Readers Write: County money better spent in GN than on commish

The Island Now

For [Nassau County] Deputy Park Commissioner Frank Camerlengo, who earned $99,000 with a raise to $125,000 per year, defaulted on his Stewart Avenue property, owing JP Morgan, $395,479.00, as of 2012. 

Yet he made a generous contribution to Mr. Ed Mangano’s campaign. Money that could have been spent paying back his bank loan. 

I think the aides of Mr. Ed Mangano made a big mistake, when they went to the planning board, requesting $800,000, from the open space fund, to bail out Deputy Park Commissioner Camerlengo with a sales pitch, that the lot could be an education center.

Deputy County Executive Ed Ward, who stands by the project, is quoted, “We are buying an eyesore, the community wants us to do something about it.” 

Hold on Ed, Nassau County, doesn’t have money to care for some of the properties it already owns. 

Take Wood Road (corner), in the Village of Great Neck, for example, a dumping ground for decades, furniture, tires, illegal landscape dumping, tree limbs still left to be cleared from the 2010 Micro burst. 

This is a brush fire hazard for adjacent residential properties, mosquito breeding in stagnant waters, etc.

We were first, take care of Wood Road, before bailing Frank Camerlengo and stick to the deal, that was in the works for final approval, June 2010, with the Great Neck Park District. 

You don’t deplete Nassau County’s Open Space Fund to pay for Camerlengo’s foreclosure, even more so, since he is a park commissioner. 

Jean Pierce

Great Neck

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