EPCAL

“The board basically excused misbehavior by narrowing its focus and did not respond to the core of our complaint," according to civic coalition that filed the complaint, which Councilwoman Jodi Giglio said had "no basis — no facts, no nothing to back it up."

The Riverhead Town Board will vote on the Calverton Aviation and Technology “qualified and eligible sponsor” application on Wednesday evening, Nov. 7 at a special meeting to be convened at 6 p.m.

Apparently, despite our (retired nurse) supervisor’s ongoing attempts to force a decision that Triple Five is not qualified and eligible to redevelop EPCAL, the...

A Triple Five affiliate closed on the purchase of the 105-acre Dowling College campus in Shirley Sept. 21. A vote on the proposed sale of the 1,643-acre Calverton site remains stalled as town board members continue to wait for a decision by the town ethics board on whether one member has a potential conflict of interest requiring recusal.

The Navy is looking to sample private drinking water wells in designated areas near the former Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant(NWIRP)/Grumman facility in Calverton to test for the presence of PFAs — per-fluoroalkyl and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, which have been detected in portions of the groundwater in the area.

It's still unknown whether a board majority will find the latest submission by Triple Five adequate for making a decision on the sale of Riverhead's remaining vacant acreage at the Calverton Enterprise Park — even as the board continues to wait for some word from the Riverhead ethics board on the complaint about Councilwoman Jodi Giglio's private meeting with the applicant.

Riverhead Town officials have agreed to review the additional financial information Triple Five Group has offered to provide at the town's request. 

The town board has not had a chance to sit down and review the response together because it arrived late in the day on Friday, Supervisor Laura Jens-Smith. “We need to determine if what they say they’ll provide will be satisfactory.”

Deputy Supervisor Tim Hubbard said today he has changed his mind about financial disclosure by Triple Five: “It has weighed so heavily on my mind. I have gone back and forth and in my heart I know I can’t make a decision without it," he said today.

This is the most important decision any town board will be asked to make. Why would they want to make it blindfolded? Column by Denise Civiletti