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________________ _______________ GLEN COVE TRUE: Nassau property taxes are among the highest in the country. FALSE: There’s nothing you HERALDcan do about it. Gazette THE LEADER IN PROPERTY TAX REDUCTION Sign up today. It only takes seconds. Welcome back Breast Cancer Apply online at mptrg.com/herald18/21 itc FG or call 516.479.9176 Hablamos Español to Blood Manor Awareness Demi Condensed Maidenbaum Property Tax Reduction Group, LLC Page 27 Pull out 483 Chestnut Street, Cedarhurst,Page NY 11516 xx Vol. 27 No. 40 oCToBER 4-10, 2018 $1.00 987817 MB_99801_NassHerald_3x3Note_TF.indd 1 Balancing 9/20/18 11:50 AM the budget, piece by piece By ZACH GoTTEHRER-CoHEN The council also discussed fees [email protected] for nonresidents who use city beaches. If a fee were introduced A week after Mayor Tim Ten- at Pryibil Beach, the proposal esti- ke’s proposed budget — which mated, an extra $18,000 in revenue would have pierced the state limit could be generated. on its tax levy — was met with the After Councilwoman Pamela ire of council members and the Panzenbeck noted that Pryibil public alike, Tenke presented a Beach — and specifically, the park- revised draft budget ing lot — was usual- to the council at a ly filled to capacity working session on during the summer Tuesday night. e can do months, Tenke sug- The draft propos- W better, gested that similar al will not be revenues could be released until Mon- because the generated at Mor- day, Tenke said, the gan Memorial Park. Courtesy Glen Cove School District budget still has TWo IMAGES TAKEN by the Bond Committee during their walk-throughs of school district build- day before a sched- But because the uled hearing on it. ings, top, show a makeshift vent system at Connoly Elementary and a rotting steel beam at Deasy inefficiencies. park is leased to the As a result, the fig- city with the stipu- School. The bottom image is an rendering of proposed changes to the Finley Middle School library. ures quoted below MARSHA lation that it be are limited to those used by residents of that council mem- SIlVERMAN Glen Cove and a Bond committee proposes bers discussed at City councilwoman select few neighbor- the meeting. ing areas, City Attorney Charles New revenue McQuair said, implementing fees ‘essential’ school safety fixes The new budget relies on there would require an amend- increases in various city fees — ment to the lease agreement. By ZACH GoTTEHRER-CoHEN were evacuated from the high learn to get used to it, especial- some of which have not been In order to balance the budget, [email protected] school library after a piece of ly going to a school like this, raised in two decades — to boost the city would have to stop subsi- the ceiling dislodged and fell. where there are several chal- total revenue closer to expenses. dizing children who attend its Aamaiyah Vaughan, presi- Vaughan said, and her class- lenges that you have to work For example, a “street opening” summer camp program. Parks dent of the senior class at Glen mate Sarah Braja echoed, that past.” fee, which utility companies pay and Recreation Director Darcy when they want to work on their Cove High School, hopes to ceiling tiles in the high school The students also told the Belyea said that the rates for the one day be president of the fall “all the time . and not infrastructure underneath the camp would have to be raised by Herald Gazette that the cli- United States. Her path to the just in the library.” They noted city’s roadways, has not been about $200 across the board. Coun- mate control in the buildings White House would be easier, that in many classrooms, the raised in 22 years, Tenke said. CONTINUED ON PAGE 24 — or lack thereof — often left she says, if her school build- guts of the building — wires ings weren’t falling apart. and plumbing — were visible the floors damp with conden- While working on a social through the holes left by tiles sation. “Just today,” Vaughan studies essay about Supreme that had fallen or had been said the day after she was ush- Court rulings on state and fed- removed and not replaced. ered out of the library, “I think eral powers on Sept. 25, “It’s just depressing some- three kids fell in the hallway, Vaughan and her classmates times,” Vaughan said. “You CONTINUED ON PAGE 25 2 Congratulations! 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Finance Committee’s first report 3 GLEN COVE HERALD GAZETTE — October 4, 2018 HERALD GAZETTE — October 4, GLEN COVE By ZACH GOTTeHReR-COHen Lovecchio said, that the committee [email protected] “couldn’t find anything” that resembled policies of workplace behavior. “There’s At a Tuesday night working session of nothing that speaks to self-dealing,” she the Glen Cove City Council, city officials said, “there’s nothing that speaks to con- heard a strongly-worded presentation by flict of interest, there’s nothing that speaks the newly-formed Finance Committee to theft or misappropriation.” Going out of about the city’s fiscal practices. her way to clarify that she wasn’t insinuat- The council approved the committee’s ing that these things were happening, she mission statement in May, but a series of added, “I’m saying you don’t have any nominees to sit on the committee had defenses against it happening.” been voted down, leaving it only partially In response to Lovecchio’s suggestion filled until three members were approved that smaller charges be better tracked — at a Sept. 25 council meeting. The commit- by implementing a unified charge-card tee’s task is to “evaluate, generate and rec- system, for example — Councilman ommend financing strategies, both short Joseph Capobianco noted that the council and long term,” according to its mission frequently approves a large number of statement, which specifically cites the warrants for small amounts, less than city’s procurement procedures as a sub- $100 each. He asked whether employees ject the committee should tackle. should be expected to get quotes on pur- Committee member Cynthia Lovec- Tab Hauser/Herald Gazette chases “every time they want to spend chio told the council that their prelimi- On TUesdAy niGHT, the Glen Cove City Council heard the first report of a recently filled $50. There’s a cost-benefit analysis,” to the nary fact-finding work had found several Finance Committee, which critiqued several of the city’s fiscal practices. extra work involved. areas where the city’s procurement proce- She replied that for smaller expenses, dure was lacking, in some instances, “books on books on books of purchasing worlds. In any kind of system, it’s the “You don’t have to control it, you have to severely. She directed the council’s atten- systems and controls.” Not so for the City handoffs where you make mistakes.” track it,” adding that when she was run- tion to a list of areas that the committee of Glen Cove. “The entire purchasing pol- ning a $300 million dollar division of the had looked at, color-coded into red for icy for a $60 million operation is 2 pages Asset management Northwell Health system, “I could not “deeply problematic,” yellow for “kind of long,” she said. “You can’t ask people to Lovecchio also recommended that the spend one cent that did not appear on problematic,” and green for “acceptable follow good business practices if you city keep an inventory of the items in its paper somewhere.” and good.” don’t tell them what they are.” possession, which it doesn’t currently do. One of the key sticking points that fre- “As you can see,” she said, “there’s not A spreadsheet, she said, “showing what quently popped up in conversations about a lot of green here.” system automation you own, where it is, where it is in the life- the Finance Committee before its creation City Controller Sandra Clarson has cycle, or when it’s going to need to be was a concern that it would overload the Policy guidelines been working on linking a partially auto- replaced,” could help the city plan for cur- Controller’s office — a department Lovecchio described the city’s written mated acquisition system with the city’s rently unforeseen expenses down the line already stretched thin by limited resourc- procurement policy as “extremely limit- existing manual systems, and has recent- and be more realistic about budgeting. es and manpower. Mayor Tim Tenke said ed.” In her former industry, healthcare — ly purchased software that will help her that any requests for information that the which she called “the anal-retentive head- do so. But a partially automated system, employee standards committee had would be filtered through quarters of the world — there were Lovecchio said, is the “worst of both It was “a little disturbing overall,” his office.