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Aitken seeks 5th term on board of ed Says superintendent transition affected choice to run BY M A X Z A H N Patricia Aitken, a mother of three Manhasset High School graduates, wants all district children to receive the educational opportunities hers did. “I feel very pleased and proud with how they have benefited from the fine education they got in Manhasset,” Aitken said of her children. “It enabled them to go onto successful careers in college and university and afterwards.” Aitken, who has served for 12 years on the Manhasset
Board of Education, is seeking re-election to a fifth three-year term. Her candidacy is unopposed. Voting will take place on May 16 from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. in the Manhasset High School gymnasium. “This is about forming future young adults and future contributing citizens,” Aitken said. Before she joined the Board of Education in 2005, Aitken spent time on the district’s advisory committee for finance, incorporating skills she developed in corporate
banking and financial restructuring, she said. “The district was in a very different place at the time,” she said. “I started to become more involved when there were financial issues and concerns about spending.” Since her early days on the board, she said there “has been a real complete transformation” in the district. The shift has included “anything from an improved teacher tenure process to an improved budgeting process,” she said. Continued on Page 62
Accounts differ on possible rise in police PHOTO COURTESY OF MANHASSET MOTHERS’ GROUP
A child collects Easter eggs at the Manhasset Mothers’ Group annual egg hunt, which was held at the Strathmore Vanderbilt Country Club on March 25. See story on page 20.
Talks on POP expansion spawn contrasting interpretations BY M A X Z A H N Two village mayors in Manhasset and the 3rd Precinct’s commanding officer gave differing accounts about a discussion last Friday of a possible increase in the number of problem oriented policing, or POP, officers in Manhasset and nearby communities.
Plandome Heights Mayor Kenneth Riscica and Plandome Manor Mayor Barbara Donno said the commanding officer, Inspector Daniel Flanagan, said he intended to complete a plan to increase the number of officers. “We understand that the plan is to increase the POP team from two to four officers so we asked about progress toward
that goal,” Riscica said on Monday. “He confirmed the goal and indicated that the increase is not yet scheduled.” But Flanagan said on Tuesday: “I’m not aware of a plan. I don’t work with the Legislature.” “I’m supportive of any kind of increase,” he added. “I’m not saying there will be one. That’s Continued on Page 61
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