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Friday, May 24, 2019
Vol. 68, No. 21
N E W H Y D E PA R K
BEST OF THE N. SHORE NOMINEES
GILLEN CALLS FOR REFERENDUM
MEMORIAL DAY GUIDE
PAGES 39-58
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PAGES 25-26, 71-72
Rudd, Canese elected to NHPGCP ed board
STOP THE BLEED
NHP voters approve school budgets and unopposed trustees BY T E R I W EST, J E S S I C A PA R K S AND JANELLE CL AUSEN New Hyde Park voters across several school districts approved their school budgets on Tuesday, while voting in two new school board trustees. Incumbent Patricia Rudd defended her seat on the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Board of Education, defeating challenger Saadia Malik 825 to 230. Kathryn Canese, meanwhile, earned 822 votes to Sangeeta Nischal’s 208 to earn a seat that Trustee Ernest Gentil is vacating. Efforts to reach Canese and Rudd Wednesday morning were unavailing. Voters also approved the district’s $40.18 million budget, with 698 voting in favor of it and 385 voting against. Uncontested incumbent Trustee Jennifer Kerrane was re-elected with 801 votes.
Also on the ballot were the Hillside Public Library budget of $3.069 million, which was approved with 806 votes in favor and 269 against, and library Trustee Maura Rossi, who was re-elected in an uncontested race. “We appreciate the continued support of our community,” library Director Charlene Noll said. Floral Park-Bellerose school district voters approved the proposed $31.96 million budget 512 to 308 votes, marking a 2.85 percent – or $885,199 – budget-tobudget increase. The approval comes with a 2.33 percent tax levy increase, the maximum allowed under under the state tax cap formula, with revenues from property taxes slated to go up from almost $23.47 million to $24.01 million. The Floral Park component of the Sewanhaka Central High School District, which has five high schools, including New Hyde Continued on Page 83
PHOTO COURTESY OF GREAT NECK PUBLIC SCHOOLS
A representative from the Nassau County Fire-Police EMS Academy demonstrates life-saving bleeding control strategies during a recent training workshop as part of the Stop the Bleed initiative. See story on page 73.
NHP residents call for repeal of zoning law BY E T H A N MARSHALL
board repeal a law amended in March to allow industrial or commercial zones to be mixed There was not an empty in with residential areas, pendseat in the room during last ing approval of applications week’s public hearing in the from the board. According to New Village of New Hyde Park, as residents demanded that the Hyde Park Mayor Lawrence
Montreuil, one of the main concerns expressed by members of the public over this law is that they were “worried over what mixed-use could be like.” Prior to the law, nonresidential Continued on Page 82
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