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Vol. 6 No. 41 Thursday, August 17, 1972
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Old Bethpage
Bethpage School Board Report
By Mary McCutcheor. and Lorraine Carley
Thirty taxpayers attended a
special meeting of the Bethpage
Board of Education on Monday
night, August 14, 1972. All Board
members were present except
Mr. LoFaso.
Shortly before the end of the
meeting, a motion was made by
Mrs. Regan and seconded by Mr:
Miklas. to make the Pine Avenue
and Kramer Lane Schools', one
complex, with one principal and
one assistant principal. The
motion was approved by a vote of
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Mr. Gorman and Mr. Slavin
voting aye; and Mr. Iannello and
Mr. Cotton voting- nay. It was
stated that Dr. Rockhill, Prin­cipal,
would be in the Kramer
Lane School and Miss Clancy,
Assistant Principal, in the Pine
Avenue School. Mr. Iannello
commented that . . . Pine and
Kramer Schools should 5e two
separate schools with a principal
in each school and no naming of
principals A tnvpaver from
the principalship of Central Blvd.
School and Dr. Richmond to the
Assistant Principalship of
Central Blvd. School. Mr. Pitts,
former Principal of Central
Blvd., has not been reassigned at
this time.
Proceeding the agenda, several
information items were
discussed. Mr. Slavin presented a
letter regarding a School Board
Korum to be held on October 18,
1972 at Hofstra University. All
Board^
"lerestcd in attending are to
contact the Superintendent's
secretary for reservations. Mr.
Slavin asked the Superintendent
to check on the summer driver
education program to see if -some*
of the students' were driving
without learners permits. The
Board held for study, a summer
school report from Mr. Melone
which imiit'ntmi, that no summer
school classes exceeded twenty
students, however, the teachers
Dr. Larson presented the
following items for Board action:
Coaching Appointments for Boys
Sports - approved by vote of 6-0;
Cirls Coaching - extra-Curricular
Activities - approved by vote of 4-
2. Several Board members
questioned the assignment of one
coach to three and four coaching
assignments, referring to Board
policy which limits the number of
eo-curricular activities to two.
Mr. Gorman and Mr. Iannello
.0ieJ&^rj^.J8dio-^aj^w4i^.«4«^
eurricular activities program, to
determine how coaches are
selected, the number of par­ticipants,
etc. The Board ap­proved
a new activities for girls,
J.V. Kick Line, by a vote of 5-i;
The Board approved the ap­pointments
of Department
Chairman in the Senior high
school for the 1972-73 school year
-bv.a, vote of 5-1. Two department
chairman positions, director of
girls physical education and
want two cluesarze rcducetrttr'^eading, were^tabled by a vote oT
the Kramer Lane area said that
... Kramer Lane is running like a
mini junior high and there will be
more children now because of the
Bloomingdale students attending
the school ... the school is more
difficult to handle because of 4th.
5th and 6th grade students irTone-building.
Mr. Slavin replied thai'
•-.... it would be no more difficult
than the junior high at age levels
of 7th and Bth graders .... Another
parent questioned the Board.... is
this the first time you brought up
turning the schools into one
complex? This Board looks into
everything and utilizes com­mittees
. . . I'm under the im­pression
you didn't think it
necessary to look„ into this
situation. The taxpayer con­tinued
. . . first Dr. Hockhill is
oriented from K-6, then
reoriented to K-3 and now she
must readjust to I too students
from K-6 again. . . . Mrs. Began
asked. ... are you saying Dr.-
Kockhill is not capable? She also
remarked that many hours have
gone into this decision.
Mr. Blau is to be reassigned to
fifteen per class.
The Board approved
unanimously the following
citizens to serve on the
Bloomingdale citizens Advisory
Committee: Haas, Galenek,
Stephanie, Martinez, Geniger,
Sambetto. Kaling, Babbe.
Varley; Tago". "Grimaldi, Van-baum.
O'Leary, Lange. Hilton.
Forbes. Lacoscio. LaPlotka.
Krol, Bergeron. Mr. Iannello and
Mr. Slavin will act as co-chairman
of the commij^ee, the
first meeting to be held on
Thursday, August 24, 1972 at 8
P.M. in the Board Room. It was
noted that no husband and wife
may serve on the same com­mittee.
Mr. Slavin reported that in
response to a proposal by the
school board negotiator, Mr.
Murphy, President of' the Beth­page
Teachers Association,
slated he would consider the.,
proposal in 1975 and that in any
event he would rather have the
Board spend the $29,000 to $30,000
so that they would be voted out of
office.
•4-1 with 1 abstaining. Area
Coordinators for the junior high
school were approved 5-1.
Co-curriculum Advisorships
were approved except for the.
Civics Club under the advisorship
of Mr. Agostini. Mrs. Regan
stated that ... the Civics Club
started with many participants
through the years ahdended with
very few ... Also approved were
the Ecology Club, Bridge Club
and held for executive session
was the Political Activities Club.
The Board approved by a vote
of 6-0, to award the bid for the fire
alarm hook-up to the Signal
Corporation for a total amount of
$27,093. (Part of the bid was
awarded from the 1971-72 budget
with the additional amount ap­proved
on a referendum held on
August 8, 1972) The Board also
approved unanimously, the
Vandanism Alarm System in the
amount of $23,200 to the Long
Island Systems Co.
Bids were awarded on fresh
meats, for September and Oc­tober,
and on canned foods. Mr.
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Roncallo:
State Plan Neglects Mass Transit
Nassau County Comptroller
Angelo I). Roncallo attacked the
New York State Department of
Transportation's twenty-year
Master Plan last week as totally
inadequate for the long-range
transportation needs of New
York State.
In a statement presented at the
public hearing held by the
Department of Transportation at
Mineola High School, he called
the Plan "patently inadequate"
in its present form in that it fails
to offer .u comprehensive
prospectus lor the future Iran-"
sportution needs of New York
Stale in n©»icral.-ctmi Nassau and
Suffolk Counties in particular
'The Plan talks, with a
monotonous tedium, of virtually
one thing, highway construction,
with only a perfunctory nod in the
direction of expanding mass
transportation f a c i l i t i e s ,"
Roncallo said.
He argued that mass tran­sportation,
which is so much
neglected in the proposed plan, is
more significant to the tran­sportation
needs of Nassau and
Suffolk Counties than continued
spending on highway con­struction.
He called lor a rational com­bination
of mass transit with
some highway improvement to
solve the tomplexiU«fc. »fc Long
Island's transportation crises.
Roncallo also opposed the
inclusion in the Plan of the
proposed Oyster Bay - Rye
Bridge, and detailed the many
object ions previously raised at an
earlier hearing on this project.
Roncallo offered eight specific
proposals lor consideration in
revising the Transportation
.Master Plani ranging from
support for Nassau County's
purchase of bus lines to the
construction of a rail-road bridge
from Connecticut to Suffolk
County.
"We cannot violate the public
trust.,,"Aipncallo said, "and it ifcivv
Uw},,, public interest that Jhis,
Master Plan must be rejected in
its present form."
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Advisory Board Holds
2nd Meeting Aug. 28
The Planning Advisory Board will hold another in­formational
meeting to discuss the proposals for the
remaining unincorporated areas in the Town not
already covered by the special studies, Board
Chairman Dr. Lawrence Ravich announced today.
Bethpage is such a community.
The special meeting will be held on Monday, August
28, at 8 PM in the auditirium of the Bethpage Senior
High School, Cherry and Stewart Avenues, Bethpage,
through the courtesy of Board of Education President
Herman Slavin, who offered the use of the school's^
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"This meeting has been called at the request of
Councilman Salvatore R. Mosca and the local residents
who expressed the concern that not enough time was
allotted for a thorough discussion of the proposals for
their community," Ravich said.
"We are also making a concerted effort to make sure
that all of these residents are aware of this meeting,"
he added.
Ravich stressed that the plan, a
prelimmai-y report of proposals by the
-*visory Board and its cJiisultante. "Tttg pt
public meetings is to give the citizens the opportunity
to review these proposals and comment on them,"
Ravich said. "These comments, and suggestions
provide a very valuable input of local knowledge and
familiarity of the area in question for the guidance of
the Planning Advisory Board in preparing its final
recommendations for the Town Board.
Ravich also urged those who cannot be present for
the public hearing to tramsmit their comments and
suggestions in writing to the Planning Advisory Board,
Town Hall, Oyster Bay, N.Y., 11771.
The Planning Board expects to have its final
recommendations ready for '.submission to the Town
Board sometime early in September. Following a
detailed review, the Town Board will then conduct its
own public hearings prior to the implementation of the
Master Plan.
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ilh District Republican State Senate candidate Owen
Johnson (left) of West Babylon reviews the written
presentation he will send to members of the New York
State Legislature advocating political rights for
policemen, with Nassau Patrolmen's Benevolent
Association President Daniel GreenwaM, and.Suffolk
PBA President Thomas Dwen, (right) at a recent
meeting. Johnson hopes to change state law to allow
policemen full participation in partisan politics.