Great Neck Estates Board of Trustees recruits resident at meeting to help restart popular summer camp

The Great Neck Estates Board of Trustees’ recent meeting started off with a few routine agenda items before boiling down to a single unexpected highlight of the night: the recruitment of attendee Jayson Rokhsar, a 31-year-old lifelong resident and father of two toddlers, to potentially help restart the village’s once-popular summer day camp. The camp started in 1996 and ran for 30 years before ending last summer due to low enrollment. The meeting was held Monday, Nov. 9 at Village Hall. Rokhsar first expressed enthusiasm for the board’s decision to potentially forgo the village’s kiddie pool in favor of a new poolside experience of some sort. He explained that as a father of two young children, he’s noticed that the stairs of the big pool are the hot spot for kids to hang out, not the kiddie pool. “I’d love to see more action at the park in general,” Rokhsar said. “When I grew up here, the park was banging.” At this point, Rokhsar had the board’s full attention.

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