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G.C. touts first fiscal surplus in seven years the City Council last month, “especially considering the deficit was over $5.3 million when For the first time in seven I became City Controller back years, Glen Cove has ended a in 2020, and we managed to fiscal year in the black, a mile- eliminate that deficit in only stone that city officials say is four years.” Panzenbeck said the goal the product of disciplined spending, new revenue streams will now be to build reserves similar to those of and a focus on longother municipaliterm stability. ties. “This is the Although the first step in fitness 2024 Annual Finanat our level where cial Statement by we’re able to have a PKF O’Connor surplus just Davies has not through the regular been made public, operation of our the city closed fiscity finances,” she cal year 2024 in said. “Other townDecember with a ships have major general fund surreserves in the milplus of $87,556, lions of dollars. So eliminating a defi- MICHAEL this is our first step cit that stretched PICCIRILLO in building a back to 2018. Con- Controller reserve.” troller Michael PicPanzenbeck cirillo said the turnaround marks the first noted that in her four years in time since 2017, when Glen office, the city has raised taxes Cove sold its waterfront proper- only once, a 1.98 percent ty to developer RXR, that the increase in the 2025 budget. Piccirillo said that Glen city has operated with a surCove’s improved fiscal picture plus. “This is a very significant also strengthens its credit proaccomplishment and by no file. “Basic reserves help our means an easy achievement,” credit file,” he said. “With Piccirillo wrote in an email to Moody’s, that plays very well Mayor Pamela Panzenbeck and CONTINUED ON PAGE 11
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John Macchione, a co-host of the general-interest podcast “Jay & Ralph’s House,” has worked in entertainment for 30 years.
From a ‘dungeon,’ a podcast with a growing audience By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com
Every Friday from 5 to 7 p.m., the basement of a Glen Cove home comes alive with music, laughter and candid conversation. The room — jokingly referred to by the hosts of “Jay & Ralph’s House” as the “dungeon” — is where the podcast is broadcast live to listeners not just in the city, but across the globe. The show is hosted by veteran DJ John Macchione and Ralph Comitino, president of the Glen Cove Civil Service Employees Association, in Macchione’s basement. The two met through SUNY Westbury’s radio station OWWR, but the duo decided to produce their own show in Glen Cove.
“We talk about everything,” Comitino said. “It’s either what’s happening in our lives or what’s happening in Glen Cove. We talk a lot about Glen Cove, but we also talk about big news stories, whatever comes to our mind.” The program’s mix of local, national and international topics owes much to Macchione’s three-decade-long career on the freestyle music scene. “I’ve been DJing for over 30 years,” he said. “I DJ all over for freestyle music. I’ve been doing it with famous people like George Lamont, Cynthia, Johnny O, Coro, Judy Torres.” Freestyle music, Macchione explained, is rooted in Latin hip-hop and improvisation. CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
his is a very significant accomplishment and by no means an easy achievement.