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SUMMARY:Pamela Greene\, Candidate for Islip Town Supv.
DESCRIPTION:This morning our speaker was Pamela Greene. Ms. Greene is an Islip Town Councilwoman and she is running for the position of Supervisor\, formerly held by Pete McGowan. \n \nPamela began by giving us a “vision” of her idea of planned development of Veterans Highway in the vicinity of MacArthur Airport.. Her concept is high end\, high value structures and stores\, rather than the tacky strip development (my words) we often see on Long Island. As she put it\, a “miracle mile”\n \nShe then went on to the topic of affordable housing. Ms. Greene shared with us her own personal story of affordable housing. When she was 28 years old their was an opportunity for her to make application for one of these “affordable housing” units and she was awarded an opportunity to buy one of these units. Subsequently she was asked by the builder to testify at the Brookhaven Town Board on this topic. She told the board to alay their fears. “I am the kind of person that will benefit by affordable housing.” Perhaps because of her own experience she is a proponent of affordable units. The Town of Islip has a good record of pursuing housing in this range\, and has provided 3\,000 units. She promises to be an advocate in her new position of Supervisor\, if she attains it.\n \nThere is a parcel of land in Bay Shore that is being considered for conominioms. Ms. Greene is enthusiastic about the prospects of have the density that the vuillage needs to support the local business community and the units will be also in walking distance of the railroad. \n \nAccording to Greene\, Hofstra University did an analysis of Long Island Towns Islip and Hofstra rated it the highest in terms of “business friendly”. Islip Economic Development has helped the business community invest $700 million in Islip. Islip has benefited by the concept of “Economic Deveopment Zones”. The concept was first articulated by the then governor\, Mario Coumo when Pamela was new to public service and impressed with the idea and praised Coumo. Since then she has been an enthusiastic proponent of business devlopment.\n \nMs. Greene talked about taxes and stated that taxes in Islip have actually been reduced by 17% over the years that she had been able to observe them . She promised to keep the focus on development that lends itself to lower taxes.\n \nWhen asked about Pete McGowan she had little to say\, other than it was a tragic demise of Mr. McGowan\n \nPictured: Gina LeVechia\, Pamela Greene\, Ernie Fazio\, Bill Miller
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/pamela-greene-candidate-for-islip-town-supv/
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SUMMARY:Veterans Day NO MEETING
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URL:https://limba.net/calendar/veterans-day-no-meeting/
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SUMMARY:Richard Kessel\, LIPA Chairman
DESCRIPTION:Our speaker at LIMBA was LIPA Chairman Richard Kessel. As usual Richard connected very well with his audience. He began by speaking about the recent storm outages that seriously plagued the system. Communications and the proper workforce deployment were the hallmarks of the recovery. Kessel believes in communicating. Often we see communications from some corporations that is experiencing trouble as cover-up. Kessels attitude seems to be get out the news\, even if it’s bad. Not informing the public simply does not fly. \n \nHe spoke about rates and for historic perspective he cited the folly of Shoreham as part of the reason we are paying high rates. \n \nThe phenomenal growth of the needs that have been placed on the system has resulted in a constant need to increase capacity. However he stated that by various strategies the system has  maintained the balance of needs vs supply assets. The building of the 12 smaller\, quicker to build\, generators helped maintain the system. The Cross Sound Cable is now in place and has taken the stress off the system. The\, still to be completed\, Neptune cable will provide another 650 megawatts of power. \n \nKessel admits that the best way to provide on-island generation would be to use the most efficient combined cycle baseload generators of the magnitude of 300+ megawatts. These are difficult to permit and build. The Caithness plant falls into that category and has been permitted and will be built in North Bellport.\n \nSince LIPA took over the system the capacity has increased by 2300 megawatts. That is an enormous increase over a system that was less than 4000 megawatts at the time LIPA began. \n \nKessel reverted to high rates and went on to say that rates are high because;\n1) LIPA pays $334 million in taxes. \n2) Shorham debt load is still 4 Billion    \n3) Fuel. The cost of fuel has risen dramatically\n \nThe most exiting news was and is that LIPA is engaged in the largest demand side management in history. Finding ways not to keep expanding the need for power is essential. Reducing power needs by energy efficient lighting is a major savings. The more we do in the area of managing and reducing loads has dividends in less pollution and less generating needs. \n \nAlternative energy is no small item. There are numerous proposals for producing power by wind\, fuel cells\, solar and more exotic new methods. All of these will be part of an energy producing matrix alongside demand management.. He was disappointed that the Solar Roof Program had only 750 subscribers instead of the 10\,000 that were expected.\n \nIn the end Ritchie harkened back to the fact that we will still want to have more connections to the mainland and use generating assets that are not presently available to us. \nPictured: LIPA Chairman\, Richard Kessel and Ernie Fazio
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/richard-kessel-lipa-chairman/
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SUMMARY:THanksgiving Holiday No Meeting
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URL:https://limba.net/calendar/thanksgiving-holiday-no-meeting/
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