Laurel Hollow cited by mayors' group
Laurel Hollow’s work toward joining the Oyster Bay Cove Police Department — which is to begin patrols in the village on June 1 — has earned it an achievement award from an Albany-based mayors’ group.
Laurel Hollow last week earned second place in the public safety category of the New York State Conference of Mayors’ 25th annual Local Government Achievement Awards Program for “optimizing police protection services.”
In February, the village announced it was dropping Nassau County police services in favor of Oyster Bay Cove police, which was to add four officers to its force to help cover its neighbor.
The five-year contract is slated to save Laurel Hollow $450,000 in the upcoming fiscal year. It will also help Oyster Bay Cove village to hold its budget line, Mayor Rosemary Bourne said in a letter to residents.
Laurel Hollow Mayor Harry Anand last week said he and the board of trustees worked for about a year on the deal with Oyster Bay Cove, calling it a “creative solution.”
“The award is for the end result. We save on costs and improve the quality of service for the village,” he said.
Peter Baynes, executive director of the mayors’ group, said Thursday that the awards are “meant to recognize local government doing innovative things to maximize efficiencies.”
Laurel Hollow was the only Long Island municipality to win a NYCOM local government achievement award this year.
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