Saturday, May 19, 2012
Pols hope the cost savings will keep the company from taking its 1,600 jobs off Island.
Hoping to prevent the loss of 1,600 jobs on Long Island, the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency on Thursday floated an incentive package worth millions to Broadridge Financial - a public company that has threatened to move off-Island if officials didn’t find a way to help it trim costs. If the financial services company takes the offer - which its board will decide on in June - then it'll come as a disappointment to officials in New Jersey, Virginia, Florida, Ohio and Texas who were trying to woo the $2.2 billion company into moving to their states. The Suffolk IDA said the incentive deal includes sales tax exemptions on $75 million in equipment purchases related to its renovation of its two Edgewood buildings, as well as a 15-…
Of the five area school districts, one had a failing budget Tuesday.
School Board elections and budget votes were Tuesday, and after the smoke cleared, incumbents were safe in Sagaponack, Bridgehampton and Sag Harbor, two new members were elected in Southampton, and a former board member ousted a sitting member in Tuckahoe. Tuckahoe was also one of a handful of budgets on Long Island to be rejected by voters, while all other area school districts had their budgets pass comfortably. Catch up on how budgets fared and elections ended this week in eastern Southampton Town: Tuckahoe Voters Reject $17.8M Budget; Steudte Defeats Grindle The Tuckahoe School District's proposed $17.8 million budget failed, 228-275, on Tuesday, and former School Board member Harald Steudte ousted incumbent Sharon Grindle by an 8-vote…
Friday, May 18, 2012
Two trustee seats are up for grabs in village.
East Hampton Village police sergeant and Sag Harbor firefighter Kevin Duchemin is challenging incumbent Sag Harbor Village Trustees Bruce Stafford and Robby Stein in June's election, The Sag Harbor Express reports. Stafford, who owns a landscaping business, and Stein, a child psychologist, are both seeking their second full two-year terms, according to The Express. The election is June 19. For more on the trustee race, visit sagharboronline.com.
Villages elections are June 15.
Election petitions were due May 11 in the villages of Southampton and Sagaponack, and in both municipalities there will be no contest. In Southampton Village, Trustee Richard Yastrzemski is seeking re-election and Planning Board Chairman Michael Irving has put his name in as well. The field is clear for Irving, as Trustee Bonnie Cannon has declined to seek a fourth two-year term. Yastrzemski and Cannon belong to the Citizens With Integrity Party, which holds four of five seats on the board — but will only hold three when Cannon's term is up. Irving is with the Patriot Party, which Trustee William Hattrick started last year when he sought to rejoin the board for the first time after an 18-year absense. Mayor Mark Epley said the Citizens …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
School Board will discuss Monday how to come up with a budget that voters will find acceptable.
Tuckahoe School Board members will meet this coming Monday to sharpen their pencils and work on a revised budget that will be more palatable to voters, after a proposed $17.8 million budget went down in defeat at the polls on Tuesday. Although the budget proposal adhered to the new state-mandated tax cap, a different element of the new law applies — if the budget is rejected a second time, the tax levy must remain flat year-over-year. The initial budget proposal called for a 1.99 percent increase in the tax levy, amounting to $314,485 that would have to be cut out. The school district will have a shot on June 19 to offer voters an amended budget. With a turnout of 503 voters this week, the initial budget proposal was rejected by 47 votes. …
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Tuckahoe School
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All propositions approved.
Southampton School District voters, by an overwhelming margin, approved a $59.5 million budget on Tuesday, 566-260, and elected two new School Board members. In a close race for two undefended School Board seats, Andrew Brindle was the top vote-getter with 370, and James Wilson was close behind with 366. Charles Styler had 348 votes, and write-in candidate Jacqueline Robinson garnered 140 votes. Brindle won a five-year term, replacing David Dubin, who declined to seek re-election. Wilson won a four-year term and was sworn in immediately after the School Board certified the results, filling a vacancy left when Amy Pierson stepped down from the board to take a job with the district. In addition to the budget, all other ballot propositions …
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Southampton Union Free School District
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Voters approve all propositions as well.
Budgets passed by outstanding margins in Bridgehampton and Sagaponack school districts on Tuesday, and all incumbents kept their seats. The proposed $10.7 million Bridgehampton budget was approved with 66.9 percent of the vote, 109-54. Bridgehampton voters also approved $125,000 in funding for the Bridgehampton Child Care & Recreational Center, 109-53. Spending is slated to rise 1.1 percent and the tax levy is budgeted to go up 5.9 percent. Lillian Tyree-Johnson was the top vote-getter in the Bridgehampton School Board election, with 128. Douglas DeGoot was right behind with 122 votes and Ron White had 120 votes. Challenger Gabriela Braia was unable to unseat any of the three incumbents, garnering just 61 votes. In Sagaponack, the $1.6 …
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Bridgehampton School
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Voters approved $34 million budget.
Over in Sag Harbor, voters approved a $34 million school budget on Tuesday. The final tally was 892-to-420 when the polls closed at 9 p.m. Gregg Schiavoni was re-elected to the Sag Harbor School Board of Education with 1,039 votes and past president Walter Wilcoxen also kept his seat with 795 votes. Challenger Tom Gleeson, a retired teacher and college admissions consultant, received 576 votes. There were two seats available, each with a three-year term. A proposition to allow the district to spend $575,000 to purchase six new buses also passed, 851-to-432. Business administrator Janet Verneuille said a total of 1,312 people came out to vote on Tuesday. Forty-nine submitted absentee ballots. The 2012-13 budget includes a 2.88 spending …
Proposition to expend funds replacing pipes also fails.
The Tuckahoe School District's proposed $17.8 million budget failed, 228-275, on Tuesday, and former School Board member Harald Steudte ousted incumbent Sharon Grindle by an 8-vote margin. Steudte received 220 votes to Grindle's 212. At least 71 voters abstained from deciding on a candidate. Under the proposed budget, the tax rate was projected to rise by 9.54 percent to $7.23 per $1,000 of assessed valuation. The tax rate increase was pushed up by a 4.91 percent dip of the total assessed value of properties in the district, meaning the impact on homeowners whose property values decreased would have been less than 9.54 percent. Inclusive of collected property taxes and STAR reimbursement from New York State, the tax levy was budgeted to …
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Sen. Ken LaValle to honor fallen East End soldiers on May 22.
Marine Lance Cpl. Jordan C. Haerter of Sag Harbor and U.S. Army 1st Lt. Joseph Theinert of Shelter Island will be posthumously inducted into the State Senate’s Veterans Hall of Fame in Albany during a ceremony on May 22, Sen. Ken LaValle announced Tuesday. Haerter died a hero at the age of 19 on April 22, 2008, just three weeks after being sent to Iraq. He killed a suicide bomber entering a base in Ramadi and saved 33 fellow marines and Iraqi police. Haerter had been deployed to Joint Security Station Nasser, in the Sophia district of Ramadi, which at one point was the center of insurgency in that city. He and fellow Marine Cpl. Jonathan Yale, had been standing guard at an Entry Control Point when a large truck accelerated toward them, …
Kevin L.
10:45 am on Friday, May 18, 2012
Nancy, please join the school on Monday night at 7pm. It would have been significantly more helpful if you would have asked questions before you pulled the trigger rather than voting and THEN asking questions. However, the misconceptions that were put out there by folks that exploited you for a quick vote will hopefully cleared up. It is not nice to deceive folks and I am sorry that happened, but… more ›