HERALD_________________ GLEN COVE ________________ Gazette Pipers parade at G.C. Planned Harbor Child Care Scottish Festival Parenthood open playground opens Page 15 Page 3 Page 7 VOL. 28 NO. 34 AUGUST 22-28, 2019 $1.00 City, schools locked in $1M tax dispute Municipal, district officials in talks, seeking ‘fair compromise’ By RONNY REYES assumes tax lien payments. Glen [email protected] Cove, however, as a city with its own assessment department, is The City of Glen Cove and the responsible for its tax liens. Glen Cove School District are In 2018, Spectrum successful- negotiating a possible settlement ly challenged the city’s assess- payment for rough- ment for the Sea ly $1 million that Cliff Avenue prop- the city contends erty, causing its the district owes it think it’s a assessed value to over a complicated drop from $8 mil- tax lien dispute. Idisgrace that lion to $2.5 million. In 2017, the city we would even The city, as the lien Tab Hauser/Herald Gazette took over the pay- holder, paid the ment of a tax lien consider suing property taxes, Cool water, warm hearts for a property now i n c l u d i n g t h e owned by Spec- our own school school taxes. Last Swimmers entered Long Island Sound for the 18th annual Sound to Cove Swim Across America trum Group Man- district. year it paid school charity event on Aug. 3. Story, Page 13. a g e m e n t . T h e taxes based on the 22-acre parcel, at 31 $8 million assess- Sea Cliff Ave., is a MARSHA ment, even though chemically con- SILVERMAN t h e p ro p e r t y ’s taminated site that City Councilwoman value had dropped was once owned by precipitously. Combating racist symbols P h o t o c i r c u i t s So, the city Corp., a computer circuit board argues, the school district now manufacturer. Photocircuits owes the city about $1 million in State officials support hate education bill went out of business in 2007, and school taxes that it overpaid. the property has been aban- Glen Cove Schools Superin- By BRIANA BONFIGLIO bols like swastikas and nooses. wrote the bill and received input doned ever since. tendent Maria Rianna, however, and RONNY REYES The proposal came in the from State Assemblyman A tax lien is imposed on a does not believe the district owes [email protected], [email protected] wake of an incident in Oyster Charles Lavine, a Democrat from property for failure to pay taxes the city anything. Bay on Aug. 8, when seven Glen Cove. Lavine said he had on it. Normally, Nassau County Local lawmakers gathered for 10-inch swastikas, scrawled in worried about the rise of hate CONTINUED ON PAGE 18 a news conference in Rockville purple marker, were discovered crimes over the past five years. 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Planned Parenthood won’t close 2019 22, August HERALD GAZETTE — GLEN COVE By LAURA LANE Marie Coyle, of Glen Cove, said she [email protected] supports the changes to Title X. “I think abortion is so wrong,” she A decision by Planned Parenthood on said. “I equate it to exterminating a gen- Monday to withdraw from the federal pro- eration. My belief is that children are gram Title X, which granted the agency gifts from God, and I can’t wrap my head nearly $60 million annually, is cause for around their destruction.” concern, said Saskia Thomson, vice presi- Planned Parenthood she said she dent of development and marketing of believes does not address the psychologi- Planned Parenthood of Nassau County. It cal damage that women suffer after they will affect the agency’s centers in Glen have had an abortion, a decision that she Cove, Massapequa and Hempstead, but at said is usually made while under stress. this point it’s unclear to what extent. And although Coyle said she knows “We allow for low-income and the that Planned Parenthood provides other uninsured to have family planning here,” services, she believes it has one main Thomson said. “The majority of people objective. “Planned Parenthood’s goal will who come to Planned Parenthood in Glen always be about abortions,” she said. Cove have been assessing their care from “That’s their money.” Title X, but they don’t know it.” Planned Parenthood has had conversa- Most of the services the center in Glen tions with Gov. Andrew Cuomo to ask for Cove provides are for birth control and help, Thomson said. With his support, she testing for sexually transmitted infections said, she hopes the state will help with the and treatments, Thomson said. It also Courtesy Planned Parenthood of Nassau County agency’s financial burden. “But we don’t offers a full range of reproductive health A MEDICAL PROVIDER at Planned Parenthood assisted a patient. Even though the agen- know how it will be managed,” Thomson care, HIV testing and cancer screenings. cy has lost a large portion of its federal funding through Title X, which assists the low said. “In the meantime, we are fighting But the Planned Parenthood in Glen Cove income and uninsured, it will not close. this in court.” also offers medical abortions by way of Losing federal funding will make a dif- medication, which means it is no longer services. The Title X program is designed Thomson said that Planned Parent- ference in stopping Planned Parenthood, eligible for Title X funding unless it per- to provide access to contraceptive servic- hood had to pull out of Title X. “We are Coyle insisted. “The more Planned Par- forms the abortions in a separate facility, es, supplies, and information to all who not going to lie to our patients,” she said. enthoods that close down, the better,” she which it would be unable to refer its want and need them. By law, priority is “The government is asking us to withhold said. patients to. given to persons from low-income fami- information.” But Thomson said that people had According to the federal Department lies.” Abortion is legal in the country, she been calling in recent days to offer their of Health and Human Services, Title X, The Trump administration introduced reasoned, and patients have the right to support, financial and otherwise. “We enacted in 1970, “is the only federal grant new rules to Title X in February, stripping the procedure. need donations more now than ever program dedicated solely to providing federal funding from reproductive health “Our doors will stay open, and we will before,” she said. “This is an attack on individuals with comprehensive family providers that perform abortions or offer not turn anyone away, but it’s getting reproductive health nationwide.” planning and related preventive health abortion referrals. harder,” Thomson admitted. New paid parking raises concern in Glen Cove By RONNY REYES Pistilli Metro Center, said that changes needed to be [email protected] made to the parking lot to prevent non-patrons of the building from parking there. Greenberg said there had Everything seemed normal for Karen Truzzolino, as been a long history of people taking advantage of the she made her way to her dentist’s office at 70 Glen free parking lot, sometimes leaving their cars there for Street, until she came up to the back parking lot and 13 hours despite having nothing to do in the building. found that the once-free lot was now charging patrons Greenberg added that there had even been fist fights at for any visit longer than 30 minutes. The rates, which the lot. start at $10 an hour and goes up to $60 for 12 hours, she “We are trying to control a problem,” Greenberg said was upsetting.