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Villages to help pick contractor for 3rd track
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Guarantee of input is among many promises in published memorandum BY N O A H M A N S K A R Villages along the corridor of the Long Island Rail Road’s third track project will play a role in picking a contractor to design and build it, according to one village’s agreement with the LIRR. Officials from Floral Park, Mineola, New Hyde Park, Garden City and Westbury will have a collective representative at technical committee meetings to evaluate how well proposals from firms bidding for the project address community concerns, according to the LIRR’s memorandum of understanding with the Village of Floral Park. Another LIRR committee tasked with picking a contractor will include an “outside technical expert” and another person “with knowledge of the corridor and technical expertise,” the agreement says. The input promised to villages along the LIRR’s Main Line is one of several guarantees in the memo, which Floral Park officials published
online last Friday. While New Hyde Park has not made its agreement public and Mineola’s is still being finalized, these provisions explicitly refer to all five affected villages. Floral Park’s agreement, signed by Mayor Dominick Longobardi on July 11, says the selected contractor must create a plan to address local complaints, give advance notice of disruptions and work with the village to address problems. New Hyde Park officials have referred to similar provisions in their village’s agreement, but the village did not provide a copy of it this week. “I think everybody deserves to see what we’re doing,” Longobardi said of his village’s decision to publish its memo. “This issue is big. It’s tremendous.” Planners of the $2 billion project have been negotiating the agreements over the past several weeks with the eight affected municipalities along the 9.8-mile corridor beContinued on Page 50
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD
Town of North Hempstead officials pose in front of the swimming pool at Clinton G. Martin Park in New Hyde Park, where a $23 million renovation is underway. See story on page 2.
New NHP-GCP super hits the ground running BY N O A H MANSKAR Jennifer Morrison is among several fresh faces in the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park school district. The district’s new super-
intendent officially started her job July 1, about a year after new principals took over all four of its schools following a wave of retirements. Morrison was picked in the spring to replace Robert Katulak, who retired in June after nine years as super-
intendent. The relatively new staff has an opportunity to help the district grow, Morrison said, but must also keep the past in mind. “It’s a fresh set of eyes, but Continued on Page 50
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