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Friday, October 26, 2018
Vol. 6, No. 43
ELECTION OLD WESTBURY HIRES CHARLES WANG GUIDE WATER MAIN CONTRACTOR DIES PAGES 41-48
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6th Precinct return likely: Leg. Nicolello
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DRESS-UP TIME
Both caucuses favor amending budget to revive police force BY J E S S I C A PA R K S AND TERI WEST Nassau County’s 6th Police Precinct is likely to make a partial return in 2019. Though Nassau County Executive Laura Curran did not include it in next year’s budget, both the Legislature’s Republican majority and Democratic minority have prepared amendments that would reintroduce the precinct. Should Curran veto the amendment, that bipartisan support makes it likely that there will be sufficient votes to override her veto, said the presiding officer, Legislator Richard Nicolello (RNew Hyde Park). “Since all 19 of us are on board with this I don’t see any circumstances where we wouldn’t override her veto,” he said. The 3rd Precinct in Williston Park absorbed Manhasset’s 6th
Precinct to cut police costs in 2012 under the previous county executive, Edward Mangano. It did not result in fewer police officers on patrol"in the area, Curran said. This decision made the 3rd Precinct the largest police precinct in Nassau County. Michael Martino, Curran’s director of communications, said in in an email Curran “will review the amendments put forth by both the Legislative Majority and Minority, including reopening the 6th and 8th Precincts.” He explained that the budget she submitted “presents the lowest deficit the county has faced since 2014,” according to the Nassau Interim Finance Authority. Curran estimated that the restoration of the 6th Precinct would cost about $2 million at the Plandome Heights Civic Association’s annual meeting last Thursday Continued on Page 60
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE VILLAGE OF EAST HILLS
Free face painting was among the festivities in East Hills Saturday at its “Halloween Spooktacular.”
Town council seeking marijuana regulations BY T E R I W EST
press officials. One amendment would The North Hempstead prevent medical marijuana Town Board will introduce dispensaries from selling rectwo amendments to the zoning reational marijuana if the drug code that regulate the sale of is fully legalized in New York. marijuana, according to town The other would limit where
medical marijuana dispensaries can be located. MedMen, a company registered to sell medical marijuana in New York, is in the process of moving its dispensary in North Continued on Page 75
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