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City Council fails to pass borrowing plan monitors and repairs of municipal facilities. The borrowing proposal The City of Glen Cove’s pro- required five affirmative votes posed 2026 capital borrowing from the seven-member council plan failed to pass Tuesday to pass. In addition to Panzennight with a 3-2 vote, because beck, council members Danielle the City Council did not reach Fugazy Scagliola, Michael Ktistakis, Kevin Maccathe required superrone and John Zozmajority needed to zaro were in attenapprove the $4.9 dance, but Councilmillion measure. men John Perrone Mayor Pamela and Grady Farnan Panzenbeck prewere absent. sented the plan, Zozzaro queswhich included tioned the process funding for road by which projects paving, flood-mitiwere prioritized, gation infrastruc- PAMELA and Zozzaro and ture, water-treat- PANZENBECK Scagliola abstained m e n t p r o j e c t s , Mayor from voting, arguemergency services ing that council equipment, city building repairs and golf members should have been given more detailed informacourse improvements. “This plan continues our tion from department heads vision to repair, improve and before voting on the package. invest in the city’s deteriorated “We are seven people that are infrastructure, which has been on this dais that have to vote on p r o b l e m a t i c f o r s o m a n y this,” he said. “It’s $5 million. years,” Panzenbeck said at the It’s not $20 [worth] of pens.” Zozzaro requested that the meeting. Projects included in the pro- vote be tabled for two weeks to posal ranged from Woolsey Ave- allow additional review of nue flooding infrastructure department requests and capiwork and Seaman Road Station tal priorities. Fugazy Scagliola supported water-treatment upgrades to police vehicles, EMS cardiac CONTINUED ON PAGE 6
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They’re on to Albany in June For the fourth consecutive year, second-grade students from Deasy School secured the firstplace regional title in the First In Math Statewide Elementary Mathematics Tournament. This year’s winners were Isaac Abraham, Dillan Gonzalez, and Malek Mesbah.
School board candidates meet the voters in less formal setting By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com
With the Glen Cove City School District Board of Education and school budget vote approaching next Tuesday, residents gathered Monday evening in the newly renovated cafeteria at Glen Cove High School for a different kind of candidates forum. Three candidates, Robert Nosek, Angela Raimo and Maria Venuto, are running for two open seats on the school board. Laast month the board unanimously adopted a spending plan for the 2026-27 school year totaling just over $122.3 million, after addressing a multi-million-dollar
shortfall through a combination of targeted reductions and the use of reserve funds. Rather than hosting a traditional auditoriumstyle debate or formal question-and-answer session, the district and the PTA Council organized a more informal “Meet the Candidates” mixer, which gave residents a chance to speak directly with candidates in a conversational setting. “It was their choice for this year to try something new,” Superintendent Alexa Doeschner said of the PTA Council. “They wanted to create a ‘coffee with the candidates’ feel where community members could come, have a more casual interaction with Board of Education candidates CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
e had to cut a lot of things and really prioritize.