East Hampton Town’s new community housing fund, voted into law in November 2022 and financed by a half-percent tax on real estate sales paid by the buyer, has brought in $4.2 million in its first year, Eric Schantz, director of the Housing and Community Development Department, reported to the town board on Tuesday. The money is intended chiefly for affordable housing and to help first-time homebuyers.
On April 10, the federal Environmental Protection Agency issued a final determination on limits for “forever chemicals” in drinking water sources, along with a three-to-five-year timeline by which testing and remediation are to occur and about $1 billion in funding to support states, cities, and other municipalities in carrying out that testing and remediation.
Proposals to deal with wastewater at Rowdy Hall and two Montauk businesses, a hotel and a restaurant, were greenlighted at a town board work session last week. But the highlight might have been an eelgrass project for Napeague Harbor.
The elimination of four special-education teaching positions is still on the table at the Amagansett School, despite the school board pulling the official resolution off Tuesday's meeting agenda.
