1975-06-05

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A Prtze Winning Weekly Serving The Greater Farmingdale Area Since 1920
An Official Newspaper for the Village of Varmingdale
VOL. 56 NO.,?* s Si Second Class Postage Paid
in Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, June 5.1975 Copyright 1975 by
Island- Wide Publication, Inc. price 1 5fi - $ 5 per year
$ 28,863,057 School Budget Set
Tax Rate Increase * 1.09
The Farmingdale Board of Education approved revision six of the proposed
school budget Monday night in the amount of $ 28,863,057. The budget to be sub­mitted
to the public for approval on June 18 carries a tax increase of $ 1.09 per
hundred, which is down $ 1.21 from the $ 2.30 anticipated increase in March.
Officially the anticipated tax figures show an increase in the Town of Oyster Bay
from $ 17,334 to $ 18,425 and in the Town of Babylon from $ 24,763 up $ 2,574 to $ 27,337
per hundred dollars of valuation.
County Legislature
Referendum Tues.
CITATION: Dorothy Dyson, left, and Sara Howitt receive Citations
from Oyster Bay Town Councilman Gregory W. Carman on behalf of
the Town Board during ceremonies held honoring their work in the
Farmingdale School District. Both teachers of the Northside
Elementary School are retiring.
Doctors To End
Practice July 1
high, as much as $ 30,000 for an
orthopedic surgeon. So high, in
fact, say the doctors that it is
prohibitive for new doctors to go
into practice and New York is
losing the medical class of 1975.
Physicians serving the Far­mingdale
community have
notified the public in an ad­vertisement
in this week's
Farmingdale Post that they will
not be able to provide medical
services to the community after
July 1 because they can not ob­tain
malpractice insurance at an
acceptable rate.
The local doctors urge the
public in need of emergency care
to go directly to the Nassau
County Medical Center for
treatment. The doctor's offices
will provide the medical histories
of patients to treating physicians
upon call.
The new malpractice law put
into effect by the state legislature
and signed by the governor does
not go far enough, according to
the doctors, to remedy the
situation. The malpractice in­surance
premiums will still be
Registered voters of the
Nassau County portion of the
Farmingdale area will be called
upon next Tuesday, June 10 to
consider the merit of establishing
a 15 member County Legislature
to replace the present system of a
board of supervisors.
Also on the ballot will be a
proposition to extend the terms of
the various town supervisors to
four years from the present two
year term.*
The change from the Board of
Supervisor form of government
was declared unconstitutional by
the courts, mandating a change
to a county legislature form of
government.
According to the League of
Women Voters of Nassau County,
if the referendum fails, the court
will order the establishment of an
interim constitutional govern­ment
to replace the present
unconstitutional Board of
Supervisors, to serve until the
voters approve another plan.
Each plan must be approved by
the court and submitted to the
voters for referendum until one is
approved or untii the court
decides that no accord is possible
and imposes its own plan for
county government.
In addition to extending the
term of office for Town Super­visors
to four years, voters will
be asked to approve the extension
of the term of the Town Clerk
from 2 to 4 years.
Proponents of the longer terms
point out that town councilmen
already serve four year terms
and the supervisors and clerks
should be accorded the same
length terms in order to better
implement good programs, free
of the pressures of constant
political campaigning for
reelection.
Polling places normally used
for general elections ( not school
elections) will be open for
balloting Tuesday, June 10, from
6 a. m. to 9 p. m.
The doctors point out that
Indiana has a new law that
provides a panel of doctors and
lawyers to review all malpractice
suits and has limited malpractice
awards. Insurance rates there
have become realistic, they say.
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It is anticipated that the cur­tailment
of medical practice by
local doctors will cause other
problems. If local doctors are
forced to cease medical practice,
they will not be able to care for
their patient residents in local
nursing homes, which could
result in nursing home patients
being transferred to regular
hospitals for care until the crisis
is over.
Nassau 0TB Eyes
Farmingdale Site
Continuing with its plana to
locate additional branch offices,
Nassau Downs- OTB announced
this week that it is currently
considering a site at 22 Hemp­stead
Turnpike ( south side of
Hempstead Turnpike west of
Merritts Road), Farmingdale.
Since offices will soon be
opening in Bethpage, Plainview
and Massapequa, a Farmingdale
Branch would, in effect, be
serving only the Farmingdale
community.
Nassau Downs intends to have
100 feet added to a rear parking
field of a store ( next to Poor
Peter's) which is now overgrown
with trees and weeds. This ad-
• ditional parking, combined with
that which already exists, will
provide at least 90 parking
spaces. An agreement to provide
40 additonal parking spaces in the
lot behind Gem Electronics is
also being negotiated.
OTB took a survey last month
to gauge community opinion
among residents in the area
immediately south of the
prospective site and the vast
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The final setting of the budget
figure was proceeded by a lively
public participation forum. The
board was questioned on various
facets of expenditure cuts as well
as the five year plan which will
be made public at the June 12
meeting.
At the June 12 hearing, both the
Superintendent's five year plan
and the report of the Citizens
Advisory Committee on building
utilization will be presented.
The board, questioned by a
math teacher on the status of
next year's remedial math
program, called on John Regan,
assistant to the superintendent
and administrator of the
federally funded programs, to
outline the program. Regan said
that both the remedial math and
reading programs will continue
next year and provide even more
hours per day than this year by
using part time personnel. Next
year's program will provide
about 3 1/ 2 hours per day, three
or four days per week, compared
to this year's 2 hrs 40 minutes per
day, He said the quality of the
program and the quality of the
personnel will remain the same
as this year.
Ken Deedy, president of the
teachers' union, took issue with
Regan, pointing out that using
part time teachers from the sub
pool or hired for the program
couldn't be expected to work the
full 180 minutes without a " coffee
break" or conference time.
A statement in the full page
advertisement in last week's
Post was questioned by a local
resident who wanted to know
what cuts were being made to the
foreign language program in the
Junior High Schools. He was
informed that the statement
referred to one class in Italian at
Howitt Jr. High. The idea was to
try to save the program, not
dismantle it, since Mill Lane did
not have the Italian class and
only six signed up for a class in
the high school. The program will
be delayed one year and offered
as first year Italian in the high
school at grade ten when students
of both junior highs combine into
one class. This might provide
enough students who want the
subject to make up a class.
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