(MINEOLA, N.Y.) – Nassau County Legislator Scott M. Davis (D – Rockville Centre) secured nearly $8.8 million in bond authorization to fund critical streetscape and traffic safety projects across the First Legislative District in the County’s Fiscal Year 2025 capital infrastructure plan.
These investments in Nassau County’s future – totaling $8,793,200 – were approved in a unanimous vote by the full Nassau County Legislature on April 23. Its passage marked a major victory for the Democratic minority, which secured nearly $43 million in borrowing authority for vital projects benefiting their constituents.
Legislator Davis secured bond authorization for these District 1 priorities in the FY 25 plan:
CONTINUING PROJECTS
- $6,484,800, Peninsula Boulevard, Hempstead – Streetscape and Traffic Safety
- $508,500, Franklin Avenue, Hempstead - Streetscape and Traffic Safety
- $493,700, Clinton Avenue, Hempstead - Streetscape and Traffic Safety
- $400,000, Joysetta & Julius Pearse African American Museum of Nassau County
- $306,200, Washington Avenue, Hempstead - Streetscape and Traffic Safety Initiative
- $100,000, North Village Avenue, Rockville Centre - Streetscape and Traffic Safety
NEW PROJECTS
- $250,000, Greenwich Street, Hempstead - Streetscape and Traffic Safety Initiative
- $250,000, Lakeview Avenue, Rockville Centre – Streetscape and Traffic Safety
Adoption of the FY 2025 plan was delayed for months as a result of County Executive Blakeman’s refusal to equitably fund $1.3 million in grants for firefighters, EMS squads and village police departments in districts served by Democratic legislators. The Minority Caucus successfully leveraged bond authorization – which requires a 13-vote supermajority to pass - to break the more than yearlong blockade.
“The communities of District 1 rely heavily upon our local County roads as they live their daily lives, engage in commerce, seek medical care and enjoy all that Nassau has to offer – and it is imperative that we invest in modernizing those thoroughfares and making them safer for all,” Legislator Davis said. “I am proud to support a FY 25 capital bond ordinance that funds these essential infrastructure priorities, prioritizes a safer Peninsula Boulevard safer for motorists and pedestrians alike, and delivers essential grants for our brave local first responders.”