The Village Beacon Record - May 21, 2020

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Vol. 35, No. 44

May 21, 2020

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SWR senior journalists collect the memories of classmates A4 School budgets take interesting turns due to COVID-19 A5

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County

Toulon Boasts of Low Cases of COVID-19 at County Jails

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BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM While jails and prisons across the country have seen a rise in COVID-19 in their facilities, the Suffolk County Correctional Facilities in Riverhead and Yaphank have seen significantly lower cases. Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon (D) credits early usage of face covering, frequent sanitation and social distancing practices.

To date, only one inmate has contracted COVID-19 while at the Suffolk County Correctional Facility and one inmate entered the jail already carrying the virus. The average daily inmate population is 515. Less than 2 percent, or 21 correctional staff out of 858 has come down with coronavirus.

The sheriff also reported four deputies out

of 252 contracted the virus and only one civilian employee of 130 was confirmed with COVID-19. They only have nine coronavirus cases of officers. Currently, the facilities have no COVID-19 positives.

Toulon said that since everyone is required to wear face coverings and that social distancing is enforced throughout the facilities, coronavirus hasn’t spread inside the two jails like it has elsewhere. He added it “should serve as an example” for the general public that COVID-19 can be controlled by following the advice of public health officials.

“I think if more people knew how we have controlled the spread of COVID-19 inside the jails by wearing face coverings and maintaining physical distance from others, that people would understand that they do have some control if they take personal responsibility,” he said. “The mixed messages have put too many people in danger, led to further spread of the virus, and it has caused immeasurable damage to the economy.”

In April, a state court denied the Legal Aid Society of Suffolk County’s request to free around 120 inmates over coronavirus fears.

The State Supreme Court Justice Mark Cohen claimed the decision was, in part, because of the jail’s success in halting the spread of the virus.

The legal aid society was, however, successful in securing release of many other inmates held on noncriminal parole violations.

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Shoreham-Wading River

SWR Reporters Reveal Lasting Memories of Seniors With Final Newspaper Issue

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM It was months before the start of the crisis, and the editors of the Wildcat Pause school newspaper at Shoreham-Wading River High School were anticipating the school year’s end and the annual senior issue. Last year, printing troubles resulted in only a few copies getting published. This year was supposed to be different.

Then the pandemic happened. The schools were closed. Students started learning at a distance online, and for the editors of the Pause, a new concern popped into their heads. What would happen to the senior issue, the one supposed to cap off both their and their fellow student’s final year?

“It became obvious that we needed to have it ready,” said high school journalism teacher Jean Branna. The newspaper is planned to be available online and will be printed in time to be handed out alongside the yearbook.

What became apparent to both the teacher and school newspaper editors was this senior issue, the last of their K-12 careers, would mark a defining moment for so many of their classmates. What they were experiencing was historic, a disruption to traditional schooling not seen

in more than a century.

It was a marking point for a graduating class which editors said has become tight knit through adversity, such as the students who came together in the 2018 high school walkouts, protesting gun violence in schools after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida.

“The senior class is very close, we went through a lot of stuff in the past several years,” said Heather Tepper, co-editor-in-chief of the Pause. “To see the last three years taken away from a lot of people, you really see them react with deprivation and disappointment.”

Tepper, along with co-editor-in-chief Sasha Medvedeva, SWR senior John Basile and Branna have taken to the task of producing the senior issue come hell or high water.

Of course, nothing comes easy, especially in a crisis. The school newspaper crew is unable to use Adobe InDesign from home, as Branna said the program does not meet the data privacy and security requirements by state law. Instead, thanks to the technical expertise of Basile, the editors have started laying out using Google Docs. Normally just a tool for straight text formats, using tables and cells the students have learned to format the papers, despite limitations of the program.

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‘I will miss the relationships I have created with teachers and peers. Some of us went to kindergarten together, so it’s not easy to recreate the same type of relationship.’

The fact the students and teacher have had only three weeks to put together issue meant some long hours compiling pictures and senior comments, then laying everything out. Tepper said there was one night she logged on to see Branna was still working on a page at around 11:30 p.m. She told her teacher to “go get some sleep.”

Doing this project, she said, is as much for the students as it is to show appreciation for

her teacher.

“Branna is so invested with journalism in general, she’s so into her work, and I felt like I wanted to go out with a bang,” Tepper said.

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Town

Districts Attempt to Maintain Programming Alongside Many Unknowns

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM With school district budgets and board elections on the docket for June 9 with an extension from New York State, this year’s crop of district spending and revenue plans have had to contend with many unknowns.

In fact, budgets may change from now until June 1, as the current pandemic holds much in the air. COVID-19, by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) estimates, could result in approximately $61 billion less revenue for New York State from 2021 to 2024. The hope rests on the federal government supplying the state with emergency funding.

“It’s very, very hard to plan for the unknown,” said Glen Arcuri, the assistant superintendent for finance and operations at the Shoreham-Wading River Central School District.

The governor has three look-back periods for revising state aid. The last period is Dec. 31.

Though one certainty is the start of next school year will weigh heavily on officials, as many still do not know when students will again walk through facilities’ doors.

Additionally, complicating this year’s votes is everything must be done outside of polling locations. New York State will mail ballots to each residence with a prepaid return envelope, and if a person needs more than one ballot for a household, they must also contact district clerks.

There are still many unknowns, even as districts craft budgets. Nobody could say whether students will have a fall sports season, whether students would have to wear masks and remain apart in the classroom, or whether there will even be the chance for students to learn in-person, instead of online.

Numbers floated by Cuomo for state aid reductions have not inspired much hope. The governor said without state aid, school districts could see an upward of 50 percent reduction.

“A 50 percent reduction would be very painful for our school district, it would be insurmountable for any other school district,” said Port Jefferson Deputy Superintendent Sean Leister.

All that comes down to whether the federal government will provide aid to the state for it to maintain current budget figures.

All budget information provided is the latest from the school districts, though if it does change based on any state decisions, an update

to this article will appear in the June 4 issue.

Mount Sinai

Mount Sinai residents will see a marginal increase in budget but only a slight increase in taxes, despite the lingering question whether students will even be in school next September.

The district voted to approve its budget at its May 18 board meeting.

The 2020-21 budget sees a $61,769,870 budget, a $760,100 and 1.25 percent increase from last year. The tax levy is set at $41,396,602, an increase of 1 percent and well below the 2.43 percent cap set by New York State.

The largest increases come in the form of operations and maintenance by just over $84,000 because of contractual obligations, as well as oil and electric increases. Employee benefits increased by $272,695, mostly from employee and teacher retirement requirements.

“Every participant in the retirement system is given percentages based on the market performances from the comptroller’s office,” said board president Robert Sweeney.

Though much of the budget remains the same in presentations from the past 3 months, officials said that this year’s budget has had to account for the fact many, many residents have been hit hard financially by the pandemic.

“Our community is not in the same financial position five weeks ago,” said Superintendent Gordon Brosdal.

A second proposition the district will ask voters to approve $1.2 million for capital projects from the reserves. This does not increase the tax levy.

Current projects still include continuing the high school roof replacement for $865,000, replacing the middle school water heater for $100,000, among others for a total of $1,200,000.

The district is currently set to receive $17,653,079 in state aid this upcoming school year, a some $135,000 decrease from last year.

Brosdal said it was due to decreased building aid from continuing to pay off loans and bonds from building projects.

Brosdal said the question of whether the governor will cut state aid, that is still up in the air, could mean massive upheaval for the district.

“He has talked about a further 20 percent school aid cut, which would be devastating, devastating,” Brosdal said. “Things are not what they were, this is a brand new game.”

Should the state budget change mid-year, that would also cause issues for the district, the superintendent said, as they would then have to revise the budget midstream, potentially leading to staffing cuts and program changes.

Brosdal, who in his time working from home has grown a mustache since the start of quarantine, also added, “I need to go back to school because I need to shave.”

Mount Sinai will host its budget hearing June 2 at 8 p.m. A link to the online meeting can be found at mtsinai.k12.ny.us. Votes must be received by June 9 at 8 p.m.

Miller Place

For a budget that was originally meant to be displayed and voted on earlier this month, not much has changed between then and the pandemic which has pushed the vote back to May 9.

The district adopted its budget at its March 17 emergency meeting, but has reallocated resources in order to better meet the needs of students as they handle distance learning, and potentially when they are allowed back into school buildings.

“We reviewed all of our expenditures reallocated from areas that we can regress,” said Superintendent Marianne Cartisano.

The budget for 2020-21 is set at $75,713,895, a $1,755,288 or 2.37 percent increase from last year. Though the district also cites using about a million dollars in capital project funding, which would mean this year’s increase is $754,612, or just over 1 percent.

The largest increases come from the usual suspects such as a $390,137 or 2.38 percent increase in employee benefits and a $134,659 increase in health insurance budget.

The district’s 2020-21 tax levy, or the amount of money the district raises through area taxes, is set at $47,616,059, which sits directly at the state tax cap limit for this year of 1.46 percent.

It’s an increase of $687,471 from last year.

Miller Place’s state aid was set at $23,144,911, but the district also has leftover building aid of $792,666 and will be receiving an additional $208,010 for 2020-21. Cartisano said that million or so dollars came in response to the high school gym floor, which was remedied last September. Now that aid, along with saved funds, will be used to help offset any potential reductions in state aid, should the state revise its budget somewhere down the line.

“It’s not an advantageous place to be in to have a huge unknown, but we are fortunate that we can plan for it — the school district is very financially solid,” the superintendent said.

In terms of programming for this upcoming year, the district plans to continue with all current classes and clubs along with adding more time to middle school math labs and new courses of AP Calculus BC and non-regents chemistry. These two new courses are being funded by reallocation of resources and will only run if

there are enough students enrolled.

The budget also adds elementary sections in an effort to lower class sizes in the third, fifth and sixth grades. These sections were seeing an average of 26 students before, but that will be reduced to 22 or 24.

The district is also adding an extra 10 minutes of “specials” time in the elementary school, or the daily activities where one day may be gym and the next day art. These activities are going from 30 to 40 minutes for physical education, art, music or library time.

The district has also allocated for a 1 to 1 technology initiative with each student receiving a district laptop or otherwise electronic device, which will also go towards distance learning if state mandates remain in place. Going along with this thought, the high school will receive an additional 3:05 p.m. late bus for students who stay after school for extra help. In addition, the district is adding two counselors to expand mental health options and assist with the transition back to classes.

This is alongside an overall enrollment that continues on the gradual declining trend. May 2019 saw a size of 2,581 students. Next year is projected to have 2,531.

Miller Place is hosting its budget hearing May 26 at 7 p.m. via Zoom. Residents can go to the district website millerplace.k12.ny.us/District to find the link. All mail in ballots must be received by 5 p.m. June 9.

Rocky Point

The Rocky Point Union Free School District adopted its budget at its May 19 board meeting, though the 2020-21 budget has seen some significant reductions since it was last seen by board members in April.

Things have changed since then, with a reduction in New York State aid resulting in an even larger cut in overall budget by some $2.1 million to the new 2020-21 total of $84,586,600.

The reductions in budget coincides with a loss of state aid funds compared to last year, seeing a reduction of nearly $1.5 million.

Expenditure decreases are across the board to reach the reduced budget. This is also to reduce the budget thanks to a tax levy cap of just 0.08 percent this year, a figure Christopher Van Cott, assistant superintendent for business, said was due to expiring debt service, which is no longer allowed as an exclusion. The budget sets SCHOOL BUDGETS Continued on A6

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Town

Nonprofit Heritage Trust Hard-Hit During Pandemic

BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM During the spring and summer seasons, the community center at Heritage Park in Mount Sinai would see an abundance of residents stopping in to take a break from the park or to join in the plethora of events held there. That all changed with COVID-19, and with no indication on when it can reopen, members of nonprofit Heritage Trust, which oversees the park, say they may need to reinvent themselves in order for them and the center to survive.

Victoria Hazan, president of the organization, said right now is usually their busy season at the community center. They would normally have a number of classes, events, parties and receptions held in the building.

“We usually have tons of things going on during the week, there’s Zumba, country line dancing, cooking classes, the local church and civic association use the space as well,” she said. “Before COVID-19 we were booked solid through next April.”

Renting out the community center space is a major revenue source for nonprofit and it helps pay for other expenses. Without that option, it will be tougher to be able to pay for rent and insurance payments.

Since closing in March, the organization has

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the tax levy, or the amount the district raises in area taxes, at $52,483,059, setting itself directly at the tax cap, and is a very slight increase from last year’s figure.

Van Cott said the district is “taking a very conservative approach” toward this year’s budget, adding there will be cuts in several areas while still being able to maintain current instructional programming, along with athletic and cocurricular programs.

“We looked at staffing and enrollment, and made decisions based on that enrollment, looking for different ways to deliver the same service in more economical ways,” Van Cott said.

“Despite fiscal challenges, and lack of guidance and the numbers we need from the state, we were able to achieve budget goals.”

There are cuts across the board, though the biggest decreases are from administration and central services, as well as a $250,000 decrease in athletics and PPS. Van Cott said the district plans to reduce the number of sports teams at the middle school level. Though not removing any sports from the roster, multiple sports that have two teams will be reduced to one, Van Cott said.

The district is also planning to use the capital reserves to repave the front driveway area in

refunded deposits back to planned renters.

“Those issues just don’t go away, our insurance on the building is extremely high,” Hazan said.

The organization was able to get a threemonth deferment of its mortgage payments, but that ends in July.

Another funding avenue that the organization relies on is their regular fundraising events.

This year they were unable to put on the annual spring carnival, one of the park’s main fundraising sources. That revenue from the carnival helps them host other events including the Christmas tree lighting and Halloween festival.

Given the financial strains from COVID-19, the nonprofit may be forced to change how it operates. This year, the trust was planning to celebrate its 20th anniversary since its inception.

Lori Baldassare, the founding director of the organization, said they have looked at consolidating with other local nonprofits, as well as combining resources and staff. They have talked to North Shore Youth Council about possibly sharing some of the community center space.

In addition, members are still trying to find creative ways to host some type of events for the time being. One idea would be a drive-in movie night or a virtual fundraising concert held at the community center, where only performers would be in the building and residents could

watch from their homes.

“Logistically it would be difficult to pull off but it’s something,” Baldassare said. “The community center fills a void for a lot of people.”

The group hopes the community can come to their aid. One of the issues the trust has faced over the years is that residents don’t necessarily know how they operate and mistakenly think the Heritage Park is run by Brookhaven Town or Suffolk County. Brookhaven workers generously supply general maintenance of the baseball field and grass cutting to the park, but the center and playground are owned by the trust, and all other landscaping, such as the flower plantings, are all done by volunteers.

Baldassare said it has been a messaging issue but hopes if people learn where the funding comes from and what they’ve been offering to the community, individuals would be willing to make donations.

The two agreed that the trust may need to change how they operate post-COVID-19.

“I don’t see us coming out the same way we were before coronavirus,” Baldassare said. “We can’t just think nothing will happen, we want to continue to provide a sense of place for the community and I hope we have a path forward to do that.”

Hazan is concerned of how the community center will fare once the pandemic and shut-

down is over.

“I don’t foresee many people being comfortable at a big event like a wedding or reception,” she said. “There will probably be baby steps along the way.”

Possible capacity restrictions could be another obstacle for the group.

“Not a lot of people are going to want to rent out a place like the center with just limited capacity,” Hazan said. “We’re worried, we’ve worked so hard over the years to get where we are, and I would hate to see it go away.”

front of the high school with a cost not to exceed $350,000. Rocky Point’s current reserve balance is set at $1,590,368. In a separate proposition to the budget, the district will be asking residents to vote to gain access to the funds. The capital reserve does not increase the tax levy.

The potential the state could further reduce state aid is real, and Van Cott said the district is looking to use its capital reserves, along with the described expenditures reductions, to plug any holes that come up. If state aid does not decrease, he added some of those staff positions expected to make reductions in might not have to be.

Rocky Point is hosting its budget hearing June 2 at 6 p.m., but residents will also be mailed a budget brochure and six-day notice shortly after. That same document will be available at the district website May 26. Ballots are due by 5 p.m. June 9.

tain all current programming despite looming fears state aid will be cut in the near or distant future. The district adopted the revised budget at its May 19 meeting.

The district’s $77,164,774 budget is a 1.6 percent increase from last year’s $75,952,416.

The year’s tax levy, or the amount of funds raised from resident taxes, would stand at $55,391,167, a $1,013,510 increase from 2019-20.

This tax levy represents an overall decrease from what the district showed in its March presentations by almost $300,000.

Though the district boasts its maintaining its programming, the overall cuts to the planned budget have left an impact. Recent program initiatives, including several new art, wellness, jazz band and world languages clubs, have been axed. The planned SWR 101 class, which would have been a new kind of basic overview class for incoming freshmen, is no longer on the table for the year’s budget. Replacement equipment for the Wading River school’s gym wall pads and outdoor basketball hoops, as well as middle school smart classroom furniture and high school volleyball standards will not arrive as originally planned. In addition, travel and conference funding will be reduced by 50 percent if the budget is approved.

Assistant superintendent Arcuri said those funds are being redirected to applying addition-

al “structural” support for distance learning due to COVID-19, as well as additional sanitizing equipment and supplies. He added, optimistically, there’s a possibility if funding stabilizes bringing in these proposed clubs mid-year.

The budget relies on a $12,789,308 state aid package, which would be a $112,843 increase from last year. To make room for the very real potential the state could make cuts to state aid midyear in the fall, the district has placed certain items in the budget that would not be purchased before Dec. 31, including multiple infrastructure projects at Miller Avenue elementary and the middle school, as well as work on the districtwide grounds and asphalt repairs.

“These are not items that are absolutely essential,” Arcuri said. “They are important to get completed, but they are not more important than losing instructional support or any student related program and/or any staff within the district.”

Of course, with so much still unknown, the district does not know if the approximately $5,235,229 of a $24,114,734 five-year contract with bus company First Student will even be used.

The district is planning to host its budget hearing presentation May 26. For mail-in ballots, all must be received in the clerk’s office by 5 p.m., June 9.

Shoreham-Wading River

SWR’s 2020-21 budget boasts it will main-

The Heritage Center is usually the Trust’s main moneymaker, but the pandemic has severely reduced revenue.

File photo by Kyle Barr

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LEGALS NOTICE OF PUBLIC BUDGET HEARING, BUDGET VOTE and ELECTION MOUNT SINAI UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN, SUFFOLK COUNTY, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Budget Hearing of the qualified voters of the Mount Sinai School District, Mount Sinai, New York, will be held remotely on Tuesday, June 2, 2020, at 8:00 p.m., prevailing time, for the transaction of such business as is authorized by Education Law, including the following items: 1) To present a detailed statement (proposed budget) of the amount of money that will be required for the 2020-21 fiscal year.

2) To discuss all of the items hereinafter set forth to be voted upon at the Budget Vote/Election to be held on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 3) To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting pursuant to the Education Law of the State of New York. a. To adopt the annual budget of said School District for the fiscal year 2020-21 and to authorize the requisite portion thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the District. b. To enter into an agreement for Library Services. c. To authorize a Capital Improvement Project. d. To elect members of the Board of Education as follows: 1) One member for a term of three (3) years commencing July 1, 2020 to succeed Edward Law, whose term of office expires June 30, 2020.

2) One member for a term of three (3) years commencing July 1, 2020 to succeed Robert Sweeney, whose term of office expires June 30, 2020.

3) One member for a term of three (3) years commencing July 1, 2020 to succeed Peter Van Middelem, whose term of office expires June 30, 2020.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a copy of the statement of the amount of money that will be required to fund the School

To Place A Legal Notice

Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com District’s budget for 202021, exclusive of public monies, shall be available to any residents on the District’s website and at the Office of the District Clerk beginning May 26, 2020, except Saturday, Sunday, or holidays, at the Administration Office, and at each of the school buildings.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS GIVEN that pursuant to Real Property Tax law section 495 an “exemption report” is to be attached to the budget citing the amount of the total assessed valuation of the District that is subject to exemption from taxation including a listing of every type of exemption (providing the statutory authority for each such exemption); the cumulative impact of each such exemption; the cumulative amount to be received from recipients of exemptions in the form of “payments in lieu of taxes” or other payments for municipal services; and the cumulative impact of all exemptions granted.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that petitions nominating candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education shall be filed with the Clerk of said school district at the Clerk’s office in the Mount Sinai District Office, Route 25A, Mount Sinai, New York, not later than Monday, May 11, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. Vacancies on the Board of Education shall not be considered separate specific offices and nominating petitions shall not describe any specific vacancy for which a candidate is nominated.

Such petitions must be directed to the Clerk of the District and must state the name and residence of the candidate (qualifications for candidacy include being a U.S. citizen; 18 years of age or older; and having resided within the District one year prior to the election.)

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that absentee ballots will be provided to qualified voters of the District by mail under the terms prescribed by Executive Order No. 202.26. Absentee ballots must be received by the District Clerk not later than 5:00 p.m., prevailing time, on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 in order to be can-

vassed.

A list of persons to whom absentee ballots are issued will be available for inspection to qualified voters of the District in the Office of the District Clerk on and after Thursday, June 4, 2020, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. on weekdays prior to the day set for the annual election (to the extent that there is availability of such facilities for the review of the qualified list of voters). Any qualified voter may, upon examination of such list, file a written challenge of the qualifications as a voter of any person whose name appears on such list, stating the reasons for such challenge. Any such written challenge shall be transmitted by the District Clerk or a designee of the Board of Education to the inspectors of election on the day of the election.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that personal registration of voters can be effected pursuant to Section 2014 of the New York State Education Law or Article 5 of the New York State Election Law (through the Suffolk County Board of Elections). There will be no availability to register before the District’s Board of Registration or within the District Clerk’s Office for the June 9, 2020 vote/election. If a voter has heretofore registered and has voted at any annual or special district meeting within the four (4) calendar years preceding the June 9, 2020 vote/election he/she is eligible to vote; if a voter is registered and eligible to vote pursuant to Article 5 of the Election Law, such voter is also eligible to vote. Those wishing to register may mail in completed registration forms to the Suffolk County Board of Elections (forms available to be downloaded at its website; or may be obtained at a U.S. Post Office; or by way of visiting https:// www.dmv.ny.gov/more-info/ electronic-voter-registrationapplication in order to do so online).

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that military voters who are qualified voters of the Mount Sinai School District may request an application for a military ballot from the District

Clerk by mail to Mount Sinai School District, 118 North Country Road, Mount Sinai, New York 11766, by email to mpoerio@mtsinai.k12.ny.us or by fax sent to 631-4730905. In such request, the military voter may indicate their preference for receiving the application by mail, fax or email. A military voter must return the original military ballot application by mail to the office of the District Clerk, Mount Sinai School District, 118 North Country Road, Mount Sinai, New York 11766. In order for a military voter to be issued a military ballot, a valid military ballot application must be received in the office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 14, 2020. Military ballot application received in accordance with the foregoing will be processed in the same manner as a non-military ballot application under Section 2018-b of the Education Law. The application for military ballot may include the military voter’s preference for receipt of the military ballot by mail, fax or email.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN a military voter’s original military ballot must be returned by mail to the office of the District Clerk at Mount Sinai School District, 118 North Country Road, Mount Sinai, New York 11766. Military ballots shall be canvassed if they are received by the District Clerk before 5:00 p.m. on June 9, 2020 showing a cancellation mark of the United States Postal Service or a foreign country’s postal service, or showing a dated endorsement of receipt by another agency of the United States Government; or received not later than 5:00 p.m. on June 9, 2020 and signed and dated by the military voter and one witness thereto, with a date which is ascertained to be not later than the day before the election.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a rule adopted by the Board of Education in accordance with Section 2035 of the Education Law, any propositions to be submitted for voting at said Budget Vote/Election must be filed with the Board of Education at the Mount Sinai District Office, Route 25A, Mount

Sinai, New York, not later than Monday, May 11, 2020 at 2:00 p.m., prevailing time; must be typed or printed in the English language; must be directed to the Clerk of the School District; and must be signed by at least twentyfive (25) qualified voters of the school district. However, the School Board will not entertain any petition to place before the voters any proposition the purpose of which is not within the powers of the voters to determine, or any proposition or amendment which is contrary to law.

Dated: May 4, 2020 Maureen Poerio, District Clerk Mount Sinai U.F.S.D. Town of Brookhaven Suffolk County, New York 596 5/21 1x vbr AVISO DE AUDIENCIA PRESUPUESTARIA, VOTO PRESUPUESTARIO Y ELECCIÓNDISTRITO ESCOLAR GRATUITO DE LA UNIÓN SINAI DE MONTAJECIUDAD DE BROOKHAVEN, SUFFOLK COUNTY, NUEVA YORK SE DA AVISO QUE se llevará a cabo una Audiencia de Presupuesto Público en la Escuela Intermedia Mount Sinai, Ruta 25A, Mount Sinai, Nueva York, el martes 12 de mayo de 2020, a las 8:00 pm, hora vigente, para la transacción de tales negocios autorizados por la Ley de Educación, incluidos los siguientes elementos: 1) Presentar a los votantes una declaración detallada (presupuesto propuesto) de la cantidad de dinero que se requerirá para el año fiscal 2020-21.

2) Discutir todos los puntos que se expondrán en lo sucesivo para ser votados por las máquinas de votación en el Presupuesto / Elección que se celebrará el martes 19 de mayo de 2020.

3) Para tramitar cualquier otro negocio que pueda venir adecuadamente antes de la reunión de conformidad con la Ley de Educación del Estado de Nueva York. Las urnas estarán abiertas para votar por máquina de votación sobre los siguientes elementos

el 19 de mayo de 2020: a. Adoptar el presupuesto anual de dicho Distrito Escolar para el año fiscal 202021 y autorizar que la porción requerida del mismo se recaude mediante impuestos sobre la propiedad imponible del Distrito. si. Para celebrar un acuerdo para los Servicios de biblioteca.

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Elegir miembros de la Junta de Educación de la siguiente manera: 1) Un miembro por un período de tres (3) años a partir del 1 de julio de 2020 para tener éxito Edward Law, cuyo mandato expira el 30 de junio de 2020.

2) Un miembro por un período de tres (3) años a partir del 1 de julio de 2020 para tener éxito Robert Sweeney, cuyo mandato expira el 30 de junio de 2020.

3) Un miembro por un período de tres (3) años a partir del 1 de julio de 2020 para suceder a Peter Van Middelem, cuyo mandato expira el 30 de junio de 2020.

Y ADEMÁS SE OTORGA AVISO de que con el propósito de votar en dicha Elección / Voto de Presupuesto el martes 19 de mayo de 2020, en la Escuela Primaria Mount Sinai, las urnas estarán abiertas entre las 6:00 a.m. y las 9:00 a.m. pm, hora predominante.

A Y SE PROPORCIONA POR LA PRESENTE una copia de la declaración de la cantidad de dinero que se requerirá para financiar el presupuesto del Distrito Escolar para 2020-21, excluyendo el dinero público, puede ser obtenida por cualquier residente del Distrito durante el horario comercial a partir del 5 de mayo de 2020, excepto sábados, domingos o días festivos, en la Oficina de Administración y en cada uno de los edificios escolares.

Y SE PROPORCIONA UN AVISO ADICIONAL que de conformidad con la sección 495 de la ley del Impuesto sobre Bienes Inmuebles se adjuntará un “informe de exención” al presupuesto citando el importe de la valoración total evaluada del Distrito LEGALS con’t on pg. 8

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LEGALS LEGALS con’t from pg. 7 que está sujeta a exención de impuestos, incluida una lista de todo tipo de exención (proporcionando la autoridad legal para cada una de esas exenciones); el impacto acumulativo de cada una de esas exenciones; el importe acumulado que debe recibirse de los beneficiarios de exenciones en forma de “pagos en lugar de impuestos” u otros pagos por servicios municipales; y el impacto acumulativo de todas las exenciones concedidas.

Y SE CUENTA POR LA PRESENTE QUE las peticiones que nominan a los candidatos para el cargo de miembro de la Junta de Educación se presentarán ante el Secretario de dicho distrito escolar en la oficina del Secretario en la Oficina del Distrito de Mount Sinai, Ruta 25A, Mount Sinai, Nueva York, a más tardar el lunes 11 de mayo de 2020 a las 5:00 p.m. Las vacantes en la Junta de Educación no se considerarán oficinas específicas separadas y las peticiones de nominación no describirán ninguna vacante específica para la cual se designe un candidato. Dichas peticiones deben dirigirse al Secretario del Distrito y deben indicar el nombre y la residencia del candidato (las calificaciones para la candidatura incluyen ser ciudadano de los Estados Unidos; 18 años de edad o más; y haber residido dentro del Distrito un año antes de la elección).

Y SE PROPORCIONA POR LA PRESENTE QUE las papeletas ausentes se proporcionarán a los votantes calificados del Distrito por correo bajo los términos prescritos por la Orden Ejecutiva No 202.26. Las papeletas ausentes deben ser recibidas por el Secretario de Distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m., hora prevaleciente, el martes 9 de junio de 2020 para ser investigadas.

Una lista de las personas a las que se emiten las papeletas en ausencia estará disponible para su inspección a los votantes calificados del Distrito en la Oficina del Secretario del Distrito en y después del jueves 4 de junio de 2020, entre las 9:00 a.m. y las 2:00 p.m. de lunes a viernes antes del día establecido para la elec-

To Place A Legal Notice

Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com ción anual (en la medida en que haya disponibilidad de tales facilidades para la revisión de la lista de electores calificados). Cualquier elector calificado puede, tras el examen de dicha lista, presentar una impugnación por escrito de las calificaciones como votante de cualquier persona cuyo nombre aparezca en dicha lista, indicando las razones de dicha impugnación.

Cualquier impugnación escrita será transmitida por el Secretario de Distrito o un designado de la Junta de Educación a los inspectores de elección el día de la elección.

Y SE PROPORCIONA A LA PRESENTE QUE el registro personal de los electores puede efectuarse de conformidad con la Sección 2014 de la Ley de Educación del Estado de Nueva York o el Artículo 5 de la Ley Electoral del Estado de Nueva York (a través de la Junta Electoral del Condado de Suffolk). No habrá disponibilidad para registrarse ante la Junta de Registro del Distrito o dentro de la Oficina del Secretario del Distrito para el voto/elección del 9 de junio de 2020.

Si un elector se ha registrado hasta ahora y ha votado en cualquier reunión anual o especial del distrito dentro de los cuatro (4) años calendario anteriores al voto/ elección del 9 de junio de 2020, es elegible para votar; si un elector está registrado y es elegible para votar de conformidad con el Artículo 5 de la Ley Electoral, dicho votante también es elegible para votar. Aquellos que deseen registrarse pueden enviar por correo en los formularios de registro completados a la Junta Electoral del Condado de Suffolk (formularios disponibles para ser descargados en su sitio web; o pueden obtenerse en una oficina de correos de los Estados Unidos; o por medio de visitar https://www.dmv. ny.gov/more-info/electronicvoter-registration-application para hacerlo en línea).

Y SE CUENTA POR LA PRESENTE que los votantes militares que son votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar de Mount Sinai pueden solicitar una solicitud de una boleta militar al Secretario del Distrito por correo al Distrito Escolar de Mount Sinai, 118 North Country Road, Mount Sinai, Nueva

York 11766, por correo electrónico a mpoerio@mtsinai. k12.ny.us o por fax enviado al 631-473-0905. En tal solicitud, el votante militar puede indicar su preferencia por recibir la solicitud por correo, fax o correo electrónico. Un votante militar debe devolver la solicitud de boleta militar original por correo a la oficina del Secretario del Distrito, Distrito Escolar de Mount Sinai, 118 North Country Road, Mount Sinai, Nueva York 11766.

Para que un votante militar reciba una boleta militar, se debe recibir una solicitud de voto militar válida en la oficina del Secretario del Distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m. del 14 de mayo de 2020. La solicitud de papeleta militar recibida de acuerdo con lo anterior será procesada de la misma manera que una solicitud de boleta no militar bajo la Sección 2018-b de la Ley de Educación. La solicitud de votación militar puede incluir la preferencia del elector militar por la recepción de la boleta militar por correo, fax o correo electrónico.

Y POR LA PRESENTE SE DA UN AVISO, la boleta militar original de un votante militar debe ser devuelta por correo a la oficina del Secretario del Distrito en el Distrito Escolar de Mount Sinai, 118 North Country Road, Mount Sinai, Nueva York 11766. Las papeletas militares serán investigadas si son recibidas por el Secretario de Distrito antes de las 5:00 p.m. del 9 de junio de 2020 mostrando una marca de cancelación del Servicio Postal de los Estados Unidos o del servicio postal de un país extranjero, o mostrando un respaldo fechado de recibo por otra agencia del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos; o recibido a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m. del 9 de junio de 2020 y firmado y fechado por el votante militar y un testigo de la mismo, con una fecha que se determina que no es más tarde del día anterior a la elección.

Y SE RENUNCIA A LA PRESENTE que de conformidad con una norma adoptada por la Junta de Educación de conformidad con la Sección 2035 de la Ley de Educación, cualquier propuesta que se presente para votar en dicho Voto Presupuestario/Elección debe presentarse ante

la Junta de Educación en la Oficina del Distrito de Mount Sinai, Route 25A, Mount Sinai, Nueva York, no más tarde del lunes 11 de mayo de 2020 a las 2:00.p.m.; debe escribirse o imprimirse en inglés; debe ser dirigido al Secretario del Distrito Escolar; y debe ser firmado por al menos veinticinco (25) votantes calificados del distrito escolar. Sin embargo, la Junta Escolar no atenderá ninguna petición para presentar ante los votantes ninguna propuesta cuyo propósito no esté dentro de los poderes de los electores para determinar, o cualquier propuesta o enmienda que sea contraria a la ley.

Board of Education.

Fecha: 13 de marzo de 2020

The Board of Education of the Mount Sinai Union Free School District, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, hereby invites sealed bids for:

Maureen Poerio, secretaria del distrito Monte Sinaí U.F.S.D. Ciudad de Brookhaven Condado de Suffolk, Nueva York 597 5/21 1x vbr Board of Education Mount Sinai Union Free School District 118 North Country Road Mount Sinai, New York 11766 NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Board of Education of the Mount Sinai Union Free School District, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, hereby invites sealed bids for: Electrical Contracting Bid #2020/2021-7 Specifications and Bid Forms may be obtained via email request to sreh@mtsinai. k12.ny.us. Bids will be received by fax 631-473-0905 or by mail to Mount Sinai Union Free School District, Attn: Business Office, 118 North Country Road, Mount Sinai, New York 11766 until 10:15 am on May 29, 2020 at which time and place all bids will be opened.

Board of Education reserves the right to reject all or to accept part of any bid.

Any bid submitted will be binding for Ninety (90) days after the formal opening thereof, and no bid shall be withdrawn during that time, pending the decision of the

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

By Order Of The: BOARD OF EDUCATION MOUNT SINAI UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT MOUNT SINAI, TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN SUFFOLK COUNTY, NEW YORK

The Board of Education of the Mount Sinai Union Free School District, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, hereby invites sealed bids for:

601 5/21 1x vbr

Specifications and Bid Forms may be obtained via email request to sreh@mtsinai. k12.ny.us. Bids will be received by fax 631-473-0905 or by mail to Mount Sinai Union Free School District, Attn: Business Office, 118 North Country Road, Mount Sinai, New York 11766 until 11:00 am on May 29, 2020 at which time and place all bids will be opened.

Board of Education Mount Sinai Union Free School District 118 North Country Road Mount Sinai, New York 11766 NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Masonry Labor Bid #2020/21-8 Specifications and Bid Forms may be obtained via email request to sreh@mtsinai. k12.ny.us. Bids will be received by fax 631-473-0905 or by mail to Mount Sinai Union Free School District, Attn: Business Office, 118 North Country Road, Mount Sinai, New York 11766 until 10: 30 am on May 29, 2020 at which time and place all bids will be opened.

Board of Education reserves the right to reject all or to accept part of any bid.

Any bid submitted will be binding for Ninety (90) days after the formal opening thereof, and no bid shall be withdrawn during that time, pending the decision of the Board of Education.

By Order Of The: BOARD OF EDUCATION MOUNT SINAI UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT MOUNT SINAI, TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN SUFFOLK COUNTY, NEW YORK 602 5/21 1x vbr Board of Education Mount Sinai Union Free School District 118 North Country Road Mount Sinai, New York 11766

Roofing Bid #2020/21-10

Board of Education reserves the right to reject all or to accept part of any bid.

Any bid submitted will be binding for Ninety (90) days after the formal opening thereof, and no bid shall be withdrawn during that time, pending the decision of the Board of Education.

By Order Of The: BOARD OF EDUCATION MOUNT SINAI UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT MOUNT SINAI, TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN SUFFOLK COUNTY, NEW YORK 603 5/21 1x vbr Board of Education Mount Sinai Union Free School District 118 North Country Road Mount Sinai, New York 11766 NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Board of Education of the Mount Sinai Union Free School District, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, hereby invites sealed bids for : Commercial Irrigation Bid #2020/21-12 Specifications and Bid Forms may be obtained via email request to sreh@mtsinai. k12.ny.us. Bids will be received by fax 631-473-0905 or by mail to Mount Sinai Union Free School District, Attn: Business Office, 118 LEGALS con’t on pg.10

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Photographer Gerard Romano took the original picture Sept. 20, 2017. The latest picture was taken May 13, showing a dramatic difference in size and shape of the east jetty. Photos by Romano

Mount Sinai Jetty Project Comes to Completion

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

After nearly eight months of work and years and years of consternation, reconstruction of the Mount Sinai Jetty has finally come to completion, with work crews having already moved on by mid-May and a few check-box items still to be finalized.

The Jetty Project has been a long time coming. For years, both the east and west jetty have been largely submerged at high tide, with both water and sand leaking through breaks in the stones and settling into the mouth of Mount Sinai Harbor. Port Jefferson’s East Beach has been seeing a rapid loss of sand in the past few years, and village officials have said much of that sand is ending up in the harbor inlet.

In September 2016, the town received $3 million in a Dormitory Authority of the State of New York grant, originally secured thanks to the help of New York state Sen. Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson).

Last year, the Town of Brookhaven hired H&L Contracting with a $7.4 million bid to complete the project. The construction workers worked through the winter months repairing

and replacing stones on both the east and west sides of the jetty. That number was revised in late February, with an additional $868,000 for a total contract amount of $8,297,782.50. Construction began last September and ramped up over the following months.

Brookhaven Councilwoman Jane Bonner (R-Rocky Point), who has been the main town point-person on the project for over a decade, said the extra funds were for extra contingencies, but the final project still comes in under the original estimates of $10 million.

With this part of the project complete, the last step is for Suffolk County to complete dredging of the inlet.

Joe Palumbo, the Port Jefferson village administrator, said they have not yet heard word from the county about dredging.

“This is a project the village is monitoring closely and will continue to,” Palumbo said.

Bonner added that the new jetty will not only be a boon to the beachgoers and boaters, but to the surrounding wildlife. The broken jetties have caused issues with the harbor’s ability to “flush” or how the water flows in and out of Long Island Sound.

“That’s the most significant part of this,” the councilwoman said.

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VILLAGE OF SHOREHAM BOX 389 SHOREHAM, NEW YORK 11786 PUBLIC NOTICE FINAL ASSESSMENT ROLL

NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Board of Education, Mount Sinai Union Free School District, Mount Sinai, New York (in accordance with Section 103 of Article 5A of the General Municipal Law) hereby invites the submission of sealed bids on the following equipment: MOUNT SINAI GROUNDS/ FIELD MAINTENANCE BID #2020/21-15 (STORM DRAIN CLEANING & MATERIAL REMOVAL) (ALL BIDS MUST CONFORM TO EXISTING ORDERS UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED. ( NO SUBSTITUTIONS) Specifications and Bid Forms may be obtained via email request to sreh@mtsinai. k12.ny.us. Bids will be received by fax 631-473-0905 or by mail to Mount Sinai Union Free School District, Attn: Business Office, 118 North Country Road, Mount Sinai, New York 11766 until 12: 15 pm on May 29, 2020 at which time and place all bids will be opened.

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May 12, 2020 PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THE FINAL 2020-21 VILLAGE OF SHOREHAM ASSESSMENT ROLL WAS FILED WITH THE VILLAGE CLERK ON MAY 12, 2020. INSPECTION OF THE ROLL CAN BE MADE DURING NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS AT THE VILLAGE HALL, WOODVILLE ROAD, SHOREHAM, NEW YORK. Laura Spillane VILLAGE CLERK 609 5/21 1x vbr NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Miller Place UFSD invites separate sealed BIDS for Capital Improvements as described in the Contract Documents.

Bids will be received until 11:00am prevailing time on Friday May 29, 2020. The bids will be accepted and read aloud at the Miller Place UFSD Central Office: 7 Memorial Drive, Miller Place, NY 11764.

In accordance with Section 103(2) of the General Municipal Law and other relevant provisions of the law to the extent necessary to ALLOW THE NON-PUBLIC OPENING OF BIDS: provided however that, where practical, public entities shall record or live

Complete printed documents may be obtained from Madison-Lohrius, 2402 Ocean Avenue, Ronkonkoma, NY 11779 (631)5805858. A plan deposit of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars is required, in the form of a Business Check, made payable to: Miller Place UFSD. This deposit shall be refunded to each Bidder only if the plans and specifications are returned to MadisonLohrius, in good condition, within thirty (30) calendar days after the bid opening.

After thirty (30) days all deposits shall be forfeited to the School District.

NonBidders must return the documents in good condition prior to the date of the bid opening.

Bidder will also be required to show, to the satisfaction of the Board of Education that they are carrying Workers’ Compensation Insurance as required by law and all other Insurance in amounts not less than that specified under the General Conditions.

Performance Bonds and Labor/Material Bonds are a requirement of each contract as called for in the General Conditions.

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BY RICH ACRITELLI DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Kindness, devotion, hard work, and determination; these are the words to describe the loyalty that the Long Island State Veterans Home at Stony Brook has toward its patients.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has made their mission immensely difficult, this facility is carrying out its responsibilities to support our local veterans at this nursing home. This staff has adapted to the hardships of this virus, and they are finding different ways of helping many elderly veterans who have served in practically every military branch.

The vets home has created a multi-faceted program that helps people from Riverhead to Massapequa. Leading the way is Jean Brand, the Program Director of the Adult Day Health Care Program, with their efforts based in Stony Brook and in the homes of these older populations who rely on the services. Even before the coronavirus changed operations, staff members have provided assistance in cooking, bathing and nutritional aid that allows for breakfast and lunch to be served along with taking home a meals for dinner. They also provided rehabilitation for physical and speech therapy programs. As the veterans ages range from the mid 60’s to over 100 years old, the staff’s devotion also allows the older counterparts to take a brief break in handling the rigors of treating their loved ones.

From the start of the day, the state nursing home provides transportation to bring citizens that served from World War II, Korean and Vietnam to Stony Brook. Due to this current pandemic, the programs are now more home based. Although these were necessary changes, according to Brand, the organization is finding new ways to help these older citizens. Through a home delivery program, several meals a week are organized and distributed to the elderly.

Brand and her staff are currently preparing food that is non-perishable and easy to eat. Deliveries also include necessary items that have been difficult to purchase such as toilet paper, masks, wipes, paper towels and soap. They have also sent home word puzzles and and other games to help keep their minds sharp and to pass the time, as many of these veterans that are spending numerous hours in their houses.

With many longterm relationships built up at Stony Brook, the staff misses these familiar faces and their stories of service of defending our nation during many trying times. Many of these men and women are considered family members to the staff. The entire staff, through expertise and professionalism, has for many years attended to the many diverse needs of these men and women. They have implemented telehealth

to boost morale and at the same time to safely utilize social distancing initiatives to keep a watchful eye on the health of their patients. Although sending home food is a primary function of this program, many of these telephone calls are keeping the lines of communication open, and range from a simple hello to necessary inquiries about serious ailments.

Brand spoke about a unique program that was created to connect the patriotic stories of national service to the students of today. The Long Island Museum has worked with the vets home through a pen pal project which has younger men and women reach out to veterans to learn about their lives. Even as this has been tough period, this idea has developed relationships between different generations. Young people have seen and heard the examples of service by our senior population. This writing programs has also allowed younger students to identify the various issues that impacted the mobility and health concerns that have widely plagued older populations.

Not since the days of the 1918 Spanish Flu has our nation had to handle a health crisis of this magnitude. The numbers of the people that have been impacted are still staggering, but the efforts of places like the Long Island State Veterans Home continue to adapt and overcome many of these medical challenges that still pose a major concern to this country. This homecare program has completely shown the determination of longtime staff members like that of Brand and her fellow workers to help their patients before, during and after this sickness is finally subdued.

Rich Acritelli is a social studies teacher at Rocky Point High School and an adjunct professor of American history at Suffolk County Community College.

The program started March 20, and to date has delivered 511 meals, donating to anywhere between eight to 11 registrants per day. Delivering as far west as Babylon and east as Ridge, a whole day could mean a 90-mile round trip.

Photos clockwise from top left: Bob Saccullo, 77 of St. James, a Vietnam army disabled vet, has attended the program for two years; Frank Sidoti, 94 of Patchogue, a coast Guard veteran, shows his appreciation to the vets home in a letter; Fred Ahlm, 72 of Centereach, a vietnam army vet receives aid; Anne Pritz, 94 of St. James and spouse of Eugene, a now diseased WWII army veteran who use to attend the program.Photos from LI State Veterans Home

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years, when student-journalists would get comments from seniors wandering the halls, comments had been terse or simple platitudes. Now, while students are forced online, seniors became more verbose. To read some of their quotes is to understand the mindset of those graduating seniors, hurtling themselves into the many unknowns the pandemic has produced.

“I’ve learned about how their friendships, their experiences have changed with other people,” Medvedeva said.

The senior was planning to attend Binghamton University to study neuroscience, but she still does not know if the college will even have a fall semester, or what shape it will take. Tepper was set to go to the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan and study advertising with a goal of going into public relations. Similar to her fellow editor, she also does not know what the future may bring. It is possibly the most daunting and most uncertain time for a person to graduate since the 2008 financial collapse.

Though in writing the senior issue’s editorial, co-written by both editors, what became clear was just what this issue of the Wildcat Pause meant to the graduating students.

Medvedeva in hearing some of the anecdotes

‘Be yourself and don’t sweat the small stuff. The years go by way too quickly to worry about the little things, and one day you’ll look back on those things and realize how stupid they were. Also, be yourself and never change for anyone because you’re happiest when you’re you.’

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from seniors has “learned about their friendships with other seniors, of how some experiences throughout their high school career have changed them. It has just warmed my heart to hear those.”

Tepper, who shared in her fellow seniors’ anxieties over the future, added this Pause issue may memorialize the shared experiences of her classmates.

“I still think there’s something to celebrate, as things were taken away from us,” she said. “I think that given the unfortunate circumstances, we can appreciate what we had even more.”

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With Businesses Denied Interruption Insurance, Many Turn to State and Feds

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM When the initial impact of the coronavirus pandemic truly hit home back in March, after businesses were forced closed from state mandates, many turned to their insurance providers and filed for business interruption insurance, which they expected would be used for just this sort of occasion.

Only many received notifications back that their claims were denied. The reason: Insurance companies put in provisions within their policies that excluded coverage due to damages “caused by or resulting from any virus, bacterium or other microorganism that induced or is capable of including physical distress, illness or disease,” according to the Insurance Services Office, an insurance advisory organization.

Though business owners and small business advocates such as The Ward Melville Heritage Organization President Gloria Rocchio pay the premiums year after year, she said they and so many others were denied coverage despite the fact that small businesses didn’t close because they or their shops were confirmed with the virus, but government orders forced them to close.

“Very simplistically, [business owners] buy themselves a job for the community, and now they’re made to lay off people, keep their business closed, pay all fixed overheads and maybe they don’t have a reserve at home,” Rocchio said. “Everything the government is putting forth is not helping the small businessman — the one who doesn’t have a million in the bank and is paying fixed expenses.”

Efforts on Local and State Levels

The provision in many insurance policies was instituted little less than two decades ago after the severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, epidemic of the early 2000s. It is only now, almost 20 years later, that owners filing claims learn of the provision despite them having paid premiums for years.

There is a combined bill in the New York State Assembly and Senate to require companies to accept current interruption claims.

WMHO submitted a public letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) April 22 requesting he supports the Assembly and Senate bill.

“An insurance policy is a contract between the insured and the insurer that clearly spells out those conditions covered and excluded,” the letter reads.

“In recent years, because of severe losses, insurers have added exclusions to their policies, slowly diminishing the very purpose of insurance.”

The state Assembly bill is being sponsored in part by Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) and Fred Thiele (I-Sag Harbor), and there is a concurrent bill in the state Senate.

It would require insurance agencies to cover businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, and would renew any policy that would have

covered businesses during shutdown if they expired in the meantime. New York is just one state of seven which is proposing bills to mandate coverage.

“Insurance is controlling risk, that’s what insurance companies do,” Englebright said.

“What we’re saying is risk transfer needs to occur with this type of policy in a more predictable manner and a more eligible manner than the fine print currently allows.”

The bill is still in the Assembly Insurance Committee, but Englebright, a ranking assemblyman, said it is picking up widespread support in the Democratic-controlled state Legislature.

He added he does not believe what insurance companies say when they argue accepting businesses claims would bankrupt their agencies.

“What we’re saying is to do business in our state, we in the state government do have the power to make sure contracts are fair and equitable,” Englebright said.

Multiple local government and industry groups have come out in support of such a bill.

The Long Island Builders Institute released a letter supporting the legislation, saying that if a business has been paying for its insurance, it should honor the claims.

Mitch Pally, CEO of LIBI, said the insurance companies denying these claims will only create a deeper hole in the economy, which will be an even greater burden to the insurance companies if they go under and no longer can pay their premiums. He also predicted dire consequences to many businesses if claims continue to be denied

by June 30 “because the people who bought them didn’t assume their business can be interrupted by something that doesn’t apply [to the insurance].”

The Brookhaven Town Board and Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) also signed a letter asking Cuomo to throw his support behind the bills.

Federal Efforts

There is a bill currently lingering in the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services, co-sponsored by Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY3) that would require insurance companies in the future from denying company’s claims based on a pandemic, but even that has seen “tremendous pushback from the insurance industry,” he said during a Zoom call hosted by Discover Long Island May 19. “It’s very controversial — I’m getting the crap kicked out of me by certain people.”

Suozzi, who was appointed by President Donald Trump (R) to the economic reopening task force, said he did not believe anything regarding interruption insurance will see the light of day in some of the large stimulus bills Congress is currently working on.

Some policyholders nationwide have sued their insurance companies for denying their claims. A barbershop owner in San Diego has created a class action lawsuit against his poli-

Shops in the Stony Brook Village Center are just a few of the many who found their interruption insurance claims were denied by insurance agencies. State lawmakers say insurance companies should honor those claims. File photo

cyholder, Farmers Insurance Group, for denying his claim under such virus damages provisions.

Several other class-action lawsuits have been filed in the past month and a half against several other insurance companies.

Though such lawsuits take months if not years to get going, and especially with many court systems largely shut down from the pandemic, it will be a while before any cases see a judge.

“By the time those lawsuits get done, those businesses will be out of business,” Pally said.

Insurance Providers Respond

The American Property Casualty Insurance Association has said if governments required the companies process these claims, it would mean companies would have to process over 30 million businesses suffering from COVID-19-related losses. APCIA President David Sampson was quoted on Twitter saying requiring so would “significantly undermine” their abilities to cover such things as wind damage, fire or other losses.

The industry as a whole currently sits on an $800 billion surplus, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. That business group released a report May 15 with statements from 50 experts from the Wisconsin School of Business insurance panel that if local governments force insurance companies to accept the claims, it will “threaten the solvency of the insurance industry.” Though the report is sponsored by the association through its independent research division, most experts on the panel largely agreed the private marketplace could not handle all the losses with the current surplus in the industry.

Though in that same study, some experts, 13 percent of the 50, argued the industry could be able to handle the claims, depending on how federal legislation was enacted.

Industry lobbyists have said the federal government should be providing help, but one example of small business aid, the Paycheck Pro-

tection Program, which was supposed to help keep many small shops in business, has been mired in problems since its inception, and many owners are simply refusing to use the funds fearing they will have to pay back the money long term as a loan.

The Washington Post reported last month that insurance associations and business groups are hiring lobbyists specifically to play out this fight in Washington, D.C. What some are hoping for is some kind of middle ground, a place where insurers and the federal government’s interests meet. One suggested draft bill, the Pandemic Risk Insurance Act of 2020, would pay agencies losses when those exceed $250 million and capped at $500 billion over the calendar year, though that bill would only cover future pandemics, and more insurance companies have come out saying it should be the federal government which needs to handle such calls for aid, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Suozzi said he agreed most insurance companies would be “wiped out” trying to cover interruption claims during the pandemic, but also put stock in a public-private partnership, including the possibility of using the infrastructure of the insurance industries to funnel money back into these businesses.

“The bottom line is there’s no relief right now — it’s not going to solve anybody’s problems right now — and I don’t want anybody to get their hopes up,” the congressman said.

“But it’s something I’m conscious of and other people are working on it — we just don’t know what the right answer is yet to get it done, because there is so much incredible pushback from the other side.”

In the meantime, Pally said it’s best for businesses to continue writing their state and federal officials. Rocchio suggested that owners, despite the fact some agencies are advising not to bother to file a claim, should apply anyway should anything change in the near future.

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Why the Media Is Essential A Bone to Pick with Two Letter Writers At a recent rally, protesters of the lockdown asked why a reporter’s job was deemed essential when theirs weren’t. The question is a fair one, even though the way it was posed at a May 14 rally in Commack had reporters fearing for their safety.

Dissatisfied with the way News 12 Long Island’s Kevin Vesey reported a previous rally that took place May 1, protesters began to approach him aggressively as he took video footage with his smartphone for Facebook Live, which quickly went viral over the internet. First, there were two women with megaphones and then a few others joined in the shouting match. Vesey’s response was to keep backing up as he answered them calmly and continued recording.

One of our editors was also reporting on the scene and was on hand for the confrontation, moving in closer to hear the protesters’ concerns. It was concerning the way the small crowd questioned “who was essential” with such anger. With distrust in the media growing for years, exacerbated by constant “fake news” remarks, there seems to be less and less places safe enough for local reporters to simply report the news.

If our reporter could have answered the question posed by the angry protesters and interrupted Vesey’s replies, she would have told them that if the media wasn’t deemed essential during this time, elected officials would only communicate with the public if they felt like it. They could put out whatever information they wanted to without being challenged.

President Donald Trump (R) did not calm the situation when he took the viral video of Vesey being confronted and lauded the small band of protesters, giving them and others the green light to their anti-free press rhetoric and intimidation. What should happen if Trump’s words result in violence toward journalists?

What if that violence was directed at one of our members at our local newspaper?

If we weren’t deemed essential, there would be no one there to ask the questions that are on people’s minds. You see, journalists are not creative writers. We don’t decide what we want to write every day and then make it up as we go along. We attend press conferences, we conduct interviews, we research — and we ask the questions that we believe are on our readers’ minds.

And when those in our coverage area have something to say, we print their letters to the editors, and we cover their events and rallies as best as we can. We do everything in our power to get the facts straight and to represent both sides of an issue if people on each side are willing to talk.

The Setauket Patriots, one of the organizers of the protests, apologized to Vesey for his treatment, saying they hope the reporter will offer fair coverage of the group’s events.

That is what reporters set out to do. Though we are forced to recognize we are human, and sometimes we make mistakes, a rally in Commack, New York, is not a place for such tense conflict.

No reporters on such a scene should be fearful for their safety. We are there to relate what is on protesters’ minds in their own words.

While it’s understandable that people are in distress about their livelihoods, Vesey should have been approached in a less aggressive manner and with respect to personal space, especially when he obviously tried to respect the health of the people around him by wearing a mask and trying to keep 6 feet away.

Americans ask that the media be fair; we ask the same of Americans.

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I have a bone to pick with two letter writers, Francis G. Gibbons, Sr. (“Idiocy of Some Youth During Coronavirus”) and Larry Penner (“Cuomo Overstates NY’s Funding Inequalities”) in the May 14 TBR News Media newspapers. The reckless youths protesting social-distancing policies in COVID-19 hotspots like Miami and Suffolk County, callously endangering the rest of us, are indeed idiots, but they are right-wing idiots, like the right-wing militia types carrying assault rifles who stormed the Michigan Legislature and hang Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) in effigy (“These are very fine people”, said President Donald Trump (R), who also tweeted “Liberate Michigan!”). How does that lead to an attack on young supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), supposedly seduced by “Bernie’s free giveaways?”

Sanders’ main issue is “Medicare for all,” that health care is a human right, not a

commodity you buy if you can afford it. If Mr. Gibbons had lived in such a country, or even in France or Great Britain (with rightwing governments), he would have been spared much anguish and struggle, if not the pain of losing the companion of his life.

Medicare is paid for by payroll deductions (I’ve been paying since 1965). Adding “for all” would indeed require tax revenue, just like all public services, best paid for by progressive income taxes on us old folks and everybody else (that’s solidarity: in Republican President Eisenhower’s day, the top marginal income tax rate was 91 percent, now it’s 37 percent; the capital gains tax was 25 to 30 percent, now it’s 15 to 20 percent). Sanders’ other big program is free tuition to public universities. Most of us accept that preK-12 is a universal public good to be paid for by everybody.

But somehow many have been gaslit into believing that in this high-tech era

post-high-school education is a market commodity that benefits only the customer, so of course he/she should pay what the market will bear.

Likewise, Mr. Penner is correct that a richer New York should normally pay a poorer Kentucky’s Medicaid bills, ditto downstate for upstate; that’s solidarity, why we’re the United States, and Cuomo’s claim is a ploy. But Trump and McConnell aren’t interested in solidarity. Unlike every other national leader, who committed their central governments to obtain and distribute the necessary anti-COVID-19 test kits and other resources, Trump to this day won’t do it (remember “I take no responsibility at all”?), making a few, usually publicityrich, gestures. Can you imagine Franklin Roosevelt telling governors to find their own tanks to buy?

Arnold Wishnia Setauket

In Praise of Congressman Lee Zeldin There’s an old expression that goes, “actions speak louder than words.”

Nothing highlights that saying more than something like the COVID-19 crisis.

Whether literally on the ground on Long Island or in D.C., Suffolk County has greatly benefited from the actions of Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-NY1).

He has been a driving force behind the delivery of more than one million pieces of personal protective equipment, most of it without charge, to frontline medical heroes and other courageous

essential workers. Zeldin has also been instrumental in getting over $250 million in desperately needed federal funding for our county.

While doing these things the congressman has offered a helping hand to local leaders of both parties.

Republicans and Democrats alike are glad he’s “looking out for” their constituents and been grateful for the generous aid.

Those constituents would include minorities. While some people may “have friends in the black and brown

community,” Lee actually lives, and has lived for years, in a racially diverse area.

He bought a house within few blocks of where grew up, started a family and enrolled his twin daughters in the same public schools he attended.

I want to thank Congressman Zeldin for the swift, decisive actions he’s taken on behalf of his suffering neighbors in Suffolk County and Congressional District 1.

Joanne Tereshko Setauket

Feds Should Encourage Medical Innovation

As the owner of an oral surgery practice, I am acutely aware of the dangers posed by the COVID-19 virus, as well as the economic impacts for business owners and everyday citizens. Instituting public policy that balances safety and prosperity is challenging, but critical, to restarting the economic engine that has made America a world leader in so many respects.

Ensuring that our hospitals and medical providers have adequate funding to maintain their level of readiness is perhaps the single greatest action that Congress can take to aid in safely reopening our country. Congress has the opportunity and ability to put frontline

health care workers at the forefront of the COVID phase 4 stimulus. Our doctors and nurses need all the funding they can get. While the CARES Act was a step in the right direction, we must continue where we left off and send more financial support to the front lines.

The federal government should also encourage medical innovation by supporting the biopharmaceutical industry. We will find effective treatments for COVID-19, and perhaps a vaccine, if we allow the unparalleled ingenuity of America’s biopharmaceutical companies to bring their resources to bear. Many of the proposals being considered by Congress

would devastate the very foundation that nurtured this exceptionalism.

Just as we did during 9/11, we are asking a professional sector of our society to see us through. In the days following Sept. 11, first responders and armed service members led the recovery and justice efforts. During the era of the coronavirus, doctors, nurses and health care workers are the heroes this nation is depending on. Congress must set them as priority number one in the COVID phase 4 stimulus package.

Dr. Keith S. Fisher, DDS Middle Country Oral Surgery & Implantology

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Opinion

A Salute to the Fallen Heroes of Today This Memorial Day

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he weapons and uniforms are different, but the goals are the same: to protect the interests of Americans everywhere and to save lives.

Every year, Memorial Day presents an opportunity to honor the men and women who served our country in the military, as we appreciate their courage and sacrifice during battles against a range of enemies.

This year, we have a large group of people who are D. None laying their lives of the above on the line for the

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF benefit of society.

They are the first responders, who arrive at the homes of people stricken with symptoms of a disease that can

make breathing difficult, that can give them a fever for days or even weeks.

They are the nurses who not only take the pulse and blood pressure of their patients, but also provide a human connection when those with the virus can’t have friends and family visit.

They are the doctors who use the best medicine at their disposal to provide comfort until a new standard of care is developed or a vaccine is created.

They are also the police and fire rescue teams that set aside their personal concerns about interacting with members of the community who might be sick to help strangers and the family members of those strangers.

Without these health care workers prepared to help in the struggle against a virus that never takes a weekend off or for which chicken soup, sleep or a hot shower are inadequate to ameliorate the symptoms, Long Islanders would be struggling on their own, infecting each other, and dying at even higher levels.

At the same time, people who work in other fields have been vital to the ongoing functioning of our society in the midst of the pandemic. The people who deliver packages and the mail have connected us to an outside world we can’t visit.

They travel through our neighborhoods, wearing gloves and masks and bringing everything from Mother’s Day cards for the mothers and grandmothers we dare not visit lest we are an unsuspecting carrier of the deadly disease, to the paperwork we need to sign.

Those who work in grocery stores stock the shelves with the necessities and luxuries we snap up every week, as we continue to feed families huddled in our homes. Bus drivers and transit workers enable first responders, grocery store clerks, and others to get to and from their jobs.

In addition to accepting their normal responsibilities, these people also go to their jobs in a new normal that requires many of them to wash their clothing and shower before they interact with their family, which some of them only do while wearing masks.

Some of them have died in the line of duty. They have made the ultimate sacrifice because their difficult jobs haven’t provided them with an immunity from a virus that threatens everyone.

This Memorial Day, we should honor the fallen from past wars, the soldiers who fought in Europe 75 years ago, the ones deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, those who trudged through the jungles of Vietnam, and the patriots who ensured our freedom during the founding of the country.

We should also honor the fallen victims of the virus who were on the front lines, armed with personal protective equipment such as gloves, gowns and face coverings.

When we wave our flags and honor those who gave their lives, we should pray for and thank the heroes of the last few months as well. They put themselves in harm’s way and inspired the rest of us with the same kind of courage we celebrate each year from our armed forces.

The True Story of a Female French Resistance Fighter

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ere is a script for the next Academy Award-winning film whenever we get back to making and viewing movies. It has all the right elements: white-knuckle suspense, bad guys, good guys, some who were both, Nazis, women of courage, men of valor, Charles de Gaulle, a love story, Auschwitz, a close family, children, heartbreak, resilience and especially a tale that truly happened.

What’s it about?

It is the life of Between Cécile Rol-Tanguy you and me before and during

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF WWII. You probably never heard of her. I hadn’t until I read her obit. She died earlier this month at the age of 101 in Monteaux, 130 miles from Paris. Born Marguerite Marie Cécile Le Bihan April 10,

1919, she was the daughter of Francois, an electrician who served in the French Navy and was a co-founder of the French Communist Party (PCF) in 1920.

Cécile was raised in a highly politicized family that frequently hosted foreign communist agitators on the run from Italy, Germany and eastern European countries. As a communist, her father was arrested for the second time by the Nazis in 1943 and was sent to Auschwitz, where he died.

Cécile dropped out of school in 1936 and got a job with the Comite d’ Aide a la Espagne Republicaine, an organization helping the Republicans against Franco in Spain, and there she met Henri Rol-Tanguy, who was 11 years her senior and a fellow communist. He volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War, returned wounded in 1938, and they married in 1939 when she discovered she was pregnant. Sadly, she lost the baby girl in June 1940, two days before Paris fell to the German army. Shortly thereafter her father was arrested for the first time, and her husband, Henri, joined the French Resistance (Forces Francaises de l’Intérieur, or FFI).

Cécile too worked for the resistance, and when she gave birth to a second girl, Henri asked

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her to work elsewhere and leave the baby with her mother in case both of them were arrested.

She refused.

They were separated during the war and were forced to hide their identities and their relationship, only communicating using code names. Cécile would adopt disguises and frequently change her hair style. She moved around Paris often hiding guns, grenades and clandestine newspapers in the baby’s stroller. She worked to set up a command post in an underground shelter, from which the couple received and distributed information and orders. Henri continued to move about the city, but Cécile felt confined to the headquarters, sending out communiques.

Then Aug. 19, 1944, the couple published and distributed a pamphlet calling the citizens of Paris to arms for a general mobilization, and, on Aug. 25, Paris was indeed liberated by the French division of the Allies’ army. In the underground, she said she could not hear the bells but she and the other women there celebrated by having a pillow fight.

Her husband went on to become an officer in the French Army, and while she was initially recognized for her efforts, Cécile felt that the

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many other women who had participated in the French Resistance at great peril to their lives were not. After the war and throughout the rest of her long life, she represented and advocated for recognition of the role of women in the French Resistance.

After 63 years of marriage, Henri died in 2002, and in 2008, Cécile was asked to become the Grand Officer of the Légion d’Honneur. Reluctant at first, she accepted the great distinction in the name of all the women resistance fighters whom she said were too often forgotten by history.

Cécile Rol-Tanguy died May 8, remarkably on the exact day of the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII in Europe, known as VE Day. As she went along, giving lectures and interviews during her last years, she continually stressed the importance of fighting for one’s freedom. She wanted future generations to receive that message.

Fortunately, she lived long enough to see the reopening of the Musée de la Libération de Paris moved, in August 2019, to Place DenfertRochereau, the location of the underground from which she and her husband launched the insurrection that helped in the liberation of Paris.

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