters for land and water protection should never be used for any 28 other purposes. 29 30 -- RJ Meyer 31 32 ********** 33 34 I write to you urging your support of Introductory Resolutions 1413 35 and 1414. It is imperative to the future of Suffolk County that we 36 find alternative ways to balance the budget deficit to avoid 37 painful, draconian cuts to the services provided by our public 38 workforce. Please use your position of leadership to do the right 39 thing, our essential workforce deserves a fighting chance. 40 41 Respectfully, Jennifer Nunns, Public Safety Dispatcher I 42 43 ********** 44 45 Gentlemen: 46 47 I wish to go on record opposing the above-referenced proposals soon 48 to be taken-up by the county legislature. 49 50 The people have already spoken by voting in favor of using sales 51 tax revenues for water quality protection, and the Appellate Courts 52 have ruled that the executive is obligated to repay the monies 53 already unlawfully expropriated for non-authorized budgetary 54 expenses. The executive now proposes to further violate the court's 55 decisions and give false assurances that even more such 56 expropriations could be repaid at some date in the future, in full

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1 knowledge of the inability to predict the fiscal state of the 2 county at that unspecified time. 3 4 Using fiscal sleight-of-hand to attempt to make decades' worth of 5 financial improprieties appear less egregious than they have been 6 and thereby divert the public's attention from the full extent of 7 the harsh realities now upon us from the current viral pandemic is 8 an utterly cynical political ploy. 9 10 We draw our water from a "sole-source" aquifer. Its protection is 11 absolutely vital for the well-being of everyone and the very future 12 of the county . Diverting monies from water quality protection to 13 somehow ease the impending financial shortfalls is horribly 14 short-sighted and dangerous to our future. I urge you to reject any 15 such approach. 16 17 -- Richard E. Steinberger,MD-Treasurer, Idle Hour Fly Fishers, Inc 18 268 Shore Drive, Oakdale, NY 11769-2326 19 20 ********** 21 22 Dear Presiding Officer Calarco, 23 24 Attached please find a copy of letter of opposition to the 25 above-referenced Introductory Resolutions, from 12 of Suffolk 26 County's leading conservation and preservation organizations. 27 In your deliberations and those of the Legislature, we ask that you 28 recognize the considerable authorized contributions that the 29 Drinking Water Protection Program (DWPP) has already made to 30 solving the county's budget challenges (over $300 million), and the 31 likely contribution of some $200 million more prior to the end of 32 the program. 33 34 Given the scale of these past, ongoing, and future contributions, 35 the additional funding “sweeps”, payback forgiveness, and court 36 judgment forgiveness proposed, and the continued funding of over 80 37 county positions out of the DWPP, all combine to place a 38 disproportionate share of the county's budget shortfall on one of 39 the most important, popular and enduring public interest programs 40 ever established by the county. 41 42 We also hope you will recognize and carefully consider the 43 implications of the proposed capital budget payback in IR-1413, 44 which simply cannot assure that funds authorized in the capital 45 budget will be spent, and places any such funding in direct 46 competition with other critical capital budget projects at a time 47 when county funding - borrowed or otherwise is scarce to say the 48 least (and will be for the foreseeable future). It is also 49 noteworthy that this provision is being contemplated at the very 50 same time, IR1414 is calling for complete forgiveness of 51 approximately $150 million or more, in previously borrowed funds 52 that were obligated by public referendum to be repaid to the 53 program. 54 55 Thank you for your time and consideration of these comments. 56 Robert S. DeLuca/President | Group for the East End

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1 Office: 631-765-6450 x 213 | Cell: 631-495-0601 2 Email: [email protected] 3 4 "Protecting the nature of the place you love" 5 6 ***** 7 8 (**Joint Letter of Opposition to IR 1413 & IR 1414 is 9 On file with the Clerk of the Suffolk County Legislature*) 10 ********** 11 12 To whom it may concern: 13 14 Please do not use the Open Air funds to narrow the budget. 15 16 -- J. Suzanne Mckeon 121 Senix Ave, Center Moriches NY 17 18 ********** 19 20 PLEASE DO NOT ALLOW THE DRINKING WATER PROTECTION FUNDS TO BE 21 RAIDED - AGAIN. Thank You. 22 23 -- Paulette Donna Edgar, 224 Oakwood Avenue, Bayport, NY 11705 24 25 ********** 26 27 To All Suffolk County Lawmakers, 28 29 I, Douglas Steigerwald, am opposed to IR-1413 and IR-1414. 30 The tax money set aside by the voters for land and water 31 protection, should never be used, for any other purposes. 32 As you are aware, Long Island's waters are at a crisis point. 33 We have the most contaminated water in the state. 34 We have some of the highest concentrations of nitrogen in our 35 groundwater in the country. These funds would go a long way to 36 protect our environment and public health. 37 38 -- Douglas Steigerwald, 3 John Court, Yaphank, NY 11772 39 40 ********** 41 42 Dear Clerk, 43 44 I am submitting the attached document to be included in the record 45 for IR-1413 and IR-1414, ahead of the public hearing scheduled for 46 tomorrow 7/21/20. Thank you, 47 48 -- Katie Muether Brown, Deputy Director 49 | Long Island Pine Barrens Society 50 547 East Main Street, Riverhead, NY 11901 51 631-369-3300 52 53 ***** 54 55 56

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1 July 20, 2020 2 3 To: Clerk of the Suffolk County Legislature 4 [email protected] 5 6 Re: IR-1413 and IR-1414 7 8 Dear Clerk, 9 10 I'd like to please submit the attached two letters (dated 7/17/20 11 and 7/20/20 respectively) to the record associated with 12 IR-1413-2020 and IR-1414-2020. Thank you, 13 14 -- Richard Amper, Executive Director 15 16 ***** 17 18 (**The Long Island Pine Barrens Society Submission to Clerk is on 19 file with the Clerk of the Suffolk County Legislature**) 20 21 ********** 22 23 Dear Honorable Members of the Suffolk County Legislature: 24 25 I am a concerned Suffolk County resident and write in strong 26 opposition to proposed resolutions IR-1413 and IR-1414. 27 28 Funds set aside by the voters intended for land and water 29 protection should not be used for any other purposes. Long Island's 30 waters are at a crisis point. These funds will do a lot of good 31 towards protecting our environment and public health. The Drinking 32 Water Protection Program should remain intact! 33 34 -- James J. Morris 35 36 ********** 37 38 Dear Honorable Members of the Suffolk County Legislature: 39 40 I am a concerned Suffolk County resident and write in strong 41 opposition to proposed resolutions IR-1413 and IR-1414. 42 Funds set aside by the voters intended for land and water 43 protection should not be used for any other purposes. Long Island's 44 waters are at a crisis point. These funds will do a lot of good 45 towards protecting our environment and public health. The Drinking 46 Water Protection Program should remain intact! 47 48 Sincerely, Margaret Struss 49 11 Joshua Court, Wading River, NY 11792 50 51 ********** 52 53 54 55 56

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1 Dear Honorable Members of the Suffolk County Legislature: 2 3 I am a concerned Suffolk County resident and write in strong 4 opposition to proposed resolutions IR-1413 and IR-1414. 5 Funds set aside by the voters intended for land and water 6 protection should not be used for any other purposes. Long Island's 7 waters are at a crisis point. These funds will do a lot of good 8 towards protecting our environment and public health. The Drinking 9 Water Protection Program should remain intact! 10 11 Thank you, Nadine Henderson 12 3 Elm Ln, Stony Brook, NY, 11790 13 ********** 14 15 Dear Honorable Members of the Suffolk County Legislature: 16 17 I am a concerned Suffolk County resident and write in strong 18 opposition to proposed resolutions IR-1413 and IR-1414. 19 Funds set aside by the voters intended for land and water 20 protection should not be used for any other purposes. Long Island's 21 waters are at a crisis point. These funds will do a lot of good 22 towards protecting our environment and public health. The Drinking 23 Water Protection Program should remain intact! 24 25 -- Hope Millholland 26 27 ********** 28 29 Dear Honorable Members of the Suffolk County Legislature: 30 31 I am a concerned Suffolk County resident and write in strong 32 opposition to proposed resolutions IR-1413 and IR-1414. 33 34 Funds set aside by the voters intended for land and water 35 protection should not be used for any other purposes. Long Island's 36 waters are at a crisis point. These funds will do a lot of good 37 towards protecting our environment and public health. The Drinking 38 Water Protection Program should remain intact! Thank you. 39 40 -- Irene Conway 41 42 ********** 43 44 Dear Honorable Members of the Suffolk County Legislature: 45 46 I am a concerned Suffolk County resident and write in strong 47 opposition to proposed resolutions IR-1413 and IR-1414. 48 Funds set aside by the voters intended for land and water 49 protection should not be used for any other purposes. Long Island's 50 waters are at a crisis point. These funds will do a lot of good 51 towards protecting our environment and public health. The Drinking 52 Water Protection Program should remain intact! 53 54 Sincerely, Julie & Ed Clark, East Patchogue, NY 55 56 **********

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1 Dear Honorable Members of the Suffolk County Legislature: 2 3 I am a concerned Suffolk County resident and write in strong 4 opposition to proposed resolutions IR-1413 and IR-1414. 5 6 Funds set aside by the voters intended for land and water 7 protection should not be used for any other purposes. Long Island's 8 waters are at a crisis point. These funds will do a lot of good 9 towards protecting our environment and public health. The Drinking 10 Water Protection Program should remain intact! 11 12 Best, James Brako-McComb, Saint James, NY 13 14 ********** 15 16 Dear Honorable Members of the Suffolk County Legislature: 17 18 I am a concerned Suffolk County resident and write in strong 19 opposition to proposed resolutions IR-1413 and IR-1414. 20 Funds set aside by the voters intended for land and water 21 protection should not be used for any other purposes. Long Island's 22 waters are at a crisis point. These funds will do a lot of good 23 towards protecting our environment and public health. The Drinking 24 Water Protection Program should remain intact! 25 26 Sincerely yours, Bill Greenberg 27 50 Zophar Mills Road, Wading River, NY 28 29 ********** 30 31 Dear Honorable Members of the Suffolk County Legislature: I am a 32 concerned Suffolk County resident and write in strong opposition to 33 proposed resolutions IR-1413 and IR-1414. Funds set aside by the 34 voters intended for land and water protection should not be used 35 for any other purposes. Long Island's waters are at a crisis point. 36 These funds will do a lot of good towards protecting our 37 environment and public health. The Drinking Water Protection 38 Program should remain intact! 39 40 -- Felix Lasevoli 41 42 ********** 43 44 Dear Honorable Members of the Suffolk County Legislature: 45 46 I am a concerned Suffolk County resident and write in strong 47 opposition to proposed resolutions IR-1413 and IR-1414. 48 49 Funds set aside by the voters intended for land and water 50 protection should not be used for any other purposes. Long Island's 51 waters are at a crisis point. These funds will do a lot of good 52 towards protecting our environment and public health. The Drinking 53 Water Protection Program should remain intact! -- Richard Biley 54 55 ********** 56

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1 Dear Honorable Members of the Suffolk County Legislature: 2 3 I am a concerned Suffolk County resident and write in strong 4 opposition to proposed resolutions IR-1413 and IR-1414. 5 Fresh water is a precious resource and on Long Island it's 6 particularly important since we use a sole source aquifer. Once our 7 fresh water is gone, Long Island is gone. 8 9 Funds set aside by the voters intended for land and water 10 protection should not be used for any other purposes. Long Island's 11 waters are at a crisis point. These funds will do a lot of good 12 towards protecting our environment and public health. The Drinking 13 Water Protection Program should remain intact! 14 15 Respectfully, Jeffrey W. Kagan 16 52 Crestwood Lane, Farmingville, NY 11738 17 631-585-3594 18 19 ********** 20 21 Dear Honorable Members of the Suffolk County Legislature: 22 23 I am a concerned Suffolk County resident and write in strong 24 opposition to proposed resolutions IR-1413 and IR-1414. 25 Funds set aside by the voters intended for land and water 26 protection should not be used for any other purposes. Long Island's 27 waters are at a crisis point. These funds will do a lot of good 28 towards protecting our environment and public health. The Drinking 29 Water Protection Program should remain intact! 30 31 -- W.H. Buhner 32 33 ********** 34 35 Dear Honorable Members of the Suffolk County Legislature: 36 37 I am someone who is concerned about the water quality of our 38 community. I am also concerned about the loss of open space. 39 Funds set aside by the voters intended for land and water 40 protection should not be used for any other purposes. The Drinking 41 Water Protection Fund must remain intact, as the courts have 42 ruled. The court should have been the last word on this. That is 43 why I strongly oppose IR1313 and IR1414. .These measures represent 44 a true low point in political machinations to the detriment of the 45 public good. 46 47 Long Island's waters are at a crisis point. These funds protect 48 our environment and public health. That is what is important to me. 49 The Drinking Water Protection Program should remain intact! 50 51 -- Dennis Fagan, East Moriches 52 53 ********** 54 55 56

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1 Dear Honorable Members of the Suffolk County Legislature: 2 3 I am a concerned Suffolk County resident and write in strong 4 opposition to proposed resolutions IR-1413 and IR-1414. 5 Funds set aside by the voters intended for land and water 6 protection should not be used for any other purposes. Long Island's 7 waters are at a crisis point. These funds will do a lot of good 8 towards protecting our environment and public health. The Drinking 9 Water Protection Program should remain intact! 10 11 -- John P. Rooney, PO Box 1622, Southold 11971 12 13 ********** 14 Dear Honorable Members of the Suffolk County Legislature: 15 16 As a longtime member of the Southold Town Land Preservation 17 Committee, I am very concerned about this issue. I am a concerned 18 Suffolk County resident and write in strong opposition to proposed 19 resolutions IR-1413 and IR-1414. 20 21 Funds set aside by the voters intended for land and water 22 protection should not be used for any other purposes. Long Island's 23 waters are at a crisis point. These funds will do a lot of good 24 towards protecting our environment and public health. The Drinking 25 Water Protection Program should remain intact! 26 27 Sincerely, 28 29 -- Lillian Ball, Lillian Ball Studio 30 2045 Lake Drive, Southold, NY 11971 31 631-765-3495, cell 917-453-5040 32 33 WATERWASH® Projects 34 35 "The function of art is not to communicate one's personal ideas, 36 but rather to imitate nature in her manner of operations.” 37 John Cage 38 39 ********** 40 41 Dear Honorable Members of the Suffolk County Legislature: 42 43 I am a concerned Suffolk County resident and write in strong 44 opposition to proposed resolutions IR-1413 and IR-1414. 45 46 Funds set aside by the voters intended for land and water 47 protection should not be used for any other purposes. Long Island's 48 waters are at a crisis point. These funds will do a lot of good 49 towards protecting our environment and public health. The Drinking 50 Water Protection Program should remain intact! 51 52 -- Maxa Luppi, 16 Salt Marsh Path, East Hampton, NY 11937 53 54 ********** 55 56 DO NOT DIVERT FUNDS FROM DWPP -- Dennis Vigliotta

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1 ********** 2 3 Please enter this e-mail into the public comment record for IR's 4 1413 and 1414. Please note that I am extremely opposed to any 5 diversion of open space funds to any use other than open space 6 preservation. Long Island's unique geography, dense population, 7 lack or sewers and already challenged water quality all combine in 8 the perfect storm of threats to our environmental quality and the 9 health of our drinking, surface and coastal waters. You can read 10 more about the threats to our local waters on your own website 11 here:ttps://www.suffolkcountyny.gov/Departments/Health-Services/ 12 Environmental-Quality/Ecology/Harmful-Algal-Blooms. (Link) 13 14 The people have said this money is for open space preservation and 15 to protect what little is left on Long Island, the legislature has 16 no moral authority to spend it elsewhere. I thank you for your 17 consideration in this matter. 18 19 -- Christian P. Burian, 33 Belleview Ave, Center Moriches, NY 1934 20 21 Past or current affiliations: 22 Ad Hoc Committee for the Preservation of the Haven's Estate 23 Moriches Bay Civic Assoctiation Past President 24 EMPOA 25 Kethcham Inn Foundation 26 Peconic Bay Keeper 27 Moriches Bay Project 28 Defend H2o 29 30 (**E-mail containing the above-mentioned link is on file 31 With the Clerk of the Suffolk County Legislature*) 32 33 ********** 34 35 As a resident and property owner in Suffolk County I am writing to 36 urge you not to vote for anything that takes away funds from the 37 county's Drinking Water Protection Program. That program is so 38 important to our health and welfare as residents. The money can 39 also be used to preserve open spaces, which is essential to 40 preserve the quality of our drinking water. Another benefit is to 41 maintain the character of Suffolk County with its beautiful 42 undeveloped, rural landscape. People travel out to Suffolk County 43 for “the country” experience. For generations people have moved out 44 here from more congested and developed areas for “a better way of 45 life.“ 46 47 Please don't support legislation that will diminish funds from the 48 DWPP. That program benefits us in so many ways. 49 50 Sincerely, Renee Davis 51 52 ********** 53 54 55 56

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1 Dear County Clerk, 2 3 I am writing to urge all legislators to oppose IR-1413 & IR-1414. 4 It is my firm view that the money was set aside by the voters for 5 land and water protection and therefore should not be used for any 6 other purpose. 7 8 -- Sid Bail, President 9 Wading River Civic Association 10 11 ******************** 12 13 Addendum B 14 15 Public Hearing/Voicemail Testimony Submissions 16 17 18 ********************************************* 19 20 **No voicemail testimony was submitted for Public Hearings 21 Held at the July 21, 2020 General Meeting** 22 23 ******************** 24 25 Addendum C 26 27 Public Portion/Written & E-mailed Testimony Submissions 28 29 ********************************************* 30 31 The Huntington Environmental Open Space and Park Fund Advisory 32 (EOSPA) Committee met last evening and considered the Muller Farm 33 Purchase of farmland Development Rights (PDR) project. They voted 34 unanimously to recommend that the Town Board participate in the PDR 35 as a partner with a 30% Town - 70% County split. I plan to submit 36 a draft resolution for Town Board consideration at the August 11th 37 meeting. If approved, that resolution would authorize appraisal, 38 state the intended partnership with the County, pledge to 39 participate at the split recommended by EOSPA, and schedule a 40 public hearing pursuant to section 247 of General Municipal Law. 41 The public hearing would be held at the next Town Board meeting, 42 September 15th. When the appraisals (ordered by the County) are 43 received and a value is reconciled (with review and input from the 44 Town as partner), an offer would be made to the owner. If 45 accepted, a second Town Board resolution would be submitted at the 46 earliest possible date to enable a contract of sale, appropriation 47 of funding, and closing requirements. 48 49 The Town has participated in prior PDRs as a 50-50 partner to the 50 County, but our open space funding is dwindling and the Committee 51 hopes to leverage it toward several further projects. 52 53 Best regards, Margo Myles 54 55 ********** 56

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1 Dear Ms. Anker, 2 3 I had written you a couple of weeks ago to let you know of our 4 situation at Police Communications. I was able to listen to a 5 part of the last legislature meeting (Public Safety). 6 I can tell you that I do not agree with the shortage numbers you 7 received. 8 9 Also, our failure rate with training is about 80%. One of the last 10 people to quit said “you don't pay me enough for this.” 11 I have attached a breakdown of our department. Giving you the 12 approved budgeted numbers and our real numbers. 13 14 Please be aware, the current Captain (Ervalina) is attempting to 15 rid Police Emergency of the ECO title and make it ALL PSD (which is 16 the higher paid of the two). In doing so, he has left us extremely 17 short, as well as, expects us to figure out how to handle overtime 18 and mandates. Mandates should not be part of the normal workday but 19 they have become so. According to the attached, you will see that 20 we are 22 short. NOT 8. 21 22 I just thought that since we were unable to be there in person to 23 correct this information, that you should be aware. Please see the 24 attached. Thank you. 25 26 -- Karen Hauff/Police Emergency 27 28 ***** 29 30 January 29, 2020 31 32 Ref: Suffolk County Police Department. 33 Communications unit/Command 5311 Staffing Levels 34 35 Please be advised of the following information: 36 According to the Suffolk County Budget for 2020, staffing for 37 Communications Unit should be as follows: 38 39 Emergency Complaint Operators (ECO/911 Call-takers): 40 69 (58 plus 11 Spanish-speaking ECO's) 41 Public Safety Dispatcher 1 (PSD1): 68 42 Public Safety Dispatcher 2 (PSD2): 12 43 Public Safety Dispatcher 3 (PSD3): 11 44 45 The Communications Unit currently has the follow staffing levels: 46 Emergency Complaint Operators (ECO/911 Calltakers): 56 47 (46 ECO's plus 10 Spanish-Speaking ECO's plus 3/311 Operators 48 hired off ECO test) 49 Public Safety Dispatcher 1 (PSD1): 59 50 Public Safety Dispatcher 2 (PSD2): 15 51 Public Safety Dispatcher 3 (PSD3): 11 52 53 The last class for strictly ECO Title hire was in August 2018. 54 Since then, the Department has only hired new employees who have 55 taken both the ECO and PSD test. These new hires have been 56 positioned at 311 or PSD1. There have been no new ECO only hires

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1 since 2018. PSD1 is then used to fill vacancies on ECO side, which 2 leads to difficulties in mandating (forced overtime). Due to the 3 fact that the Department is working with far fewer employees 4 entering the summer months when call volume increases and due to 5 the fact that the “minimums” (minimum number of ECO's on duty per 6 tour) are raised during the summer months to meet the call volume, 7 employees are frequently mandated and forced to work an additional 8 4 hours to their shift. Who gets mandated? An ECO or a covering 9 PSD1? If a PSD1 is mandated on PSD1 side on Monday, can the PSD1 10 be mandated on ECO side on Tuesday? What about the ECO's? If an 11 ECO is mandated on Monday, is it right to mandate them again on 12 Tuesday if there is a PSD1 working on ECO side? The three 311 13 Operators are hired off of ECO test and fill a scin, but do not 14 work at Police Communications, so it is a mistake to count them in 15 the numbers. A simple ECO overtime example: If a Squad is 16 staffed with 12 ECO's….and 2 are on vacation….and 1 is sick…, the 17 total number of employees on duty that day is 9. If the minimum 18 for the tour is 14, that means 5 employees need to be hired for 19 both 4-hour tours for that shift, for a total of 10 overtime spots 20 that tour. This can happen on more than 1 tour per day and can 21 occur multiple days in a row (especially Thursday, Friday, 22 Saturday) The forced overtime can be staggering. 23 Since January, the Unit has had 3 ECO's resign and 1 ECO returned 24 to 311. In addition 5 new PSD1 hires have all quit, either before 25 certification or immediately after. 26 27 Currently, there is no way to fill the shortages in time to fix the 28 problem for the busy summer months. In addition, there are 29 several questions...Has the ECO titled been abandoned? Will all new 30 hires be only those who took both ECO and PSD tests? Will there 31 be no new ECO only hires? Will the ECO position only be filled by 32 extra PSD1? How will mandates work? 33 34 Employees are looking at yet another summer of mandates and time 35 off refused due to staff shortage. It is imperative that not only 36 the staffing- level issue be addressed, but also the questions 37 referencing ECO title and mandates listed above be resolved. 38 These employees never stop serving the public…these dedicated 39 professionals show up. Day after day. Pandemic? Businesses shut? 40 Schools closed? Children at home? Illness? Family Obligations? 41 These employees SHOW UP. It is imperative these issues are 42 rectified. 43 44 Respectfully submitted by the entire Unit Board for Suffolk County 45 Police Communications 46 47 ********** 48 49 I am writing to ask you to consider redefining how we look at 50 public safety in Suffolk County. We currently ask far too much of 51 our police officers. We require them to deal with homelessness, 52 mental health crises, addiction issues, domestic violence, and much 53 more - none of which police officers have the adequate training 54 for. As we have seen, especially in the past few months, this often 55 results in unnecessary violence and increased mistrust between the 56 police and the communities they serve.

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1 I urge you to look at programs such as the CAHOOTS program in 2 Oregon(link)(https://thecrimereport.org/2020/06/22/some-cities-know 3 -what-defund-the-police-looks-like/) and the Community Outreach 4 Worker Program in Ithaca, NY (link) 5 (dev.fcsith.org/programs-services/youth-outreach-services/ 6 communityoutreach/), both of which involve having well-trained 7 civilians successfully handle many aspects of public safety which 8 we currently leave to our police departments. In doing so, not only 9 have these programs built trust and reduced police misconduct in 10 their communities, they have also improved the crime rate and made 11 significant progress in solving the underlying problems. 12 13 Suffolk County spends a staggering amount of money each year on 14 policing our most marginalized residents. For 2020, Suffolk 15 budgeted nearly $737 million for police services. Meanwhile, 16 essential services and programs -- e.g., education, affordable 17 housing, health and social services -- are underfunded and 18 crumbling. This system has fueled hyper-policing, mass 19 incarceration and segregation on Long Island. This cannot 20 continue. We need to divest from Long Island's police forces and 21 invest in our communities. 22 23 Additionally, I ask you to consider accountability in our police 24 departments. It is extremely concerning to me as a citizen of Long 25 Island that our police officers, people who serve an important and 26 vital function, are not held accountable. How can we as citizens 27 have trust in our public servants when they are not held to high 28 standards? As a teacher, my work is constantly held to heavy 29 scrutiny and I am held accountable when I don't meet the standard 30 set for me. As a public servant, I believe my work is vital and 31 important and thus respect those standards, knowing I must meet 32 them to do right by my students. It is unconscionable to me that 33 police officers in our community are not held accountable with the 34 same rigor. 35 36 Thank you for your time and for your action. 37 38 Sincerely, Megan Rabba, Shirley, NY 39 40 ***** 41 42 **The above-mentioned links are on file with the 43 Clerk of the Suffolk County Legislature** 44 45 ********** 46 47 Hello 48 49 We write to urge you to PLEASE support the installation of 50 residential and commercial enhanced nitrogen removal septic 51 systems. The installation and use of these systems help to reduce 52 the impacts of wastewater nitrogen affecting our groundwater and 53 surface waters. Please think of the needs of future generations 54 Thank you. 55 56 -- Dave & Margie Hoelzer, Enclave Forensics, Shelter Island

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1 ********** 2 3 As you begin to address the Governor's executive order on policing, 4 please discuss redirecting funds to improve programs directly 5 impacting community safety. These programs must include 6 community-based mental health services, drug treatment programs and 7 foster care in the towns and areas that need them the most. 8 Members in your discussion should include people either involved in 9 delivering or receiving those services. 10 11 Thank you, Carolyn Gammerman 12 13 ********** 14 15 Dear Members of the Suffolk County Legislature 16 17 It is time to reimagine what public health and public safety should 18 look like in our region. 19 20 Given Governor Cuomo's recent directive for all NY localities to 21 birth a new vision for the police force, it would be a dereliction 22 of duty if we, as a collective of concerned community members and 23 community leaders, did not seize upon this moment to put forth big, 24 bold propositions on how to improve our region, and create a more 25 fair and just Long Island for all. 26 27 Communities of color, particularly Black communities, deserve 28 solutions that go beyond superficial reforms and that look at the 29 foundational causes for disparities in health and safety. As 30 COVID-19 reiterates to us as the pandemic continues to hit our 31 communities disproportionately hard, (link) we need to recognize 32 racism as the public health issue it is and set about doing the 33 work to eradicate its lethal consequences. 34 35 Anecdotally, all it takes is a quick look at some of the zip codes 36 across Long Island that enjoy low rates of crime and better health 37 outcomes to begin to answer the question 'what creates safe and 38 healthy communities'? In these communities you see families who 39 have the ability to get through the week and not worry about how 40 they're going to put food on the table. You see sprawling, thriving 41 schools and abundant access to healthy foods. What you do not see 42 are patrol cars pulling over every other motorist like you do in 43 lower income neighborhoods, which tend to be majority Black or 44 brown. The answers lie in better funding our public schools. 45 Investing in economic opportunities and creating good jobs for 46 communities of colors. Investing in the whole health of residents. 47 Increasing options for safe recreational opportunities for our 48 young people. And providing non-lethal options for responses to 49 public calls for assistance. 50 51 Decreasing our police footprint frees up funding to address these 52 social determinants of health. Over-policing our neighborhoods and 53 militarizing police departments does not make us safer. The status 54 quo has been relying on the disproven notion that more police 55 equals more safety and that reforms in bias training will solve 56 police brutality. (Link) That thinking is demonstrably wrong.

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1 We should be looking at taxpayer funded budgets and asking if all 2 taxpayers are getting the best return on their investment. 3 4 Just this month, a family member called 911 to get assistance with 5 a mentally ill relative. Of course, the only response that arrived 6 was two armed police officers. While they were both patient and 7 professional, one of them remarked with sad clarity on their 8 inability to provide real assistance in that moment because as 9 cops, they 'were trained to deal with issues of criminality, we're 10 not mental health experts.' 11 12 In June, a SCPD officer shot and killed a young man whose father 13 says he called 911 seeking a medical intervention for his troubled 14 son. If that kind of emergency mental health support had been 15 available to that family, they would not be experiencing the 16 anguish of burying their child, that officer would not be dealing 17 with the trauma of being involved in that incident and the County 18 would not be looking at a costly potential lawsuit. 19 We must reinvest in community resources and reimagine what public 20 safety truly means. Not every emergency requires an armed response. 21 A well-developed 911 and 311 hybrid system could serve as the 22 center for a redesigned approach to responding to requests for 23 help: 24 25 * Which means the police, fire, or EMT departments are not 26 the only ones being dispatched; 27 * If someone is intoxicated, an unarmed crisis intervention 28 specialist would respond; 29 * For a mental health crisis, an unarmed first responder 30 trained to deal with mental and behavioral health crises 31 would be dispatched; 32 * If someone is sleeping in a park, a resourceful unarmed 33 public safety representative would come and check to see if 34 they need a place to sleep, food, water, or health care. 35 36 These are just a few examples of how we need to (link) think 37 differently about public safety and the roles of the police. 38 Municipalities across the country are already implementing (link) 39 successful innovative alternatives to ineffective over-policing. 40 41 Are we doing what is morally right and creating safe communities 42 where everyone can thrive as Long Islanders? Are we attempting to 43 prevent and mitigate crime in a way that respects the needs and the 44 dignity of all of our communities? 45 46 We put forth that the answer to those questions is no, and that now 47 is the time to finally change that. We need to redesign how we are 48 going to achieve public safety in a common sense way. Incremental 49 reforms in policing are not enough. 50 51 When officials begin to come together to follow the governors 52 directives, they need to include people from marginalized 53 communities and leaders that deal with these issues to be part of 54 the redesign collective. 55 56

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1 Thank you for your attention to this important issue. We have 2 convened a group of over 100 community members, organizations and 3 groups to work on this issue. We encourage you to think of us as a 4 collaborative partner in creating a more just Long Island. 5 6 Sincerely, Jackie Burbridge & Shanequa Levin 7 Co-Founders of the Long Island Black Alliance 8 9 ***** 10 11 **The above-mentioned links are on file with the 12 Clerk of the Suffolk County Legislature** 13 14 ********** 15 16 To the Honorable Members of the Suffolk County Legislature: 17 18 I write to request the following considerations for the upcoming 19 Suffolk County budget: 20 21 ---To foster change in the nature of policing, for example, 22 investigate evidence based strategies to address specific issues, 23 such as the Ithaca Plan and Crisis Response Team in Portland, 24 Oregon 25 26 ---To increase funding to the health infrastructure in our county, 27 e.g., increase funding for social workers and other health 28 professionals to address mental health and other issues 29 30 ---Address solutions for homelessness and root causes of 31 homelessness 32 33 Thank you for your attention and concern. 34 35 Sincerely, Hughette Clarke 36 1705 Nicole Drive, Port Jefferson Station, NY 11776 37 38 ********** 39 40 TO: Clerk of the Suffolk County Legislature 41 42 Below please find a letter to the Legislature from Judith Ogden who 43 is a resident and Trustee of the Village of Head of the Harbor. 44 It represents the view of many of our village residents who feel 45 strongly that Resolution 1025 should be passed. Please accept this 46 letter as written testimony for the July 21 meeting of the Suffolk 47 County Legislature and add to the meeting minutes. 48 49 Thank you, Kathleen Diana 50 51 ***** 52 53 54 55 56

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1 Re: Resolution IR 1025-2020 2 3 Honorable Assemblymen and women of the Suffolk County Legislature, 4 5 Because I am unable to attend the public session of the Suffolk 6 County Legislature, I respectfully request that this e-mail is 7 shared with all those in attendance. As a trustee, Highway 8 Commissioner and resident of the Village of Head of the Harbor, 9 I urge the legislature to vote “yes” and pass resolution IR 10 1025-2020, directing the Suffolk County Dept. Of Economic 11 Development and Planning to analyze the St. James-Stony Brook 12 historic corridor. 13 14 I live at 650-654 Route 25A in St. James, across from BB&GG Farm, 15 one of the few remaining large tracks of land in the area. My home 16 is a 5 acre organic plant nursery, which was part of the Mills 17 family homestead. I am sandwiched between the historic Mills Pond 18 house and Arts Council building which are adjacent to my eastern 19 border and the Mills family cemetery on the west. My property was 20 part of the original family homestead. The front building is a 21 restored barn dating back to the 1700's. 22 23 Earlier this month the mayor of our village wrote a letter 24 outlining many of the historic qualities of our community and the 25 importance of maintaining its' character. I became involved in 26 local government, so I could make a difference in my community 27 where I live. I grew up on Long Island, graduating from Northport 28 High School. Lived briefly in New York City while getting a BFA at 29 School of Visual Arts, and then moved and ultimately settled down 30 in the Three Village/St. James area where I've made a career, 31 running a landscape design, maintenance and construction company 32 for the past 30 years. 33 34 I've watched this area change dramatically from the early 1970's, 35 and recognize that we are at a turning point. A few large tracks 36 of land remain along this historic corridor, and they will soon be 37 developed. Once this is allowed, there will be no going back. A 38 part of “what Long Island was” will be gone. The International 39 Baptist Church site, Gyrodyne/Flowerfields, BB&GG Farm which are 40 located along 25A, and the Bull Run Farm on Mills Pond Rd are the 41 last large remaining tracks of land in the area which are all on 42 the verge of being developed. Many are slated for development in 43 the immediate or not too distant future. 44 45 Those of you in the Suffolk County Legislature are in a unique 46 situation. You have the ability to influence the character of our 47 community and make decisions that will affect our children and 48 grandchildren's future. I urge you to take a moment and pause, to 49 evaluate how best to proceed, before it's too late to turn back. 50 How should these remaining parcels be developed? What affect will 51 it have on the community? Are there specific parameters which 52 should be set to help mitigate unwanted consequences? An analysis 53 of this corridor may helpful in providing a more comprehensive view 54 of the area, which will better inform you when making decisions 55 moving forward, on how to guide and shape the development that 56 occurs. Ultimately your decisions will affect our community and

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1 those living in it, beyond our time. 2 3 Before a conversation can be had or a decision made, allow the 4 study to be performed. After which, that knowledge combined with 5 community input can help you to make an educated decision in a 6 truly democratic forum. I look forward to meeting you in the 7 future, when the Corona virus no-longer dictates our lives. 8 Thank you for your consideration. 9 10 Respectfully, Judith Ogden 11 Village of Head of the Harbor/Trustee & Highway Commissioner 12 Ogden's Design and Plantings, Inc., Nissequogue Farm, LLC 13 650-654 Route 25A, St. James, NY 11780 14 516-523-6720 (mobile). 15 16 ********** 17 18 Correspondence Related to 19 20 IR 1567-2020 - Requiring the Suffolk County Board of Elections 21 To publish translated election notices in a 22 Spanish language newspaper. 23 24 ********** 25 26 Comment in Support of Resolution 1567 27 My name is Mirna Clark, and I reside in Bay Shore. I am calling in 28 support of Resolution #1567. I have over 12 years living in the 29 United States, I came with the intentions of pursuing my career and 30 seeking a better future. Originally I lived in Nassau for several 31 years and knew that one day I would settle down and want to raise 32 my family on Long Island. Two years ago, my husband and I decided 33 to move to Bay Shore with our daughter. As citizens, we take our 34 civic duties very seriously and we know how important it is to be 35 well informed. Our first language is Spanish, since we came to the 36 United States as adults it is easier for us to understand and speak 37 Spanish. This does not mean that we do not understand any English 38 but it is at times difficult. To keep informed of local news and 39 information, as usual we pick up our favorite local Spanish 40 newspaper which is free from the stores we frequently visit. To my 41 surprise, for last month's primaries, I only found information from 42 the Nassau County Board of Elections but not from Suffolk County in 43 the newspaper Noticia. I called the newspaper's number to find out 44 more but they directed me to the Suffolk County website. I didn't 45 think it was right or fair that there was only information from 46 Nassau County in the newspaper. As a new Suffolk County resident, 47 I wish to learn more about my new community and I hope the County 48 will take more into consideration it's residents that may not 49 understand the English language 100% by publishing important 50 information in the local media we trust. 51 52 Comentario en Apoyo a la Resolución #1567 53 Mi nombre es Mirna Clark, y vivo en Bay Shore. Estoy llamando en 54 apoyo a la resolución #1567. Tengo mas de 12 años en los Estados 55 Unidos, vine con la intención de superar y ejercer mi carrera. 56 Originalmente viví en Nassau por varios años y supe que algún día

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1 me establecería y criaría a mi familia en Long Island. Dos 2 años atrás mi esposo y yo decidimos mudarnos a Bay Shore junto con 3 nuestra hija. Como ciudadanos que somos tomamos nuestros deberes 4 cívicos muy en serio y sabemos lo importante que es el estar bien 5 informados. Nuestro primer lenguaje es el Español, y como vinimos a 6 los Estados Unidos de adultos se nos hace más fácil entender y 7 hablar el español, esto no quiere decir que no entendamos nada de 8 inglés pero si se dificulta a veces. Para mantenernos informados de 9 los acontecimientos locales, como de costumbre recogemos nuestro 10 periodico local favorito en español y de gratis de las tiendas que 11 frecuentamos. Para mi sorpresa, el mes pasado para las primarias 12 solo encontré información de la junta electoral del Condado de 13 Nassau pero no del Condado de Suffolk en el periodico Noticia. 14 Llamé al número del periodico para averiguar más y me dirigieron a 15 la página web del Condado de Suffolk. No me parece justo que solo 16 haya información del Condado de Nassau en el periódico. Como nueva 17 residente del Condado de Suffolk deseo aprender mas de mi nueva 18 comunidad y espero que el Condado de Suffolk tenga 19 más consideración de sus residentes que tal vez no entiendan el 20 idioma inglés al 100% y publiquen información de suma importancia 21 en nuestros medios hispanos de confianza. 22 Muchas Gracias por su atención -- Mirna Clark 23 24 ********** 25 26 Dear Legislators, 27 28 I urge you to pass the Election Public Notices Resolution without 29 delay. It's important for all our citizens to be informed. 30 Thank you. 31 32 -- Mary Speed Perri, 240 Norwood Avenue, Northport, NY 11768 33 34 ********** 35 36 To Whom It May Concern: 37 38 My name is Sarbelia Benedict. I am a resident in North Babylon, 39 Suffolk County. I am writing to you in support of Resolution 1567. 40 As the population of the Spanish Speaking community increases so 41 does the need for information in Spanish needs to be provided to 42 this community. As a Latina born in this country I experienced the 43 need my parents had to attain services in their language. Very 44 often I found myself having to be their interpreter and translator 45 of any document and visit to an official appointment. While I was 46 always happy to do this for my parents I sometimes found myself 47 helping other families because they did not have this help. It 48 often made me think of the many others who had NO help at all. 49 These are tax payers, people who contribute socially and 50 economically to our communities. They deserve the opportunity to 51 take part in all activities in our communities Including their 52 civic duties In which most would be very proud to do so. Language 53 should not be a barrier to taking part of what they have a right to 54 do as many of us. They should be able to understand what is going 55 on in their community so they could have the opportunity to be 56 rightfully represented here in Suffolk. The right to vote should be

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1 accessible to all citizens including to a Spanish speaking Latino 2 community. Our community should not be discriminated against simply 3 because of our language. 4 5 Thank You, Sarbelia Benedict 6 7 ********** 8 9 Please SUPPORT RESOLUTION 1567! 10 11 Suffolk County needs to publish voting information in Spanish. 12 Thank you for your support. 13 14 -- Ivan Larios, Manager of Member Engagement, Long Island 15 He/Him/His 16 17 ********** 18 19 Re: Resolution 1567 20 21 Spanish-language election notices is Spanish Media 22 23 Hello, my name is Silvana Diaz and I'm the publisher of Noticia, 24 Long Island's largest and 2nd oldest, Spanish-language newspaper. 25 Noticia was founded in 1991 by my parents, a year before Suffolk 26 County met the requirements of Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act 27 due to the increase of the Hispanic population. Our mission to 28 inform all latinos in a universal Spanish-language with 29 accuracy and relevancy has become more and more important each year 30 as our Hispanic population grows, especially in Suffolk County 31 where it now makes up 20% of the population. 32 33 I joined the family business in 2009 after having worked in local 34 and federal government for some years. During the years spent in 35 public service, it opened my eyes to several realities of 36 inequalities in minority communities. One of them being the lack of 37 vital information to the Spanish-speaking community and the failing 38 methods of reaching this population. As a 1st generation American, 39 I know first hand the struggles of a limited English language 40 proficiency. As early as 2nd grade I was serving as a translator 41 for my parents with school matters and other important. 42 43 My goal through Noticia has been and continues to be a bridge 44 between the Hispanic community and all communities on Long Island. 45 To make sure that we have access to all pertinent and vital 46 information for our readers, who trust us to deliver the best 47 possible local news in a language they understand and feel 48 comfortable. 49 50 Noticia is now published by Schneps Media, and our demographic 51 market has expanded, allowing me to work with various communities 52 throughout the city boroughs. With this experience, I have learned 53 of the stark difference between how each local government operates, 54 even though we are all part of the same state and it's 2020! The 55 ease in which we, the "Spanish-media" receives information from NYC 56 agencies and even Nassau County is remarkable and commendable.

* Index Included at End of Transcript 213 1 There are no second thoughts, no legislative process, no 2 bureaucracy. Why? Because language access laws and requirements 3 already exist. In Suffolk County, County Executive Bellone signed 4 an executive order in 2012 requiring agencies to translate 5 important information in the relevant languages. In the 2004 6 Consent Decree of US vs Suffolk County BOE, it outlined all the 7 steps that the Suffolk County BOE had to make in order to comply 8 with Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act. It clearly states that 9 election information should be published in Spanish in 10 Spanish-language media. I don't understand why this part of 11 the Consent Decree has not been complied with, but It is my most 12 sincere hope and wish that this committee and the Suffolk County 13 Legislature stand by all its constituents including those with 14 limited english proficiency. Please support Resolution 1567. 15 16 Sincerely, Silvana Diaz 17 18 "Give every girl an equal opportunity to grow 19 & her community will reap the benefits" 20 21 ********** 22 23 I fully support Resolution 1567. 24 25 -- Lizbeth Thalheimer 26 LWV Huntington, President 27 28 ********** 29 30 I am writing you to request that you SUPPORT RESOLUTION 1567! 31 32 -- Adriana Silva 33 34 ********** 35 36 Addendum C 37 38 Public Portion/Voicemail Testimony Submissions 39 40 ******************** 41 42 My name is Martha Maffei. I am calling regarding the Resolution 43 1567, 1-5-6-7. To -- for the Spanish-speaking community to get 44 Spanish media language accessibility is very important. We want to 45 hear, to be able to read about different laws that are happening or 46 resolutions or whatever the Board of Elections is to publish our 47 rights in our own language. It's very hard to understand or 48 disengage or participate if we don't have information in our own 49 language. Translation is not always the best way for many of our 09:58AM 50 English as our Second Language and is not really the information 51 understandable for that. 52 53 I work with lot of communities which the first language is Spanish 54 and I know that they prefer to read in Spanish and if that way how 55 they feel more informative and also encouraged to read because if 56 language is a limitation they won't be reading. One thing to try

* Index Included at End of Transcript 214 1 to take English classes and you go into this long process to learn 2 a new language but actually to be fully understanding about notices 3 in their own language is very important. Many times social or the 4 media, they don't use a proper translation into the Spanish. 5 6 So I am in support of Resolution 1-5-6-7, 1567, Spanish media 7 language accessibility. It's good for our community and I really 8 hope the Legislature approves this resolution. Thank you. 9 10:00AM 10 ********** 11 12 My name is Joshua Schneps and I'm calling in regards to Resolution 13 1567. I am one of the publishers of Noticia which is a Spanish 14 language newspaper distributed throughout Suffolk County. Our 15 focus is having original reporting in Spanish and our goal for 16 doing so is to be able to serve the many residents that are 17 Spanish-speaking, either that's their first language or they do not 18 have the ability to read in English. We've made a large investment 19 in that original content because we do believe it is critical to 10:01AM 20 Suffolk County. 21 22 That being said, we also feel that if there are notices that are 23 running in Spanish, they should run in a newspaper that is Spanish 24 language, that they can be read by the audience in which you're 25 targeting. So we thank you for the consideration. 26 27 ********** 28 29 My name is Charlotta Beavers and I'm a resident of Huntington. 10:01AM 30 I'm writing in -- I'm calling to offer my comment on issues of 31 concern to the Suffolk County Legislature. I urge you to seek ways 32 to divest funds from policing and reinvest those funds in black, 33 brown and other poor communities in Suffolk County. 34 35 Police reform does not go far enough to solve the problems of 36 police brutality against targeted populations in Suffolk County. 37 We need to fund programs and services that are effective in 38 addressing the issues that people are attempting to cope with 39 rather than pretending we can police them out of existence. 10:02AM 40 41 We hand all of our issues of substance abuse, mental health issues, 42 conflict resolution, homelessness and poverty to the police, and 43 yet more effective and less violent approaches exist. We have a 44 duty to fund programs and services that have evidence-based records 45 of success. Public safety should be about the safety of all 46 people, including black, brown, poor and marginalized people. And 47 when we take care of the well-being of these populations, that care 48 benefits our entire County. 49 10:03AM 50 Government (sic) Andrew Cuomo has signed an Executive Order that 51 calls for the design of a plan to reinvent and modernize police 52 strategies by April 1st. This process of redesigning the police 53 must be transparent and must include residents and leaders of 54 black, brown, poor and marginalized communities as part of the 55 collective effort to reimagine and implement the changes. 56 Thank you. Charlotta Beavers, Huntington, New York.

* Index Included at End of Transcript 215 1 ********** 2 3 Hello. My name is Debra Cosher. I live at 60 Ocean Avenue, 4 Northport, New York. I would like to support the Resolution No. 5 1-5-6-7 introduced by Legislator Gonzalez today that would allow or 6 would make it standard to produce any information that's vital to 7 elections in Spanish as well as English, and also to be put in 8 Spanish media outlets, as well as a Spanish version if it's to go 9 into Newsday and other technically English-speaking pieces of 10:06AM 10 material. 11 12 And there are (audio glitch) in Suffolk County, and as far as back 13 as 2019 they account for about 20% of Suffolk County population, so 14 it really is vital for them to be able to be aware of important 15 election and voter information and other government information in 16 their language. Thank you very much. You could always reach me at 17 631-220-8746. Have a nice day. 18 19 ********** 10:06AM 20 21 My name is Judi Gardner, Huntington, New York. [email protected], 22 516,819-5258. Resolution 1-5-6-7 is being introduced in the 23 Suffolk County Legislature today. This would require Suffolk 24 County Board of Elections to publish public notices and information 25 about elections in Spanish and in the local Spanish newspapers with 26 the highest circulation. Failure to do so is a violation of 27 Federal Voting Rights at -- Voting Rights Act, essential 28 information to Spanish-speaking voters. Please pass Resolution 29 1-5-6-7 as this is a democracy and everybody deserves to have that 10:11AM 30 information in all languages, especially Spanish since we have a 31 very high Spanish-speaking population. Thank you. 32 33 ********** 34 35 Yes, good morning. My name is Emilio Reese and I'm calling in 36 regard to Resolution 1567, and this is in regards to the Board of 37 Elections. 38 39 I understand an election that the County has, the community, the 10:12AM 40 Hispanic community don't get any notice because the County as a 41 whole doesn't take us as a community so seriously. You never 42 advertise your election events; nobody knows when these elections 43 take place, nobody knows where, when, and that's very disappointing 44 for the Hispanic community since we as a whole pay our taxes and 45 have businesses and have properties and this -- on this County. 46 So please, at least let the community know and spend some dollars 47 advertising and letting the community know when the election is 48 going to take place. Thank you very much. God bless you. 49 Bye- bye. 10:13AM 50 51 ********** 52 53 I'm calling to support Resolution 1567 about receiving information 54 and notice on elections in Spanish in all local Spanish newspaper. 55 Please, I'm supporting this resolution. Thank you so much. 56 -- Fernando Cardin

* Index Included at End of Transcript 216 1 ********** 2 3 Hi. My name is Amy {Bridgion} I'm calling in support of the 4 Suffolk County Resolution 1-5-6-7. Thank you. Bye. 5 6 ********** 7 8 I'm calling because I wanted to share my support of Resolution 9 1567. I think it is so important for Spanish-speaking people in 10:17AM 10 the community to also be able to access all this information. 11 And I really hope that this is a step forward in the way that 12 Spanish-speaking people can access information and be included in 13 what the community is involved in as well. Thank you very much. 14 15 -- Anngy Grajales 16 17 ********** 18 19 Good morning. My name is Shoshana Hershkowitz. I am a constituent 10:18AM 20 from the 5th Legislative District and I'm calling because I would 21 like the see the following three things happen in Suffolk County. 22 23 Thing 1: As legislation is being crafted per Governor Cuomo's 24 Executive Order regarding policing, I would like to see 25 stakeholders at the table, including the NAACP and also 26 organizations like the Long Island Association for Police 27 Accountability and the Long Island Black Alliance. These are 28 people who have a direct stake in what is happening and in what the 29 solutions are. 10:19AM 30 31 Thing 2: I would like to see a civilian complaint review board 32 formed in Suffolk County that is arbitrated by a neutral broker so 33 that way there is a public transparency about what happens with 34 policing issues on Long Island. 35 36 And Thing 3, and this is directed at all of you in the Legislature, 37 Republican and Democrat alike: I am asking you to stop taking 38 campaign contributions from the half-dozen police unions and PACs 39 that regularly contribute to your campaigns. And this is really 10:19AM 40 important because you are supposed to be honest workers here. You 41 are supposed to -- you oversee the Suffolk County Police Department 42 budget and you are supposed to be working on a solution to ending 43 police brutality on Long Island. And you cannot possibly be an 44 honest broker if you are taking money from one of the parties that 45 you have to work with in crafting this. 46 47 So we know, we looked at your campaign filings and we know, 48 Republican and Democrat alike, there are tens of thousands, if not 49 hundreds of thousands of dollars when we bring the Executive Branch 10:20AM 50 of Suffolk County's Legislative body and there's a lot of money 51 there. And we want the money out of the politics so that you can 52 be honest brokers in creating a just situation regarding policing 53 on Long Island. So we are asking you to stop taking that money. 54 Thank you. 55 56 **********

* Index Included at End of Transcript 217 1 Good afternoon. My name is Silvana Diaz and I'm calling in support 2 of Resolution No. 1567. Again, I'm calling in support of 3 Resolution 1567. Again, my name is Silvana Diaz, I'm the publisher 4 of Noticia Long Island, largest and second oldest Spanish language 5 newspaper. 6 7 Noticia was founded in 1991 by my parents, a year before Suffolk 8 County met the requirements of Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act 9 due to the increase of the Hispanic population. Our mission to 10:21AM 10 inform all Latinos in a universal Spanish language with accuracy 11 and relevancy has become more and more important each year as the 12 Hispanic population grows, especially in Suffolk County where it 13 now makes up 20% of the population. 14 15 I joined the family business in 2009 after having worked in local 16 and Federal government for some years. During the years spent in 17 public service, it opened my eyes to several realities of 18 inequalities in minority communities. One of them being the lack 19 of vital information to those Spanish-speaking communities and the 10:22AM 20 failing methods of how -- how we're reaching this population. 21 22 As a First Generation American, I know firsthand the struggles of a 23 limited English language proficiency. As early as 2nd grade, I was 24 serving as a translator for my parents with school matters and 25 other important information. My goal for Noticia has been and 26 continues to be a bridge between the Hispanic community and all 27 communities of Long Island. To make sure that we have access to 28 all pertinent and vital information for our readers who trust us to 29 deliver the best possible local news in a language they understand 10:23AM 30 and feel comfortable. 31 32 Noticia is now published by Schneps Media and our demographic 33 market has expanded, allowing me to work in various communities 34 throughout the city borough. With this experience, I have learned 35 of the stark differences between how each local government 36 operates, even though we are all part of the same state and it's 37 2020. The ease in which we, the Spanish media, receives 38 information from New York City agencies and even Nassau County is 39 remarkable and commendable, there are no second thoughts, no 10:24AM 40 legislative process, no bureaucracy. Why? Because language access 41 laws and requirements already exist. 42 43 In Suffolk County, County Executive Bellone signed an Executive 44 Order in 2012 requiring agencies to translate important information 45 in their relevant languages. In 2004 -- in a 2004 Consent Decree 46 of U.S. vs. Suffolk County BOE, it outlined all the steps that the 47 Suffolk County BOE had to make in order to comply with Section 203 48 of the voting rights. It clearly states that (audio message was 49 timed out). 10:25AM 50 51 ********** 52 53 Hi. This is Victoria Schnep. I'm the President of Schnep Media 54 and the proud owner of a Spanish language community newspaper. I 55 started my Spanish language community newspapers in New York City 56 when I saw that the number of Spanish residents hit the Census

* Index Included at End of Transcript 218 1 numbers as a second largest group. And I know in Suffolk County 2 we're up to about 20% of the population is Spanish, and we'll see 3 with the Census, I bet it'll grow even more. And when I started 4 out today in New York City, the response by the people that I spoke 5 to from different countries of origin all said one thing, they need 6 local news. And with the local news they needed us to put it in 7 Spanish, because although many of the residents might read in 8 English, Spanish was their first language and the language that 9 they were most comfortable reading in. 10:27AM 10 11 So we're very proud to deliver to Suffolk County all the way out to 12 Southampton from the County line this wonderful, professionally 13 written Noticia Newspapers which has a proud tradition of serving 14 Long Island for over 25 years. 15 16 So I think that it would be Resolution 1567. Resolution 1567, 17 having legal notices published in Spanish would be a huge benefit 18 to the large, important and powerful Spanish communities of Suffolk 19 County. Thank you. This is Victoria Schnep. 10:27AM 20 21 ********** 22 23 Hi there. My name is Clarice Murphy, I'm calling regarding bill 24 1567 which is advocating for Spanish language materials available 25 from the Suffolk County Board of Elections. I think it's very 26 important that all of our residents in the County have access to 27 the information regarding voting. Thank you. 28 29 ********** 10:35AM 30 31 Hi. My name is {Ju} residing in Centereach. I'm calling today to 32 support Resolution 1567. This resolution requires the Suffolk 33 County Board of Elections to publish public notice and information 34 about elections in Spanish and in the local Spanish newspapers with 35 the highest circulation. I think the failure to do is a violation 36 of the Federal Voting Rights Act and denies essential information 37 to Spanish-speaking voters. Thank you. 38 39 ********** 10:35AM 40 41 Good afternoon. My name is Juana Cortez Torres, I'm calling about 42 the Resolution 1657 (sic). I am in full support of that 43 resolution, notification should be going out in both English and 44 Spanish so that we can have an equal and fair voting process. 45 Thank you. Have a great day. 46 47 ********** 48 49 Hi. My name is Cheryl Keshner and I am a Suffolk County voter. 10:36AM 50 I am also the Coordinator of the Long Island Language Advocate 51 Coalition, or LILAC. LILAC has worked for the past ten years to 52 ensure meaningful access to limited English proficient speakers who 53 reside in Suffolk and Nassau County to ensure that they receive 54 equal access to all programs and services. 55 56

* Index Included at End of Transcript 219 1 I'm calling to support Resolution 1567 which would require Suffolk 2 County Board of Elections to provide translated notices regarding 3 upcoming elections to the Spanish-speaking public in 4 Spanish-speaking publications. This is a requirement under the 5 Federal Voting Rights Act, and not to do so would deny essential 6 information to Spanish-speaking residents of Suffolk County. 7 8 I urge the Legislature to comply with the law and to support 9 Resolution 1567. Thank you very much. 10:37AM 10 11 ******************** 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56

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