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Vol. 7, No. 12
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Old Westbury places limits on road repair Reviews Hebrew congregation, Mobil gas station renovation applications BY T E R I W EST
PHOTO BY TERI WEST
Alfred M. Sutton, the architect for the Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation’’s renovations, presented new drawings to the village’s Board of Trustees Monday.
Roads in the Village of Old Westbury cannot be dug up if they have been paved within the last five years, as dictated in a law the Board of Trustees passed unanimously Monday. The board also reviewed plans for a new Burger King franchise at the Mobil gas station and convenience store on Jericho Turnpike and Glen Cove Road and a catering hall
at the Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation. The repaving law amends the village code to ensure that street opening permits are not granted if the road has been constructed or resurfaced in the last five years. It excludes permits for the installation of new gas pipes to residencies. “In the last three years we have done approximately 31 roads in the village, we spent over $5 million, Continued on Page 58
SUNY O.W. President Butts to retire BY T E R I W EST
he announced last week, and as he moves on from the job he has The Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts held for nearly 20 years he said III, SUNY Old Westbury’s presi- a potential run for political office dent, will retire from his post is on his mind. “I think I have the zeal still,” at the university next January,
he said. “I may be able to run a city like New York. Or I like the United States Senate. Maybe something will happen there.” During his tenure, the university has seen new buildings – including a student union – pop up on campus, deepened investments in facilities and the expansion of academic departments. It has all been paired with
an enrollment increase of more than 50 percent. Total enrollment now sits around 5,000, with 300 of those students engaged in graduate programs. That is the largest graduate class since the fouryear college enrolled an initial group of 19 in 2004. Now that Butts has outlived the average university president’s tenure about three times
over, it’s time to bring in some new blood to lead the university, he said. In addition to leading SUNY Old Westbury, Butts is a pastor at Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church and chairs the board of directors for the Abyssinian Development Corp., whose mission is uplifting and rebuilding the city’s historic black neighborContinued on Page 57
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