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In a report issued in February, Moody’s Investors Service said that the city faces a number of financial challenges including structurally imbalanced budgets, an above average debt burden and pending reimbursements from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for Hurricane Sandy.
Moody’s: Long Beach's credit rating ‘stable’
Moody’s Investors Service recently revised Long Beach’s credit outlook from positive to stable, and while the city’s credit rating — a financial score that impacts the ability … more
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A delay in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s approval of a deal between county officials and the Public Service Enterprise Group of Long Island to power the Bay Park Water Reclamation Facility could hold up a plan to transfer treated effluent from the plant to Cedar Creek through an aqueduct under Sunrise Highway.
Bay Park outfall plan hinges on swift action from FEMA
A deal between county officials and PSEG Long Island to provide power to the Bay Park Water Reclamation Facility has yet to be approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which could delay a plan to reroute treated effluent from the plant to the Cedar Creek Water Pollution Control Plant. more
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A federal judge last week dismissed a lawsuit that would have barred South Nassau Communities Hospital from using Federal Emergency Management Agency funds for an expansion project at its Oceanside campus. A planned two-story, 25,000-square-foot Medical Arts Pavilion would be the permanent home of an expanded free-standing emergency department in Long Beach.
Federal lawsuit over FEMA funds dismissed
A federal judge last week dismissed a lawsuit filed against the Federal Emergency Management Agency by a group of Long Beach residents seeking to block the release of $154 million in FEMA funds to … more
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Long Beach resident Liz Treston pictured in October 2016, shortly after she moved out of her West End home in order to elevate it. Treston, who had hoped to return home last month, is among the residents who remain displaced five years after Hurricane Sandy.
Hurricane Sandy, five years on
“Finding a place where I can rent in Long Beach was — and still is — very difficult,” said Liz Treston, who has been living in different rental homes in the West End for more than a year … more
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Freeporter Sherri Wolf, vice president of Friends of Freeport, talked about her post-Superstorm Sandy experience.
Short-term flood insurance expansion is expiring
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand visited Freeport on Monday to announce the reintroduction of bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program for 10 years. Gillibrand’s … more
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West Hempstead Fire Department Chief Michael Vogt said the grant would be used to purchase self-contained breathing apparatus.
West Hempstead Fire Department to receive $228K grant
Two weeks ago, Chief Michael Vogt of the West Hempstead Fire Department had heard that his department was approved for a FEMA grant. “We knew we were approved for a grant, but we didn’t know how much or what it was for,” said Vogt. He soon found out, however, that the department would be receiving $228,572 to purchase much-needed self-contained breathing apparatus — known in the fire industry as SCBA. It is the largest grant ever received in the department’s history. more
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Roger Parrino, second from right, commissioner of New York State’s Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services toured flood-prone areas in Island Park with Councilman Anthony D’Esposito, left, Island Park Mayor Michael McGinty, Assemblywoman Missy Miller and State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, as well as local school and county officials.
State homeland security commissioner tours flood-prone areas in Island Park
New York State’s commissioner of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, Roger Parrino, joined local elected and school officials on July 27 in touring flood-prone areas in Island … more
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South Side Hose Company No. 2’s firehouse in Oceanside has been under construction since Hurricane Sandy.
A long road to recovery
For 90 years, volunteer firefighters have operated out of Oceanside’s South Side Hose Company No. 2 firehouse on Alice Avenue. But for the last four, they have been working out of a trailer in a … more
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The old Village Hall was demolished in 2015, and the vacant land sits fenced in next to Island Park’s temporary headquarters.
Village to break ground on new headquarters
As village officials continue working from a temporary trailer-type structure next to Island Park’s Long Island Rail Road station, residents called for an update on the progress of a new Village Hall at the board meeting on Jan. 19. more
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FEMA approves South Nassau plan
Four years after Hurricane Sandy forced the closure of Long Beach Medical Center, the Federal Emergency Management Agency approved a plan last month that would allow South Nassau Communities Hospital to build an emergency medical facility in town and expand its Oceanside campus. more
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