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Cuomo’s order brings sad end to school year tainly not unexpected,” wrote Central High School District Superintendent John DeTomagarcia@liherald.com maso in a letter to parents.

Students in kindergarten “Although significant progress through 12th grade will not has been made to stop the return to their schools in Bell- spread, it is hard to argue this more and Merrick for the rest of decision as Covid-19 continues to the academic year. They will bring daily heartache and fear to instead continue our friends and with distance neighbors. lear ning to help “However, I canstop the spread of not help [but feel] a the coronavirus. tremendous sense G o v. A n d r e w of loss for our BellCuomo announced more-Merrick famthat schools would ily with this last close statewide last decision to close Friday, as Covid-19 school,” DeTomhospitalizations maso continued. and deaths contin“The finality of it ued a steady is hard to handle decline, but the for all of us, but state was still seeespecially for our ing nearly a thoukids. Let us be cersand new cases a tain to keep them day, which Cuomo in the forefront of said was unacceptJohN DETommaSo our thoughts as ably high. they try to deal The decision, Superintendent, with something which also extends BMCHSD that very few peoto colleges, affects ple on this planet 4.2 million students have ever experistatewide in 700 public school enced.” districts, 89 SUNY and CUNY DeTommaso also noted that schools, and 100 private universi- administrators have worked to ties. find ways to preserve seniors’ “As difficult as this is to com- and middle schoolers’ end-ofprehend and write, it was cerContinued on page 7

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GRaND aVENuE mIDDlE School math teacher Julia Sabia Motley, who recovered from Covid-19, is donating her blood plasma to a study at Stony Brook University Hospital that is aimed at helping others recover from the disease.

Local teacher donates plasma to Stony Brook University study By alySSa SEIDmaN aseidman@liherald.com

Since she recovered from Covid-19, Grand Avenue Middle School math teacher Julia Sabia Motley has taken part in a study at Stony Brook University Hospital that is aimed at helping others recover from the disease. Every two weeks, she is hooked up to an apheresis machine, which removes plasma, the liquid

portion of the blood, from her body.

Plasma helps with immunity support, and contains antibodies that can potentially be used to kill the virus, according to a release from the university. There, a team of researchers, led by Dr. Elliott Bennett-Guerrero, will use the convalescent plasma in an experimental trial to treat patients battling Covid19. Sabia Motley was one of

the first people to donate to the study.

Signs and symptoms Just a week after the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District had its last day of in-person instruction, Sabia Motley and her husband, Sean, who live in Merrick, started experiencing coronavirus-like symptoms.

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cannot help [but feel] a tremendous sense of loss for our BellmoreMerrick family with this last decision to close school.

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What’s up next door and around the corner

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MARIst-BouND sENIoR KIRA Poliviou waved to her teachers as she passed them in the John F. Kennedy senior send-off parade.

JFK seniors say farewell to teachers in parade

By ANDREW GARCIA agarcia@liherald.com

The fate of John F. Kennedy High School’s year-end events is still up in the air, but on May 1, seniors were back at the building for a day of celebration.

In lieu of traditional senior events, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District organized parking lot parades for the graduating seniors in each of the three high schools. Although Kennedy’s prom and graduation are indefinitely postponed, the parade was

an opportunity for teachers to give a celebratory send-off to their students.

Seniors decked their cars in school mottos, messages of thanks to teachers and the logos of their future colleges and universities.

On the sidelines, while sat outside and atop their cars, teachers honked and brandished congratulatory signs.

Some parade-goers even got emotional, as the teachers were seeing their students for one of the last times before the spring semester ends.

tEAChERs lINED up outside of Kennedy, above, to celebrate the class of 2020 as they drove by in their cars. sENIoR ClAss pREsIDENt Dany Iskols, near left, will be attending Cornell in the fall. sENIoR JulIE sChoChNER, far left, made it clear — she’s going to the University of Delaware.

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Plasma trial aims to help heal Covid-19 patients liliter bags of plasma per donor, BennettGuerrero said, and that during the study, each enrolled patient will be treated with two bags, or 500 milliliters, of plasma.

“We’ve been very fortunate in having a tremendous number of people volunteer to be plasma donors, and in the last week and a half, we’ve ramped up enrollment of patients in the protocol.”

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aches began on March 18; three days later, their temperatures spiked. They lost their senses of taste and smell, and felt physically and mentally exhausted, but neither of them experienced respiratory symptoms, Sabia Motley said.

Because the drive-through Covid-19 facility at Jones Beach was only testing certain people initially — such as those who had traveled out of state or came into contact with a positive-testing person — “it took a long time to get tested,” she said. The Motleys battled the virus from home and did not leave for 18 days, not even to sit outside on the front porch.

On March 28, the couple were swabbed for coronavirus at CityMD in Bellmore.

Both tests came back positive.

“I was feeling better by the time I finally went to get tested,” Sabia Motley said.

“I really wanted to make sure I had a positive test under my belt so I knew I’d be building up antibodies.”

The Stony Brook study

On April 2, Stony Brook received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to offer convalescent plasma treatment to its patients through a randomized, controlled study.

“Our objective is to determine if plasma is safe and effective in treatment of hospitalized patients with Covid-19 infections,” Bennett-Guerrero said in an interview with the Herald Life. “We’re leverag-

Looking ahead

Courtesy Julia Sabia Motley

JuLia SaBia MoTLey and her husband, Sean, who live in Merrick, both recovered from Covid-19 last month. ing this amazing ability to collect antibodies from patients that have recovered to give to patients that are very sick.”

Eighty percent of the patients in Bennett-Guerrero’s study will receive plasma while the remaining 20 percent will act as the control group. This ratio, he said, will “benefit a larger number of people” if treatment is successful.

Sabia Motley’s son, Mike, is an MD/ PhD student at Stony Brook specializing in infectious diseases. When he told his

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parents that Bennett-Guerrero was looking for people who had recovered from Covid-19 to donate plasma, Sabia Motley filled out the study’s screening survey.

Once donors are screened and approved, they are scheduled for in-person consultations. Removing plasma from the blood via apheresis takes about 40 minutes, Sabia Motley said; she described the procedure as “an odd feeling, like a cold sensation.”

The process yields two to four 250-mil-

Bennett-Guerrero’s team has screened more than 350 recovered donors since the study began, and has “fully qualified” 75 of those participants to donate plasma regularly. So far, 31 patients from Stony Brook University Hospital have enrolled in the trial, which will take three months to complete, he said.

“Since it’s a double-blind study, we don’t have any anecdotal observations,” he added. “It’s too early to tell what the results will be.” In a double-blind study, experimenters do not know which treatments subjects are receiving to guard against potential bias.

Sabia Motley said she was confident the study would be successful. “They still have to do studies to find out if people with antibodies are immune, but I trust the science,” she said. “It’s really nice to do something to give back at this point, and I’m unbelievably appreciative.”

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Northwell opening Syosset Hospital for elective surgery sbrinton@liherald.com

Covid-19 patients have dropped to low enough levels that Northwell Health is able to earmark Syosset Hospital as a “Covid-contained” medical center where certain elective surgeries will be performed.

That’s according to Dr. David Battinelli, Northwell’s senior vice president and chief medical officer. He spoke with video producer Rob Hoell last Thursday about how the hospital system, which has medical centers throughout the New York metropolitan area, has been coping with the “massive surge” of Covid-19 patients in recent weeks.

Northwell was forced to increase its total number of beds across its 23 hospitals by 2,000 at the height of the crisis, Battinelli said. “We were overwhelmed in the” intensive care units, he noted.

The hospital system redeployed some 1,500 workers in order to keep up with patient demand.

To date, the Northwell system has treated more than 40,000 Covid-19 patients, with 13,000 patients admitted to hospitals. “Nobody in the world has treated and seen more Covid patients than Northwell,” Battinelli said.

As a result, the hospital had to stop elective surgeries, which Battinelli called planned surgeries, meaning most elective surgeries must be done, but not

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Dr. DaviD Battinelli, Northwell Health’s chief medical officer, last Thursday spoke with video producer Rob Hoell about the “massive surge” of Covid-19 patients within the hospital system. immediately. Rather, they can be scheduled weeks or months in advance.

With elective surgeries put off for six to seven weeks now, many patients need them done, sooner rather than later. The need to resume planned surgeries, Battinelli said, has become “semi-urgent” — hence the opening of Syosset Hospital for the procedures.

Battinelli said Northwell could not guarantee with absolute certainty that Syosset would be entirely free of Covid19 patients. Rather, he called the hospital “Covid-contained,” meaning the hospital will be able to cordon off any coronavirus patients who might appear there.

Battinelli also spoke of the many clinical trials for Covid-19 treatments

that Northwell has undertaken. The system has an estimated 700 patients in trials, while on any given year, it might have a dozen in trials, he said.

Among the trials Northwell is conducting is for famotidine, the active ingredient in the heartburn medicine Pepcid. Doctors in Wuhan, China, noticed that patients who presented with Covid-19 and heartburn, and who were taking famotidine, exhibited less virulent symptoms than those who were not on the drug.

That anecdotal finding led to clinical trials around the world. It appears famotidine might inhibit the coronavirus’s ability to replicate, Battinelli said.

He also spoke of telemedicine as a saving grace of the crisis, allowing patients to communicate with their doctors without having to be seen in an office.

Telemedicine, Battinelli predicted, will grow rapidly after the pandemic has subsided because health care consumers will want it because of its convenience. Patients can dial up their doctors, and then wait at home to be seen virtually.

“It is absolutely the way of the future,” Battinelli said.

He added that he believes social distancing is here to stay for at least the next year. It will be, he said, the “new norm” until a Covid-19 vaccine is discovered.

Antibody treatment offers ray of hope at MSSN

By Scott Brinton sbrinton@liherald.com

People have been pinning up homemade signs thanking the many workers at Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside on chain-link fence that blocks off a construction project full of big dirt mounds outside the hospital.

It was, one could say, a fitting site for a recent Facebook Live session in which three hospital officials offered a glimmer of hope amid the coronavirus crisis, speaking at length about an “innovative” treatment called convalescent plasma that, for some at least, might help cure Covid-19.

Joe Calderone, MSSN’s senior vice president for communications, led the talk on April 17 with Dr. Aaron Glatt, the hospital’s chief of infectious diseases and chairman of the Department of Medicine, and Dr. Adhi Sharma, its chief medical officer and vice president for clinical and professional affairs.

Sharma noted that convalescent plasma is an investigational treatment, not yet fully approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration.

It works like this, according to Glatt: Patients develop antibodies when fighting off Covid-19, as they do with other viruses. Those antibodies can be extracted from a recovering patient with a high level of them through a blood draw. The plasma can then be injected into someone who is still fighting off the coronavirus, which should help the patient battle the illness.

As of April 17, doctors at the hospital had given plasma to 15 patients, and in those preliminary cases, the procedure had demonstrated “promising” results, according to Sharma.

Ideally, Glatt said, antibodies are extracted from patients three weeks after the onset of Covid-19 symp-

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Dr. aaron Glatt, Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital’s chief of infectious diseases, spoke recently of an “innovative” treatment for Covid-19 called convalescent plasma. toms. At that point, he said, a patient is most likely to have a sufficient number of antibodies for extraction.

Antibodies, he said, can be counted and quantified.

There is no risk to patients who are donating plasma and no indication the procedure would deplete their antibody stores, potentially leaving them susceptible to future infection, the doctors said.

The treatment is most often given to a patient who is or will likely become “deathly ill,” Glatt said.

Plasma is removed at the New York Blood Center in New York City. Patients must make an appointment to donate. Appointments can be made through Mount Sinai Doctors Five Towns in Hewlett. Donation is a multi-stage procedure that does require time, Glatt said.

Treatment is carried out with patient consent only.

It is unclear, Glatt and Sharma said, to what degree Covid-19 antibodies protect a patient from the disease, and for how long. It could be weeks, months or years.

There is insufficient data on reinfection to know, they said.

Glatt and Sharma each said social distancing is key to ensuring that infection rates do not spike again over the coming weeks and months. They worry that people will ease up on the precautions they have been taking recently now that the weather is warming and more people are heading outside. They also pointed out that Governor Cuomo would likely allow businesses to start returning to normal operations in a phased reopening after May 15.

Without continued social distancing, those two factors could lead again to a surge in hospitalizations, which nearly overran hospitals like MSSN in April. The hospital normally sees about 300 patients total, but at the peak of infection, MSSN was seeing 500 patients, 40 percent more than normal.

The MSSN officials said patients were housed in tents and hospital corridors to accommodate them all.

“The staff went well above and beyond to maintain a hospital of 500 patients,” Sharma said, adding that MSSN could not sustain itself for long with that number of patients.

Until “we totally clear [Covid-19] from the population,” Sharma said, people should continue social distancing. It will only be eradicated, he said, with a proven vaccine, which is 12 to 18 months away.

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Mother’s Day is usually a day of celebration and joy for new mothers, but with New York still on lockdown this year, it may be a tough time for those with postpartum depression.

The condition affects one in five new mothers, according to Pauline Walfisch, a therapist at Helping Hands Psychotherapy in Rockville Centre who lives in Franklin Square, and the depression may be masked as Covid-19 anxiety.

In fact, Sonya Murdock, the founder of the Postpartum Resource Center of New “that grandparent experience they were York, said it has received a greater numlooking forward to.” ber of phone calls during the pandemic, “It’s easy to focus on the things you’ve and has increased its helpline lost,” she said, and suggested services to seven days a week. new mothers spend their The helpline provides free Mother’s Day: and confidential support to mothers who are in domestic ■ Connecting with family violence situations, those and friends virtually. who need supplies for their ■ Making a craft they baby, mothers who may be could keep for years. having suicidal thoughts and those who are diagnosed with ■ Getting a little “me Covid-19. time” if there is someone else The outbreak, Murdock in the house who could take pauline walfisch said, has “amplified these care of the baby for a few issues.” minutes.

Making it worse, Walfisch said, is the fact that many new mothers ■ Brightening up their space with flowhave an idealized vision of their first ers from their gardens.

Mother’s Day, but cannot go out to dinner Everyone else, Walfisch said, should this year or perhaps even receive flowers. check on their friends and family memAdditionally, they may feel guilty that bers with new babies. their parents will not be able to have

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HempStead town SuperviSor Donald Clavin was one of 13 Long Island supervisors who took part in a discussion on how the proceed with the summer season, when people flock to Long Island’s beaches and parks.

SuperviSorS diScuSSed How to convey social distancing guidelines to the public, and when to open and close town facilities, including beaches and parks.

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Town supervisors plan for summer recreation

By Scott Brinton sbrinton@liherald.com

Thirteen town supervisors gathered Friday to begin planning coordination of the summer season on Long Island, when tourists from across the state and country descend on the Island’s beaches, in order to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

The supervisors focused on parks and recreation in their discussion, officials said. Supervisor Rich Schaffer, of the Town of Babylon, organized the talk.

Hempstead Town Supervisor Donald Clavin said, “The theme of our discussion was that the Covid-19 pandemic does not follow town borders, and it’s necessary to collaborate on our best practices and strategies for summer programs and services. Working together as a team and maintaining communication will be key to providing the safest environment.”

At press time, it was unclear precisely what would be open for the summer, including the beaches.

The supervisors discussed how to convey social distancing guidelines to the public, and when to open and close town facilities, including beaches and parks. Supervisors said they wanted to ensure the closure of any one facility was done in coordination with other towns to make certain no one town was overrun by beach and park attendees.

“The uncertainty of the Covid-19 pandemic requires us to consider all possible scenarios,” Clavin said.

“Though we wish that all of our residents can enjoy the summers of the past, we accept that this is a ‘new normal,’ at least for this year.”

In addition to Schaffer and Clavin, other supervisors taking part in the talks included: Edward Romaine, of Brookhaven; Judi Bosworth, of North Hempstead; Joseph Saladino, of Oyster Bay; Peter Van Scoyoc, of East Hampton; Chad Lupinacci, of Huntington; Angie Carpenter, of Islip; Yvette Aguiar, of Riverhead; Gerard Siller, of Shelter Island; Edward Wehrheim, of Smithtown; Jay Schneiderman, of Southampton; and Scott Russell, of Southold.

News brief Bill would keep firefighters benefits intact State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Demo- port and appreciation now more than crat from Long Beach, has introduced ever, not an unfair practice that penalizlegislation that would ensure volunteer es them for following safety procefirefighters are able to maintain their dures,” Kaminsky stated in a news active status during the Covid-19 pan- release. The proposed law “would cordemic, when required trainrect this problem and give ing exercises have been them the benefits they interrupted by the virus. deserve.”

Maintaing active service Kaminsky said volunteers is required in order for firea t t h e Wo o d m e r e F i r e fighters to accrue funds Department informed him toward their state pensions. of the issue. “Thank you to Firefighters must attain 50 Senator Kaminsky for his points per year by being on leadership and advocacy on call, responding to emergenbehalf of our volunteer firecies and taking part in trainfighters,” Woodmere Fire ing sessions.

C o m m i s s i o n e r s Ro n n a todd Kaminsky Kaminsky, who re preRubenstein and Israel Max sents several South Shore said in a joint statement in fire departments, said the the release. “This bill will measure would allow active volunteers make sure these brave men and women to earn up to five points per month dur- retain their benefits while forced to stay ing the Covid-19 pandemic and give home because of the pandemic.” departments the ability to set different It was unclear at press time when the emergency response requirements for State Senate would discuss the bill. The certain members. Firefighters would Assembly and Senate passed a resoluthen only have to respond to the mini- tion in late March enabling virtual conmum number of emergency calls they ferencing and voting among firefighters. are assigned.

“First responders deserve our sup–Jeffrey Bessen and Scott Brinton

Schools asked to develop reopening plans year events.

“We are heartbroken that our physical school buildings will remain closed for the remainder of the school year,” said North Bellmore School District Superintendent Marie Testa in a statement.

“However, that does not mean learning and connecting with one another will cease. Our staff has worked exceptionally hard to ensure our students and families remain connected during this difficult time. Until it is safe, we will continue to do our very best to provide a great education for the students of North Bellmore.”

“While this school closure will pose challenges and disappointments for families, children and educators, the closure is not unexpected,” Merrick School District Superintendent Dominick Palma wrote to parents. “The safety of our children and the whole community must come first. I am confident that the Merrick community will remain strong and persevere.”

In the Merrick district, mental health counselors have stayed connected with families and students through virtual family workshops. School psychologists and social workers have also been on hand to consult with families when needed.

“We are disappointed that our school buildings will not reopen for the remainder of the year,” said Bellmore School Dis-

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StudentS in Bellmore and Merrick will not return to school this spring, as ordered by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on May 1. trict Superintendent Joseph Famularo in a statement. “We are in unique times and must all do our part for the safety of others; however, our Bellmore Star Leaders will get through this and be stronger and better for the experience.”

For the first time in weeks, the number of overnight coronavirus deaths dropped below 300 last Thursday to Friday — from

306 to 289 — a 5.5 percent decline. New hospitalizations were also down.

The governor said state-mandated social distancing practices have prevented an estimated 100,000 new Covid-19 cases, which he said would have overrun the hospitals and caused even more deaths. “Our past actions changed the past trajectory,” he said.

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Today’s actions will determine “the number of sick tomorrow,” he said — hence the need to keep school buildings closed and continue social distancing.

Cuomo advised educational institutions statewide to begin developing reopening plans, which must be approved by state officials. A determination on summer school would be made in the coming weeks, he added.

Of the virus, the governor said, “The enemy is on the run.” Now, however, state officials must determine more precisely why New York is still seeing nearly a thousand new cases a day. So the state is drilling down, looking at new cases by county.

New York County (Manhattan) had the most new cases overnight, with 167, followed by Kings (Brooklyn), Bronx, Queens and Nassau counties. Nassau had 97 new cases, or roughly 10 percent, of the statewide total.

The state is also looking at who is becoming infected (if they’re essential or non-essential workers) and where they might be contracting the virus (on public transportation or while at work). “Those are the questions the state is seeking to answer,” Cuomo said.

The governor added that people should continue wearing masks in public and keep up social distancing to protect others.

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Families begin Ramadan fast — from afar

By TIMOTHY DENTON tdenton@liherald.com

With the sighting of the crescent moon on the evening of April 23, the month of Ramadan officially began.

This year, however, the traditional gatherings before sunrise and after sunset have been suspended at Masjid Al-Baqi in Bethpage and at the Islamic Center of Long Island in Woodbury, as they have been across the country and around the world.

The month is holy not only to the thousands of Muslims in Nassau County, but also to the more than 1.8 billion worldwide and is observed with 30 days of daily dawn-to-dusk fasts. The fast is one of the Five Pillars of Islam and is obligatory, or fard for all whose health would not be jeopardized. Women who are breast feeding or menstruating, diabetics and the chronically ill are also specifically exempted from the fast.

The month culminates in the feast of Eid-al-Fitr, one of the two great feasts of the Islamic calendar.

Both communities will hold classes and services online, via various streaming media. At Masjid-Al-Baqi, Mufti Mohammad Farhan will give daily commentary on passages from the Quran after fajr, the first of the five daily prayers prescribed by the Quran. Live streaming of tafseer, or interpretation of the Quran, will take place every evening at 9:30.

Online education will continue via Zoom videoconferencing.

Ramadan is from a root Arabic word meaning God. Traditionally, families and communities gather after sunset for a communal meal, called iftar.

In addition to fasting, devout Muslims also abstain from tobacco products and sex. Charitable deeds, another of the Five Pillars, are also traditionally increased during the holy month. Many carry out extra good works during the month, such as alms giving, participating in blood drives or feeding the hungry. Masjid AlBaqi is providing free groceries for the elderly, the chronically ill and the financially distressed, according to the community’s website.

The Islamic Center is offering similar programs, with guidance by Sheikh Ibrahim Negm, adviser to the

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UsUallY a MONTH of communal contemplation, fasting and prayer, families will observe this year’s Ramadan in the home, as Muslims follow the pattern set by other religions and move to electronic formats.

Grand Mufti of Al-Azhar in Cairo — one of the world’s earliest universities — and by Farhan, as well as twicenightly recitations by Hafiz Dr. Assad Baig and Hafiz Tanweer Ahmed.

For further information, contact Masjid Al-Baqi (516) 433-4141, or online at masjidalbaqi.org; or the Islamic Center of Long Island, at (516) 333-3495, or at icily.org.

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L.I. congressional reps unite behind small businesses By laUra laNE llane@liherald.com

The Small Business Administration, Treasury Department and banks should be held accountable if lending institutions focus only on larger businesses when approving Payroll Protection Program loans, said a bipartisan group of Long Island congressional leaders on April 24. Meeting on the video conferencing platform Zoom, they said that priority should be given to “small” small businesses seeking loans of less than $150,000.

“There are a lot of smaller small businesses in the U.S. and most have less than 20 employees,” said U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Democrat from Glen Cove. “We have to send a clear message to the banks that we’re watching. They need to help the mom-and-pop shops, the plumber, electrician, doctor and dentist. And we need the Treasury Department and Small Business Administration to help get that message across.”

President Trump signed a new stimulus bill on April 23 that includes more than $300 billion in federal guarantees for

PPP loans, which must be used to keep told her that they are worried they will employees on the payrolls of small busi- not survive.

One of Trump’s vocal supporters, U.S. nesses. The SBA would forgive the loans if all employees are kept on the pay- Rep. Lee Zeldin, a Republican from Sufroll for eight weeks and the loan money is folk County, said the government needs to step up to help the smaller used for payroll, rent, mortbusinesses. “To my colgage interest or utilities. A leagues who think there is new stimulus bill was needed nothing left to do, this isn’t because the initial of $349 the time to walk away and billion for the program ran declare bankruptcy,” he said, out. referring to a suggestion Suozzi said that the avermade by Senate Majority age loan amount from the Leader Mitch McConnell. first stimulus package at the “We need to make sure the 15 larger banks was $515,000, state and local governments meaning the big borrowers get through this.” received the loans and not Big banks should focus the smaller business. their attention on the smallU.S. Rep. Peter King, a THOMas sUOzzI est of businesses, said U.S. Republican, said the smaller U.S. representative, Rep. Gregory Meeks, a Demobusinesses need relief now. crat, noting he is working to “Or there won’t be any small Fourth District make sure they do. “Despite businesses left,” he said. who is in the cue, if you see a “This is a natural disaster.

We have to stand together on this as New small business with 20 or less employees, push them up,” he said. “We earmarked Yorkers.”

U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice, a Democrat, $60 billion to go to community banks and agreed, adding that local retailers have credit unions because they have the pulse

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of small business to make sure they can apply for loans.”

Of the roughly 67,000 loan applications, 27,000 had been approved as of April 24. Rice said non-partisan oversight was needed moving forward.

Then Zeldin warned businesses that do not need the loan to not apply, adding that they will be shamed if they do. “If you are flush with cash, if you are an individual who is sitting comfortably and wealthy — this is not a moment in time for you to be asking what your country can do for you to get through the pandemic,” he said.

Payment of the loans should be flexible, Suozzi said. He predicted that when restaurants reopen, they would probably only see 30 percent of their business return. “They will need flexibility on paying back the loan,” he said. “Can we make money available with a much lower interest rate at maybe 0 or 1 percent?”

The congressional leaders are 100 percent united on these issues, Suozzi said, and “want to fight for the little guy — the smallest businesses. We will get through this if Democrats and Republicans are united like we are here.”

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No go for high school spring sports Student athletes come to grips with a shortened season

By TONY BELLISSIMO tbellissimo@liherald.com

If 2020 had any normalcy to it, Calhoun High School pitcher Lindsay Roman would be nearing the home stretch of her sixth varsity softball season.

Instead, Roman, like all other senior student-athletes on Long Island, is coming to grips with the fact spring sports and the rest of the school year in classrooms are cancelled.

Any hopes of a shortened sports season were dashed on April 21 when health and safety concerns led athletic administrators and school superintendents in Nassau and Suffolk counties to make the news official.

“I’ve been pretty upset about it,” said Roman, who is planning to continue her playing career at SUNY New Paltz. “It was pretty important to me and I was holding out hope since the quarantine started.”

Like Roman, Kennedy senior baseball pitcher/first baseman Chris Costaro will be competing at the next level when he heads to Ithaca College. “It really is a shame they couldn’t start the season,” Costaro said. “I was looking forward to being a captain and leader. I’m going to miss bonding with my teammates, going to Applebee’s after every win and the fun bus rides to games.”

Jill Mayer, a defender for Mepham’s girls’ lacrosse team, was one of 14 seniors on the roster. She is headed to the University of Virginia and is considering playing intramurals.

“Some of us have played lacrosse together since we’re six years old and dreamed about our senior season,” she said. “We moved up into a tougher conference and were looking to prove we belonged — we never expected last year’s playoff loss to Garden City to be our last high school game.”

Administrators in both counties felt it was important to react sooner rather than later. Last Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced school buildings in New York State would remain closed until the end of the academic year.

“For the safety for our student athletes,

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SpOrTS adMINISTraTOrS CaNCELEd the spring season because of Covid19-related safety concerns.

Section VIII has made the difficult decision to cancel spring sports for our high schools and middle schools,” Nassau County Executive Director of Athletics Pat Pizzarelli said. “Long Island is one of the areas most affected by this terrible pandemic, so both Section VIII (Nassau) and Section XI (Suffolk) have made this very difficult decision.

“It’s very sad for the seniors but we are dealing with life and death,” Pizzarelli added. “We have to safeguard our students and communities. We waited as long as we possibly could to make this heartbreaking decision.”

Nassau County’s Athletic Council, which includes superintendents, principals and school and sports officials, met the night of April 20 to make the unanimous decision. Athletic Directors met the following morning and were in agreement, too.

Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Director Eric Caballero made the announcement on April 21 in a letter to parents. He ensured students and families that he, along with administration officials, Board of Education trustees and

athletic coordinators would issue applicable letters, pins and certificates to eligible athletes. End-of-season awards will also be distributed remotely via each high school’s sports boosters organization.

“For those seniors whose careers have been cut short, hold your head high,” Caballero wrote. “As challenging as it may be at this time, think about the lasting memories you have made with coaches and teammates, and the time and effort that you have invested throughout your career.

“Reminisce about the excitement of achieving an off-season personal goal, team accolades or seeing your best friends perform well,” he continued. “For those who plan to continue sports participation collegiately, know that this will not define you. Rather, it is just the beginning of your journey.”

the purpose of voting all registered voters will receive an absentee ballot with prepaid return postage distributed by the Bellmore Union Free School District, also containing propositions for the Bellmore UFSD and the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District. All such ballots must be returned by mail by June 9, 2020.

FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required for

on Monday, May 11, 2020.

FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, in accordance with Governor’s Executive Order No. 202.26, all persons who shall have been previously registered for Annual or Special School District Meetings and who shall have voted at any such Annual or Special Meeting held or conducted at any time within the four (4) calendar years prior to June 9, 2020 shall

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CaLhOuN hIgh SChOOL pitcher Lindsay Roman would be nearing the home stretch of her sixth varsity softball season were it not for the pandemic.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SPECIAL DISTRICT MEETING OF THE BELLMORE MEMORIAL LIBRARY TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD COUNTY OF NASSAU, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the qualified voters of the Bellmore Union Free School District, Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, will vote via absentee ballot, upon the following items:(1) To adopt the Annual Budget of the Bellmore

Memorial Library for the fiscal year 2020-2021, and to authorize the requisite portion thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the School District; and (2) To elect one (1) Trustee to the Bellmore Memorial Library board to fill a five year term commencing July 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2025, as a result of the expiration of the term held by Emily Schreiber.

FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that for

the ensuing year for the Bellmore Memorial Library’s purposes, exclusive of public monies, will be posted on the Library website.

FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that candidates for the office of Trustee of the Bellmore Memorial Library shall send intent to the District Clerk at the Bellmore U.F.S.D. District Office, 580 Winthrop Avenue, Bellmore, New York or by email at ryee@bellmoreschools.or g not later than 5:00 p.m.

receive an absentee ballot to vote. In addition, all those who are registered to vote with the Board of Elections of Nassau County pursuant to Article 5 of Election Law shall be entitled to vote at this Special District Meeting. Further, due to the resulting ordered closure of schools, personal registration with the school district will not take place for the June 9, 2020 vote. In lieu of such registration, individuals can register through New York State Department

of Motor Vehicle’s voter registration website (https://dmv.ny.gov/morei n f o / e l e c t r o n i c - v o t e rregistration-application), and be eligible to receive an absentee ballot, provided that the individual registers before June 4, 2020.

FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public information hearing will be held remotely by the Bellmore Memorial Library on Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. for the purpose of discussion of the

expenditure of funds for the 2020-2021 fiscal year.

Visit bellmorelibrary.org for additional i n f o r m a t i o n .

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ANNUAL SCHOOL DISTRICT VOTE OF THE BELLMOREMERRICK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual vote of the qualified voters of the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, Nassau County, New York, will be held exclusively by absentee ballot voting on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 for the following purposes: PROPOSITION NO. 1 CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, is authorized to expend the sums in the General Fund Appropriate of one hundred sixty-six million, six hundred sixty-one thousand, four hundred sixty-four dollars ($166,661,464) to be raised through taxation in the several districts included with the Central High School District after first deducting the monies available from state aid and other sources.

PROPOSITION NO. 2CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT

AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that any resident of the school district who wishes to be a registered voter for this election may register with the board of elections by submitting an on-line application for voter registration with the Department of Motor Vehicles at https://dmv.ny.gov/morei n f o / e l e c t r o n i c - v o t e rregistration-application.

AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that a person shall be entitled to vote at the annual meeting and election who is a citizen of the United States, eighteen years of age, a resident of the Union Free School District in which he intends to vote for a period of thirty days next preceding the election he offers to vote.

AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required for the ensuing year for school purposes (school budget) and copies of propositions involving expenditure of moneys and the operation of the school system for the ensuing year, may be viewed by any taxpayer in the District during the fourteen days immediately preceding the annual vote on the district’s website.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that military voters who are not currently registered may apply to register as a qualified voter of the school district. Military voters who are qualified voters of the school district may submit an application for a military ballot. Military voters may designate a preference to receive a military voter registration, military ballot application or military ballot by mail,

facsimile transmission or electronic mail in their request for such registration, ballot application or ballot.

Military voter registration forms and military ballot application forms must be received in the Office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 14, 2020. No military ballot will be canvassed unless it is received in the Office of the District Clerk by no later than 5:00 p.m. on election day.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION BELLMORE-MERRICK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT PATTIANNE GUCCIONE DISTRICT CLERK The above notice will be published in the Bellmore and Merrick Herald Life newspapers on Thursday, May 14, 2020 and May 28, 2020.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ADJOURNED BUDGET HEARING, ANNUAL MEETING, ELECTION AND REGISTRATION OF VOTERS, BELLMORE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, in accordance with Governor’s Executive Order No. 202.26, a public budget hearing of the Bellmore Union Free School District, Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, NY, will be held remotely on Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. to discuss the expenditure of funds for the 2020-2021 school year and the budgeting thereof, and for such other business as is authorized by the Education Law of New York State.

Visit www.bellmoreschools.org for details.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that an election to fill one (1) vacancy, for a term of three (3) years, for the office of member of the Board of Education, will be held along with vote upon the appropriation of the necessary funds to meet the estimated expenditures of said school district for the 2020-2021 school year (school budget) at the CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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PROJECTS RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, is hereby authorized to expend the sum of seven hundred fifty one thousand, eight hundred eight dollars ($751,808) representing the balance of monies in the Capital Reserve Fund established on May 2016 for the following purposes: parking lot, tennis courts and track resurfacing, and floor and ceiling tile replacement at W.C. Mepham High School, Grand Avenue and Merrick Avenue Middle Schools and door and lock replacement at all buildings.

Since the funds to be expended hereunder come from the Capital Reserve Fund approval of this proposition will not require a tax levy upon the real property of the district. This Proposition shall be independent of Proposition No.1.

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realizada en cualquier momento dentro del calendario de cuatro (4) Los años anteriores al 9 de junio de 2020 recibirán una boleta en ausencia para votar. Además, todos aquellos que estén registrados para votar en la Junta Electoral del Condado de Nassau de conformidad con el Artículo 5 de la Ley Electoral tendrán derecho a votar en esta Reunión Especial de Distrito.

Además, debido al cierre ordenado resultante de las escuelas, la inscripción personal en el distrito escolar no tendrá lugar para la votación del 9 de junio de 2020. En lugar de dicho registro, las personas pueden registrarse a través del sitio web de registro de votantes del Departamento de Vehículos Motorizados del Estado de Nueva York (https: //dmv.ny.

ADEMÁS SE OTORGA AVISO de que la Audiencia Bellmore Memorial Library celebrará de forma remota una audiencia de información pública el martes 2 de junio de 2020 a las 7:00 pm con el fin de discutir el gasto de fondos para el año fiscal 2020-2021.

Visite bellmorelibrary.org para obtener información adicional.

POR ORDEN DE LA JUNTA DE ADMINISTRADORES BELLMORE BIBLIOTECA MEMORIAL Randy Yee, secretario del distrito FECHA: mayo 2020 BELLMORE, NUEVA YORK 121746

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LEGAL NOTICE AVISO DE REUNIÓN ESPECIAL DEL DISTRITO DE LA BELLMORE BIBLIOTECA MEMORIAL CIUDAD DE HEMPSTEAD CONDADO DE NASSAU, NUEVA YORK AVISO SE DICE QUE los votantes calificados de la Bellmore El Distrito Escolar Libre de la Unión, Ciudad de Hempstead, Condado de Nassau, Nueva York, votará por voto ausente, sobre los siguientes elementos: (1) Adoptar el Presupuesto anual de la Biblioteca Bellmore Memorial para el año fiscal 2020-2021, y para autorizar que la porción requerida de la misma se recaude mediante impuestos sobre la propiedad imponible del Distrito Escolar; y (2) Elegir un (1) Fiduciario para el Bellmore Junta de la Biblioteca Memorial para llenar cinco años plazo que comienza el 1 de julio de 2020 y termina el 30 de junio de 2025, como resultado de la expiración del término en manos de Emily Schreiber.

SE ADMITE AVISO ADICIONAL, que con el propósito de Votar a todos los votantes registrados recibirá una boleta en ausencia con franqueo de devolución prepago distribuido por el Distrito Escolar Libre de Bellmore Union, que también contiene propuestas para el Distrito Escolar Superior de Bellmore-Merrick y el Distrito Escolar Central de Bellmore-Merrick. Todas esas boletas deben devolverse por correo antes del 9 de junio de 2020.

SE OTORGA AVISO ADICIONAL, que una copia de la declaración de la cantidad de dinero que se requerirá para el año siguiente para los propósitos de la Biblioteca Bellmore Memorial, excluyendo el dinero público, será publicado en el sitio web de la Biblioteca.

CUARTOAVISO DE ER ES DADO AQUÍ, que los candidatos para el cargo de Fiduciario de laBellmore Memorial Library enviará la intención al Secretario del Distrito en el Bellmore Oficina de Distrito de UFSD, 580 Winthrop Avenue, Bellmore, Nueva York o por correo electrónico a ryee@bellmoreschools.or g a más tardar a las 5:00 pm del lunes 11 de mayo de 2020.

SE ADMITE OTRA NOTIFICACIÓN,de acuerdo con la Orden Ejecutiva del Gobernador No. 202.26, todas las personas que se hayan registrado previamente para las Reuniones Anuales o Especiales del Distrito Escolar y que hayan votado en cualquier Reunión Anual o Especial celebrada o

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adjourned annual meeting of said school district on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 held remotely via absentee ballot.

All qualified voters will receive and absentee ballot with a postage paid return envelope.

Such ballots must be received by the District, by mail no later than 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 9, 2020.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required for the ensuing year for school purposes (Proposed Budget) may be obtained by any resident of the School District on the District’s w e b s i t e (www.bellmore.k12.ny.us ), during the fourteen (14) days preceding the annual meeting and election, and on the day of the election, together with the text of any resolution which will be presented to the voters.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that pursuant to Section 495 of the Real Property Tax Law, the District is required to attach to its proposed budget an exemption report. Said exemption report, which will also become part of the final budget, will show how the total assessed value on the final assessment roll used in the budgetary process is exempt from taxation, list every type of exemption granted by the statutory authority, and show the cumulative impact of each type of exemption, the cumulative amount expected to be received as payments in lieu of taxes and the cumulative impact of all exemptions granted.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, individuals interested in declaring their candidacy for the office of member of the Board of Education must be file their intent in letter, statement or petition, with the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m., Monday, May 11, 2020, by mail (addressed to District Clerk, Bellmore UFSD, 580 Winthrop Ave., Bellmore, NY 11710) or e m a i l (ryee@bellmoreschools.or g.) Candidates must provide their name and address and confirm that they meet the qualifications to run for member of the Board of Education (that they are a U.S. citizen, 18 years of age or older, a qualified voter in the District, and that they have been residing in the District for at least one consecutive year). The candidate receiving the highest number of votes will be elected to office. By Executive Order of the Governor of the State of New York, names will be placed alphabetically on the ballot.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that due to the health and safety

concerns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, the potential for contraction of COVID-19 is deemed a temporary illness. As such, every eligible voter is entitled to be sent an absentee ballot with a postage paid return envelope.

Further, due to the resulting ordered closure of schools, personal registration with the school district will not take place for the June 9, 2020 election. In lieu of such registration, individuals can register through New York State Department of Motor Vehicle’s voter registration website (https://dmv.ny.gov/morei n f o / e l e c t r o n i c - v o t e rregistration-application), and be eligible to receive an absentee ballot, provided that the individual registers before June 4, 2020. Persons who shall have been previously registered for any District annual or special election and who shall have voted at any such District election held in the prior four calendar years (2016-2019), and/or persons who are registered to vote at general elections within the District pursuant to Election Law §352 will automatically receive an absentee ballot. If you are unsure whether you are a qualified voter and/or will receive an absentee ballot, please contact the District Clerk at ryee@bellmoreschools.or g.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that pursuant to Education Law §2018-d, a military voter who is duly registered may apply for a military ballot by requesting an application from the District Clerk.

Completed applications must be personally delivered or mailed to the District Clerk and received no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 14, 2020.

Completed military ballots must be received by 5:00 p.m. on June 9, 2020 if signed and dated by the military voter and one witness thereto with a date which is not later than the day before the election. A military voter may designate a preference to receive a military voter registration form, military ballot application or military ballot by mail, facsimile or electronic mail in the request for such registration, ballot application, or ballot.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that the Board of Education shall convene a special meeting within 24 hours after the filing with the District Clerk of a written report of the results of the ballot, for the purpose of examining and tabulating said reports for the results of the ballot, and declaring the results of the ballot; that the Board hereby designates itself to be a set of poll clerks to cast ballots and canvass

pursuant to Education Law Section 2019-a.2-b, at said special meeting of the Board.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that qualified voters of the Bellmore Union Free School District, and the BellmoreMerrick Central High School District and Bellmore shall also vote for the following purposes: a) To vote upon the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District annual school budget for the 2020-2021 school year, and to authorize the levying of a tax upon the taxable property of the District for the foregoing purposes. b) To vote upon such other propositions of the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District as may properly come before the meeting. c) To vote upon the Bellmore Memorial Library annual budget for the 20202021 fiscal year.

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BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION BELLMORE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Randy Yee, District Clerk 121752

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LEGAL NOTICE VISO DE VOTO ANUAL DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR DE BELLMORE-MERRICK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL CIUDAD DE HEMPSTEAD, CONDADO DE NASSAU, NUEVA YORK SE DA AVISO DE QUE el voto anual de los votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar Central de Bellmore-Merrick, Condado de Nassau, Nueva York, se llevará a cabo exclusivamente por votación en boleta en ausencia el martes el 9 de junio de 2020 para los siguientes propósitos: PROPOSICIÓN NUMERO 1- PRESUPUESTO DEL DISTRITO CENTRAL DE LA ESCUELA SECUNDARIA RESUELTO, que la Junta de Educación del Distrito Central de la Escuela Secundaria de BellmoreMerrick, Ciudad de Hempstead, Condado de Nassau, está autorizada a gastar las sumas Apropriadas del Fondo General de ciento sesenta y seis millones seiscientos sesenta y un mil cuatrocientos sesenta y cuatro dolares ($166,661,464) que se recaudarán a través de dólares de impuestos en los distritos escolares incluidos en el Distrito Central de La Escuela Secundaria después de deducir los fondos disponibles de la ayuda estatal y otras fuentes de ingresos.

PROPOSICIÓN NUMERO 2PROYECTOS DE MEJORA DE CAPITAL

RESUELTO, que la Junta de Educación del Distrito Central de la Escuela Secundaria de BellmoreMerrick, Ciudad de Hempstead, Condado de Nassau, está autorizada a gastar la suma de setecientos cincuenta y un mil ochocientos ocho dólares ($751,808) que representan el saldo de fondos en el Fondo de Reserva de Capital establecido en mayo de 2016 para los siguientes p r o p ó s i t o s : estacionamiento, cancha de tenis y repavimentación de pista, reemplazo de azujelos piso y techo en La Escuela Secundaria de WC Mepham y Las Escuelas Intermedias de Grand Avenue y Merrick Avenue y reemplazo de puertas y cerraduras de las puertas en todos los edificios escolares. Dado que los fondos que se van a gastar provienen de la reserva de capital, no habrá impacto fiscal adicional para los residentes si se aprueba la propuesta.

Y AVISO SE DA TAMBIÉN de que cualquier residente del distrito escolar que desee ser un votante registrado para esta elección puede registrarse en la junta electoral mediante la presentación de una solicitud en línea para el registro de votantes con el Departamento de Vehículos Motorizados en https://dmv.ny.gov/morei n f o / e l e c t r o n i c - v o t e rregistration-application.

Y AVISO SE DA TAMBIÉN de que una persona tendrá derecho a votar en la reunión y elección anual que sea ciudadano de los Estados Unidos, dieciocho años de edad, residente del Distrito Escolar Libre de la Unión en el que tiene la intención de votar por un período de los treinta días que preceden a la elección que ofrece para votar.

Y AVISO SE DA TAMBIÉN de que una copia de la declaración de la cantidad de dinero que se requerirá para el año siguiente para fines escolares (presupuesto escolar) y copias de propuestas que implican gastos de dinero y la operación del sistema escolar para el año siguiente , puede ser visto por cualquier contribuyente en el Distrito durante los catorce días inmediatamente anteriores a la votación anual en el sitio web del distrito.

SE DA MÁS AVISO que los votantes militares que no están registrados actualmente pueden aplicar para registrarse como votantes calificados del distrito escolar. Los votantes militares que son votantes calificados del distrito escolar pueden presentar una solicitud para una boleta militar. Los votantes

militares pueden designar una preferencia para recibir un registro de votantes militares, una solicitud de boleta militar o una boleta militar por correo, transmisión por fax o correo electrónico en su solicitud de dicho registro, solicitud de boleta o boleta. Los formularios de inscripción de votante militar y los formularios de solicitud de boleta militar deben recibirse en la Oficina del Secretario del Distrito antes de las 5:00 p.m. el 14 de mayo de 2020. No se realizará una votación militar a menos que se reciba en la Oficina del Secretario del Distrito antes de las 5:00 p.m. el día de las elecciones POR ORDEN DE JUNTA DE EDUCACIÓN BELLMORE-MERICK DISTRITO DE ESCUELA SECUNDARIA CENTRAL PATTIANNE GUCCIONE SECRETARIO El aviso anterior se publicará en los periódicos Herald Life de Bellmore y Merrick el Jueves, el 7 de Mayo de 2020 y el 28 de mayo de 2020.

121807 LEGAL NOTICE AVISO DE REUNIÓN ANUAL, AUDIENCIA PÚBLICA, ELECCIÓN Y REGISTRO DE VOTANTES DISTRITO ESCOLAR GRATUITO DE NORTH BELLMORE UNION NORTH BELLMORE, CIUDAD DE HEMPSTEAD, CONDADO DE NASSAU, NUEVA YORK De conformidad con la Sección 1716 de la Ley de Educación, una audiencia pública para discutir el presupuesto del Distrito Escolar 2020/21 propuesto, y cualquier otro asunto que pueda surgir antes de la reunión, se llevará a cabo de forma remota el 1 de junio de 2020. Una copia de la declaración del monto de los fondos que se requerirán para el año escolar 2020/21 para fines escolares se pueden ver en el sitio web del Distrito a partir del 26 de mayo de 2020.

ADEMÁS SE OTORGA AVISO de que el Voto Anual de los votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar Libre North Bellmore Union se llevará a cabo exclusivamente por votación en boleta en ausencia el 9 de junio de 2020 con el siguiente propósito: A. Votar sobre el presupuesto escolar anual para el año escolar 2020-21 y para autorizar la recaudación de un impuesto sobre la propiedad imponible del Norte Distrito Escolar de Bellmore para tales propósitos.

B. La elección de un (1) miembro de la Junta de Educación.

C. Votar sobre otras proposiciones que puedan p r e s e n t a r s e adecuadamente ante el

reunión.

Las copias del presupuesto propuesto para 2020/21 estarán disponibles durante los catorce (14) días anteriores a la Votación Anual en el sitio web de la escuela.

POR FAVOR TENGA AVISO ADICIONAL de conformidad con la Sección 495 de la Ley del Impuesto sobre Bienes Inmuebles, un informe de exención que detalla las exenciones del impuesto sobre bienes inmuebles estará disponible y se adjuntará a cualquier presupuesto provisional, preliminar o final.

POR FAVOR TENGA AVISO ADICIONAL de que la elección de los miembros de la Junta de Educación será la siguiente: Un (1) miembro de la Junta de Educación; uno por un período completo de tres (3) años, que comienza el 1 de julio de 2020 y finaliza el 30 de junio de 2023. El titular actual es John Ferrara cuyo mandato expira el 30 de junio de 2020 SE ADMITE ADEMÁS que las solicitudes de nominación para candidatos a la Junta de Educación deben presentarse ante el Secretario del Distrito a más tardar el 11 de mayo de 2020 a las 5:00 p.m.

Cada petición deberá indicar el nombre y la residencia del candidato.

Las vacantes en la Junta de Educación no se consideran oficinas separadas y específicas; Los candidatos corren en libertad. Las peticiones de nominación no describirán ninguna vacante específica en la Junta para la cual el candidato es nominado.

Se aceptarán peticiones de nominación presentadas por correo electrónico, fax o correo.

La dirección de correo electrónico del secretario del distrito es jcanavan@northbellmores chools.org. No hay un número mínimo de firmas requeridas en la petición de nominación.

POR FAVOR TENGA AVISO ADICIONAL que en la Votación Anual, los votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar Central de Bellmore-Merrick deberán votar por los siguientes propósitos: A. Votar sobre el presupuesto anual de Bellmore-Merrick Central High Distrito escolar para el año 2020-21 y para autorizar la recaudación de un impuesto sobre la propiedad imponible de BellmoreMerrick Central High School Distrito para tales propósitos.

B. Votar sobre otras proposiciones que puedan p r e s e n t a r s e adecuadamente ante el votantes.

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SE DA MÁS AVISO a cualquier residente del distrito escolar que desee ser un votante registrado para esta elección puede registrarse en la junta electoral mediante la presentación de una solicitud en línea para el registro de votantes con el Departamento de Vehículos Motorizados en https://dmv.ny.gov/morei n f o / e l e c t r o n i c - v o t e rregistration-application.

AVISO SI SE OTORGA QUE los votantes militares que no están registrados actualmente pueden solicitar registrarse como votantes calificados del distrito escolar. Los votantes militares que son votantes calificados del distrito escolar pueden presentar una solicitud para una boleta militar.

Los votantes militares pueden designar una preferencia para recibir un registro de votantes militares, una solicitud de boleta militar o una boleta militar por correo, transmisión por fax o correo electrónico en su solicitud de dicho registro, solicitud de boleta o boleta. Los formularios de inscripción de votante militar y los formularios de solicitud de boleta militar deben recibirse en la Oficina del Secretario del Distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m. el 14 de mayo de 2020. No se realizará una votación militar a menos que se reciba en la Oficina del Secretario del Distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m. el día de las elecciones SE ADMITEN ADEMÁS que ninguna boleta de votante ausente será sometida a votación a menos que se haya recibido en la oficina del Secretario del Distrito del Distrito Escolar Libre de North Bellmore Union a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m.

(Tiempo prevaleciente) el día de la reunión anual del distrito.

POR ORDEN DE LA JUNTA DE EDUCACIÓN Jeanne Canavan Secretario del distrito Esta información se proporciona en español de conformidad con la Ley de Derechos Electorales de 1965.

121812 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING, PUBLIC HEARING, ELECTION, AND REGISTRATION OF VOTERS NORTH BELLMORE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT NORTH BELLMORE, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK Pursuant to Section 1716 of Education Law a Public Hearing for discussion of the proposed 2020/21 School District Budget, and such other business as may come before the meeting, will be held remotely June 1, 2020. A copy of the statement of the amount of monies

which will be required for the 2020/21 school year for school purposes may be viewed on the District’s website commencing May 26, 2020.

FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual Vote of the qualified voters of the North Bellmore Union Free School District will be held exclusively by absentee ballot voting on June 9, 2020 for the following purpose: A. To vote upon the Annual School Budget for the school year 2020-21 and to authorize levying of a tax upon the taxable property of the North Bellmore School District for such purposes.

B. The election of one (1) member of the Board of Education.

C. To vote upon such other propositions as may properly come before the meeting.

Copies of the proposed 2020/21 budget will be available during the fourteen (14) days preceding the Annual Vote on the school’s website.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE pursuant to Real Property Tax Law Section 495, an exemption report detailing exemptions from real property taxation shall be available and appended to any tentative, preliminary or final budget.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the election of members of the Board of Education will be as follows: One (1) member of the Board of Education; one for a full term of three (3) years, commencing July 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2023. The present incumbent is John Ferrara whose term of office expires on June 30, 2020 NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that nominating petitions for candidates for the Board of Education must be filed with the District Clerk not later than May 11, 2020 at 5:00 p.m.

Each petition shall state the name and residence of the candidate. Vacancies on the Board of Education are not considered separate, specific offices; candidates run at large.

Nominating petitions shall not describe any specific vacancy upon the Board for which the candidate is nominated.

Nominating petitions filed by email, fax or mail will be accepted. The District Clerk’s email address is jcanavan@northbellmores chools.org. There is no minimum number of signatures required on the nominating petition.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that at the Annual Vote, qualified voters of the BellmoreMerrick Central High School District shall vote for the following purposes: CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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A. To vote upon the annual budget of the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District for the year 2020-21 and to authorize the levying of a tax upon the taxable property of the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District for such purposes.

B. To vote upon such other propositions as may properly come before the voters.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN any resident of the school district who wishes to be a registered voter for this election may register with the board of elections by submitting an on-line application for voter registration with the Department of Motor Vehicles at https://dmv.ny.gov/morei n f o / e l e c t r o n i c - v o t e rregistration-application.

NOTICE IF FURTHER GIVEN that military voters who are not currently registered may apply to register as a qualified voter of the school district. Military voters who are qualified voters of the school district may submit an application for a military ballot. Military voters may designate a preference to receive a military voter registration, military ballot application or military ballot by mail, facsimile transmission or electronic mail in their request for such registration, ballot application or ballot.

Military voter registration forms and military ballot application forms must be received in the Office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 14, 2020. No military ballot will be canvassed unless it is received in the Office of the District Clerk by no later than 5:00 p.m. on election day.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that no absentee voter’s ballot shall be canvassed unless it shall have been received in the office of the District Clerk of the North Bellmore Union Free School District not later than 5:00 o’clock P.M. (Prevailing Time) on the day of Annual District Meeting.

BY THE ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION Jeanne Canavan District Clerk This information is provided in Spanish in compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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LEGAL NOTICE AVISO DE AUDIENCIA PRESUPUESTARIA ADJUNTA, REUNIÓN ANUAL, ELECCIÓN Y REGISTRO DE VOTANTES, DISTRITO ESCOLAR GRATUITO DE BELLMORE UNION, CIUDAD DE HEMPSTEAD, CONDADO DE NASSAU, N U E V A YORK

AVISO ES DADO AQUÍque, de acuerdo con la Orden Ejecutiva No. 202.26 del Gobernador, una audiencia de presupuesto público del Distrito Escolar Libre de Bellmore Union, Ciudad de Hempstead, Condado de Nassau, NY, se llevará a cabo de forma remota el martes 26 de mayo de 2020 a las 7:30 p.m. discutir el gasto de fondos para el año escolar 2020-2021 y el presupuesto del mismo, y para cualquier otro negocio que esté autorizado por la Ley de Educación del Estado de Nueva York.

Visitar www.bellmoreschools.org para detalles.

EL AVISO SE OTORGA ADEMÁS que se realizará una elección para llenar una (1) vacante, por un período de tres (3) años, para el cargo de miembro de la Junta de Educación, junto con el voto sobre la asignación de los fondos necesarios para cubrir los gastos estimados de dicho distrito escolar para el año escolar 2020-2021 (presupuesto escolar) en la reunión anual aplazada de dicho distrito escolar el martes 9 de junio de 2020, celebrada de forma remota a través de una boleta de votación en ausencia.

Todos los votantes calificados recibirán una boleta en ausencia y un sobre con franqueo pagado. Dichas boletas deben ser recibidas por el Distrito, por correo a más tardar a las 5:00 pm del martes 9 de junio de 2020.

EL AVISO SE OTORGA ADEMÁS que cualquier residente del Distrito Escolar puede obtener una copia de la declaración de la cantidad de dinero que se requerirá para el año siguiente para fines escolares (Presupuesto Propuesto) en el sitio web del Distrito (www.bellmore.k12.ny.us ), durante los catorce (14) días anteriores a la reunión y elección anual, y el día de la elección, junto con el texto de cualquier resolución que se presentará a los votantes.

EL AVISO SE OTORGA ADEMÁS, que de conformidad con la Sección 495 de la Ley del Impuesto sobre Bienes Inmuebles, el Distrito debe adjuntar a su presupuesto propuesto un informe de exención.

Dicho informe de exención, que también se convertirá en parte del presupuesto final, mostrará cómo el valor tasado total en la lista de evaluación final utilizada en el proceso presupuestario está exento de impuestos, enumera cada tipo de exención otorgada por la autoridad legal y muestra el impacto acumulativo de cada tipo de exención, el monto acumulado que se espera recibir como pagos en lugar de impuestos y el impacto

acumulativo de todas las exenciones otorgadas.

EL AVISO SE OTORGA ADEMÁS individuos interesados ??en declarar su candidaturapara el cargo de miembro de la Junta de Educación debe presentar su intención por carta, declaración o petición, con el Secretario del Distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m., el lunes 11 de mayo de 2020, por correo (dirigido al Secretario del Distrito, Bellmore UFSD, 580 Winthrop Ave., Bellmore, NY 11710) o correo electrónico ( ryee@bellmoreschools.or g. ) Los candidatos deben proporcionar su nombre y dirección y confirmar que cumplen con los requisitos para postularse para ser miembros de la Junta de Educación (que son Ciudadano estadounidense, de 18 años de edad o mayor, un votante calificado en el Distrito, y que han estado residiendo en el Distrito durante al menos un año consecutivo). El candidato que reciba el mayor número de votos será elegido para el cargo. Por orden ejecutiva del gobernador del estado de Nueva York, los nombres se colocarán alfabéticamente en la boleta.

EL AVISO SE OTORGA ADEMÁSque debido a las preocupaciones de salud y seguridad asociadas con la pandemia de COVID-19, el potencial de contracción de COVID-19 se considera una enfermedad temporal.

Como tal, cada votante elegible tiene derecho a que se le envíe una boleta en ausencia con un sobre de devolución con franqueo pagado.

Además, debido al cierre ordenado resultante de las escuelas, el registro personal en el distrito escolar no tendrá lugar para las elecciones del 9 de junio de 2020. En lugar de dicho registro, las personas pueden registrarse a través del sitio web de registro de votantes del Departamento de Vehículos Motorizados del Estado de Nueva York (https://dmv.ny.gov/morei n f o / e l e c t r o n i c - v o t e rregistration-application), y ser elegible para recibir una boleta de votación en ausencia, siempre que el individuo se registre antes del 4 de junio de 2020. Las personas que se habrán registrado previamente para cualquier elección anual o especial del Distrito y que habrán votado en cualquier elección de Distrito celebrada en la previa cuatro años calendario (2016-2019), y / o las personas que estén registradas para votar en las elecciones generales dentro del Distrito de conformidad con la Ley Electoral §352 recibirán automáticamente una boleta en ausencia. Si no está seguro de si es un votante calificado y / o

recibirá una boleta de votación en ausencia, comuníquese con el Secretario del Distrito a ryee@bellmoreschools.or g.

EL AVISO SE OTORGA ADEMÁSque de conformidad con la Ley de Educación §2018-d, un votante militar debidamente registrado puede solicitar una boleta militar solicitando una solicitud al Secretario del Distrito. Las solicitudes completas deben ser e n t r e g a d a s personalmente o enviadas por correo al secretario del distrito y recibidas a más tardar a las 5:00 p. M. El 14 de mayo de 2020. Las papeletas militares completadas deben recibirse antes de las 5:00 p. M. El 9 de junio de 2020 si el ejército las firma y fecha votante y un testigo con una fecha que no sea posterior al día anterior a la elección. Un votante militar puede designar una preferencia para recibir un formulario de registro de votante militar, solicitud de boleta militar o boleta militar por correo, facsímil o correo electrónico en la solicitud de dicho registro, solicitud de boleta o boleta.

EL AVISO SE OTORGA ADEMÁSque la Junta de Educación convocará una reunión especial dentro de las 24 horas posteriores a la presentación ante el Secretario del Distrito de un informe escrito de los resultados de la boleta, con el propósito de examinar y tabular dichos informes para los resultados de la boleta, y declarar el resultados de la votación; que la Junta se designa a sí misma como un conjunto de secretarios electorales para emitir y escrutar las boletas de conformidad con la Sección de Ley de Educación 2019-a.2-b, en dicha reunión especial de la Junta.

EL AVISO SE OTORGA ADEMÁS que los votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar Libre de Bellmore Union y del Distrito Escolar Central de Bellmore-Merrick y Bellmore también votarán para los siguientes propósitos: a) Votar sobre el presupuesto escolar anual del Distrito Escolar Central de BellmoreMerrick para el año escolar 2020-2021, y autorizar la imposición de un impuesto sobre la propiedad imponible del Distrito para los fines anteriores. b) Votar sobre otras propuestas del Distrito de Escuelas Secundarias de Bellmore-Merrick Central que puedan venir antes de la reunión. c) Para votar sobre el presupuesto anual de la Biblioteca Bellmore Memorial para el año fiscal 2020-2021.

CON FECHA DE: Mayo 2020

Bellmore, Nueva York POR ORDEN DE LA JUNTA DE EDUCACIÓN DISTRITO ESCOLAR GRATUITO DE BELLMORE Randy Yee, secretario del distrito 121754 PUBLIC AND LEGAL NOTICES… Printed in this publication can be found online. To search by publication name, go to: www.mypublicnotices.com TO PLACE AND AD CALL 516-569-4000 x 232

LEGAL NOTICE BELLMORE-MERRICK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT NOTICE TO BIDDERS VENDOR ___________________ Sealed proposals will be received by the Board of Education, BellmoreMerrick Central High School District, Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, Merrick, New York, at the Business Office, 1260 Meadowbrook Road, North Merrick, New York ll566-1500, for the following categories up to the times on the dates indicated: May 21, 2020 10:30 A.M. Musical Instrument Rental COVID-19 EMERGENCY ADVISORY In order to comply and address current local, federal, and state mandates related to social distancing, the following advisory is submitted as part of the bid: 1.

The Bid Opening will be conducted via a live video/audio streaming.

Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud virtually.

2.

T h e information necessary to participate in the meeting via video/audio streaming will be included in the vendors bid information.

Contact must be made via email only to mconi@bellmoremerrick.k12.ny.us relative to this advisory.

All information for bidders, specifications and bid forms may be obtained at the abovementioned address. The Board of Education, Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, reserves the right to waive any informalities in, or to reject any or all bids, or to accept that bid, or any part of that bid, which in its judgment is for the best interests of the School District. All bid awards are pending budget approval.

The School District may receive bids for the above listed items periodically during the 2020-2021 school year, if necessary.

These bids will not be readvertised for this purpose. The frequency of bid solicitations will be determined by operating requirements.

By order: Board of Education

Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District By: Mikaela Coni School Business Administrator & Purchasing Agent 121712 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING OF THE BELLMOREMERRICK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD COUNTY OF NASSAU, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Education of the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District will hold a Public Hearing remotely on June 2, 2020 at 8:00 p.m., for the purpose of transacting all business as is authorized by the Education Law, including, but not limited to, discussion of the expenditure of funds and budgeting therefore relative to the appropriation of necessary funds to meet the necessary expenditures of the Central High School District for the school year 2020-2021 and on propositions involving the expenditure of funds or the levy of tax, at which time and which place all persons interested in the subject matter thereof concerning the same will have an opportunity to be heard.pu AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required for the ensuing year for school purposes (school budget) and copies of propositions involving expenditure of moneys and the operation of the school system for the ensuing year, will be available to any taxpayer in the District seven days immediately preceding the public hearing on the District’s website.

AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that a Real Property Tax Exemption Report, prepared in accordance with Section 495 of the Real Property Tax Law, will be annexed to any tentative/preliminary budget as well as the final adopted budget of which it will form a part; and shall be posted on the District’s website.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION BELLMORE-MERRICK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT PATTIANNE GUCCIONE DISTRICT CLERK The above notice will be published in the Bellmore and Merrick Herald Life newspapers on Thursday, May 7, 2020 and May 28, 2020.

121803 LEGAL NOTICE AVISO DE AUDIENCIA PÚBLICA DE BELLMORE-MERRICK DISTRITO DE ESCUELA SECUNDARIA CENTRAL PUEBLO DE HEMPSTEAD

CONDADO DE NASSAU, NUEVA YORK AVISO SE PROPORCIONA de que la Junta de Educación del Distrito Escolar Central de Bellmore-Merrick celebrará una reunión pública de forma remota el 2 de junio de 2020 a las 8:00 p.m., con el propósito de tramitar todos los negocios según lo autoriza la Ley de Educación, incluyendo, entre otros, la discusión del gasto de fondos y el presupuesto, por lo tanto, en relación con la asignación de los fondos necesarios para cubrir los gastos necesarios del Distrito Central High School para el año escolar 2020-2021 y sobre las propuestas que involucran el gasto de fondos o la recaudación de impuestos, en qué momento y en qué lugar todas las personas interesadas en el tema de los mismos tendrán la oportunidad de ser oídos.

Y TAMBIÉN SE DA AVISO de que una copia de la declaración de la cantidad de dinero que se requerirá para el año siguiente para fines escolares (presupuesto escolar) y copias de propuestas que involucren gastos de dinero y la operación del sistema escolar para el año siguiente , estará disponible para cualquier contribuyente en el Distrito siete días inmediatamente antes de la audiencia pública en el sitio web del Distrito.

Y TAMBIÉN SE DA AVISO de que un Informe de exención del impuesto sobre bienes inmuebles, preparado de conformidad con la Sección 495 de la Ley del impuesto sobre bienes inmuebles, se adjuntará a cualquier presupuesto provisional / preliminar, así como al presupuesto final adoptado del que formará parte; y se publicará en el sitio web del Distrito.

POR ORDEN DE JUNTA DE EDUCACIÓN BELLMORE-MERICK DISTRITO DE ESCUELA SECUNDARIA CENTRAL PATTIANNE GUCCIONE SECRETARIO El aviso anterior se publicará en los periódicos Herald Life de Bellmore y Merrick el Jueves, el 7 de Mayo de 2020 y el 28 de mayo de 2020.

121805 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SPECIAL DISTRICT MEETING NORTH BELLMORE PUBLIC LIBRARY NORTH BELLMORE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Special Library District Meeting and Voting upon the election of a Library Trustee for a full five-year term, to the position currently encumbered by Robert Gibilterra, whose term of

office will expire June 30, 2020 will be held exclusively by absentee ballot voting on June 9, 2020 not later than 5:00 o’clock P.M. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that nominating petitions for candidates for the office of Library Trustee must be filed with the District Clerk not later than May 11, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. Each petition shall state the name and residence of the candidate.

Nominating petitions filed by email, fax or mail will be accepted. The District Clerk’s email address is jcanavan@northbellmores chools.org. There is no minimum number of signatures required on the nominating petition.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN any resident of the school district who wishes to be a registered voter for this election may register with the board of elections by submitting an on-line application for voter registration with the Department of Motor Vehicles at https://dmv.ny.gov/morei n f o / e l e c t r o n i c - v o t e rregistration-application.

NOTICE IF FURTHER GIVEN that military voters who are not currently registered may apply to register as a qualified voter of the school district. Military voters who are qualified voters of the school district may submit an application for a military ballot. Military voters may designate a preference to receive a military voter registration, military ballot application or military ballot by mail, facsimile transmission or electronic mail in their request for such registration, ballot application or ballot.

Military voter registration forms and military ballot application forms must be received in the Office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 14, 2020. No military ballot will be canvassed unless it is received in the Office of the District Clerk by no later than 5:00 p.m. on election day.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that no absentee voter’s ballot shall be canvassed unless it shall have been received in the office of the District Clerk of the North Bellmore Union Free School District not later than 5:00 o’clock P.M. (Prevailing Time) on the day of Annual District Meeting.

BY ORDER OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES NORTH BELLMORE PUBLIC LIBRARY 121809 PUBLIC AND LEGAL NOTICES… Printed in this publication can be found online. To search by publication name, go to: www.mypublicnotices.com TO PLACE AND AD CALL 516-569-4000 x 232

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only things being “put on.” Wet weather and construction don’t mix. Homeowners are being misled by people they hired to do the right job.

One of the first lessons in architecture is the detailed understanding of how water and movement affect buildings. Your observation is correct that installing materials in wet conditions should generally be avoided. In the case of putting shingles over shingles, there’s an assumption that the heat of a hot, sunny day will dry everything out eventually, but the slowly developing damage has already begun, hidden from sight.

It’s generally not the first thing people think of, but the world we live in exists in multiple levels of scale, from nanoparticles to cells to larger molecules and visible materials. In other words, seeing may be believing, but what you can’t see is still there, and what you can’t see happening is still happening. If we only think of water as big droplets, forgetting about gas (vapor) and solid (expanding ice), or that many materials allow water vapor to squeeze between their molecular structures, then it will be harder to understand the level of permeability or penetration of a material, like the wood sheathing below the shingles — or that a thousand nails were just driven through the vapor barrier sheeting below the shingles.

For installers, it becomes a gamble, a game of risk, to someone else’s cherished property through a bunch of assumptions: that water won’t get through, or won’t be locked in, heated by the sun, forced by pressure like a thousand little boiling tea kettles to push moisture around the nails and into the wood sheathing, or to cause the semi-rigid shingles to be forced by expanding frost to keep flexing and contracting, shortening their useful lifespan of protecting the inside of the house. Once this occurs, the materials have made accommodation for vapor and have slightly expanded, but after expanding, they don’t immediately contract again.

They now have a much greater flexibility, and all because the moisture crowbarred its way in.

I often wonder if those installers would leave their windows down in a car wash. They have little to lose, because if the shingles fail prematurely, they’ll be back sooner.

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he coronavirus pandemic sweeping our nation has highlighted critical gaps in our ability to beat back such threats. It’s quite a wake-up call for America.

There is total consensus in the international medical community that Covid19 originated in Wuhan, China. It likely began as a virus that jumped from animals to humans in one of that city’s notorio u s “ we t m a rkets,” where all sorts of live animals — including live bats known to carry coronavirusalfonse es — are slaughtered and offered d’amaTo for sale for human consumption.

According to U.S. intelligence reports, it is also ever more likely that a Chinese governmentsponsored laboratory in that city — the Wuhan Institute of Virology — was experimenting with the virus, and that because of careless handling by its scientists, the virus might have escaped from the lab and triggered the pandemic.

The Chinese communist government has predictably obfuscated on this disaster, locking down information from Wuhan and concealing the extent of the

pandemic in China. Instead of cooperating with the rest of the world to help scientists fully understand the origin and spread of the disease, Chinese authorities have lowered a cloak of secrecy and unleashed a propaganda campaign, even going so far as to make the preposterous claim that the virus was somehow imported into China by the U.S. military.

All of this would be more than bad enough if not for the fact that the virus has painfully demonstrated just how dependent the U.S. has become on China and other countries for all manner of medical supplies and critical medicines. America imports vast amounts of medical masks, gowns and other protective equipment. Much of our pharmaceutical industry, which was once located in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, has shifted to Asia over the past few decades.

America today is in the extraordinarily dangerous position of fighting a pandemic caused largely by the Chinese government’s carelessness and malfeasance with medical supplies from China. That must change, and quickly. It’s time for America to see China for the adversary it is, not the partner we might wish it to be.

That will mean making some very fundamental changes in U.S. industrial and

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trade policies in the future. We must bring critical manufacturing capability back to this country, especially for important medical supplies and pharmaceuticals.

By way of example, for years America had a robust pharmaceutical industry in Puerto Rico.

That industry was given tax incentives that were shortsightedly allowed to lapse, driving production to other nations, where it was welcomed with significant host-government support.

Congress and the administration should reinstate those tax incentives to bring back pharmaceutical production.

There are a number of other steps Washington should consider to help rebuild our manufacturing base.

For years we have allowed China and other countries to game international bodies like the World Trade Organization and the World Health Organization, which gave special treatment to those countries as “developing nations.”

But today its laughable to consider China a developing nation that can take advantage of WTO polices to dump manufactured goods in America and WHO policies that allow it to shirk its international responsibilities. How can it be right for China to run a trade surplus

t has painfully demonstrated just how dependent the U.S. has become on China.

with the U.S. of a half trillion dollars a year at the same time that it contributes less than one-tenth of what the U.S. has contributed to the WHO? China gives the WHO less than $50 million a year, while the U.S. gives it over $500 million for international health care initiatives, because the WHO considers China a “developing nation.”

What nonsense! President Trump was right to suspend further U.S. financial support for the WHO until this glaring inequity is corrected. At the very least, China must make up the hundreds of millions of dollars it should have contributed to the WHO to match what the U.S. has already so generously contributed.

Over the next few years, in the aftermath of this international health and economic disaster, America must rebuild its industrial might. We cannot lead the world with just the strength of our ideals or our arms, great as they may be. And we must demand that countries like China treat the rest of the world fairly, and shoulder their share of the responsibility to all humankind.

It is not too late for America to wake up. But time is running out.

Al D’Amato, a former U.S. senator from New York, is the founder of Park Strategies LLC, a public policy and business development firm. Comments about this column? ADAmato@liherald.com.

Have you heard the one about Clorox Chewables?

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umor is serious business, so I felt much better when the pandemic jokes began popping up. For example: “If you need 144 rolls of toilet paper for a 14-day quarantine, you probably should have been seeing a doctor long before Covid-19.” If we can joke about it, it can’t be as terrifying as it seems, right? Right?

Tracking the LOLs, it becomes evident that much coronavirus humor focuses on toilet paper and the shortages thereof. I guess the world started looking funny to us when we first put on our big boy and big girl pants.

I know some Randi readers think kReiss there’s nothing funny about Covid19, and really, those of us who find a laugh here and there don’t think it’s funny, either. We’re not making light of the disease, but of ourselves and our foibles.

Humor is an enormously successful defense mechanism. That’s not from me; it’s from, you know, the guy who knew about these things, Sigmund Freud. He

wrote that humor helps us cope with seemingly insurmountable tragedy. It eases the burden and gives us some sense of control.

Two photos online: The first is a picture of Quentin Tarantino. The second is a picture of a guy in full hazmat suit inside a tent. The caption is “Tentin Quarantino.” You can laugh, it’s OK. The psychologists say so.

Gregg Levoy wrote in Psychology Today, “It’s a curious thing. We’re in the midst of the worst global health crisis in over 100 years, and yet we’re overflowing with jokes, parodies, cartoons and gag videos.”

I’ve laughed a lot at talking-dog videos, especially that one with the Schnauzer giving advice to other dogs on how to behave during a pandemic, specifically identifying the no-sniff zones. Yeah, the humor is low, but so is my morale.

This is not to say that sharing humor is without risk. We’re isolated, so when we send friends jokes or cartoons, they can’t see our expressions and we can’t read theirs. The possibility of misunderstanding one another is real.

To be sure, there is safe humor, and much more edgy stuff. One does have to

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exhibit a modicum of good taste. I don’t think humor goes into the ICU or to the gravesite. And it all depends on one’s own experience through this time of trouble.

Being sick, worrying about a loved one in trouble, suffering financial setbacks or just going crazy from the extended isolation all change our sense of what’s funny.

My family is notoriously dark when it comes to humor. Almost anything goes, and for us, it helps.

People are still tuning in to Bill Maher and Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers because they make us laugh, despite the horrific news. All of them push the envelope.

Levoy says you can’t laugh and be scared at the same time, so while we’re laughing, we are momentarily forgetting the horrors of the pandemic. We are temporarily tuning out the map with the spread of the disease and the voiceovers with the daily totals of dead people and the news reports of refrigerator trucks holding the bodies of people’s mothers and fathers and children. After a while of consuming the bad news, we overload on horrific detail and actually shortcircuit. In that moment, if we can find

e’re not making light of the disease, but of ourselves and our foibles.

something to laugh about, it’s really OK. “Life does not cease to be funny when people die,” said George Bernard Shaw, “any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

Here are a couple of mini ha-has: Has anyone let the Amish know what’s going on yet?

The World Health Organization has announced that dogs can’t contract Covid19. Dogs previously held in quarantine can now be released. Just to be clear, WHO let the dogs out.

Some of the humor coming my way targets Donald Trump and his disastrous incompetence before and during the pandemic. (Have you seen the ad for Clorox Chewables?)

Maher piled on: “Donald Trump had a meltdown about what a great temperament he has. It was like watching someone carve ‘I’m not a psycho’ into their arm.”

“If you are able to teach people to be more playful, to look at the absurdities of life as humorous, you see some increase in well-being,” said Stanford psychologist Andrea Samson.

I’m all for vaccines — the sooner the better — but let’s not inoculate ourselves against laughter.

Copyright 2020 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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ast Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo finally offered students and teachers certainty about the rest of the 2019-20 school year when he canceled in-person classes through June to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Thank you, Mr. Cuomo.

For weeks, pupils and educators in New York’s schools were left in limbo, wondering whether they should devote themselves entirely to the new online model or wait for classes to resume as normal.

Moving to online teaching and learning was a shock to our education system that left all involved in a state of frenzied confusion. In just weeks, teachers had to move to a system in which most had little to no training or experience. Students, many of whom depend on their teachers, coaches, guidance counselors and administrators for social and emotional support, suddenly lost that network, leaving many full of anxiety at a time of widespread despair.

What most young people repeatedly hear now are stories of job loss and death.

Many children and young adults, without the life experience to understand that the nation will emerge from this crisis, remain in a semi-daze, incapable of focusing on their schoolwork as they did two months ago.

Worse, many students are hurting because their parents have lost their jobs, or fear losing them. Worst still, some students have lost parents or grandparents to Covid-19.

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letters The virus is tough, but Long Islanders are tougher To the Editor: Communities all over the world have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic, but have pressed on and adapted to the “new normal” of social distancing, homeschooling and teleworking. Although the virus has ravaged communities and businesses, Long Islanders have shown our strength once again by coming together even when we are kept physically apart.

Long Island is home to heroic first responders who risk illness and injury to help others in times of crisis. During Hurricane Sandy and after the Sept. 11 attacks, firefighters, police officers, health care workers and volunteers worked around the clock, without returning home to their own families for weeks on end, to heroically help our families and fellow New Yorkers. The same has been true during this pandemic.

their students’ psychological health during this precarious time, and secondarily to their schoolwork.

The period between now and mid-June will be a time of survival for many people, and no less for students. Expectations of learning must be tempered by the premise that, above all else, our young people must emerge from this time unscathed — psychologically unharmed, in a sound mental state.

The State Education Department canceled all major exams, including the Regents, for a good reason: The normal process of learning has been interrupted, and will not resume for some time.

The nation is at war with an invisible killer. Right now, students’ grades matter less than during ordinary times. What matters is sending a clear message to our young people: We adults will keep you safe.

One day soon, we will return to normal, and when we do, we will redouble our efforts to ensure that you learn all that’s necessary to know. Now, however, is not that time.

That is not to say that we should forgo learning, or not expect students to do their work. Rather, we must understand and acknowledge how they are feeling before we can get down to whatever work is possible.

With that said, we offer these suggestions to our schools: ■ If teachers are not already doing so, they should meet with their students in live sessions at least once a week, and pref-

erably twice a week. Students desperately need to see and speak with their teachers, but we have heard scattered reports that at least some teachers have not met live with their students for as long as six weeks.

■ Each district should decide on one online educational platform for all. Whether it’s Google Classroom or Edmodo, make it districtwide. Employing more than one platform will only sow confusion.

■ Students should be assigned homework according to a set schedule, at a given time on a given day, so they know what to expect. Consistency is key, so they can develop a routine.

■ Teachers should follow up on homework assignments with live Zoom sessions to explain the work, and not leave it to students to attend extra help sessions, particularly sessions conducted by email.

■ Students should not be videoed in class, with the images posted on YouTube, without student and parental consent.

■ All teachers in a district should have a single method of taking attendance, and grading rubrics should be provided to students and parents.

■ Students should be given opportunities to do extra-credit work to make up for missed work.

We will survive this crisis, and teachers and school administrators will play a key role in ensuring that we do, provided that every district adheres to a set of basic guidelines for online teaching.

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was asked recently why university presidents aren’t speaking out about the state of affairs in our country. Of course, the issue of the moment is the lack of preparedness for the coronavirus pandemic, even when knowledgeable people were forecasting it. After all, universities are supposed to be moral forces in society.

Who is in a better position to remind the public of what the 19thcentury English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead said: “. . . the rule is absolute, the [nation] which robert a. does not value trained intelliscott gence is doomed”?

Yet the voices of university leaders are largely silent in the face of the most critical issue of our time, and trained intelligence is ignored when politically inconvenient.

Some argue that university leaders should not take stands on policy, that they should not be “political.” But what is political and what is polemical? Politics refers to the public affairs of a country. A

polemic is an aggressive attack on the opinions or principles of another. Surely academic leaders can comment on the public affairs of the country without resorting to aggressive attacks, even if those whose policies are being confronted want others to believe that such comments are inappropriate.

Therefore, when scientific leadership on policies related to health care, clean water, air pollution and product safety, among others, is being replaced by lobbyists for the regulated industries, university leaders should be among the strongest voices expressing concern. Should they not call out falsehoods and fabrications passing as truth?

Education is the foundation of a free and democratic society. In any country, the university is unique in its mission to create, curate and critique. Laboratories create new knowledge, museums and libraries preserve the past, and journalists examine social policy by asking “Why?” But only the university is responsible for all three roles.

In these ways, the university fulfills its historic mission not as a political force,

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Letters Although the enemy that first responders are battling is invisible, they continue to fight with valor, and give us all the confidence that this virus will be defeated. Public transportation workers, grocery clerks, truck drivers and countless other essential workers are all working on the front lines to provide us with services that our society could not function without.

With the apex of the pandemic hitting during the holy season, people of all denominations had to limit their celebrations to immediate family, and many, including me, opted for virtual gatherings via Zoom. While physically empty, churches, mosques and temples continue to play a tremendous part in keeping congregations full in their faiths and hopeful that an end to this crisis is near. Religious leaders and community members across creeds have maintained active charities to combat food insecurity and provide first responders and those in need with personal protective equipment and other supplies even though their own collection of these needed materials was dwindling.

T he County Le gislature has received more than 4,000 letters and drawings from children for our frontline heroes as part of our “Letters to our Heroes” drive. Donations of PPE and nightly displays of gratitude — drive-bys, horn honks and alarm sounding — have cheered up and cheer

but as an ethical voice. For example, the founders of Adelphi were advocates for the advancement of women, the abolition of slavery and improved instruments for world peace. They adopted as their motto, “The truth shall make us free.” Surely there were those who thought the new institution should only teach classes, believing that school was separate from society. But the president and supporters knew the power of ethical arguments and the need for ethical thinking.

The ethical perspective considers fairness, the degree of bias, the consistency of application, the factual basis for assertions and the justness of moral judgments and public laws. Women had no right to vote, slavery was legal and war ignored diplomacy as the “first resort of kings,” as the author Richard Arndt described it, yet the Adelphi leaders had the courage of conviction and a visionary voice.

They knew that their role was to educate students, and the public, to reflect on what they read and heard, assess actions and policies, form independent opinions, and express impartial concerns as indi-

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viduals. In this way, the university teaches us all to distinguish among the three paths to finding truth — through facts, faith and fear — and helps to clarify each.

To state facts is not polemical. People wake-u The can have different opinions, but not difnation ferent facts. The university’s role is to 19 orig advance knowledge, both general and expert; skills such as writing and speaking with clarity and persuasion; abilities such as critical thinking and leadership; and values such as teamwork, respect for others and their opinions, and becoming active in society as citizens.

These are the missions of a university, and it is the university president who serves as the chief mission officer. If we do our jobs well, our graduates will be well prepared to see the results of political actions that ignore expert knowledge.

They will be able to analyze propaganda masquerading as principle, and discern facts from unfounded superstitions. They will be able to call out the misguided actions of those who ignore science, histo- U.S. in ry and the need to respect others. We will more l sponso have prepared graduates for political action when it is needed regardless of the Wuhan polemics surrounding them. And we will experi becaus have taken an ethical stand. tists, th the lab Robert A. Scott is president emeritus of The Adelphi University. has pr ter, lo Wuhan

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on our heroes.

I have worked with County Executive Laura Curran and my fellow legislators to approve emergency legislation allowing the county to spend $2.3 million on PPE, testing supplies and other critical tools to help keep workers and residents safe. Recently, I joined my colleagues to urge Gov. Andrew Cuomo to push back the property tax deadline to give relief to struggling businesses and residents.

Last month the governor answered our call and extended the deadline until June 1.

The pandemic has affected our lives in ways that we could noy have fathomed just a few months ago. Recovery will be difficult, but with our combined efforts, it is more than possible.

The coronavirus may be tough, but Long Islanders are tougher.

C. WILLIAm GAYLOR Nassau County legislator

Cuomo has a friend in Jerry Kremer To the Editor: I just had to respond to last week’s column by Jerry Kremer, “Cuomo puts the other guy from Queens to shame.” Kremer speaks in glowing terms about Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but

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leaves out so many details — for example, that Cuomo has put the state in a $6 billion hole because of inept and careless spending, investing state money in ridiculous solar panel schemes and not allowing fracking that would not only increase state revenue, but lower all taxpayer energy bills. He is also eliminating the Indian Point power plant, which provides New York City with 25 percent of its power.

Where does Cuomo expect to make up that energy deficit? Windmills? Solar power? When the lights go out this summer

and in summers to follow, there will be only one person to blame, and that will be Cuomo.

Kremer obviously despises President Trump, but I must say that if it were not for Trump and his staff bailing out all theseof us w mismanaged states, this country would bedon’t th finished. The least Trump deserves is amaking thank-you from these blue state governorsselves a Hum for coming to their rescue. defense RICHARD HEEmANit’s from Valley Streamabout t

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