William Manger Jr.

Trustee Rob Coburn had questioned, you know, why wasn't, you know, the need for these, the funding for these cameras identified the budgeting process earlier this year.

But Mayor Bill Manger had explained that this came up earlier in the summer after there were some incidents of vandalism near the men's bathroom at Agamon Park.

And the cameras near there had failed.

So this was not something that had been identified and just came up over the summer there.

But when it's allowed on others, she wanted to establish this, quote, viewpoint neutral criteria for a moderator to evaluate their comments.

And this was a proposal that did not fly over very well on the board here, specifically from Mayor Bill Manger there.

Nancy Kane, who is the Villages Communications Consultants, who runs the Instagram and the social media pages there, she addressed the board and she warned, like, as soon as you start, if you allow comments, if you take even so much as one down, then it can start becoming a First Amendment issue there.

And basically, yeah, the argument was if you allow comments and if you start taking any of them down, then it just becomes very difficult to enforce.

A private internment is planned for next month with a private celebration of life to be held next June.

Here in the village, Dan Stark reporting for 27East.com that a resolution by Southampton Village trustee Willa Bernstein regarding the village's social media accounts failed after a charged exchange between Bernstein and Mayor Bill Manger in the latest vote in which the two have been on opposing sides.

Bernstein's resolution called for instituting a policy that would disallow public comment on some individual posts, but allow comments on other posts which would be moderated.

The resolution also included a provision about a 60-day blackout period before an election in which no candidate running for office would appear on the village social media accounts in a way that could be viewed as promoting them.