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Subject: [NYSUFFOL] Peconic County Plan Suffers Another Setback
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 11:34:20 EST

Dear Suffolk-Rootsers, etc.,


Today's NEWSDAY (page A39) has an article (the first 3 paragraphs appear
after my signature) about how the movement to form a new Peconic County
suffered another legal setback yesterday.

There are folks on the "East End" -- the Towns of Riverhead, Southold,
Southampton, East Hampton and Shelter Island -- that want these 5 Towns to
secede from Suffolk County and form Peconic County. If successful, Peconic
would then be the 63rd current county in New York State.

For those who have their copy of the 1998 or 1999 LI Population Survey or
have already downloaded the report from the Suffolk County Cooperative
Library web site (e-Mail me directly if you need instructions on how to
access and download the report), you'll find the 5 eastern Towns of Suffolk
County on pages 2 and 15 (map) and 3 (population estimate).

For all those Suffolk-Rootsers who wish to see the entire story but can not
access
the web, please e-Mail me directly and I will then e-Mail the entire story to
you.


Sincerely,

Walter Greenspan

Peconic County Plan Suffers Another Setback
--by Bill Bleyer, STAFF WRITER

The movement by East End officials to form a new Peconic County
suffered another legal setback yesterday.
The state Appellate Division upheld a lower court ruling that threw
out a lawsuit by East End municipalities that sued the state to force
the Legislature to enact a law for creation of new counties. The
appellate panel agreed with a state Supreme Court ruling that the
plaintiffs-four East End towns, eight villages and nonprofit groups and
individuals -had no legal standing to sue the state Legislature over its
failure to adopt a law that would permit carving the new county out of
the five easternmost Suffolk towns.
An attorney for the plaintiffs, Stephen Grossman of Sag Harbor, said
there would be an appeal, either to the state Court of Appeals or to the
federal courts. "The plaintiffs are not done," he said. "It's something
people want, and we're going to continue to fight for it." Following a
feasibility study on the creation of a new county in 1995, the East End
towns passed a law requesting that the state enact a law permitting the
towns to vote in a binding referendum on the creation of Peconic County.
A bill to do that was introduced in Albany in 1997, but neither the
Assembly nor Senate acted on it.

EDITION: NASSAU AND SUFFOLK
SECTION: News
DATE: 12-24-1999
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