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Friday, October 4, 2019
Vol. 7, No. 40
SCHOOLS & EDUCATION
LIRR TO RECEIVE $5.7B FROM MTA
NASSAU’S FUTURE SEEN IMPACTED IN DEMOS, CENSUS
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Plandome Road limit may stretch
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Town to vote at Oct. 10 meeting BY R O S E W E L D ON The North Hempstead Town Board will hold a public hearing and vote at its next meeting on extending parking limits on the east and west sides of Plandome Road in Manhasset. Council member Veronica Lurvey moved for a resolution to set a date on a public hearing and vote to extend the street’s usual parking limits, which top out at one hour, to two hours at the board’s meeting last Wednesday. “This resolution comes from discussions with constituents in town, and it would change the parking time limit restrictions from one hour to two hours to encourage people to park, shop and linger in town,” Lurvey said. Lurvey said at a Sept. 19 meeting of the Council of Greater Manhasset Civic Associations that she came to the resolution “at the suggestion and in discussion with the Manhasset Chamber of Commerce.” Civic group President RichContinued on Page 69
PHOTO BY CHRIS MARE
Athletes row at Manhasset Crew’s annual Row For the Fight regatta against breast cancer.
Hospital names new exec director Current deputy of North Shore to move to new position at end of year BY R O S E W E L D ON
the hospital’s deputy executive director. Bellucci, a nephrologist who Dr. Alessandro Bellucci, North Shore University Hos- has served on North Shore’s pital executive director, will medical staff for 37 years, has step down from his position at served as the hospital’s chief the end of the year, Northwell executive for the past six years Health said last week. He will after a brief term as medical dibe succeeded by Jon Sendach, rector. “My background is not a traditional academic background that leads to a position like this,” Bellucci said. “I’ve been in clinical
positions since 1979. I needed somebody who could help me through a new job that I didn’t know much about.” Shortly after Bellucci was named executive director in 2013, Sendach was brought in as deputy executive director, a new position at the time. “John has been my right arm and my left brain,” Bellucci said. “He had the functional and organizational understanding of how the hospital runs, so he was the
perfect person.” Sendach, a graduate of Roslyn High School, Colgate University and the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, served as associate executive director of finance at Glen Cove Hospital before coming to North Shore in 2009 as associate executive director for hospital operations, and also worked as an emergency medical technician at the hospital’s Continued on Page 58
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