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Gilbert, Koonin join ed board as budget passes
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Roslyn Public Schools $122M spending plan approved with 76% of 641 total votes BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y
million from two different capital reserve funds for nine different high The Roslyn Board of Education school projects passed with 76% of will have two new faces after Tuesday 627 total votes. Gilbert and Koonin will take the with Alison Gilbert and Robert Koonin each getting voted into their first seats left by Trustees Clifford Saffron three-year term as trustees alongside and Steven Litvack who opted to not run for re-election. Bruce Valauri, who was re-elected. Gilbert, a clinical psychologist and Gilbert, Koonin and Valauri — running unopposed — were voted in with parent of two in the district, said she 470, 478 and 470 votes, respectively. is running to help “maintain, preserve Due to the tie in votes, Valauri will and contribute to the quality of work serve for the remainder of an unex- of the Roslyn Board of Education.” A native Long Ispired term beginning lander, Gilbert graduated Tuesday through June from Cornell University 30, 2023 and Gilbert See additional and earned her doctorwill serve a term beschool election ate from the University of ginning Tuesday and coverage Pittsburgh. ending June 30, 2025. “I’m truly honored,” Residents in the PAGES 2,3,4 het said after being sworn district also approved in by Board President a $122 million school Meryl Waxman Ben-Levy. budget with 76% of the 641 total votes. The budget calls for a 2.93% increase This is an amazing, wonderful group in spending from the current year and of people and I am just thrilled to be a a 2.48% increase in the tax levy, which part of this. Thank you.” Koonin, a healthcare and real esfalls under the state tax levy limit.The proposed tax levy totals $101,148,675. tate partner, has been involved in RoA $5 million budget for the Bryant slyn as a coach for his daughters’ flag Library was passed with 81% approval football and booster basketball teams, among other things. on 641 total votes. “It’s a real honor and I’m very exA proposition for spending $360,000 for equipment, including cited to serve with everyone,” Koonin school buses and vans passed with said immediately after being sworn in on Tuesday night on Zoom. “I’m really 76% of 633 total votes. A proposition to use up to $4.5 Continued on Page 43
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Girls Farm Pink recently came back from a deficit to win their game 9-8.
Roslyn area gears up for Memorial Day observances BY ST E V E N K E E H N E R
ganza in North Hempstead is back this year. The event will take place The Roslyn area is gearing up for at North Hempstead Beach Park on Memorial Day celebrations, which Saturday, May 28, with the program will be many people’s first since CO- beginning at 6:30 p.m. A fireworks display and musiVID-19. The annual Memorial Day Com- cal entertainment will be part of the memoration and Fireworks Extrava- event. The gates open at 3:30 p.m.,
and the fireworks begin at 9:15 p.m. Veterans and active-duty military members can park for free, while everyone else will be charged $10 per car. Old Westbury Gardens will be open on Memorial Day. The garden Continued on Page 43
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