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Berkowitz, Ashkenase re-elected as Board of Education trustees Vice President Larry Gross said the budget was intelligently constructVoters on Tuesday approved ed by Great Neck School District the Great Neck School District’s Superintendent Tom Dolan, and $216,697,754 budget for the 2015- that they are able to reduce ex16 school year and re-elected Bar- penses without reducing programbara Berkowitz and Donald Ashke- ming. “It’s not done by nase to the Board of eliminating things Education. it’s done by doing it The budget, which has a 1.23 e l e c t i o n 2 0 1 5 smarter,” Gross said of the budget. percent increase in The $199,496,645 spending from the tax levy for the 2015$214,067,850 bud16 budget is a 1.56 get for 2014-15, was See related percent increase from approved by a vote coverage the $196,435,489 of 839 to 179 – 82.4 pAgES 21, 22 levy of the 2014-2015 percent in favor. The budget. 2014-15 school budAbout 73.9 percent of the budget was approved by a vote of 1,679 to 444 with 79 percent in get will be spent on instruction, which includes teacher salaries, favor. The 1,018 people who voted materials and textbooks. Some on the budget is a decrease of 10.72 percent will go toward main1,105 voters from last year’s turn- tenance of buildings and grounds, and 6.31 percent will go toward out of 2,123 residents. Great Neck Board of Education Continued on Page 22
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PHOTO COURTESY OF HOWARD KROPLICK.
Town of North Hempstead Historian Howard Kroplick (left) poses with one of his classic cars at the first Regimental Activities NAFI Auto Show at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point this weekend.
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brary director at their meeting Tuesday. But the hiring of Giotsas, The Great Neck Library Board of Trustees named Kathy who will begin her job on Aug. Giotsas, current director of the 1 with a salary of $150,000 a West Haven Library in West year, was overshadowed by Haven, Conn., as the new li- dozens of residents who ex-
pressed concern about the status of Ethan Mann, who is rumored to have been fired from his position as director of the Levels Teen Center. The trustees expressed satContinued on Page 39
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