Meeting: January 22, 2024

Agenda

I. Roll Call

II. Public Comment

• East Hampton High School Research student, Finn O’Rourke – Fundraising effort to purchase Lotek Pop-up Satellite Tags for student Shark movement research project.
• Trustee record digitization – Richard Seery of Seery Systems.

III. Committee Assignments

• Committee assignments per the Clerk

IV. New Business

• Gerard Drive Culvert and dredging
• NY Sea Grant, Peconic Estuary Shoreline Adaptation Initiative, 1/24/24
• ZBA Hearing Notice 1/23/24 RE: 257 Gerard Dr. proposed project to tear down existing structure and rebuild.

V. Old Business

• Amended Annual Resolution #2024-28
• Truck access at the end of Gerard Drive

V. Committee Reports

• Aquaculture
  • Dr. Christopher Gobler, as part of the Peconic East Blue Carbon Shoreline Protection Project, with an application to install kelp lines for research.
  • New DEC Shellfish Harvest Area Designation & Shellfish Tags
  • Initial Site Evaluation for proposed South Fork Sea Farmers 2024 Oyster Reef, TMH
  • Suffolk County Aquaculture Lease Program (SCALP) Board Meeting
• Education
  • $150 donation to the Trustee Scholarship Fund from John & Audrey Furfaro.
• Harbor Management
  • Transient Mooring Report for 2023
• Pump Out Boat
• Grant received from the NYS Environmental Facilities Corporation for Operations and Maintenance of our Pump out boats.
• South Fork Wind Farm Trawl Survey

VII. Announcements

VIII. Administrative

• Payment of the Bills: a) Optimum – $150.24; b) East Hampton Star – $31.24
• Minutes:  December 11, 2023, and Jan. 8, 2024
• Financials: for the month ended November 30, 2023

IX. Report of the Clerk