LONG BEACH, NY — The Long Beach City Council is set to meet Tuesday night with an 11-item agenda featuring resolutions on water treatment plant work, tax certiorari settlements and auto repair services.
The meeting will kick off at 7 p.m. on the sixth floor of city hall.
Here are some of the major items on the agenda:
Emergency Wastewater Treatment Plant Work
Per the city's agenda, only one primary tank is operational at Long Beach's wastewater treatment plant right now. That lack of additional operating tanks is causing problems with solid waste removal, the city said.
According to a memo obtained by Patch, city officials said the city could face fines if the issue with the wastewater tanks is not resolved in a timely manner.
In that memo, officials said a request for bids was sent out and the most responsible bid to fix the tanks came from Plainview-based RJ Industries. That bid, the city said, would run at a cost of $200,000 for the repair work.
Long Beach wastewater was in headlines earlier this year when an operator error led to 30,000 gallons of partially treated sewage sludge leaking toward the Reynolds Channel, although the city attributed that incident to operator error and not to any faulty equipment.
Long Beach Joining A Long Island-Wide Water Conference
Also on the agenda Tuesday is a resolution that would bring Long Beach into the Long Island Water Conference Cooperative, an Island-wide initiative administered by the Roslyn Water District that gives other districts access to educational workshops on water conservation, chemical safety, technology and other areas.
The cooperative would also, per memos obtained by Patch, help the city gain access to contracts that could safeguard it against price increases to water equipment and services down the road.
If approved, Long Beach would be the 30th member of the water conference co-op.
Long Beach is no stranger to work on its water infrastructure, as water main and meter replacement efforts have carried on for much of the past two years.
Payment Of A $160,000 Tax Reduction Refund
The city is also set to discuss the payment of a tax certiorari proceeding involving an apartment building within the city limits, a settlement that would pay out $60,000 in tax refunds to the owner of the property within 90 days of settlement and the remaining $100,000 to the owner by Sept. 1, 2027.
That settlement comes after negotiations between the city and the attorney for the property owner, who was initially seeking a refund of $280,000, city documents say.
The full city council agenda is available here, with backup documents available here.
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