Paul Davis, an artist whose paintings and posters have been the subject of gallery exhibitions and museum retrospectives in the United States and abroad, has designed a poster featuring David Pechefsky, a candidate in the Democratic primary on June 26 for the nomination to run for Congress in New York’s First Congressional District.

Mr. Davis, a longtime Sag Harbor resident, was art director for Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival from 1984 to 1991, and his clients have included Time magazine, Rolling Stone, the American Museum of the Moving Image, the 92nd Street Y, and The New York Times. His posters are renowned.

In addition to Mr. Pechefsky, the other Democrats seeking an opportunity to unseat Republican Representative Lee Zeldin in November are Kate Browning, Elaine DiMasi, Perry Gershon, and Vivian Viloria-Fisher.

Real estate at Lazy Point in Amagansett is an East End anomaly. While the sandy acreage faces Gardiner’s Bay and juts up against Napeague Harbor, the land on which the relatively small houses there sit comes at a modest rental fee because it is owned by the East Hampton Town Trustees.

At their meeting on Monday, the trustees discussed a significant change in the landlord-tenant agreement, one that is likely to be welcomed. 

The trustees, who derive approximately half their annual revenue from leasing land at Lazy Point, and a transfer fee on the sale of houses there, discussed the possibility of extending leases from the present one-year term to as many as 30 years, or perhaps more. 

Extending the leases, said Brian Byrnes, a trustee, “will give the folks down at Lazy Point the opportunity, if they should choose to do so, to get a mortgage. I’m talking about a 25 or 30-year lease. . . . I don’t want to kick the can down the road forever on this.”  

The trustees increased the annual rent in 2013 from $1,000 to $1,500. Relations were strained the following year when the trustees again planned a steep increase, but the proposal was abandoned when homeowners complained. By 2015, the trustees were intent on at least a closer alignment of the rent for their small lots with what they consider the market value. During negotiations that lasted nearly a year, tenants argued that while their rent was modest in comparison with elsewhere on the South Fork, the fact that they did not own the land precluded their obtaining mortgages. The sharp increase proposed was abandoned in favor of a 10-percent raise followed by annual 2-percent increases and an increase in the transfer fee. 

At the time, some residents also complained about the uncertainty of year-to-year leases, which they said rendered long-term decisions about investing in improvements or renovations difficult. (Another change resulting from the 2015 negotiations was the automatic renewal of leases provided tenants were in compliance with terms.)

Past efforts to enact sharp rent increases “really backfired,” said Jim Grimes, a trustee, and it is important that they act now, he said, citing an application from a lessee to elevate a house to comply with Federal Emergency Management Agency regulations. “If we’re going to start considering FEMA compliance, I think as landlords we’ve got to make a long-term commitment to our tenants,” he said. 

At present, “It’s only somebody that has cash that they can put down, or has another asset in the Town of East Hampton to leverage to buy these things,” Mr. Grimes said of the houses at Lazy Point. “It completely locks out the local person, or even a family member here. If you’ve got a property that needs upgrades, needs a renovation, unless that family member has the money to do it out of pocket, that option is not there for them.” 

Chris Carillo, the trustees’ attorney, said they  must determine whether financial institutions would lend money based on 25 or 30-year leases. “I’ve read in some places that maybe they require five years more than a conventional 30,” he said. “We should confirm that.”

“And we have to try to understand if there will be any consequences,” said Francis Bock, the clerk of the trustees. As an unintended consequence, John Aldred said, “We might trigger a building boom.” 

But the impetus is “to open it to local people,” said Rick Drew, who owns a house at Lazy Point and was a leader in negotiating with the trustees in 2015, the year he was elected. 

The trustees said that they would meet with residents to discuss the idea, probably after Memorial Day.

Lori Miller-Carr, who marked her 30th year working for the East Hampton Town Trustees yesterday, will retire as the trustees’ secretary on May 30. 

But, it turns out, 30 years wasn’t quite enough.

At their meeting on Monday the trustees unanimously voted to rehire Ms. Miller-Carr, effective May 31, as a part-time secretary, working  two days a week. The trustees rely on a part-time secretary as well as one who is full time. They therefore followed the resolution hiring Ms. Miller-Carr with another naming Arlene Tesar, who is already in the trustees’ employ, as the full-time secretary. 

Ms. Miller-Carr will lose the weekly stipend for the secretary who attends meetings and records minutes. That will now go to Ms. Tesar. Ms. Miller-Carr will receive a maximum of $17,000 per year. 

“To be honest, I’ve worked for so long that I don’t think I could not work,” Ms. Miller-Carr said on Tuesday. “I have so much planned to do, but still want to be able to come in here.” Ms. Tesar, she said, “has been great. She’s doing a good job. She’s very friendly to the public. I’m really happy that she’s taking my place as secretary.” 

In 1988, when she started working for the trustees, Ms. Miller-Carr’s office was at the East Hampton Town Marine Museum, a proverbial stone’s throw from the trustees’ headquarters in the Donald Lamb Building on Bluff Road in Amagansett. “I think back then we had, maybe, three file cabinets; now we have 13. It’s gotten so much busier,” she said. 

Recalling her first year as secretary, Ms. Miller-Carr said she did not have a computer. “I think it was maybe six months later. David Talmage was elected trustee, and he was blind. He had a voice-activated computer, and he taught me.” 

Diane McNally, a longtime trustee and the body’s clerk for almost as long, preceded Ms. Miller-Carr as secretary. “She was on maternity leave,” Ms. Miller-Carr said. “She wrote this long list of things to do — if it wasn’t for her, I would have been lost! She was a godsend.” 

The trustees used to store boat moorings at the Marine Museum after their removal from Three Mile Harbor in the fall, she said. “They’d put them on the Marine Museum porch. I was out there counting them when a green Mercedes pulled up, all the windows shaded.” The driver got out and asked Ms. Miller-Carr when the museum was open. “It was Billy Joel,” she said. The musician and his then-wife, the model Christie Brinkley, lived on Further Lane at the time, “and their daughter used to go to school in Amagansett.”

There were other visitors to — or, perhaps, residents of — the museum. Ms. Miller-Carr said that she and John Courtney, a former trustees’ attorney, believe the building is haunted. “I worked there all by myself. The only time anyone was there was when the museum was open in the summer and fall. In the summer, there were a lot of classes.” One winter, “I’m typing away or whatever, and hear these kids running up and down the stairs, making noise. I looked out, and there was nobody at all. John had the same thing happen to him.” 

Nevertheless, Ms. Miller-Carr said, “I’m not afraid of ghosts, if there is such a thing. I’m more afraid of live people.”

Among the many trustees Ms. Miller-Carr has enjoyed working with, “Jim McCaffrey stands out,” she said, referring to the late clerk, or presiding officer. “He was a kind gentleman. He was almost like a grandfather to me. I was going through a divorce, and he was always very, very nice to me. I’ll never forget. Gordon Vorpahl was another. A good trustee, and a real nice person.” 

“Most of the people I worked with were really, really good people, and they really cared about the environment and the baymen. This board that we have now, they are all workers. It’s really great to see.”

The East Hampton Town Board and the town trustees will hold a joint hearing on the proposed South Fork Wind Farm tonight at 6:30 at LTV Studios in Wainscott. 

Deepwater Wind, the Rhode Island company that built and operates the Block Island Wind Farm, a five-turbine installation that is the nation’s first offshore wind farm, seeks to construct the 15-turbine South Fork Wind Farm approximately 36 miles southeast of Montauk. The company is seeking easements from the town board and trustees that would allow it to land the wind farm’s transmission cable at the ocean beach at the end of Beach Lane in Wainscott and bury it in the public road right of way, on a path to a Long Island Power Authority substation in East Hampton. 

Deepwater Wind plans to submit an application to construct the 90-megawatt wind farm to the State Public Service Commission next month. The trustees, meanwhile, intend to file for Article VII intervener status with the P.S.C. Article VII is a review process under the state public service law covering any application to construct and operate a major electric transmission facility or fuel gas transmission facility. It requires a review of the need for, and environmental impact of, the siting, design, construction, and operation of such facilities. 

Many East Hampton Town residents have lined up in favor of, or in opposition to, the proposed wind farm. While commercial fishermen are largely opposed, fearing its impact on their livelihood, other opponents have questioned its impact on the cost of electricity. Advocates of renewable energy have been equally fervent in their support, stating that the wind farm is critical to the town’s goal of achieving 100 percent electrical power from renewable sources and a transition from dirty, fossil fuel-derived power.

Montaukett Action in Albany

Members of the Montaukett Indian Nation traveled to the state capital on April 24 for an advocacy day called “We Are Still Here!”

They spent the day meeting with legislators in support of bills sponsored by Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. and Senator Kenneth P. LaValle, which would provide state acknowledgment and recognition of the tribe.  The Montauketts have long sought to restore state recognition, claiming that it was improperly removed in 1910, when a court declared them extinct.

League Activities in Water Mill

Kristen Medeiros-Slevin will be the guest speaker at the 41st annual meeting of the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Water Mill Community House. A reception will start the program, at 2 p.m., followed by the talk. 

Ms. Medeiros-Slevin will speak about her experiences running as an independent, with no party backing, for supervisor of the Town of Smithtown in November. 

The league’s annual meeting, adoption of a 2018-19 budget and a local program, and the election of officers and directors will follow.  

Also at the meeting, the league will present the winner of its $1,000 Betty Desch Student Leadership Award to a graduating senior, and will announce  the names of two students who will be sent to the New York State League Education Foundation’s annual Students Inside Albany conference later this month.

At its meeting tonight, the East Hampton Town Board is expected to set May 17 as the date of a joint hearing with the town trustees on the proposal by Deepwater Wind, a Rhode Island company, to construct a 15-turbine wind farm in the Atlantic some 35 miles east of Montauk. 

At issue is whether to grant Deepwater Wind an easement that would allow the company to land the wind farm’s transmission cable at the end of Beach Lane in Wainscott. Deepwater Wind has offered a community benefits package in exchange for the easement. 

The proposed wind farm has been discussed by the  town board and the trustees, the latter body asserting jurisdiction over beaches and other common lands. “We are looking forward to hearing from members of the public,” said Rick Drew, a deputy clerk of the trustees and co-chairman of its harbor management committee, which has devoted several of its meetings to the proposed wind farm. “In conjunction with our 12 months of research into the project, we will be taking that into account as we look forward to making a decision on the project,” he said.

“Honestly, I can’t tell you where the board stands on a decision” about an easement, Francis Bock, the trustees clerk, said yesterday. “I think we’re going to sit through the hearing and see what the public has to say.” 

Commercial fishermen and their advocates have been almost unanimous in opposing the project, fearing disruption or destruction of fisheries. The electromagnetic field emanating from the transmission cable, and its potential to alter distribution and migratory paths of finfish, are among their numerous concerns.

“Hopefully, from my perspective, more people from the side that supports the project show up and speak their opinion,” Mr. Bock said.

A water supply district to be created in Wainscott, which will allow the Suffolk County Water Authority to extend water mains to residences that rely on wells that are, or could be, contaminated with perfluorinated chemicals, which have been detected around East Hampton Airport, will encompass 872 properties, it was announced at the East Hampton Town Board meeting on Tuesday.

The area includes properties surveyed in two rounds of testing following the initial discovery of these chemicals in wells around the airport, as well as additional parcels not included in those tests. Its parameters are based on additional detection of the carcinogenic compounds and modeling of groundwater flow, Marguerite Wolffsohn, the town’s director of planning, told the board.

The proposed district extends south to the Atlantic Ocean, east to Daniel’s Hole Road and Georgica Pond, west to Town Line Road, and north to Industrial Road.

   Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said the area had been expanded “to ensure public confidence in the quality of drinking water, and the fact that irrigation wells can draw contaminants outside of normal flow.”

Ms. Wolffsohn told the board that plans for the water supply district were moving quickly, but Councilman Jeffrey Bragman, the board’s liaison to the Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee, ­wasn’t satisfied. Mr. Bragman has urged his board colleagues to provide “point-of-entry” treatment systems to affected residents. Mr. Van Scoyoc, however, thinks that doing so would be problematic, citing a state comptroller’s legal opinion that a municipality cannot commit public funds to private treatments. 

“I want to take issue with the idea that it’s illegal to do that as a gift,” Mr. Bragman, who is himself a lawyer, said, his frustration clearly growing about his colleagues’ hesitation. A November letter from the State Department of Environmental Conservation to the board, he said, “directed us to install” such systems, or provide an alternative means of supplying public water. Bottled water must also be provided, the D.E.C. letter stated, which the town is doing. 

Going further, Mr. Bragman said the town has the right to declare a public health emergency and act under that authority to provide in-home filtration where wells are contaminated. He cited a 1982 opinion by the state attorney general at the time, Robert Abrams, concerning suspected carcinogens detected in a sole-source aquifer as the basis to declare such an emergency.  

“It’s high time we do more to help them out,” Mr. Bragman said of affected residents. He referred, as he has previously, to the town’s removing trees on private property to combat pine-beetle infestation.

 “This is a much more serious health emergency. . . . I say it’s time to act. We have authority by declaring an emergency.” He suggested that the board set aside $300,000 in surplus funds to provide grants to residents who choose to install point-of-entry treatment systems. “I believe under the law that we have the power,” he said.  

What is considered legal contamination and what rises to the level of an emergency is an important distinction, the supervisor said. It’s more important to ensure that any future contamination is addressed, he said, and “the only way to do that is to have a district-wide water supply. I think to be as expedient as we possibly can to bring public water to Wainscott has to be goal number one. We are working on that.”

“But time is wasting!” Mr. Bragman said, following further back-and-forth discussion about providing in-home filtration systems as the water-main extension project is planned and executed. The water-main extension, he predicted, will take many months to accomplish. “There’s an interim step we can take that will enable people to protect themselves now,” he said. 

Perfluorooctane sulfonate, or PFOS, and perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, have been identified by the Environmental Protection Agency as “contaminants of emerging concern.” They were among six compounds detected in wells in the vicinity of the airport last year. 

Meanwhile, whatever project the town undertakes will be costly. The town is working with the Suffolk County Water Authority to submit an inter-municipal grant application to the state. The deadline for the application is late next month, Ms. Wolffsohn said, and the water supply district must be established before the application can be submitted. The creation of the district would also be subject to public hearing, which could be scheduled as soon as June 3, and review by the state comptroller. 

Extending the water mains and connecting them to the necessary properties will cost an estimated $23.6 million, Ms. Wolffsohn said. The grant would cover $10 million of that cost. 

Should the board authorize a water supply district following a public hearing, “We’ve been told that the Suffolk County Water Authority could immediately begin” extending water mains, Mr. Van Scoyoc said. The goal is to complete the extensions and connection to residential properties “in the least amount of time.”

A chorus of support for the proposed 37-unit housing complex planned by the East Hampton Housing Authority on Montauk Highway in Amagansett was so unreservedly positive at an East Hampton Town Planning Board public hearing on May 2 that the board agreed there was no reason to keep the hearing open for written comments for two weeks.

"It sounds to me as if the community has spoken," Catherine Casey, the executive director of the housing authority, said. The board voted to close the hearing, albeit with a caveat to allow the town's Natural Resource Department to weigh in on any questions about the sewage treatment plant to be part of the complex.

The development, which has been called affordable housing, will have rental apartments for those who work full-time, year-round in East Hampton Town and do not own property. They will need to meet income eligibility requirements, but only a small percentage of units will be subsidized.

On a 4.6-acre site between the Amagansett IGA supermarket and V and V Auto, 12 buildings with one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and three-bedroom apartments are to be built, plus one four-bedroom unit. After presentations by the architect and a civil engineer, the board heard residents describe reasons for the project, touching on everything from business vitality to the very preservation of the community. No dissenting opinions were voiced.

Residents cited the capricious nature of the local housing market as the overwhelming reason why workforce housing was needed. The market, they said, often entices second-home owners to cash in on rising property values and landlords to forego year-round leases in order to charge high summer rents.

George Dempsey, an East Hampton family physician, said he was eager to grow his practice but had been unable to persuade doctors and other health-care professionals to relocate here because of the high cost of housing. "I've hired up to seven recruiters at a time, but to no avail," he said.

Matthew Feyh, a member of the Amagansett Fire Department, said he had rented two houses that ended up being sold before he and his family, including two children in the fourth and second grades, were able to move in to their current rental. "Every year I have to sign a new lease and it's with trepidation," he said. "Come spring, am I going to be able to renew my lease? Am I going to have to rip my children out of school?"

In an emotional speech, Caroline Cashin, co-president of the Amagansett School PTA, said some students were unsettled and negatively affected by unpredictable housing. Ms. Cashin read from a letter she had written in February to the East Hampton Housing Authority. "It is my duty to promote the welfare of the children in the school. And nothing would help a child more than having a strong community around them, and knowing they have a permanent home."

Richard Whalen, a lawyer whose office is across the street from the proposed housing, said that even though he was likely to be inconvenienced by increased traffic he strongly supports the project because the cost of living in the hamlet was too high for professionals, let alone people working at lower-paying jobs. "If that's the way Amagansett is going to go, you're not going to have any local people living here anymore," he said. "I worry about the place I live, I worry about my church, I worry about the Fire Department.

The East Hampton Housing Authority lists current fair market rents for the apartments at $1,527 for one-bedroom, $1,878 for a two-bedroom, $2,428 for a three-bedroom, and $2,999 for the four-bedroom. The rent that tenants will actually pay will be based on their income and family size. Eight units of varying sizes will be reserved for Section 8 residents, that is, those making less than 30 percent of the area's median income, and nine units each will be reserved for those making 60, 90, and 130 percent of the median.

Job Potter, the chairman of the planning board, who had been the lone voice against closing the hearing, said the Planning Department would write a report on the comments made at the hearing and the board would discuss it at its next session, May 16.

A community benefits package hangs in the balance as the East Hampton Town Board and town trustees prepare to host a joint hearing next Thursday at 6:30 p.m. on Deepwater Wind's plan to construct a 15-turbine wind farm approximately 36 miles east of Montauk.

Deepwater Wind plans to submit an application to construct the 90-megawatt South Fork Wind Farm to the State Public Service Commission next month, according to its vice president of development. It is seeking easements from the trustees to land the wind farm's transmission cable beneath the ocean beach at the end of Beach Lane in Wainscott, and from the town board to bury the cable in the public road right of way on a path to a Long Island Power Authority substation in East Hampton.

The Rhode Island company has offered a package of community benefits in exchange for those rights, and will include that plan in its application to the Public Service Commission, provided the easements are granted. Should the real estate rights be denied, Deepwater Wind would proceed with a plan to land the cable on state-owned property at Hither Hills, Clint Plummer of Deepwater Wind confirmed yesterday, an option the company's officials have previously implied. The community benefits package would be withdrawn, Mr. Plummer said.

The benefits package at present includes paying for the burial of overhead utility lines in Wainscott, a $2 million ocean industries sustainability program, a $1 million inshore fisheries assistance fund, a $1 million Wainscott water infrastructure fund, a $200,000 energy sustainability and resiliency fund for the town, $75,000 per year for the life of the wind farm to a marine infrastructure and management fund, and establishment of an operations and maintenance facility in Montauk, with attendant job opportunities, over the project's 25-year lifespan.

A quorum of the trustees, who had asked for a more extensive package of benefits from Deepwater Wind in February, held a special meeting on Monday to approve next Thursday's joint hearing. They also formalized a cautious approach to negotiations over the landing of the transmission cable. The hearing will be at LTV Studios in Wainscott to accommodate what is expected to be a large crowd.

In moving to hold the joint hearing with the town, the trustees, who have jurisdiction over most of the town's common lands, including beaches, indicated that they would consider whether to grant a lease, as opposed to an easement, to allow Deepwater Wind to land the transmission cable in Wainscott.

"When we spoke about this earlier, we were concerned about the use of the word easement for the beach portion," Rick Drew, a deputy clerk of the trustees, said on Monday. The trustees "had come at least to a consensus that we were more comfortable with a lease as a document to be considered for this, that an easement inferred some perpetual rights to the property and might give the trustees less control" should the wind farm be constructed and its transmission cable landed on town property.

Mr. Carillo agreed that the trustees would be better able to control any future activity at the site, such as maintenance or repair, by executing a lease with, rather than granting an easement to, Deepwater Wind. He echoed Mr. Drew's statement that "easement" implies a more perpetual grant of right, whereas the terms of a lease can be modified.

The five trustees present and Christopher Carillo, the governing body's attorney, said that they are acting on the belief that they must apply for Article VII intervener status with the Public Service Commission within 30 days of the wind farm developer's application. The trustees intend to retain special counsel to represent them in the matter.

Article VII is a public review process under the state public service law for any application to construct and operate a major electric transmission facility or fuel gas transmission facility. It requires a review of the need for, and environmental impact of, the siting, design, construction, and operation of such facilities. Although it allows residents to participate in the review process, the commission makes the final decision regarding all applications. The trustees first announced their intention to apply for intervener status in February.

Much information remains to be gathered with respect to the commission and its review process, Mr. Carillo said. But the trustees have been unable to meet with Anthony Tohill, an attorney whom they have previously retained for legal matters, Mr. Drew said. "We would like to do that with him as soon as possible," he said.

"We have some big discussions in the near future," Mr. Drew said, referring to the upcoming joint hearing and the expectation that many proponents and opponents of the wind farm would attend. "It should be a very spirited public hearing."

"There are a lot of people we haven't heard anything from yet," said Francis Bock, the trustees' clerk. "I hope they show up."

Mr. Carillo said that if the commission sees Deepwater Wind's application as controversial, an outcome he deemed likely, it would be assigned to an administrative judge, who would then oversee two main hearings, a public hearing and an evidentiary hearing for interveners, which he described as "a very formal process," including testimony, expert witnesses, and cross-examination. "We have two big cracks at this, to have as much impact as we can on this process," he said.

The process will move toward resolution, with the administrative judge rendering an opinion to the commission, which would be "required to weigh that pretty heavily in deciding whether or not this project goes forward," Mr. Carillo said.

As part of the Town of East Hampton’s goal to derive 100 percent of its electricity needs from renewable, clean sources, Energize East Hampton, a solar and energy savings program, will be launched on Saturday with an informational booth at the East Hampton Village street fair. The fair will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Newtown Lane. 

The program, a joint initiative with Long Island Green Homes, South Fork Peak Savers, and Renewable Energy Long Island, is meant to provide “one-stop shopping” to residential and commercial property owners for free or discounted energy efficiency and solar energy projects. 

The program has three components. Solarize East Hampton is intended to make investing in solar power generation easy and affordable through bulk purchasing. Residents and business owners who sign up for solar installations by October will be able to take advantage of group rates by using a designated, prequalified solar installer. The more customers who sign up, the lower the costs will be.  

The state’s NY-Sun initiative, a component of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s Reforming the Energy Vision strategy, will fund the program as part of its investment of up to $1 billion in solar power through 2023 to expand solar installations statewide. 

The town should take every opportunity to incorporate solar energy by offering this initiative, Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said at the town board’s meeting on Tuesday. “We can aggregate the purchasing of solar panels, which reduce the cost to consumers by 10 to 30 percent,” he said. Federal and state tax rebates for installing them, he added, “in conjunction with low-cost financing, can allow you to put in a solar installation on your roof for at or below current expenditure of electricity to PSEG.” He hopes to install solar panels on his own house before year’s end, he said, and encouraged other residents to do the same. 

The South Fork Peak Savers program, announced at a November meeting of the town board’s energy sustainability advisory committee, offers free “smart” thermostats and commercial lighting efficiency upgrades, as well as pool pump rebates. 

Under contract with PSEG Long Island, Applied Energy Group, an energy industry consultancy that specializes in efficiency and renewables, is to provide 8.3 megawatts of load control and energy efficiency measures on the South Fork. As part of the program, A.E.G. promotes the replacement of single-stage swimming pool pumps with variable-speed models, which consume a fraction of the energy of a single-stage pump. A.E.G. also aims to reduce peak demand through a direct load control initiative, under which homeowners with smart thermostats, such as the Nest programmable and self-learning, Wi-Fi-enabled model, voluntarily allow A.E.G. to control their thermostats during peak periods. 

Such outside control of thermostats, when orchestrated across the grid, is “not going to be noticeable to the consumer,” Mr. Van Scoyoc said on Tuesday, but will nonetheless result in less energy consumption during peak periods. 

Lastly, Long Island Green Homes offers free home energy assessments and assistance with efficiency programs. 

The free programs are available to residents and businesses of both the town and the village. 

At the town board’s meeting last Thursday, Mr. Van Scoyoc, during an unrelated discussion of the proposed South Fork Wind Farm, referred to the board’s lease of 12 acres of town-owned property on Accabonac Highway in East Hampton to AES Distributed Energy, Inc., which is developing the solar electricity-generating installation previously proposed by SunEdison, which subsequently filed for bankruptcy. That will be online before summer’s end, he said. 

“In addition to that,” Mr. Van Scoyoc said, “we’ve initiated a number of energy-saving efforts,” detailing the Energize East Hampton program’s components. He urged those in attendance or watching on LTV to come to the street fair and learn about the program. “You can help us address reducing peak demand, reducing fossil fuel use, and having cleaner, more reliable energy,” he said.