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FREBPORT
144 ff ttETUUCK RD
FREBPORT NY 11520 39
76th Year, No. 35 Freeport, N.Y. 11520 The Community Newspaper Thursday, September 1, 2011 750
The wrath of Irene strikes here
STORMY WEATHER: Below, a Woodcleft Avenue
business prepares for Hurricane Irene; right, Randall
Park at the height of the flood.
photo below by Laura Schofer
photo at right by Frank Bradford
Court of Appeals: Preserve county districts
by Laura Schofer
After months of legal wrangling, the
Court of Appeals has unanimously ruled
to keep Nassau County legislative dis-tricts
in place until 2013. This will give a
nonpartisan commission time to study the
redrawing of county legislative districts
as proposed by the Republican majority
in the Nassau County legislature.
This reverses an earlier decision made
on August 11 by the New York State
Appellate Division which upheld the
Republican GOP plan to redistrict
Nassau County.
The Republican plan would have
merged two Democratic districts, split
up the Five Towns as well as Legislative
District Three in Hempstead Village and
created a new 19th District on the west-ern
border of Nassau County. No
Republican legislators would have been
forced out of their districts.
Approximately 540,000 people would
have been moved out of their legislative
district.
The plan would have split Merrick
and Bellmore into two separate legisla-tive
districts, forcing county Legislator
David Denenberg into the Fifth
Legislative District where he would
have faced off against fellow Democrat
Joseph Scanell in a primary election.
"The Court of Appeals 7-0 decision
substantiates what I have been syaing
all along," said Legislator Denenberg.
"The Republican legislative majority
and the county executive tried to redis-trict
this year illegally and in total disre-gard
of the bipartisan process estab-lished
in the county's charter. That
process takes place every 10 years
which was in 2003, and will be next in
2013. Unfortunately, this naked power
grab cost the taxpayers over $2 million
at a time whem Republican rule is once
again bankrupting the county," said
Legislator Denenberg.
But Republican Presiding Officer
Peter Schmitt and county Attorney John
Ciampoli have said the move was not
only legal but necessary. They stated
that the county is obligated by its char-ter
to redraw legislative districts within
six months of the release of the U.S.
Census data.
"The Census indicates there has been
a population shift of 22.7% and was in
violation of the Constitution. We must
protect the one-man, one-vote [princi-ple].
We must balance the districts,"
stated Mr. Ciampoli at a public hearing
held in May.
A spokesperson for Presiding
Officer Peter J. Schmitt issued the
following statement:
"I am pleased that a definitive deci-sion
has been rendered by the
court. We have always maintained
that there were conflicts in the
County Charter by having two con-flicting
processes. The court
upheld that we followed the guide-lines
correctly and ruled that the
actual redistricting should be used
in 2013. This puts an end to the
inequities in the County Charter
and we can move ahead to other
matters."
Motorcycle fatality U Freeport bond vote U After the storm
in Freeport I September 20 I
page 2 I page 3 I page 7
Arts Council news
page 10
Object Description
| Rating | |
| Title | 2011-09-01 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L & M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 2011 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | |
| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | This digital image may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this image is permitted without written permission of the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W. Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520 or email: frreference@freeportlibrary.info |
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