{"id":196990,"date":"2026-04-14T16:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196990\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:29:09","slug":"great-neck-estate-budget-hearing-raises-questions-about-transparency-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196990\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Neck Estate budget hearing raises questions about transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A public hearing on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatneckestates-ny.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Village of Great Neck Estates<\/a>\u2019 proposed 2025-26 budget drew concern Monday night after the document was not made available to the public before or during the meeting, raising questions about transparency and procedure.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Trustees adopted the budget, which includes a 2.2% increase, following only a brief verbal summary and without distributing copies to residents in attendance.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.longislandpress.com\/2026\/04\/14\/great-neck-estate-budget-hearing-raises-questions-about-transparency\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at LI Press &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tGreat Neck Estate budget hearing raises questions about transparency &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A public hearing on the Village of Great Neck Estates\u2019 proposed 2025-26 budget drew concern Monday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-196990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}