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Online signups in the works for Riverhead recreation department

By Vera Chinese

Riverhead Town is looking to add an online signup and payment system for its recreation department, officials said at Thursday’s public Town Board work session.

The town’s recreation department superintendent, Ray Coyne, said that he’s already put out a request for proposals, and that the winning bidder would charge the town an estimated $18,000 to install a program and the system’s server would cost about $3,000. Annual technical support would cost $4,500 he said.

“We’re making it easier for residents to sign up for programs,” he said.

He noted that program fees would not increase under the new system, which would be paid for with recreation program revenues.

“We are scheduled to have it go live Jan. 3 for winter registration,” Mr. Coyne later told the News-Review.

In the meantime, Town Board member Jodi Giglio suggested the town look into whether or not it could use Suffolk County’s payment method for signing up for recreation programs. Mr. Coyne said he would do that.

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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