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Public Works - Selling Sewage Treatment Plants To Raise Revenue

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Nassau County Executive Mangano wants to sell sewage treatment plants to raise $750M to retire county debt and stop the over $30M annual deficit of running the sewage facilities. Nassau Interim Finance Authority (NIFA) rejected this transaction because they feel the deal is not financially sound. Do you support the selling of Nassau's sewage treatment plants to raise money to pay off county debt?

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Valuing Broadcast Rights For School Districts

Submitted by amh5500 on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 20:04
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Long Island School Districts currently receive approximately $2000 per school district for the broadcast rights for all their varsity sporting events shown on Cablevision through MSGVarsity. I believe this is an asset schools are practically giving away. For $2000 Cablevision gets to retain viewers, cross-sell their phone and internet services. They have also created an internet site and magazine to generate revenue. I believe school districts should push for a higher payout for these valuable rights.

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Rental Housing Emergency

Submitted by poppy on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 11:13
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Roughly 17% of residences (compared to 33-36% in neighboring counties)
are rentals in Nassau County. If Nassau is going to stand any chance of keeping young adults from leaving it must increase the rental housing stock especially around the major transit hubs of Mineola and Hicksville. The building permit process needs to be fast tracked to start construction ASAP. Nassau needs affordable housing!

New York Islanders/ Nassau Coliseum

Submitted by robertoscalia on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 19:47
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I do not give the single slightest of a damn about how you guys do it, but by God do not lose the only thing that's actually worth anything in this county. Warning's in place, you lose the Islanders and Nassau County goes down the drain. This will either cost you all your jobs, or allow you all to keep them. Stop with the freaking political football and get this damn thing done!

New York Islanders

Submitted by NYI4LIFE on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 18:44
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Please keep the New York Islanders here on Long Island, without them we are barley revelavant and the county will lose much more money, Long Island needs the Islanders. LETS GO ISLANDERS!

Nassau Coliseum

Submitted by forsitel22 on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 17:25
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Kate Murray turned down 4 billion dollars of private money in the name of maintaining suburbia. Throughout the entire time the LHP was being promoted Murray refused to meet with Wang. She claimed she needed to be unbiased in assessing the situation. Years later she finally finished her rezoning. Rival developers and economists deemed it to be a failure insofar as it wasn't a viable option for viable long term economic profit.