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Friday, August 16, 2019
Vol. 68, No. 33
FALL HOME & GARDEN
BUSINESS OWNER ASKS FOR PARKING CHANGES
HUNDREDS SUE FOR CHILD SEX ABUSE
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Tuition-free med school looking for donors Money needed to fund NYU Langone program BY TOM M CC A RT HY
PHOTO BY TOM MCCARTHY
Dr. Gladys Ayala (left) and Dr. Steven Shelov(right) believe that it is important for medical schools to stay affordable.
After opening its doors in Mineola July 29, the tuition-free NYU Long Island School of Medicine’s faculty already has 3,000 applications to evaluate for 32 spots for the 2020-2021 class by November, must find donors and do what it can to encourage medical students to pursue primary care in the future. Dr. Steven Shelov, the school’s founding dean and chief academic officer, said the priority now is to locate more donors and philanthropists to maintain the tuition-free model for the medical school based in NYU Win-
throp Hospital’s research center. “It’s got to be half operations and half philanthropy,” Shelov said. He and the other leaders at the school are developing ways of finding and persuading donors to donate to the medical school. The average tuition, Shelov said, is about $55,000 per student. Dr. Gladys Ayala, senior associate dean for medical education, said that the cost of attendance is about $27,000-$28,000 in addition to the tuition and still needs to be covered either by the student or federal loans. Ayala said it is important to “lessen that debt.” Continued on Page 51
Too few marshals delays biz permits BY J E S S I C A PA R K S Just 17 fire marshals are assigned to review the plans and conduct inspections of hundreds of new businesses across Nassau County, causing a major delay in
openings, according to union representatives. Staffing counts obtained from the county identified 57 uniformed marshals and 37 support staff members for a total of 94 full-time employees in the fire
marshal’s office. However, union representatives contend that the office only has 56 uniformed marshals and six support staff members. Fire marshals conduct plan reviews and inspections for businesses that are soon to open. A delay in an inspection typically results in a delay in the business’s opening. If the office had higher levels of uniformed marshals
and support staff, businesses wouldn’t have to wait as long for an inspection, which is currently four to eight weeks, union representatives said. In a previous statement, Christine Geed, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran’s director of communications, said that the office has been identified as one that needs more staffing, but the county cannot simply return to “pre-recession levels of staffing.”
As staffing levels dwindled over the years – which union representatives described as mostly gradual due to attrition, except for a 2017 buyout when 12 employees left at once – the office’s ability to keep up with inspections and plan reviews has lessened, resulting in longer response times. “It is a constant struggle after we lose people through attrition,” Michael Strong, CSEA Local 830 Continued on Page 61
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