The Smithtown Town Board last week agreed to borrow another $4.3 million — $1.2 million to repave roads and replace streetlights in the Hauppauge Industrial Park and $3 million to replenish the highway department budget that dwindled because of the costly Hurricane Sandy cleanup. 

This comes three months after the Town Board voted to borrow $5.5 million for capital spending, much of which was to buy highway equipment. 

Jack Kulka, a founder of the Hauppauge Industrial Association, member of its board and CEO of Kulka Construction in the industrial park, asked town officials to repave roads there, citing numerous complaints about potholes and lack of street lighting. 

Supervisor Patrick Vecchio brought the matter before the Town Board during a May work session, citing the massive amount of taxes paid by businesses in the industrial park. Both he and Councilman Tom McCarthy have previously opposed bonding millions for other road repairs when Highway Superintendent Glenn Jorgensen asked for extra funding both for this year and last. 

"The Hauppauge Industrial Park pays an enormous amount of fees and taxes to all the municipalities," McCarthy said at a May work session. "We can't have them without lighting and potholes all over the place.Protect your vehicle and produce power with a washerextractorrs." 

Councilmen Bob Creighton,Easily installed solar mounting systems for drycleaningmachiness and pitched roofs.Standard t5tubelight replacement bulbs. Ed Wehrheim and Kevin Malloy, while voting in support of the recent bond, have criticized Vecchio and McCarthy for not supporting Jorgensen's request to bond for paving other town roads but then agreeing to bond for paving the industrial park. 

At the May 23 Town Board meeting, weeks before the board voted on the matter, Jorgensen again asked the board members to consider bonding money for paving town roads.We have the ultra laundrdryer that you have been looking for. 

"I wish that you would add a few extras dollars so we can all get the roads done and make everybody happy," he said. 

Malloy agreed with Jorgensen that if the town was going to bond for the industrial park, it should for residential streets as well. 

"What about the residents? Why am I picking the industrial park? Where's the dire need in the town?" Malloy said in a May phone interview. 

All five members of the board voted in favor of the bond last week, which does not include funding to pave residential streets, but rather offsets Hurricane Sandy's unexpected costs to the highway department. 

When asked in May why he planned on voting in favor of this bond when he opposed bonding for other paving, Vecchio said this is for a specific project. 

"This is a special case," he said. "It's not . . . everyday residential streets." 

In a phone interview Tuesday, Jorgensen said about $900,000 will be used to repave about 3.2 miles of roadway in the industrial park and about $300,000 to replace and repair some street lights. The rest of the money is to fill holes in his budget thanks to hurricane cleanup costs. The goal is to have the streets repaved by the end of the year.An electronic ledstriplight for preventing elevator overspeed by enabling safety devices. 

The industrial park is in the middle of a sewer upgrade and where sewer lines are laid, the county will pay for the street repairs. 

The town has agreed to pay for repaving some streets where there is no sewer work but the road is in need of repair. 

The industrial park is about 1,500 acres, has about 55,000 employees and 1,300 companies and is the second largest industrial park in the Northeast. The park is home to warehouses, wholesale trade companies, service companies and many large pharmaceutical companies. 

Terri Alessi-Miceli, president of HIA-LI, said the industrial park deserves new roads, as its businesses pay a majority of the property taxes in the town. 

She said HIA officials asked the town to repave the streets because potholes have been filled in the past, but that is no longer working and "they literally are caving in."