please see the rights of the bettors, if any, in your church secured by NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3 are not violated by Ed Mangano, Nassau County and your State. Nassau OTB simply can't close on Roman Catholic Easter Sunday and Palm Sunday in preference to Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday and Palm Sunday. Please help.
It would also be useful for the people of Nassau County if BCG were available through the Nassau County Medical Center and/or the Dep't of Health.
I am still waiting for you to return the telephone message I left for you recently.
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Mangano names 7 to Nassau jail oversight board
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano looks over his proposed 2013 county budget in his office in Mineola. (Sept. 18, 2012)
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While required by the county charter, the all-volunteer Board of Visitors, charged with investigating inmate complaints at the county jail in East Meadow and advising the sheriff, has never been seated.
Mangano's candidates -- six men and a woman -- must be approved by the county legislature, according to the charter. Four of them are Republicans, two are Democrats and one is not registered with either party, records show.
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"That brings the curtain down on this issue," County Attorney John Ciampoli said. "There have been a number of board appointments that we've been moving on. It's just a question of when we can get stuff out of the pipeline."
The action was spurred by a ruling last month in a lawsuit filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union that sought to force Mangano to honor the provision that was written into the charter in 1990.
State Supreme Court Justice James P. McCormack's decision on March 24 required that the county executive create the board in 90 days. Mangano submitted names within days of McCormack's decision.
Jason Starr, director of the Nassau chapter of the NYCLU, said the candidates must engage in "robust oversight" in order to fulfill the charter mandate.
"This is now the responsibility of the legislature to bring this issue up as an agenda item quickly and really look at the . . . history of problems at the jail and ask the critical questions of whether [the candidates] can act independently," he said.
County lawmakers have not yet scheduled a review of the issue.
The appointees are:
Alphonso Albright of Long Beach, a director of a company called Polycom and former deputy commissioner for the New York City Department of Probation.
Helen Meittinis of Westbury, a civic leader and former jail advisory committee chairwoman.
Michael Ferrandino of East Norwich, a consultant and former law enforcement executive and investigator who led the FBI's Long Island Resident Agency.
Michael Califano of North Massapequa, a budget analyst for Nassau County.
Leon Campo of East Meadow, a longtime administrator in the East Meadow school district and member of the jail's community advisory group.
Richard Bivone of East Meadow, chairman of the Long Island Business Council and member of the jail advisory group.
The Rev. Phillip Elliott, deputy county executive for health and human services and pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Hempstead.
Voter registration data show that Albright and Meittinis are Democrats; Califano, Bivone, Elliott and Campo are Republicans. Ferrandino is unenrolled.
Reform advocates, including Starr, maintain that the jail isn't properly managed because in recent years it's been the site of several suicides and inmate-on-inmate and officer-on-inmate violence. Critics also have claimed that mental health and medical care in the jail are inadequate.
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
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