(SANDS POINT, N.Y.) – Nassau County Legislature Minority Leader Delia DeRiggi-Whitton (D – Glen Cove) has secured $100,000 in bond authorization in Nassau County’s Fiscal Year 2025 Capital Infrastructure Plan for key public safety equipment upgrades for the Sands Point Police Department. The plan includes $30,000 in bond authorization for a license plate reader/radar unit and $70,000 for the Department’s phone system.
The Wednesday, April 23 vote to allocate the funds as part of a $1.3 million package of capital plan funding and bond authorizations for 14 public safety agencies represents a major victory for the Minority Caucus. Democratic lawmakers successfully leveraged their votes on the capital infrastructure plan – which requires a 13-vote supermajority to pass - to end the Blakeman administration’s more than yearlong freeze on first responder grants and other crucial community projects for districts represented by Democratic legislators.
Minority Leader DeRiggi-Whitton applied for the license plate reader funding on August 1, 2022 and the phone system on Feb. 16, 2022.
“The Sands Point Police Department is emblematic of the outstanding work that local law enforcement agencies do on a daily basis to keep communities safe, and it is essential for Nassau County to support them in their efforts,” Minority Leader DeRiggi-Whitton said. “That is why my caucus stood shoulder to shoulder and fought so hard to secure these funds – and I am thrilled that our collective victory means that our first responders will get the resources they need so that they can continue to excel.”