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Vol. 28 No. 27
JUlY 1 - 7, 2021
Bill targets special district transparency Campaign finance laws do not apply to special sanitation districts, even though commissionOn June 3, the State Senate ers and trustees oversee large passed bill S.1102A, which would budgets. Sanitation District No. require candidates 2’s 2021 spending for commissioners plan was nearly $12.2 of sanitation dismillion, with a tax tricts to file statelevy of just over $10 ments of campaign million, to provide expenditure and conservices such as gartributions, as there bage collection, recyare now no reporting cling and medical requirements for and hazardous waste these elections. disposal. If it becomes law, Sanitation Disthe bill, sponsored trict No. 2 commisby Sen. Todd Kaminsioners earn $7,500 sky, a Democrat from per year, with mediLong Beach, would cal and dental benechange election profits, and are respontocols for special sible for drafting and sanitation elections implementing local statewide, including ordinances and rules for Sanitation Disand regulations for trict No. 2, which waste and litter manc o ve r s B a l dw i n , aUStiN graff agement, but they Roosevelt, South Chairman, also manage all H e m p s t e a d a n d Sanitation District 7 a d m i n i s t r a t i v e , parts of Uniondale, financial and operaRockville Centre and tional duties of a Freeport, serving roughly 55,000 workforce of 60 full-time employresidents. ees, including preparing the The measure has yet to be annual budget and setting the voted on by the State Assembly, a tax rate. requirement before it can move Baldwin Sanitation Commisto Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his signature. Continued on page 15
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a Culture Jam with something for everyone The first annual Baldwin Culture Jam featured a car show, live music, a cornhole tournament, raffles and a mural painting event as as kickoff to a post-Covid summer. Story, Page 3.
Cuomo: ‘The emergency is over’ By CriStiNa arroYo roDrigUez carroyo@liherald.com
G o v. A n d r e w C u o m o announced in a coronavirus briefing on June 24 that he would not renew the state of emergency first declared last March. Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Covid-19 protocols will remain in effect, however. The announcement came nearly a week after Cuomo lifted
nearly all Covid-19 restrictions, including those for businesses, social settings, health screenings and cleaning and disinfecting because 70 percent of all adult New Yorkers had received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. Paul Lizio, owner of Grand View Auto Body in Baldwin, said he hoped business would pick up, as the pandemic hurt his shop, with profit margins dropping as much as 70 percent at the
height of the crisis. “With people moving,” Lizio said, “more business comes . . . The weather is also helping people to get out more.” As of Monday in Nassau County, nearly 80 percent of residents 18 and over had received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, and 65 percent of residents in total had one dose. Statewide, a little more than 11.4 million Continued on page 9
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commissioners to disclose who they got money from, it allows the public to know where the influence is coming from.