BELLPORT ELECTIONS

[Advance Addict]

Why did Lee Sneed look like he was smelling a fart on the cover of todays Advance. Isn't he happy that he won.

doesn't lee sneed work for Patchogue?

[bi-villager]

bellport trustee, patchogue village attorney (smooth move, huh?)

[bi villager?]

more like boy toy!

This guys a real loser as a trustee and as PV attorney!!! You would think he could find his way out of a wet paperbag but nope not this idiot. In my opinion, he should crawl back under the slimy rock 4 which he came.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sam Sneed]

Swing away sonny boy!

does sneed really not know the rules or does he just play dumb to satisfy mayor meatball

does sneed really not know the rules or does he just play dumb to satisfy mayor meatball

I hear Mayor Meatball's wife makes a mean lasagna :lol: :lol: :lol:

Lee Sneed in my opinion is an ASSHOLE!!!!! He talkes out of both sides of his mouth and bends over for BOTH mayors!!!

SMELLY WET FART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[s country hick]

gross

despicable wast e of taxpayors money

loser

big wet fart.............................................. ......

:!: :lol: :!:

[GUEST!!!!!!!!]

i am from patchogue and will agree with you about lee sleeze

[Perplexed on South Shore]

Enough with the comments about a picture of Lee Snead in the ADVANCE after the Bellport Village election two years ago! That's old news! What happened in this year's election? Why did John Orlando, the deputy mayor and a 28 year incumbent village trustee lose to a first time candidate? If the Bellport people were so mad about the village tax increase, why didn't more than one opposition candidate to the Mayor's team run? Is the Bellport Village team losing its grip? Who is behind this Binnington woman who won? (Tom Shultz? Regina Seltzer?) What will happen when the Mayor, Snead and Gallo run for re-election next time? Bellport Village has been an oasis between Patchogue and Mastic/Shirley and south of North Bellport. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

a picture tells a thousand words sneadly!!! hows your new space cadet wifie??

O yea, well Ive met her and shes no space cadet or new age type head case cocktail waitress, if she was spacey why does she make so much money.YOU know nothing as usual, she is a beautiful successful and independent woman.Lee would expect no less. They just might be south shores hottest couple.

Dont know her so I won't pass judgment on her but the HOTTIEST COUPLE on the south shore. THINK NOT!!!! In my opinion, Lee Sleez is no catch or Hottie by the thiniest strech of one's imagination!!!! I live in Patchogue and I can't wait until his re-election bid, I for one will be helping the opposing canidate regardless of his / he party affiliation. I think time and committment from Patchogue will seep into Bellport election for the first time ever. Lee has burned too many bridges in both Bellport and Patchogue. Join the anti Lee bid early cuz its going to get real ugly come election time!!

You are all a bunch of ass wipes in plain English. Lee is okay- you people all love to hide behind your screens tapping away-why don't you give us YOUR names so we can pick at YOU and your spouses. Please Get A Life!!!

sneadly smells of bo hope the wife dont mind

isit true the vop pays stinky over 200 thou for doing nothing

[GUEST!!!!!!!!]

i am from the vop and that is what i heard 250 is what i have been told, makes you want to vomit.

puke de serves nothing

hes a fart

Oh yeah? Read about the fart in the society pages.


Lee is considered one of "the most influential men in Bellport and the surrounding areas"

Suck on that patchogue dirt bags!

Patchogue Jeffersonian dirtbags. Leave lee alone-leave his wife alone. Pam and Celia please stop your nonsense.

somebodys gonna pay the piper forhiring the crunchy croock

you are gross!

[GUEST!!!!!!!!]

hey bellport have not heard to much about the smelly wet fart, the new bride have him tied to a pipe. he has been quite here in the vop. say hello to smelly for me.

you are an a ss h ole

GOOD MORNING BELLPORT

[goodtimes]

WHERE IS LEE

[Patchogue man]

Lee the ass wipe (in my opinion) will lose to John Orlando, I GUARANTEE it!!!! Orlando is a better man, a more experiance man and not an idiot!! Look out Bellport, PATCHOGUE money is coming into the Bellport elections to wipe out the sneedleysssssssss!!

thats a joke hahahaha

[goodtimes]

GO JOHNY GO

pU

[unregisteredvob]

Hey Mayor Meatball, send some of your village workers to my house to pick up my recycleables!

[anti frank]

Hey Mayor Meatball, send some of your village workers to my house to pick up my recycleables!

hey did you see him crying like a baby on 12 news! Why didn't he hide behind his wife, no one would have found him there! LOL I heard he is gay what did you hear? Has to be to live with that big fat horse

[Unregisteredvob]

Bye Bye Mayor Meatball, I guess Lee had too much dirt on you this time!

[mainst usa]

Bye Bye Mayor Meatball, I guess Lee had too much dirt on you this time!

Good luck with Lee as your Mayor Bellport. Ponteiri was smart enough to see this guy for what he really is.

[Unregistered33222]

Lee.....what a joke...another malcontent who thinks he can save the world....or fatten his wallet.....you be the judge...

[Unregisteredpastalover]

I miss Mayor Meatball...

[Unregisteredalitalia]

Me too!

[Unregistered980808]

Me too!

Bring back Snead....

[Unregistered American]

Trotta cared about the Village of Bellport. We should ask him to run again.

[Unregisteredhmmm]

your not talking about the person newly appointed to the south country school board who just so happens to be the attorney for the south country ambulance which is run by the same person who runs the school board??
i smell something fishy........

[Unregistereditalianbread]

Trotta cared about the Village of Bellport. We should ask him to run again.
Yes let's bring back Mayor Meatball!

[UnregisteredWTF?]

Bellport residents angry about generator
6:14 AM By Erin Geismar


It appeared overnight in Bellport Village -- a 1 megawatt diesel generator, 14-feet high, 31-feet long, and soon-to-operate at a noise level that is concerning some residents.

Nancy Norman and Tom Linden live at the corner of South Street and Woodland Park Road, adjacent to the Bellport Middle School. About three weeks ago, they woke up and the “monstrosity” had been installed in the middle school’s side parking lot on South Street.

Norman and Linden said they had never been notified that the generator would be installed right in front of their house.

“We weren’t involved,” said Linden, 66. “Why didn’t they let anyone know that this was happening and where they were putting it?”

The generator at the middle school, along with generators installed at each of the South Country Central School District’s five other buildings, was purchased and installed as part of a series of bonds passed in 2009 for $110 million in district renovations, said Greg Miglino, the district’s building administrator.

Miglino, who was superintendent when the bonds were passed, said the district held public hearings on the plans, including the location of the generators, at that time and there were no complaints.

Miglino said the district needed backup generators for instances when the schools lost power but also as a resource for the community in an emergency.

“In light of things like natural disasters, we realized there was no adequate evacuation facility in our district,” he said. “So we made sure when we planned to upgrade the building that we included generator power.”

Miglino said the district’s architect said the generator’s location on South Street was the only feasible option because of its proximity to the middle school’s mechanical room.

Norman and Linden said they want the district to move the generator, or reconsider the need for it altogether.

“We know where we live,” said Norman, 63. “We live next to a school, we suffer noise pollution and some litter but we’ve been very good neighbors. This is like a slap in the face.”

Miglino said he’s sympathetic toward the residents, but there was no choice. He also said only two houses are in direct view of the generator.

“It’s not that we meant any disrespect to the people that live around there,” he said. “This is part of an ongoing project and the time to change things would have been a year ago.”

The generator will operate at 115 decibels, Miglino said. It will only be used continually during an emergency situation, but it will also run for about an hour every two weeks for maintenance, he said.

Leslie O’Connor, 55, of Woodland Park Drive, said the noise level is too high.

In the Town of Brookhaven, anything that produces sound above 55 decibels during the day and 50 decibels overnight is in violation of town code, but the school district is not responsible for adhering to town or village code.

“We’re told that the school district is basically above the law,” she said. “But at what point are they held accountable for the protection of their citizens?”

Miglino said the generator is safe. He said the district has also taken steps to reduce the noise level by housing the generator in an insulated box.

Dr. Donald Lubowich, adjunct associate professor of physics and astronomy at Hofstra University, said 115 decibels is “very loud,” but there are a lot of important factors -- like distance and sound barriers -- that determine the effect it will have.

He compared it to things like a jet plane, which operates at 120 decibels, and a gas lawn mower, some of which operate at about 105 decibels. Because decibels are measured on a very narrow scale, he said, a difference of five or 10 decibels is significant.

“Even if it drops by five or 10 decibels,” Lubowich said. “That’s very significant. That’s cutting the loudness you are hearing by about half, and decreasing the power of the pressure against your eardrums by much more than that, could be 10 times lower.”

On Wednesday, Miglino said Superintendent Joseph Cipp plans to meet with Bellport Village Mayor David Pate to discuss forming a committee that would allow residents more input about camouflaging the generator and also at what hours it would run during the maintenance period.

“Our goal here is simply now to make the best of this and try to take this structure and turn it into something positive,” Miglino said.

[Unregisteredalitalia]

Mayor Pate is useless! Bring back Mayor Meatball. At least he cared about our village.

[Bring Back Mayor Meatball]

No takers for Bellport trustee job, so far
June 5, 2011 by PATRICK WHITTLE / patrick.whittle@newsday.com

Wanted: One village trustee. In Bellport, there have been no takers.

The manicured village of 2,300 residents on Suffolk's South Shore holds its annual election in two weeks, and no one signed up to run for a soon-to-be vacant seat, officials said.

There is a paucity of candidates for public office throughout Bellport, with only one person seeking the mayoral post and a lone incumbent in the race for two seats on the five-member board of trustees.

Mayor David Pate said a divide between himself and three sitting trustees -- James Vaughan, Alison Neumann and Dorothy Terwilliger -- is at least partly to blame for making public service appear less attractive in Bellport. Pate is not seeking re-election after taking office in July 2008.

"People have seen the viciousness and nastiness . . . They are asking, 'Why would I want to go through what I have witnessed the mayor of the village of Bellport go through?' " he said.

Pate said Vaughan, Neumann and Terwilliger are more concerned about the interests of residents who live in the less-affluent part of Bellport north of South Country Road. He accused them of not "looking out for the entire village."

Vaughan, who is seeking re-election, called the assertion "flat-out rude." He added that he represents "the wishes and values of the majority of the residents."

Neumann said Pate should "look in the mirror first" and that the "divide is made up of him." Terwilliger said "the village will go on" and accused Pate of failing to communicate with the three trustees.

Village officials are bracing for write-in candidates to play a role in the June 21 election. This year's vote will be the first in at least a quarter-century in which a seat has gone uncontested, said Scott Augustine, who has served as village clerk and village attorney during that time. A special election would be needed if there are no write-ins, he said.

"We're getting calls from people inquiring and you hear gossip, but I haven't seen anyone put a sign on a yard yet," Augustine said.

The trustee seat that will become vacant currently belongs to Scott A. Horsley, who is not seeking re-election. He said he wants to dedicate more time to his wife and his legal practice. Horsley said he's "disappointed" by the lack of candidates. He declined to address Pate's statements about a political divide in Bellport.

Pate, a research engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratory, said he's not running again because of work commitments and a desire to spend more time with family.

The candidate for mayor is William Veitch, a newcomer to village politics and vice president of sales for Kingsdown mattress company. He said his decision to run "is based on my desire to see the village run in a more civilized, efficient way."