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Committee Proposes to
Retain Main Si School
The Farmingdale School District " should retain title and control of all
property and buildings at Main Street and 521 Conklin Street." according to the
recommendation of the Citizens Advisory Committee. George Schriro, chairman
of the 21 member committee, made the public presentation of the report at
Monday evening's school board meeting.
YOUTH LEADERS: Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John W. Burke,
right, chats with Farmingdale High School students who recently
completed a Peer Leadership Training course to help them in
working with behavioral problems of elementary school students.
From left to right are students Bruce Gelbman, Joseph Stasio and
Zelda Lambe, and Peer Program Trainer Michael Tartamella. The
program is sponsored by the Town's Drug Abuse Control Agency.
The committee concurred with
the Board of Education that the
Main Street School should be
phased out as a general
educational facility " predicated
upon the assumption that the
quality of education in the district
will remain substantially un­changed."
They recommend
joint usage of the facilities at
Main Street School in the
following order: School district
administrative offices, rental to
BOCES of part of the building,
programs in special areas of
education, and as a community
center.
The committee's report also
includes some more specific
recommendations in connection
with the leasing to BOCES and
concludes that if a mutually
No Tax Cutback Are in Sight
From County, Town and School
Taxes, in particular the real
estate and school taxes, were
discussed at the last open forum
of Farmingdale's Dolphin Green
Civic Association in Guilford Hall
of the Senior High School. Those
who stayed home at that snowy
and freezing Friday night ap­parently
knew that there would
be no tax relief in sight. For those
who did brave the elements and
perhaps wanted to hear
somebody promise tax reduc­tions
of one form or another it had
to be a night of disappointment.
Whether it was the represen­tative
of county government
( Deputy County Executive
Joseph H. Driscoll), of town
government ( Oyster Bay
Supervisor John Burke) and of
the schools ( Superintendent Dr.
William Kinzler), none of the
speakers could promise anything
even approaching a reduction in
taxes.
When one of the residents
asked directly about the
possibility of a tax cutback there
were the following answers:
Driscoll: " The county is
presently engaged in shifting the
tax burden away from the
property tax and towards the
sales tax. But whenever the
county has to add services, an
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Opinionnaire Topic
At Public Meeting
The Farmingdale Board of
Education will hold a public
meeting on Wednesday, March
15, al 8: 30 p. m. in Guilford Hall,
the Senior High School. The
purpose of the meeting is to
present data gathered from the
opinionnaire that was recently
sent to all residences in school
district LI.
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increase in taxes will have to
follow."
Burke: " Cutting back taxes is
most difficult. Labor contracts
are generally responsible for
increases in taxes. I am strongly
in favor of holding the line."
Kinzler: " We are approaching
the most difficult time in our tax
history. Inflation, decreased
state aid and our special problem
of having lost a vast area of
taxable land to the M. T. A. are
compounding our problem."
Also among the featured
speakers that night was Oyster
Bay councilman Lewis Yevoli
who called taxation a most
serious problem. " On budget
hearings", he told the audience,
" very few people show up and
they only start to complain when
it is too late." Yevoli pointed to
his proposal of naming a budget
advisory committee to work
closely together with town of­ficials.
He also called the waiver
of residency requirement in
welfare intolerable.
In elaborating on Far­mingdale's
fiscal school
problems, Dr. Kinzler expressed
the hope that some form of
reimbursement for the tax loss
will be forthcoming from Albany
this year. " We were close last
year, until Rockefeller's veto
stopped our tax relief bill," he
said. He named state senator
Ralph Marino, as well as
assemblymen McCarthy, Burns,
Healey and Ginsburg as strong
advocates in Albany for a new
compromise bill to bring aid to
the school district.
Commenting on the
Fleischmann report, Kinzler
called it a " pursuit of
mediocrity" and rejected the
idea of distributing t the same
amount of money to all school
districts.
" You do not like real estate
taxes," he told the audience, " but
they are the rock on which our
school system is based." He said
that a school income tax would
fluctuate because of the economy
and favored a new tax formula
which would incorporate a real
estate tax exemption on the first
part of the land in combination
with some form of income tax.
The Dolphin Green Civic
Association plans another open
forum on April 28 to discuss the
Farmingdale Library Budget.
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satisfactory agreement cannot be
reached the building should be
used by the district for the three
other purposes.
Included in the report was
recognition that additional major
work is needed in modernization
of the building. Since the board
had not yet studied or discussed
the recommendation, board
president Robert Campbell cut
short any questions on in­terpretation
of the report and
refused to make any comments.
Nicholas Aleshin, representing
himself and two other members
of the committee, made an in­formal
minority report at the
meeting. Their view was that
rental to BOCES should not be
considered since it was a " big
bureaucracy" and they did not
want outsiders coming into
Farmingdale.
in answer to a question from
the floor about what had been
done since the racial conflict in
the High School and the meetings
which immediately followed, Dr.
William Kinzler, Superintendent
of Schools commented that the
situation has been defused and
the administration is doing the
utmost to prevent a recurrence.
He pointed out that disputes
between two people could not be
stopped but what must be done is
keep twenty or thirty people from
jumping in. He said that com­munication,
understanding and
interaction are needed. The
young people are working it out
and he is working on getting
support and help of adults as well
as youngsters.
Dr. Kinzler explained that he
would like to see a community
organization to stem off further
recurrences and invited blacks
and whites to sign up as volun­teers
to work on the problem. A
number of volunteers did line up
at the end of the meeting.
Trustee Terry Weathers,
chairman of the Finance Com­mittee,
reported that the budget
hearings had been held at the
nine schools with an average
attendance of 10 and a range of 1
to 17 people attending. He
commented that as things stand
now the district is faced with a
" minus revenue situation", due
to a legislative freeze on the aid
ceiling and decreasing
enrol] ment. The budget at this
point is* being presented wkho'jf
any salary increases. Another
budget hearing will be held on
March 22.
The next regular board
meeting will be held on April 11 in
Howitt Jr. High at 9: 00 p. m.
At Monday's meeting, Dr.
Kinzler announced that Edward
Schlosser, Director of the Far­mingdale
High School Work
Study program, had been named
the Farmingdale Man of the
Year.
He also announced that the
Farmingdale Wrestling Team
has won the Nassau County
Championship. Marilyn Hametz
AGAINST PUSHERS: When Assemblyman Philip Healey visited PRICE headquarters in Far­mingdale
he talked to the young people about the proposed bill to punish convicted dope pushers more
severely than in the past. He found no objections from the PRICK group which is engaged to fight
drug abuse in the community. Shown above are from left to right Denise Racioppi. Susan Sussinan,
Healey and Art Jocoby, PRICK director.