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Friday, May 24, 2024
Vol. 12, No. 21
GUIDE TO SUMMER
SID JACOBSON RAISES $1M AT FUNDRAISER
BLAKEMAN TRANS BAN STRUCK DOWN
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Roslyn OKs $132.6M school budget
SPRING CONCERT
Voters re-elect Trustees Dubner, Levine, Seinfeld to board of education BY C A M E RY N O A K ES
ceived 565 votes in favor and 142 votes against. Roslyn re-elected board of educaIn the unopposed races for trusttion members Michael Levine, David ee, Levine received 552 votes, Dubner Dubner and David Seinfeld, who all received 541 votes and Seinfeld reran unopposed, and approved the ceived 530 votes. district’s $132.6 million budget with The three incumbents last faced nearly 73% of the vote in the Roslyn voters 2021 when they were opposed School District election Tuesday. by a single challenger, Roslyn resident The budget, a 3.99% increase over Ronald Gerber. the current year, received 517 votes They will all now serve another in favor and 192 votes cast against. three-year term, which concludes It includes a 2.79% tax June 30, 2027. levy increase, which falls Levine is a lawwithin a tax cap set at See additional school yer who was elected 3.07%. elections news to the board in 2018. Two other proposiHe took over the PAGES 2, 4 tions on the ballot were seat formerly held by also passed. Trustee Adam Haber, One was for the purchase of school buses and vans, which who chose not to continue his service garnered a 73.8% voter approval. The on the board and did not run for reproposition received 511 approval election. Dubner is an investment banker votes and 181 votes against it. The purchase of school buses and at Goldman Sachs. He was appointed vans would include necessary equip- to the Board of Education in 2013 afment and be capped at $622,000. The ter former trustee Dani Kline resigned amount is to be raised through bonds from her seat. Dubner was later elected to fulfill the remainder of her term. and taxes. Seinfeld is one of the board’s lonThe other proposition was the Bryant Library budget of $5,165,450, gest-serving trustees, having been first which was passed with a 79.9% vote elected to the board in 2006. He is a of the vote. The library budget re- veteran of educational services.
PHOTO COURTESY OF NORTH SHORE DISTRICT
Sea Cliff students perform at the spring concert.
North Shore passes $122.6M school budget B Y T A Y L O R H E R Z L I C H $2.3 million — about 1.91% — in- perintendent. Running unopposed, Trustees Lisa Colacioppo and Maria Mosca and newcomer James Svendsen were elected to the North Shore Board of Education and the $122.6 million budget was approved 63% of the 3,406 votes. The margin of victory for the budget was 2,148 to 1,258. The $122,648,900 budget is a
crease over the current budget. The district will lose $2,388,670 in the 2024-2025 budget due to a settlement between Nassau County and LIPA that reduces the taxes paid on the Glenwood Landing power plant. The district is using a state aid increase of $80,556 to slightly set off the revenue lost in the settlement, according to a message from the su-
Svendsen, a lifelong educator who received the lowest number of votes, 1,914, will finish out the rest of former Trustee Marianne Russo’s term and serve for one year. The other two elected trustees will serve three-year terms. Colacioppo, who received 2,216 votes, has lived in Sea Cliff for seven years and has been a North Shore Continued on Page 37