South Fork police departments will receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional funding from Suffolk County in 2016, the second year of an agreement with the county to increase the share of sales tax revenues directed to communities that do not rely on County Police for law enforcement coverage.
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone’s proposed $2.9 billion county budget for 2016, released this week, would direct a total of $1 million in additional sales tax dollars toward the county’s 19 municipalities that have their own police departments providing primary coverage. The... ›› read more
