{"id":2021120,"date":"2023-09-03T22:16:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T02:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/orange-county-to-spend-1-5-million-on-securing-camp-la-guardia\/"},"modified":"2023-09-03T22:19:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T02:19:47","slug":"orange-county-to-spend-1-5-million-on-securing-camp-la-guardia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/orange-county-to-spend-1-5-million-on-securing-camp-la-guardia\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County will allocate $1.5 million to enhance security at Camp La Guardia."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Forange-county-to-spend-1-5-million-on-securing-camp-la-guardia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2021120&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Orange County Plans to Secure Camp La Guardia<\/h2>\n<p>Orange County government has allocated $1.5 million to protect Camp La Guardia from trespassing and vandalism. This decision comes as the \u2063county determines the future of the site.<\/p>\n<p>The plan received approval at the recent physical services and ways and means committee meetings. It is expected to be passed by the entire legislative body on September 7.<\/p>\n<p>Camp La Guardia, once the largest\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-policy-will-threaten-fundamental-rights-for-women\/\" title=\"Biden Administration Policy Will Threaten Fundamental Rights For Women\">homeless shelter<\/a> in New\u2063 York City, was purchased by the county for $8.5 million in 2007. Since then, the \u200csite has been plagued by vandalism and occasional fires.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related\u200d Story<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/orange-county-to-develop-master-plan-for-new-aging-campus-5478865\">Orange County to Develop Master Plan for New Aging Campus<\/a><\/li>\n<li>8\/23\/2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The county has been unsuccessful in selling the property to developers. The latest proposal is to transform the 258-acre\u2063 site into a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/family-reunited-with-lost-cat-in-time-for-thanksgiving-after-it-disappeared-months-ago\/\" title=\"Family Reunited with Lost Cat in Time for Thanksgiving After It Disappeared Months Ago\">county park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Upon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/today-in-a-matter-of-minutes-vice-president-pence-will-become-known-in-history-as-a-hero-or-a-traitor-which-will-it-be\/\" title=\"Today In a Matter of Minutes \u2013 Vice President Pence Will Become Known in History as a Hero or a Traitor \u2013 Which Will It Be?\">legislative approval<\/a>, the county will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administrations-catch-and-release-border-policy-struck-down-by-us-judge\/\" title=\"Biden Administration\u2019s \u2018Catch and Release\u2019 Border Policy Struck Down by US Judge\">immediately begin securing<\/a> the site. This task will be \u2064carried\u200d out by in-house staff and existing \u2062contractors, as stated by Travis Ewald, the deputy commissioner of the county department\u200c of public works.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are so many outlying structures on the property, so\u2062 it is \u200bvery difficult to control trespass and vandalism,&#8221; Mr.\u2062 Ewald\u200c explained. &#8220;The goal here is to eliminate all buildings that we could possibly eliminate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first step\u200b will involve clearing vegetation and trees to allow access. Then, a county contractor\u2063 will remove hazardous \u200cmaterials like asbestos from the buildings. In-house staff will proceed to\u2063 demolish and dispose of five buildings, while three others will be secured by boarding up windows and doors. For buildings deemed too dangerous to work in, a professional county contractor will handle their \u200cdemolition \u200cand disposal. Additionally, four buildings at the top of the site \u200bwill be fenced off by county workers for potential future use.<\/p>\n<p>The Camp\u200d La Guardia complex, spanning\u2064 258 acres, originally served as a women&#8217;s prison for\u2064 New\u200d York City in the early 1900s. It was \u2064later converted into a homeless shelter. The site is located \u2063in Orange County, straddling\u2064 the Town of Chester, the\u200c Village of Chester, and the Town of Blooming Grove.<\/p>\n<p>Local residents near the shelter\u200d have long complained about the negative impacts on their\u2064 quality of life. \u200dThey have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/orange-county-to-spend-1-5-million-on-securing-camp-la-guardia\/\" title=\"Orange County will allocate .5 million to enhance security at Camp La Guardia.\">witnessed shelter residents committing petty crimes<\/a> and occasionally engaging in violent acts\u200c in their neighborhoods. In the late 1990s, former Orange\u200c County Executive Joseph Rampe took the city\u200b to court, resulting in a court agreement that imposed restrictions on the types of individuals who could be housed at the shelter based on their \u2063age and offenses.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, New York City\u2064 Mayor Michael Bloomberg closed the shelter and sold it to Orange County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange County government intends to allocate $1.5 million to safeguard Camp La Guardia from trespassing and vandalism. The plan received approval at recent physical services and ways and means committee meetings and is anticipated to be passed by the legislative body on Sept. 7. Formerly a New York City homeless shelter, the fate of Camp La Guardia remains undecided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":2021121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}