After listening to seven hours of testimony on immigration, a recreational shooting range and housing discrimination, the Suffolk County Legislature only had time to take up a few agenda items before adjourning at midnight.
Here are the key resolutions adopted before the bewitching hour – all passed unanimously:
* County Executive Steve Levy’s veto of a 4 percent increase in the 2007 budget for Suffolk County Community College was over-ridden as expected with no discussion.
* A new two-year contract for sheriff’s deputies.
* A contract for an advertising campaign aimed at increasing the number of minorities in the police department.
* Two referendum proposals that could change the way Suffolk manages taxpayer funds advanced toward the November ballot. One measure would give county lawmakers more discretion over funds that may result from an end-of-year cash surplus. The other would close a legal loophole in a bid to help rein in the county's long-term debt.
Presiding Officer William Lindsay (D-Holbrook) announced shortly after midnight that the legislature would hold a special meeting at 9:30 a.m. Sept. 5 in Hauppauge to finish consideration of the many bills on its agenda and to wrap up several public hearings.
James T. Madore