What's happening
This bill raises the highway expense limit in Smithtown, Suffolk County to one million two hundred thousand dollars.
Why it matters
Enables greater investment in local infrastructure. By raising the expense limit, Smithtown can now allocate significantly more funds for highway repairs, maintenance, and improvements, potentially leading to better road conditions and enhanced public safety.
Reflects increased costs and changing needs. The new limit likely accounts for inflation, population growth, and the rising costs of materials and labor, ensuring the town’s spending authority keeps pace with actual expenses.
May affect local property taxes or budgeting priorities. With a higher expenditure cap, Smithtown officials may need to adjust budgets or revenue sources, which could have downstream impacts on taxpayers and the allocation of town resources.
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Raise Smithtown Highway Spending Limit
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History
- Referred to transportation
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 63–0
- Home rule request
- Ordered to third reading cal.1024
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to transportation
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to transportation
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 63–0
Show 5 earlier actions
- Home rule request
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.701
- Referred to transportation
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Raise Smithtown Highway Spending Cap
In Assembly Committee · Transportation · Sponsor Michael J. Fitzpatrick
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3522
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 24, 2017
Introduced by Sen. FLANAGAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to the limitation on certain highway expenses in the town of Smithtown, Suffolk county
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subparagraph 1-e of paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 271 of the highway law, as added by chapter 500 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
(1-e) [Eight] One million two hundred thousand dollars in the town of Smithtown in Suffolk county.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07713-01-7
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the highway law, in relation to the limitation on certain highway expenses in the town of Smithtown, Suffolk county
Purpose
To increase the amount that the Town of Smithtown may spend for the purchase of stone crushers, power rollers, motor trucks, scarifiers, concrete mixers, traction engines or road machines for grading and scraping equipment, tools and other implements.
Summary of provisions
This bill amends the subparagraph 1-e of paragraph a of subdivision 3 of § 271 of the Highway Law to increase the amount that the Town of Smithtown may spend for the purchase of stone crushers, power rollers, motor trucks, scarifiers, concrete mixers, traction engines or road machines for grading and scraping, equipment, tools and other implements.
Justification
The Town of Smithtown has a population of approximately 116,000 people and has grown by approximately 3,000 in the past decade. The Town's Highway Department services over 470 miles of road. Due to the miles of roadway and the volume of traffic these roads endure each year, as well as the fact that more than one-half of the Highway Department's fleet is over fifteen years old and the fact that the cost of equipment has increased by approximately fifty percent within the past decade, the $800,000 limit is completely inadequate to meet the needs of the residents. In order to meet such needs, an increase in the authorized spending limit is required.
Prior legislative history
2009: Transportation Cmte. 2010: S.5692 Passed Senate 2011-12: S.4686 Passed Senate 2013-14: Passed Senate 2015-16: Passed Senate
Fiscal implications
None to the state.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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