New Hyde Park Village Board Notebook: Feb. 7

The New Hyde Park Village Board held a meeting on Tuesday, February 7. Here’s a look at some of the things you may have missed.

Audit Report

• The auditors from Rynkar, Vali and Barrett, LLP were present at the meeting and William Barrett gave read the financial statements. Of them he noted that the New Hyde Park has three funds: the general fund, the capital projects fund and special brand fund.
• The total fund balance for the village is just shy of $1 million and Barrett noted that this year there was more expenditures than revenue.
• Furthermore, Barrett said the long term debt for 2011 went down almost $400,000 and the debt service requirements for 2014 will also decrease.

Auxiliary Police Report

• Captain John Concannon, auxiliary police officer Rose Marie Amato and newest sergeant John Gonser were in attendance at the meeting. Concannon gave a brief report saying, “we observe and report,” meaning APO’s observe the neighborhood for any unusual activity. For example, last Tuesday Concannon saw eight youths loitering in Memorial Park after it was locked, telling them to go home.
• Concannon said they have two cars in service presently with a third vehicle in the works and announced the newest member of the team, Sgt. John Gonser from the communications department.
• “Basically we are just looking for something that is odd,” Concannon said. “Something that is broken down, an accident, a car that doesn’t belong; just generally to try to help the public. We are eyes and ears, we are not armed.”

License Renewals

• The board received 26 landscaper license renewals, six of which were in New Hyde Park. Two new applications included Junior Landscaping in Jamaica and Charles Landscaping in Floral Park.
• The board approved three restaurant license renewals, one dance license, one used car owner license, four carter licenses and five tow car owner licenses, but kept the  as a tabled item for the second year in a row.

Trustee Reports

• Trustee Donald Barbieri asked for residents or neighbors of the community to help expand the village cultural committee. “We’re working on doing more in the new theater upstairs and more,” he said. “Please come on out and give me a call here at and we’ll get some new things together for the community.”
• Trustee Lawrence Montreuil noted that there are three possible new businesses coming to the area: a fitness center on Second Avenue, an automobile storage facility on Fourth Avenue and a beauty salon on Jericho Turnpike.
• Mayor Daniel Petruccio spoke as an individual, not on behalf of the board, on the consolidation of Nassau County Police Precincts. He said, “I do feel very deeply that what the county is facing, the financial crisis they’re in, I think we’re looking for innovative and different ways to approach this. My number one concern is that our residents continue to have the same police presence in the street that they presently do. If that can be accomplished and you can cut the cost in other areas, I’m all for a plan that does that…I think we have to at least entertain the possibility that this may not be a bad idea.”

New Hyde Park Little League Requests

• The team requested the use of Marcus Christ Hall on Saturday, March 24 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. for uniform distribution.
• They also requested the use of the William Gill Theatre on Monday, May 21 and Tuesday, May 22 from 4 to 9 p.m. for team photo night.
• Lastly, the team requested the use of Memorial Park on Saturday June 23 from 10 a.m. until dusk for their annual picnic.