NEW MILLER PLACE EATERY IS OFF TO A ROOOARRRING START...NOT ! JUST ANOTHER 'FRACTURED FAIRYTALE' OF BROOKHAVEN TOWN GOVT. 'SCREWING' TAX PAYERS !

   THERE'S A NEW EATERY IN MILLER PLACE NY, AND AS PAST IS PROLOGUE...

THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH PARKING !

As per THE BROOKHAVEN TOWN ZONING BOARD'S..CONTINUAL & INTENTIONAL 'SCREWING' OF TAX PAHERS, BY DUMPING 'CUSTOMERS' ON     CLEAN, QUIET,  LOCAL, TOWN                     NEIGHBORHOODS & STREETS ! 

DUHH, THERE ALWAYS, NEVER IS ENOUGH PARKING, SOMEHOW ? !

SO WHAT HAPPENS TO NEIGHBORS AND THEIR CLEAN, QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD ?

 THEY HAVE TO SUFFER THROUGH, BEING DUMPED ON, BY THESE EATERY'S &amp THE TOWN ZONING BOARD, WHO 'APPROVES' THESE BUSINESSES, WHOSE DEBRIS &  URINE & BAR DEBRIS, SPILLLING INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, LIKE IT'S A SEWER !

        IT'S SPIRO'S ALL OVER AGAIN !

AND IT TOOK THE TOWN 3 YEARS TO GET SPIRO'S, TO PURCHASE PARKING, FROM SURROUNDING PROPERTIES !

  HOW DOES THE TOWN $CAM WORK ?

                                      ANSWER :


JANE BONNER IS ALWAYS WAITING FOR A 'PAYDAY' 

OF ALLEGED, 'CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS', FROM 

THESE DEVELOPERS  & THE BUSINESS'S !




THREE YEARS BEFORE THE SEA BASIN INC./ SPIROS 

RESTAURANT BUILT, SPIRO'S  LOUNGE & 

RESTAURANT , PLAIN JANE BONNER 'CAMPAIGN 

CONTRIBUTIONS' FROM THEM,   TOTALED $9,500.00.


THIS WAS ONE EXPENSIVE PICTURE 

AND RESTAURANT OPENING FOR SPIRO!

SEAFOOD BASIN, INC 642 ROUTE 25A ROCKY POINT, NY 11778	1,000.00	11-JUL-13	FRIENDS OF JANE BONNER	2013 July Periodic	D	Town Council	2
SEAFOOD BASIN, INC 642 ROUTE 25A ROCKY POINT, NY 11778	1,000.00	27-MAR-12	FRIENDS OF JANE BONNER	2012 July Periodic	D	Town Council	2
SEAFOOD BASIN, INC. 642 ROUTE 25A ROCKY POINT, NY 11778	2,000.00	23-AUG-07	FRIENDS OF JANE BONNER	2007 11 Pre Primary	B	Town Council	2
SEAFOOD BASIN, INC. 642 ROUTE 25AQ ROCKY POINT, NY 11778	500.00	18-AUG-11	FRIENDS OF JANE BONNER	2011 11 Pre Primary	B	Town Council	2
SEAFOOD BASIN, INC. 642 ROUTE 25A ROCKY POINT, NY 11778	2,000.00	15-JUL-09	FRIENDS OF JANE BONNER	2009 July Periodic	B	Town Council	2
SEAFOOD BASIN, INC. RT. 25A ROCKY POINT, NY 11778	1,000.00	05-JUN-08	FRIENDS OF JANE BONNER	2008 July Periodic	D	Town Council	2
SEAFOOD BASIN, INC. 642 ROUTE 25A ROCKY POINT, NY 11778	1,000.00	06-AUG-09	FRIENDS OF JANE BONNER	2009 32 Pre Primary	D	Town Council	2

SPIRO'S RESTAURANT 4 PATCHOGUE DRIVE ROCKY POINT, NY 11778

1,000.00

07-JUN-11

FRIENDS OF JANE BONNER

2011 July Periodic

D

Town Council

2

http://www.elections.state.ny.us:8080/plsql_browser/CONTRIBUTORA_COUNTY?ID_in=C32491&date_From=&date_to=&AMOUNT_From=&AMOUNT_to=&ZIP1=&ZIP2=&ORDERBY_IN=N&CATEGORY_IN=ALL

        THAT'S $ 9,500.00 OF 'CAMPAIGN 

CONTRIBUTIONS' TO 'FRIENDS OF JANE 

BONNER', FROM SPIRO'S OWNERS, FOR               

                       SOME 4 YEARS !

AND THE NEIGHBORS OF PATCHOGUE DRIVE, 

R25A, IN  ROCKY POINT, GOT SCREWED FOR

  FOUR YEARS BY THE TOWN ZONING BOARD  !

   SO, WHAT IS THE PROBLEM, THEN, 

          WITH THE FLYING  PIG ????

WELL, ONE SUNDAY AGO, PRIOR TO THE

PIG'S OPENING, A LOCAL BUSINESSMAN 

AND TENANT OF THE STRIP STORE, 

ACROSS R25A, FOUND THAT THEIR

PARKING LOT...HIS PARKING LOT...

WAS FULL OF CARS, AND THEY 

COULDNT PARK,  IN THEIR OWN 

PARKING LOT !

THE CARS THAT FILLED THE PARKING 

LOT, WERE WORKERS FROM THE 

FLYING PIG, ACROSS  R25A !!!!!

NEEDLESS TO SAY, THE 'WELCOME TO 

THE NEIGHBORHOOD', WAS SHORT 

LIVED, AND SOME FRANK WORDS 

WERE  EXCHANGED, ESPECIALLY 

AFTER THE FLYING PIG'S OWNER 

STATED, "I WAS TOLD I COULD PARK 

THERE, IN THE PARKING LOT ACROSS 

RT.25A." 

THE BASIC MESSAGE TO THE NEW 

TENANT WAS......"I DON'T LIKE IT" !


                  WOULD YOU ?

 THE OWNER OF THE FLYING PIG'S 

          OWNER'S REPLY WAS...

"WELL, THAT'S NOT FRIENDLY."

THE LOCAL BUSINESSPERSON REPLIED,

     "I'M NOT HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS; 

          I'M HERE TO MAKE MONEY." 

  THIS IS HOW THE TOWN 'DUMPS' ON 

LOCAL BUSINESSES AND TAX PAYERS !

         AS PER WITH 'SPIRO'S'....IT'S

              

                  WELL,  SCREW YOU.....

  

JANE BONNER & SARAH ANKER ARE BRINGING CULTURE TO MILLER PLACE...WELL SORT OF.

  TAKE A LOOK, AT WHAT JANE BONNER 

    & SARAH ANKER ARE BRINGING             TO MILLER PLACE, NEW YORK

1. Xpressions Adult Videos Inc

4134 Sunrise HwyOakdale, NY 11769

(631) 563-3560

Video Rental & SalesMusic Stores

2. Xpressions Adult Videos Inc

146 W Sunrise HwyLindenhurst, NY 11757

(631) 226-7253

Video Rental & SalesBook Stores

3. Xpressions Adult Video Inc

Serving the Long Island Area.

(516) 489-7481

                                                                             THAT'S RIGHT, XPRESSIONS ADULT VIDEOS OF LONG ISLAND, IS RUMORED, TO BE COMING TO,   THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF RT. 25A & TYLER AVENUE,   MILLER PLACE, NEW YORK !

BEL BREEZE REALTY  REPRESENTS THE PURCHASER, IN THIS TRANSACTION !

FEEL FREE TO LET THEM KNOW, HOW YOU FEEL, ABOUT THEM BRINGING FILTH TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD !

                        

       HERE ARE SOME OF THE...ahem...
'CULTURAL OFFERINGS' WE ARE FORTUNATE TO BE EXPOSED TO....
ALL COURTESY OF JANE & SARAH !

SOMEHOW, THIS DOESN'T COMPORT WITH  JANE BONNER'S RT. 25A STUDY...

 This Route 25A Visioning Report aims to preserve resources, guide future development, enhance community character, and promote standards for a high quality of life.


BUT WHAT CAN WE EXPECT, FROM A FECKLESS POLITICIAN, WHO PRESIDES OVER THE DECAY & DESTRUCTION OF THAT 'HIGH QUALITY OF LIFE' ?

 JUST MORE, DECAY, AS WE HAVE NOW.

FUNNY THING....JANE BONNER CAN STOP LEGITIMATE BUSINESSES FROM COMING INTO OUR TOWNS, BUT SHE DOESN'T &WON'T STOP THE FILTH !

SOMETHING STINKS, &IT'S THESE 2!

                           

Nest Thermostat Leaked Zip Codes Over the Internet (Updated)

Written by

LORENZO FRANCESCHI-BICCHIERAI

STAFF WRITER

January 20, 2016 // 03:21 PM EST

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A Nest thermostat (Image: Bit Boy/Flickr)

Nest may be the poster child for the so-called Internet of Things, but as it turns out, even one of the most popular connected devices—owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, no less—isn't free from the sorts of security flaws plaguing other smart devices.

Researchers at Princeton University have found that, until recently, Alphabet’s popular Nest thermostat was leaking the zip codes of its users over the internet. This data was transmitted unencrypted, or in the clear, meaning that anyone sniffing traffic could have intercepted it, according to the researchers.

The researchers also studied several other smart devices, including the Sharx security camera, a PixStar smart photoframe, and Samsung’s SmartThings Hub. The goal of their research wasn’t to find specific bugs in these devices, but to determine what information was being leaked when the devices communicated with their servers in the cloud.

Sarthak Grover, a PhD student at the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton, and fellow Roya Ensafi reached out to Nest to report the bug, and said that the company “promptly” fixed it. The researchers did not disclose whether they reached out to other companies as well.

Grover presented some of his and Ensafi’s findings during a conference put together by the Federal Trade Commission last week in Washington, D.C.

Of the devices studied by the Princeton researchers, most leaked at least some kind of private information, meaning that anyone who can sniff traffic travelling over the internet “may be able to find out what you’re currently doing inside your home,” said Grover during the conference.

Apart from the Nest, the researchers found that the Sharx security camera transmits video feeds in the clear, allowing pretty much anyone with access to the owner’s network to intercept and watch them over the internet. As for the PixStar Digital Photoframe, the smart frame is designed to pull pictures from your Facebook account, but downloads them unencrypted, so someone sniffing your connection could steal the pictures, according to the researchers.

The researchers’ findings paint a grim reality. Some smart devices have such little computing power that they couldn’t perform the necessary encryption processes even if their creators wanted them to, and they’re all designed to send information out on the internet.

“What we have over here is a pretty a bad combination. You have hardware that is incapable, and information that’s always being sent to the cloud,” Grover said.

Their main takeaway is that Internet of Things manufacturers need to start putting security first—or perhaps regulators should set minimum mandatory security standards for manufacturers—and that, at least for now, consumers should “be afraid.”

Update, Jan. 20: Slides presented by the researchers stated that incoming weather updates contained "location information of the home and weather station in the clear." However, Nest contacted Motherboard to clarify that "the geolocation coordinates are for their remote weather stations, not our customers' homes, and that "the only user information that is contained in the requests is zip code."

The researchers confirmed this was the case, and Motherboard has updated both the article and headline accordingly.

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THANKS TO JANE BONNER, SHE HAS TURNED OUR VILLAGES, INTO TOWN DUMPS !

THANK YOU TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN...

Supervisor Romaine and Councilwoman Bonner Announce NYS Court of Appeals Decision Stops Shopping Center Development at Blighted Rocky Point Drive-In Site

posted on 11/18/2013 6:56:35 PM

November 18, 2013

Pictured left to right are Maureen Liccione, a partner in the law firm of Jaspan Schlesinger
 who served as outside council for the case, Amy Lonigro, Councilwoman Jane Bonner,
 Bob Lonigro, Linda Cathcart, Supervisor Ed Romaine, Superintendent of Rocky Point
School District Michael Ring, Joan Depken, John and Kathy Heggars.

FOR KEEPING BUSINESSES OUT OF OUR TOWN....

              ARE YOU HAPPY, NOW ???

YOU AND OTHERS, HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO GIVING OUR ECONOMY 10,OOO JOBS

Farmingville, NY - Supervisor Ed Romaine and Councilwoman Jane Bonner announced at a press conference today that the New York State Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the Town of Brookhaven in the Rocky Point Drive-In developer's appeal to allow for a shopping center development at the site. The property owner had previously challenged the Town's up-zoning of the 18-acre property from J-D Business to Commercial / Recreational, which does not allow big-box stores.

The Supervisor and Councilwoman were joined at the press conference by Maureen Liccione, a partner in the law firm of Jaspan Schlesinger who served as outside council for the case, Superintendent of Rocky Point School District Michael Ring, Linda Cathcart and Joan Depken from the Rocky Point Historical Society, Bob and Amy Lonigro and John and Kathy Heggars, residents who live adjacent to the property..

The Rocky Point community has fought against a commercial center at this location for years and this decision puts an end to any chance that one would come to the site. The Rocky Point Drive-In was opened in the early 1960's and closed in the late 1980's, and was subsequently opened as a golf driving range, which has also been closed for years.

"The Town has fought long and hard to stop a commercial center on the Rocky Point Drive-In site," said Supervisor Romaine said. "The court ruling in favor of the Town is a victory for the local residents who can rest assured that this long-blighted property will be developed into an appropriate commercial / recreational use. I look forward to working with Councilwoman Bonner to redevelop the site in a way that is in the best interest of the surrounding area."

"A shopping center on this site would have been in conflict with the needs of the community while creating a traffic nightmare in an already high traffic area," said Councilwoman Bonner. "It would also severely impact the mom and pop stores that line the Route 25A Corridor, eliminating many local jobs or closing some businesses altogether. I applaud the court's decision to finally put an end to this long running case. It's taken over a decade to close out this chapter, and now I ask Mr. Lerner to come to the table with residents and the Town. Let's find a solution that works with the Commercial Recreation zoning of the site and serve as a benefit to the entire community."

In 2000, the Town of Brookhaven commenced the process to re-zone the property from J-2 Business to Commercial/Recreational (C/R) consistent with the Town's Comprehensive Plan. Upon learning of the Town's proposal, the property owner of the Rocky Point Drive-In brought an application before the Town to construct a Lowe's, which he claimed was a permitted use under the original zoning. The owner brought several lawsuits against the Town, challenging the C/R zoning and also claiming that the Town intentionally and maliciously delayed hearing the Lowe's application until after the zoning was approved by the Town Board. Despite the fact that a commercial center was not a permitted use under J-2, the Suffolk Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiff that a Lowe's could go forward without variances. The Town subsequently appealed and, in the meantime, Lowe's withdrew from the project.

On March 7, 2012, the New York State Appellate Division Second Department completely reversed the Suffolk County Supreme Court's original decision, stating that there was no intentional delay or malice on the part of the Town and that the Commercial/Recreational zoning was upheld. "The record does not support the [Suffolk Supreme Court's] determinations of undue delay and bad faith… or that the [Town] selectively enforced the prohibition against commercial centers in J-2 zoning districts," the court wrote in its decision at the time. The court additionally dismissed the plaintiff's cross-appeal and awarded a bill of defense costs to the Town.

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ESPECIALLY, THANKS TO JANE BONNER
             


SHE HAS TURNED OUR VILLAGES, INTO                          TOWN DUMPS !

HAPPY THANKSGIVING...THE REAL STORY OF THANKSGIVING

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The Real Story of Thanksgiving

November 21, 2012

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RUSH:  What is the story of Thanksgiving?  What I was taught, what most people my age were taught, maybe even many of you were taught, the Pilgrims got to the New World, they didn't know what to do.  They didn't know how to feed themselves. They were escaping tyranny, but they got here, and the Indians, who were eventually to be wiped out, taught them how to do everything, fed them and so forth.  They had this big feast where they sat down and thanked the Indians for saving their lives and apologized for taking their country and eventually stealing Manhattan from 'em. 

But that's not what really happened. 

"The story of the Pilgrims begins in the early part of the seventeenth century ... The Church of England under King James I was persecuting anyone and everyone who did not recognize its absolute civil and spiritual authority. Those who challenged ecclesiastical authority and those who believed strongly in freedom of worship were hunted down, imprisoned, and sometimes executed for their beliefs. A group of separatists first fled to Holland and established a community.  After eleven years, about forty of them agreed to make a perilous journey to the New World, where they would certainly face hardships, but could live and worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences.

"On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims led by William Bradford. On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract, that established just and equal laws for all members of the new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs. Where did the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from? From the Bible. The Pilgrims were a people completely steeped in the lessons of the Old and New Testaments. They looked to the ancient Israelites for their example.

"And, because of the biblical precedents set forth in Scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work. But this was no pleasure cruise, friends. The journey to the New World was a long and arduous one. And when the Pilgrims landed in New England in November, they found -- according to Bradford's detailed journal -- a cold, barren, desolate wilderness. There were no friends to greet them, he wrote.  There were no houses to shelter them. There were no inns where they could refresh themselves. And the sacrifice they had made for freedom was just beginning. During the first winter, half the Pilgrims -- including Bradford's own wife -- died of either starvation, sickness or exposure. When spring finally came, Indians taught the settlers how to plant corn, fish for cod and skin beavers for coats.

"Life improved for the Pilgrims, but they did not yet prosper! This is important to understand because this is where modern American history lessons often end. Thanksgiving is actually explained in some textbooks as a holiday for which the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives."  That's not what it was.  

"Here is the part that has been omitted: The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their merchant-sponsors in London called for everything they produced to go into a common store, and each member of the community was entitled to one common share." It was a commune.  It was socialism.  "All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belonged to the community as well," not to the individuals who built them. 

"Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized that this form of collectivism was as costly and destructive to the Pilgrims as that first harsh winter, which had taken so many lives. He decided to take bold action. Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family to work and manage."  They could do with it whatever they wanted. He essentially turned loose the free market on 'em.  "Long before Karl Marx was even born, the Pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism." And they found that it didn't work. 

"What Bradford and his community found was that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anyone else," because everybody ended up with the same thing at the end of the day.  "But while most of the rest of the world has been experimenting with socialism for well over a hundred years -- trying to refine it, perfect it, and re-invent it -- the Pilgrims decided early on to scrap it permanently. What Bradford wrote about this social experiment should be in every schoolchild's history lesson. 'The experience that we had in this common course and condition,' Bradford wrote. 'The experience that we had in this common course and condition tried sundry years... that by taking away property, and bringing community into a common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing -- as if they were wiser than God. ... For this community [so far as it was] was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children without any recompense.'"

What he was saying was, they found that people could not expect to do their best work without any incentive.  So what did they try next?  Free enterprise.  "Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to market its own crops and products. And what was the result? 'This had very good success,' wrote Bradford, 'for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.'"
They had miraculous results.  In no time they found they had more food than they could eat themselves.  So they set up trading posts.  They exchanged goods with the Indians.  The profits allowed them to pay off the people that sponsored their trip in London.  The success and the prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted more Europeans, began what became known as the great Puritan migration. 

And they shared their bounty with the Indians.  Actually, they sold some of it to 'em.  The true story of Thanksgiving is how socialism failed.  With all the great expectations and high hopes, it failed.  And self-reliance, rugged individualism, free enterprise, whatever you call it, resulted in prosperity that they never dreamed of. 

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RUSH: I can't leave here without once again telling all of you how utterly important you are to the country, to this program, how much you've meant at me, my family, and all of us here, the overrated staff, everybody.  This show would not exist, and it would not be what it is without you.  And we love you to death here.  I do personally, and I wish there were ways beyond words I could show you and express it.  Hope you have a great Thanksgiving weekend.

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WHACKY TRANSGENDER MOVEMENT ARRIVED TO ROCKY POINT SCHOOL DISTRICT...ENDED WITH A WHIMPER...COURTESY OF COMRADE CUOMO & YOUR TAX DOLLARS !

...BUT YOU KNOW THE LGBT GAY

 PROPAGANDA JUGGERNAUT, WONT GIVE UP & THEY WILL KEEP ON COMING AT YA, UNTIL THEY GET WHAT THEY WANT !

Rocky Point residents defeat school renovation plans

• Education
• Village Beacon Record

by Giselle Barkley - October 27, 2015

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Rocky Point Board of Education members announce the results for the bond. Photo by Giselle Barkley

After much anticipation, the Rocky Point Board of Education members revealed the results for the school district’s $20.4 million maintenance bond after voting took place on Monday, and the results were less than impressive.

The bond’s $17,478,513 Proposition 1 received 396 votes in opposition and 320 votes in favor. Proposition 2 was also defeated, 465 to 233 votes.

The bond aimed to target repairs and renovations to the facilities, as well as health and safety projects. Proposition 1 focused on major projects, like bathroom repairs, upkeep, or additions, like outdoor bathrooms; fixing boilers; lighting ceilings; air conditioning; and locker room renovations, among other projects. Proposition 2 dealt with what some residents perceived as minor projects. This included funding items like artificial grass.

Less than 1,000 residents went to the Rocky Point High School gymnasium and voted on the bond. Wendy Guthy, of Rocky Point, whose third child recently graduated from the high school, was one of many residents who voted against the bond.

“There are things that the community doesn’t feel is necessary based on what [the Board of Education] told us two years ago,” Guthy said.

She said the board informed residents that the institution was in good standing in 2013. Guthy also added her thoughts on some renovations she found unnecessary, like repairs to the turf on the athletic field. Other residents shared Guthy’s same opinion regarding the bond’s minor projects. Rocky Point resident Judy Stringer said the bond’s propositions had “too much fluff and too many wants…instead of needs.”

“All those extra bathrooms and turf is not needed,” Stringer said in a phone interview. “Things that should be taken care of [are] the high school bathrooms and the Frank J. Carasiti bathrooms. Those things are important and necessary for the children.”

While Guthy said no to the renovations, it is not because she wants to deprive students of the renovations, but thinks about the pressure it would put on parents’ wallets.

“It’s difficult to say, ‘No,’ to the kids,” Guthy said. “But you have to be budget-minded too.”

According to the board’s newsletter regarding the bond, the state would have funded the majority of the bond, which requires taxpayer dollars. Despite this, the board’s newsletter claimed that Rocky Point taxpayers would pay less than $8 monthly to fund the propositions. Residents would have experienced a total tax impact of $92.35 if the bond was passed. Even if Proposition 2 passed, the approval of the entire bond would depend on whether the first proposition passed.

One resident, who did not want to give her name directly after voting, said she felt bad voting in opposition of the bond but she “wanted to send a message, that [the Rocky Point Board of Education]…shouldn’t tack on those extra things.” While this resident admitted that a new heating system was in order among other necessities, she said minor projects deterred her from voting for the bill. At the time, she believed the bond would pass.

During the Aug. 31 Board of Education meeting, some individuals from the New York State United Teachers School Related Professionals Association gathered to voice their opinions regarding teaching assistants versus teaching aides, and added that they would not vote in favor of the bond if the board were to eliminate teaching aide positions. Jessica Ward’s position as a teaching aide was eliminated during that meeting.

Many of these individuals attended the Monday meeting.

Rocky Point BOE President Susan Sullivan said the board tried to address the needs of the school and was disappointed with Monday night’s results on the bond.

“As elected representatives of our community, the Board of Education worked to present a bond that struck a balance between the infrastructural needs of our buildings and repairs that would preserve the integrity of our schools in a financially responsible manner,” Sullivan said in an email. “It is disappointing that the proposal presented did not garner the support of our community. We are committed to continuing to provide our students and staff with a safe and secure learning environment and will work together with our community to discuss ways to properly support our educational facilities.”

Despite the results, Superintendent of Schools for Rocky Point school district, Michael Ring, still appreciated residents’ participation with the bond.

“The district thanks the public for their participation in the bond vote,” Ring said in an email. “Moving forward, the district will continue to review its facilities’ needs in order to determine actions that may be necessary to sustain the integrity and maintenance of our buildings and grounds.”

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