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VOL.-^ NO. 40 Second Class Postage Paid
In Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, August 15, 1974
Copyright 1974 by
Island- Wide Publication, Inc. price 1 54 - $ 5 per year
Bd. Sets Figures For 3rd Vote
Set Thursday For Vote
Registration Saturday-
State Goofs
Aid Figure
The new budget for the 74/ 75
school year was revealed as the
POST went to press on Wed­nesday.
The Board had indicated
that a lower budget figure would
be presented since they were
aware that the aid figure
previously provided by the state
would be over $ 250,000 lower.
The school trustees indicated
that at no time would they con­sider
coming back with an in­creased
tax figure in spite of the
overstatement of aid and were
forced to apply other new
revenues and make cuts to meet
the decrease.
The new budget total is.
$ 27,265,758. It shows decreased
expenditures of $ 128,300 and
increased aid from sources other
than the state of $ 125,000 applied
to meet the " shortfall" of state
aid. The resulting is no change in
the tax levy from the second vote,
with all cuts and added aid used
to offset the state aid decline.
The tax rate will be 34 cents
lower than originally proposed
for Oyster Bay and 46 cents lower
for Babylon. The budget carries
with it a tax rate of $ 17,637 in
Oyster Bay and $ 23,935 in
Babylon.
On the expenditure side the
district will cut $ 25,000 from the
Buildings and Grounds area due
to work it was unable to complete
during the summer, $ 10,180 will
be cut since the food service
contractor will now pay for
maintenance and replacement of
district- owned cafeteria
equipment and supplies, $ 7,000
can be removed due to a lost cost
of student insurance and $ 26,000
for cost interest on a Bond An­ticipation
Note not approved by
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New Committee
For New Budget
In response to the number of
people expressing their desire to
help get off austerity, a new
committee has been formed.
The " Committee to Pass the
Budget - No Austerity" plans
telephone campaigns, tran­sportation
Saturday for
registration, and Thursday,
August 22 for voting, distribution
of signs and informative leaflets.
A meeting is being held on
Thursday, August 15, at the
Oystermy- Hall, Albany Avenue,
west of the fire house, at 8 p. m.
AU individuals interested in
working to get off austerity be at
the meeting or phone 694- 3815 or
694- 5357.
OWNER'S ATTORNEY Stanley Mishkin explains a new proposal for
the construction of an industrial park before the Babylon Town
Planning Board. No Farmingdale residential streets will be used as
access streets in the new plan. [ Post photo by Bob Starrett]
Planners Agree
To Ban Trucks
Faced with over 6,000 students losing their regular
transportation, an instructional supplies fee ranging
from $ 5 per child at Kindergarten to $ 13 per child at the
senior high school, and pressure from the community to
continue the interscholastics sports program, the Board
of Education has voted unanimously to hold a third
budget vote next Thursday, August 22.
Seatbelt Traps
Crash Victim
Funeral services were held
Monday morning at St. Kilian's
R. C. Church for John Russell, 19,
who died in a flaming car- truck
crash last Thursday morning.
Police said he was trapped in the
car by a seat belt and harness.
According to police, Russell of
10 Juniper St., Farmingdale, was
driving a car owned by his em­ployer,
the Norman Harvey Co.
of 125 Rt. 110, East Farmingdale,
when the car collided with a flat­bed
truck at 9: 20 a. m. about 400
feet north of Ritter Avenue on
Route 110.
Russell was driving south,
police said, when his car collided
with the truck driven by Martino
Bonventre, an employee ot Sicila
Concrete Foundations Inc. of
West Babylon. Both vehicles
burst into flames.
Police Officer Michael Keeler
of Suffolk County's First Precinct
managed to open the door of
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An additional day of
registration is set for this
Saturday from Noon to 10 p. m. at
the Howitt Junior High School.
Voting will also be at Howitt from
10 a. m. to 10 p. m.
The attempt to keep the school
district from operating under an
austerity budget when it opens on
Tuesday, September 3, came late
last week when the Board voted
7- 0 to make the third- time try. All
Board members agreed with the
Committee for Resubmission of
the Budget in its statement that
"... austerity is not economy."
Details of the transportation
situation were revealed last week
and parents can expect to receive
or not receive bus passes under
the austerity mileage regulations
this week. As mandated by state
law the Board will be forced to
charge fees for all instructional
supplies. The following fee
schedule was proposed by ad­ministration
and adopted by the
Board: Kindergarten $ 5; Grades
1- 6 $ 9; Grades 7- 9 $ 12; and
Grades 10- 12 $ 13.
The new budget proposal will
show decreased expenditures of
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A standing room only crowd of
Farmingdale residents filled the
largest meeting room in the
Babylon Town Hall last Thursday
night to protest the use of
residential streets in Far­mingdale
to gain access to an
industrial park construction site
for the Babylon Town Planning
Board.
The residents of Mill Road and
adjacent streets, who last
Tuesday formed a human
barricade across Clifton Street
and refused to allow construction
equipment through their streets,
won at least a partial victory. No
residential streets will be used.
Those who had hoped to block any
industrial construction in their
back yards, did not fare as well,
since the property has been zoned
for light industrial use for over 30
years.
A Babylon Planning Dept.
spokesman told the crowd that
after the MTA rejected a request
for a railroad crossing to the
property from East Carman's
Road, the plan proposed to use
James Street for an entrance and
Clifton St. as an exit. When the
Town of Oyster Bay took quick
action to close their James Street
portion and residents blocked
Clifton St. the plans had to be
changed.
Stanley Mishkin, attorney for
the owner Seymour Yanowicz,
presented the negotiated
proposal. The Town of Babylon is
to begin condemnation
proceedings against the owners
of the Lambert property along
Route 110, then an access road
will be built to the industrial site.
Pending the condemnation, no
trucking will pass over or around
James Street or Clifton Street.
After condemnation all traffic
will use only the new road bet-
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EGG SHAMPOO: Practicing for the egg throwing contest in
preparation for the annual G. O. P. picnic this Sunday. August 18, at the
Chateau in Melville, Bob Snyder seems to have gotten the worst of it
from his friends, Alan Warshaw [ 1] and Roy Pfoh [ r], who got a big
laugh out of the way Bob uses his head. Everyone is welcome to join
the fun, games and unlimited food in the shady grove. Tickets will be
available at the gate.