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Appoints
Citizens
Committee
the Board of Education will
establish a Citizens' Advisory
Committee on Finance at the
regular public monthly meeting
next Monday at the Senior High
School, 8: 30 p. m. The president of
the Board of Education, in
making the announcement, will
request volunteers to serve on the
committee and has suggested
they submit their names to the
Board via the Superintendent of
Schools by Wednesday, October
8.
The committee will have the
task of examining the current
budget for the purpose of
recommending ways and means
of achieving greater efficiencies
and economies while maintining
the same or a higher level of
quality with respect to the pur*
chase of supplies and equipment.
The committee will be asked to
make budgetary recom­mendations
for the school year
1976/ 77.
The role of the committee has
been established at the outset to
be that of an advisory body. It
will have complete autonomy in
its internal matters, electing its
own chairman, forming sub­committees,
setting meeting
dates and modes of operation.
The Board will consider the
committee's recommendations
but has indicated that the
responsibility for decision­making
must remain with the
elected Board. The Board also
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Healey Seeks
To Improve
Downtown Area
Assemblyman Philip B. Healey
( R- C Massapequa) will meet
Mayor John T. Hallahan and
other interested citizens to
discuss improving the downtown
Farmingdale commercial area.
The Assemblyman stated that
it is essential that we give at­tention
to maintaining and im­proving
the commercial area of
Farmingdale so that we may
provide jobs and taxes for the
community.
Assemblyman Healey is Vice
Chairman of the Assembly
Commerce Committee, and
thereby, has knowledge of
resources that would assist in the
revitalization of the retail area.
The seminar will be held on
October 9 at the Farmingdale
Village Hall at 8: 15 p. m. All are
invited to attend.
SWEARING IN former trustee Norman Krasnow as the new Clerk- Treasurer for the Village of Far­mingdale
is Police Justice John Gillies I right]. Retiring Clerk- Treasurer James J. McKenna and
Mayor John T. Hallahan look on during Monday night's ceremony.
McKenna Officially Retires
Farmingdale Village Clerk-
Treasurer James J. McKenna
officially submitted his letter of
resignation and retirement to the
board of trustees Monday night
effective September 30. Former
trustee Norman Krasnow was
sworn in as the new village ad­ministrator
by Village Justice
John E. Gillies.
A retirement dinner honoring
McKenna will be held Oct. 30 at
the Crest Hollow Country Club.
Tickets are still available to the
public at the village hall.
In his retirement letter to the
Mayor and village trustees,
McKenna, who came to Far­mingdale
as an orphan at the
Nazareth Trade School, wrote:
" After having served the Inc.
Village of Farmingdale for the
past seventeen years in the
capacity of Deputy Village Clerk
and Village Clerk- Treasurer,
with, 1 hope, dedication to the
ideals of good government and
concern for the welfare of the
Farmingdale residents, as well
as in conformity with the wishes
and directions of the Board of
Trustees during my terms of
office; I must request your ap­proval
of my retirement ap­plication,
to be effective as of
September 30th, 1975.
" To be sure this application for
retirement has been carefully
approached and is rather dif­ficult
to express other than my
age factor and my wish to spend
my remaining years with my
wife, Henrietta, in doing things
we have long anticipated, such as
visiting friends throughout this
country, travel, caring for our
lovely home, and of course, my
interest in my favorite pastime,
playing golf.
" I wish to acknowledge my
sincere gratitude to all of you
gentlemen for the many op­portunities
presented me in my
tenure to develop as the Clerk-
Treasurer and I hope and pray I
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GOP Names Nicosia
Far Legislature Seat
Farmingdale attorney
Salvatore J. Nicosia has been
named by the Nassau County
Republican Party as its can­didate
for the Nassau County
Legislature from the third
district.
Nicosia, 39,. a native of Far­mingdale,
resides at 121 Hillside
Road, and is a partner in the law
firm of Cronin and Nicosia.
The third county legislative
district includes Farmingdale,
South Farmingdale, Bethpage
and Plainview. Its boundaries
extend from the Northern State
Parkway on the north, south to
the Southern State Parkway and
Boundry Avenue, and from the
Oyster Bay- Hempstead Town
line on the western border to the
Nassau- Suffolk line on the east.
Although the Republican Party
is officially opposed to the new
county legislative system, an
election of legislators to fill the 15
districts proposed has been or­dered
by the courts. If the
referendum for a 15 member
county legislature is defeated by
the voters in November, the
elected legislators will not serve.
But, if the referendum is ap­proved
the 15 member slate will
take office in January.
Although this is the first can­didacy
for public office for
Nicosia, he has served as
Commissioner of the Town of
Oyster Bay Housing Authority for
four years. He is a past president
of the Farmingdale Rotary Club,
a third degree member Knights
of Columbus Farmingdale
Council # 2204, member of the
Nassau Bar Association, New
York State Trial Lawyers
Association and has been a
member of the Farmingdale
Republican Club and a Com­mitteeman
on the Nassau
Republican Committee in the
Farmingdale Executive District
for ten years.
Nicosia is a graduate of Far­mingdale
High School, St. John's
University School of Business
Administration and St. John's
University School of Law. He is
married to the former Barbara
Hunter and has two children,
James, 10, and Susan, 8.
School Dist.
Tax Rate
Set Lower
Tax rates for the Farmingdale
School District were finalized on
Monday evening, September 29,
at a special meeting of the Board
of Education. The actual rate for
the Town of Oyster Bay portion of
the district was $ 18.07, about l. 5c
lower than predicted. In the
Town of Babylon portion of the
district the tax rate is $ 26.81 per
hundred, about 2.3c lower than
predicted.
This slight change came about
on receipt of the assessment rolls
from the Town of Babylon on
September 29. The predicted
drop in assessed valuation was
lower than anticipated, causing
the slight difference between the
predicted and actual figures.
With the added tax of 52.1c for
library and 16.6c for youth
council, the Town of Oyster Bay
section of the school district will
be paying $ 18.76 per hundred in
taxes for these local functions. In
the Town of Babylon the library
rate is 77.4c and the youth council
rate 24.6c for a total of $ 27.83.
Principal Of
ParkwayOaks
Thomas H. McAvoy, presently
acting principal of the Parkway
Oaks School and a member of the
Farmingdale staff since 1954, will
officially be designated as
principal of the Parkway Oaks
School at the regular Board
meeting on Monday evening,
October 6. McAvoy has been
serving in an acting capacity
since March of 1975. He replaces
William Kopp who retired for
reasons of health earlier mis
year.
On graduation from Syracuse
University, Mr. McAvoy taught
in the Long Beach Schools for a
short period of time before
becoming a special agent for the
FBI. As an agent he was assigned
to work in Washington and
Kansas City and still keeps up his
contacts through the Society of
Former Special Agents. He came
to the Farmingdale School
District in 1964, initially serving
as a guidance counselor in the
Mill Lane Junior High School. In
1966 he was appointed assistant
principal at the Parkway Oaks
School and has served in that
capacity since that date.
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