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A home-grown PTA leader Shannon Necci loves her kids and the East Meadow community By MAlloRY WilSoN mwilson@liherald.com
East Meadow native Shannon Necci said she loves being a mom and being involved with her children, so it was no surprise when, in 2015, she joined the McVey Elementary School Parent Teacher Association, where she is now a co-president. Her oldest daughter, Olivia, now 11, was starting kindergarten at the time. While serving a s t h e M c Ve y Fifth in PTA co-president alongside Karen Baker, Necci is also the second vice president of the Woodland Middle School PTA, which Olivia now attends. Her younger daughter, Natalie, 10, is a McVey fifth-grader. Necci, 37, became the McVey PTA recording secretary in 2015, and moved up to corresponding secretary, vice president and president from there. “I never really thought about the PTA, but I always wanted to be married and have kids and be home with my kids,” she said. “When I joined, everyone was so nice and so welcoming, and it was
just like the perfect fit.” Jill Mallilo, who had encouraged Necci to join the PTA, said her friend is the best “worker bee” around, adding, “She’s a g reat asset to the PTA at McVey.” Necci grew up in East Meadow, and graduated from W.T. Clarke High School in 2002. She earned a degree in business management from Monmouth University in New Jersey in 2006, and a master’s in business education from Hofstra a series U n ive r s i t y i n 2007. “I loved my bu s i n e s s cl a s s e s i n h i g h school,” she said. “I loved that they could be different and fun.” After graduation, she taught business education in grades seven through 12 at H. Frank Carey High School in Franklin Square and Elmont Memorial Junior-Senior High School in Elmont until becoming pregnant with Olivia in 2010. “I really wanted to be home,” Necci said. “I was that mom who went to the mommy-and-
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Snow much fun Following last weekend’s nor’easter, which brought blizzard-like conditions to East Meadow, Angelo Dungca, 11, and his sister Andrea, 9, asked to be buried in the snow. More photos, Page 3.
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Disclose criminal case data By MAlloRY WilSoN mwilson@liherald.com
The Nassau County Police Department will begin issuing a daily report with pending criminal case data and bail status of those rearrested, according to an executive order signed Jan. 19 by County Executive Bruce Blakeman. New York state’s bail reform law, which sets most non-violent criminal defendants free while
they await trial or a plea deal, has been a hot topic since it took effect in early 2020, and less than a month into his term, Blakeman is pushing to rescind it. The county executive said the order would allow “residents to learn more about the potential threat reform laws pose to their safety.” Bail reform was passed, in part, to relieve overcrowding in jails. Brian Sullivan, the Nassau Correction Officers Benevolent
Association president, said that overcrowding has not been a problem at the Nassau County Correctional Center, on Carman Avenue in East Meadow, for decades, and he supports Blakeman’s order. For most of his 33 years at the jail, Sullivan said, he has not seen overcrowding. There was overcrowding in the 1980s and early ’90s owing to the crack Continued on page 9
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