The Taylor’s Island Preservation and Management Committee

COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Amber Brach-Williams, Town Liaison
Benjamin Dyett, Town Liaison
Keith Clark
Kathy Gooding
P.A.T. Hunt, Co-Chair
Steve Lenox
Kevin Sanwald
Richie Surozenski, Co-Chair
Linda Zavatto

The Taylor’s Island Preservation and Management Committee, created in December 2005, exists as an official Town Committee to advise the Shelter Island Town Board on the preservation and use of Taylor’s Island. The Committee meets at Town Hall at 9:00 A.M. on the second Tuesday of every month, April through October. The S.I. Town official website posts minutes of the Committee. A complete archive of the minutes is here.

The Town adopted its Parks Master Plan in 2006 listing Taylor’s Island as the number one park priority (Page 22). Taylor’s Island is also included on pages 5, 8, 12, 26.

Working with the Committee and the Taylor’s Island Foundation, our Town has:

  • Received a grant for the Historic Structure Report

  • Signed a lease with the Taylor’s Island Foundation

  • Replaced the Island’s two critical bulkheads

  • Placed the Smith-Taylor Cabin on the NYS and National Registers of Historic Places

  • Received a $110,600 matching grant for the Cabin

  • Installed a propane electric generator at the Cabin

 

ORIGINAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Barbara "Buzzy" Clark
Keith Clark
P.A.T. Hunt, Co-Chair
Alfred J. Kilb, Jr., Town Liaison
Roni King
Michael Laspia
Richie Surozenski, Co-Chair

Original Taylor's Island Committee (Mike Laspia not in photo)

 

ORIGINAL AND PAST DIRECTORS
Julie Ben-Susan
Barbara "Buzzy" Clark
Roni King
Jim Polychron