Letter: A modest proposal for Nassau cash
Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano works on the 2015 budget in his office on Monday, Sept. 15, 2014 in Mineola. Credit: Howard Schnapp
Now that Nassau County's brilliant school-safety revenue stream is flowing, I have another profitable suggestion ["Nassau adds speed cameras," News, Oct. 6]. This would be consistent with photo-ticketing drivers in the street when the children are safely inside the school learning.
Fine residents, say $80 each, for leaving their garbage cans in the street between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. These rolling vessels of filth are clearly a danger to walkers, runners and cyclists.
The fact that most families have both parents working in order to live in Nassau should bring unprecedented revenue to the county and help ease the strain on our politicians to balance the budget.
Kenneth Lebeck, Plainview
