________________ LONG BEACH _______________
HERALD
May 16, 2024
Also serving Point Lookout & East Atlantic Beach
Recognizing apraxia in L.B. VoL. 35 No. 21
MAY 16 - 22, 2024
1257669
Page 3
with a focus on programs and activities
$1.00
School district prepares for budget vote school building maintenance and administrative costs. The Long Beach schools’ tax levy is set to increase by $1.6 The Long Beach Board of Education held its final meet- million, or 1.5 percent. To cover ing Tuesday on the budget and expenses, the district will rely capital-expenditure initiatives on other sources of income as well. State aid is it has adopted for expected to inthe 2024-25 academcrease by over ic year. The spend$350,000, to $27.3 i n g p l a n , wh i ch million, while will be put to vote other revenue, next Tuesday, totals including fees, $155.9 million, a donations and 2 . 8 5 p e rc e n t i n grants, is projected crease over the curto drop slightly, by rent budget. roughly $183,000, to “Thankfully, we $13.7 million. The did g et our full schools’ appropriatfoundation aid at ed fund balance, the same level as consisting of we have in the curunused funds from rent year,” Michael prior budgets that D e Vi t o, t h e d i s - MIchAEL DeVITo will be available for t r i c t ’s a s s i s t a n t Assistant use, is anticipated superintendent of superintendent, to increase by just finance and operafinance and over $500,000, to tions, said at the operations $1.5 million. meeting. “Nothing T h e d i s t r i c t ’s more, but at least the same level, and no reduc- Long Island Power Authority tion that was proposed by the payment in lieu of taxes, compensation for the utility’s governor a few months ago.” The proposed spending plan reduced property taxes, is set to maintains salaries of teachers increase by approximately and staff as well as all of the $85,600, to $4.4 million. Proposition 2 on Tuesday’s district’s educational prog rams, and covers needed Continued on page 4
By ANGELINA ZINGARIELLo
azingariello@liherald.com
Tim Baker/Herald
Long Beach’s Cristin delaney-guille was the first women’s finisher at this year’s Long island Marathon in east Meadow.
L.I.’s top woman marathoner Delaney-Guille reflects on her Jovia Long Island win By BRENDAN cARPENTER bcarpenter@liherald.com
Cristin Delaney-Guille grew up in Floral Park, but about 18 years ago, she packed up and moved to Long Beach. Delaney-Guille, 43, gave birth to a daughter, Olivia, shortly afterward, and then started jogging to try to get back into pre-pregnancy shape. She had never run before, but her husband, Brian Guille, suggested that they run Long Beach’s 4-mile Snowflake Race together in February 2008. They did, and it wiped Cristin out — but that was only the beginning. “My body wasn’t used to pushing it, and at that point that was pushing it,” she
recalled of her first race. “But I got addicted immediately, and I remember going on my laptop and immediately looking for the next race that I could do. I got bit by the race bug, and I loved it.” Later that year, Delaney-Guille began training for her first marathon, the Philadelphia Marathon. She took to the distance, and entered a marathon each fall for a few years before adding one each spring as well. She has run Boston and New York, and smaller marathons, like one on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk. She’s a member of Long Run Crew, a team she joined in 2008. Delaney-Guille ran the Boston Marathon for the third time last month, finishing in 3 Continued on page 9
May 16, 2024
Great Homes the Ultimate Local Home showcase
T
hankfully, we did get our full foundation aid at the same level as we have in the current year.