While some residents have praised Patchogue Village for plowing out the streets from last weekend's winter storm, Route 112 and Waverly Avenue were specifically mentioned at Monday's Patchogue Village Board of Trustees meeting at Patchogue Village Hall as not being as clean.
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Trustee Joseph Keyes said at the meeting that this is because they are state and county roads, respectively, and as a result the Village's Department of Public Works (DPW) are not currently able to plow them even though they each have sections within Village boundaries.
Keyes said that himself, Joe Dean of the DPW and Patchogue Village Mayor Paul Pontieri are talking about possibly making some sort of deal with Suffolk County and New York State so the Village can work on those roads.
"We agree and we might try to make some sort of arrangement with those municipalities," Keyes said during the meeting.
Roads outside of Patchogue Village, such as in North Patchogue, East Patchogue and Medford fall into the greater Brookhaven Town cleanup efforts.
What are your thoughts on this? Or your experiences on Route 112 and Waverly Avenue during the winter storm? Comment below.
1. The county and state are unlikely to go along with that. 2 once you maintain those roads, you are then liable for them. Any accident will bring the village into a lawsuit.
Also, the article does not mention Main St, which is State Route 27A. Who plowed it during the storm? Was it plowed well?
The other service that I receive for my tax money is garbage service. The pail is usually left on the ground, not upright and covered as it should be. I know that some of my tax money has to go to pay for a $20,000(+) SUV for the mayor. I'm just saying that the one good service from the village, snow removal, is something that we all pay dearly for.