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Vol. 69, No. 23
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Outdoor dining on horizon Curran aims to aid downtowns BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Nassau County Executive Laura Curran is taking steps to revitalize village downtowns battered by the forced shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. On the first day of reopening last week, after 67 days of the New York On Pause quarantine, Curran announced new programs aimed at giving a lifeline to small businesses and restaurants: a plan to open main streets for outdoor dining and a program to deliver complete personal protective equipment kits to small businesses passed over by the federal program. Open Streets, Curran said, creates a fast track for municipalities to get approval from Nassau County to close county roads so restaurants can provide outdoor dining – still under the guidelines of curbside and take-out – so that restaurants can achieve a level of business to be viable. “The shutdown has come at a high cost for our county’s Continued on Page 37
PHOTO BY MELISSA SPITALNICK
Storefronts throughout The Americana in Manhasset were boarded up following incidents of looting in cities around the country in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing. See story on page 2.
Herricks votes on budget, trustees Two seats on the Board of Education are being challenged in Tuesday’s election BY E M M A J ON ES
Education members. Contractual obligations such as raises for teachers and health care contributions Residents in the Herricks mandated by the state account for school district will vote on about $1.8 million of the approxithe 2020-21 school budget in PAGES 12 and 13 mately $3 million increase. Tuesday’s election. AdditionAnother $800,000 to $900,000 ally, incumbent Trustees Henry are being challenged by Bhajan S. The budget of $120,534,523 will be used to replace the entire R. Zanetti and James Gounaris Ratra and Tarantej S. Arora, is a 2.547 percent increase wide area network, which they say respectively. from the current budget of has long been a complaint from The election is being con- $117,541,264. students, teachers and parents. ducted with absentee ballots The primary reason for the inZanetti and Gounaris said the because of the coronavirus crease is the district’s contractual upgrade was supposed to happen pandemic. obligations, according to Board of Continued on Page 38
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