Glen Cove Herald 10-29-2020

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Overlooking West Pond, Dosoris Pond and the island where he played as a young boy, Uhlendorf Lifelong Glen Cove resident shared his stories with Boy and retired firefighter Francis Scouts who presented him with a Uhlendorf, 92, can knot board, which vividly remember added to the collecfishing with J.P. tion of memories Morgan’s son John Uhlendorf has Pierpont Morgan accumulated over Jr. “He used to land the years at the his sea plane here,” Matinecock Rod & he said last SaturGun Club, which he day, pointing out to helped form in 1945. the Long Island “They are our Sound beyond future,” Uhlendorf, Dosoris Island. an Eagle Scout him“He’d fly over from self, said of the chilNew York to here, dren who gathered and that’s why he to honor him. built the bridges to Uhlendorf first hold the water connected with back, so he could fly Glen Cove’s youth in here.” by way of a chance “We have one of interaction with the best views in retired U.S. Marine t h i s c o u n t r y, ” Corps Maj. Fred Uhlendorf said, Nielsen, also a long adding that the land FRED NIELSEN time Glen Cove reswhere there are Glen Cove ident. “When we do houses was once have actual Memoempty and covered rial Day parades, by trees. “We used to come out the canon that’s fired is loaned here and chop a hole in the ice, that day by the [Rod & Gun] club, and we had a spear to catch so we have a longstanding coneels.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

By JENNIFER CORR jcorr@liherald.com

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BEFORE THE CITY Council meeting, people protested outside City Hall, demanding that there be no layoffs, a provision which was included in the budget that later passed 5-2.

Glen Cove’s budget is passed, cutting jobs, raising taxes By JENNIFER CORR jcorr@liherald.com

As City of Glen Cove elected officials walked into Tuesday night’s City Council meeting, protesters, many of whom were city employees and members of the CSEA union, yelled, “Shame on you!” Hours later, after a heated public hearing, the City Council passed Glen Cove’s $64.3

million 2021 budget, which cuts six jobs, abolishing their titles, and raises residential property taxes by 7.32 percent, exceeding the state’s property-tax levy cap for the city of 1.56. The council needed a supermajority to raise taxes above the cap. The council voted 5-2 to exceed it. Council members Marsha Silverman G a i t l e y a n d S t eve n s o n Mathews voted against pierc-

ing the cap, while Dr. Eve Lupenko Ferrante, John Perrone, Danielle Fugazy Scagliola, Rocco Totino and Mayor Tim Tenke voted for the measure. Tenke said he did not want to raise taxes, but if the council had not voted to exceed the cap, that would have left a budget deficit of roughly $2.3 million. He added that cutting six positions will save the city CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

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he point is, by the characteristics of [Uhlendorf’s] life, the principles of his life, he excited and inspired these 11-year-old boys and they made a knot board for him.


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