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VOL. 34 NO. 5
JANUARY 30 - FEBRUARY 5, 2025
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District offers $115.9 million school budget
Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center board Chair Alan Mindel, near right, Vice Chair Bernie Furshpan and Secretary Meris Fist lit candles to honor the victims of the Holocaust.
The preliminary spending plan for 2025-26 totals just under $116 million, an increase The Glen Cove City School of $2.55 million over the curDistrict began its annual bud- rent budget. This year’s spendgeting workshops for the 2025- ing plan passed by a vote of 689392 last May. 26 school year last State aid, which week. The new accounts for a subassistant superinstantial portion of tendent for business the district’s reveand finance, Therenue, is projected to sa Kahan, led the increase by nearly first session on Jan. $1.44 million, to just 22, outlining the over $29.23 million. district’s financial “These are prelimipriorities and nary figures based explaining the budon the governor’s geting process. executive budget, Kahan began by which is typically emphasizing the finalized in April,” essential purpose Kahan noted, addof the budget. “A ing that changes budget is created could occur as more using estimates of information bethe revenues and THERESA KAHAN comes available. expenditures expect- Assistant District Superined in the school superintendent for year based on the business and finance tendent Maria Rianna said she was information that we unhappy with the have at that time,” she said. She reminded attend- preliminary state aid numbers, ees that while the budget deter- and was “hoping that our advomines the district’s tax levy, it cacy through different state ed does not establish individual officials and legislators will property tax rates. “Your tax help move that in the proper rate is based on the assessed direction.” Her worry about value of your home, among state aid, Rianna explained, is other factors,” Kahan said. CONTINUED ON PAGE 19
By ROKSANA AMID
ramid@liherald.com
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Courtesy Gaitley Stevenson Mathews
Marking eight decades since Auschwitz was liberated By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com
Moshe Furshpan was 10 when he was forced to flee into a forest, alone, in what was then Poland and is now Ukraine, as Nazi soldiers rounded up his family and neighbors to be executed. For three years, Furshpan survived on berries, tree bark and mushrooms, evading patrols and enduring harsh winters. One night he sought shelter in a ditch he dug among birch trees, with a mother and her infant. As the distant howls of German shepherds drew closer, the woman, faced
with an unthinkable choice, took Furshpan’s small hand and forced him to silence her crying baby. “My father was haunted by this his entire life,” Bernie Furshpan, board member of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center, told a small crowd of around 100 people at the center last Sunday. After the war, Moshe Furshpan found refuge in a displaced-persons camp in Munich before emigrating to Israel in 1946. “He turned out to be one of the kindest and gentlest souls I’ve ever known,” his son, said. “He was so grateful to be alive. He didn’t CONTINUED ON PAGE 18
hese workshops are an opportunity for the public to ask questions ... of how their tax dollars are being utilized.