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Town Board adopts dozens of resolutions, schedules multiple public hearings; licenses and grants among actions
Summary
The Town Board approved an extensive consent agenda and individual resolutions covering grants, licenses, purchases, and scheduling of multiple public hearings.
The Town Board voted on a long consent agenda and separate resolutions covering grant applications, license agreements for community events, contract extensions for town software and services, property acquisitions, and the scheduling of public hearings for traffic changes, zoning amendments and water- and sewer-district capital borrowings.
Votes at a glance (selected items adopted at the meeting):
- Resolution 2025-108: Authorize application for New York State CREST grant for park improvements at Terry Farrell Park. Outcome: approved (5-0). - Resolution 2025-109: Authorize application for NYS Division of Homeland Security Critical Infrastructure Grant Program. Outcome: approved (5-0). - Resolution 2025-110: Authorize application for state facilities grant for purchase of a vacuum truck; comptroller to amend budget. Outcome: approved (5-0). - Resolution 2025-111: Authorize Town cosponsorship and license agreement for the Give a Dog a Dream walk event at Heckscher Park (05/10/2025). Outcome: approved (5-0). - Resolution 2025-112: Authorize acquisition of real property known as 20 Sixth Sabbath Day Path. Outcome: approved (5-0). - Resolution 2025-116: Authorize agreement with Gateway Community Garden, Inc., for use of Gateway Park. Outcome: approved (5-0). - Resolution 2025-121: First contract extension for enterprise permitting and licensing software (OpenGov). Outcome: approved (5-0). - Resolution 2025-123: First extension for summer food services contract for Project Play and St. John’s Camp. Outcome: approved (5-0). - Resolution 2025-125: Authorize license agreements for farmers markets (Long Island Farmers Markets). Outcome: approved (5-0). - Resolution 2025-133: Authorize amended engineering contract for installation of water main at Tiziana State Subdivision (Dix Hills Water District). Outcome: approved (5-0). - Resolution 2025-135: Exempt Huntington Village BID from site-plan review fees and building permit fees for a project in the alley between New York Avenue and New Street. Outcome: approved (5-0). - Resolution 2025-136: Authorize settlement of lawsuit Town of Huntington v. L.K. MacLean Associates and related parties; controller to amend budget. Outcome: approved (5-0). - Resolutions 2025-162 through 2025-166: Public hearings scheduled for capital expenditures and bond authorizations for Dix Hills Water District, Green Lawn Water District, South Huntington Water District, and Huntington Sewer District. Outcome: hearings scheduled (board votes to set hearings; no appropriation vote at this meeting). - Resolution 2025-169 (late addition): Amend 2025 operating/capital budgets for Department of Parks & Recreation to permit a spray pad at Dix Hills Park; approved as a late starter (5-0).
Procedure notes: Many items were acted on as routine resolutions with unanimous votes; public hearings were scheduled where statute requires further public notice and review. Several items (including the steep-slope code amendment and selected agenda entries) were pulled for further discussion or deferred.
Ending: The board closed the public portion after extensive testimony and proceeded with votes. Several items will return to the board after required reviews or after the scheduled public hearings.
