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The agreement that would allow Riverhead Town\u2019s Highway Department to pick up loose leaves<\/a> left at the curb has hit a snag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After years of arguing whether loose leaf pickup is a highway department job or a town responsibility, the Town Board and Highway Superintendent Mike Zaleski came to an agreement in October.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two sides asked for a legal opinion from the\u00a0state Attorney General\u2019s office, which in turn, contacted the state Comptroller\u2019s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Comptroller\u2019s office found a 1976 case involving Brookhaven Town that stating: \u201cA town board may direct the highway department to collect on a regular bases leaves and brush placed on a town highway right of way by property owners, with the highway department\u2019s expenses chargeable not to the highway fund, but to the general fund appropriation for refuse collection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, the highway department would be able to do the work, but the expense would come from the town general fund, not the highway fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The comptroller\u2019s opinion states that the Town Board \u201cshall create general fund budget line(s) for expenses related to loose leaf pickup in the amount of $219,018.88 for the year 2022.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here\u2019s where the snag comes in: Mr. Zaleski maintains that that $219,018.88 will come from the town and will enable the highway department to pick up leaves this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If that money isn\u2019t provided, he said, \u201cI\u2019m not going to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Town officials say that money comes from the 2022 budget, and Mr. Zaleski\u2019s department already used that money to pick up leaves in January<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two sides were on the town work session agenda Thursday to try to iron out the situation.\u00a0But Mr. Zaleski refused to attend.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to any more meetings,\u201d Mr. Zaleski said in an interview. \u201cI\u2019ve been to hundreds of meetings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added, \u201cthe town is now trying to circumvent their legal responsibility to pay the highway department the agreed amount as stated by the state Comptrollers\u2019 office.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Mr. Zaleski and Supervisor Yvette Aguiar said their offices have been receiving letters and phone calls from residents asking why their leaves have not been picked up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Zaleski said in a letter to reporters after the meeting that the highway department has worked diligently on coming up with a legal solution to continue picking up loose leaves.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that if the town doesn\u2019t provide the $219,000, there will be no leaf pickup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Town Board members said the money for leaf pickup will go in the 2023 budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe agreed and Mike agreed to go by the findings from the state Attorney General\u2018s office,\u201d said Councilman Tim Hubbard. \u201cThat finally came out this year in 2022. So we could not have budgeted the $219,000 from last year this year because that money didn\u2019t come out until this year.\u201d He said this money has been budgeted in years past for manpower, equipment and supplies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Councilman Ken Rothwell said Mr. Zaleski wasn\u2019t even the highway superintendent until January of this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Hubbard said, \u201cWe\u2019re kind of at an impasse. He\u2019s not going to pick up the leaves if he feels he hasn\u2019t been paid or made whole for this year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Town Finance Administrator Bill Rothaar said that Nov. 20, 2021 was the deadline for the 2022 budget to be adopted, but the town didn\u2019t even have a dollar amount for the cost of leaf pickup at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Rothwell the problem should be fixed once the new year begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf he does it, he gets paid,” he said. “If he doesn\u2019t, he doesn\u2019t get paid.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Town attorney Erik Howard said Mr. Zaleski “is stuck with the budget that was implemented before he came into office.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Aguiar said she’s hoping the issue is resolved soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur office is getting a tremendous amount of calls asking about the leaf pickup,\u201d she said. \u201cI understand he\u2019s told people to call the supervisor\u2019s office because he\u2019s not getting paid.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The residents want this service,\u201d she added.\u00a0\u201cHopefully, we\u2019ll see him next Thursday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2023 town budget is not expected to be adopted until Nov. 14, according to Ms. Aguiar. The 2023 town budget includes $221,000 for leaf pickup, although it doesn\u2019t take effect until January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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