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    From: "Butterfield, Kevin" <Kevin.Butterfield@suffolkcountyny.gov>
    Subject: RE: PORT JEFFERSON / WADING RIVER BIKE PATH
    Date: July 10, 2018 at 1:29:42 PM EDT
    To: "7g7p7y7@gmail.com" <7g7p7y7@gmail.com>

    Hello,
    
    This is the Division of Community Affairs. Thank you for your email, we appreciate you taking the time to contact the County Executive’s office.   The County regularly receives hundreds of phone calls, letters and e-mails. The County Executive makes it a priority to address constituent issues that come to our office.
    
    This project was included in the 2018 Capital Budget, which was adopted by the Legislature in June 2017. The way it works in Suffolk County, the County Executive must go back to the Legislature during the year when his departments are ready to execute each of the projects included in the capital budget. We followed that process for this project and the Legislature unanimously approved using bonds for every one of these projects.
    
    After we receive the conceptual approval to bond for the project from the Legislature, we must then have a separate bond resolution approved by 12 of the 18 members, a supermajority, of the Legislature. As the Chief Budget Officer for the County, it is the County Executive’s responsibility to administer the capital budget, including the necessary legislative steps to complete capital projects.
    
    Having separate bond resolutions for every single capital project is basically only done in Suffolk County.
    
    In every other County our size, the bond resolutions are bundled together with other similar, pre-approved projects. Simply put: it’s the standard practice for municipal bonding and there is no good reason to continue to waste time and money on individual bond resolutions.
    
    At the June 5 General Meeting, this year, the County Executive presented several bond resolutions packaged together, enabling the Legislature to take 2 roll call votes instead of 27 separate roll call votes.
    
    The bond resolutions that were packaged together were for projects that every single legislator supported. Not a single project included in either bundle was remotely controversial or unpopular, road improvements, infrastructure repairs, basic equipment purchases and the like. Not a single legislator voiced a concern about any of the projects, and not a single legislator voiced a concern about bonding for any of the projects.
    
    And yet, the bond for this project failed because NO REPUBLICAN voted to approve it.
    
    The bond for the project has been reintroduced and the Legislature is likely to vote for its bond at their July 17 meeting.
    
    If you would like to lend your support to this important project, please consider reaching out to one of the seven legislators who voted against the funding for the project:
    
    Minority Leader Tom Cilmi                           631-854-0940
    Legislator Rudy Sunderman                         631-852-1300
    Legislator Tom Muratore                              631-854-9292
    Legislator Steve Flotteron                            631-854-4100
    Legislator Leslie Kennedy                             631-854-3735
    Legislator Robert Trotta                                631-854-3900
    Legislator Kevin McCaffrey                          631-854-1100
    
    
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    Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone
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    From: MICKEY AHIMSA [mailto:7g7p7y7@gmail.com]
    Sent: Friday, July 06, 2018 7:53 PM
    To: Squicciarino, Seth; BLOWER@NYSENATE.GOV; legislatoranker6@gmail.com; County Executive
    Cc: Suffolk Bicycle Riders Association (SBRA)
    Subject: PORT JEFFERSON / WADING RIVER BIKE PATH
    
    SETH,
    
    PLEASE STRESS TO MS HAHN AND MS ANKER THE IMPORTANCE OF SEPARATING OUT THE BIKE PATH LEGISLATION FROM THE “BUNDLE” OF BILLS IT IS NOW A PART OF.
    
    MEMBERS OF THE SUFFOLK BICYCLE RIDERS ASSOCIATION AND MEMBERS OF THE LI GREENBELT TRAIL CONFERENCE (BOTH OF WHICH I AM A MEMBER OF) WANT TO HOLD ANY LEGISLATOR’S FEET TO THE FIRE
    & ACTIVELY WORK TO DEFEAT THEM IF THEY DO NOT PASS THIS LONG AWAITED PROJECT THAT HAS 80% FEDERAL FUNDING ATTACHED..  IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT THIS GETS DONE BY THE THE JULY 17TH
    GENERAL LEGISLATIVE MEETING. HAVING ITS OWN BILL NUMBER WILL GIVE THOSE WHO VOTE AGAINST IT NO PLACE TO HIDE AND NO EXCUSE FOR MY FRIENDS AND I TO ACTIVELY WORK TO SEE THAT THEY NO LONGER REPRESENT US.
    
    THANKS IN ADVANCE,
    
    MICKEY AHIMSA CANTWELL
    101 OWASCO DR
    PORT JEFFERSON 11777-1677