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Friday, May 14, 2021
Vol. 9, No. 20
LIVING 50 PLUS
IHOP RESPONDS TO SANDLER
AG DENIES COUNTY REQUEST FOR OVERSIGHT
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Roslyn area voters go to the polls Tuesday 3 incumbents seek re-election against challenger BY R O S E WELDON AND ROBERT PELAEZ Three school districts serving the Roslyn area have new faces seeking board of education seats in the elections on Tuesday. ROSLYN Four candidates, three of them incumbents, will compete for three seats on the Roslyn Board of Education. Incumbent Trustees David Seinfeld, David Dubner and Michael Levine are up for reelection, and resident Ronald
PHOTO COURTESY OF ROSLYN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Roslyn High School’s Sophie Weisman displays some of the 500 masks she made and donated over the past year. Weisman has given the masks to teachers, classmates and residents of the Deepdale Cares Senior Center, and created a special prototype for the Roslyn High School Marching Band.
Gerber submitted a challenger petition. Seinfeld, one of the board’s longest-serving trustees and a veteran in educational services, was first elected in 2006. Dubner, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, was appointed to the Board of Education in 2013 following the resignation of Dani Kline and was elected to fill the remainder of her term, and has since been re-elected once. Levine, a lawyer, was elected in 2018 after former Trustee Adam Haber chose not to run for another term.
Gerber, a newcomer to the school board race, is the founder and CEO of security software company AngelBeat. Voters will also decide on a $118,633,250 budget for the 2021-22 school year, which is a $3 million increase from the 2020-21 budget, totaling $115,330,236. A proposed property tax levy increase of 1.98 percent is below the tax cap limit of 2.45 percent. Also on the ballot is the proposed Bryant Library budget, in the amount of $5,095,669 for the Continued on Page 57
Lavine back in spotlight with Cuomo investigation Area assemblyman again leads charged probe BY N O A H MANSKAR Several women had accused one of Albany’s most powerful men of touching them inappropriately, making creepy comments at work, and demanding they wear skirts and high heels on the job. The man was Vito Lopez,
who spent 28 years in the state Assembly and six years as the Brooklyn Democratic Party chairman before allegations that he had sexually harassed his staffers forced him to resign from office in 2013. He died in 2015. After state ethics regulators outlined Lopez’s behavior in a damning report, it fell to one of
his colleagues — Roslyn area Assemblyman Charles Lavine — to help mete out his punishment as co-chair of the Legislative Ethics Commission. The panel settled on a $330,000 fine, a penalty 33 times larger than the previous record of $10,000, Lavine said. Eight years later, another Continued on Page 48
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