Special meeting for library budget and trustee election on April 13, 2026.

NASSAU COUNTY

NOTICE OF MEETING





LEGAL NOTICE




NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING

OF

BETHPAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY




The Board of Trustees of the Bethpage Public Library hereby gives notice that a Special District Meeting of the qualified voters of the Bethpage Union Free School District will be held at the Bethpage Public Library, 47 Powell Avenue, Bethpage, New York, on Monday, the 13th day of April, 2026 from 2:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. prevailing time, for the purpose of voting by paper ballots upon the following propositions:




1. To adopt the Annual Budget of the Bethpage Public Library for the fiscal year 2026-2027 and to authorize the requisite portion thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the Bethpage Union Free School District; and




2. To elect one (1) member of the Board of Trustees, who will serve a term commencing on July 1, 2026, and expiring on June 30, 2031, which is currently encumbered by Gregory Cusumano.




A petition shall be required to nominate such candidate to the office of Library Trustee. Petitions shall be directed to the District Clerk at the Bethpage Union Free School District Administration Offices Cherry Avenue and Stewart Avenue, Bethpage, New York, and shall be signed by at least twenty-five (25) qualified voters of the District. Vacancies on the Board of Trustees are not considered separate specific offices; candidates run at large. Nominating petitions shall not describe any specific vacancy upon the Board for which the candidate is nominated. Petitions shall be available at the Office of the District Clerk at the School District Administrative Offices, Cherry Avenue and Stewart Avenue, Bethpage, New York. In the event that any such nominee shall withdraw his or her candidacy prior to the election, such person shall not be considered a candidate unless a new petition nominating such person in the same manner and with the same limitations applicable to other candidates is filed with the District Clerk. Each petition shall be filed in the office of the District Clerk between the hours of 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. (excluding Saturdays and Sundays), through Friday, March 13, 2026, and not later than March 13, 2026.




REGISTRATION




FURTHER NOTICE IS GIVEN that pursuant to Section 2014 of the Education Law, personal registration of voters is necessary and no person shall be entitled to vote at said Special District Meeting of April 13, 2026 unless such person has personally registered.




Each person may register for the said Special Meeting by appearing personally before the Board of Registration of the School District on April 1, 2026, as hereinafter stated. The Board of Registration will meet for the purpose of personal voter registration and the preparation of a register of the qualified voters of said School District, on April 1, 2026 between the hours of 4:00 P.M. and 8:00 P.M. at the School District Administrative Offices during which time and at which place members of the Board of Registration shall place upon the School District Register the names of all qualified voters personally appearing before them, provided they are known to be or proven to the satisfaction of such Board of Registration that they are entitled to vote at the above specified Library Special District Meeting.




Such register, upon its completion, will be filed in the Office of the District Clerk at the School District Administrative Offices, Cherry Avenue and Stewart Avenue, Bethpage, New York, and will remain on file at such office and will be open for inspection between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 3:00 P.M. on each of the five (5) days prior to the meeting or election for which it was prepared, except Saturday and Sunday. Voters may register for voting at subsequent Library special district meetings on the day of the April 13, 2026 Special District Meeting. All persons who have voted at any Special or Annual Meeting or Election or at any general election within four (4) years prior to the preparation of the register, or who are registered to vote at any general election, pursuant to Section 5-210 of the Election Law of the State of New York need not re-register to vote at the Special District Meeting of April 13, 2026.




AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, the voters may register with the Clerk of said School District at her office in the Bethpage Union Free School District Administrative Offices, Cherry Avenue and Stewart Avenue, Bethpage, New York, between the hours of 8:30 A.M. and 3:30 P.M. when school is in session at any day prior to April 1, 2026 to add any additional names to the Register to be used at the aforesaid election, at which time any person will be entitled to have his or her name placed on such Register provided that at such meeting with the Clerk of said School District he or she is known or proven to the satisfaction of the Clerk of said School District to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at such election for which the Register is prepared. The Register so prepared pursuant to Section 2014 of the Education Law will be filed in the Office of the District Clerk, at her office in the School District Administrative Offices, Cherry Avenue and Stewart Avenue, Bethpage, New York, and will be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the District between 9:00 A.M. and 3:00 P.M. on each of the five (5) days prior to the day set for the election, except Saturday and Sunday, and at the polling place(s) on the day of the vote.




AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that military voters who are not currently registered may apply to register as a qualified voter of the school district. An application for registration as a military voter can be requested from the Board of Education at the Bethpage Administration building and must be returned to the Office of the District Clerk at 10 Cherry Avenue, Bethpage NY 11714, or by contacting the District Clerk at (516) 644-4002. The application for registration must be received in the office of the clerk no later than 5:00 P.M. on March 18, 2026. In the request for an application for registration, the military voter is permitted to designate his/her preference for receiving the application for registration by mail, facsimile transmission, or electronic mail.




AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that military voters who are qualified voters of the district may submit an application for a military ballot by requesting an application from the District Clerk at 10 Cherry Avenue, Bethpage NY 11714, or by contacting the District Clerk at (516) 644-4002 and returning the application in person or by mail to the Office of the District Clerk at 10 Cherry Avenue, Bethpage, NY 11714, no later than 5:00 P.M. on March 18, 2026. In the request for an application for a military ballot, the military voter is permitted to designate his/her preference for receiving the application for a military ballot and the military ballot by mail, facsimile transmission, or electronic mail. All qualified military voters’ ballot applications and military ballots must be returned by mail or in person. Ballots for military voters shall be distributed to qualified military voters no later than March 19, 2026. Military ballots must be received by the District Clerk either (1) before the close of the polls, on Monday, April 13, 2026, and must show a cancellation mark of the United States postal service or a foreign country’s postal service, or must show a dated endorsement of receipt by another agency of the United States Government; or (2) not later than 5:00 pm on the day of the election and be signed and dated by the military voter and one witness, with a date ascertained to be not later than the day before the election.




A list of all persons to whom military voters’ ballots have been issued shall be available during regular office hours at the Office of the Clerk of the Bethpage Union Free School District on each of the five days prior to the day set for the Special District Meeting, except Sunday, and on April 13, 2026, at the polling place during the Special District Meeting. Any qualified voter then present in the polling place may object to the voting of the ballot upon appropriate grounds by making his or her challenge and the reasons therefore known to the Inspector of Election before the close of the polls.




FURTHER NOTICE IS GIVEN, that in accordance with Education Law Section 2018-a and 2018-f, applications for absentee ballots and early mail voter ballots for the Special District Meeting may be applied for at the Office of the Clerk of the Bethpage Union Free School District. Such applications must be received by the Board of Registration no earlier than Monday, March 16, 2026 and at least seven (7) days prior to the Special District Meeting, on Monday, April 6, 2026, if the absentee ballot or email mail voter ballot is to be mailed to the voter, or the day before the Special District Meeting, if the absentee ballot or early mail voter ballot is t