EXCLUSIVE · TOWN HALL NOTEBOOK · OCTOBER 7

A town board agenda is where a place tells you what it is actually doing, in the most boring possible language, at three in the afternoon. We read this one end to end. Two items were big enough to get their own stories — the full property tax exemption for seriously disabled veterans, and the November 5 hearings on the tax cap and the 2027 budget. Here is the rest.

An Eagle Scout got a day. Resolution 707 proclaimed Sunday, October 11, 2026 as Eagle Scout Alexander Green Day. The resolution is unexpectedly lovely for a legal document — it works its way through the rarity of the rank, then through the eagle itself, “noted for its size, strength, graceful figure, keenness of vision and power of flight,” and the fact that the bird was the standard of the ancient Romans and is the seal of the United States, before getting to the point and congratulating him. We do not know Alexander Green’s troop or his project, because the resolution does not say. If you do, write to us; a project that earns a proclamation is worth a photograph and a paragraph of its own.

Two rezonings were granted. Bolar Pharmaceutical Co. was granted a rezoning for premises on the west side of Bethpage Road, 166 feet north of Reith Street, in Copiague (application HPLN-30, planning board job 25-45ME). And 369 Little East Neck Rd, Inc. was granted a rezoning at the southeast corner of Little East Neck Road and Millard Avenue in West Babylon (HPLN-85, job 25-38ABE), covering six tax lots. Each went through the same three steps in one afternoon: a public hearing, an environmental determination by the Board as SEQRA lead agency, then the grant.

Three houses were condemned or secured. The Board authorized emergency securing, board-up and cleanup at 130 Claremont Ave, North Babylon; and the demolition, board-up and securing of unsafe structures at 19 Brewster Lane, North Amityville and 490 Howard Ave, Copiague. These are the resolutions nobody reads and everybody on the block has been waiting for.

A stop sign. Among the traffic-ordinance amendments: stop control added east and west on Frank Street at North Greene Avenue in North Lindenhurst. Somebody asked for that, probably more than once.

Two more code hearings were held. One on Chapter 213, Article XLVII — Renewable Energy Facilities, and one on Chapter 213, Article XVIII — Supplemental Regulations. Both are zoning articles, both were heard the same afternoon, and we are tracking what came out of them.

And some housekeeping with real money in it: the Board set its own 2027 meeting schedule, authorized a 2026 budget modification and an interfund transfer, and authorized a contract with LiRo Engineers.

One thing that was NOT in the agenda. The proposed electric vehicle charger rules that drew objections at Town Hall last week do not appear anywhere in the October 7 document — we searched all 81 pages. So that proposal is still ahead of a vote, which means there is still time for residents to be heard on it. More on that in Quick Hits.

Source: Town of Babylon Town Board, resolution agenda, October 7, 2026 · Agenda Center