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Baumann goes bust School bus company shuts down; drivers blame districts, state

By Peter Belfiore and James BerNsteiN pbelfiore@Liherald.com

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and here’s to many more Valley Streamer Jenn Manno, left, watched as she was treated to a socially distant parade on April 28 for her 100th birthday. With her were daughters Carol Ferrante, center, and Linda Brendle.

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Valley Stream parents, students adapt to online learning

By NiCole alCiNdor nalcindor@liherald.com

With school buildings closed amid the coronavirus pandemic, Valley Stream parents are grappling with the new reality of overseeing their children’s education, while teachers give assignments and teach remotely using digital platforms.

In District 24, Google Classroom serves as a the primary tool for teachers to share and

grade assignments, while Google Hangouts, a video chat service, allows them to interact with their students during lessons.

Children with families that do not own computers or smart devices were provided with iPads or Chromebooks when school buildings closed in midMarch, with students in kindergarten through second grade given iPads and older students receiving Chromebooks.

“The majority of parents like

the switch to virtual learning, but some think it’s too much or not enough,” Superintendent Dr. Don Sturz, said. “We’re trying to make everyone happy, and we are very much engaged, but we can’t please everyone.”

Although remote learning has been generally well-received, Sturz said, there have been some hurdles, most notably in the varying levels of technological Continued on page 4

On April 28, the Baumann Bus Company, one of Long Island’s largest school bus companies, filed a notice with the New York Department of Labor that it had ceased operations amid the coronavirus pandemic.

All four Valley Stream school districts contracted with Baumann for busing services in s o m e c a p a c i t y, according to Debra Hagan, president of the Transport Workers Union Local 252, which represents a p o r t i o n o f B a umann’s for mer employees. The company’s closure raises questions about how school busing services might be affected in the fall if school returns to normal.

In Districts 30 and 24, Baumann transported students attending private schools who live within their respective district boundaries, while District 13 used Baumann for in-district busing. In the Central High School District, Baumann was among

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eight bus companies used for a variety of services. School officials at all four districts said talks were in the early stages to find a replacement for the company.

In its closure notice, Baumann said it was one of the latest casualties of the pandemic, after school districts across Long Island stopped paying for its services in March, when the virus shuttered school buildings across the state, indefinitely ending the need for busing services.

It was unclear whether the pandemic had also ended the districts’ contractual obligations to their busing companies.

District 30 Superintendent Dr. Nicholas Stirling said the district had continued to pay for transportation services, while officials of the other three districts declined to comment on whether payments had continued, citing contractual talks and potential litigation.

“That’s the frustrating part about this,” said Hagan, who represents 220 of Baumann’s 1,400

ll four Valley Stream school districts contracted with Baumann for transportation.

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Valley Streamer Jenn Manno, center, turned 100. With her was Mayor Ed Fare, from left, her daughter Carole Ferrante and Deputy Mayor Sean Wright.

V.S. throws 100th birthday parade

By Peter Belfiore pbelfiore@liherald.com

It all came together quickly.

On Monday, Carole Ferrante had news for her friend Cookie Ortiz: her mother, Jenn Manno, was turning 100 the next day.

It’s a major milestone few are fortunate to reach, and deserving of a big celebration, but in the age of coronavirus when gatherings can be a death sentence for many, particularly for one at Manno’s age, there were no plans.

“I really want to do something special, but I don’t know who to call,” Otiz recalled her friend asking.

Within 24 hours, however, roughly 50 cars, including police and Valley Stream fire trucks streamed in front of Manno’s house, beeping while the drivers shouted birthday wishes as she sat and waved.

Or tiz and another friend Chrissy O’Toole had reached out to their contacts in the neighborhood, including Ortiz’s husband and sons, who volunteer with the Fire Department, and together they organized the ad hoc parade.

In addition, Mayor Ed Fare and Deputy Mayor Sean Wright presented Manno a citation for the occasion, while Manno stood and thanked those involved for the once-in-a-lifetime celebration.

memBerS of the Fire Department took part in an ad-hoc birthday parade for Manno. many wellwiSherS SPorted custom-made signs for the occasion. aBout 50 carS streamed past Manno’s house.

Parents, students adapt to home learning continued from front page knowhow among students and their parents, with younger students tending to need more assistance.

“Sometimes students need something explained in many different ways, and it becomes harder to do this virtually, but teachers are adapting,” he said. “Teachers and students are becoming more adept to using technology as tools, and this has challenged us to look at different ways of learning and teaching.”

Remote learning, however, can never replace personto-person social interactions among classmates, parents agreed.

“My kids can rewind and hear their lessons again, they can learn at any time, and they no longer have homework because they do all their work during virtual school,” said Simona Simone, whose daughters, Giada, 11, and Olivia, 10, attend Robert W. Carbonaro Elementary School, “but I want them to go back to socializing Dr. Don STurz with their friends and teachers in person . . . They have been Superintendent doing OK interacting with other District 24 students and teachers online, but it’s just not the same.”

Unlike many parents who must work at home while overseeing their children, as a stay-at-home mother, Simone said she has enjoyed the chance to spend more time with and focus on her kids.

“We are very family-oriented,” she said. “Now I can see what they are doing in school, and they can take breaks from virtual learning to go for walks with me.”

For Christine Pagan, whose son Joaquin, 11, attends Brooklyn Avenue Elementary School, the shift to remote learning initially came with challenges for them both.

“At first, I feel like he had a hard time focusing and finding motivation to do work because in school he had structure, and school is organized in such a way that he had breaks like recess and lunch,” she said. “I also had a hard time figuring out Google Classroom because I never used it before. I had to figure out where the work was and how to send the work.”

Within a week, however, they had developed a routine, gaining better knowledge of the required virtual tools, and Joaquin, his mother said, had come up with his own ways to stay motivated, such as logging on at different times.

Still, Pagan said, her son misses the social aspect of school, and she tries to keep him uplifted.

“I try to help my kid understand that other kids are going through this too, so that he doesn’t feel alone,” she said. “The coronavirus isn’t going anywhere, but I hope that a vaccine will be developed, so that kids can return to in-person school.”

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The Simone family, above, from left, Nick, Simona, Olivia, Nicholas and Giada.

The girls are students at the Carbonaro Elementary School, and their mother said they have enjoyed the flexability of virtual learning.

ChriSTine Pagan’S Son, Joaquin, a student at Brooklyn Avenue Elementary School, created his own schedule to adapt to virtual learning.

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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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Watch out for new mothers this Mother’s Day

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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.

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By Scott Brinton and Peter Belfiore sbrinton@liherald.com

Students in kindergarten through grade 12 and college will not return to their schools in New York for the rest of the 2019-20 school year and will instead continue with distance learning to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday afternoon.

The announcement came as Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths continue a steady decline, but the state is still seeing nearly a thousand new cases a day, which Cuomo said was unacceptably high.

The decision affects 4.2 million students statewide in 700 public school districts, 89 SUNY and CUNY colleges, and 100 private colleges.

Already in Valley Stream, some school leaders have reacted to the development, announcing that they will continue and extend the remote learning procedures they have put in place.

In District 13, Schools Superintedent Dr. Constance Evelyn issued a letter to parents notifying them that the district will continue to develop its remote teaching programs, and “will continue to enhance the interactivity and scheduling of our Learn At Home Program to be responsive to the needs of our students and families.”

She requested that parents reach out to their child’s teacher with any questions and concerns.

In District 24, Schools Superintendent Dr. Don Sturz reacted to the news in a YouTube video posted to the district website. He expressed disappointment that teachers and students alike will be unable to return to their school buildings this year, but that remote learning will continue to be prioritized.

“We need to focus on thing that we do have some control over, and that is to continue with our distance learning,” he said, “and supporting our children in the best way we know how, and keeping things as consistent as possible for them.”

For the first time in weeks, the number of overnight deaths from the virus dropped below 300 from Thursday into Friday — from 306 to 289, a 5.5 percent decline. New hospitalizations were also down.

The governor said social distancing practices, as mandated by the state, have prevented an estimated 100,000 Covid-19 cases, which he said would have overrun the hospitals and caused many more deaths.

“Our past actions changed the past trajectory,” he said.

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

The governor said colleges and school districts across New York must begin developing reopening plans, which must be approved by state officials. The governor added there was no determination yet whether there would be summer school.

That announcement would be made in the coming weeks.

Of the virus, the governor said, “The enemy is on the run.”

Now, however, state officials must determine more precisely why the state 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 now looking at who is becoming infected. The governor wondered if essential workers were, or if other people were. Where are they becoming infected? At work? On public transportation?

Those are the questions the state is seeking to answer, Cuomo said.

People should continue wearing their masks in public and keep up social distancing to protect others, he said.

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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.

aN ExaMplE Of a simple Ramadan iftar, or evening meal.

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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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e will get through this if Democrats and Republicans are united like we are here.

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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PUBLIC NOTICE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF VALLEY STREAM NOTICE OF SALE OF AN ESTATE IN REAL ESTATE FOR UNPAID 2019 VILLAGE TAXES NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to the Real Property Tax Law and the Village Law of the State of New York and all acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto and of a resolution of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Valley Stream, Nassau County, New York passed at a meeting thereof held on the 23rd day of March 2020, I, Michael J. Fox, Treasurer of said Village of Valley Stream, will sell at public auction in the manner provided by the law on the 12th day of May, 2020 at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, Eastern Daylight Savings Time, at the Court Room in Village Hall in said Village of Valley Stream, so much of each of the following parcels of real estate which Village Taxes remain unpaid for the year 2019 as will be sufficient to discharge the tax, fees, interest and charges which may be due thereon respectively at the time of such sale, and shall continue the same from day to day until the said sale shall be completed.

Such real estate shall be sold subject to any unpaid assessment thereon levied by said Village and any unpaid lien purchased and held by said Village and all the liens on property involved in this Sale are sold subject to the provisions of the Federal and State Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act. The purchaser or purchasers at such tax sale will be required to pay the amount of their respective bids to the undersigned Village Treasurer within ten days after the provisions of Section 114 of the Village Law of the State of New York as amended.

The following is a list of statement of the real estate upon which taxes are unpaid for the year 2019, with a statement of the amount of tax, fees, interest and charges thereon to May 2020.

Dated: Valley Stream April 22, 2020 Michael J. Fox Village Treasurer PARCEL NUMBER PROPERTY LOCATION TOTAL DUE 37-H-231 5 ALBERT CT $3,567.05 37-K-6 34 SATTERIE AVE $2,318.89 37-S-155 55 N CENTRAL AVE $5,318.80 37-U02-46 10 LUTZ DR $3,753.86 37-U08-188 94 CLARENDON DR $1,887.85 37-U09-134 38 STEPHEN PL $3,163.63 37-W05-5 233 N CENTRAL AVE $3,699.71 37-W05-7 227 N CENTRAL AVE $7,728.47 37-X02-13 201 DOGWOOD RD $3,591.41 37-Z-939 130 CAMDIKE ST $2,594.51 37-1-22 171 -73 E MERRICK RD $7,923.41 37-1-31 193 E MERRICK RD $5,844.05 37-5-19 163 E ST MARKS PL $201.62 37-5-20 163 E ST MARKS PL $2,714.18 37-9-129 208 E CHESTER ST $2,757.50 37-12-133 200 MOTLEY ST $277.43 37-12-240-B 241 E EUCLID ST $2,919.95 37-12-519 225 CORNWELL AVE $1,674.50 37-42-53 271 E CHESTER ST $3,255.68 37-75-138 79 E VALLEY STREAM BLVD $2,308.06 37-75-142 73 E VALLEY STREAM BLVD $77.08 37-90-257 4 THEODORE CT $3,748.45 37-90-259 THEODORE CT $483.20 37-94-34 25 E MERRICK RD $16,550.59 37-95-47 45 E MERRICK RD $2,394.16 37-95-49 55 E MERRICK RD $6,911.35 37-96-26 45 E MAPLE ST $2,557.15 37-100-6 104 E MELROSE ST $3,405.13 37-104-12 52 E LINCOLN AVE $3,840.50 37-105-24 61 MERRICK CT $3,177.17 37-110-35 20 E CARPENTER ST $4,273.70 37-120-226 56 E JAMAICA AVE $3,548.09 37-121-5 211 ROCKAWAY AVE $3,840.50 37-121-8 203 ROCKAWAY AVE $9,255.50 37-123-107 103 S CORONA AVE $2,145.61 37-124-107 21 -23 W JAMAICA AVE $5,194.25 37-124-130 180 -84 ROCKAWAY AVE $10,024.43 37-124-215 176 ROCKAWAY AVE $9,769.93 37-125-23 18 W MINEOLA AVE $2,551.73 37-142-106 115 E MAUJER ST $2,661.66 37-144-10 55 E ARGYLE ST $3,686.18 37-168-199 46 PUTNAM AVE $3,558.92 37-169-47 52 TENEYCK AVE $2,703.35 37-171-238 31 MC KEON AVE $3,613.07 37-183-118 11 COMBER ST $3,017.42 37-184-107 37 SHERIDAN ST $2,719.60 37-189-85 45 FELTON AVE $3,163.63 37-191-4 5 SAPIR ST $2,167.27 37-194-73 84 -88 FRANKLIN AVE $11,248.22 37-221-13 25 N MONTAGUE ST $2,486.75 37-242-6 138 N CENTRAL AVE $4,002.95 37-266-15 48 N MONTAGUE ST $2,010.23 37-267-177 179 MEYER AVE $2,416.36 37-267-381 150 ETHEL ST $3,659.22 37-290-20-A 60 HORTON AVE $461.54 37-291-161 209 E NEW YORK AVE $1,122.72 37-292-10 218 E NEW YORK AVE $1,614.94 37-294-18 179 E HAWTHORNE AVE $2,947.03 37-295-49 156 E NEW YORK AVE $2,836.94 37-298-55 152 LEWIS ST $3,894.65 37-308-81 235 N HILLSIDE AVE $2,340.55 37-309-24 287 LYON ST $2,898.29 PUBLIC AND LEGAL NOTICES… Printed in this publication can be found online. Search by publication name at: www.mypublicnotices.com

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37-322-6 37-33602-6 37-343-230 37-346-929 37-347-521 37-350-18 37-351-3 37-353-16 37-355-8 37-355-28 37-356-11 37-368-4 37-382-3 37-385-20 37-401-40 37-409-116-A 37-417-196-A 37-418-92-A 37-418-191-A 37-418-195-A 37-429-283 37-429-308 37-430-306 37-438-1132 37-439-1011 37-439-1026 37-445-834 37-529-17 37-529-78 37-535-26 37-562-134 37-573-945 37-594-23 37-603-14 37-608-18 37-614-8 37-619-10 37-642-10 37-644-18 37-644-19 37-646-4 37-646-25 37-667-44 37-668-15 37-677-40 37-678-2 37-682-53 39-K05-9 39-K05-26 39-11-61 39-16-48 39-16-50 39-20-296 39-21-1 39-27-417 39-45-28 39-47-2 39-48-1 39-48-38 39-51-9 39-51-37 39-52-9 39-53-30 39-54-239 39-55-30 39-58-8 39-380-22 39-380-23 39-388-15 39-390-11 39-394-2 39-396-17 39-399-15 39-408-7 39-408-2 39-40901-109 39-414-101 39-435-218 39-436-250 39-468-16 39-474-43 39-479-30 39-490-37 39-528-3 39-528-10 39-549-113 39-576-43 39-577-10 39-578-51-A 39-578-75-A 39-623-20 42-272-679 42-272-680 42-272-681 42-273-2 1086822

54 W JAMAICA AVE 57 BALLARD AVE 83 S CENTRAL AVE 38 CAMDIKE ST 157 -61 S FRANKLIN AVE 141 PILGRIM PL 106 BUSCHER AVE 146 PILGRIM PL 16 HAMILTON AVE 275 W VALLEY STREAM BLVD 266 W VALLEY STREAM BLVD 440 W MERRICK RD 29 FIR ST 654 W MERRICK RD 84 CARROLL AVE 133 -87 HOOK CREEK BLVD 134 -31 HOOK CREEK BLVD 134 -17 OCEAN AVE 134 -11 HOOK CREEK BLVD 134 -21 HOOK CREEK BLVD 771 W MERRICK RD 781 W MERRICK RD 59 BROWN ST 27 FAIRFAX ST 283 BROWN ST 255 BROWN ST 61 FAIRMOUNT ST 1151 ROTTKAMP ST 83 NOTTINGHAM AVE 137 GREEN ST LYON ST 146 N CENTRAL AVE 193 MARTENS AVE 85 TODD RD 58 VIRGINIA ST 39 EAST AVE 18 WHEELER AVE 14 MILBURN CT 861 W MERRICK RD 855 W MERRICK RD 21 BODEN AVE 261 BUSCHER AVE 112 DANZIG PL 37 BROADWAY 144 GUENTHER AVE 1121 FENWOOD DR 141 UNION ST 204 STUART RD 142 WILSON RD 124 BISMARK AVE 46 SEVENTH ST 42 SEVENTH ST 45 BISMARK AVE 1081 ROCKAWAY AVE 16 FIFTH ST 46 DUBOIS AVE 179 LOCUST ST 30 JACKSON RD 17 KENMORE RD 21 FREMONT RD 137 MUNRO BLVD 51 GORDON RD 38 HORTON RD 123 GIBSON BLVD 52 MARLBORO RD 122 MUNRO BLVD 17 DERBY ST 14 CAMBRIDGE ST 12 AVONDALE ST 91 CAMBRIDGE ST 120 ROOSEVELT AVE 81 ELMWOOD ST 129 FAIRFIELD ST 51 GARDEN ST 42 FILBERT ST 27 SKIDMORE PL 17 EDGEWORTH ST 31 GREENWOOD PL 219 HOLLYWOOD AV 75 PENINSULA BLVD 49 DAWSON DR 5 WOOD LN 178 MILL RD 260 HUNGRY HARBOR RD 55 JANET PL 14 AMY CT 2 SUTTON LN 6 STEVEN DR 281 HUNGRY HARBOR RD 5 STARFIRE CT 10 VALLEY LANE EAST 356 PICCADILLY DOWNS 370 PICCADILLY DOWNS 366 PICCADILLY DOWNS 8 CRIPPS LN

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING, ANNUAL DISTRICT ELECTION, AND BUDGET VOTE OF VALLEY STREAM UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT THIRTEEN, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU, STATE OF NEW YORK TO BE HELD ON JUNE 9, 2020 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Board of Education of Valley Stream Union Free School District Thirteen shall hold a public hearing for the purpose of discussion of the proposed budget of expenditure of funds for the school year 2020-2021; that such public hearing will be held on Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. remotely in the Cafeteria of the James A. Dever School, 585 N. Corona Avenue, Valley Stream, New York.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the vote by the qualified voters of Valley Stream Union Free School District Thirteen upon the following propositions and elections will be held on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 by absentee ballot.

PROPOSITION NO. 1 DISTRICT THIRTEEN BUDGET The vote upon the appropriation of the necessary funds to meet the estimated expenditures of Valley Stream Union Free School District Thirteen for the school year 2020-2021 and authorizing the levy of taxes to meet the estimated expenditures of money during said school year will be held on June 9, 2020 as set forth herein. Copies of the proposed budget, together with the text of any resolution which will be submitted to the voters as well as copies of the estimated expenditures of Valley Stream Central High School District for the school year 2020-2021 may be obtained by any taxpayer of the School District on the District’s website during each of the 14 days preceding the voting day, except on Saturday, Sunday or holidays, and at such annual election. While Education Law §1716(2) requires the budget also be made available at School District offices, any public library/free association library within the District, and the polling place, this year that will not be possible due to Executive Order 202.26 and the prevalence of the COVID-19 virus and potential for spread through our personal interaction.

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.

PROPOSITION NO. 2 DISTRICT THIRTEEN EXPENDITURE FROM CAPITAL RESERVE PROPOSITION P R O P O S I T I O N : Expenditure of no more than $160,000 from the Capital Reserve Fund established on May 15, 2018, to finance projects for the acquisition and installation of smartboards, classroom redesign, air conditioning equipment and apparatus and the installation of such air conditioning equipment and apparatus at the District’s facilities and sites.

Shall the Board of Education of the Valley Stream Union Free School District Thirteen be authorized to expend from the Capital Reserve Fund which was established on May 15, 2018 (“Reserve Fund”) pursuant to Section 3651 of the Education Law, for the following capital improvement project of acquisition and installation of smartboards, classroom redesign, air conditioning equipment and apparatus and the installation of such air conditioning equipment and apparatus at the District’s facilities and sites in the approximate amount of $160,000, and other work required in connection therewith; and to expend from the Reserve Fund therefor, including preliminary costs and costs incidental thereto an amount not to exceed the estimated total cost of One Hundred Sixty Thousand Dollars $(160,000)?

PROPOSITION NO. 3 DISTRICT THIRTEEN EXPENDITURE FROM CAPITAL RESERVE PROPOSITION P R O P O S I T I O N : Expenditure of no more than $400,000 from the Capital Reserve Fund established on May 15, 2018, to finance projects for the renovation of the Willow Road School and Wheeler Avenue School library facilities.

Shall the Board of Education of the Valley Stream Union Free School District Thirteen be authorized to expend from the Capital Reserve Fund which was established on May 15, 2018 (“Reserve Fund”) pursuant to Section 3651 of the Education Law, for the following capital

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improvement project of renovation of the Willow Road School and Wheeler Avenue School library facilities in the approximate amount of $400,000, and other work required in connection therewith; and to expend from the Reserve Fund therefor, including preliminary costs and costs incidental thereto an amount not to exceed the estimated total cost of Four Hundred Thousand Dollars $(400,000)?

PROPOSITION NO. 4 CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET SHALL the proposed budget of expenditures of Valley Stream Central High School District, Nassau County, New York for the year 2020-2021 be approved and that the sum be raised through a levy upon the taxable property in the Valley Stream Central High School District, after first deducting the monies from state aid and other sources, as provided by law.

PROPOSITION NO. 5 CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT CAPITAL VOTER PROPOSITION SHALL the Board of Education be authorized to appropriate and expend the maximum amount of Three Million Five Hundred Thousand dollars ($3,500,000) from the Capital Reserve Fund established on May 17, 2016 for the purpose of completing capital improvements as follows: Central High School: Renovate and ReSod South Side of Central High School Athletic Field Memorial Junior High School: Elevator Replacement; Kitchen and Serving Line Renovations; Teacher’s Entrance Stoop Reconstruction.

North High School: Tennis Court Renovations; Gymnasium Lobby Refurbishment South High School Gymnasium Lobby Refurbishment; Perimeter Fencing Replacement ELECTION OF TRUSTEES PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that for the purpose of electing two members of the Board of Education of the Valley Stream Union Free School District Thirteen, an election will be held on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 by absentee ballot.

The following are the vacancies to be filled on the Board of Education: a) The office of Frank Chiachiere, a member of the Board of Education, for a threeyear term commencing July 1, 2020 and expiring June 30, 2023. b) The office of Sean Douglas, a member of the Board of Education, for a term commencing June 9, 2020 and expiring June 30, 2023.

c) The office of Patricia Farrell, a member of the Board of Education, for a threeyear term commencing July 1, 2020 and expiring June 30, 2023. d) The office of Vinny Pandit, a member of the Board of Education, for the remainder of the threeyear term which began on July 1, 2018 commencing June 9, 2020 and expiring June 30, 2021.

NOMINATION PETITIONS PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that each vacancy is a separate, specific office and a separate petition is required to nominate a candidate to each separate office.

Each petition must be directed to the Clerk of the District, must state the residence of each signer, must state the name and residence of the candidate, and must describe the specific vacancy for which the candidate is nominated, including at least the length of the term of the office and the name of the last incumbent.

Petitions nominating candidates for the office of the Board of Education must be filed with the Clerk of the District by Monday, May 11, 2020, by delivering the petition to a secure drop box located at 585 N. Corona Avenue, Valley Stream New York 11563, or by emailing a copy of the completed nominating petition to the District Clerk at mrosamilia@valleystream 13.com. No person shall be nominated for more than one separate office on the Board of Education. A nomination may be rejected by the Board of Education if the candidate is ineligible for office or declares his/her unwillingness to serve.

In the event of the physical absence of the District Clerk from the District, nominating petitions are to be received and acted upon by the Acting District Clerk in the same manner as required of the District Clerk.

Voting machines may be used for the tabulation of all votes upon propositions and the election of Trustees. The meeting and the election will be conducted according to the Education Law and the rules previously adopted by the Board of Education.

REGISTRATION Pursuant to Executive Order 202.26, the Budget Vote and Election of Board of Education members will be held on Tuesday, June 9, 2020.

The Executive Order directs that the budget vote and election be conducted by an absentee ballot process in lieu of in-person voting.

Therefore, there will be no voting at the polls for this year’s annual Budget

Vote and Election. The District will mail absentee ballots with a postage paid return envelope to qualified voters. In order to be counted, absentee ballots must be received in the office of the District Clerk by 5:00 p.m. on June 9, 2020.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that personal registration of voters is required either pursuant to Section 2014 of the New York State Education Law or pursuant to Article 5 of the New York State Election Law. If a voter has heretofore registered pursuant to Section 2014 of the New York State Education Law and has voted at any annual or special district meeting within the past four (4) calendar years, such voter is eligible to vote at this election; if a voter is registered and eligible to vote pursuant to Article 5 of the New York State Election Law, such voter is also eligible to vote at this election. All other persons who wish to vote must register should do so on-line no later than May 26, 2020. There is no provision for in-person registration for this election. Those wishing to register to vote should v i s i t https://www.dmv.ny.gov/ more-info/electronicv o t e r- r e g i s t r a t i o n application in order to do so online.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that military voters who are not currently registered should visit https://www.dmv.ny.gov/ more-info/electronicv o t e r- r e g i s t r a t i o n application in order to do so online.

ABSENTEE BALLOTS AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that military voters who are not currently registered may apply to register as a qualified voter of the Valley Stream Union Free School District 13 by requesting and returning a registration application to the District Clerk by email to mrosamilia@valleystream 13.com or fax sent to 516-825-2537.

The request for the registration application may include the military voter’s preference for receipt of the registration application by either mail, fax or email. Military voter registration application forms must be received in the office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 14, 2020.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that military voters who are qualified voters of the Valley Stream Union Free School District 13, may request an application for a military ballot from the District Clerk and return such military ballot application to the District Clerk by email to mrosamilia@valleystream 13.com or fax sent to 516-825-2537. In order

for a military voter to be issued a military ballot, a valid military ballot application must be received in the office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m., on May 14, 2020. Military ballot applications received in accordance with the foregoing will be processed in the same manner as a non-military ballot application under Section 2018-a of the Education Law. The application for military ballot may include the military voter’s preference for receipt of the military ballot by mail, fax, or email. A military voter’s original military ballot application and military ballot must be returned by mail or in person to the office of the District Clerk at 585 N. Corona Avenue, Valley Stream, New York 11580.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that military ballots shall be canvassed if they are received by the District Clerk before the close of polls on June 9, 2020 showing a cancellation mark of the United States Postal Service or a foreign country’s postal service, or showing a dated endorsement of receipt by another agency of the United States Government; or received not later than 5:00 p.m. on June 9, 2020 and signed and dated by the military voter and one witness thereto, with a date which is ascertained to be not later than the day before the election.

ELECTION DISTRICTS The boundaries of the four election districts are as previously adopted by the Board of Education by a resolution adopted on January 28, 1959, and which resolution is filed in the minutes of the District Clerk’s Office.

Pursuant to Executive Order 202.26 issued by the Governor of the State of New York the election shall take place only by absentee ballot.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that this Board shall convene a special meeting thereof within twenty-four 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 of the result of the ballot and declaring the result of the ballot; that the Board hereby designates itself to be a set of poll clerks to cast and canvass ballots pursuant to Education Law 2019-a, subdivision 2b at said special meeting of the Board.

Dated: May 4, 2020

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, VALLEY STREAM UNION Valley Stream, New York

FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT THIRTEEN, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU, NEW YORK MaryAnn Rosamilia District Clerk 121817 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BUDGET VOTE AND ELECTION OF THE VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a Public Hearing of the qualified voters of the Valley Stream Central High School District, Nassau County, New York will be held remotely in the James A. Dever School for District No. 13 on Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 7:30 p.m., prevailing time, in the William L. Buck School for District No. 24 on Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 5:45 p.m., prevailing time, and for District No. 30 in the Shaw Avenue School on Monday, June 1, 2020 at 7:00 p.m., prevailing time, for the transaction of business as authorized by the Education Law, including the following items: 1. To present to the voters a detailed statement (proposed budget) of the amount of money which will be required for the 2020-21 fiscal year.

2. To discuss all the items hereinafter set forth to be voted upon by absentee ballot pursuant to Executive Order 202.26 for the Budget Vote and Election to be held on Tuesday, June 9, 2020.

3. To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting pursuant to Education Law of the State of New York and acts amendatory thereto.

A copy of the proposed budget shall be made available to residents of School District No. 13, School District No. 24 & School District No. 30 beginning on May 20, 2020 on the District’s website at www.vschsd.org. While Education Law §1716(2) requires the budget also be made available at School District offices, any public library/free association library within the District, and the polling place, this year that will not be possible due to Executive Order 202.26 and the prevalence of the COVID-19 virus and potential for spread through our personal interaction.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Executive Order 202.26, the Budget Vote and Election of Board of Education members will be held on Tuesday, June 9, 2020.

The Executive Order directs that the budget

vote and election be conducted by an absentee ballot process in lieu of in-person voting.

Therefore, there will be no voting at the polls for this year’s annual Budget Vote and Election. The District will mail absentee ballots with a postage paid return envelope to qualified voters. In order to be counted, absentee ballots must be received in the office of the District Clerk by 5:00 p.m. on June 9, 2020. Thus, every qualified voter shall vote by absentee ballot on the following items: 1.

To adopt the annual budget of the School District for the fiscal year 202021 and to authorize the requisite portion thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the District.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to Chapter 258 of the Laws of 2008, Section 495 was added to the Real Property Tax Law, and requires the School District to attach to its proposed budget an exemption report.† Said exemption report, which will also become part of the final budget, will show how much of †the total assessed value on the final assessment roll used in the budgetary process is exempt from taxation, list every type of exemption granted, identified by statutory authority, and show: (a) the cumulative impact of each type of exemption expressed either as a dollar amount of assessed value or as a percentage of the total assessed value on the roll; (b) the cumulative amount expected to be received from recipients of each type of exemption as payments in lieu of taxes or other payments for municipal services; and (c) the cumulative impact of all exemptions granted.† The exemption report shall be posted on any bulletin board maintained by the District for public notices and on any website maintained by the District.† AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that military voters who are qualified voters of the Valley Stream Union Free School Districts No. 13, No. 24 and No. 30, may request an application for a military ballot by email or by fax during school business hours from the District Clerks in Union Free School Districts No. 13, No. 24 and No. 30; AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that military ballots shall be canvassed if they are received by the District Clerk of the appropriate Valley Stream Union Free School District before the close of polls on June 9, 2020 showing a cancellation mark of the United States Postal Service or a foreign country’s postal service, or showing a dated

endorsement of receipt by another agency of the United States Government; or received not later than 5:00 p.m. on June 9, 2020 and signed and dated by the military voter and one witness thereto, with a date which is ascertained to be not later than the day before the election.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to a rule adopted by the Board of Education in accordance with §2035 of the Education Law, any referenda or propositions to amend the budget, or otherwise to be submitted for voting at said election, must be filed with the District Clerk, Board of Education at the District Office, One Kent Road, Valley Stream, New York, prevailing time, and must be typed or printed in the English language; must be directed to the Clerk of the School District; must be signed by at least 79 qualified voters of the District; and must legibly state the name of each signer. However, the School Board will not entertain any petition to place before the voters any proposition the purpose of which is not within the powers of the voters to determine, which is unlawful or any proposition which fails to include a specific appropriation where the expenditure of monies is required by the proposition, or where other valid reason exists for excluding the proposition from the ballot.

SCHOOL ELECTION DISTRICTS AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Election Districts have been established in the School District.

The boundaries of the Election Districts, as adopted by resolution of the Board of Education. Pursuant to Executive Order 202.26 issued by the Governor of the State of New York the election shall take place only by absentee ballot.

Dated: Valley Stream, New York May 5, 2020

By Order of the BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Valley Stream, New York Kristina Howley, District Clerk 121785 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING, BUDGET VOTE AND ELECTION OF THE VALLEY STREAM UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 30 TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD AND NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a Public Hearing of the qualified voters of the Valley Stream Union Free School District No. 30 of the

Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, originally scheduled to be held at the Shaw Avenue School, Shaw Avenue, Valley Stream, New York, in said District on Monday, May 11, 2020, at 7:00 p.m., prevailing time, will now take place remotely on Monday, June 1, 2020 for the transaction of business as authorized by the Education Law, including the following items: 1.

To present to the voters a detailed statement (proposed budget) of the amount of money, which will be required for the 2020-21 fiscal year.

2.

To discuss all the items hereinafter set forth to be voted upon by absentee ballot by qualified voters for the Budget Vote and Election originally scheduled for Tuesday, May 19, 2020 and which will now take place on Tuesday, June 9, 2020.

3.

To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting pursuant to Education Law of the State of New York and acts amendatory thereto.

A copy of the proposed budget shall be made available to residents of the school district beginning Monday, May 25, 2020, on the District’s website at www.valleystream30.com AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that said adjourned Budget Vote and Election to originally be held on Tuesday, May 19, 2020, between the hours of 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., prevailing time, in the Three (3) Election Districts, described below, will now take place on Tuesday, June 9, 2020, by absentee ballot, upon the following items: 1.

SHALL the proposed budget of the Valley Stream Elementary School District Thirty for the fiscal year 2020-21 be approved in the amount of thirty-eight million two hundred f i f t y - t h r e e thousand and three hundred two dollars ($38,253,302) and that the sum be r a i s e d through a levy upon the taxable property in the Valley Stream Elementary School District Thirty, after first deducting the monies from state aid and other sources, as provided by law.

2.

For the Valley Stream Elementary School District Thirty to establish a capital reserve fund effective on June 9, 2020 for a term not-to-exceed eight (8) years for the purpose of f u n d i n g capital improvements to the schools of the Elementary School District Thirty, including but not limited to, reconstruction of current facilities, addition of instructional classrooms, replacement of air handling,

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ventilation and heat generation systems, ceilings, lighting fixtures, plumbing fixtures, interior doors and walls, floor tile, water filtration systems, upgrade of electrical and heating distribution, site improvements, masonry repairs, security upgrades, technology upgrades, and site sanitary district wide in the ultimate amount of eight million dollars ($8,000,000); the source of said funds being transfers from the District’s general fund.

3.

For the Valley Stream Elementary School District Thirty to be authorized to appropriate and expend the maximum amount of Three Million Five Hundred Thousand dollars ($3,500,000) from the Capital Reserve Funds established on May 20, 2014 and May 17, 2016 from fund balance for the purpose of completing capital improvements, including but not limited to, reconstruction of current facilities, addition of instructional classrooms, replacement of air handling, ventilation and heat generation systems, ceilings, lighting fixtures, plumbing fixtures, interior doors and walls, floor tile, water filtration systems, upgrade of electrical and heating distribution, site improvements, masonry repairs, security upgrades, technology upgrades, and site sanitary district wide.

4.

SHALL the proposed budget of the Valley Stream Central High School District for the fiscal year 2020-21 be approved in the amount of $126,060,126 and that the sum be raised through a levy upon the taxable property in the Valley Stream Central High School District, after first deducting the monies from state aid and other sources, as provided by law.

5.

For the Valley Stream Central High School District to be authorized to appropriate and expend the maximum amount of Three Million Five Hundred Thousand dollars ($3,500,000) from the Capital Reserve Fund established on May 17, 2016 from fund balance for the purpose of completing capital improvements as follows: Central High School: Renovate and Re-Sod South Side of Central High School Athletic Field Memorial Junior High School: Elevator Replacement; Kitchen and Serving Line Renovations; Teacher’s Entrance Stoop Reconstruction.

North High School: Tennis Court Renovations; Gymnasium Lobby Refurbishment

South High School Gymnasium Lobby Refurbishment; Perimeter Fencing Replacement 6.

To elect one (1) member of the Board of Education for a five (5) year term commencing July 1, 2020 and expiring on June 30, 2025 to succeed James Lavery, whose term expires on June 30, 2020.

To elect one (1) member of the Board of Education for the unexpired remainder of a five (5) year term which commenced July 1, 2017 and expires on June 30, 2022 to succeed Matthew Khan.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required to fund the School District’s budget for 2020-21, may be obtained by any resident of the District beginning Monday, May 25, 2020, on the District’s website. While Education Law §1716(2) requires the budget also be made available at School District offices, any public library/free association library within the District, and the polling place, this year that will not be possible due to Executive Order 202.26 and the prevalence of the COVID-19 virus and potential for spread through our personal interaction.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to Chapter 258 of the Laws of 2008, Section 495 was added to the Real Property Tax Law, and requires the School District to attach to its proposed budget an exemption report.† Said exemption report, which will also become part of the final budget, will show how much of †the total assessed value on the final assessment roll used in the budgetary process is exempt from taxation, list every type of exemption granted, identified by statutory authority, and show: (a) the cumulative impact of each type of exemption expressed either as a dollar amount of assessed value or as a percentage of the total assessed value on the roll; (b) the cumulative amount expected to be received from recipients of each type of exemption as payments in lieu of taxes or other payments for municipal services; and (c) the cumulative impact of all exemptions granted.† The exemption report shall be posted on any website maintained by the District.† AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that petitions nominating candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education has been suspended and candidates shall be placed on the ballot as long as they meet the required qualifications for Board of Education

candidates. Names of candidates and specific vacancy for which the candidate is running, must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 11, 2020 and shall be placed on the ballot in alphabetical order.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Executive Order 202.26, the Budget Vote and Election of Board of Education members will be held on Tuesday, June 9, 2020.

The Executive Order directs that the budget vote and election be conducted by an absentee ballot process in lieu of in-person voting.

Therefore, there will be no voting at the polls for this year’s annual Budget Vote and Election. The District will mail absentee ballots with a postage paid return envelope to qualified voters. In order to be counted, absentee ballots must be received in the office of the District Clerk by 5:00 p.m. on June 9, 2020.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that personal registration of voters is required either pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law or pursuant to Article 5 of the Election Law. If a voter has heretofore registered pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law and has voted at an annual or special district meeting within the last four (4) calendar years, he or she is eligible to vote at this election. If a voter is registered and eligible to vote under Article 5 of the Election Law, he or she is also eligible to vote at this election. All other persons who wish to vote must register should do so online no later than May 26, 2020. There is no provision for in-person registration for this election. Those wishing to register to vote should v i s i t https://www.dmv.ny.gov/ more-info/electronicv o t e r- r e g i s t r a t i o n application in order to do so online.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that military voters who are not currently registered should visit https://www.dmv.ny.gov/ more-info/electronicv o t e r- r e g i s t r a t i o n application in order to do so online.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that military voters who are not currently registered may apply to register as a qualified voter of the Valley Stream Union Free School District 30 by requesting and returning a registration application to the District Clerk by email to jcarson@vs30.org or fax sent to 516-706-1177.

The request for the registration application may include the military voter’s preference for receipt of the registration application by either mail, fax or email. Military

voter registration application forms must be received in the office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 14, 2020.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that military voters who are qualified voters of the Valley Stream Union Free School District 30, may request an application for a military ballot from the District Clerk and return such military ballot application to the District Clerk by email to jcarson@vs30.org or fax sent to 516-706-1177. In order for a military voter to be issued a military ballot, a valid military ballot application must be received in the office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m., on May 14, 2020. Military ballot applications received in accordance with the foregoing will be processed in the same manner as a non-military ballot application under Section 2018-a of the Education Law. The application for military ballot may include the military voter’s preference for receipt of the military ballot by mail, fax, or email. A military voter’s original military ballot application and military ballot must be returned by mail or in person to the office of the District Clerk at 175 N. Central Avenue, Suite 100 Valley Stream, NY 11580.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that military ballots shall be canvassed if they are received by the District Clerk before the close of polls on June 9, 2020 showing a cancellation mark of the United States Postal Service or a foreign country’s postal service, or showing a dated endorsement of receipt by another agency of the United States Government; or received not later than 5:00 p.m. on June 9, 2020 and signed and dated by the military voter and one witness thereto, with a date which is ascertained to be not later than the day before the election.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to a rule adopted by the Board of Education in accordance with §2035 of the Education Law, any referenda or propositions to amend the budget, or otherwise to be submitted for voting at said election, must be filed with the Clerk of the Board of Education at the District Office, 175 North Central Avenue, Valley Stream New York, in sufficient time to permit notice of the proposition to be included with the Notice of the Public Hearing, Budget Vote and Election required by Section 2004 of the Education Law or on or before Friday, April 10, 2020, at 4:00 p.m., prevailing time; must be typed or printed in the

English language; must be directed to the Clerk of the School District; must be signed by at least 25 qualified voters of the District (representing 5% of the number of voters who voted in the previous annual election); and must legibly state the name of each signer.

However, the School Board will not entertain any petition to place before the voters any proposition the purpose of which is not within the powers of the voters to determine, which is unlawful or any proposition which fails to include a specific appropriation where the expenditure of monies is required by the proposition, or where other valid reason exists for excluding the proposition from the ballot.

SCHOOL ELECTION DISTRICTS AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Election Districts have been established in the School District.

The boundaries of the Election Districts, as adopted by resolution of the Board of Education. Pursuant to Executive Order 202.26 issued by the Governor of the State of New York the election shall take place only by absentee ballot.

The boundaries of each such District by street, alleys, and highways or otherwise, are contained in a resolution of the Board of Education, dated February 18, 1959, and are available for inspection at the office of the Clerk of the District.

Dated: Valley Stream, New York May 5, 2020

By Order of the BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE VALLEY STREAM UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 30 Town of Hempstead, Nassau County Valley Stream, New York Janet Carson, District Clerk 121786 LEGAL NOTICE AVISO DE VOTO SOBRE PRESUPUESTOS, P R O P U E S T A S , I N S C R I P C I Ó N, AUDIENCIA, ELECCIÓN DE FIDUCIARIOS Y BOLETAS AUSENTADAS SE DA AQUÍ AVISO de que, de conformidad con la Orden Ejecutiva 202.26 emitida por el Gobernador Andrew Cuomo, el día designado para celebrar la Reunión Anual de los votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar Libre Valley Stream Union No. Veinticuatro de la Ciudad de Hempstead, Condado de Nassau, Nueva York, es el 9 de junio de 2020 para la transacción de negocios autorizados por la Ley de Educación.

SE ADMITE ADEMÁS que, de conformidad con la Ley de Educación, el voto de los votantes calificados, sobre la asignación de los fondos necesarios para cubrir los gastos estimados del Distrito Escolar Libre Valley Stream Union No. Veinticuatro, de la ciudad de Hempstead, Condado de Nassau, Nueva York, para el año escolar 2020-2021, y ante cualquier propuesta que implique el gasto de dinero por parte del Distrito, autorizando la recaudación de impuestos, o sobre cualquier otro asunto que pueda presentarse adecuadamente ante los votantes. el martes 20 de junio de 2020. La votación se realizará exclusivamente por votación en ausencia.

SE ADMITEN ADEMÁS, que copias del Presupuesto Propuesto, estableciendo los gastos del Distrito Escolar Libre de Valley Stream Union No. veinticuatro durante el año escolar 2020-2021, así como copias que establecen el Presupuesto Propuesto de gastos del Valle Se puede obtener el Distrito Escolar Central Stream durante el año escolar 2020-2021, junto con el texto de cualquier resolución que se presente a los votantes, en el sitio web del Distrito Escolar Libre Valley Stream Union No. Veinticuatro durante cada uno de los 14 calendarios días anteriores al día de la votación.

SE AVISA ADEMÁS que, con el propósito de discutir los gastos antes mencionados de los fondos y el presupuesto de los mismos, una audiencia pública se llevará a cabo de forma remota el día de [insertar fecha y hora].

SE AVISA ADEMÁS, que la Sección 495 de la Ley del Impuesto sobre Bienes Inmuebles requiere que el Distrito Escolar Libre de Valley Stream Union No. veinticuatro adjunte a su presupuesto propuesto un informe de exención. El informe de exención, que también se convertirá en parte del presupuesto final, mostrará cómo el valor tasado total del rollo de evaluación final utilizado en el proceso presupuestario está exento de impuestos, enumera cada tipo de exención otorgada por la autoridad legal y muestra el acumulado impacto de cada tipo de exención, el monto acumulado que se espera recibir como pagos en lugar de impuestos (PILOTO) y el impacto acumulativo de todas las exenciones otorgadas.

Además, el informe de exención se publicará en el sitio web del Distrito.

BOLETAS AUSENTES

AQUÍ SE OFRECE UN AVISO, se enviará por correo una boleta en ausencia a los votantes calificados identificados del distrito escolar a más tardar seis (6) días antes de la elección. No se registrará ninguna boleta de votante ausente a menos que se haya recibido en la Oficina del Secretario del Distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m. (hora vigente) el día de la elección.

BOLETAS MILITARES SE DA AVISO 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 solicitud de registro de votante militar y las solicitudes 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 registrará ninguna boleta militar a menos que sea devuelta por correo y recibida por la oficina del Secretario del Distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m. el día de las elecciones DISTRITOS ELECTORALES Y LUGARES DE VOTACIÓN ELECCIÓN DE FIDUCIARIOS SE ADMITE ADEMÁS, que se realizará una elección el martes 9 de junio de 2020, con el propósito de elegir a tres miembros de la Junta de Educación del Distrito Escolar Libre Valley Stream Union No. Veinticuatro por un período de tres años a partir 1 de julio de 2020 y hasta el 30 de junio de 2023, para suceder a Paul DePace, Armando Hernández y Lisa Pellicane, los titulares, cuyos mandatos expiran el 30 de junio de 2020.

Cada vacante es un cargo específico por separado.

Las nominaciones para el cargo de Miembro de la Junta de Educación se realizarán por petición sin requisito mínimo de firma y se presentarán al Secretario del Distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m. del 11 de mayo de 2020. La petición de nominación se dirigirá al Secretario del Distrito del Distrito Escolar Libre de Valley Stream Union No. Veinticuatro e indicará el nombre y la residencia del candidato, y describirá la vacante específica para la cual el candidato es nominado, incluyendo al menos la duración del

mandato y el nombre del último titular.

Las peticiones de nominación pueden enviarse por correo electrónico, fax o correo postal al Secretario del Distrito PROPUESTAS ASIMISMO, POR MEDIO DE LA PRESENTE, SE NOTIFICA que, en dicha elección anual y voto, se presentarán las siguientes propuestas con el propósito de votar al respecto: PROPUESTA UNO Presupuesto del Distrito Escolar Union Free de Valley Stream N.º Veinticuatro DEBE el presupuesto propuesto de gastos del Distrito Escolar Union Free de Valley Stream N.º Veinticuatro en la ciudad de Hempstead, condado de Nassau, Nueva York para el año 2019-2010 en las cantidades y para los propósitos que se muestran en la declaración presentada a la Audiencia Anual , y que la suma se aumente a través de un gravamen sobre los bienes sujetos a impuestos en el Distrito Escolar Union Free de Valley Stream N.º Veinticuatro, después de deducir por primera vez el dinero de la ayuda estatal y otras fuentes, según lo establece la ley.

PROPUESTA DOS Presupuesto de la Central High School DEBERÁ aprobarse el presupuesto de gastos propuesto del Distrito Escolar de Valley Stream Central, condado de Nassau, Nueva York para el año 2019-2020 y que la suma se recaudará a través de un impuesto sobre las propiedades sujetas a impuestos en el Distrito Escolar de Valley Stream Central, después de, en primer lugar, deducir el dinero de la ayuda estatal y otras fuentes, según lo estipula la ley.

PROPUESTA TRES PROPUESTA DEL VOTANTE CAPITAL DE LA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL †SE DEBE autorizar a la Junta de Educación a tomar posesión y emplear la cantidad máxima de dos millones ochocientos mil dólares ($ 2.800.000) del saldo del fondo con el fin de completar las mejoras de capital de la siguiente manera:†Renovaciones de climatización y vestíbulos de acceso de seguridad en todo el distrito; cercas en North High School y Press Box en Memorial Junior High School y North Junior / Senior High School, todo lo anterior para incluir toda la mano de obra, materiales, equipos, aparatos y costos incidentales asociados con ellos.

Jaclyn Cacioppo, Secretario del distrito escolar Junta de Educación de Valley Stream Distrito Escolar N. Veinticuatro 121776

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that Section 495 of the Real Property Tax Law requires the Valley Stream Union Free School District No. Twenty-Four to attach to its proposed budget an exemption report.† The exemption report, which will also become part of the final budget, will show how the total assessed value of the final assessment roll used in the budgetary process is exempt from taxation, list every type of exemption granted by 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 (PILOT) and the cumulative impact of all exemptions granted.† In addition, the exemption report will be posted on the District’s website.† ABSENTEE BALLOTS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN an Absentee Ballot will be mailed to identified qualified voters of the school district no later than six (6) days before the election. No absentee voter’s ballot will be canvassed unless it has been received in the Office of the District Clerk not later than 5:00 P.M. (prevailing time) on the day of the election.

MILITARY BALLOTS NOTICE IS HEREBY 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 application forms and military ballot applications must be received in the Office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on May14, 2020. No military ballot will be canvassed unless it is returned by mail and received by the office of the District Clerk by no later than 5:00 p.m. on election day.

ELECTION DISTRICTS AND POLLING PLACES ELECTION OF TRUSTEES

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that an election will be held on Tuesday, June 9, 2020, for the purpose of electing three members of the Board of Education of Valley Stream Union Free School District No. Twenty-Four for a term of three years commencing July 1, 2020 and ending June 30, 2023, to succeed Paul DePace, Armando Hernandez, and Lisa Pellicane, the incumbents, whose terms of office expire on June 30, 2020.

Each vacancy is a separate specific office.

Nominations for the office of Member of the Board of Education will be made by petition with no minimum signature requirement and filed with the District Clerk no later than 5:00 PM on May 11, 2020. The nominating petition will be directed to the District Clerk of Valley Stream Union Free School District No. Twenty-Four and will state the name and residence of the candidate, and describe the specific vacancy for which the candidate is nominated, including at least the length of the term of office and name of the last incumbent.

Nomination petitions may be emailed, faxed or mailed to the District Clerk.

PROPOSITIONS NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that at the said annual election and vote, the following propositions will be submitted for the purpose of voting thereon: PROPOSITION ONE Valley Stream Union Free School District No. Twenty-Four Budget SHALL the proposed budget of expenditures of Valley Stream Union School District No. Twenty-Four, Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York for the year 2020-2021 in the amounts and for the purposes shown in the statement thereof presented to the Annual Meeting, and that the sum be raised through a levy upon the taxable property in the Valley Stream Union Free School District No. Twenty-Four, after first deducting the monies from state aid and other sources, as provided by law. ($30,952,398.)

PROPOSITION TWO Central High School Budget

SHALL the proposed budget of expenditures of Valley Stream Central High School District, Nassau County, New York for the year 2020-2021 be approved in the amount of $126,060,126 and that the sum be raised through a levy upon the taxable property in the Valley Stream Central High School District, after first deducting the monies from state aid and other sources, as provided by law.† PROPOSITION THREE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT CAPITAL VOTER PROPOSITION SHALL the Board of Education be authorized to appropriate and expend the maximum amount of Three Million Five Hundred Thousand dollars ($3,500,000) from the Capital Reserve Fund established on May 17, 2016 from fund balance for the purpose of completing capital improvements as follows: Central High School: Renovate and ReSod South Side of Central High School Athletic Field Memorial Junior High School: Elevator Replacement; Kitchen and Serving Line Renovations; Teacher’s Entrance Stoop Reconstruction.

North High School: Tennis Court Renovations; Gymnasium Lobby Refurbishment South High School Gymnasium Lobby Refurbishment; Perimeter Fencing Replacement REGISTRATION NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that, any resident of the school district who is not already registered to vote and 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.

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continued from front page former employees now out of work. “You have contracts with school districts, and the districts are choosing not to pay.”

In particular, she blamed Hauppaugebased Ingerman Smith LLP, a law firm specializing in commercial, labor and education law, for allegedly advising a number of districts that they were not obligated to pay the bus companies they contract with during the pandemic.

Ingerman Smith, which lists dozens of Long Island school districts as clients, including District 24, did not return a request for comment.

At least a few school officials in Valley Stream said the virus, and the associated shutdown orders, posed a number of legal conundrums between districts and their outside contractors when their services are not in use, potentially causing a situation in which tax dollars are given as a public gift to the companies.

“It’s not only thorny, but messy and even legally complicated,” Central High School District board President Jim Lavery said of the situation. “With each executive order that came from the governor came a slew of undefined, unclear mandates. So legally there were questions about paying contractors with taxpayer funds for work that wasn’t done.”

The fast-moving nature of the corona-

virus left the district waiting for answers from Albany, he said, on how to handle legal issues arising from the associated school building closures, including bus service payments.

Drivers too leveled criticism at the state for a lack of clarity over mandates arising from the coronavirus. Dan DeCrotie, president of Teamsters Local 1205, which represents 900 of Baumann’s former employees, said payments to bus companies had been an ongoing issue since Gov. Andrew Cuomo relaxed the 180 school-day requirement for districts to maintain their aid at the outset of the pandemic.

“That state aid is supposed to be used to pay district employees and vendors,” he said. “This has not happened. The lack of clarity or guidance from the [New York State Education Department] regarding this issue has resulted in most districts not paying their school bus transportation companies, and now you see the results.”

A NYSED representative did not respond to a request for comment. In an attempt to clarify the confusion, DeCrotie and Hagan, along with representatives from four other transportation unions, sent a letter to Cuomo asking him to maintain funding to school bus companies, or else a potential 125,000 drivers across the state could be out of work.

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NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that copies of the Proposed Budget, setting forth the expenditures of Valley Stream Union Free School District No. Twenty-Four during the school year 2020-2021, as well as copies setting forth the Proposed Budget of expenditures of the Valley Stream Central High School District during the school year 2020-2021, together with the text of any resolutions to be presented to the voters, may be obtained on the Valley Stream Union Free School District No. Twenty-Four’s website during each of the 14 calendar days preceding the voting day.

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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.

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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.

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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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houldn’t they call out falsehoods and fabrications passing as truth?

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 Wuha polemics surrounding them. And we will experi becaus have taken an ethical stand. tists, t 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 amakin thank-you from these blue state governorsselves Hum for coming to their rescue. defense RICHARD HEEmANit’s from Valley Streamabout t

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