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Trustees approve seagrass monitoring, dive surveys, permit renewals and routine business
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Summary
The board approved Peconic Estuary Partnership seagrass and clam-monitoring activities (conditional on sharing results), renewed a trustee permit for 40 Hedges Bank, waived rack fees for South Fork Sea Farmers' research kayaks, set kayak pickup and a beach-grass planting date, and handled routine bills and minutes.
At the April 13 meeting trustees approved several environmental-science and community items and handled routine administrative business.
Trustees approved conditional support for the Peconic Estuary Partnership to establish six seagrass monitoring sites and a permanent seagrass monitoring location in Three Mile Harbor, and they approved a separate dive-survey program to monitor clam-planting survival and growth. The approvals were conditional on the Partnership sharing information and results with the trustees and presenting findings to the board in the future.
The trustees also reviewed maps and commentary for Suffolk County aquaculture lease applications in East Hampton waters and noted a public comment deadline of May 10 for the county-level program. For Three Mile Harbor, the trustees renewed an existing trustee permit (T2-25) for stair construction at 40 Hedges Bank after a request from First Coastal.
The board agreed to allow South Fork Sea Farmers to store research kayaks on trustee racks without a fee and set kayak-permit pickup dates beginning April 14; staff also announced a volunteer beach-grass planting event on Saturday, April 25 (9 a.m.–11 a.m.) in partnership with Surfrider.
On administrative items, trustees moved to pay bills and reviewed minutes for January and February; review of financial statements for October–December 2025 revealed an anomaly in December that staff expect to reconcile with January entries, so trustees tabled final financial approval until the next meeting.
What’s next: Trustees asked staff to obtain and distribute Partnership data when available, reminded trustees about scholarship-review deadlines, and will reconcile and finalize financials at the next meeting.
