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Sea Cliff crafts a new plan for safer streets said, “whether it be population or more vehicles on the street or more people working from The Village of Sea Cliff is home, the village has never conworking on a plan to improve sidered a lot of these issues, safety, mobility and the quality because they weren’t issues.” The village hired NV5, an of life for everyone who travels engineering and consulting around the village. Sea Cliff ’s Safe Streets for fir m based in Florida with All Comprehensive Safety offices across the country, to Action Plan is being funded by help devise its plan. NV5 specializ es in infraa $120,000 grant structure resilience, f ro m t h e f e d e r a l asset management Department of and road safety analT r a n s p o r t a t i o n ’s ysis. This spring, S a f e S t re e t s a n d the village and NV5 Roads for All probegan collecting gram, part of the crash data in the vilBipar tisan Infralage from 2019 to str ucture Law 2023, and analyzing signed into law by roadway safety. President Jose ph “ We d e f i n i t e l y Biden in 2021. Local have a couple of outmunicipalities can lier locations that submit applications we’ve identified,” for grant funding for BRUCE KENNEdY safe-streets initia- Village administrator Bill Nicolle, the project’s senior transtives. The funding is portation engineer, intended to support planning work, not construc- said, highlighting countyowned roads such as Glen Cove tion. Village Administrator Bruce Avenue and Sea Cliff Avenue as Kennedy acknowledged that a “ h i g h - i n j u r y n e t wo rk . ” while vehicle crashes are not Nicolle added that several vilfrequent in Sea Cliff, it’s still lage-owned streets also stand i m p o r t a n t t o p r o a c t ive l y out. “That list is still being address changing conditions. refined, but we had a couple “We’re dealing with issues that that floated to the surface right we never dealt with before,” he
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Dozens of residents at Sea Cliff Village Hall watched a presentation on composting, a wasteremoval procedure that involves recycling organic matter, such as food scraps and yard waste, into compost, a nutrient-rich soil amendment.
Village eyes food waste solutions
Gathering focuses on home and community composting By lUKE FEENEY lfeeney@liherald.com
Dozens of residents packed Sea Cliff Village Hall for a public meeting on Oct. 9 to hear about options for composting in the village and to share their thoughts on a possible community program. Laura Russo, co-chair of the village’s Environmental Conservation Commission, said she asked the state Department of Environmental Conservation this summer to organize the meeting after seeing a comment from Village Administrator Bruce Kennedy in the Herald that Sea Cliff ’s Department of Public Works “doesn’t have legal authorization from the Department of Environmental Conservation to compost any food waste.”
Dina Epstein, Russo’s fellow commission co-chair and a former village trustee said the meeting also aimed to gauge community interest in composting. “Is there a demand for the municipality to get involved, or is this something that people want to do at home and are currently doing at home?” she asked. The featured speaker was Daniel Ricci, Long Island recycling coordinator for the DEC, who walked residents through a 43-slide presentation on where residential waste goes, how it can be reduced and how composting works. According to the DEC, Nassau and Suffolk counties have the highest disposal rate of pounds, per person, per day in New York ContinueD on page 7
e’re trying to create a safer environment. If that means slower, that’s great.
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