Business View Civil and Municipal | June 2022

89 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 6 V I LLAGE OF PATCHOGUE , NEW YORK thermostats, LED lighting, and solar panels in village buildings. A solar carport is also being installed in one of the municipal lots. The goal is for the energy savings to offset the expense associated with the project which was funded with a bond. Village officials and staff are adept at finding funding through grants and appropriations. According to Devlin, “We will be embarking on an $12 million waste-water treatment plant expansion, funded by NY State Department of Environmental Conservation Water Quality Improvement Project ($7.7 million) and a federal infrastructure appropriation through Senators Schumer Gillibrand and Congressman Zeldin ($3.5 million). The plan will permit expansion of the sewer infrastructure beyond the village into surrounding communities to the east and west. This makes it a project of regional significance which will spur economic development in those communities and help them deal with their aging septic systems while protecting the bay from nitrogen pollution.” The village is also embarking on a plan to connect 500 homes in the south end of the village to the treatment plant with $21 million in funding from New York State. This will be a phased project with Phase 1 commencing in 2022/2023. “Patchogue is open for business,” exclaims Mayor Pontieri. “We have proven that public investment creates the value needed to encourage private development and in the long run raise property values for the residents.” New business investment includes a Starbucks which just opened in the downtown, the first one ever in the village. NYU Langone Health has acquired the LI Community Hospital in East Patchogue and is in negotiations to establish an outpatient facility on Main Street on the site of a 53,000 sq ft former Burlington Coat Factory