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vol. 3, no. 28
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Westchester, Suffolk generated jobs at lower cost from 2010-12 BY B I LL SAN ANtONIO The Nassau County Industrial Development Agency generated more jobs than its contemporaries in Suffolk and Westchester counties just once from 2010-13, despite regularly approving more projects and granting many millions more in tax breaks, a Blank Slate Media analysis of state comptroller data has found. Nassau’s IDA during that period also recovered from businesses a smaller percentage of the tax breaks it approved through payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreements, also known as PILOTs, than their counterparts in Westchester and Suffolk counties. In 2013, the most recent year for which state comptroller data of IDA activity is available, the Nassau IDA granted $23,611 in exemptions for every job it gained, more than 10 times the state median and considerably higher than Suffolk ($644 per job) and West-
chester ($1,563 per job). That year, the Nassau IDA approved 278 projects worth more than $2.9 billion and granted $43,325,571 in net tax breaks, recovering 37 percent of the exemptions through pilots. Joseph Kearney, the Nassau County IDA’s executive director, told Blank Slate Media in early June that the IDA’s 2013 data was inaccurate and that updated figures would be submitted to Albany. Kearny said Tuesday the updated 2013 data has not been sent to the state comptroller’s office yet, and that they are waiting for three not-for-profit companies to send the IDA their numbers. He said the three companies were “not included in the last go around.” He said the IDA would reach out to the three companies Tuesday, adding he expected to submit the numbers within a week to 10 days. There are 109 active industrial Continued on Page 54
PHOTO BY BILL BURTON
Fireworks lit up the sky above Harbor Hill Road Saturday as part of a July 4th celebration in East Hills. see story on Page 2.
Temple program founded by two teens gets grant BY B I LL SAN ANtONIO
tion, they have been awarded a grant to expand their initiative. Sinai’s Hand in Hand proMore than a year after two gram received funding from teenage members of Temple Si- the New York City non-profit nai of Roslyn Heights founded Herman Goldman Foundation a program to mentor Long Is- in support of continued serland’s homeless youth popula- vices during the 2015-16 aca-
demic year. “Since many of these kids lack positive consistent adult guidance, they need help to reach their potential for a better future, which is what we and all the other teens enjoy Continued on Page 55
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