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Friday, March 22, 2019
Vol. 4, No. 12
Port WashingtonTimes SENIOR LIVING
NEW ZEALAND DEATHS LAFAZAN OFFERS SPUR ACTION IN NHP WEED OPT-OUT
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Two lawsuits threatened over reassessment
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Sands Point residents discuss plans to sue county at Legislature hearing BY J E S S I C A PA R K S Two residents from Sands Point discussed planned litigation against Nassau County over!their assessed home values at Monday night’s reassessment hearing at Mineola Middle School. Eric Berliner, a resident of Sands Point who said his taxes were expected to increase by $40,000 at the December hearing, said he was planning to sue the county for what he believes were extensive defects in the assessments of high-end homes on the North Shore. He said he had two meetings with Nassau County Assessor David Moog and the entire assessment office as well as Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, Nassau County Legislator Delia DeRiggi-Whitton (D-Glen Cove) and Bill Biamonte, the spokesman for the county’s Democratic lawmakers. In one of the meetings, Ber-
liner said Moog was asked by Curran whether or not he could defend the assessments of high-end homes. When Berliner asked Moog to repeat his response at the hearing, a representative from the Nassau County attorney’s office said he had advised Moog to not directly answer Berliner’s questions due to the threatened litigation against the county. Instead, DeRiggi-Whitton responded and said that Moog stated during their private meeting that he could not defend the assessment roll for high-end homes. In a telephone interview, Berliner said he is planning to file an Article 78 lawsuit against the county toward the end of April. He expects it to be a class action. Sands Point resident Dan Khazai said he is also looking to sue Nassau County to get part of the money back from what he considers overpayment of taxes in the Continued on Page 69
PHOTO BY JESSICA PARKS
Suneet Jain and Alan Flyer opened Port Washington’s Mathnasium on March 11. See story page 2.
Concerns over possible asbestos at Schreiber BY J ES S I C A PA R K S Debris found in three classrooms at Schreiber High School in Port Washington has raised concern over possible
asbestos in the school. According to a joint statement from Superintendent Kathleen Mooney and Schreiber Principal Ira Pernick, asbestos was known to be in some of the building materials
used when the school was constructed. The three classrooms were closed and according to the district’s statement all tests conducted so far have “returned Continued on Page 69
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