_________________ BALDWIN ________________
CommuNity uPDate infections as of may 7
4,068
infections as of april 29 4,024
$1.00
HERALD Student honored by elected official
18/21 itc FG Demi Condensed
Page 4
Page 12
Page xx
Vol. 28 No. 20
1131868
library embraces smart lockers
may 13 - 19, 2021
District balances its spending plan district — about $42.4 million — will come from state aid, reserves, payments in lieu of Earlier this school year, the taxes, the appropriated fund balBaldwin School District was ance and other miscellaneous faced with a $4.5 million deficit income. because of the coroRo b i n s o n e x navirus pandemic. plained that the With additional aid budget process coming from the looks at revenue f e d e r a l g ove r nand expenses on a ment, the proposed multi-year basis, 2021-22 budget is adding that, this now balanced. year especially, “it T h e B a l dw i n was just critical for Board of Education us to really create a hosted a public sustainable plan hearing on the moving forward.” roughly $142.4 mil“ We r e a l l y lion spending plan looked at where we on May 5, although were, where we are no one from the currently and then, public asked any certainly, where we Dr. Shari Camhi need to go, given questions. Dr. James Robin- District superintendent the initiatives and son, assistant the objectives and superintendent of the vision from the business and administrative ser- board and the superintendent vices, reviewed the proposed bud- and the needs of our programs,” get, which represents an increase Robinson said. of about $4 million over the curThe district was dealing with rent year’s budget. $4.5 million in unanticipated The tax levy, or the amount the expenses for its response to the district needs to raise through Covid-19 pandemic, including property taxes, is about $99.9 mil- desk barriers and room dividers, lion, an increase of about $1.7 disposable protective gear, thermillion over the current tax levy. The rest of the revenue for the Continued on page 2
By BriDGet DowNeS bdownes@liherald.com
w
Nicole Alcindor/Herald
aS Part oF his “Hello Neighbor” project, a Brookside Elementary School second-grader said he hoped world hunger would end.
Photo project brings students together in trying times
‘Hello Neighbor’ art project unveiled at school By NiCole alCiNDor nalcindor@liherald.com
Baldwin High School Advanced Placement Photography students recently took portraits of younger students as part of the district’s first “Hello Neighbor” art project. Inspired by the Washington-based “Hello Neighbor” project by photojournalist and artist Julie Keefe, the district brought the same concept to Long Island but with its own students, featuring
Brookside Elementary School second-graders. The photos were blown up into 2-foot-by-3-foot posters, with each Brookside student’s hopes and dreams written across the top. The posters were then hung up along the tennis courts behind the high school, with the goal of expanding the initiative to the broader community in the future. The project unveiling took place on the morning of May 4 at the high school, and was
attended by Brookside second-graders and their parents and guardians, A.P. Photography students from the high school, teachers involved in the project, Superintendent Dr. Shari Camhi and school board trustees. “We are very big on integrated curriculum, and this project involved art, literacy as well as social emotional learning, and it brought students together and parents together,” Camhi said. “This Continued on page 3
hen we look at multiyear spending, we are doing it in such a way that we will never be in a position to fall off a cliff.