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Mother of the Year
Deadline is Friday
morning, April 29
see page 2
www.freeportbaldwinleader.com
THE JiU JibiJfe nliJJj
76th Year, No. 17 Freeport, N.Y. 11520 The Community Newspaper Thursday, April 28, 2011
EASTER JOY was evident on the faces of Jake and Katie of
Baldwin and their little cousin Zoey, center, visiting from Virginia.
Leader photo by Judith Ammerman
BELL RINGERS participated in Easter serv-ice
at First Baptist Church in jFreeport. Left
to right are James and Liz SuNivan, Marjorie
Jackson, and Kirby Destin.
photo by Leon Judge
County
by Laura Schofer
Long Island Bus and the MTA will part
ways in 2012. Brian Nevin, communication
director for County Executive Edward
Mangano, told The Leader the county will
move ahead with its plans to privatize the
Long Island Bus system. "The MTA will not
renew our contract," said Mr. Nevin who did
not provide details on the negotiations.
On April 1, state Senator Charles J.
Fuschillo Jr. helped to broker a deal to keep
Long Island Bus up and running through
the end of the year in order to give the two
parties more time to iron out their differ-ences.
But Mr. Nevin said the county believes it
can provide comparable, if not better, serv-ice
for less than the $9.1 million it now pays
to the Metropolitan Transportation
plans to privatize bus system
Authority, especially after the MTA
iannounced it would cut 25 of its 48 Nassau
County routes, leaving about 16,000 people
: without service.
Meanwhile, the MTA wants to raise the
county's contribution and has asked for $26
million, which "can't be done in a single
year, not with the kind of budget crunch that
Nassau County is facing," said Mr. Nevin in
an earlier interview.
A Request for Proposals was made by the
county, to which three companies respond-ed.
Mr. Nevin said "an independent com-mittee
will make a recommendation to the
county executive and from there, the rec-ommendation
will go on to the county leg-islature
for final approval."
This process should take a few weeks
and "the county executive will announce
the vendor sometime during the second
week of May," said Mr. Nevin, when the
public will be able to take a look at the new
plan.
Mr. Nevin added that the proposals indi-cate
that the county will have to contribute
between "$2.4 and $4 million and will be
the same [level of service], if not better."
But Ryan Lynch, the Long Island coordi-nator
of Tri-State Transportation, a trans-portation
watchdog group that studies mass
transit, said, "Nassau's privatization math
doesn't add up."
Westchester and Suffolk Counties both
have privately operated bus systems that
cost Westchester $30 million and Suffolk
$24 million in 2010.
"It's not a real plan," said Mr. Lynch in an
earlier interview with this newspaper.
"Especially if you are talking about the
same level of service and fares. This pub-lic/
private partnership would need much
heavier subsidies."
But County Executive Mangano coun-tered
in a press release, saying the county is
"subsidizing New York City's transportation
system and bloated bureaucracy." He
believes a private company will be more
efficient, accountable and "effective while
not holding our taxpayers hostage for
increased revenues year after year."
But once a private company takes over,
there is "no real accountability to the pub-lic,"
said Mr. Lynch. "At the present time,
there must be a public hearing [regarding
fare hikes and service cuts]. It's a flawed
system, but it works for the benefit of the
public." A public hearing at Hofstra
University on March 23 drew hundreds of
bus riders who urged the MTA and county
to work together.
Motheir
of the Yiear
page 2
Santino
town hall meeting
page 5
LIAC news
page 7
Calling all
BHS '61 grads
page 10
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| Title | 2011-04-28 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L & M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 2011 |
| Type | Periodical |
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| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
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