BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Limba - ECPv6.16.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Limba X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://limba.net X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Limba REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20090308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20091101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20100314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20101107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20110313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20111106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100702T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100702T000000 DTSTAMP:20100702T040000Z CREATED:20100702T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100702T040000Z UID:4410-1278028800-1278028800@limba.net SUMMARY:NO Meeting July 4th weekend DESCRIPTION: URL:https://limba.net/calendar/no-meeting-july-4th-weekend/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100709T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100709T000000 DTSTAMP:20100709T040000Z CREATED:20100709T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100709T040000Z UID:4408-1278633600-1278633600@limba.net SUMMARY:Railroad Museum of Long Island. Don Fisher DESCRIPTION:Don Fisher\, President of the Railroad Museum of Long Island was our speaker this morning. He began by emphasizing the business side of operating a local museum. Raising money to create the museum environment is not easy\, but it is important. The museum hired LIA economist Pearl Kamer to study the multiplier effects of money spent by the railroad museum. She calculated that for every $1 spent by the museum there are $2.25 returned to the community. In other words jobs are created. \n  \nOn the soft benefits there is the educational considerations\, a sense of place\, and the inspirational aspects that children can appreciate. Mr. Fisher pointed out to us that whether we support his museum or some other local museum\, it is important that we do so. Museums are part of the fabric that makes our communities interesting  \n  \nLater is in his prepared remarks Don gave us an overview of the available activities. There are tours of the vintage models they have on the premises where you will see the actual operating mechanisms. There is a special train that was operated at the 1964 World’s Fair that is available for short rides. \n  \nThe museum is actually two locations\, one in Riverhead and one in Greenport. You can visit either one\, but merely by coincidence the Long Island Railroad has a scheduled train that stops at Riverhead on Saturday morning at 10.30AM  and terminates at Greenport. It lays-over on Greenport for an hour and ten minutes and stops again in Riverhead. Your $5 museum entrance fee in Riverhead allows you to see the Greenport division on the same ticket and the LIRR ticket is $5 for adults and $1.50 for children round trip \n  \nThis provides a great day of history education\, entertainment and recreation for a family with children\, without Dad forgoing lunch for the next week.      \n  \nEveryone there received a video of historic rail systems from various places in the world. \n\nMuch thanks to  Bonnie Cornett and the Boncor Group for sponsoring this interesting event \n\nHere is some Railroad Museum of Long Island contact info:\nwww.rmli.org \nLocated at 416 Griffing Avenue Riverhead  631 727- 7920 \nand  440 Fourth Street Greenport  631 477-0439 URL:https://limba.net/calendar/railroad-museum-of-long-island-don-fisher/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100716T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100716T000000 DTSTAMP:20100716T040000Z CREATED:20100716T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100716T040000Z UID:4419-1279238400-1279238400@limba.net SUMMARY:Steve Bellone -Supv - CANCELLED rescheduled to Oct 8th DESCRIPTION: Due to extenuating circumstances this meeting had to be cancelled. It is rescheduled for October 8 2010 URL:https://limba.net/calendar/steve-bellone-supv-cancelled-rescheduled-to-oct-8th/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100723T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100723T000000 DTSTAMP:20100723T040000Z CREATED:20100723T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100723T040000Z UID:4399-1279843200-1279843200@limba.net SUMMARY:Teresa Rizzuto DESCRIPTION:Today we had the pleasure of hosting Theresa Rizzuto\, Commissioner of Long Island MacArthur Airport (LIMA)\, giving us an update on what’s happening in and around the 50 year old facility.  Ms. Rizzuto opened with describing the transition of MacArthur at its opening as a "Nice to Have" to today’s status as a critical linchpin in the region’s economy.  It is a driver of private investment and  job growth for Long Island.  She followed with a more detailed look at the past ten years of ups and downs for the airline industry and economy.  Right now one of the bright spots is General Aviation\, experiencing growth among private jet travel.\n \nThe meat of Ms. Rizzuto’s presentation was a description of all the projects that are going on around the airport\, from the addition of free Wi-Fi access\, to the new Control Tower scheduled to open in early 2011\, the road reconfiguration project\, which will make it even more convenient to use LIMA\, the West Side redevelopment project\, where new private investment will replace old\, dilapidated facilities to the new Fuel Farm\, which to an airport administrator is the sine qua non of projects.\n \nIt was an engaging presentation punctuated by a description of the Town and Airport administration’s efforts to further market LIMA as both a departure point and Long Island as a destination.  Negotiations and interactions with airlines were detailed\, with an event called JumpStart described as "speed dating" between Airports and Airlines.  LIMA is a relatively unknown airport among airlines\, but Ms. Rizzuto and the town team are doing their best to make that a thing of the past.  Through social media tools like Twitter @LIMacArthur and Facebook Fan Pages the word is getting out along with traditional media campaigns.\n \nMs. Rizzuto closed with a call to action for the business community to lobby the airlines to reinforce the demand for a convenient alternative to the congested Port Authority airports in NYC.  Communicate with them on their feedback pages\, and when you make travel arrangements\, every voice helps.\n \nWe look forward to Ms. Rizzuto’s next visit where we hope she will have even more good news and additional travel destinations reachable by Long Island’s "Most Convenient Airport" URL:https://limba.net/calendar/teresa-rizzuto/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100730T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100730T000000 DTSTAMP:20100730T040000Z CREATED:20100730T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100730T040000Z UID:4414-1280448000-1280448000@limba.net SUMMARY:Steve Levy\, Suff Cnty Exec- governors race sponsor-Primepay DESCRIPTION:Mr. Levy is always an interesting speaker.  Today was no disappointment.  Steve’s opening remark was : "Politicians are always trying to satisfy the needs of voters while at the same time telling them that we can cut taxes".  His point was that you can do one or the other\, but almost never both.  According to Levy\, just as we need a responsible person at home\, there needs to be a ‘grown-up’ in the rooms of politics. \nHe compared how different levels of government deal  with revenue shortfalls: \n\nAt the Federal level they print money\nAt the State level they shove it down to the local level\nAt the Local level they raise taxes or do without\n\n  \nSteve cited California\, Illinois and New York as being financially strapped states where hard decisions will have to be made.  Under the Levy Administation\, taxes went from being 13% of the bill to 10% of the bill.  There were hard choices made to get there.  Among the steps taken was an attempt to get New York State to shoulder the cost of troopers on state roads.  That didn’t fly\, so Levy put Sheriff Officers on the state roads\, saving the high cost of Suffolk Police.  Mr. Levy says\, "The Public Sector jobs are living in their own bubble." The rest of the economy suffers as they go on thinking that they should be excluded from the pain-which of course just increases the pain for the rest of the economy.  $180\,000 annual salaries for Policemen are just not sustainable.  Pensions are funded in ways that most of the private sector gave up on years ago. \nThe Foley Nursing Home is another ‘craw’ in his throat.  Foley costs taxpayers $10 million per year. Steve said he will sell it to a private company\, and the residents will be no worse off than they are now. The Union is ready to mount a battle\, but he vows that it will be sold. \nSome trimming of Levy’s budget was met through early retirements\, which only works if you do not rehire the same number of people. He has been able to reduce the work force and keep it that way. \nHe spoke some on development.  While he considers himself an environmentalist\, that does not preclude development.  Patchogue Village was given as an example.  The future development of the Ronkonkoma Railroad Station is being planned\, and the prospect of affordable apartments\, retail stores\, entertainment  and transportation to New York City will make that location very desirable. \nLastly\, the ending of the Empire Zones is a big blow to Long Island.  Steve encouraged all of us to notify our state representatives and urge them to keep the program.  Under that program\, we were able to attract Canon\, a major employer.  The problem with ending Empire Zones is that not only will we not be able to offer the incentives involved\, but the removal of benefits is retroactive.  Because of this\, we will not be able to meet previous promises made under the Empire Zone provision.  This is patently unfair. \nDuring the Q&A\, the question of the MTA tax was brought up by Bill Schoolman\, who will be speaking on that subject next week.  According to Levy\, the County will be entered as a ‘Friend of the Court.’ \nErnie Fazio URL:https://limba.net/calendar/steve-levy-suff-cnty-exec-governors-race-sponsor-primepay/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR