City Council

AGENDA FOR THE REGULAR MEETING TO BE HELD BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2025 PRESENT: OTHERS PRESENT: The Pledge of Allegiance. Approval of Minutes of Regular Meeting held on July 18, 2025. Motion By: Seconded: Approval of Abstract of Audited Vouchers Schedule 08-25, $xx and Treasurer’s Report for the Month ending July 31, 2025: $ 126,668.91 General Account $ 11,972,942.77 General Investment $ 1,374,221.74 Capital Reserve $ 500,000.00 Compensating Balance $ 4,419,110.32 Class General Account $ 198,429.43 Scrub Oak Renovation Bond Proceeds $18,591,373.17 Total 07/31/25 Motion By: Seconded: Clerk’s report for July 2025 False Fire and Burglar Alarms: Fire Billed: $900; Fire Collected: $100 Burglar Billed: $450; Burglar Collected: $0 Departmental Monthly Reports: Fire Department Building Department Police Department Resolution to approve a refund in the amount of $120.00 to Stuart Garay for the duplicate payment of a beach sticker. Motion By: Seconded: Resolution to approve a refund on $25 to Mary Anne Mathys for duplicate payment of an alarm registration. Motion By: Seconded: Resolution to approve a refund on $25 to Mary Anne Mathys for duplicate payment of an alarm registration. Motion By: Seconded: Resolution to approve a payment to the Raynor Group in the amount of $175.00 from Capital Fund H4200200 Road improvements for engineering fees related to the Dune Road Improvement Project. Motion By: Seconded: Resolution to approve the refund of the Village’s 2025-2026 taxes as a result of a court decision reducing the Town of Southampton’s 2024-2025 assessment as follows: TAX MAP OWNER ORIG ASSMT REDUCED TO REFUND DUE 4-1-88 Frey $1,553,100 $1,422,000 $287.88 Motion By: Seconded: Resolution to accept the bid from Otis Ford for the purchase of a 2025 Ford Police Interceptor Utility AWD hybrid in the in the amount of $48,478.00 to be funded by an insurance recovery. This vehicle will replace the 2020 vehicle which was deemed a total loss. Motion By: Seconded: Resolution to increase the 2025-2026 A3120240 Police Vehicles budget in the amount of $48,478.00, which represents the anticipated insurance recovery. Motion By: Seconded: Resolution to accept a Bond Continuance, expiring August 12, 2026, for the Picheny subdivision road improvements (902-6-1-18.2, .3, .4 and .5). Motion By: Seconded: Resolution to approve retroactively a Special Event Permit Application from Ryan Fay for a party held at the Village Beach on August 4, 2025 from 6 P.M until 9 P.M. Motion By: Seconded: Resolution to approve retroactively a Special Event Permit Application from Laura Fabrizio for a fundraiser to benefit the Moriches Bay Project held at the Village Dock on August 10, 2025 from 9 A.M. until noon. Motion By: Seconded: Resolution to approve retroactively a Special Event Permit Application from Zach Schmidt for a party held at the Village Beach on August 15, 2025 from 6 P.M until 10 P.M. Motion By: Seconded: Resolution to approve a Special Event Permit Application from Sean Montpetit and Terry Moran for a party to be held at the Village Beach on August 17, 2025 from 6 P.M. until 10 P.M. Motion By: Seconded: Resolution to approve a Special Event Permit Application from Jigar Thakkar for a party to be held at the Village Beach on August 22, 2025 from 6 P.M. until 10 P.M. Motion By: Seconded: Resolution to approve a Special Event Permit Application from Townsend Baldwin for a party to be held at the Village Beach on August 30, 2025 from 6 P.M until 9:30 P.M. Motion By: Seconded: Resolution to approve a Special Event Permit Application from George Motz for a charity fundraiser at the Village Beach to benefit the Knights of Columbus Council #7423 on September 5, 2025 from 6 P.M. until 9 P.M. Motion By: Seconded: Resolution to approve a Special Event Permit Application from Marilyn DiCarlo-Ames for a party to be held at the Village Beach on September 6, 2025 from 6 P.M. until 10 P.M. Motion By: Seconded: Resolution to approve a Special Event Permit Application from Ryan Fay for the Westhampton Beach Varsity Football dinner to be held at the Village Beach on September 11, 2025 from 6 P.M until 8 P.M. Motion By: Seconded: Resolution to approve a Special Event Permit Application from the Quogue School for Back to School Beach Day to be held at the Village Beach on September 12, 2025 from 10 A.M until 2 P.M.. Motion By: Seconded: Resolution to approve a permit application from 18 Barker Partners LLC (902-7-1-40) to install project limiting fencing, clear and grade within fenced area, place and grade 660 cubic yards of clean fill, and to stabilize with fescue and binder. Motion By: Seconded: Resolution to approve the request from the Quogue Field Club to install Nicolock Checker Block Pavers along the east side should of Club Lane, adjacent to the Field Club’s property, at the Fields Club’s expense. Motion By: Seconded: Resolution to approve the purchase of a 2014 Townmaster trailer (model T-14DT) in the amount of $750 from Cardo Site Development. Motion By: Seconded: Resolution that the Board of Trustees of the Village of Quogue hereby directs that a public hearing shall be held on Friday, September 19, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. prevailing time, at the Village Hall, Jessup Avenue, Quogue, New York, to hear any and all persons either for or against a local law entitled: “A Local Law amending §66-14 of the Village Code to change the amount of the charges for false alarms to double the charge if the alarm does not have a valid and unexpired permit and to make reference to charges as set on a fee schedule adopted by the Board of Trustees.” LOCAL LAW NO. ___ OF 2025 A LOCAL LAW “A Local Law amending §66-14 of the Village Code to change the amount of the charges for false alarms to double the charge if the alarm does not have a valid and unexpired permit and to make reference to charges as set on a fee schedule adopted by the Board of Trustees.” BE IT ENACTED by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Quogue as follows: SECTION 1. Amendment. Section §66-14, Charges for False Alarms, is amended by adding the underlined words as follows: §66-14. Charges for false alarms. Any owner of property having an alarm installation on such premises and any lessee of such premises or other user of such alarm installation shall pay to the Village a charge for false emergency alarms to which the Police or Fire Department responds, as follows in the following amount or such other amount as the Board of Trustees may hereafter fix and establish on a fee schedule adopted by resolution from time to time: A. All false emergency alarms, except fire. (1) For the first false alarm in a calendar year: no charge. (2) Second false alarm in a calendar year: $50 or as per fee schedule. (3) Third false alarm in a calendar year: $75 or as per fee schedule. (4) Fourth false alarm in a calendar year: $100 or as per fee schedule. (5) Fifth false alarm in a calendar year: $150 or as per fee schedule. (6) Sixth and each subsequent false alarm in a calendar year: $200 or as per fee schedule. (7) In the event the owner of an alarm installation does not have a valid and unexpired alarm permit at the time of the false alarm, the charge shall be double the applicable charge above. B. False fire alarms. (1) For the first false alarm in a calendar year: $50 or as per fee schedule. (2) Second false alarm in a calendar year: $250 or as per fee schedule. (3) Third false alarm in a calendar year: $500 or as per fee schedule. (4) Fourth and each subsequent false alarm in a calendar year: $1,000 or as per fee schedule. (5) In the event the owner of an alarm installation does not have a valid and unexpired alarm permit at the time of the false alarm, the charge shall be double the applicable charge above. SECTION 2. Authority. The proposed local law is enacted pursuant to §4-412 of the NYS Village Law and the Municipal Home Rule Law §10(1)(ii)(a)(9-a) and §10(2). SECTION 3. Severability. If any section or subsection, paragraph, clause, phrase, or provision of this law shall be adjudged invalid or held unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, any judgment made thereby shall not affect the validity of this law as a whole, or any part thereof other than the part or provision so adjudged to be invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION 4. Effective Date. This local law shall take effect upon filing with the Secretary of State pursuant to Municipal Home Rule Law. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Village Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to publish the following Notice of Public Hearing: NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that the Board of Trustees of the Village of Quogue hereby directs that a public hearing shall be held on Friday, September 19, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. prevailing time, at the Village Hall, Jessup Avenue, Quogue, New York, to hear any and all persons either for or against a local law entitled: “A Local Law amending §66-14 of the Village Code to change the amount of the charges for false alarms to double the charge if the alarm does not have a valid and unexpired permit and to make reference to charges as set on a fee schedule adopted by the Board of Trustees.” Copies of the proposed law are on file in the Village Hall and may be reviewed during normal business hours. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF QUOGUE AIMEE BUHL, VILLAGE CLERK Motion By: Seconded: Meeting Adjourned: ______P.M.