Jan 2, 2013 11:25 AM
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone notified South Fork officials on New Year’s Eve that the county would not make the January 1, 2013, deadline for removing two trailers that house most of Suffolk’s homeless, convicted sex offenders from the town, as he had promised last summer.
In delivering the news to local officials, Mr. Bellone—who held a press conference in the lobby of Southampton Town Hall last spring to announce that he was making the homeless sex offender issue a top priority, and that the trailers would be removed by the end of 2012—did renew his pledge to have the two trailers, located in Westhampton and Riverside, vacated as soon as possible.
He said the turmoil following Hurricane Sandy primarily drew his attention away from the issue of the sex offender housing... more
In delivering the news to local officials, Mr. Bellone—who held a press conference in the lobby of Southampton Town Hall last spring to announce that he was making the homeless sex offender issue a top priority, and that the trailers would be removed by the end of 2012—did renew his pledge to have the two trailers, located in Westhampton and Riverside, vacated as soon as possible.
He said the turmoil following Hurricane Sandy primarily drew his attention away from the issue of the sex offender housing... more
What exactly was accomplished over that rather lengthy period of time. The Mayan Calendar Gambit? A miraculous solution was going to be immaculately birthed between Sandy and New Years Eve.
Give us a break. There was no chance those trailers were getting moved - Bellone knows it, Throne-Holst knows ...more it, Schneiderman knows it. Heck the occupants of the trailers knew it.
Last question - is there anyone reading this who didn't know it?
How about a follow-up story documenting what has and hasn't been done? How about a real time table as to what is going to be done and some penalty for failure to adhere to the published schedule?
Local residents find themselves on the losing end of the NIMBY stick.
Like the Sunday comics used to say = There oughta be a law