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Suffolk County will have a budget surplus of over $500 million over the next two years, a stark difference from the economic disaster the county predicted last year during the worst of the pandemic.
An additional $285 million in the federal American Rescue Plan and better than expected sales tax revenue buoyed Suffolk’s finances.
Last summer, County Executive Steve Bellone blamed the pandemic for an expected budget deficit of $1.5 billion over three years. He said he needed to make $70 million in cuts to county transportation, health and police services. That’s even after the federal government sent $287 million in the federal CARES Act to the county. Suffolk was at the epicenter of the pandemic.
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A student group that lobbies for climate action is disappointed in New York lawmakers for failing to pass certain environmental bills during the past legislative session. Students for Climate Action was started in Sayville, Long Island, in 2017. The group has since launched student chapters across the rest of New York, Massachusetts and Texas.
Harrison Bench, deputy director of Students for Climate Action, wanted lawmakers to loosen state regulations to give schools more time to pay for solar energy projects.
“There s always going to be a very large, immediate cost to that,” Bench said. “But what this regulation is saying is, if you re unable to pay off that debt in 18 years, you cannot pursue that. And that is actually a shorter time here than the federal limit of 25 years.