The Town of North Hempstead will hold its monthly town board meeting Tuesday night where they are scheduled to hold public hearings to issue a $32 million bond for the Port Washington Police Department’s new headquarters and establish a $10 fee for banks to request duplicate tax bills.
Starting this year, the town board has opted to hold separate meetings for its monthly public hearings and regular board meetings. The meeting Tuesday will be combining both once again. It will be the only scheduled town meeting in July.
A total of six public hearings are scheduled Tuesday night beginning at 7 p.m.
A public hearing is scheduled Tuesday to consider issuing the $32 million bond for Port Washington Police Department’s new proposed headquarters.
The Port Washington Police Department has been seeking to establish a new headquarters, with plans developing over the past year when the land was purchased in 2023.
The proposed 25,350-square-foot, two-story building would be located on Port’s Main Street. The Police Department has said this would meet its growing demands and offer a more centralized location for the community.
The Port Police Department is seeking a maximum $32 million bond through the town for the construction of the headquarters and purchasing headquarter furnishings, equipment and machinery.
Two public hearings are scheduled for this topic. One is to authorize the Police Department’s improvements and another to issue the bond for it.
The board is also holding a public hearing to consider establishing a law that would require banks, lending institutions, financial institutions, title insurance companies or abstract companies or their agents to pay a $10 fee when they request a duplicate tax bill. This fee would also included if these same entities do not include the original bill in their payment.
The final three public hearings scheduled concern changes in street signage and traffic signs.
The first is in response to a petition to designate a secondary honorary name for Roslyn Heights’ Miller Place as “Anita ‘GG’ Conrow Place.” This second street name would be from Carlyle Place to St. Marks Place.
The other two are to establish a “No Stopping Here to Corner” restriction on the north side of Exford Place in Albertson and full stops of the northbound lane on Elm Street and eastbound on Dogwood Road in Roslyn.
Various other resolutions will be discussed Tuesday night, including the agreement termination with a law firm and the hiring of a new one for airplane traffic noise in the town, and multiple town agreements for a diversity of services.
