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City Council passes $65M spending plan By RoKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com
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In a 5-1 vote on Tuesday, the Glen Cove City Council passed the $65.4 million 2025 budget.
In a 5-1 vote on Tuesday, the Glen Cove City Council passed the $65.4 million budget for 2025, which includes the first property tax increase in three years. Homeowners will see a 1.9 percent rise in their tax bill, roughly $55 more for homes assessed at $575,000 and $64 for homes valued at $1 million. Mayor Pamela Panzenbeck defended the tax increase, citing a $279,000 increase in the tax levy that is necessary to cover the city’s growing expenses. “As much as we do not want to raise taxes, at some point we have to,” Panzenbeck said, pointing to increases in pension contributions, health insurance and city contracts. “Just like in our homes, everything has gone up,” she added. The city’s 2025 budget is $2 million larger than ConTInued on paGe 11
With focus on breast cancer, Connolly students walk By RoKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com
A vibrant wave of pink-clad elementary students from Connolly Elementary School filled the streets of Glen Cove on Oct. 17. Their small footsteps echoed a large message of hope and solidarity. Hand in hand, they walked with purpose, carrying signs and wearing handmade bracelets, not only raising funds but also symbolizing support for those battling breast cancer. The annual breast cancer awareness walk-a-thon, organized by the Connolly Student Council, with the guidance of
advisers Susan Stanco and Nancy Gorman, was a resounding success. T he students raised a total of $1,600, which will go to Glen Cove Cares and the American Cancer Society. This year’s fundraising surpassed last year’s total of $1,000. “This collective expression of hope and positivity takes something that is genuinely quite intimidating and scary, and shows that when we work together and we have a common cause, that we can have an impact and that we can lift each other up,” Connolly Principal Bryce Klatsky said after the event.
One participant, fifth-grader Mackenzie Alessandro, with the help of a few friends, spent weeks during recess crafting pink bracelets to sell in support of breast cancer research. Her efforts raised $600. “I wanted to help people who have breast cancer and raise money to find a cure,” Mackenzie said, adding, “I learned that a little help goes a long way.” Klatsky couldn’t have been prouder of Mackenzie and the rest of the student walkers. “Mackenzie came to us,” he said. “Nobody went to her and said, ‘Hey, do you have any ideas for how to raise addition-
al funds or raise awareness?’ For a fifth-grader to take it upon herself to figure out how she can help improve other people’s lives — it’s the pinnacle of what we hope for our students in terms of their self-advocacy and civic engagement.” Breast cancer awareness is particularly important on Long Island, where rates of the dis-
ease are higher than in most other parts of the country. According to the New York State Cancer Registry, Nassau County’s breast cancer incidence rate between 2017 and 2021 was 146.8 per 100,000 women, higher than both the state and national averages. For the first time this year, ConTInued on paGe 22