1975-03-06

              THE L. I. I ICAL
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in Farmlngdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, March 6, 1975 Copyright 1975 by
Island- Wide Publication, toe. price 15f - $ 5 per year
Proposed Budget $ 29.8 Million
Public Hearing Monday
The preliminary budget for the Farmingdale School
District for 1975- 76 made its initial public appearance
Tuesday morning at a special press conference in the
office of Superintendent of Schools William A. Kinzler.
Earlier predictions proved to be close to the true totals
as the new budget calls for an increase of $ 2,299,161. for
a total of $ 29,864,919. to maintain the same services as
The first public hearing of the
budget figures will be held
Monday, March 10, at 8: 30 p. m.
in the senior high school. The
school district " Newsletter" is
AN ACCIDENT at 4: 45 a. m. Sunday, March 2 on the corner of Conklin St. & Prospect PL caused driver,
James Stegner, 22, of East Meadow, to he pinned in the wreckage for more than an hour. The Far­mingdale
F. D. rescue squad with the help of the Melville F. D., used a special hydraulic tool and metal
saw to extract the victim. A passenger, Joseph Pankowski, escaped with minor cuts and bruises.
Stegner was removed to Mid- Island Hospital where he was placed on the critical list with facial and
internal injuries and two broken legs.
[ Photo by Walter Hirsh, F. F. D.]
Merchants' Contest Selects
Master & Miss Hardscrabble
The Farmingdale Merchants'
Association and The Far­mingdale
Post, in cooperation
with the Hardscrabble Com­mittee,
and the library will
conduct a contest to select
Master and Miss Hardscrabble to
lead the parade down Main Street
for the annual Hardscrabble Fair
on May 24.
The winning pair, a boy and a
girl between the ages of 8 and 12,
will be awarded a $ 100 savings
bond each and the runner- ups will
each receive $ 50 bonds.
Parents of children in the 8 to 12
year old age range, living in the
Farmingdale school district or
nearby areas, may enter their
children ill the contest by con­tacting
the Farmingdale Post or
Lew Cohen, president of the.
Merchants Association, at J& J
Shoe Store, 322 Main Street.
Arrangements will be made by
the Post to photograph the child
and the photo will run in the Post
during the contest.
The 20 highest vote getters ( ten
boys & ten girls) in the contest on
April 26 will be asked to submit
an essay on " Why I Want To Be
Mr. or Miss Hardscrabble." The
compositions will be judged
according to age level and desire
to participate and the four final
winners selected.
Participating members of the
Farmingdale Merchants
Association will be listed in a
double page advertisement
beginning next week and running
every week during the contest.
Official voting ballots may be
obtained from the participating
merchants. Each dollar spent in
a participating store will entitle
the shopper to one vote for the
candidate of their choice.
The official ballots will be cast
at special ballot boxes set up in
the Farmingdale Library at both
the Main Street and the South
Farmingdale branch.
Children of employees of the
member merchants' stores are
not eligible for the contest.
Winners will be announced May 8
to allow them time to obtain
colonial period costumes to wear
while leading the Hardscrabble
Parade to celebrate the Bicen­tennial,
Sheldon Bernstein
Resigns Seat
Sheldon Bernstein announced
at Monday night's school board
meeting he was resigning from
the Farmingdale Board of
Education within the next month.
Bernstein, who was elected to
the board in 1973, said he would
be moving away from Far­mingdale
in the near future for
personal family reasons.
The board must how decide
whether or not to try to fill the
vacant seat during the upcoming
school election.
School Bus Deadline April 1
State law requires that parents
who are planning to send children
to private or parochial schools in
September, must file an ap­plication
for special tran­sportation
by April 1 with their
local school district. In the case
of parochial elementary schools
or diocesan high schools, tran­sportation
will only be provided
to the nearest available school of
a particular denomination.
It will not be necessary to file
individual requests for St. Kilian,
Our Lady of Lourdes, St. James,
or Maria Regina Elementary
Schools.
Under the new dual enrollment
law, parents of students at
private or parochial high schools
who plan to have their child
participate in half- day vocational
programs must file a special
request with the district by June
l. However, because this is a new
program involving complicated
transportation arrangements,
the district is requesting that
these applications also be filed by
April 1 in order to allow the
necessary budgeting and plan­ning.
now in the mail to every home in
complete breakdown of the
budget in a new easy to follow
format. Residents should have
the " Newsletter" in time to
review the complete figures
before the hearing.
Robert I. Weiss, president of
the Board of Education, em­phasized
at Tuesday's con­ference
that the budget presented
now is only a preliminary and not
complete in all respects. It is
subject to change over the next
few months, he said. Weiss
pointed out that several pieces of
the total picture are not yet
complete; the State Aid situation,
contracts with two employee
groups ( Principals and CSEA)
and the work of the Advisory
Committee on Building Use are
not finalized.
The main is more or less a
known factor, however, the
teachers contract is entering its
• second year of a two year con­tract.
The provisions of the
second year call for an 8 percent
increase, plus or minus one half
the difference in the cost of living
increase as of March 31.
If the state aid picture is not
changed from last year, the in­crease
in the budget will cause an
estimated increase of $ 2.30 per
hundred in the Oyster Bay sec­tion
of the district, or ap­proximately
$ 138 per year for the
average homeowner. If the
governor cuts aid to education as
he initially predicted, it could
cost an additional $ 1 per hundred
on the tax rate.
The new budget format is
broken down to show the public
that total salaries account for
59.37% of the budget at
$ 16,366,009; fringe benefits
15.88% for $ 4,376,081; amor­tization
& interest 7.82% for
$ 2,155,780; BOCES 4.06% for
$ 1,118,224; instruction supplies
2.37% for $ 625,673; buildings and
grounds 5.10% for $ 1,406,790;
transportation 3.09% for $ 851,737
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