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Sea Cliff budget will pierce tax cap plained. “We really feel like we did the best that we could, all things considered, but there are The Sea Cliff village board just so many factors outside of has adopted a 2022-23 budget our control.” that may not be According to the good news for resiNew York Conferdents. Local taxes ence of Mayors, may be on the rise, roughly 40 percent because the tax levy of villages in the cap has been state will meet or breached by roughexceed the state cap ly $184,000. Accordon increases in ing to the board, the their tax levies of move is due not to roughly 2 percent fiscal irresponsibilthis year. ity, but to other The most signififinancial challenges cant contributor to the village faces. rising costs in Sea The board anCliff is waste mannounced on April 13 agement — specifithat it had finalized cally recycling. An the $6.65 million e c o n o m i c a l f ive spending plan, year contract with which is roughly .06 Winter Brothers, a percent larger than waste management ElENA the current budget. company, expires Despite efforts to VIllAfANE this year, and the k e e p s p e n d i n g Mayor, Sea Cliff waste-disposal marbelow the tax cap, ket has changed in the rising costs of recent years, acwaste management and insur- cording to Village Administraance and the highest inflation tor Bruce Kennedy. in decades complicated the “Five years ago, we had an board’s efforts. absolutely incredible contract,” “A lot of these costs are man- Kennedy said. “It was at a time dated and pushed down on us,” Mayor Elena Villafane exContinued on page 4
By WIll SHEElINE wsheeline@liherald.com
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Courtesy LI Bombers
IN BEEP BAll, all batters wear blindfolds, because players have varying levels of visual impairment.
Long Island Bombers playing beep ball in Glen Cove
Popularity of game for visually impaired grows By WIll SHEElINE wsheeline@liherald.com
The Sea Cliff Glen Head Lions Club will host a baseball game matching the Long Island Bombers, a team of visually impaired players, against the Sunset Mets of the L.I. Midweek Baseball League, to prove that you don’t need to see the ball to
play the game. The exhibition game is scheduled for May 14, at 1 p.m., in Glen Cove’s City Stadium Park, and will raise money for the Bombers organization. The Bombers first came to the attention of the Sunset Mets — a team for those 52 and older — when the Mets’ manager, John Alutto, was
playing in a tournament in Florida last year. Alutto, who operates an online baseball card and memorabilia business, overheard players talking about a “beep ball” team in Rockville Center. “Right away my antennas went up, since my buddy who I play with, Joe Esposito, has a blind son,” Alutto said. “His Continued on page 8
e really feel like we did the best that we could, all things considered, but there are just so many factors outside of our control.