If you missed the Town of North Hempstead board meeting on Tuesday night, here are some of the highlights:
- The board approved the setting of a hearing for July 30 about the installation of underground tanks at 901 Hillside Avenue in New Hyde Park.
- The board accepted the used office furnture from former Town attorney Richard Finkel's office as a gift. Councilman Angelo Ferrara joked that the Town was accepting this gift because "he was too cheap to move it."
- A $5,000 donation from WAC Lighting and a $500 donation from Shanghai Commercial Bank were approved by the board as sponsorship for the Asian American festival that was held in May.
- A $5,000 donation to sponsor the Earth Day celebration in North Hempstead from the IESI Corporation was accepted by the board.
- The board approved a measure to prepare and submit grant applications for the North Hempstead Housing Authority. Supervisor Jon Kaiman noted that the amount of the grant was about $175,000.
- The board also allowed the development of another grant application for the solid waste management authority. Kaiman explained that the grant amount could be up to $1.5 million.
- The Landmark in Port Washington purchased flags to put on light poles in the area and the Town wil be putting them up, explained Councilwoman Dina DeGiorgio. The board approved this measure on Tuesday night.
- A supplemental budget appropriation of $26,250 was made because of additional grant money from the federal government.
- Former Manorhaven Village Clerk Jonathan Fielding has been hired as the secretary of the board of Zoning and Appeals. Linda Zeuch has been appointed as the Town attorney.
- The following people were appointed to the Town's ecological commission: Jennifer Wilson-Pines, Arthur Smith, Patti Wood, Paula Cuomo, Patty Katz, Margaret Markham, T.J. Costello, Joanne Piluso and Gerard Wall.
These people put boss tweed to shame
Meanwhile, Mayor Giovanna Giunta and the board of trustees are working on taking corrective actions on an audit completed by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. Released July 3, the audit looked at operations from June 1, 2009, through Oct. 31, 2010. It found that employees of the Village of Manorhaven had not maintained timesheets, and that management or a village official did not provide approval of the hours recorded onto the weekly timesheet prior to employees being paid. It revealed, too, that the board had not established a policy to guide the overtime process. Auditors found discrepancies between the timesheet and the payroll register in 41 of 126 instances tested. Auditors also found that the village did not obtain competition when procuring seven of the eight professional services providers who were paid $155,000 during the audit period. now fielding can continue the inept conduct at North Hempstead he will feel perfectly at home
Judging Others 7 “Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye