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Friday, July 21, 2017
Vol. 66, No. 29
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Villages to help pick contractor for 3rd track
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Guarantee of input 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 Continued on Page 50
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MINEOLA MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Children made their own terrariums at the Mineola Memorial Library last Friday with Glenn Aldridge from the Clark Botanic Garden in Albertson.
Librarians book a trip back in Mineola’s history BY N O A H MANSKAR With new high-end apartment buildings, a state-of-theart medical research center and other changes, Mineola
looks much different today than it did a decade ago. But residents new and old will soon be able to look even further back in time with a forthcoming book by two village librarians.
Mineola’s entry in the “Images of America” series from Arcadia Publishing traces the village’s development from the late 1800s to the present in more than 190 photos, colContinued on Page 50
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