Town Board · Oct. 6, 2026
Captions drop out for part of the resolution block. After they resume, the board schedules the budget hearings, authorizes a $1,615,000 bond redemption, and sets a hearing on a proposed kratom chapter.
Huntington, N.Y., Oct. 6, 2026 — The Town Board opened its Oct. 6 meeting with a recognition, held short public hearings, heard a long public portion, and then moved into a printed agenda that included enactments, budget-hearing dates and contract items.
Councilman Dr. Dave Bennardo introduced a student he identified as Preston Parks, describing him as a four-time Team USA member, a national taekwondo champion, a fourth-degree black belt, the first taekwondo athlete from New York State to make the U.S. national team, and a two-time world championship silver medalist, and congratulated Mr. and Mrs. Parks. ▶ Watch this moment · 0:32
Hearings followed on a blighted property at 17 Seaward Drive in Dix Hills; a certificate of approval to construct an addition at the Booker T. Washington House, 30 Cousins Street, Northport; and Local Law Introductory No. 32-2026, adding stop signs at several locations in Huntington, East Northport and Commack. One speaker, who gave his name as Robert Lamont, asked about stop-sign standards. ▶ Watch this moment · 3:04 ▶ Watch this moment · 4:20
The public portion ran for about 50 minutes. Speakers included Jeff Bartels of Lloyd Harbor, who talked about flooding on the causeway and asked candidates to support a public-health assessment, and others who commented on town events and services. ▶ Watch this moment · 8:25
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A gap in the official captions
The official caption file for this meeting has no cues from about 42 minutes through 71 minutes, covering most of the resolution block after the public portion (the video index places those items beginning at 58:06). This recap therefore does not report vote outcomes for agenda items in that gap, including the posted enactments of a permanently and totally disabled veterans tax exemption (Introductory No. 30-2026), a Barkers Lane truck exclusion (Introductory No. 31-2026), a noise-code amendment (Introductory No. 25-2026), or Resolution 2026-516, which the agenda described as approving the Cornerstone Melville special-use permit. Those items remain on the official agenda and in the video index for anyone who wants to watch them. ▶ Veterans exemption, as listed · 1:05:52 ▶ Cornerstone Melville item, as listed · 1:07:16
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What the captions confirm after they resume
When the captions pick up again, the clerk is announcing resolutions adopted after a call for opposed votes, with no opposition heard, including:
Resolutions 2026-520 and 2026-521, scheduling Nov. 5, 6 p.m. hearings on the preliminary annual operating budget and the preliminary capital budget. ▶ Watch this moment · 1:12:23
Resolution 2026-523, scheduling a Nov. 5 hearing on a full traffic signal on West Hills Road at the entrance and exit of Walt Whitman High School in Huntington Station. ▶ Watch this moment · 1:13:47
Resolution 2026-526, authorizing redemption of a portion of the town’s Public Improvement Serial Bonds-2019 Series A, appropriating an amount not to exceed $1,615,000, according to the official agenda. ▶ Watch this moment · 1:15:29
Resolution 2026-530, authorizing the first extension of residential solid-waste, yard-waste and recyclables contracts for specified Consolidated Refuse District areas. ▶ Watch this moment · 1:17:44
Resolution 2026-531, a settlement and release agreement with Cablevision Systems Long Island Corporation, also named in the captions as Cablevision Systems Huntington Corporation. ▶ Watch this moment · 1:18:22
Resolution 2026-532, a license with the Sorrentino Family Foundation for the first annual Huntington San Gennaro Festival on Oct. 18, 2026, to be co-sponsored by the town. ▶ Watch this moment · 1:18:45
Resolution 2026-534, scheduling a Nov. 17, 6 p.m. hearing on Local Law Introductory No. 38-2026, to add a Chapter 31 on kratom products. ▶ Watch this moment · 1:19:38
Sitting as the Board of Trustees, the board also scheduled Nov. 17 hearings on a pier and dock at 58 South Harbor Road, Northport, and authorized a license for a floating-dock assembly at 133 Woodbine Avenue, Northport, for Sparty Holdings, LLC, according to the agenda and the captions.
