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Revitalization projects list is finalized ect costs, said Lou Bekofsky, of VHB. David Ashton, of the DepartTown of Hempstead and state ment of State, said, “It’s someofficials joined residents and thing like $166 million of project consultants via Zoom on Oct. 14 value for under $15 million of to finalize the list of projects to requested public support. That’s be submitted to the really fantastic state for approval as leverage, and it’s part of the Downone of the best town Revitalization that I’ve seen in Initiative, for which doing DRIs across Baldwin received a the state. I think $10 million grant everyone should last year. be really proud A t t h e l at e s t that there’s that meeting of the level of investment Local Planning interest in downCommittee, which town Baldwin that comprises Baldwin this process has community and solicited.” business leaders, He also remindHempstead Town ed interested parSupervisor Don ties that despite Clavin and the VHB what the LPC recEngineering conommends to the sulting team, public state, there is only feedback from a vir- daVid aSHTON $9.7 million worth tual survey and a of projects that the Department of State live question-andstate will award. a n sw e r s e s s i o n The other $300,000 were reviewed, determining the went to consultants. support for each project. The planning committee Consultants found that a final wants to be sure, Ashton said, list of 12 projects includes a total that there are enough projects of about $15 million in requested that the LPC has approved so it DRI funds, which would help support $166 million in total projContinued on page 3

By BRidgET dOwNES bdownes@liherald.com

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Open for business Attending the grand opening for Safe Health Educators in Baldwin earlier this month were Troy Diaz, of the Small Business Development Center at SUNY Farmingdale, far left, Safe Health Educators office manager Melissa Coxe, State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, Assemblywoman Judy Griffin, Safe Health Educators owner Richard Rattan, U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice’s representative Kevin Devlin, South Nassau Mount Sinai Emergency Department Nurse Diane Rattan and Safe Health Educators Chief Operating Officer Billy Croak. Story, more photos, Page 5.

Audit finds that Bethany House violated state and federal rules By BRidgET dOwNES bdownes@liherald.com

The Nassau County Comptroller’s office released an audit report of Bethany House, a Baldwin-based nonprofit that provides shelter and services for homeless women and children, some of whom have escaped domestic violence, that found questionable and excessive payments to staff, including founder Sister Aimee Koonmen, and vio-

lations of nepotism and livingwage laws. The 42-page report, released on Oct. 8, details a pattern of financial irregularities, including a failure to maintain documentation “to support over $160,000 in stipend payments” and “questionable payments exceeding $35,000 [that] were made to board members and employees, with no apparent reason for these payments,” the report reads.

“We found that Bethany House violated the terms of their [memorandum of understanding] with Nassau County by not maintaining adequate accounting records and not complying with various federal and state regulations,” investigators wrote in the report. In five residences around Nassau County, including the location in Baldwin on Demott AveContinued on page 4

think everyone should be really proud that there’s that level of investment interest in downtown Baldwin that this process has solicited.

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List of downtown projects is finalized Continued from front page could pivot from one to another if a project were to fall through for any reason. “Do you know which projects have already received their approval?” asked Antoinette Burrows, a business owner in

town. “There are a few projects that wouldn’t need to go through the local approval process,” said Abi Rudow, of VHB. “For example, the Baldwin Medical Center, at 800 Merrick Road, is a project that would

Baldwinite named Cazenovia College trustee Baldwin resident Margie Dobin Miller has rejoined the Cazenovia College Board of Trustees as one of three board appointees. Miller originally joined the board in 2010 and served three terms. In her new appointment, Miller will serve on the Academic Affairs and Student Affairs committees, according to a news release. A 1969 graduate of Cazenovia Colle ge, Miller continued her education at Elmira College, and in 1971 earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology and psycholog y from Hofstra University. She worked as an administrator and religious schoolteacher margie for 16 years and had a career in real estate, as well. She has also enjoyed being an active community leader, serving on the boards of several Jewish organizations. They include Mercaz, The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, the Ziegler School of Rabinnic Studies in Los Angeles, and the American Friends of Neve Hanna. Miller was long active in and is now the immediate past international president of the Women’s League for Conservative Judaism. Miller’s husband, Joel Miller, was

killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11, and Miller has dedicated significant time traveling throughout North America speaking about the effects of that event on families and how people cope during life-changing events. She has returned to the Cazenovia College campus to speak to Criminal Justice students about the incidents surrounding 9/11 and its aftermath and she has led college student tours at New York’s 9/11 memorial. A member of the 1824 Society at the College, Miller has also endowed a scholars h i p. T h e M a r g i e Dobin Miller ‘69 Scholarship is intended to miller assist a student in good academic standing having financial need. Miller joins two additional trustees named to new terms on the board: Elizabeth Rougeux, of Syracuse, and Matthew Reilly, of Cazenovia. Cazenovia College is an independent, co-educational college near Syracuse that offers graduate and bachelor’s degree programs in the liberal arts and professional studies in a community environment, with academic and co-curricular programs.

be ready to be implemented immediately.” Plans to implement sustainability measures on the site, Rudow said, have already received approvals and would happen as part of building renovations. Burrows also asked how Baldwin would be able to support some of the projects knowing how congested traffic can be in the area. “How do we structurally support these seven huge projects in a town that, if you go up Grand Avenue currently, if you go down Sunrise Highway currently, we’re in a massive amount of traffic,” she said. “How do we support seven huge projects in a structure in which we’re in currently without it impacting us severely?” “As far as traffic, we’re not here approving all of these projects today as they’re currently proposed,” Bekofsky said. “They still have to go through their entitlement process, and that is separate and apart from the DRI. The DRI is really showing support for the projects based on the LPC’s evaluation and the community’s input.”

He reminded Burrows that the overlay zoning district in Baldwin, implemented in tandem with the DRI process, had undergone an environmental review that included a traffic analysis. The Baldwin zoning overlay district has a temporary zoning code to encourage developers to build there and revitalize the downtown, which has struggled with vacant buildings for nearly 20 years. An overlay district tailors zoning requirements to a particular area to best encourage development with the least possible disruption by reducing obstacles for potential developers. The final DRI strategic investment plan is due to the state by the end of the month. Then the state will begin its selection process to decide which projects will be awarded funding, followed by the announcement of the awarded projects by the state. Ashton said it is unclear when the state will announce the awarded projects because, while there would normally be a regimented schedule, the coronavirus pandemic has hampered the process.

the proposed projects ■ Milburn Plaza, 24 Sunrise Highway; requesting $2 million in DRI funds ■ 775 Brooklyn Ave. and Baldwin Business Center; requesting $3.82 million in DRI funds ■ Downtown Improvement Grant Program; requesting $750,000 in DRI funds ■ Baldwin Commons, 785 Merrick Road; requesting $850,000 ■ 2130 and 2134-2138 Grand Ave.; requesting $1 million in DRI funds ■ Baldwin Downtown Branding and Marketing Effort; requesting $250,000 in DRI funds ■ The Grand, 795 Merrick Road;

requesting $540,000 in DRI funds ■ Baldwin Medical Center, 800 Merrick Road; requesting $465,000 in DRI funds ■ Town of Hempstead Pedestrian Enhancements; requesting nearly $1.77 million in DRI funds ■ Merrick Road Traffic and Pedestrian Safety Improvements; requesting $2.5 million in DRI funds ■ Malkin Appliances, 1999 Grand Ave.; requesting $504,500 in DRI funds ■ Bayview Terrace Apartments and Department Stores, 1981 Grand Ave.; requesting $250,000 in DRI funds

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offiCials joined residents and consultants via Zoom on Oct. 14 for the latest meeting of the Baldwin Downtown Revitalization Initiative.

Audit finds violations at Bethany House Continued from front pAge nue, Bethany House provides emergency and transitional housing and a range of programs to support families and return them to self-sufficiency. Three Amityville Dominican Sisters rented a small house in Roosevelt in 1978 and opened the doors to families who sought shelter, and the organization grew from there. According to its 990 filing with the IRS, B e t h a n y House took in a little less than $500,000 in contributions and grants in 2018 doug o’dell a n d n e a rly Executive director, $647,000 the year before. Its Bethany House total revenue was $1.87 million in 2018 and $1.8 million the year before, and its total expenses amounted to

he new executive leadership at Bethany House quickly implemented new policies and procedures to correct and resolve these matters.

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An Audit by the County Comptroller’s office found multiple financial irregularities within Bethany House. $2.2 million in 2018 and $2 million the year before that. Audit investigators found that Bethany House did not have a formalized petty cash policy, and more than $6,000 of petty cash was used for “unallowed expenses,

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such as public relations expenses, holiday gifts of $1,100, reimbursement for groceries purchased with an EBT card [SNAP benefits] and holiday tips of over $750.” Additionally, staff members hired a relative in a key position, violating the New York State Nonprofit Revitalization Act. Bethany House employed Koonmen’s nephew as chief operating officer, and he received compensation of $186,570 and drove a vehicle owned by the organization. Auditors also found that Koonmen’s nephew was not working full-time. The report also noted payments totaling about $9,000 made from the bank account in the Religious Order’s name using a Bethany House address to another of Koonmen’s relatives, including a $250 check with “Happy 19th Birthday” written in the memo field. Another example of nepotism was the hiring of a professional fundraiser with a $76,000 contract. The individual hired was the niece of a current board member, who was not registered with the New York State Attorney General’s Office, as required by the state, auditors found. Bethany House funds were also comingled with personal funds and used for

“expenses not allowable with nonprofit funds,” including holiday decorations, pet food and genetic testing kits. Auditors also found that the organization had underpayments of the living wage and required compensated time off totaling about $1,300 over the audit period between 2017 and 2018. Koonmen could not be reached for comment as of press time Monday. The report listed recommendations, including that charitable funds be used in accordance with the Code of Federal Regulations, “making only allowable expenditures that fulfill their mission,” and that Bethany House follow guidelines for nonprofits and provide “proper management oversight, specifically with regards to hiring and firing key employees, which should be documented in board minutes.” Auditors also recommended ceasing cash payments to employees, board members and relatives; adopting a policy for petty cash management; maintaining documentation for cash disbursements; and properly documenting hours worked by each employee. Bethany House Executive Director Doug O’Dell said in a statement to the Herald that the issues raised in the comptroller’s review occurred two to three years ago under a different administrative team. “The new executive leadership at Bethany House quickly implemented new policies and procedures to correct and resolve these matters, and were commended in the comptroller’s report for our prompt response,” O’Dell wrote. “We are extraordinarily grateful for the faith and trust Nassau County has placed in Bethany House to provide comprehensive care for women and children in need of shelter and support services, and look forward to continuing in our mission.” As listed in the report, Bethany House, in response to the audit’s recommendations, implemented a biometric time-keeping system to validate employees’ hours; reduced stipends through Dec. 31, when all stipend payments will terminate; agreed to comply with the terms of the memorandum of understanding with the county; and agreed to use charitable funds in accordance with the Code of Federal Regulations, among other measures.

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was charged with training new firefighters in Bosnia and Kososvo. In 2006, while working full time as a paramedic for Northwell, he launched Safe Health Educators and within a year had moved the business out of his home. Safe Health Educators had prepared to move into a free-standing 3,500-square foot training facility financed through a $640,000 SBA loan. “Everybody thought I was crazy to leave my job and start this business because we were in a recession,” Rattan said in a statement. “But I was so busy that opening a dedicated training center just made sense. At that time I came to the SBDC and received great guidance.” Advisor Troy Diaz helped him create financial projections that enabled Rattan to get his loan approval. Safe Health’s services are geared primarily toward healthcare professionals who need to maintain their required certifications. As an American Heart Association-approved center, his offerings include Basic Cardiac Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support and a host of other technical trainings. Rattan also offers free infant CPR training to new mothers and grandparents on a regular basis. The new location effectively doubles the course offering capacity and will further position Safe Health Educators as a leader in the area’s healthcare training sector. Over the past ten years, Safe Health Educators has grown and provided a variety of educational and consultative services to hospitals, fire departments, police departments and private industries. Additionally, the NYS SBDC network named Rich Rattan and Safe Health Educators as their Veteran Entrepreneur of the Year for 2020.

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Baldwin welcomed a new business earlier this month: Safe Health Educators. A leading training provider to frontline health care workers, Safe Health Educators hosted a grand opening of their stand-alone training facility, located at 2400 Grand Ave., on Oct. 6. Attendees included nursing staff from hospitals such as Mount Sinai South Nassau, Memorial Sloan Kettering and Northwell as well as elected officials — State Senator Todd Kaminsky, Assemblywoman Judy Griffin and Kevin Devlin, director of community outreach for U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice — and Small Business Association Long Island Office Manger Robert Piechota. There was a demonstration of handsonly CPR, which is applicable during this time of the coronavirus pandemic. Attendees also toured the facility and enjoyed refreshments. Safe Health Educators is led by owner Richard Rattan and provides various training courses, including Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support for front-line health care workers needing to maintain their required certifications. Rattan, who himself has extensive healthcare experience, started Safe Health Educators in 2006 out of his home and said he is proud to open the facility to meet the increasing need for training and education. When Rattan was a young boy in Trinidad, he had a dream of becoming a firefighter, according to a news release. After he and his family emigrated to the United States in the 1970s, he served in the U.S. Air Force. After leaving the military service, he became an Emergency Room nurse and volunteered in two local fire departments on Long Island. A few years later, as a fire captain for the United Nations, Rattan

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n an era when many people are socially isolated by the coronavirus pandemic, I thought it more important than ever to provide a sense of community through what I call ‘huddles.’ These are community conversations that used to take place at the Point Lookout Public Library, but the pandemic forced us to move them onto Zoom. Twice a month, I host talk sessions for about 20 women who meet in a bipartisan manner to discuss politics, issues important to the barrier beach and Nassau County, and ways to protect oneself against the virus. I got the idea for the sessions after the Women’s March in Manhattan, the day after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016. We have heard from Republicans and Democrats alike, including Assemblywoman Missy Miller, [former Town of Hempstead Councilwoman] Erin King-Sweeney and [State Sen.] Todd Kaminsky. In this time, people need ways to keep in as close contact as possible while remaining safe. I can't wait to get back to the library, where we can feel a little closer and more in the world as we knew it. The sessions are twice a month, every other Monday, from 7 to 8 p.m. For anyone who wants to participate, the code is 4515115125. The code word is ‘Huddle.’

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hroughout the pandemic, Kiwanis International has encouraged clubs that couldn’t meet in person to meet over virtual platforms, with Zoom being the most favored. The pandemic created many opportunities for services going back to March, and Kiwanis clubs all over remained active. We have an Italy-San Marino district, which began raising money for ventilators when Italy was in the throes of the virus in mid-March. In East Meadow, the Kiwanis club teamed up with [Borrelli’s Italian Restaurant] and raised thousands of dollars to cook meals for first responders. We also have leadership service clubs in schools, and we’ve been helping them continue to provide services when schools were closed or extracurricular clubs couldn’t meet. We’ve created web-based kits to allow school clubs to function virtually. We just launched the Youth Leadership Development curriculum, which allows students to learn youth leadership skills for college credit. There are all kinds of courses kids could attend from home and add to their transcript. Some clubs have started meeting in person, and some also stream their meetings on Facebook live for those who aren’t comfortable being there in person. So many have moved to a hybrid model. Challenges always bring about new opportunities. While we couldn’t be in person, we could attend meetings and conference with people when we wouldn’t normally think about doing that. I recently attended a meeting of a Colorado Kiwanis club and another of a club in Nepal before that.

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Their fronT-line sTories in Their own words JoHN JacoBseN BruNo roMaNo freeport east rockaway Mayor, Village of east rockaway

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ohn Jacobsen, a U.S. Army veteran, has served as a Freeport Police Officer for almost 30 years. He spent most of his career in the Patrol Division and Community Response Unit. After being promoted to sergeant in 2013, Jacobsen began serving as the commanding officer of the Motorcycle Squad and as the police department’s representative to the Freeport Emergency Management Team. He recently became a supervisor of detectives in the Detective Division. As the pandemic began shutting down the village, Jacobsen worked with the Emergency Management Team to ensure that Freeport officers were all equipped with proper personal protective equipment to help protect officers and combat the spread of the coronavrius in Freeport. The village was the third-hardest hit community in Nassau County, with dozens of new cases being reported every day during the height of the pandemic. Freeport officers were at the forefront of the village’s Coronavirus Task Force, assisting paramedics who tended to and transported the sick. Several officers contracted the virus, but were able to recover and return to work after quarantine. For his work in helping to protect his fellow officers, Jacobsen was honored as a “Covid Hero” by Nassau County Legislator Debra Mulé.

hen we first heard of the Covid-19 outbreak, we were concerned about how we were going to protect our residents. The village board and I immediately took action to shut down our Recreation Center, Senior Center, library and parks to any visitors. We also developed a plan to operate Village Hall without having anyone enter the building. We created a drop-box outside the door for all types of permits, tickets, licenses and other municipal transactions that needed to be processed. Our staff monitored the mailbox for documents and completed the transactions and then either mailed them back to our residents or had individuals pick them up by appointment. Our main concern was to respond to rescue calls and save lives. We had to ensure that our first responders in our ambulances were properly suited with personal protective equipment so our volunteers would be safe after responding to Covid-19 calls. Our emergency management team was proactive in procuring equipment from Nassau County and the state, as we anticipated a high volume of calls. I was on the phone with Congresswoman Kathleen Rice requesting PPE to get us through the tough days ahead of us. Special thanks to all of our local legislators who reached out to me and donated very urgently needed masks. Our first responder rescue unit and Fire Department did and are still doing an outstanding job in our village, cautiously handling calls. I wish to thank each and every one of our volunteers for their time, efforts and heroism in responding to our residents.

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Sherrisse Young recognized as county Covid Hero Sherrisse Young, director of Pupil ble while providing Baldwin students Services for the Baldwin School District, with a solid education despite the hurdles along with more than a dozen other Long caused by Covid-19. Under her leadership, her department Islanders, was recently recognized by ensured contact was made Nassau County Legislator with each family, students Debra Mulé for her resilhad the necessary technolience, hard work, commitogy to participate in virtument to the community al learning, establishing and compassion during virtual learning schedules the Covid-19 pandemic. with parents and guardHonorees were celebratians. ed during Nassau County’s She also addressed the “Covid Heroes” event, social and emotional where they were presented needs of students, staff with a Nassau County citaand families and made tion and a small token of sure families knew where appreciation. to find additional resourcThroughout the panSherriSSe Young es and that all IEP mandemic, Young has gone dates were in place. above and beyond in her Additionally, outreach was conducted role for the district, according to a news release from the school district. Without to families with healthcare and other any hesitation, she ensured that the pupil front-line workers, families in temporary services department put plans into place housing and families battling Covid. for the seamless continuity of programs, Countless hours were spent confirming services and support for the Baldwin com- that the district was following all state munity in spite of the immediate disrup- guidelines for special education, participating and collaborating with other Nastion caused by the coronavirus outbreak. The focus of her outreach was to sau County special education adminisremain flexible, empathetic and accessi- trators, assisting and supporting staff

SherriSSe Young, director of Pupil Services for the Baldwin School District, was recognized as a “Covid Hero.”

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members and parents, while continuing business as usual in special education. With nearly 25 years of accumulated experience, Young has worked for Baldwin Union Free School District for the past 13 years, serving as director of Pupil Services since 2016. Prior to being promoted, she was the assistant director for the department.

Relearning alternative ed in Baldwin All too often, alternative education is seen as a dumping ground for at-risk students who cannot cut it in a traditional classroom, Boards of Cooperative Educational Services, or BOCES, representatives said in a news release last month. As Baldwin schools put into action new teaching and learning strategies to adapt to the Covid-19 era, Superintendent Dr. Shari Camhi and Nassau BOCES are leading the charge to disillusion people of long-held misconceptions about the value and purpose of alternative education. “The public often views alternative education students as ‘those kids’ — discipline problems, truants and kids who don’t belong in the mainstream,” noted Kellie McLaurin, principal of Nassau BOCES Specialized Schools, during a focus presentation on the agency’s Alternative Education programs. “But there are powerful stories behind who they are.” The same goes for the programs that serve these students. Nassau BOCES Twilight High School in Baldwin is held in-district and provides small class settings with more individualized teacher attention, in which students work toward traditional Regents-based high school diplomas or equivalency diplomas. Baldwin has the added benefit of

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StudentS graduated from the Baldwin School District’s Twilight High School, the brainchild of Superintendent Dr. Shari Camhi and a partnership between Nassau BOCES and the district. sending students to Nassau BOCES Barry Tech, the agency’s premier career and technical education high school. There are seven diverse programs under the umbrella of Nassau BOCES Twilight High School, according to the news release. While some of the programs focus on addressing immediate challenges, others are designed to help students develop their abilities and work toward the future. The High School Equivalency, or HSE, program helps students to prepare for the New York State Test Assessing Secondary Completion exam to earn an HSE diploma.

Work-based lear ning supports career and college readiness by providing real-world work experiences and helping students to earn the New York State Career Development and Occupational Studies credential. “Twilight programs are the collaborative result of the commitment of Superintendent Dr. Shari Camhi and the Baldwin School District to meeting and supporting the diverse learning requirements of their students,” McLaurin said. “If it weren’t for Baldwin’s awareness of and sensitivity to its students’ needs, there would be no Twilight programs.”

She obtained her Bachelor of Science in speech-language pathology and audiology from New York University, her Master of Education in special education and teaching from Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, as well as her Master of Science in educational leadership and administration from Touro College.

Baldwin grads earn myriad scholarships Seven students from the Baldwin School District who graduated from the Nassau Boards of Cooperative Educational Services, or BOCES, Joseph M. Barry Career and Technical Education Center earned scholarships that will help fund their college education or establish them in the job market, according to a news release sent out last month. Three students were appointed to offices in the National Technical Honor Society, the nation’s highest honor for excellence in career and technical education: Emily Orgill and Keishawn Rose, both of whom studied Police Science and Criminal Justice, were elected co-presidents; and Veterinary Science student Kelis White was elected corresponding secretary. White was also appointed treasurer for Future Farmers of America, and Keishawn earned Honorable Mention from the Association of Career and Technical Education Administrators. Chris Aguirre, who studied Video Production and Digital Film Making, was appointed co-president of Skills USA, a nationally acclaimed organization dedicated to preparing students for the workforce. Three students earned the CTE Achievement Award: Retail Skills student Jordan Hemans; Kayla Kotarski, who studied Police Science and Criminal Justice; and Jayda Martello, who was studying to become a Medical Administrative Assistant.

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Mobile testing site visits Baldwin environment, many still prefer to remain close to home, which is why Griffin was inclined to bring a full array of preventive services and screenings directly to the community. Griffin is pictured with the healthcare workers who helped out at the testing event.

■ Harry Coghlan, CEO, Nassau County Industrial Development Agency ■ John Madigan, senior vice president and director of Emerging Corporates Long Island Citibank ■ Michael Maturo, president of RXR

Realty ■ Sophia A. Perna-Plank, associate at Jaspan Schlesinger LLP ■ Tom Pistore, president of commercial operations, UBS Arena at Belmont Park. ■ Kyle Strober, executive director of Association for a Better Long Island “There has never been a better time to invest in Long Island’s future,” Coghlan said. “As businesses pursue relocating to suburban areas, the Nassau IDA stands ready to assist businesses considering to move to or expand in Nassau County.” Skye Ostreicher, of RichnerLive and Herald Community Newspapers, will moderate and deliver questions from viewers. To submit questions in advance, send an email to insideli@ liherald.com. Herald Inside LI webinars began in August to inform the community about different, changing aspects of life in the Covid-19 pandemic. To register, visit liherald.com/insideli. RXR Realty, Jaspan Schlesinger LLP and Citi Commerical Bank are sponsoring this virtual event. To sponsor a webinar or for more information about Herald Inside LI, contact Amy Amato at aamato@richnerlive.com or (516) 5694000, ext. 224.

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RichnerLive’s next Herald Inside LI webinar will focus on the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic is having on the commercial real estate market and major development projects, such as UBS Arena at Belmont Park and the Nassau HUB. In past virtual conversations hosted by RichnerLive, the events division of Richner Communications, publisher of Herald Community Newspapers, panelists have discussed changes in the residential real estate market. On Oct. 29 at 10 a.m., Herald Inside LI will shift focus to major, commercial projects and community developments on Long Island. How are Covid-19 restrictions impacting commercial real estate projects and developments? How have construction projects adapted to accommodate the new normal? During this episode of Herald Inside LI, viewers will hear from the commercial perspective, as well as a broader outlook on Long Island and what’s to come for the region. Several experts will engage in discussion, including:

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Where to vote (early) in Nassau County By AlyssA seidmAn aseidman@liherald.com

Election Day is a little less than two weeks away, but thanks to a series of reforms passed by the State Legislature in 2019, Nassau County residents can vote before Nov. 3. Starting Saturday, Oct. 24, residents can head to one of 15 polling sites to cast their votes for the Nov. 3 election during a nine-day early-voting period. The process was introduced in New York state last year as part of a series of reforms intended to make voting easier for people who struggle to get to the polls on Election Day. The nine-day schedule offers 83 hours of early voting — 60 are required — including evenings and weekends through Sunday, Nov. 1 (see map). Registered voters may cast their ballots at any of the listed locations, but if they do not, they must vote at their regular polling place on Nov. 3. Residents will verify their voter registration on iPads, or electronic poll books, which have replaced physical poll books at each early-voting site and regular polling place. Using a stylus, poll inspectors will assist voters in signing their names and confirming their identities. Once their signatures are approved, the poll inspector will print ballots from a ballot-

on-demand printer. “No matter where you go, you’re getting your ballot,” said James Scheuerman, the Democratic commissioner for the Board of Elections. Scheuerman also said that if residents submit their ballots during the early-voting period, it precludes them from voting on Election Day. “The poll pads sync up,” he said, “so after you vote, other poll books around the county, within one minute, will know that you voted to guard against double voting.” Residents who have questions about the county’s early-voting procedures can visit www.nassauvotes.com. The Board of Elections has advised voters that some states that have already begun their early-voting period have reported significant lines at polling sites. To ensure ballots are cast at legitimate polling stations or deposited in legitimate drop-off boxes, voters are advised to be attentive. Report any suspicious activities or efforts to interfere with or disrupt voting immediately. If in doubt, or to report any issues, please call the Nassau County Board of Elections: (516) 571-8683 for English; or La Junta Electoral Condado Nassau en Español: (516) 571-1245. Information provided the Nassau County Board of Elections. Map by Christina Daly/Herald

Timothy Denton contributed to this story.

An infogrAph of Nassau County’s early-voting sites for the 2020 election.

ToH OKs $453.5M budget — taxes are flat By TimoThy denTon tdenton@liherald.com

The Hempstead Town Board unanimously approved a $453.5 million budget for 2021 on Oct. 13. The budget represents a $16 million increase from last year’s $437 million approved budget, but is $11 million less than the current projected 2020 budget of $464.5 million. The $27 million — a difference of 6.1 percent — is because of unforeseen expenses from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Town Comptroller John Mastromarino. “That’s the projected budget,” Mastromarino cautioned. “We still have more donald than two months until the end of the year; we don’t know what could happen between now and then.” Mastromarino’s caution underscored the difficulty in preparing a balanced budget in the face of the biggest disaster to befall the town’s economy in 100 years. “We really have to look to the [1918-19] flu pandemic to see anything like what we’re facing now,” Mastromarino said. With the support of the board’s lone Democrat, Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby, the budget was billed as bipartisan. Goosby has sided with the Republican majority on all but a handful of

issues in the past two years. The property tax levy for 2021 is flat, year over year, at $253.1 million. Total levies, including funding for the Highway and Sanitation departments, come to $341 million. Cost savings included $6 million from a reduction of 37 positions from the town’s workforce of 1,781 employees, and $750,000 in debt service. In the face of the coronavirus, the town’s fund balance — its emergency fund — which had been projected to grow to $5 million in 2020, will finish the year $7.5 million in the red. Next year, that deficit is projected to grow by a further $12 million, to $19.5 million, Mastromarino said. X. Clavin Moody’s Investors Service cited the town’s minimal reserves as an area of concern in last year’s rating upgrade, saying that deterioration could lead to a potential downgrade. However, the rating agency has taken no action to date. The town received $134 million in federal CARES Act funding, Mastromarino said. Much of the one-time grant has yet to be allocated, he said, but the town has used revenue to support local hospitals and food banks, as well as purchasing personal protective equipment kits for villages and local businesses. The grant has also been used to make town facilities safer, Mastromarino said.

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The Town of Hempstead Board passed its tentative 2021 budget unanimously, but Comptroller John Mastromarino cautioned that the Covid crisis may add complcations. For example, “we’ve installed filtration systems in buildings with central air conditioning. From all we’ve learned, buildings with central climate control represent one of the greatest dangers for airborne Covid transmission,” he said. CARES funding has also been used to increase the town’s deep-cleaning efforts at its facilities.

In common with other state and local governments, the town’s efforts to prepare realistic balanced budgets in the face of the Covid-19 crisis has become complicated, Mastromarino conceded, adding that continued assistance from the federal government would be critical in addressing the demands of the pandemic.

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Age: 63

Age: 54

Age: 43

Lives in: Town of Hempstead

Lives in: Uniondale

Lives in: Garden City

Education: Bachelor’s degree, Bowdoin College; law degree, New York University Law School

Education: Bachelor’s degree, University of Pennsylvania, 1986; law degree, Hofstra University School of Law, 1989

Education: Bachelor’s degree, Loyola College in Maryland, 1999; law degree, Hofstra University School of Law, 2002

Legal career: Between 1982 and 2007, Ignatius Muscarella served as a law clerk for three justices of the New York Supreme Court. From 2008 to 2013, he was a guardianship referee, and from January 2014 to his start on the Nassau County 10th District Court in 2015, he was a court attorney referee. In 2008, Muscarella was honored for Professionalism & Community Services by the Court Officers’ Benevolent Association, and in 2004 he received the Merit Performance Award for Community Service and Humanitarian Pursuits by the New York State Court System.

Legal career: Darlene Harris is currently a Nassau County District Court judge, and was elected to the post in 2014. From 1991 to 1994, she served as senior court attorney for the District Court Law Department; from 1995 to 1996, as the Town of Hempstead’s deputy attorney; and from 1996 to 1999 as a Nassau County legislator. In 1997, she opened a private law practice, which she maintained through 2010. From 2010 to 2014, she was chair of the Nassau County Assessment Review Commission.

Legal career: Lisa Cairo began her career in 2003 as an associate at Chris J. Coschignano P.C., handling civil litigation with a focus on matrimonial cases, municipal applications and real estate transactions. In 2006, she became an associate at Jaspan Schlesinger LLP in the firm’s matrimonial practice group. In 2011, she became a partner in the firm’s municipal law, litigation and real estate practice groups. She is also a member of the firm’s management committee.

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Tricia Ferrell

Running on the Republican, Democrat, Conservative and Independence party lines

Caryn Fink Running on the Republican, Democrat, Conservative and Independence party lines Age: 53

Age: 56

Age: 47

Lives in: Roslyn Heights

Lives in: Levittown

Lives in: Uniondale

Education: Bachelor’s degree, SUNY Albany, 1987; law degree, Hofstra University, 1992

Education: Bachelor’s degree, City College of New York, 1995; law degree Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1998

Legal career: From to 1993 to 1994, Robert Pipia served as a law assistant for the Town of Hempstead attorney’s office. In February 1994, Hempstead Presiding Supervisor Gregory Peterson appointed him as the Hempstead Town Board counsel. He became deputy town attorney in 2000. He was also executive assistant to Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray. In 2014, Pipia was elected Nassau County District Court judge, a position he still holds. He has also served as a member of the State Rehabilitation Council, which was the oversight agency for Vocational and Education Services for Individuals with Disabilities, a division of the New York State Department of Education. And he is a member of the Hofstra Law Alumni Association board of directors.

Legal career: Tricia Ferrel began her legal career in 1998 as an assistant Nassau County district attorney. She served in that role until 2005. She was the Village of Hempstead attorney from 2005 to 2006. She became the Nassau County director of compliance from 2006 to 2008. She was appointed by Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi as a Nassau County District Court judge in 2008, and was re-elected to the post in 2009 and 2014.

Legal career: Caryn Fink started her legal career from 1993 to 2000 as an assistant district attorney and senior trial attorney in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office. From 2006 to 2013, she was an assistant district attorney in the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office, Rackets Bureau/Labor Unit. And from 2013 to now, she has been the principal law clerk for the Hon. Helene Gugerty, a New York State Supreme justice.

Chris Hoefenkrieg Running on the Republican, Democrat, Conservative and Independence party lines Age: 53 Lives in: Roslyn Heights Education: Bachelor’s degree, SUNY Albany, 1990; law degree, St. John’s University, 1994.

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Todd Kaminsky Incumbent

Party: Democrat Age: 42 Professional experience: New York state senator Education: Bachelor’s degree, University of Michigan; law degree, New York Law School On the issues: Todd Kaminsky is chairman of the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee. He said his biggest accomplishment this term was passing the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, a law that he authored, and that he said is the nation’s strongest stateled effort to address the climate crisis, protect against extreme weather and create new green jobs. He also

helped secure benefits for 9/11 responders and wrote legislation providing funds for Long Island Rail Road infrastructure and capping property taxes. Kaminsky said he supports stronger measures to protect the barrier beach and is looking for ways to strengthen the current legislation. He was a co-sponsor of the bail reform bill, but believes changes in the legislation may be necessary to provide judges with more leverage over cases. He supported the Super Block proj-

ect in Long Beach and favors further economic development in the city. He has fought against state tax increases. Additionally, Kaminsky said he wants to ensure that next year’s state budget contains funds to support adult homes in Nassau County. Kaminsky has been an advocate for pension reform, working to strengthen antibribery laws and working to increase oversight of local government contracts. He has been an advocate for LIRR commuters and a supporter of Industrial Development Agencies, which foster economic development on Long Island. The IDA recently backed the Super Block in Long Beach.

Victoria Johnson Challenger

Party: Republican Age: 60 Professional experience: Took leave as chief of staff and office assistant to Assembly representatives on Long Island Education: Bachelor’s degree, State University of New York at Potsdam On the issues: Victoria Johnson is a strong supporter of police and is highly critical of the bail reform law. She said she believes judges should have more jurisdiction over sentencing, and over who should and should not be eligible for bail. Johnson acknowledged

that support for police and opposition to the bail reform law are the main thrusts of her campaign. She also said she believes more environmental support is needed for Long Beach’s North Park section and raised questions about the impact that the Super Block project might have on the local infrastructure, including sewer and water. Johnson was the daughter of a retired NYPD patrol officer and developed a deep sense of the importance of law enforcement,

she said. She decided early in life that the best place to raise her two children was Long Island. Over the years, she has maintained a steady career as chief of staff to Republican legislators on Long Island. She focused on constituent outreach and support in her state legislative district. Johnson said her opponent is focused on the needs of New York City progressive politicians, who do not have the interests of Long Islanders at heart. Johnson particularly opposed Kaminsky’s sponsorship of the bail reform bill, which she said allows “dangerous criminals to roam our streets without consequence.” If elected, Johnson said she would work to overturn the legislation.

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SENATE DiSTRicT 8 John Brooks Party: Democratic Party/ Working Families/Independent Age: 70 Professional experience: State senator since 2017 Education: Bachelor’s degree, New York Institute of Technology; Associate’s degree, SUNY Farmingdale On the issues: As a former vice president of the Seaford Board of Education, John Brooks said he has a “keen interest in the well-being of school districts and investment in the youth of his district.” Currently, Brooks is working on securing state aid for the schools to meet the technological needs to support dis-

tance learning. His focus is for all school districts to have equal footing so families can have adequate access to education, including after the coronavirus pandemic. Brooks has also been a proponent of reforming Long Island’s property taxes based on current marketassessed home values. He argues that, as Nassau County already has one of the highest median annual property taxes in the country, there must be a fairer method of assessing taxes. He

has also proposed legislation to cap the percentage of district property taxes used to fund school district expenses at 50 percent, as opposed to the 65 to 75 percent that the estimated average is at around his district. He has supported the idea that small businesses should have a multi-year window to borrow money at lower interest rates because of the financial strain that the coronavirus pandemic has put on them. He opposes the federal cap on the income-tax deduction for state and local taxes paid. And Brooks is developing a proposal to provide a more affordable health-care plan.

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RichnerLive and Herald Community Newspapers presented “50 Plus Health and Wealth,” a virtual event featuring speakers from the healthcare, wellness and elder law sectors, on Oct. 14. In 2018, RichnerLive launched Senior Health Expos, which invited the community to meet with health experts at venues in Nassau County every few months. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the event was modified to fit an online platform, and attendees took part through Zoom. Cassena Care, Ronald Fatoullah & Associates, Comprehensive Audiology and UnitedHealthcare sponsored the event. Experts spoke about the changes in their fields, including George Zaharioudakis, vice president of SNF operations of Theradynamics at Cassena Care; attorney Ronald Fatoullah, founder of Ronald Fatoullah & Associates; Dr. Esther Fogel, owner and director of Comprehensive Audiology; attorney Robert Harper, partner at Farrell Fritz P.C.; Josiane PelusoTomczyk, medicare sales director for New York City and Long Island at UnitedHealthcare Government Programs; and Ashley Straw, founder of Flow and Restore, a holistic wellness practice. Skye Ostreicher, of RichnerLive and Herald Community Newspapers, moderated the event. She announced prizes awarded to several attendees and took questions from viewers. First, Straw led participants through a breathing exercise of lengthening exhales — by pushing more air out than normal — to deepen the breath. Then Ostreicher kicked off the conversation and asked the speakers about how Covid-19 has impacted their services. Cassena Care, a line of nursing homes in New York and Connecticut, had “very large challenges to overcome,” Zaharioudakis said, including admitting people, discharging them, acquiring personal protective equipment and controlling the spread of infection through isolation. “It took a lot of coordination and communication,” he said. “A lot of people in the communities stepped up and came up with creative ideas to solve these problems.” In all fields, workers and patients have

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CloCkwise from top left: George Zaharioudakis, vice president of SNF operations of Theradynamics at Cassena Care; Skye Ostreicher, the panel’s moderator; attorney Ronald Fatoullah, founder of Ronald Fatoullah & Associates; Dr. Esther Fogel, owner and director of Comprehensive Audiology; Josiane Peluso-Tomczyk, medicare sales director for New York City and Long Island at UnitedHealthcare Government Programs; and attorney Robert Harper, partner at Farrell Fritz P.C., discussed health and wealth during the coronavirus pandemic on Oct. 14. had to adapt and, in many cases, switch services to a virtual setting, which has often been a benefit. People can now have documents like wills and Medicaid trusts signed, notarized with witnesses and approved from home. “Since March, we’ve been doing as many consultations as we can through Zoom or FaceTime, whatever someone feels comfortable with,” Fatoullah said. “As an elder law attorney, our clients range anywhere from 40s and 50s to last week, we had a client that was 107 — but we’re doing Zoom. It’s wonderful.” Harper agreed — his firm has held virtual conferences via Microsoft Teams and Skype, other video call apps that have become useful during the pandemic. “Options that one never would have thought about months ago are now readily

available in our field,” he said. “Clients are saving travel time. These are efficiencies that we didn’t have before the pandemic.” Peluso-Tomczyk noted the pandemic has also caused more people to apply and stay on Medicaid. More people are becoming unemployed and applying for Medicaid; additionally, the yearly recertification process has been delayed so people will not lose their coverage during the pandemic. Though many of these logistical aspects of health and wealth have seen improvements, those 50 and older are at higher risk of more severe illness when contracting Covid-19. Fatoullah said his longtime secretary and brother have both died from the virus. “It’s affected my firm and me personally,” he said. “It’s been tough in that respect.” Covid-19 has caused many to stay at

home more than they typically would to avoid catching the virus and becoming ill. The panel discussed the implications of that and how to combat some common health issues. Fogel spoke about how the pandemic has brought new struggles to those with hearing loss. In isolation, many rely on phone calls with friends and family to stay connected, but those with hearing loss cannot always use the telephone to communicate. Even when those with hearing loss leave the house, masks can muffle the sound of people’s voices and make it harder to hear, she said. “If you’re stuck at home and you want to communicate with friends and family, we recommend using some sort of video communication,” Fogel said. “Being able to see their face makes it easier to have a conversation. We also offer free captioning phones for our patients.” Fogel’s audiology office is offering inperson and telemedicine appointments for those who need a screening or repairs to their hearing aids. The panel also discussed fall prevention for seniors. “Falls are the leading cause of fatal and non-fatal injuries in the elderly, which can lead to avoidable hospitalizations,” Peluso-Tomczyk said. “We want to see our seniors in the best health possible.” Zaharioudakis noted that handrails, shower bars and proper lighting help prevent falls. He also said rugs should be stabilized, and layout and placement of everyday items should be checked to ensure a healthy flow of movement. Fogel said hearing plays a part in balance, which is related to fall prevention. Taking care of any hearing problems early on can help prevent future loss of cognitive function, she said. There are also exercises that can support balance, and Straw led a movement to stretch the spine to close out the event. “Enough cannot be said about the health benefits of movement,” she said. “Exercise increases the flow of chemicals called endorphins to the brain that lift our mood. Movement through the body encourages important energy strengths like circulation and the lymphatic systems to do their job in clearing out toxins in the body.” For more information about RichnerLive’s virtual events, visit richnerlive. com/virtualevents.

UBS Arena’s leadership team growing Four executives have been named to the UBS Arena’s leadership team, New York Arena Partners announced Oct. 14. Mark Shulman has joined the team as senior vice president of programming; Michael Sciortino is now senior vice president of operations; Ethan Brown is senior vice president of marketing and community relations; and Zane Parry is vice president of finance. Shulman and Sciortino have backgrounds in the sports and entertainment industry, while Brown has had previous

marketing experience with the New York Islanders and has held leadership positions with Pacer Sports & Entertainment and Unilever. Shulman has managed a variety of projects over his 25-year career, including musical festivals, major venue developments and high-profile stadium concerts. Before joining the UBS team, he established the Anschutz Entertainment Group office in New York, where he expanded the company’s footprint into multiple cities through acquisitions and

booking partnerships, and as senior vice president of the East Coast, he supervised thousands of mainstream concert bookings, while promoting several national tours and shows at MetLife Stadium, the Great Lawn in Central Park, Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall. “I’m thrilled to be joining the entertainment team at UBS Arena,” Shulman said in a statement. “The music industry is poised to have an incredible resurgence, and we anticipate consumers and

fans to be yearning to experience live entertainment by the time UBS Arena is open next fall.” Sciortino, meanwhile, has worked as vice president of operations at Golden State’s Chase Center, where he was responsible for the day-to-day operations. “I’m excited to be back here in New York working with this team at UBS Arena,” he said. “This is a long time coming for the New York Islanders and their fans.” –Melissa Koenig

BALDWIN HERALD — October 22, 2020

By Briana Bonfiglio

Baldwin man arrested for robbery, kidnapping

October 22, 2020 — BALDWIN HERALD

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Sanitary DiStrict no. 2 members joined County Legislator Debra Mulé for the Operation Shed-the-Meds event on Oct. 3.

Operation Shed-the-Meds returns to Baldwin Sanitary District No. 2’s Grand Avenue garage and office in Baldwin hosted its one-stop Operation Shed-The-Meds event for document shredding and e-cycling on Oct. 3. Nassau County Legislator Debra Mulé, a democrat from Freeport, visited the event and joined community organizations and her partners in government as a co-sponsor for the event, which gave Baldwin, South Hempstead and Roosevelt residents in Sani 2’s service area an opportunity to securely dispose of unwanted pre-

scription medication, electronic waste and documents containing sensitive personal data. “Through this event, Sani 2 provided residents with an environmentally friendly, Covid-safe opportunity to prevent identity theft, keep unwanted prescription drugs out of the wrong hands and dispose of electronic waste properly,” Mulé said in a statement. “I was delighted to cosponsor this important community service and look forward to future collaborations with Sani 2.”

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Information to identify the case: Debtor: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York EIN: 11-1837437 United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York Date case filed for chapter 11: 10/01/2020 Case Number: 20 - 12345 Official Form 309F1 (For Corporations or Partnerships) Notice of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Case 10/20 For the debtor listed above, a case has been filed under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. An order for relief has been entered. This notice has important information about the case for creditors and debtors, including information about the meeting of creditors and deadlines. Read both pages carefully. The filing of the case imposed an automatic stay against most collection activities. This means that creditors generally may not take action to collect debts from the debtor or the debtor’s property. For example, while the stay is in effect, creditors cannot sue, assert a deficiency, repossess property, or otherwise try to collect from the debtor. Creditors cannot demand repayment from the debtor by mail, phone, or otherwise. Creditors who violate the stay can be required to pay actual and punitive damages and attorney’s fees. Confirmation of a chapter 11 plan may result in a discharge of debt. A creditor who wants to have a particular debt excepted from discharge may be required to file a complaint in the bankruptcy clerk’s office within the deadline specified in this notice. (See line 11 below for more information.) To protect your rights, consult an attorney. All documents filed in the case may be inspected at the bankruptcy clerk’s office at the address listed below or through PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records at https://pacer.uscourts.gov). The staff of the bankruptcy clerk’s office cannot give legal advice. Do not file this notice with any proof of claim or other filing in the case. 1. Debtor’s Full name: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York 2. All other names used in the last 8 years: Diocese of Rockville Centre 3. Address: 50 North Park Avenue, Rockville, NY 11570 4. Debtor’s attorney: Jones Day, Attn: Corinne Ball, 250 Vesey Street, New York, NY 11570, Phone: (212) 326 – 3939, Email: cball@jonesday.com 5. Bankruptcy clerk’s office: US Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, One Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004-1408, Hours open: Monday – Friday, 8:30 AM (ET) – 5:00 PM (ET), Contact phone: (212) 668 - 2870. Documents in this case may be filed at this address. You may inspect all records filed in this case at this office or online at https://pacer.uscourts.gov. 6. Meeting of creditors: November 5, 2020 at 12 PM (ET), Location: The meeting of creditors will be conducted by telephone conference. The Office of the United States Trustee will provide dial-in instructions prior to the meeting. The debtor’s representative must attend the meeting to be questioned under oath. Creditors may attend, but are not required to do so. The meeting may be continued or adjourned to a later date. If so, the date will be on the court docket. 7. Proof of claim deadline. Deadline for filing of proof of claim: Not yet set. If a deadline is set, notice will be sent at a later time. A proof of claim is a signed statement describing a creditor’s claim. A proof of claim form may be obtained at www.uscourts.gov or any bankruptcy clerk’s office. Your claim will be allowed in the amount scheduled unless: your claim is designated as disputed, contingent, or unliquidated; you file a proof of claim in a different amount; or you receive another notice. If your claim is not scheduled or if your claim is designated as disputed, contingent, or unliquidated, you must file a proof of claim or you might not be paid on your claim and you might be unable to vote on a plan. You may file a proof of claim even if your claim is scheduled. You may review the schedules at the bankruptcy clerk’s office or online at https://pacer.uscourts.gov. Secured creditors retain rights in their collateral regardless of whether they file a proof of claim. Filing a proof of claim submits a creditor to the jurisdiction of the bankruptcy court, with consequences a lawyer can explain. For example, a secured creditor who files a proof of claim may surrender important nonmonetary rights, including the right to a jury trial. 8. Exception to discharge deadline: If § 523(c) applies to your claim and you seek to have it excepted from discharge, you must start a judicial proceeding by filing a complaint by the deadline stated below. The bankruptcy clerk’s office must receive a complaint and any required filing fee by the following deadline. Deadline for filing the complaint: To be determined 9. Creditors with foreign address: If you are a creditor receiving notice mailed to a foreign address, you may file a motion asking the court to extend the deadlines in this notice. Consult an attorney familiar with United States bankruptcy law if you have any questions about your rights in this case. 10. Filing a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case: Chapter 11 allows debtors to reorganize or liquidate according to a plan. A plan is not effective unless the court confirms it. You may receive a copy of the plan and a disclosure statement telling you about the plan, and you may have the opportunity to vote on the plan. You will receive notice of the date of the confirmation hearing, and you may object to confirmation of the plan and attend the confirmation hearing. Unless a trustee is serving, the debtor will remain in possession of the property and may continue to operate its business. 11. Discharge of debts: Confirmation of a chapter 11 plan may result in a discharge of debts, which may include all or part of your debt. See 11 U.S.C. § 1141(d). A discharge means that creditors may never try to collect the debt from the debtor except as provided in the plan. If you want to have a particular debt owed to you excepted from the discharge and § 523(c) applies to your claim, you must start a judicial proceeding by filing a complaint and paying the filing fee in the bankruptcy clerk’s office by the deadline. If you have any questions about this notice, please contact the Debtor’s Claims and Noticing Agent, Epiq Corporate Restructuring, LLC, at (888) 490-0633 (toll free from the U.S. or Canada), (503) 520-4459 (international), by email at RCDRockvilleInfo@epiqglobal.com, or visit https://dm.epiq11.com/drvc.

A Baldwin man was arrested for robbery, kidnapping and other charges on Oct. 15 at around 1:55 a.m. Mohammed Negadi, 29, of Jefferson Place, was in a car with two female acquaintances, 47 and 44, when they began to argue, according to Nassau County police. Negadi and the women exited the vehicle and began struggling over a phone, police said. Negadi then jumped into the driver’s seat of the car and began to drive away with the 44-year-old woman in the car. The 47-year-old woman called 911 to report her car stolen, and Negadi fled the scene before police could arrive. A short while later, police officers observed the car being driven by the defendant and initiated a traffic stop. Negadi refused to stop and continued driving with the female victim still in the car, screaming for help through an open

window. While fleeing from the officers, Negadi continuously threatened to kill the woman in the car. He continued driving into the Village of Freeport and struck a tree on South Ocean Avenue, police said. Negadi fled the scene once again, this time on foot. After a short foot pursuit, he was placed into custody. Negadi has been charged with robbery in the third degree, kidnapping in the second degree, unlawful fleeing of a police officer in a motor vehicle, reckless driving, reckless endangerment in the second degree, unauthorized use of a vehicle in the third degree, criminal mischief in the fourth degree, driving while intoxicated, aggravated unlicensed operation in the third degree and multiple vehicle and traffic law infractions. He was arraigned on Oct. 16 in Mineola.

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naSSau county police chased down and arrested a Baldwin man on Oct. 15 for robbery and other charges.

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LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that an order granted by Nassau County, on the 6th day of October, 2020, bearing Index No.609621/2020, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at 240 Old Country Rd. Mineola, N.Y. 11501, grants me the right to assume the name of Laurie S. Schiffmiller. The city and state of my present address are Baldwin, N.Y.; the month and year of my birth are October,1933 ; the place of my birth is Bronx, N.Y. ; my present

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ome who are opposed to Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination are blurring the line between confirming a justice to fill a vacancy and the so-called “packing” of the court. Using this nomination to justify court packing would be a huge mistake. The real underlying issues relate to checks and balances and separation of powers. These are ideas that are embedded in our constitutional system of government. They’re essential to the successful American experience in alfonSe representative govd’amaTo ernment. The continued success of this experience depends on all of us abiding by these basic principles. Without checks, balance is threatened. Without separation, power is unfettered. Our founders understood that. They deliberately divided our national government into three branches designed to balance one another against the accumulation of too much power in one place or person. That’s why we have a president, not a king; a Congress, not a politburo; and an independent judiciary, not star chambers or kangaroo courts. If we knock one leg

off this executive/legislative/judicial stool, the whole thing tips over. That’s what could happen if our leaders in Washington go down the path of tinkering too much with our carefully checked and balanced system — if they fail to maintain the deliberate separation of powers. The most recent example is talk of increasing the size of the Supreme Court. The argument goes like this: Since Republicans are pushing through a conservative Supreme Court nominee to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Democrats would be justified in expanding the size of the court with liberal justices to offset its conservative tilt. This tit-for-tat approach may sound appealing to Democrats, but it could easily lead to an unraveling of the balance of power in Washington, remaking the Supreme Court into not an equal branch of government, but an appendage of executive and congressional will. Suppose Democrats sweep to power in Washington next month, winning control of both the White House and Congress, and the court is increased from nine to 11 members by this one-party government. It may more easily bend to the will of Congress and the president, but it will have lost its essential independence as a co-

equal branch. It will in essence have become an arm of the other two branches. Fast-forward a few years and imagine the presidency and Congress swinging back to Republican control. The new oneparty government decides to increase the court from 11 members to 13 to get its pet initiatives through. It passes a different health care bill and changes the abortion laws, and then guarantees their passing Constitutional muster by loading the court with sympathetic justices. Over time the Supreme Court becomes a bloated mess, with 17 or 19 justices, or whatever number is needed to uphold the policies of the contemporaneous administration and Congress. America came perilously close to this situation once before. In the 1930s, President Franklin Roosevelt was frustrated that the Supreme Court struck down some of his New Deal initiatives as unconstitutional. When FDR tried to pack the court with sympathetic judges, the national backlash was swift and certain. FDR wisely backed down, and judicial independence was maintained. Maybe we Americans take our form of government too much for granted. We expect it to survive another 200 years just because it’s already lasted well over 200. Yet what Congress and the president do

f Democrats win big and ‘pack’ the Supreme Court, where might that lead?

can imperil our constitutional government. Congress, in particular, should resist the temptation to change its own self-limiting rules. The current Supreme Court controversy began when then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took advantage of his Democratic majority to remove the requirement of 60 votes to confirm District Court nominees. When the Senate swung back to Republican control, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell decided to remove this 60-vote threshold for Supreme Court justices as well. That’s why Coney Barrett will likely be confirmed before the election. The next step in eroding the 60-vote requirement for Senate action would be to eliminate its application not just to judicial appointments but to all other legislative actions as well. That might sound appealing to the leaders of the next Senate majority, but it could come back to haunt them, too. Majorities shift with elections, and minority rights and privileges look a lot better when you’re in the minority. As someone who lived with both the pluses and minuses of the Senate’s higher threshold for action, I know that tinkering with power is tempting. It’s also dangerous. Al D’Amato, a former U.S. senator from New York, is the founder of Park Strategies LLC, a public policy and business development firm. Comments about this column? ADAmato@liherald.com.

When real-life horrors outdo Halloween

eally, could you make up Donald Trump if he didn’t already exist? What book publisher in their right mind or movie producer hoping for a hit would create a character as unlikely as the Republicans’ very own Great Pumpkin on steroids? Imagine this: Hungry screenwriter pitches a story to movie mogul: “See, you have this superrich guy who decides to run for Randi president against kReiSS 17 other candidates seeking the GOP nomination. He has some problems, sure, some ADD maybe, some narcissistic personality disorder, some grandiosity. Yeah, I’m pretty sure there’s tape out there of him bragging about grabbing women’s genitals and getting away with it because he’s a star. History? Not his strong suit. Also, yeah, he has no experience at all in government or foreign affairs. “He did host a reality TV show. And he has experience hosting the Miss Universe pageant, which will help when

negotiating with Russia, Syria and Iraq. “He’s planning to build a wall along the border with Mexico, lower taxes on the rich, create a religious test for immigrants trying to get to America. Also, there are TV clips of him gyrating while mocking a disabled reporter, and, yes, he did insult the Gold Star parents of a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq. “OK, OK, he isn’t perfect, but he is flamboyant, and a fast talker, and he knows how to gin up a crowd, even inciting anger and violence, which will make for a great plot line, maybe even ending in another American Revolution.” Would any publisher or producer want to invest in this preposterous story? And wait, there’s more. He not only wins the nomination of his party, he wins the 2016 election and becomes the 45th president, a profoundly unprepared, uncouth, blatantly racist xenophobe. Then, get this, he runs for a second term. Sorry, Halloween 2020, you’ve been hijacked by the facts on the ground. Nothing can be as horrific as real life in the midst of a global pandemic in a country abused by an inept leader.

Between the last election and this year, certain bedrock beliefs, such as the peaceful transition of power, have been challenged. Double double toil and trouble. From which caldron did he pull the idea to destabilize the country by sowing hatred and fear? Halloween, can you really do better than that? Fake Freddy Krueger fingernails and monster teeth just don’t cut it anymore. This year, thanks to the worrisome spiking of the Covid-19 virus, most children won’t have the fun of going door to door. The trick is on the innocent kids who might have been living in an entirely different environment if a competent and forthright president had taken charge early on to fight the pandemic in a smart and scientific way. Halloween tricks seem old school. Egging a car? Toilet paper in the trees? You call those tricks? They’re lame when compared with Russia hacking the election, the GOP placing fake ballot boxes around California and the leader of the free world coyly encouraging a wacko fringe group like QAnon. Now those tricks get everyone’s attention. Facebook, like other social media plat-

his year, the scariest holiday has been hijacked by facts on the ground.

forms, is under attack by foreign goblins and gremlins; cyberwarfare is terrifying. The old-time fright masks just don’t have the same ability to reach inside our lives and twist until we scream. Masks have taken on a whole other meaning in the time of Covid and the reign of Donald. As for ghosts, Halloween, I’m seeing the spirit of dictators, past and present, dancing across America. What have you got? White sheets and green makeup? Meh. Trump is actively summoning the spirit of his brother, Vladimir Putin, to name just one. He invokes his spirit every time he saws away at the pillars of our democracy: the Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA, the Supreme Court and the Environmental Protection Agency. Clearly, the Donald trumps Halloween. He has ruined my taste for manufactured terror. I just can’t get interested in candy corn. We need to invent a special holiday for him. Let’s call it Inauguration Day, celebrate a new president and say goodbye to the sick joke that has been Donald Trump’s presidency. Maybe next year, fright wigs and skeleton costumes will be amusing again. Copyright 2020 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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onsider the number 675,000 for a moment. That’s the number of people in the United States who died during the flu pandemic of 1918-19. Could the U.S. be headed for such widespread death again? At press time, nearly 220,000 Americans had died of Covid-19, only eight months into this pandemic. The coronavirus could very well be with us for months to come, perhaps through the end of 2021. What will the death toll be in six months, 12 months, 18 months? It isn’t a stretch of the imagination to believe we could reach 400,000, 600,000 deaths or more if a safe and reliable vaccine isn’t found soon. Each death represents someone’s mother or father, brother or sister, friend or colleague. Each death is a tragedy, an extinguishment of life that was, in all too many cases, avoidable — if not for the policies of the Trump administration. From the start, President Trump downplayed the dangers of the coronavirus, even though he understood its severity as

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early as February. When we should have been locking down nationally, as New Zealand did in March, we remained open for business in most parts of the country, and the virus spread from transportation hubs like New York and California across the country. There was never a complete travel ban from China early this year, as Trump has claimed — American citizens and permanent residents flew back and forth at will between China and the U.S. And Trump has eschewed masks all along, even though mask wearing would improve safety as the U.S. continues to open up. Now the Trump administration is weighing, and in many ways pursuing, its potentially most dangerous policy of all — herd immunity, the ill-advised, frankly inane notion that we can beat the coronavirus by allowing healthy young people to become infected. If enough people do so and develop immunity to the virus, the thinking goes, it will disappear. Reputable scientists tell us, however, that herd immunity requires at minimum

50 to 60 percent of the population to be infected, and that it cannot be achieved without a vaccine. But let’s suppose for a moment that we, as a nation, were to pursue a herd-immunity course through natural infection, and 60 percent of Americans — or 196 million people — were to get the coronavirus. Think about the astronomical death total that would likely result. To date, 8.17 million Americans have reportedly been infected with Covid-19. That’s 2.5 percent of the population. In widespread testing in late September, 1 in 10 Americans had Covid-19 antibodies, according to the Stanford University Medicine News Center. That is, we’re a long way from herd immunity. Pursuing herd immunity in the absence of a vaccine is a recipe for a death toll not seen in a pandemic since 1918-19. Listen to the reputable scientists: Wear a mask in public. Keep your distance. Wash your hands frequently. Work from home if you can.

Say goodbye to ‘Lady’ on our sports pages

n late September, we at the Herald were jolted when a senior at Kennedy High School, in Bellmore, called on school officials — and the local media — to stop referring to girls’ sports teams at Kennedy as the “Lady Cougars.” The student, 17-year-old Rachel Nossen, of Merrick, wrote an op-ed essay for her school newspaper, The Cougar Crier, and it certainly caught our attention. Throughout our newspaper group, which encompasses 18 editions on the north and south shores of Nassau County, we decided to

drop the use of “Lady.” Nossen was right to argue that the term diminishes the accomplishments of female athletes. Lady is a term of a bygone era when women were expected to be prim and proper and quiet, not the accomplished and fierce competitors they have become since Title IX was enacted in 1972, prohibiting sex discrimination in the schools. According to Title IX, if there is a boys’ team at a school, there must be a girls’ team. Up until then, many, if not most, schools did not have competitive girls’ ath-

letters Voting is now convenient To the Editor: It’s been a trying year for our nation and a tragic one for New Yorkers, many of whom have lost loved ones and are worried about our tattered economy and the wellbeing of isolated friends and family. The scary prospect of a second wave of Covid-19 washing over New York during flu season has been anticipated all year, but one silver lining is that we need not fret over voting safely in next month’s election. For the majority of Long Islanders who haven’t voted since 2018 or before, casting a ballot in New York has changed drastically for the better, thanks to a raft of reforms and resiliency measures that improved convenience, due process, fairness and public safety. There are now three ways to vote in Election 2020, each with pros and cons. Given our protracted public health emergency, however, this flexibility is key to our safety

letic programs. Our editorial board gathered to figure out how “Lady” came into our sportsreporting lexicon, and concluded it was simply a matter of tradition. As we have learned in recent months and years, however, we need to look critically at our traditions to ensure they are in sync with modern thinking. Use of “Lady” when referring to girls’ sports teams is clearly out of step with 2020 culture, and so we will stop using it, except when it is part of an official team name.

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here is a storm brewing, and your child’s school is in its cross hairs. It’s not a hurricane or a tornado. It’s a fiscal tsunami, and it’s going to devastate the education system on Long Island unless Albany steps up and acts. Too many of our school districts were already in dire fiscal straits due to decades of austerity before the economic experts released their forecasts of even more funding cuts. This is especially true for schools in Black and brown neighborhoods. For Lisa years, students in TYson these classrooms have lacked up-todate materials, technology and other basic resources, so it’s no wonder these districts have been the first to feel the effects of this oncoming storm. The Copiague Board of Education pink-slipped dozens of staff members just a week before students were set to return to class. And this is just the beginning. The wind is picking up. Dark clouds are forming. Things are looking grim. But don’t worry. This particular storm isn’t a force of nature that we are powerless to stop. This is a human-caused

financial calamity to which there are sensible solutions. First, however, we have to examine how our “leaders” got us into this mess. It’s not news to anyone that New York, like the rest of the nation, is in economic turmoil because officials at both the state and federal levels failed to adequately respond to the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 25,000 people in our state and left millions jobless. In response to New York’s fiscal distress, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the State Legislature approved a budget earlier this year that cut $1.1 billion in state aid from schools. Long Island schools lost a total $49.4 million. But it gets worse. Here’s how Copiague Public Schools Superintendent Kathleen Bannon explained the dire situation that every district is facing: “On Aug. 20, the district received a state aid payment for the 2019-20 school year that was 20 percent less than expected. Along with that payment was a notice that all future state aid payments would also be reduced by 20 percent.” These aren’t just numbers in a spreadsheet. Your children’s education, and therefore their future, is on the chopping block. Far too many of Long Island’s bright young minds have been forced to

he state must dip into its rainy-day fund, because it’s pouring out there.

LeTTers and the election’s legitimacy. Regardless of ideology, nobody argues in print that American citizens should need to risk their lives to vote. Options can protect our rights and our communities if we avail ourselves of them. Last year, lawmakers created an election period to spread voting out over nine additional days — including two weekends and workday evenings. At the time, “social distancing” wasn’t common parlance to anyone without a degree in disease transmission, but that reform seems prescient today. The early-voting options in Nassau and Suffolk counties include a shift to countywide voting centers, permitting residents to visit any site from Saturday, Oct. 24, to Sunday, Nov. 1. Nassau, a statewide access leader, offers 83 operating hours of early voting. (The same can’t be said for Suffolk, which has a greater population and sprawling geography, but fewer sites and nearly three fewer days’ worth of hours.) For those who have adapted to our new normal — who wear masks and venture out for groceries — finding a quiet five minutes to vote early may be the best option. Voters cast their ballots after privately marking them, and they will be included with election night results. Those who believe the process is a partisan ploy should know that Texans have

attend schools that are criminally underfunded, and these cuts will further pulverize their chances at receiving a quality education. So, will Long Island’s state legislators stand by and let this happen, or will they fight for the children of Long Island? It’s time to act to stop this fiscal tsunami in its tracks, because we shouldn’t play politics with our kids’ education. We are proposing a fourpronged approach, and the first prong can and should be done immediately: The state must dip into its rainy-day fund, because it’s pouring out there. We can’t weather a storm with an umbrella full of holes. Secondly, class is now in session, so the State Legislature should be in session, too. Cuomo has been circumventing democracy and playing games with the budget, which has caused unimaginable uncertainty and instability in school districts and municipalities. This has to stop. He needs to produce a real plan that lawmakers can work with to avoid more cuts at all costs. If he fails to do so, state legislators must immediately reconvene to stop the bleeding themselves, and they can do that by passing measures to make ultra-millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share. Albany needs to stop giving New

been voting early since the 1980s. Until Covid-19, absentee voting was not a mainstream option for New Yorkers. The state was one of only 16 to restrict it to those with the right excuse. Busy with work or child care? Not eligible. It shouldn’t have taken a deadly pandemic to develop voting resiliency — disruptions on Sept. 11, 2001, which was a Primary day, and Hurricane Sandy’s late-October 2012 landfall were enough. For immunocompromised people and those living or working with them, voting remotely may be safer, and pitfalls that jeopardize rights have been significantly mitigated. Voters can now request a ballot online in seconds or by phone, and may return completed ballots via contactless drop boxes at early voting or Election Day sites, or at their county Board of Elections office, which avoids return mail, stamps and postmarking entirely. Common clerical errors can now be fixed, providing a layer of due process where none existed before. Those who still prefer voting on the first Tuesday in November at one assigned site are welcome to, but they will have waited until the last possible day, when no other options remain — even if there are lines, inclement weather or a local uptick in Covid-19 cases. I wouldn’t wish that uncertainty on anyone, even those dispar-

York’s wealthiest residents a free ride. The rich have profited handsomely during the epidemic, earning enough during the public health crisis alone to close the state’s budget gap. New York’s cashstrapped families can’t be the only ones forced to make sacrifices. This isn’t a partisan issue. An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers support raising taxes on the rich, which lawmakers should remember when it’s their turn to cast a vote on legislation, because voters will surely remember who acted and who didn’t when Election Day comes around. Third: All options should be on the table to raise necessary revenue and avoid exacerbating this crisis with more cuts. So Cuomo also has a duty to consider short-term borrowing from the New York Federal Reserve Bank’s Municipal Liquidity Facility. And, last, we can’t let the federal government off the hook. It needs to get its act together, stop all the partisan bickering and send relief to the state and local communities. Sadly, recent events have made clear that the State Legislature can’t just sit on its hands and wait for Washington. For the sake of suffering New Yorkers, Cuomo and state lawmakers must act now. Lisa Tyson is the director of the Long Island Progressive Coalition.

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