I figured out how to fix Hampton Bays, the simplest and cheapest ways.
I see two options:
(1) Give the whole ball of wax to Alfred Caiola, with a few stipulations, and a deadline, especially on getting the sewage treatment plant built.
Or (2) Use the grant money from a few years ago and, with the landlords’ or shopkeepers’ permission, have the Town Building Department spruce up (paint) the buildings and storefronts and build flower boxes. Also, paint a few more crosswalks on Main Street and Ponquogue Avenue.
There is nothing wrong with Hampton Bays that a coat of paint and beautiful, colorful flowers won’t cure.
Common sense reasoning: Getting a sewage treatment plant built is a joke. In 1966, when I opened my business in Flanders, Southampton Town, I was told a treatment plant is coming, and it will probably be built on the former drive-in movie property. That was 58 years ago — it still has not been built, and the town is still talking about it.
If you follow my guidelines above, you can stop having meetings on the same subjects, over and over again, that never come to fruition.
Jim Dreeben
Hampton Bays
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