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Friday, April 15, 2022
Vol. 10, No. 15
HOME DESIGN, LAWN & GARDEN
MANHASSET MAN ARRESTED FOR GUNS
SUOZZI SLAMS HOCHUL ON BUDGET, BENJAMIN
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Officials bash county’s LIPA settlement Delia DeRiggi-Whitton calls process ‘shady’ at Glenwood Landing forum BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y Several Long Island officials on Monday night criticized the agreement reached between the Long Island Power Authority and the county to lower the tax bill for a pair of power plants, including Glenwood Landing, at Legislative Night held at the Glenwood Landing School auditorium. State Sen. Jim Gaughran was joined by Assemblymen Chalres Lavine, Michael Montesano and Ed Ra and County Legislators Delia DeRiggiWhitton and Joshua Lafazan to answer questions from students and concerned residents regarding the settlement and district. The event was held by the North Shore Schools Legislative Action Committee. Gaughran, who represents the 5th Senate District, said that the Legislature will evaluate better methods of transparency with the new state budget and make sure to avoid problems like this in the future. “We’re going through the state Legislature to look over the next year as to how we can go towards a much better system in terms of oversight of our utility,” Gaughran said. “Because
right now, they basically sold us out.” The settlement, reached last week, will result in the $59 million annual tax bill on the two power plants being reduced to $32 million over the next five years, according to a news release. Authority officials said a tax certiorari trial scheduled for May 31 would have reduced the tax assessments on the two plants by at least 70 percent. PHOTO COURTESY OF ROSLYN PUBLIC SCHOOLS Officials also said the settlement continues guaranteed payments to Students in the the Royal Crown Players of Roslyn High School performing “Big Fish: A Novel of three school districts, including the Mythic Proportions” over the weekend. See story on page 50. North Shore school district, through 2027 and “protects Nassau’s taxpayers from hundreds of millions of dollars of refund liability.” At $711 million per year, taxes are the authority’s secondlargest expense, making up roughly 19 percent of customers’ bills, officials said. On Monday, the Rules and Finance committees in the county Legislature voted to approve the tentative settlement to lower taxes for the two power stations in Glenwood Landing and Island Park. DeRiggi-Whitton, who voted B Y B R A N D O N D U F F Y cent increase in spending from the Ben-Levy said she was very appreciano, said the school district settlement current year and a 2.48 percent in- tive of the board and School Superinwas not part of the vote, although it The Roslyn Board of Education crease in the tax levy, which falls un- tendent Allison Brown. was on the record. “I thank you, Allison, the adDeRiggi-Whitton said “the whole adopted a $122,145,193 budget for der the tax levy limit of 3.7 percent. The proposed tax levy totals ministration and my fellow board way this was handled was so shady,” the 2022-23 fiscal year last Thursday members once again for all their $101,148,675. Continued on Page 37 night. Continued on Page 37 Board President Meryl Waxman The budget calls for a 2.93 per-
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