{"id":314693,"date":"2026-08-05T22:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314693\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T22:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:24:14","slug":"long-beach-is-set-to-borrow-26-million-for-capital-projects-heres-what-the-money-will-be-spent-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314693\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Is Set To Borrow $26 Million For Capital Projects. Here&#8217;s What The Money Will Be Spent On."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It takes a lot to run a city,&#8221; Creighton said. &#8220;When you neglect stuff for a long time, it&#8217;s going to cost you a lot of money. And, if it wasn&#8217;t neglected, you wouldn&#8217;t see these kind of increases now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The full list of projects being funded through this bond issuance is below: <\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"27193630-1785945589\" data-image=\"27193630-1785945589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot 2026-08-05 at 11.48.00\u202fAM.png\" data- \/>(City of Long Beach) An itemized list of what the City of Long Beach will be borrowing to fund, per a Tuesday night vote. <\/p>\n<p>The life cycle of these bonds runs from five years on the low end to 40 years on the high end. The only projects hitting that 40-year mark are sewer and water upgrades. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe benefits to our community are several. It really helps us to have a state of good repair, we\u2019ll have more reliable services,\u201d Creighton said. \u201cWe really need to get our utilities, our roads [and] our buildings up to a place where we know that they\u2019re reliable, and we don\u2019t have to keep fixing stuff over and over again.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really for long-term sustainability and efficiency gains,\u201d Creighton said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It takes a lot to run a city,&#8221; Creighton said. &#8220;When you neglect stuff for a long time,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-314693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}