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Bosworth touts 1st year gains Cites progress in building department, budget transparency, technology in State of Town BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO
North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth delivers her State of the Town address Friday at the Harbor Links Golf Course in Port Washington.
Judi Bosworth began the second year of her tenure as North Hempstead town supervisor the way she began her first - with a major snowstorm to touch down on the region just as she prepared to deliver a major speech. So in her second State of the Town address Friday, Bosworth looked to former Town Supervisor May Newburger’s 1995 speech - the second of her nine-year stint in the position - for inspiration, as North Hempstead continued to dig itself out from Winter Storm Juno. “Battling 17 snow storms is a rugged beginning, but it gave me basic training for what would be a tough and rewarding year,” Bosworth told a luncheon of elected officials and guests of the Port Washington-Manhasset chapter of the League of Women Voters at the Harbor Links Golf Course, before revealing she had been reading Newburger’s words.
“...I guess some things don’t change,” she added, “even 20 years later.” Bosworth, a former Nassau County Legislator and Great Neck Board of Education official who was elected town supervisor in 2013, said her administration would continue to achieve goals of increased efficiency and transparency in its second year, as many town departments have eliminated the use of paper and more information has become available on the town’s website. But those were minor accomplishments, she said, as even larger initiatives toward those goals were met in the previous year. Bosworth touted the announcement of the town’s $125 million 2015 budget prior to the November elections, going off-script to say that “everything we do has fiscal ramifications.” “You have a right to know what the budget is before you step into the voting booth on election day,” Continued on Page 60
NHP trustees announce re-election bids B y J a m es G alloway
ers next month will decide one The deadline to file petimayor, one justice and four tions for a spot on the ballot is trustees, with all six incumbents Feb. 10, so additional candidates Between the villages of New saying they plan to run to retain may also come forward. Of the six positions up for Hyde Park and Floral Park, vot- their seats. election, four are in Floral Park: mayor, justice and two trustees. The mayor and trustee seats represent a majority of the village’s fiveperson governing board.
Mayor Thomas Tweedy, Justice Douglas J. Hayden and Trustee Dominick Longobardi are running for re-election as members of the Floral Park Citizens Party, the party’s website states. Additionally, Lynn Pombonyo, a trustee appointed mid term after former Mayor Kevin Greene stepped down, is running on the
party ticket to be elected for the first time, according to the website and a representative from the village clerk’s office. Each would need 100 signatures to appear on the ballot, the village clerk added. The Floral Park mayor earns $10,000 per year, and trustees earn $5,000 In New Hyde Park, TrustContinued on Page 60
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