Community Preservation Fund
On Election Day 2016, Proposal 1, the Community Preservation Fund extension passed! This measure ensures continued open space and farmland preservation as well as water quality improvement on the East End!
Voters across the East End overwhelmingly supported the passage in:
· Riverhead: 75% YES
· Southhold: 80% YES
· Shelter Island: 70% YES
· Southampton: 80% YES
· East Hampton: 78% YES
What Does this Mean?
The Community Preservation Fund will protect open space and farmland until 2050, furthering its existing record of success, including the conservation of more than 10,000 acres.
And now, it will also help improve local waters that are threatened by nitrogen pollution by allowing up to 20% of revenue to be used to improve water quality. This could raise $700 million for local water quality improvement projects and will continue the Community Preservation Fund’s successful land protection work.
What’s Next? And How Can You Help?
All spending from this measure will be subject to independent annual audits, public hearings for all expenses and oversight by a committee of local citizens to ensure that funds are spent efficiently and appropriately.
That’s where you come in. We need you, as citizens, to be engaged in that process to ensure funding will be spent where it matters most. Stay tuned for hearings on water quality issues in your town.
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Organizations in support of the Community Preservation Fund
1943 Pizza Bar
Accabonac Protection Committee
Amagansett Springs Aquifer Protection
American Farmland Trust
Bartky Healthcare Center
Bay Burger
Bay View Pines Civic Association
Brewology
Bridgehampton National Bank
Brix & Rye
Citizens Advisory Council-West
Citizens’ Climate Lobby, Long Island East
Citizens Campaign for the Environment
Concerned Citizens of Montauk
Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty,
North Fork Office
DefendH2O
Diliberto Winery
East End Mushroom Company
East Marion Community Association
East Quogue Citizens Advisory Committee
East Quogue Civic Association
Edmund Hollander Landscape Architects
Farm Design LLC
Flanders Citizen Advisory Council
Flanders/Riverside/Northampton Comm. Ass’n
Forever Films Inc. & Forever Bungalows
Friends of Georgica Pond Foundation, Inc.
Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt
The Garden Club of East Hampton
Gardiner’s Marina
Group for the East End
The Group to Save Goldsmith Inlet
Halsey’s Marina
Hampton Bays Civic Association
Harbor Marina
The Jamesport-South Jamesport Civic Ass’n
League of Women Voters of the Hamptons
Leo S. Walsh Foundation
Long Island Environmental Voters Forum
Long Island Farm Bureau
Long Island Pine Barrens Society
Long Island Wine Council
The Market Whole Foods, Supplements, &
Café in Greenport
Mattituck-Laurel Civic Association
Miceli Contracting Company
The Nature Conservancy
New York League of Conservation Voters
Noah’s
North Fork Audubon Society
North Fork Environmental Council
Northville Beach Civic Association
Noyac Civic Council
Ocean Spray Hot Tubs and Saunas
Orient by the Sea
Orient Design
Paul Brennan, Douglas Elliman Real Estate
Peconic Baykeeper
Peconic Green Growth
Peconic Land Trust
Perfect Earth Project
Piazza Horticultural
Pickerell Boats Inc.
Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center
Portobello
Riverhead Neighborhood Protection Coalition
Rolling in Dough
The Safina Center at Stony Brook University
Salt Construction Corp
Sang Lee Farms
Save Sag Harbor
Save the Sound
Seacoast Enterprises Associates, Inc.
Sierra Club Long Island
Southampton Bayman’s Association
Southampton Water Protection Alliance
Southampton Town Civic Coalition
Speonk/Remsenburg Civic Association
Stelle Lomont Rouhani Architects
Surfrider Foundation – Eastern LI Chapter
Three Mile Harbor Marina
Times Review Media Group
Van Dyke & Hand, CPA
Village Real Estate
Wading River Civic Association
Water Mill Citizen Advisory Council
WATERWASH Projects
Westhampton Beach Conservation
Advisory Council
Wild Bird Crossing/Bridgehampton