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PORT TIMES RECORD P O R T J E F F E R S O N • B E L L E T E R R E • P O R T J E F F E R S O N S TAT I O N • T E R R Y V I L L E

Vol. 32, No. 4

December 20, 2018

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Village

LIPA settles with Brookhaven Town over plant assessments

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM A New York State Supreme Court judge approved the Town of Brookhaven’s settlement with the Long Island Power Authority over the Port Jefferson Power Station’s tax assessment.

In the agreement signed Dec. 14, the $32.6 million tax assessment on the power plant will be reduced by around 50 percent incrementally over the next nine years to $16.8 million, starting with the 2017-18 tax year.

It’s a not-so-final finale to what has become years upon years of grinding legal battles and anxiety over what will happen to local taxes should LIPA, which claimed its power plant has been overassessed by hundreds of millions of dollars for nearly a decade. LIPA’s lawsuit wanted its assessments reduced by approximately 90 percent.

Town of Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) said in a statement the settlement will benefit Brookhaven in the form of lower electric bills.

“This deal puts an end to the uncertainty of this plant over the course of nine years and gives finality to this issue,” Romaine said. “I have always believed that all property assessments should be fairly based on property value.”

Brookhaven officials said that without a settlement, taxpayers faced the potential of being liable for $225 million to LIPA, and the power authority has said LIPA customers will save a total of $662 million by 2027.

“It was a reasonable settlement, one we can justify to our 1.1 million customers,” LIPA CEO Thomas Falcone said.

While this settlement promises savings for Brookhaven residents, the agreement has made Port Jefferson residents, especially those living

close to the two red-and-white smokestacks, question what their taxes will look like in the near future. In October the Port Jefferson School District released a series of slides showing they annually received a $17 million payment through LIPA’s tax payments, but this would be reduced to $13.8 million by 2027. While Superintendent Paul Casciano said he and his staff are still reviewing the impact of the settlement, he sees the outcome could be even worse. He expects school programs will have to be cut in the next few years, with tax increases for residents.

“It’s going to affect the tax base,” the superintendent said. “Even if our budget was voted down, there’s a high likelihood that residents will see a double-digit increase in their tax rate.”

The settlement will also require the district to amend their plans for the 2019-20 budget next year.

Falcone said the school district already enjoys lower annual school taxes at $6,273 compared to neighboring districts calculated at little more than $10,000 based on 2015 tax data.

“It means they will go from a ‘great deal’ to a ‘good deal,’” Falcone said. “They’re still going to have the lowest taxes of their neighborhood.”

The CEO added that it was unfair for the rest of LIPA customers to have to subsidize the Port Jeff school district through their higher bills.

“I think at some point you have to say what’s fair for those 1.1 million other customers because they pay their school taxes, too,” he said.

The Port Jeff superintendent said the village has been conciliatory about letting a power plant operate within its boundaries, whereas other places in Brookhaven would have barred the plant from existing in the first place.

“Are you, as a Brookhaven resident, really going to make out on your LIPA bills? I doubt it,” Casciano said.

In April Port Jefferson Village board passed overassessed for years, especially since the Port its 2018-19 budget of $10,642,146, about Jeff plant runs for so little time. $233,000 up from last year’s budget. The new The Port Jefferson School District along with budget included $107,000 in reserve funds in the Northport-East Northport school district and anticipation of the glide path agreement with Huntington Town filed a lawsuit saying LIPA LIPA resulting in reduced payments. had made past promises not to challenge the Village Mayor Margot Garant said she taxes levied on their power plants, but they were agrees with the settlement, and it could lead to dealt a blow in September when a state Supreme more use of the plant. In 2017 the facility was Court judge ruled LIPA “made no promises” only powered on for 41 days, or 11 percent of about challenging the taxes levied. the year, according to LIPA officials.

Garant and other Port Jeff Village offiFalcone said the Port Jeff power plant op- cials have expressed past desires to renovate erates based on the electricity the power plant once the tax needs of residents. assessment issue was settled.

“This is an important step In September the village we made today to stabilize our board advocated for the refurtax base moving forward and bishment and repowering of the viability of any opportunity its base-load plant to update to repower our power plant,” its decades-old technology Garant said in a press release. and to justify the property’s The settlement also comes tax assessment. after big wins for LIPA in the This is despite Cuomo courts against the towns of Hunsetting a goal for 50 percent tington and Brookhaven, and of the state’s energy to come Port Jeff Village, allowing LIPA from renewable sources to move ahead with its effort to by 2030. challenge its assessments. HunFalcone said they do not tington Supervisor Chad Lucurrently have any plans to run — Paul Casciano the plant more or do any renopinacci (R) has publicly asked New York State Gov. Andrew vations to plant that has been Cuomo (D) to enact legislation there since the 1940s. that would protect residents taxes should LIPA Through being used so little and with the get its way in court. push for more green energy, residents have PSEG Long Island customers pay power questioned how long LIPA will keep the plant plant taxes through monthly surcharges on their running. The LIPA CEO said the plant will electric bills, but LIPA owns the electric grid continue to operate for the next seven years, and has agreements with National Grid for the but in the future could be upgraded or transpower plants in both Port Jefferson and North- formed into some other space used by the port. In 2009 LIPA challenged both the towns of power authority, such as a storage facility or a Brookhaven and Huntington saying it had been new, modernized facility.

‘Are you, as a Brookhaven resident, really going to make out on your LIPA bills? I doubt it.’

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Town

Port Jefferson School District searches for new superintendent Port Jefferson School District has a lot on its plate, and whoever ends up sitting in the captain’s chair is going to need a strong character to deal with it all.

In August Paul Casciano, the district’s current superintendent, announced his plans to retire at the end of the 2018-19 school year. By July 1, 2019, a new superintendent will have to fill the position.

“The most important decision a school board makes is who they hire as a superintendent, because that’s basically your CEO,” Casciano said.

While the board still has to interview candidates in January and February of next year, come May 2019, board President Kathleen Brennan said she expects the board will make its final choice.

In the meantime, the Port Jefferson school board is looking for community feedback on what they would most like from a superintendent. Working with Eastern Suffolk BOCES, the board released an online survey to community members asking them to judge what best qualities they wanted from the head of their school district. Some of the questions ask residents to rate how important a prospective superintendent’s knowledge of finance and business is or how important is their background in education.

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LIPA, promising to reduce the While a superhuman suPort Jeff plant’s assessments perintendent would exhibit by around 50 percent over five stars in all these qualities, nine years.

Brennan said the questions are The fallout of whatevthere to gauge how important er ends up happening with one quality is compared to LIPA has the possibility of another. She added people directly impacting residents who work in education might property taxes as well as place a greater emphasis on school funding. Casciano the new superintendent’s edsaid it will be important in ucational knowledge versus the future to make sure the a local business owner placfallout of LIPA does not fall ing more significance on the too much on either the disfinancial health of the district. trict’s head or on residents.

“Different people interact “The next superintendent with the superintendent difis going to need to take a balferently,” Brennan said.

A superintendent makes Superintendent Paul Casciano is looking for anced approach,” Casciano said. “We don’t just reprethe day-to-day decisions for a replacement. sent the residents who have the entire school district, often trying to keep to the vision of the school children, it affects their taxes and we’re cogniboard, including spending, staffing, facilities zant of that. ... On the other hand, our core mission is teaching and learning — our real clients and school programs.

However, the next superintendent of Port Jeff are children — we can’t turn our back on that will have to find ways to handle the situation in- and call ourselves educators.”

The Port Jeff school district is of much volving the local National Grid-owned power plant. LIPA has alleged the plants in both Port Jef- smaller size compared to neighboring districts, ferson and Northport have been overassessed in though the current superintendent said they enits payment of millions of dollars in annual prop- joy small class sizes and specialized programs. erty taxes, though Dec. 14 the Town of Brookha- Should a final LIPA decision impact the district ven announced it had reached a settlement with negatively, the next superintendent would have FILE PHOTO

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

to make hard choices on which specialized education programs to prioritize if the economic situation gets any more complicated.

Based on that looming potential crisis, Casciano said a new superintendent is going to need a strong backbone.

“No matter which way you go, you never satisfy everyone with a decision,” he said. “When it comes to schools which has taxes and kids involved with it, there is a lot greater passion attached to those voices.”

Brennan said she expects the incoming superintendent should use the current district administration, which has been cultivated to provide a good support structure to whoever steps into the position.

“We’re not overstaffed administratively, by any means,” the board president said.

Casciano said while he expects a new superintendent to bring their own ideas and creative solutions to problems, he doesn’t expect them to overhaul on current staff.

“It’s a successful school district, and to come in and think there’s major changes to be made says you don’t really know the district,” he said.

The school board will be hosting a public meeting Jan 3. with Julie Davis Lutz, COO of Eastern Suffolk BOCES, to allow residents to express their thoughts on the necessary skills for the next superintendent. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium.

Romaine announces Brookhaven receives AAA bond rating Brookhaven is on solid footing when it comes to its finances.

On Dec. 12 Town of Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) announced that S&P Global Ratings, an American financial services company, assigned its top-tier AAA long-term rating to the town’s series 2018A and 2018B general obligation bonds. The municipal bond is one that is secured by a local government’s pledge to use legally available resources, such as tax revenues, to repay bondholders.

“Our financial team has worked hard to achieve this AAA stable rating, but the real winners are the taxpayers who will save millions of dollars in the years ahead,” Romaine said. “We owe it to them to spend their money more wisely.”

S&P Global also affirmed the same rating on the town’s existing bonds. Based on recent local municipal bond sales, it’s been estimated this rating and bond sale has resulted in a $1.65 million savings for taxpayers, according to

a press release from Brookhaven township.

The town plans to finance construction of ambulance buildings, open-space acquisitions and other infrastructure projects with the bonds.

The $20.8 million general obligation bonds will be amortized over 20 years, according to the release.

S&P cited in its AAA ranking a very strong economy, with the town’s access to a broad and diverse metropolitan statistical area and a local stabilizing institutional influence; strong management, with strong financial policies and practices; and solid budgetary performance with operating surpluses in the general fund and at the total government fund level in fiscal 2017. There was also budgetary flexibility and strong liquidity, among others.

According to S&P’s rating announcement, the Brookhaven’s rating is higher than the U.S. 10-year Treasury note. S&P believes “the town can maintain better credit characteristics than the U.S. in a stress scenario.”

Councilwoman Jane Bonner (C-Rocky Point), who is the board liaison to the town’s Department of Finance, said the rating is due to

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Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine announced Dec. 12 that the town received the AAA long-term rating on general obligation bonds from S&P Global.

the town’s fiscally conservative ethos.

“The AAA Stable rating is clear evidence that our conservative fiscal policies have made a significant impact, saving taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars,” Bonner said. “I am proud to continue working with Supervisor Romaine and the finance team to help build on the success that we have already achieved.”

Town Councilwoman Valerie Cartright (D-Port Jefferson Station) credited the board with working toward balancing the budget and responsible fiscal management.

“We tackle this process with the goal of continuous improvement,” Cartright said.

“Receiving the highest bond rating, once again, is a reflection of this effort.”

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Village

Find out who is running for Port Jeff library trustee

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Christian Neubert

As the incumbent, Christian Neubert said he feels he has become intimate with the qualities and the issues of the library over his six-year tenure.

“It’s important to not lose sight of the day-to-day processes we have going on here,” Neubert said.

Lynn Hallarman

Dr. Lynn Hallarman, the director of Palliative Medicine Services at Stony Brook University Hospital said she is throwing her hat into the ring based on her unique background looking strategically at programs and institutions, as well as with urban planning, development and programming curricula.

Hallarman said the biggest changes will come to the library through urbanization, traffic, an aging population and higher taxes.

“The board has to be extremely forward thinking and out of the box in thinking about how a small-town library will survive,” she said.

Nancy Loddigs

Nancy Loddigs has been a resident of Port Jefferson for more than 30 years and boasts of

her experience working in the libraries at Comsewogue School District and both Port Jefferson and Comsewogue public libraries.

The longtime Port Jeff resident said the library has already done a good job in its programming, with various adult programs being the most popular. She said she hopes those programs continue, but that the library will keep up with changing technology in order to stay current.

“I am interested in seeing how the library would be physically changed by incorporating all of these things,” Loddigs said.

Wailin Ng

Wailin Ng, an engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been a Port Jefferson resident for a year, but she has been a patron of the library for close to a decade before that.

Ng said there is potential for growth in the number of educational programs the library

provides, especially those that could get kids interested in STEM. “We can increase the focus on introducing children to science,” Ng said. “We are in a very diverse community, and we have many people from other districts coming here. We need to assess where our needs are for educational programs.”

Joseph Orofino

Joseph Orofino is a lifelong Port Jefferson resident with two kids currently in the Port Jeff school district. As a person who has worked in finance for 25 years, in both an upper management and on a voluntary basis with several local community organizations, he said he would work to make sure the library stays on top of its finances.

“My contribution could be making sure the library stays fiscally solvent,” he said.

When it comes to renovating the library’s currently owned properties, Orofino said the board should look at it from a long-term point of view.

“We need to weigh in on the existing plans and look at how financially they fit into the library on a long-term basis,” Orofino said.

KYLE BARR

Two spots for trustee on at the Port Jefferson Free Library are coming up for vote in January and five community members are asking library cardholders for their vote.

While current library trustee Christian Neubert is running again for the same spot, trustee Lisa Ballou has decided not to run again for her seat.

Those who wish to vote for the trustees must be a Port Jefferson Village resident and be a cardholder “in good standing,” meaning voters cannot have more than $5 outstanding on their library cards. The vote will be held 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Jan. 9, 2019, at the library.

Neubert said the library is missing out on the demographics of fourth- or fifth-graders as well as young professionals. He said if he were elected, he would work toward reaching out to those groups in conjunction with the library and is thinking of integrating the teen center with the main library building.

President George H.W. Bush’s last wish for Sully to serve other veterans A service dog raised in Smithtown won the hearts of thousands across the nation by demonstrating, perhaps, why dogs may truly be man’s best friend till the very end.

An Instagram photo of Sully, a 2-year-old yellow Labrador retriever, laying besides the flagdraped coffin of the late President George H.W. Bush posted by his spokesman Jim McGraff with a simple caption of “Mission complete” from Houston Dec. 2 went viral, quickly receiving more than 270,000 likes. The dog’s trainers at America’s VetDogs in Smithtown could only watch from a distance with mixed feelings.

“It hit us all very emotionally,” Brad Hibbard, chief program officer for America’s VetDogs said.

“It was very sad for him, for George H.W. Bush’s family and Sully. Sully had quite a bond with the president, he slept in his room every night. It was so emotional, very sad but also with pride.”

Sully, named after the former airline pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III who safely landed a damaged jet on the Hudson River in 2009, was trained by America’s VetDogs earlier this year for Bush. The sister nonprofit organization to the Guide Dog Foundation trains and places guide dogs for veterans and first responders who are blind, have impaired

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Sully, a service dog trained by America’s VetDogs, lies at the foot of President George H.W. Bush’s coffin.

vision or have lost their hearing. In addition, they train service dogs for those who suffer physical disabilities or have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Hibbard said starting with Bush’s very first phone call to VetDogs about receiving a service dog, the 41st president expressed his concerns what would happen to the dog should

something happen to him. After a lengthy discussion, the former president expressed that he wanted Sully to serve at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he had first learned about the nonprofit organization.

“There was no doubt in our minds what the president’s wishes were,” Hibbard said.

Sully will go to work alongside two fellow VetDogs graduate canines, Sgt. Dillon and Sgt. Truman, at Walter Reed medical center next year, according to Hibbard, to help assist thousands of servicemen and women who pass through the facility while undergoing physical and occupational therapy.

“Sully will be able to have a huge impact there,” Hibbard said.

After the late president’s funeral, the 2-yearold service dog was brought back to the VetDogs’ Smithtown campus, located on East Jericho Turnpike, for some well-deserved rest and decompression during the holidays before making his next transition. Hibbard said the nonprofit is currently in communication with Walter Reed about the facility’s needs, and Sully will undergo any necessary additional training, possibly in the area of assisting with occupational training, before heading back to work in early 2019.

Once in Maryland, Sully will officially join the U.S. Navy — the same branch George H.W. Bush served in — and be given an honorary military rank as per tradition according to Hibbard. Sully’s fans may be happy to know his trainers are seeing if it’s possible to keep his Instagram account, @sullyhwbush, running.

To learn more about America’s VetDogs, donate or volunteer, visit www.vetdogs.org or call 631-930-9000.

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Police

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DECEMBER 20, 2018 • THE PORT TIMES RECORD • PAGE A7

School News

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Seasonal singing Gift wrapping blitz Fifteen students from Earl L. Vandermeulen’s High School Interact Club helped to make spirits bright by taking part in the annual gift-wrapping event along with members of the Rotary Club of Port Jefferson.

The annual project, which wraps a collection of clothing and other necessities, toys, books and games, resulted in around 2,750 gifts for

100 local children. Students involved included: Monica Alexander, Olivia Alvarez, Morgan Bullis, Asher Calayag, Holly D’Accordo, Lucy DeWitt, Christine Iasso, Farrell Johnston, Sophia Knapp, Charlotte Kujawski, Michelle Parsick, Victoria Poten, Camryn Spiller, Annika Wakefield and Maggie Zhou. School adviser Deirdre Filippi also aided in the project.

Edna Louise Spear Elementary School

The Port Jefferson School District’s board of education’s meeting Dec. 11 was filled with the sounds of the season as student-musicians performed several holiday classics before being recognized for their contributions to the school and community during the holiday season.

Leading up to the winter holidays, students participated in community events, including the Port Jefferson Village’s annual Dickens Festival, performing at local churches and the Port Jefferson Free Library in addition to the annual winter concert at the high school.

Michael Caravello, director of music and fine

arts, introduced music teachers Maria Diaz and Edward Pisano and high school students Katherine Ambrozy, Grace Crugnale, Cole Fortier, Katherine Kirsch, Mattea Rabeno, Jack Reilly, Hannah Skula and Peggy Yin who were each presented with a certificate of appreciation for their musical efforts.

“One of the core missions of our department is going out in the community and spreading music and art because that is what real artists and musicians do, they give back to their community,” said Caravello. “Our students really bring that mission to life.”

Community News

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Celebrating/learning Hanukkah Students at the Edna Louise Spear Elementary School celebrated the Festival of Lights with activities throughout the school.

Elementary teacher Amy Castaldo’s thirdgrade class welcomed parents Stacey York and Natalie Litman who shared a celebration of Hanukkah with them and taught the students about the history of the dreidel and the meaning of its letters. The students then tried their hand at the traditional game. They also learned about some of the symbols and traditions of the holiday and enjoyed potato latkes with applesauce.

York then read the book “How the Kvetch

Stole Hanukkah,” a story with rhyming patterns and a story structure similar to “The Grinch.”

“The story gave the students a little background knowledge of the history of Hanukkah, and helps them understand the true meaning behind the traditions,” Castaldo said.

Kindergarten students in elementary teacher Melissa Martin’s class began a recent morning with a geometry lesson. After learning about triangles, hexagons, rectangles and squares and listening to “Sammy Spider’s First Hannukah,” they created their own paper menorahs.

Believe The Port Jefferson Station/Terryville Chamber of Commerce hosted its series of business community events culminating Dec. 16 with several viewings of “The Polar Express” movie inside the antique chamber train car at the corner of Route 112 and Route 347.

Children were given jingle bells tied with a

ribbon inscribed with “I Believe” like at the end of the film. At the close of the movie, kids were additionally surprised as Santa came through the door to listen to what kids wanted for Christmas.

Chamber Vice President Larry Ryan, the manager of Port Jeff Bowl, was chief in making the event a reality.

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County

Fight over proposal to ban flavored e-cigarettes in Suffolk A legislative proposition to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes and vaping liquids in Suffolk County created a frenzy, packing the county Legislature last week to argue the pros and cons.

Suffolk Legislator Dr. William “Doc” Spencer (D-Centerport) drafted legislation that would ban the sale of all flavored vapes and e-liquids, with the exception of menthol and mint, before the Health Committee Dec. 13 for a public hearing. His proposal drew more than 75 speakers including health officials, small business owners and students.

“This is a public health emergency,” Spencer said. “We are seeing an astonishing increase in vamping among those ages 12 to 17, and to wait for the FDA or state to take action is not acceptable at the expense of more children becoming addicted.”

The legislator said studies indicate the number of children vaping in the last year has tripled, and that up to 80 percent cite flavor as the main reason. Spencer said candy and fruity flavors such as cotton candy or Cinnamon Toast Crunch paired with flashy advertising on social media is enticing young people.

“The kids don’t even have a chance,” he said.

The proposed legislation has gained momentum with letters of support from Suffolk County School Superintendents Association, Suffolk County High School Principals Association, the American Medical Association

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Suffolk Legislator William “Doc” Spencer, center, is joined by doctors and parents rallying in support of banning flavored e-cigarettes and vaping liquids.

and the American Academy of Pediatrics, according to Spencer.

“Studies show children try vaping and e-cigs because of the flavors and kids who use these products get addicted and are more likely to move on to combustible cigarettes, with all the health detriments we know are caused by smoking,” said Dr. Eve Meltzer Krief, a member and legislative advocate with New York Chapter 2 of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

In 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the use of flavoring in cigarettes. Spencer said it’s his belief the FDA will take this step with e-cigarettes next.

A number of small business owners spoke out against the proposed legislation stating the issues

of children ages 12 to 17 vaping isn’t the flavors, but rather an issue of access and enforcement of Suffolk County’s limitation on sale of tobacco product to those over the age of 21.

“Fake IDs are the biggest bane of my existence,” said Ibrahim Bal, co-owner of Cloud Vapor and Smoke vape shop in Smithtown. “I’ve come to a point where I’ve had to turn away people who have actual IDs from [New] Jersey.”

Bal encouraged members of the Health Committee to strongly consider steeper penalties for businesses that sell e-cigarettes and vapes to those who are underage. The county’s current law states a first offense is punishable by a minimum fine of $300, with a fee of $500 to $1,500 for each subsequent infraction.

“We’re all on the same page, we don’t’ want kids vaping,” Bal said.

His brother and business partner, Semih, said the children will still be able to purchase e-cigarettes, like the popular JUUL online, and said the issue of access is a matter of responsible parenting.

“Parents need to stop buying it for their kids,” he said, citing it as a frequent occurrence.

His point was strongly seconded by Ron Diamond, owner of Ronjo’s Magic & Costumes in Port Jefferson Station, who said he has recently made the move into selling vape and wellness products in the last nine months. Diamond said his clientele are mature adults attracted to the diverse flavor choices available for use in larger vapor units, not the e-cigarette cartridges favored by teens.

“We have a bigger problem in America, and that’s flavored cereals,” he said. “We have a bigger problem because all the children are obese. If you are going to take away flavor from a vapor, let’s take the flavor away from luring in children to be obese with cereal and sugary, flavors in cereal.”

Diamond said he would support stricter regulation including mandating ID card scanners be installed in each store, locking down sale to vape-specific shops rather than convenience stores, and strict enforcement of identification to prevent underage sale.

“I’m in America, you can’t tell me I can’t have a flavor,” Diamond said.

BY SARA-MEGAN WALSH SARA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM A proposal for Suffolk County sue former police chief James Burke over the $1.5 million settlement it paid out to his victim was tabled by the county Legislature as legal advice on the best approach to seek reparations differed.

The county’s Ways and Means Committee held a public hearing Dec. 13 on Legislator Rob Trotta’s (R-Fort Salonga) resolution to have Suffolk District Attorney Tim Sini (D) initiate a lawsuit against Burke for the settlement the county paid out to Christopher Loeb in February 2018.

Legislator Bridget Fleming (D-Sag Harbor), the chairwoman of the committee, cited a memo from county attorney Dennis Brown that advised Trotta’s proposed lawsuit “would likely be unsuccessful but could expose us to [court] sanctions and attorney fees.”

“There is no basis for it,” Brown said when questioned. “As the committee has discussed, there is no way to recover or recoup the settlement dollars paid in that lawsuit.”

In the federal civil lawsuit, Suffolk agreed

to pay the $1.5 million settlement as Burke’s employer at the time for the civil rights offenses and the actions of six other police officers who participated in covering up the ex-chief’s actions. Burke retained his own private attorney and settled Loeb’s civil case against him for an undisclosed sum, according to Fleming.

Howard Miller, a Garden City-based attorney with the law firm Bond Shoeneck & King, presented a case for the county suing Burke for his wages and compensation paid by the county under the faithless servant doctrine.

This doctrine, according to Miller, dates back to the 19th century allowing employers to seek compensation back from disloyal employees.

“Here, the facts are egregious as you had not only beating of the suspect but systematic coverup of that,” he said. “This doctrine is designed to create a deterrent to future acts like this, of corruption and misconduct.”

Miller stated doing so wouldn’t necessarily require further court litigation, given Burke had pled guilty, but could help Suffolk to claw back wages and any benefits paid to the former police chief from the date of the incident with

Loeb, occurring in 2012, through Burke’s resignation in October 2015. While he admitted a lawsuit to see back the $1.5 million settlement was iffy, Miller said he has successfully represented clients at the state level who have been successful in similar lawsuits, including the William Floyd school district.

“What would be a successful lawsuit in my opinion, a plainly meritorious suit would be to go after the compensation [Burke] was paid while he was covering up his misconduct,” Miller said.

Fleming called for the county attorney to research the county’s legal possibility further and received a vote to table the discussion. Trotta has promised to submit an amended resolution to sue Burke for repayment of his salary.

Several Suffolk residents and former police department members asked the Legislature to further investigate what its legal options were for seeking repayment of the settlement, Burke’s salary or pension.

“You as the legislative body of our county have a fiduciary responsibility to Suffolk residents to go after the employees whose actions harm their employees, thus harming Suffolk County

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residents,” Pam Farino, of Smithtown, said.

“Disgraced ex-chief James Burke did just that.”

Huntington resident James McGoldrick complimented Trotta for his intentions but asked the county’s officials to consider the cost of any legal action, considering the total funds Suffolk stood to regain might not be enough compared to the expenses of further litigation.

Sports – Game of the week

DECEMBER 20, 2018 • THE PORT TIMES RECORD • PAGE A9

Port Jeff wrestling team takes it to the mat in home tourney ninth-grader Jon Balfoort gains first varsity win; sophomore Aaron Held went 2-1 in tournament; junior Jack Niederberger placed third overall; and first-year wrestler Nick Kim battles it out.

The team is back on the mat Dec. 21 where they’ll host the Babylon Panthers at 4:30 p.m.

— Bill Landon

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Port Jefferson’s Royals fought hard at the at the Bob Armstrong Memorial Cup multischool wrestling tournament held at Earl L. Vandermeulen High School Dec. 15.

Port Jeff’s Rick D’Elia, at 120 pounds, took top honors in for the Royals.

Clockwise from top left: ninth-grader Anthony Evangelista went 3-0 in the tournament;

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R E A L ESTAT E Commercial Property/ Yard Space PUBLISHERS’ NOTICE All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation, or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination.”

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Opinion

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Dear Santa of NYS

We, the taxpayers of Suffolk County, believe that as a whole we’ve been pretty good in 2018. Many of us have been busy working long hours, sometimes in multiple jobs, to make ends meet and provide for our families given the high cost of living on the Island. Suffolk police report violent crime and hate crimes are down — we’ve been doing our best to behave.

This holiday season we’re asking you, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), to double, no, triple check the list we know you’ve been diligently drafting up in Albany as to who’s been naughty or nice.

We understand that you have nearly 20 million residents to look out for, but we have a holiday wish list we’d like you to consider before announcing your budget for the 2020 fiscal year: ● Increase state aid to our public schools. School taxes make up the largest portion of our property tax bills. President Donald Trump’s (R) Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is about to hit this April, which limits homeowners to a $10,000 deduction of their state and local property, income and sales taxes. By increasing school funding, it will hopefully help keep future school budget increases low. ● Consider proposals to reconfigure Long Island Power Authority. Long Islanders pay among the highest rates in the Northeast for their electricity; and any reorganizational measures or changes that could bring relief would bring financial relief. ● In the alternative, push through legislation that would allow municipalities and school districts who lose a tax base from utilities, such as LIPA, to access reserved state funds to offset the impact on Suffolk taxpayers. ● Provide more state funding and grants for alternative energy. Our environment is sensitive from being on an island, and increasing our renewable energy resources would help ensure clean water to drink, safe land to live on and, hopefully, lower costs of producing electricity. ● Lay out state funding for sewers on Long Island. Many of our downtown areas are hurting financially, as business districts are struggling to consider growth without sewers. In addition, providing grants to help homeowners with the costs of transitioning from old-fashioned cesspools to modern systems should improve the area’s water quality. ● Set aside more money to repave and reconfigure our heavily traveled state roadways, such as Route 25 and 25A. Driving along these congested roadways brings several perils, including large potholes, inadequate street lighting and sections that flood in heavy rainstorms. Funds could be used to re-engineer troublesome spots that repeatedly cause accidents and repave sections that are in disrepair.

In addition, we understand that you have plenty of elves, your fellow elected officials, who can help enact changes and allocate funds to help make the rest of our holiday wishes come true: ● Start construction on the Rails to Trails project from Wading River through Mount Sinai. The project is much anticipated, but some funding and consideration must be made for neighboring property owners who want privacy of their homes and yards.

Sure, we have quite the holiday wish list this year. But we hope you can see the gifts we’re asking for will benefit all.

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Letters to the editor

Zeldin, King supporting bad actors in Saudi On Dec. 13, the U.S. Senate voted 56-41 to end United States support for the Saudi-led attacks in Yemen. This is a humanitarian crisis that has killed many thousands of civilians. As well, it is estimated that some 85,000 children under the age of 5 have died from malnutrition in three years of war. The U.S. has provided military support for the Saudi attacks, and in a rare show of bipartisanship the Senate voted to end our role in this atrocity.

Unfortunately, this bipartisan effort was stymied by the House of Representatives, where in a 206-203 roll call vote, a resolution tucked into the farm bill tabled this matter from even getting a vote in the House for the remainder of this session

of Congress. Two of our Long Island representatives, Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) and Peter King (R-Seaford), in effect voted for the U.S. to continue participating in the Saudi attacks. This is a little publicized vote, but it deserves our attention.

We know that Saudi Arabia is a bad actor in the region, and a frequent violator of human rights. We know that 15 of the 19 attackers on 9/11 came from Saudi Arabia. We suspect that the Saudi crown prince was responsible for the death of American resident Jamal Khashoggi. There are ample reasons that we should not be supporting a Saudi attack on the sovereign nation of Yemen, especially one that is brutally killing civilians. And yet Zeldin and King, in

their vote to table this matter, have made their decision clear. They will support bad actors in the Middle East and enable the murder of civilians, despite all the evidence pointing to the role Saudi Arabia plays in Middle East affairs.

It is crucial that we hold Zeldin and King accountable for their cowardly, immoral votes. The U.S. Congress is supposed to serve as a check and balance on the executive branch, and Zeldin and King have failed to do so yet again, instead carrying water for the Trump administration. This is a moral outrage that should not be ignored by constituents.

Shoshana Hershkowitz South Setauket

North Shore Youth Council supports community The holiday season is in full swing at North Shore Youth Council. We feel the magic of this time of year through our staff, our kids and our programs.

Our school-age child care and drop-in programs, positive Friday night recreation, holiday giving for local families in need of assistance and mentoring and counseling services all help us realize how far our reach extends into our North

Shore communities.

While the holidays bring us great joy, they also remind us of how our programs and services are needed now more than ever. We strive daily to bring families together, put smiles on the faces of young ones and make the days brighter for everyone. Above all, NSYC provides hope for families and individuals in need or in crisis.

Thanks to the extraordinary generosity and kindness of those involved with our agency, we will continue to be a safe place that our communities can count on as 2018 winds down and we prepare for the New Year.

Janene Gentile Executive Director North Shore Youth Council

U.S. should ban all bee-toxic neonicotinoids A shocking 40 percent of the nation’s honeybee colonies collapsed over the past year. The world’s most widely used class of insecticides, called “neonics,” is a key factor in this devastating loss of bee colonies. Acute exposure to neonics can kill bees directly. Chronic exposure to neonics could be making it harder for bee colonies to breed, fight off disease and survive the winter.

This is a full-blown crisis. The government has reported that the number of managed honeybee colonies in America has plummeted from 4 million in 1970 to just 2.5 million today. We depend on bees for many of our local crops. Not to mention the abundance of flowers and vegetables that bees pollinate in millions of backyard gardens across America.

Bayer, the German chemical giant

and trusted maker of aspirin, is also the world’s leading manufacturer of bee-toxic neonics. The company’s leading neonic products are imidacloprid and clothianidin. These products are so dangerous that the European Union has restricted the use of these toxic chemicals because of the high risk they pose to bees. Unfortunately, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved the sale of these dangerous neonics without considering their impacts on endangered bees, butterflies and birds — a possible violation of the Endangered Species Act. An annual survey of American beekeepers showed that honeybee colonies aren’t dying only during the cold winter months. Bee colonies collapsed last summer at a rate of 17 percent. Science has been warning us that a tidal wave of

neonics is a key factor in the nationwide collapse of bee colonies. Bees are also suffering from the loss of wildflower habitat, rapidly spreading diseases and climate change — all of which have left these vital pollinators stressed out and even more susceptible to pesticide poisoning.

Neonics are truly insidious because they are “systemic,” meaning once they are absorbed into a plant’s tissue, they turn that plant into a tiny poison factory that emits toxins all the way from the roots to the nectar on which the bees feed.

We need to demand that we pull all bee-toxic neonics from the American market.

Edward P. Romaine Town Supervisor Town of Brookhaven

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Opinion

Trying out our best and worst on family

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s we marinate in the warmth of the holidays, we have a chance to spend time with friends and family.

We’ve chosen most of our friends ourselves.

OK, maybe that’s not exactly true, as we inherit friends from our parents when we’re young: “Oh, why don’t you play with Timmy, who is the son of my best friend whom I met when I was your age”; and from our children when we’re older: “Hey, dad, can you hang D. None out with Allisa’s parents while we of the above wander through

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF Great Adventure theme park.”

Despite the somewhat limited pool of people

from which to choose our friends, we often pick those people who share similar values, a sense of humor or a tolerance for politicians.

We don’t have the same luxury with our families. We have nutty family members who say and do all kinds of things that make us cringe, that cause us to laugh long after the events are over or who simply make us scratch our heads.

We often think it’s the other family members who are the oddballs but, in truth, we’re all pretty strange.

Long before people voted each other off shows or islands in situations that seemed completely contrived in reality TV shows, family members confronted the awkward moments when they saw each other, year after year, at holidays, birthdays, special occasions and, perhaps, uncomfortable or less-than-ideal moments.

Families provide us with opportunities to test ourselves and our theories without worrying about losing a job, losing a friend or losing our minds. We can challenge ourselves and our families with ideas percolating in our heads, but

that may not be exactly what we believe.

Our families receive the best and the worst of our impulses, as we step forward to help each other, but also encourage independent growth and development.

As older members of families, we hope to lead not only by our words but by our examples.

Failing that, however, we hope that our spouses, children, parents and siblings can see us for the range of our contributions to the family, and not just for that ignominious moment that we’d just as soon forget.

Families offer reality checks on the myths we create for ourselves. “No, Dan, you didn’t win that horseback-riding ribbon because you had such a great ride. You fell off the horse and the judges felt sorry for you when you landed in horse manure. Good try, though.”

These moments when families hold up mirrors to us can help ground us, keeping us from becoming too proud or mighty. On the other side, however, when we’re feeling down, families can serve as the perfect counterweight,

suggesting that we have succeeded in more difficult circumstances and that they are certain of a positive outcome, even if we harbor significant doubts.

Movies about families often run the gamut of emotions, from slapstick, to comical, to serious and even bruising, as rivalries that run amok can become the origin of dysfunction even when we step away from these familial contacts.

Certainly, therapists often start and end with the family dynamic, drawing an understanding of habits we may not know we have until we look back at the lives and roles that brought us to this point.

At their best, families can inspire and encourage, while suggesting that we can and should believe in ourselves while we pursue our goals. Ultimately, families who demonstrate unconditional love and support, even if they do laugh at us periodically, set the kind of example that makes the accomplishments of the next generation possible. Here’s to everything we give, get and laugh about from the people we call family.

The year that was at TBR, with more to come

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he end of the year has snuck up on us. Have you noticed that the pace of the passing years seems to have accelerated? This is our last regular issue for 2018, and it seems fitting to take a bird’s-eye look at where we’ve been and what lies ahead.

Most immediately coming are the next two issues of special note, that of Dec. 27 and Jan. 3. The first is People of the Year, and we call it our only all-goodnews issue. This is the 43rd year we are honoring outstanding residents for going that extra mile and thereby Between helping to make you and me our hometowns the special places they

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF are. In doing so, they quietly elevate the quality of our lives.

We solicit nominations for this issue from

you, our readers, community leaders and neighbors. The editorial board meets with focus groups in the last quarter of the year over breakfast or lunch to discuss nominees and to further inform us of what is happening here, sometimes quietly, sometimes not so much. It is a treat for us to interact with the community on such a pleasant mission. We also get suggestions via emails, texts, phone calls and even an occasional petition; our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts are available, too.

We then take those names back to our conference room and amid lively discussions, select those whose stories we print in the People of the Year issue. Sometimes the ones that don’t fit become feature stories we run in the new year. I have been told that there are collectors who have all 43 issues. What a shelf life!

The second, the Year in Review, is new this year and is done in pictures in a kind of Life magazine treatment. It is on special white stock to help enhance the photo reproduction and is in full color. Life magazine — for whom I worked when in my early 20s and is no more — eat your heart out! A chronology of the way we were, we

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suspect that it, too, will have a long shelf life.

Some special offerings of this past year certainly should include our first full-length movie, “One Life to Give,” which was screened in June at the Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University to a full house of more than 1,000 viewers. The story follows the early years of the Revolutionary War, specifically through the lives of Nathan Hale and Benjamin Tallmadge, and the start of Washington’s Culper Spy Ring that was headquartered in Setauket.

I am pleased to be able to tell you that we have filmed a sequel, called “Traitor,” that takes place four years later. It is now 1780, and with great luck the Patriots have captured British spymaster, John André. Again Tallmadge is central to the plot that reveals the discovery of Benedict Arnold’s betrayal and the ultimate fate of André. It will be screened in the spring and you will all be invited.

Another first for us this past year was the Cooks, Books & Corks event at the Bates House off Main Street in Setauket. Many local authors came with their books for sale, and many local restaurants came with their specialties for tasting

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Leah S. Dunaief GENERAL MANAGER Johness Kuisel EDITOR Kyle Barr LEISURE EDITOR Heidi Sutton

ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Kathryn Mandracchia DIR. OF MEDIA PRODUCTIONS Michael Tessler

on a sweet summer evening. There was wine and unending good food for both the body and the mind. Our engaging headline speakers were Guy Reuge from Mirabelle Restaurant, internationally famous naturalist Carl Safina and the inspirational dean of the School of Journalism at SBU, Howard Schneider. The event raised money to fund a journalism intern next summer.

In answer to the many times we have been asked, yes, we are planning to do it again.

A new print offering this past year was the sleek Washington’s Spy Trail booklet. In 1790, Washington took a slow, ceremonial coach trip along what is now 25A, from Great Neck to Port Jefferson, to honor the Setauket spies who had contributed so much to the victory of the colonists. The booklet marks the route, which this year sports road signs, with information about various points of interest along the way. We will again be publishing the story with updates.

I am running out of space, but there was a lot more that we innovated this past year with much more to come in 2019. Meanwhile thank you for your participation. We could not do any of this without you.

ART AND PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Beth Heller Mason INTERNET STRATEGY DIRECTOR Rob Alfano CLASSIFIEDS DIRECTOR Ellen Segal

BUSINESS MANAGER Sandi Gross CREDIT MANAGER Diane Wattecamps CIRCULATION MANAGER Courtney Biondo

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