Glen Cove Board of Education passes its budget

by Mike Conn with The Long Island Herald

Originally published in The Long Island Herald

Photo credit: Laura Lane/Herald Gazette

“It’s a mechanism to help us budget properly,” Galante said of the capital reserve, “and to help us have extra funds to set aside for emergency projects or just for any type of capital project that we would want to do without a bond or in conjunction with a bond.”

Several of the repairs and improvements included in the budget were made possible thanks to lobbying efforts by Rianna, Senator Jim Gaughran, a Democrat from Northport, and two Glen Cove parents. Through these efforts, the district was able to garner an extra $1.2 million in Foundation Aid funding from Albany.

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