- Sponsored legislation to fight New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s efforts to tax Suffolk County residents who work in New York City. Recently, the Mayor has backed off his pledge largely due to protests led by county officials like Legislator Lindsay.
- Co-sponsored legislation to support a 10% property tax exemption for volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers.
- Supported the Riverhead Resorts development proposal, a project that could bring thousands of visitors to Suffolk County, create hundreds of jobs and bring enormous tax revenue to the County, Riverhead Town and the Riverhead School District.
Public Safety
- Supported funding for the Suffolk County Police Athletic League’s Indent-a-Kit program that helps parents log a child’s vital information such as DNA in the event of an emergency. Legislator Lindsay also coordinates and hosts many events in conjunction with the PAL to help parents access this important program.
- Co-sponsor of legislation for a pilot program to force sex-offenders to wear global positioning units so their whereabouts are better known to authorities.
- Legislator Lindsay co-sponsored legislation so the county could purchase two new Medevac helicopters.
- When then County Executive Robert Gaffney cut money for training Suffolk County firefighters, Legislator Lindsay co-sponsored legislation to restore the training funds.
- Sponsored legislation for the purchase of additional Smart Signs that indicate a automobile driver’s speed in areas where careful driving is most important to pedestrian safety.
- Sponsored Legislation that prevented the closing of the East Moriches Coast Guard facilities.
- Supported the effort to help improve response times of our Emergency Medical Teams.
- Voted to create a tuition assistance program at Suffolk Community College for volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers.
- Fought for funding for the Suffolk County DARE program, an educational effort by our county police department to help keep children from using drugs and alcohol.
Environment
- Scored a perfect 100% rating on environmental issues, according to the New York League of Conservation Voters.
- Prime sponsor of legislation providing $1 million to reseed the Great South Bay with hard shell clams.
- Co-sponsored legislation to put a $75 million bond for open space preservation on the ballot. The bond was approved overwhelmingly by the voters of Suffolk County.
- Co-sponsored legislation to put a filtration system in all county storm drains that enter into our waterways. The system filters out up to 90% of pollutants from storm water runoff.
- Fought to have the Suffolk County Water Authority build a multi-million dollar iron removal plant in Holbrook, to improve water quality and water pressure.
- Sponsored legislation to secure nearly $200,000 to clean up the old wallpaper factory in Ronkonkoma.
- Co-sponsored legislation to penalize illegal clearing or building in the Suffolk County Pine Barrens.
- Sponsored legislation to add valuable holdings to the San Soucci Land Preserve.
- Sponsored the legislation that preserved Sayville’s Loughlin Vineyards and Oakdale’s Brick Kiln property. Each is a valuable parcel that is in need of preservation by the county for future generations.
- Legislator Lindsay is working to support the exploration of new, sensible technologies that are cost-effective like the fuel cell pilot program installed at the Legislature’s Rogers Building in Hauppauge.
Health
- Voted to support Tobacco 19, a law that makes it illegal for 18-year-olds to purchase tobacco products, thus preventing underage teens from getting tobacco products from their older classmates.
- Supporting our veterans, Legislator Lindsay voted to have New York State reinstate funding for our veterans’ nursing homes.
- Fought to make the Federal Government pass the Breast Cancer Protection Act.
- Co-sponsored legislation to place Automatic External Defibrillators in all Suffolk County Police cars, parks, and nursing homes.
- Created Joe’s Project to provide mental health and support services to Suffolk County residents directly impacted by suicide.
- Co-sponsored legislation to prohibit sale of DXM (Dextromethorphan) to minors.
- Co-sponsored legislation to fund Automated External Defibrillators for county facilities, leased cars and fire departments, extending our ability to save lives.
Consumer Protection
- Authored legislation to stop auto glass repair companies from installing front windshields at outside locations where conditions make for unsafe installations that can make the windshield fail in the event of an accident.
- Sponsored legislation to require that multi-billion dollar companies make consumers aware that they are deducting fees from their gift cards.
- Seeking to protect consumers at tax time, Legislator Lindsay supported legislation to have consumers made aware of fees unknowingly deducted from those seeking refund anticipation loans.
- Sponsored legislation to establish a county website page listing stores violating item pricing law.
- Co-sponsored legislation to significantly increase the fines paid by gas station owners who cheat consumers.
- Authored legislation forcing department stores to display the price of individual items purchased by consumers so consumers can see if they are being charged the correct price.
- Co-sponsored the creation of a county web site that lists the 10 worst businesses operating in Suffolk County.
- With Cablevision rates soaring, Legislator Lindsay co-sponsored legislation for the creation of an oversight committee to watch over Cablevision.
Public Works
- Co-coordinated with the Holbrook Chamber of Commerce, Verizon, the Town of Islip and many community members to turn a dusty, garbage strewn corner in Holbrook into a beautifully landscaped corner on Patchogue-Holbrook Road.
- Fought for more than $100,000 in funding to repair and replace an important stretch of sidewalk and roadway near an elementary school in Oakdale.
- Authored legislation that secured a total of $2,000,000 to build new sidewalks along Main Street in Sayville and into West Sayville with plans to continue west.
- Spearheaded the effort to help the Holbrook Fire Department take over an abandoned building to be used as a public civic hall for the entire community.
- Secured more than a million dollars to repair and repave Nicolls Road in Bayport and Holbrook as well as more than three-quarters of a million dollars for reconstruction of the medians along Patchogue Holbrook Road in Holbrook.
- Co-sponsored legislation to secure $2.2 million to renovate Raynor Park in Ronkonkoma.
- Co-sponsored legislation to rename a portion of Suffolk Avenue in Sayville as “Lieutenant David Halderman Way” and a portion of Veterans Memorial Highway as “John Napolitano Way.” Both men were victims of the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001.
- Secured $10,000 to fund the new Sayville Clock and another $10,000 for a pavilion and lighting for The Common Ground in Sayville.
- Sponsored legislation to get the county to protect the Grundy Avenue Vietnam Memorial Park in Holbrook so it could be preserved for all time.
- Supports funding the Red Cross Community Service program, thus giving neighborhoods an avenue to get help with community cleanups
In the six years that Legislator Lindsay has been in office, he has focused on five main areas of concern—improving constituent services, preserving open space, keeping housing affordable, traffic safety, and environmental protection.
Improving Constituent Services—Since being elected, Legislator Lindsay has made every effort to be the most accessible legislator in the county. His is available to meet with constituents seven days a week and frequently uses his legislative office in Holbrook as a meeting place for community groups. Legislator Lindsay and his office have been instrumental in the formation of several neighborhood civic groups.
With Legislator Lindsay’s help, civic associations like the Birchwood East Estates Civic Association in Holtsville as well, as the Parkland Civic Association in Holbrook, have come into being and have become vital assets working to improve their communities.
After taking office, Legislator Lindsay immediately established Community Advisory Boards in Holbrook, Sayville, Bohemia, Ronkonkoma and Bayport. The groups meet frequently to discuss issues in the group’s respective neighborhoods. With the addition of Oakdale, Holtsville, and West Sayville to District 8 in 2004, Legislator Lindsay immediately moved to create Community Advisory Boards for these neighborhoods as well.
Keeping Housing Affordable—Legislator Lindsay has spearheaded several efforts to create avenues for Suffolk County residents to remain on Long Island despite skyrocketing housing costs. He has also worked to reduce the number of homeless in the county by finding these displaced residents permanent places to live and raise their families so they don’t have to live in motels.
Because of Legislator Lindsay’s efforts, a Tier II shelter will not be built in Holbrook, but instead the focus will be to promote smaller congregate shelters throughout the county.
Land Preservation—As soon as Legislator Lindsay was elected, he did an inventory of available open space to make sure that the Eighth Legislative District was getting its fair share of the county’s open space land acquisitions. Thus far, he has sponsored legislation to begin the process of acquiring several different parcels of land throughout the district and has been successful in acquiring the Rimland property on the south service road of Sunrise Highway. The property was added to the Sans Soucci water Shed Preserve. He has also sponsored legislation that led to the purchase of the development rights of Loughlins Vineyards in Sayville (the last remaining vineyard in the western half of Suffolk County), Brick Kiln (an environmentally important watershed in
Oakdale), NYCONN property in West Sayville and the purchase of environmentally important watershed in Bayport.
Traffic Safety—Legislator Lindsay has proven to be a solid advocate of traffic safety in Suffolk County. He was the prime sponsor a law that passed the legislature in November 2001 authorizing cameras to deter drivers from running red lights at dangerous intersections. Still, the legislation awaits state authorization before it can be installed. He has also gotten the county’s Department of Public Works to improve several intersections in the Eighth District, including Patchogue-Holbrook Road, Furrows Road in Holbrook and Purick Street in Bayport, and has the DPW planning on improving several more.
Legislator Lindsay is working on implementing “traffic calming” techniques throughout the county. Traffic calming is an effort to use permanent additions to roadways, like traffic circles and speed “humps,” to slow drivers down.
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