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JUNE 16, 2011 - LIPA ANNOUNCES DECOMMISSIONING OF GLENWOOD LANDING POWER PLANT (click to read LIPA press release)

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On June 16, 2011, the Long Island Power Authority and National Grid announced the decommissioning of the Power Plant in Glenwood Landing.  While the large brick building where Glenwood Road intersects with Shore Road (#1) is slated for demolition along with the fuel storage tanks and storage building (#2),  much of the facility will remain (#'s 3, 4, 5). 

Tax Implications

SUPERINTENDENT DISCUSSES TAX IMPLICATIONS OF POWER PLANT DEMOLITION, OPTING OUT AND OTHER ISSUES AT “CHAT” FORUMS

May 5, 2015 --The tax implications of the Glenwood Power Plant demolition, teacher evaluations, opting out, and the budget  were among the many issues discussed at two “Chats with the Superintendent” held last Tuesday, April 28. . . Dr. Melnick stated that the decommissioning of the Glenwood Landing Power Plant would have “no impact” on residents’ tax bills in 2015-16.  READ MORE

GWL POWER PLANT RAMP-DOWN WILL HAVE "MINIMAL" IMPACT ON HOMEOWNERS' TAXES THIS YEAR, SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFICIALS SAY

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September 29, 2014 -- The decommissioning and demolition of the Glenwood Landing power plant will not come close to having the devastating impact on residential property owners' school tax bills this year that some had once feared.   Last week, the Nassau County Assessors office provided final numbers to the North Shore School District on the amount of the school tax levy for which each of the four property classes would be responsible in 2014-15.  READ MORE


2013 ARTICLES

NORTH SHORE SUPERINTENDENT REPORTS BRIGHTENING FISCAL OUTLOOK AS BUDGET SEASON NEARS

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November 23, 2013 North Shore Schools Superintendent Dr. Ed Melnick reported at Thursday evening’s Board of Education meeting that the fiscal outlook for next year's budget is much better than expected.  The brightening forecast is due to a reduction in the anticipated district contribution to the Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS), lower than expected health insurance premiums, and what appears to be near certainty that the tax shift from the Glenwood Landing LIPA ramp down will have far less of an impact on residential tax rates in the short term than once feared. READ MORE

NS SUPERINTENDENT MELNICK WARNS OF 19% TAX HIKE IN 2014-15

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July 1, 2013 -- At this evening's board of education meeting, North Shore Schools Superintendent, Ed Melnick warned the audience that  North Shore residents may see their school taxes increase as much as 19% in the 2014-15 School Year.  The increase is result of a new proposal worked out by the state legislature and Governor and a reassessment of LIPA's Glenwood property.  Read More. . .

LIPA DEAL'S IMPACT ON NSSD UNCLEAR AS SEN. MARCELLINO AND BOE PRES. OFFER DIFFERING
ACCOUNTS OF '14-'15 TAX SHIFT

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June 28, 2013.  At a public meeting  last evening, New York State Senator Carl Marcellino explained the LIPA reforms  recently passed by the state legislature and an agreement between LIPA, the  legislature and Governor regarding the reduction of the utility's tax payments  to school districts like North Shore.  Read more. . .


Northword Editorial

POWER PLANT COMMUNITIES  DESERVE BETTER THAN WHAT'S BEING OFFERED

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If you’ve been reading Newsday over the past few months, you would quickly realize that that news outlet has little sympathy for the North Shore community or the other power plant communities -Northport, Port  Jefferson, and Island Park - that are likely to see enormous tax hikes in the near
future.  No fewer than four  recently published editorials have made  the argument that for decades taxpayers  in these communities have lived off the backs of other Long Islanders as high utility rates have subsidized a lower tax burden for those who live in the shadows of smokestacks. Read more . . .

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The Property's Future

NATIONAL GRID OUTLINES PLANS FOR GLENWOOD LANDING PROPERTY AND TAXES AT MEETING WITH NS RESIDENTS

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January 25, 2014 -- At a meeting with North Shore residents on Thursday evening, representatives of National Grid made clear their intentions to “black top” with asphalt the waterfront property on Hempstead Harbor after demolition of the iconic 1920s era building is completed and the land remediated.  READ MORE


re-PLANTING CULTIVATES REFLECTION AND RETHINKING OF GWL WATERFRONT 

April 29, 2015 -- Residents filled the meeting room of the Glenwood Community Church this past Earth Day, for re-PLANTING, an exhibition that was in part a memorial service for the Glenwood Landing Power Plant station two, the iconic beaux arts building with its six smoke stacks that dominated the Glenwood waterfront for nearly a century, as well as a celebration of the earth and, as event organizer Greg Sturge put it, an opportunity to "germinate new ideas and fertilize existing ones about how to nurture creative and environmentally sound growth in Hempstead Harbor and surrounding communities." READ MORE

SEA CLIFF RESIDENT WITH AN APPRECIATION OF THE PAST AND A VISION FOR THE FUTURE LEADS FIGHT TO SAVE THE GLENWOOD LANDING POWER PLANT

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 July 30, 2013 -- For the last several months, Karin Barnaby, a long time resident of Sea Cliff and former North Shore School Board Trustee,  has focused much of her time and energy on addressing the  question, “What’s next for the Glenwood Power Plant?"   
     Concerned that by demolishing the iconic structure at the corner of Glenwood Road and Shore Road in Glenwood Landing, “National Grid aims merely to reduce its own tax-assessment—remediate the site to minimum standards,
fence off and cover it with asphalt and/or gravel and leave it undeveloped and inaccessible for public use;”  and, knowing the utility will retain so much “ugly, power-generating and transmission infrastructure there—turbines, fuel tanks, transmission towers and hi-tension power lines—to
make it inhospitable for most alternative uses, thus leaving a permanent  hole in the community’s tax base,” Barnaby has sought to protect the building from the wrecking ball so that it can be “repurposed as a commercial, tax-paying enterprise as quickly as possible to help alleviate the  devastating financial impact of the utility’s decommissioning."  Read more . .  .


FUTURE POSSIBILITIES

Petition to Save the Power Plant Building

Chelsea Piers Connecticut

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NY Times Article

Wall Street Journal Article

YONKERS GLENWOOD REPURPOSING PROJECT

E-MAIL TO TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD SUPERVISOR JON KAIMAN, July 25, 2013

- From Karin Barnaby

"At this time, I would like to request that you, Supervisor Kaiman, TONH Council  members and National Grid representatives, together with Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County and Albany leaders, convene a public forum about saving and repurposing the GWL plant, as a first step toward the regeneration and revitalization of a visitor-and-user-friendly Glenwood Landing-Hempstead Harbor waterfront."  Read complete statement . . .

The Past

The Rise and Fall of LILCO - from The Gale Directory of Company Histories

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The "Death" of LILCO and Birth of LIPA

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SHOREHAM - DECADES LATER
Long Island Press.com

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Links

HUNTINGTON FIRST  TO REJECT LIPA SETTLEMENT - SEES PROPOSAL AS A STARTING POINT (Huntington Patch)

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Town of Huntington  v. Long Island Power Authority                    - Court Upholds Town's and School District's Right to sue LIPA 

NEWSDAY EDITORIAL - POWER PLANT COMMUNITIES HAVE BEEN FREELOADING FOR TOO LONG - SHOULD ACCEPT LIPA DEAL

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Newsday editorial board argues that Huntington Town Supervisor Frank Petrone should accept LIPA deal that will greatly raise taxes on residents.  See Newsday editorial

GOVERNOR CUOMO'S PRESS RELEASE ANNOUNCING "END TO LIPA AS WE KNOW IT."

LIPA TAX PAYMENTS TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO DECLINE 10% PER YEAR BEGINNING IN 2014 UNDER PROPOSED SETTLEMENT; ELECTRIC RATE SAVINGS MINUSCULE COMPARED TO TAX INCREASES IN POWER PLANT COMMUNITIES
Newsday, June 20

LIPA BILL EASILY PASSES STATE LEGISLATURE;  NO SETTLEMENT ON TAX ASSESSMENTS REACHED
Newsday, June 20 

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TEXT OF LIPA BILL

June 5, 2013 - LIPA - PSEG Contract

Newsday Editorial, July 1, 2011 - LIPA'S DECISION TO  DE-COMMISSION GLENWOOD POWER PLANT THE RIGHT MOVE

NEWSDAY EDITORIAL - POWER PLANT COMMUNITIES SHOULD ACCEPT DEAL REDUCING LIPA'S TAX OBLIGATION EVEN THOUGH IT  WILL BRING ABOUT MASSIVE TAX HIKES TO RESIDENTS OR DRACONIAN CUTS TO PROGRAMS

Newsday Editorial - Don't Give Help to Districts With LIPA Plants

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