Chaminade shed at town beach

Trustees OK license agreement

BY BRANDON DUFFY

The North Hempstead Town Board Tuesday morning during a special meeting authorized a license agreement with Chaminade High School in Mineola to construct a new storage facility for its crew team at North Hempstead Beach Park in Port Washington.

Supervisor Jennifer DeSena said the matter frst came to the board in 2020, but terms could not be fnalized at the time.

Terms for the license agreement are 20 years and it is revocable at the will of the town with 80 days’ notice that would require Chaminade to be paid by the town a portion of their capital improvements, DeSena said.

Chaminade is one of three parties that uses the beach for rowing activities, including Manhasset Public Schools and Port Washington Rowing Club, which is private.

The resolution was frst tabled

Environementally Friendly

Port Washington restaurants are participating in by omitting single-use plastics in their take-out orders.

Grassroots Environmental Education is an environmental health nonproft established in 2000. Executive

Director Patti Wood said its mission is to educate the public about the link between common environmental exposures and human health impacts.

The Plastic-Free July campaign is an initiative working solely with Port Washington restaurants and food establishments to drop the use of plastics in take-out orders throughout the month of July.

Participating restaurants include 21 Port Washington eateries, such as

DiMaggio’s, La P’tite Framboise, Gino’s and Toscanini Ristorante.

Wood said many participating restaurants have enjoyed the program and are considering implementing the plastic-free practices beyond the month of July by asking where they can purchase the BioBags for continued use. A BioBag is a compostable, non-plastic bag for take-out orders.

“Which is exactly what we want them to do,” Wood said. “Which is to continue this past July because A: their customers want it, B: they’re saving money not putting all the plastic things in every single bag, and C: they’re responsible people too. They Continued on Page 41 at the town board’s July 11 meeting last week after questions surrounding the agreement’s language were raised, specifcally on increasing the yearly licensing fee from $250 to $500 and making sure the town was not violating New York’s parkland alienation laws, which oversee taking parkland for non-public use.

Chaminade’s previous facility at the beach, which existed for decades, was condemned by the town’s Building Department in May. The new facility will be constructed in the same space as the current facility, DeSena said during the July 11 meeting.

Brother Thomas Cleary, president of Chaminade, thanked the town board Tuesday morning during public comments.

“I want to thank the council for getting us to this point,” Cleary said. “We are very happy with the agreement.”

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