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Two cell carriers piggybacked on the city meter confirmed Graziosi’s findings that, in fact, they were taking electricity from the city’s meter. It was ultimately determined When Rocco Graziosi, the project manager for Glen Cove’s that AT&T has been piggybackDepartment of Public Works, ing on the city meter since 1995, discovered that the city had and T-Mobile since 2010. Graziosi said he was amazed been subsidizing the utility payments of phone service carriers that the city had been subsidizing the utility costs of two of AT&T and T-Mobile the largest compafor three decades, nies in the world for he was understanddecades. “It really ably shocked. should have been Last spring, AT&T and T-Mobile Graziosi was workmaking these paying on an unrelated ments all these project when he saw years,” he said. the utility bills for Since the findthe city’s two parkings, Graziosi has ing garages on his been working with desk. He noticed the cellular carriers that the electricity to ensure separate bill for the Pulaski ROCCO GRAZIOSI and accurate meter garage was much Glen Cove r e a d i n g s, wh i c h higher than the one Department of will allow the city to for the Brewster Public Works properly bill them Street garage. The structures are roughly the same for their energy consumption. size, so he found it odd that City Controller Mike Piccirillo Pulaski was apparently using estimated that the combined some 200,000 kilowatts more total is roughly $25,000 per year. Since the carriers have been electricity than Brewster Street. Graziosi went to the Pulaski using city electricity since the garage to investigate the dis- inception of their cellular site crepancy, and traced the cell agreements — which require tower wires that were installed cellular tenants to pay for their there back to the city’s electric own electricity consumption — Piccirillo has been working meter. When representatives of AT&T and T-Mobile conducted with AT&T and T-Mobile to their own investigation, they CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
By ROKSANA AMID
ramid@liherald.com
Courtesy Gaitley Stevenson-Mathews
Trotting like a turkey even if you come in last Thanksgiving people traditionally enjoy a feast with all types of trimmings with a turkey as the centerpiece. In Glen Cove residents have the opportunity to also participate in an early morning annual turkey trot as Scott Macnow did, finishing last, but with pride.
Courthouse renamed after retired judge By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com
Judges are trained to examine the facts of cases before them, study the relevant law and issue rulings, but some, like Richard J. McCord, who develop reputations as exceptional jurists, have an additional skill: exercising empathy while upholding the law. McCord, one of the longest-serving elected judges in Nassau County, has been honored by having his name immortalized on the Glen Cove city courthouse where he presided for more than three decades of his distinguished career. “As you could imagine, some cases are much more complex than others — they involve fami-
lies, children, people in the wrong place at the wrong time,” City Councilman Jack Mancusi said, adding of McCord, “Deciding which case to bring the full weight of the law, and which cases to bring the understanding of a wise man, he’s just expert at that. You can’t teach anybody that. It comes from his heart.” Mayor Pamela Panzenbeck, along with many others city officials, said that McCord was known for his fair and just decisions. McCord’s 34-year tenure in the city’s judicial system began well before the current courthouse was built in 1993. City Hall was located at 1 Bridge Street, now police headquarters. There were plans to build a new police and court comCONTINUED ON PAGE 6
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t really should have been AT&T and T-Mobile making these payments all these years.