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Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen on Oct. 23 offered a “compromise budget,” incorporating some of the changes the Republican-majority Town Board added to her original budget.

Gillen offers 'compromise' Hempstead budget

Days before the Town of Hempstead’s pair of public budget hearings, Supervisor Laura Gillen proposed what she called a “compromise budget,” incorporating some of the additions and cuts the Republican-led Town Board forced onto her budget at an Oct. 16 meeting. more

By Erik Hawkins | 10/25/18

The Glen Cove City Council heard feedback on Tuesday on the proposed 2019 budget, which was automatically adopted at midnight, after the meeting, even though a majority of council members voted against it.

Glen Cove City Council members shirk 2019 budget vote

Thanks to a legal technicality in the Glen Cove city charter, the city’s 2019 budget has been adopted, even though the vote by the City Council was 5-1 in opposition, with the Republican majority … more

By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen | 10/25/18

Making the case for Hempstead’s budget

I was elected Town of Hempstead supervisor in 2017 to make our local government more accessible and accountable to residents. Since the first day of my administration . . . more

By Laura Gillen | 10/19/18

Receiver of taxes Don Clavin, a Republican, at lectern, helped the Republican-majority Town Board roll out its own budget countering Supervisor Laura Gillen’s 2019 spending plan at a news conference on Monday. From left were Town Board members Bruce Blakeman, Dorothy Goosby, Ed Ambrosino, Anthony D’Esposito, Dennis Dunne and Erin King Sweeney. Goosby was the lone Democrat among them.

Hempstead Town Board nixes Gillen's proposed budget

On Monday, Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen, a Democrat, was expected to present her tentative 2019 budget to the Town Board. However, just before Monday’s special meeting began, the other six members of the Republican-controlled board held a news conference, announcing that they had their own spending plan, which they said would lower taxes by 4.2 percent. more

By Erik Hawkins | 10/18/18

Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen, in her office in August.

Hempstead Town budget talks begin, with $443M plan

Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen last week submitted her 2019 budget for the town. The roughly $443-million spending plan — Gillen’s first — should make for a small tax reduction for 80 percent of residents, the supervisor said. Gillen, a Democrat, said that her budget would “right the town’s fiscal ship,” after prior fiscal management. more

By Erik Hawkins | 10/11/18

The Glen Cove City Council presented a heavily stripped-down budget proposal at Tuesday’s meeting at City Hall.

City of Glen Cove to cut camp subsidies and ‘Celebrations’

Some Glen Cove residents voiced concern at Tuesday’s City Council meeting over certain cuts being proposed in a draft budget. Namely, residents were concerned that the budget line for … more

By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen | 10/11/18

At a Tuesday-night meeting in City Hall, council members discussed a budget proposal that was cut down from a previous draft budget, which would have pierced the state tax cap.

Balancing Glen Cove's tight budget, piece by piece

A week after Mayor Tim Tenke’s proposed budget — which would have pierced the state limit on its tax levy — was met with the ire of council members and the public alike, Tenke presented a … more

By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen | 10/4/18

On Tuesday night, the Glen Cove City Council heard the first report of a recently filled Finance Committee, which critiqued several of the city’s fiscal practices.

Glen Cove's Finance Committee makes its first report

The council approved the committee’s mission statement in May, but a series of nominees to sit on the committee had been voted down, leaving it only partially filled until three members were … more

By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen | 10/4/18

The Glen Cove City Council discussed the city’s looming budget crunch, which Mayor Tim Tenke said could lead to layoffs unless the council votes to exceed a 1.8 percent tax cap.

Glen Cove's budget woes will mean a ‘painful’ 2019

At a public hearing Tuesday night at City Hall, Glen Cove residents and City Council members spoke in sometimes heated opposition to Mayor Tim Tenke’s proposal to allow the city to exceed a … more

By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen | 9/27/18

North Bellmore voters approved the school district's budget on a second round of voting Tuesday.

North Bellmore schools budget passes on second try

The North Bellmore School District’s $57.2 million budget passed easily on Tuesday, as 64 percent of voters supported the spending plan — which was reduced by $75,000 after the budget initially failed to pass in May. more

By Erik Hawkins | 6/20/18

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