Two young tech whizzes got to lead the Nassau County Planning Commission in the Pledge of Allegiance on Thursday as a thank-you for getting the commission’s public meetings on the county intra-net, which means you have to be in a county office to see them. (The actual internet, where everyone with a computer can watch, is supposed to be next on the agenda.)
“We have all the new technology here thanks to people in your age bracket, not mine,” Commission Chairman Jeffery Greenfield, 55, said in the high-tech meeting room in the county building.
Naushad Shahzad, 23, and Alan Fishman, 25, who work for the clerk of the county legislature, came to front of the room and led the recitation of the pledge.
Shahzad later began to explain to a Newsday reporter how the system worked. The confused reporter, 59, walked away.