Readers Write: G.N. board members need to side with the community

The Island Now

Why didn’t I think of this before?

Village of Great Neck Trustee Ann Mendelson’s husband writes letters to the Great Neck News disparaging the decision made on part of Great Neck Public Schools to pave a new parking lot near their home that will ultimately destroy their home’s view and potentially property value.  

Mendelson writes about the unfair lack of due process by the Board of Education in deciding to build a student parking lot, paving over what is now grass.  He’s griped about this unfair situation in several letters to editor published in the Great Neck News.  

So what does wife and Village of Great Neck trustee, Ann, do for revenge? She quietly sides with Mayor Bral in a bold move she knows and her husband knows will harm the public school system and the entire community. 

Is everything that’s gone wrong in this village and the questionable decision making in this village based on an enormous vendetta and an inappropriate sense of entitlement?

And what of the remaining board members?  The ones who fail to speak up, fail to question and sit there session after session in stony silence?  Norman Namdar, Stephen Hope and Bart Sobel.  Have they forgotten they were elected by the people for the people?  In other words, they are supposed to serve us.  Not Mayor Bral.

Will the real adults please step up? 

Someone with maturity and a sense of decency must stop these individuals before they destroy the greater community, taking down innocent, tax-paying, hard-working families that moved here for the high-ranking public school system.   

Judy Rosenthal

Great Neck

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