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Vol. 95, No. 3
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Lake Success rejects ExteNet node settlement
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Village of Plandome prepares to vote in midst of separate lawsuit BY R O S E W E L D ON The Village of Lake Success has rejected settlement of a lawsuit over cell nodes filed by ExteNet Systems, while the Village of Plandome is preparing to vote on two additional nodes in the midst of its own lawsuit against the infrastructure provider. Lake Success, which rejected all but four of ExteNet’s 13 cell node applications in May and headed into mediation with the Illinois-based company later in the year, had received a settlement offer that called for installing seven of the originally proposed 13 nodes. But the village’s Board of Trustees voted against the plan, 4-3, on Monday night. Trustees David Milner, Lawrence Farkas, Sugnam Peter Chang and Deputy Mayor Stephen Lam voted against the settlement, while Trustees Gene Kaplan and Robert Gal, and Mayor Adam Hoffman voted for it. The vote was followed by ap-
plause from over 30 residents, but the deputy mayor and mayor warned that it may not be the end. “Most of the people gathered here are not in favor of the application,” Lam said. “I can’t tell you how much time Adam has spent to try and get an agreement with our counsel. The board spent a lot of time and consideration, and we all have different reasons for voting for or against it, but I think you have to understand that if all of you are saying no, and the board voted no, there very well may be ramifications. We had an agreement on the table that was mediated between the village and ExteNet, that eliminates several poles, moves several poles across Lakeville Road. That offer may very well be off the table if this decision goes forward to the ExteNet people in the court.” Lam added that he “couldn’t say what our chances are if it goes to court.” “We’re taking a very real risk of Continued on Page 60
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Local and state officials marched alongside more than 2,500 Long Island residents against the recent anti-Semitic attacks. See story on page 2.
The public meeting that wasn’t in Lake Success BY R O S E W E L D ON
up at Village Hall on Monday at 7:30 p.m., village Attorney It had been advertised as Andrea Curto told them it was a public hearing online and not. “This evening, the board is labeled as such on that night’s agenda, but when over 100 res- going to be considering the setidents of Lake Success showed tlement of ExteNet’s litigation,”
Curto, of the Uniondale-based firm Forchelli Deegan Terrana, told those gathered. “It’s not a public hearing, which is why we’re holding this informational session in here.” Continued on Page 60
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