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Unpaid parks appointment for Tracey Bellone withdrawn, for now
Photo credit: Newsday, 2011 / Karen Wiles Stabile
A legislative resolution to name County Executive Steve Bellone’s wife, Tracey, to an unpaid post as county parks trustee disappeared last week from the agenda of the party committee.
It turns out the administration quietly withdrew the resolution after county attorneys discovered that Tracey Bellone, the deputy park commissioner in Babylon Town, cannot legally serve because county code...
