Peconic Estuary Partnership seeks CPF money from towns
Should Southold Town allocate a portion of its Community Preservation Fund revenues to help the Peconic Estuary Partnership?
The organization, which works to protect the waterways and wetlands surrounding Peconic Bay, has asked all five towns on the East End to chip in, with the goal of matching its federal allocation of $700,000 over three years.
“We’re looking to towns to assist us with funds that can be used operationally for the program as well as for the ongoing water quality work and habitat work that we do around the Peconics,” PEP executive director Joyce Novak explained to the Town Board during a work session Tuesday.
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As taxpayers and the people who control the purse strings debate how public money should be spent, and as the state hopes to dig its way out of a financial hole by letting your neighbor grow taxable marijuana in his backyard, there is some very good news about our money and what it’s being used for.
The Peconic Estuary Partnership, which works for environmental protection and programming, has received more than double its normal funding under the final New York State budget. The package includes $450,000 for PEP, which last year received $200,000 from the state.
The funding will allow PEP to expand its partnership with Stony Brook University on a critical water quality study and on efforts to restore bay scallop populations and eelgrass in the Peconics.
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