Where’s aid for this nonprofit shelter?

While Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman has been focused on possible harm to women and girls from transgender women athletes at county facilities, he has allowed Nassau’s only domestic violence shelter, The Safe Center LI, to reach the brink of closure [“Service gaps likely with nonprofit’s closure,” Long Island, March  11].

He and his administration have not facilitated the plan for Safe Horizon to take over the state and local contracts and hit the ground running.

How many women and girls will suffer if we lose this invaluable resource, and how many abusers will remain free without the work of the Child Advocacy Center to bring them to justice while protecting their vulnerable victims?

 — Suzanne Mueller, Port Washington North

It is deeply troubling that despite the crucial mission of this agency, the Nassau County government under Bruce Blakeman appears to have created a bureaucratic maze that prevents timely funding for such a vital service.

What is especially perplexing is that Blakeman could establish a citizens militia without legislative approval or proper funding yet cannot take decisive action to safeguard victims of domestic violence.

This situation suggests that Blakeman has fully embraced a political approach that prioritizes actions against people rather than policies that serve and protect them.

 — Susan Feifer, Massapequa

Outside lawyers are not a good look

Paying outside lawyers suggests not only incompetence in hiring people unqualified to handle county business, but also in unnecessarily contracting with outside firms at greater expense [“Nassau attorney costs too high,” Editorial, March 4].

Either way, it looks like what former New York State Sen. George Washington Plunkitt called “honest graft.” Technically legal, but always costly.

 — Brian Kelly, Rockville Centre