A new trustee was sworn in and a new deputy mayor was named for the Village of Munsey Park Tuesday night.
During the village’s annual reorganization meeting, Mayor Frank DeMento swore in newly elected Trustee Anthony Sabino, newly promoted Deputy Mayor Jennifer Noone and recently appointed Trustee Antonio D’Angelo.
Noone and Sabino were sworn in for two-year terms while D’Angelo will serve the remainder of former Trustee Patrick Hance’s term, which ends next year.
Hance resigned in the middle of his term in February, and Sabino replaced former Deputy Mayor John Lippmann who opted not to seek re-election.
DeMento also appointed village Clerk Tara Gibbons to a two-year term, Deputy Clerk Maureen McLean to a one-year term, Robert Morici as village attorney for a one-year term, Judge John Turano for a four-year term and appointed Joseph Russo to the Board of Zoning and Appeals for a five-year term.
According to the village website, Russo will serve as chairman of the board.
Trustees also approved a resolution to accept no pay for the position and named the Manhasset Press as the village’s official newspaper.
During the regular meeting, trustees approved the village budget which was originally presented at the March meeting.
D’Angelo said the one major change from the March presentation was additional Consolidated Local Street and Highway Improvement Program funds being applied to the planned road work across the village. D’Angelo said the CHIPS funds will be included in the road repair and some village funds will be moved to add more funding to tree planting and maintenance.
A copy of the budget was not available as of Wednesday afternoon.
Munsey Park resident Kevin Kennedy, who works from his Manhasset Woods Road home, said he is concerned about the increase in construction and commercial traffic coming through the village.
DeMento said while some of the traffic is for residential construction projects, others are using village roads to cut through to other places, including neighboring Flower Hill.
“With all the construction that’s been going on in Flower Hill, the teardown of old residences and the building of new residences, we’re all familiar with what’s been going on in the area, but the number and frequency of heavy truck traffic has increased quite a lot,” Kennedy said. “This is traffic that’s going on not just during the week, but it’s going into the weekend.”
DeMento said he will reach out to Village of Flower Hill Mayor Robert McNamara and see if he is aware of the issues and has any ideas. While the police are the main enforcers of the laws, DeMento said there are only so many times the village can call and ask officers to stake out Munsey Park streets.
In other business, trustees approved the annual Manhasset SCA fair from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 5 at the Munsey Park Elementary School field. DeMento said the village will be responsible for posting no parking signs on village roads during the fair.
