1 1 2 MEETING HELD VIA ZOOM 3 4 TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING 5 of the Town Board of the Town of Newburgh held at 1496 Route 300 in said township 6 at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, the 27th of May 2020 7 8 9 PRESENT Gilbert J. Piaquadio, Supervisor 10 Elizabeth J. Greene, Councilwoman Paul R. Ruggiero, Councilman 11 Joseph P. Pedi, Town Clerk Mark C. Taylor, Attorney for the Town 12 13 PRESENT Scott M. Manley, Councilman 14 REMOTELY James Osborne, Town Engineer 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 REPORTED BY: Michelle L. Conero Court Reporter 23 3 Francis Street Newburgh, New York 12550 24 (845)541-4163 25 TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 2 2 MR. PEDI: Today is Wednesday, the 3 27th of May 2020, and this is a regularly 4 scheduled workshop meeting. 5 The first order of business is the 6 roll call vote. 7 Mrs. Greene. 8 MS. GREENE: Here. 9 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero. 10 MR. RUGGIERO: Present. 11 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley. 12 MR. MANLEY: Here. 13 MR. PEDI: And Mr. Piaquadio. 14 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Here. 15 MR. PEDI: Everybody stand to say the 16 Pledge of Allegiance and a Moment of Silence. 17 (Pledge of Allegiance and Moment of 18 Silence.) 19 MR. PEDI: Mr. Supervisor, are there 20 any changes to the agenda? 21 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Okay. So the 22 only change I have is an addition, and it will be 23 an announcement about the vacancy on the Town 24 Council. I will read that at some point. Maybe 25 right after the audit approval. All right, Joe? TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 3 2 MR. PEDI: Very good. 3 Any other changes? 4 MR. RUGGIERO: I have none. 5 MS. GREENE: I have none. 6 MR. PEDI: Very good. 7 MR. MANLEY: Mr. Joe Pedi, I can not 8 hear anything you're saying. 9 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Joe, there's a 10 problem with your volume somehow. 11 They can't hear Pedi. 12 MR. MANLEY: Joe Pedi I can't hear. 13 MR. PEDI: Next we go to approval of 14 audit, item 5. 15 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: We're looking to 16 approve this audit in the amount of $337,614.71. 17 If someone can make that motion. 18 MS. GREENE: So moved. 19 MR. RUGGIERO: I'll second it. 20 MR. PEDI: Motion made and seconded. Is 21 there any discussion? 22 (No response.) 23 MR. PEDI: Mrs. Greene? 24 MS. GREENE: Yes. 25 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 4 2 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. 3 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? 4 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 5 MR. PEDI: And Mr. Piaquadio? 6 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. 7 I think Joe's microphone is off, Bobby. 8 There's an X through his mic. We have to unmute 9 Joe. 10 MR. PEDI: Next we go on to item 6, 11 Local Law of 2020 -- Local Law 2 of 2020, 12 preschool and daycare in the B Zone. Item A, 13 resolution of SEQRA determination and 14 designation. 15 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: So we're looking 16 for a motion to approve this resolution of SEQRA 17 determination and designation, and this is on the 18 daycare being in the B Zone. 19 Does someone want to make that motion? 20 MS. GREENE: I'll make the motion. 21 MR. MANLEY: I'll second it. 22 MR. PEDI: Motion made and seconded. 23 Any discussion? 24 (No response.) 25 MR. PEDI: Mrs. Greene? TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 5 2 MS. GREENE: Yes. 3 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 4 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. 5 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? 6 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 7 MR. PEDI: Mr. Piaquadio? 8 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. 9 MR. PEDI: Next we go to item 6-B which 10 is the resolution of adoption. 11 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Again on the 12 same topic, we're looking for a resolution of 13 adoption of this local law. If someone wants to 14 make that motion. 15 MR. RUGGIERO: I'll make the motion. 16 MS. GREENE: I'll second the motion. 17 MR. PEDI: Any discussion? 18 (No response.) 19 MR. PEDI: Mrs. Greene? 20 MS. GREENE: Yes. 21 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 22 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. 23 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? 24 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 25 MR. PEDI: Mr. Piaquadio? TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 6 2 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. 3 MR. PEDI: Next we go on to item 7, 4 acquisition of access parcel for consolidated 5 water district. Item A, resolution of SEQRA 6 determination. 7 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Okay. So again, 8 the resolution of SEQRA determination. On this 9 one it had to do with the parcel of land we were 10 going to buy so our water tank, and the 11 generator, and whatever utilities is all on our 12 property. That's what this has to deal with. 13 Certainly the first one is the negative 14 declaration for SEQRA. 15 Does someone want to make the motion to 16 approve the resolution of the SEQRA 17 determination? 18 MR. MANLEY: I'll make the motion. 19 MS. GREENE: I'll second the motion. 20 MR. PEDI: Any discussion? 21 (No response.) 22 MR. PEDI: Mrs. Greene? 23 MS. GREENE: Yes. 24 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 25 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 7 2 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? 3 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 4 MR. PEDI: Mr. Piaquadio? 5 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. 6 MR. PEDI: Next we go on to item 7-B 7 which is the public interest order. 8 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Again this 9 public interest order obviously is in the best 10 interest of the public to have it in the water 11 district. 12 If someone wants to make a motion to 13 approve the public interest order. 14 MR. RUGGIERO: I'll make the motion. 15 MS. GREENE: I'll second the motion. 16 MR. PEDI: Any further discussion? 17 (No response.) 18 MR. PEDI: Mrs. Greene? 19 MS. GREENE: Yes. 20 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 21 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. 22 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? 23 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 24 MR. PEDI: Mr. Piaquadio? 25 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 8 2 MR. PEDI: Next we go on to item 8 3 which is a road naming for Cabin Lane. 4 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: All right. This 5 has to deal with Cabin Lane. This is going to the 6 Code Compliance Department. So Cabin Lane will be 7 attached to a private road that runs through the 8 section, lot and block number which is attached. 9 This comes from Joe Mattina from our Code 10 Compliance Department. It says everything is in 11 order here and he agrees with the road names. 12 Does someone want to make a motion for 13 that? 14 MS. GREENE: I'll move that they name 15 the new road Cabin Lane. 16 MR. RUGGIERO: I'll second it. 17 MR. PEDI: Any further discussion? 18 (No response.) 19 MR. PEDI: Mrs. Greene? 20 MS. GREENE: Yes. 21 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 22 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. 23 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? 24 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 25 MR. PEDI: Mr. Piaquadio? TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 9 2 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. 3 MR. PEDI: Next we go on to item 9 4 which is the Donnelly Subdivision, three homes on 5 a common drive. 6 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Who is 7 representing us on this out there now? 8 MR. WINGLOVITZ: Ross. I'm here. 9 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Okay. Ross is 10 out there. He's unmuted so we're good. 11 Ross, can you give us just a quick 12 rundown on the project? 13 MR. WINGLOVITZ: You're breaking up a 14 little bit. 15 Mr. Donnelly has -- 16 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: He's coming in 17 very poorly. 18 MR. OSBORNE: Gil, do you want me to 19 take this? 20 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. Please do. 21 Please do, Jim. 22 It's Jim Osborne. 23 Please describe it for us. 24 MR. OSBORNE: There's a map in front of 25 the Town Board that shows the Donnelly TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 10 2 Subdivision. There's an existing common driveway 3 that accesses two lots behind the Donnelly 4 Subdivision -- 5 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Okay. 6 MR. OSBORNE: -- making it three lots 7 on a common driveway. The front two lots will 8 have driveways out to Leslie Drive. 9 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Okay. And these 10 driveways don't seem to be too long either 11 apparently, Jim. The actual driveway is how long 12 in length? 13 (No response.) 14 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Jim, I don't 15 know if you heard the question. 16 MR. WINGLOVITZ: Gil, your question was 17 how long are the driveways? 18 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: That was the 19 question. 20 MR. WINGLOVITZ: The common driveway 21 exists, so the connection to the house is -- 22 (inaudible) feet long for the driveway. There's 23 only one new driveway accessing off the common 24 drive that is an existing paved common driveway. 25 Were you able to hear that? TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 11 2 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. Pretty 3 much. 4 Bobby, why don't we give them the 5 number to dial in from the regular phone. I think 6 we'll hear him better on a voice dial. Can you do 7 that? 8 Ross, we can give you the number to 9 dial in and you can call in from a regular phone. 10 MR. WINGLOVITZ: Okay. 11 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Can you give him 12 that, Bobby? 13 MR. OSBORNE: Jim Osborne. 14 MS. GREENE: Jim is in the building. 15 He's not on the Board. 16 MR. WINGLOVITZ: Can you hear me now, 17 Gil? 18 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Much better. 19 Let's try it again maybe before we have 20 you dial in. 21 MR. WINGLOVITZ: For the three lots 22 there's only two proposed driveways. One is on 23 Leslie Road, and then the second driveway is 24 going to access the existing common drive known 25 as Fallview Drive. TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 12 2 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Okay. That's 3 what we see on the diagram here as well. 4 MR. MANLEY: Can I ask a couple 5 questions, Mr. Supervisor? 6 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: On this one have 7 we had the fire department look at it? 8 MS. GREENE: I talked to him the other 9 night and he did review it. It meets our 10 standard. That's Cronomer Valley. 11 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Cronomer Valley 12 is okay with it. Okay. 13 So based on that, if there's no further 14 discussion, does someone want to make a motion 15 for three lots on a common driveway? 16 MS. GREENE: So moved. 17 MR. MANLEY: Mr. Supervisor, I have a 18 few questions before -- 19 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: I'm sorry. Go 20 ahead, Scott. 21 MR. MANLEY: Ross, can you hear me? 22 MR. WINGLOVITZ: Yes. 23 MR. MANLEY: Okay. I went up that road 24 today and it's almost like there's four driveways 25 to it. Where the Donnelly house is there's a TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 13 2 gravel drive, but if you go past there there's 3 another gravel driveway that he's using for 4 vehicles and a camper. Then directly across from 5 there there's a shed with another driveway going 6 to Happy Acres with a gate. It looks like there's 7 already four driveways on there. Are you aware of 8 that? 9 MR. WINGLOVITZ: No. The survey showed 10 only the one driveway to Donnelly, unless he has 11 a -- you're saying a gravel path. So he has a 12 driveway on Leslie. You're saying he has a 13 gravel path from his house and the common drive 14 in addition to his driveway on Leslie Road? 15 MR. MANLEY: Yes. There's a lot more 16 than just the path, the size of it. And across 17 from there there's another one that goes to the 18 back of Happy Acres, which is an apartment 19 complex next door, with a shed right against the 20 fence there. 21 MR. WINGLOVITZ: Nobody over there has 22 any rights. The only rights to that common drive 23 are the two lots in the back and Mr. Donnelly. 24 MR. MANLEY: Just to be clear, there 25 were four driveways when I pulled in there today. TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 14 2 MR. WINGLOVITZ: I don't know of 3 anybody else -- Mr. Donnelly probably has the 4 right to connect. He has Leslie Road as his 5 primary access. The two in the back have the 6 rights to connect. Nobody on Happy Acres would 7 have any rights to connect. If there's somebody 8 down there using it, we'll be sending them off 9 and not giving them access if that's the case. 10 MS. GREENE: I have a question about 11 that. Who owns Happy Acres? 12 MR. WINGLOVITZ: I'm sorry, Mrs. 13 Greene. I didn't hear you. 14 MS. GREENE: Looking at that driveway 15 (inaudible) belong to Happy Acres? 16 MR. WINGLOVITZ: No. The driveway 17 belongs to Lou Donnelly. It's actually on his 18 property. 19 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Scott, how do 20 you feel if it's only going to be three 21 residences? Are you okay with that? Do you want 22 to further investigate? What do you want to do? 23 MR. WINGLOVITZ: We'll affirm that. 24 We'll make sure it's limited. If anybody's access 25 we need to shut off other than the three houses TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 15 2 in the rear, we'll do that. 3 MR. MANLEY: So the gravel access to 4 Donnelly is okay? 5 MR. WINGLOVITZ: He has a primary 6 access I guess. So it's not his only access I 7 guess would be my only point. 8 MR. RUGGIERO: What number Leslie Road 9 is that? 10 MR. WINGLOVITZ: I don't know the 11 address. 12 MR. MANLEY: Happy Acres is like 59, 61 13 and maybe 63. He might be around 65, 67. 14 MR. WINGLOVITZ: Yeah. I want to say I 15 think his address is 67. 16 MR. MANLEY: I remember the Happy Acres 17 address from my old police days. 18 MS. GREENE: (Inaudible.) 19 MR. WINGLOVITZ: I'm having a hard time 20 hearing. 21 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Bobby, it seems 22 that Betty for some reason is coming over very 23 loud compared to the others. It's loud and sounds 24 distorted, her audio. 25 MS. GREENE: Maybe I need to soften my TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 16 2 voice. 3 MR. MANLEY: When I went up there, the 4 one gravel drive on these plans (inaudible), it 5 just kind of bothered me. 6 MR. WINGLOVITZ: There shouldn't be 7 anything to the left. I mean I guess if Lou 8 connected to it with a gravel driveway -- he has 9 an access to Leslie. He has primary access on 10 Leslie. He must be just using it for a recreation 11 vehicle or something. And then the two houses in 12 the back -- 13 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Scott, we can 14 put it off to the next workshop meeting and we 15 can take a look, and have maybe Jerry Canfield 16 maybe go up there and take a look. Is that okay 17 with the Board? 18 MS. GREENE: I think that's a good 19 idea. 20 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Okay, good. 21 MR. MANLEY: Hopefully we'll all be in 22 the same room. 23 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Right, right. 24 Okay, Ross. We'll get back to you. 25 Thank you. TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 17 2 MR. WINGLOVITZ: Thank you. 3 MR. PEDI: Next we go on to item 10, 4 Rock Cut Estates, three homes on a common drive. 5 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Okay. So with 6 this one I'm going to recuse myself because I own 7 a piece of adjoining property. I'm going to ask 8 Scott Manley to run this item. 9 MR. MANLEY: Do we know if we have 10 anybody representing the applicant, or is the 11 owner there? 12 MR. MORGANTE: My name is Michael 13 Morgante. I'm the project engineer representing 14 this project that's before the Town Board. 15 MR. MANLEY: How are you doing, Mike? 16 MR. MORGANTE: Good. How are you? 17 MR. MANLEY: If I remember correctly, 18 the last time, it's been awhile, we brought up 19 about the fire department. I believe you gave us 20 a letter saying the fire department had no 21 problem with the turnaround or something. 22 MR. MORGANTE: That's correct. The 23 correspondence went to the Town Board from the 24 fire chief discussing that there were no issues 25 with fire access to the subdivision that's TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 18 2 proposed. It's even in the resolution of the 3 Planning Board that the fire chief has looked at 4 it and provided that correspondence. 5 MR. MANLEY: Right. I believe last time 6 there was just a miscommunication. 7 MR. MORGANTE: Correct. 8 MR. MANLEY: Other than that, there was 9 a motion I believe. 10 MR. MORGANTE: That would be correct. 11 MR. MANLEY: I don't think Mark Taylor 12 ever got on there. Right? 13 MR. RUGGIERO: I don't think he did. 14 MR. MANLEY: Jim Osborne, are you 15 there? 16 (No response.) 17 MR. MANLEY: No. Okay. If I remember 18 correctly, I guess I'm looking for a motion to 19 approve this. 20 MR. RUGGIERO: I'll make a motion to 21 approve it. 22 MS. GREENE: I guess I'll second your 23 motion. 24 MR. PEDI: Motion made and seconded. 25 Any further discussion? TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 19 2 (No response.) 3 MR. PEDI: Mrs. Greene? 4 MS. GREENE: Yes. 5 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 6 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. 7 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? 8 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 9 MR. PEDI: And Mr. Piaquadio abstains. 10 Next we go on to item 11, -- 11 MR. MORGANTE: Thank you. Have a good 12 night. 13 MR. PEDI: -- Cortland Commons 14 stormwater security estimate. 15 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: I think for this 16 one John Cappello is going to give a 17 presentation. 18 MR. MANLEY: Wrong one. We're on 19 Cortland Commons, number 11. 20 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Someone for 21 Cortland Commons which is 11? Is Jim Osborne out 22 there? 23 MR. OSBORNE: I'm here. 24 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Okay. Very good. 25 Do you want to tell us about this one real quick? TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 20 2 This is just a security estimate; right? 3 MR. RUGGIERO: Yeah. For stormwater. 4 MR. MANLEY: Cortland Commons 5 stormwater, 161,432, so you want to round it off 6 to 161,500, plus the 4,000 inspection fee. 7 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Does someone 8 want to make that motion for the stormwater 9 security estimate? 10 MR. RUGGIERO: I'll make the motion. 11 MS. GREENE: I'll second your motion. 12 MR. PEDI: Motion made and seconded. 13 Any further discussion? 14 (No response.) 15 MR. PEDI: Mrs. Greene? 16 MS. GREENE: Yes. 17 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 18 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. 19 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? 20 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 21 MR. PEDI: And Mr. Piaquadio? 22 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. 23 MR. PEDI: Next we go on to item 12, 24 senior housing for Monarch Woods. 25 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: All right. So TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 21 2 this one now we have to unmute John Cappello. 3 Maybe you can mute everybody else except John 4 Cappello for his presentation. 5 MS. GREENE: I have nothing in my 6 folder for this. 7 MR. MANLEY: It was e-mailed. 8 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: It's a 9 presentation. It would be a diagram next to you, 10 Betty, to your right. 11 MS. GREENE: Oh, okay. 12 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: He's going to 13 really explain it to us. 14 John, whenever you're ready, please. 15 MR. CAPPELLO: Good evening, everyone. 16 Nice to see you virtually. 17 Really what we're here tonight is we 18 were referred from the Planning Board. I also 19 have, I believe, on the call Ross Winglovitz, the 20 project engineer. I don't know if Ross is able to 21 share with you the plans. Maybe not from your 22 car. 23 MR. WINGLOVITZ: No. 24 MR. CAPPELLO: No. And Michael Mahar 25 who is one of the (inaudible). TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 22 2 What we're proposing is a subdivision 3 on a property near State Route 52, right across 4 from Stewart's. Across the side street there. I'm 5 trying to juggle two computers here to get the 6 name of the street. One lot would be for 7 commercial use and the other lot is proposed for 8 senior citizen housing. 9 In order to proceed with the senior 10 citizen housing component of the development, we 11 need authorization from the Town Board pursuant 12 to Section 185-14(b) to allow the Planning Board 13 to utilize the density requirements included in 14 your code for senior housing. The property is in 15 a B Zoning District. It's proposed for 100 units. 16 Under the zoning designation we would be allowed 17 to do 12 units per acre for one bedroom and 10 18 units per acre for two bedroom. The breakdown, 19 depending on the units, would come out to just 20 exactly about 100 units on about 9.5 acres. 21 We provided to you today a report from 22 Jay Samuelson, just going through the population 23 trends in the Town from 2010 to 2018 when we have 24 the records. You'll see the overall population 25 increased by about 1,400. The senior population TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 23 2 increased about 2,000. So your percentage of 3 seniors is going up. In that letter it does 4 demonstrate that there still is a need for senior 5 housing, especially in the new reality we're in 6 which is hopefully having, you know, safe, 7 modern, decent housing for seniors. It's very 8 important to keep, I would say them but now I 9 guess I have to say us, safe and secure in times 10 like these. And also, you know, it provides a 11 great opportunity for Newburgh residents to age 12 in place and remain in their community. 13 So we are before the Planning Board. 14 You know, we have all the issues that you need to 15 go through with the Planning Board, traffic 16 studies, you know, site plan review. 17 Really what we're looking here from the 18 Board is for authorization so the Planning Board 19 can continue its review and apply the zoning 20 designation pursuant to your code. 21 I don't know if Michael or Ross want to 22 add anything to that. 23 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: You have to 24 unmute them, Bobby. 25 MR. MAHAR: I can unmute myself, Gil. TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 24 2 Mike Mahar. To John's point, you've 3 seen an increase of about 4 percent in overall 4 population in the last eight years, from 2010 to 5 2018, yet you see the seniors are roughly 26 6 percent. So to his point there, the need 7 continues to grow. 8 In addition, obviously with the recent 9 Coronavirus issues we've dealt with 10 unfortunately, and you listen to the media 11 reports and some real estate agents locally, 12 they're going to expect additional influx of 13 people over the next 12 to 36 months into the 14 Town and different areas, obviously to get away 15 from some of the more dense areas such as the 16 city, closer to the city and surrounding areas. 17 So between those two points there, you know, 18 again with the senior population growth at 26 19 percent and some additional influx of people over 20 the next, again, 12 to 36 months or so, who will 21 probably be working from home as the way the 22 world seems to be, I definitely think the need is 23 demonstrated. Again, you've only got roughly 286 24 units or so -- 286 units to house people 25 currently. An additional 100 would be just a TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 25 2 small, little drip in the bucket for what we're 3 going to need down the road. 4 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Very good, 5 Michael. 6 MS. GREENE: Question. What are the 7 total units that you mentioned? 8 MR. MAHAR: You're cutting out there. 9 MS. GREENE: What is your proposal for 10 the units you just mentioned? 11 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Could you hear 12 that? She wants to know what the total units is. 13 MR. MAHAR: It's 100 units total. It's 14 off of Monarch Drive. It's 100 to 102. We're 15 trying to do the final density calcs there. The 16 breakdown should be right around 24 singles and 17 76 or 78 doubles. It may vary between the two but 18 that should be the rough overall count. 19 MS. GREENE: Thank you. 20 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: All right. It 21 seems before the world went crazy we were going 22 to have a senior study done by David Smith. We 23 were right in the middle of it, too. 24 Unfortunately that report isn't ready 25 for us. TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 26 2 MR. MAHAR: Is there a way we can 3 unmute Mark Taylor? I see he's on there but 4 muted. 5 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Now you're on, 6 Mark. Do you recall the study we had ordered on 7 the seniors? 8 MR. TAYLOR: Yeah. With the Board's 9 permission (inaudible) senior housing needs and 10 do a comparative analysis (inaudible). 11 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: All right, Mark. 12 MR. TAYLOR: The Board has not 13 (inaudible). 14 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: So we will 15 definitely put this back on again. I don't know 16 if we need the informational thing with the 17 neighbors, if the Board wants to do that. We can 18 have the neighbors meet to see what they think 19 about seniors at that location. 20 Are we okay with that? Scott? 21 MR. MANLEY: Basically like we've done 22 with other projects, let them present something 23 to the neighbors. 24 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yeah. Maybe at 25 a point in the future have an informational TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 27 2 meeting with the neighbors. Meanwhile we'll 3 research on our own and see the need. 4 MR. CAPPELLO: We'd be happy to. 5 Actually, we had discussed that early on with the 6 Planning Board, doing an informational meeting 7 when we had restaurants and we could get a room 8 and, you know, have some coffee and cookies for 9 folks and present the plan. We certainly, you 10 know, are willing to consider that or potentially 11 come up with some other type of forum where we 12 could host something virtually. It turns out that 13 this is going to be more long term. We certainly 14 want the input. There were a couple neighbors. 15 Mike I know has spoken to a couple directly that 16 were at the Planning Board and they raised issues 17 regarding the buffer areas and screening which we 18 are working to incorporate in the design. 19 We're in a catch 22 here because under 20 the code provision you have discretion to 21 authorize us to go forward. So we can't do a lot 22 at the Planning Board to address all the issues 23 until we know we have the authorization. 24 So we are happy to work with you and do 25 whatever we can do to move the ball forward. TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 28 2 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Okay. Very good. 3 I'm thinking -- it's unfortunate it took so long 4 to get you to this meeting. I think we need 5 another appearance for them to come back after 6 (inaudible). That's what we'll do, John, if it's 7 okay. We're going to call you back again. 8 Mike and Ross, thank you. We'll bring 9 you back. 10 MR. CAPPELLO: All right. Have a good 11 evening, everyone. 12 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: You, too. 13 MR. WINGLOVITZ: Take care. 14 MR. PEDI: Okay. Next we're on to item 15 13, the appraisal for Newburgh Mall. 16 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: So we're looking 17 for an appraisal. This is going to be with 18 Northeast Appraisals in the amount of $15,500 19 with a primary appraisal report of $9,500. 20 Does someone want to make that motion 21 to go ahead with this appraisal? 22 MS. GREENE: I'll make it. 23 MR. MANLEY: I'll second that motion. 24 MR. PEDI: Motion made and seconded. 25 Any discussion? TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 29 2 (No response.) 3 MR. RUGGIERO: Gil, one thing. When was 4 the appraisal done there before? When was the 5 last appraisal done there? Didn't we do one a 6 few years ago? 7 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: I know Cathy 8 Drobny is suggesting another one. She's our 9 certiorari attorney. I'm sure if we had a more 10 current one, I don't think she'd ask for another 11 one. 12 MS. GREENE: (Inaudible) changed so 13 much it's very important that we get the current 14 value. 15 MR. TAYLOR: (Inaudible). It's 2015 to 16 2019. (Inaudible.) 17 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: We had a motion. 18 MR. PEDI: Yes. Any further discussion? 19 (No response.) 20 MR. PEDI: Mrs. Greene? 21 MS. GREENE: Yes. 22 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 23 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. 24 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? 25 MR. MANLEY: Yes. TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 30 2 MR. PEDI: And Mr. Piaquadio? 3 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. 4 MR. PEDI: Next we go on to a new item, 5 item 14, which is discussion on the Town Council 6 vacancy. 7 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: This was going 8 to be an announcement rather than a discussion. 9 So this is the announcement. It's been a press 10 release. The Town Board is seeking candidates for 11 the position of Town Council to the Town of 12 Newburgh. All interested candidates are asked to 13 respond with a cover letter and a resume by 14 e-mail or U.S. Mail to town-clerk -- it's town - 15 clerk -- @townofnewburgh.org or Town Clerk, 1496 16 Route 300, Newburgh, New York 12550. The phone 17 number is 845-564-4554. The deadline for 18 receiving the applications is Monday, June 15, 19 2020. So please, anyone interested, get your 20 request over to our Town Clerk and we will 21 eventually set up interviews. 22 Thank you so much. 23 MR. PEDI: The last item is 24 adjournment. 25 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Does someone TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 31 2 want to make a motion to adjourn? 3 MS. GREENE: So moved. 4 MR. MANLEY: I'll second. 5 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Scott Manley 6 seconded. 7 MR. PEDI: Motion made and seconded to 8 adjourn at 7:34. 9 Mrs. Greene? 10 MS. GREENE: Yes. 11 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 12 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. 13 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? 14 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 15 MR. PEDI: Mr. Piaquadio? 16 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. 17 Thank you, everyone. Thank you, 18 everyone, who watched tonight, too. 19 20 (Time noted: 7:34 p.m.) 21 22 23 24 25 TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 5/27/2020 1 32 2 3 4 C E R T I F I C A T I O N 5 6 7 I, MICHELLE CONERO, a Notary Public 8 for and within the State of New York, do hereby 9 certify: 10 That hereinbefore set forth is a 11 true record of the proceedings. 12 I further certify that I am not 13 related to any of the parties to this proceeding by 14 blood or by marriage and that I am in no way 15 interested in the outcome of this matter. 16 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto 17 set my hand this 1st day of June 2020. 18 19 _________________________ 21 MICHELLE CONERO 22 23 24 25