Governor sets forth ‘daring’ plans for L.I.

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Governor Andrew Cuomo spoke at the Long Island Association’s annual breakfast on Tuesday, Jan. 5, and revealed what he plans to accomplish beginning in 2016 on Long Island.

Introduced by Kevin Law, president of the LIA, Cuomo told the audience of several hundred professionals and business leaders that state government had grown too timid in its goals, and he said his leadership has changed that trend, with bold and significant achievements.

But the need to “be daring,” to plan and accomplish more major changes in the state is as important as ever.

Cuomo declared ambitious goals in the areas of public transportation, the environment, business development, job creation, water resources, airport improvements, including a LIRR line to LaGuardia Airport, sewage treatment plant improvements, including the proposed outfall pipe at the Bay Park plant in Nassau County, among others.

“We can’t just now sit, today, on the daring and the accomplishments of a hundred years ago,” Cuomo said. “This year in the State of the State we’re going to propose the largest construction program in the modern political history of the state of New York. We’re going to take the dream and the gift that our founding fathers gave us and we’re going to update it for a new generation.”

Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano and Suffolk Executive Steve Bellone addressed the LIA audience before the governor’s arrival. Mangano spoke about development at the Hub, about excellent job growth in Nassau, about the film movie production capacity in the Bethpage studios, about policing and police training in the age of terrorism, commercial economic developments, including transit oriented developments, and other county-wide achievements.