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Voters stick with the familiar Oyster Bay Incumbents, nearly all of them Republicans, are re-elected By lUKE FEENEY lfeeney@liherald.com
In the Town of Oyster Bay, incumbent Republican Joseph Saladino defeated Democrat Sam Sochet, with 66 percent of the vote as of election night, in the race for town supervisor. All three incumbent Republicans on the town board, Thomas P. Hand, Louis Imbroto and Andrew Monteleone, were reelected over their Democratic challengers, Jyoti Anand, Ian Steinberg and Daniel Smith. “I think there’s definitely a hard difference between what we’re promising and what the other side is promising,” Monteleone said. “What we’ re promising is to keep the suburbs the way they are. We’re promising family values. We’re promising things that people in Nassau County want, and we’re promising to fight for those things.” Town Clerk Rich LaMarca won his second term, defeating Kamal Kaur. Saladino, 64, said that his victory signifies protection of local zoning and sends a message to the “radical left.”
schools praised by auditors
level “opinion” — effectively the review of the audit — from his firm that it was eligible for. In The Oyster Bay-East Nor- addition, Schneider said the diswich Central School District trict once again received a manreceived a clean bill of financial agement letter with no recommended changes to internal health at its Oct. 28 Board of Education meeting, when the controls. “The good news to report district’s independent auditors presented their annual report here, consistent with this year and prior years, is that there are and confirmed another year of no items in that letunmodified, or ter,” he said. “That “clean,” opinions is a big deal. That’s across all financial a pretty amazing statements. thing to accomplish The meeting also in consecutive featured student years.” updates, celebraThe auditors also tions of academic issued a governance and athletic achieveletter, which summent, discussions marized long-term of upcoming comassets, liabilities munity events and and required disclotalk of continued public concern over CHRIS SCHNEIdER sures. Schneider noted that one corc o m m u n i c a t i o n Partner, practices and facili- RS Abrams & Co. LLP rected item met the reporting threshold, ty usage. but the financial Christopher Schn e i d e r, r e p r e s e n t i n g t h e statements were “fairly stated” accounting and consulting firm and “appropriate and good for R S A b r a m s & C o . L L P, our analysis.” He outlined the district’s announced the audit results and praised the district’s business fund balances, explaining the of fice for its cooperation role of reserves and reviewing the general fund’s unassigned throughout the process. Schneider reported that the balance. An unassigned fund district received the highestContinued on page 7
By WIll SHEElINE
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When the vote count is certified, oyster Bay town Supervisor Joe Saladino is projected to easily defeat his democratic challenger, Sam Sochet, and earn his fifth term. “This is a pushback on the danger in New York City that they see every night on television,” he said. “It’s a pushback on Albany and all of the unfunded mandates, and all of the ways that they take the rights of people in the rest of the state, including Long Island.” Saladino was first elected in 2017, after serving in the State
Assembly from 2004 to 2017. During his campaign this fall, he voiced his opposition to high-rise, high-density developments. He highlighted the town’s revitalization initiative in Hicksville, where over 560 new housing units are currently being built, as an example of why he believed that “RepubliContinued on page 6
ElEction RESUltS Office
Leading
Opponent
nassau county Executive
Bruce Blakeman (R) ................. 54%
Seth Koslow (d) ................46%
nassau county District Attorney anne donnelly (R) .................... 55%
nicole aloise (d) ...............45%
nassau county comptroller
elaine phillips (R) ..................... 55%
Wayne Wink Jr. (d) ............45%
nassau county clerk
Maureen o’Connell (R)..............57%
Joylette Williams (d).........43%
town of oyster Bay Supervisor Joe Saladino (R) ................... 66%
Sam Crochet (d) ...............32%
town of oyster Bay clerk
Rich LaMarca (R) .................... 64%
Kamalveer Kaur (d)...........36%
county legislator District 18
Samantha goetz (R) ................. 53%
Karen Bhatia (d) ...............40%
unofficial results as of midnight tuesday
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hat’s a pretty amazing thing to accomplish in consecutive years.