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Emergency Services
BOY SCOUT AWARD: The First Annual Distinguished Service
Award of the Nassau Council of Boy Scouts is awarded to the Hen-drickson
Family for their long and continued dedication to the Boy
Scout Movement. Accepting the award for the Hendrickson Family
. is Milton Hendrickson, second left. Looking on are. left to right.
County Executive Ralph G. Caso, Assemblyman Joseph M.
Margiotta (R-Uniondale). Honorary Chairman of the Awards dinner,
"and Morris Roctaman, Dinner Chairman. More than 700 people at­tended
the recent dinner which raised funds to help continue the
-The-Oyster- Bay Towo-JBoanLl
recently passed a resolution to
provide independent emergency
service organizations with the
quantities of vehicular fuel they
may require during the an­ticipated
gasoline shortage.
Town Supervisor John W.
Burke hailed passage of the
resolution as a "positive action
assuring the protection of lives
and property throughout Oyster
Bay. It is vitally important," said
Burke, "that service
organizations such as fire
departments and ambulance
units have sufficient fuel with
which to rapidly and effectively
meet the emergency needs of
their communities." :,
Burke, who is Chairman of the
Nassau County Board of
Supervisors Committee on
Firemanics, explained that the
resolution specifies that those
School
Board Report
By Mary McCutcheon and Lorraine Cariey
make repayment at a rate per
gallon equal to that which the
Town paid for the initial purchase
of the fuel.
Environmental Workshop
The reorganizational meeting of the Bethpage Board of Education
was held on Tuesday, July 3,1973, with all board members present'
and 20 taxpayers attending. Mr. Orfan administered the Oath of
Office to newly elected board member, Mr. Harold Resnick and to re­elected
trustee, Mr. Anthony J. LoFaso, also to Mrs. Eleanor Behrik,
District Clerk and Mr. Peter Perniciaro, Treasurer.
Mr. Herman Slavin was elected President and Mr. Anthony Cotton,
Vice President of the Board of Education. The following ap­pointments
were made: Mr. Louis N. Orfan, Attorney for {he
District; Korsh & Krauss, District Auditors; Dr. Charles Melone,
Senior School Physician and a list of School Physicians.
The Board designated the Long Island Press as the official
newspaper, also the Bethpage Tribune and Newsgram, as necessary.
The Board designated the Hempstead Bank as depository for District
Funds. Also approved was the Treasurer's Bond in the amount of
$500,000. The President of the Board was appointed as delegate to the
New York School Boards Association Convention with the Vice
President as alternate delegate. The Board approved the Ap­pointment
of District Grievance Board current members: J.
Dawson, T. Morris and L. Schottland.
The following Board Committee appointments were made:
Finance- Mr. Slavin, Mr. Cotton; Publicity- Mrs. Regan, Mr.
Resnick; Citizens' Advisory Committee - Mr. Iannello, Mr. Resnick;
New York State Auto Body Federation President Americo Mar-chitelli
(right) of Bethpage, joins Charles Taylor (center), Syracuse
Auto Body Craftsmen's Guild President in conferring with Assem­blyman
Bruce Caputo (R-Yonkers) at a meeting held in Syracuse.
Marchitelli attended a statewide series of meetings seeking
legislative support to curb insurance company abuses in dealings
with consumers and auto body repair shops.
SCORING A FIRST IN THE GOLFING WORLD: Officially
launching participation of all Nassau County public as well as
private courses in the 1973 Nassau Heart Association Pro-Am and
follow-up trophy competition are (1. to r.) committee 'Members John
Ft McDerihott, C.P.A. (East Norwich); Herb Stuiie (Purolator
Services, Lake Success) Tournament Co-chairman and Chairman of
the Special Events Committee; Fat Lordi, (Old Westbury) gold
professional at Eisenhower Park and Merrick Park; and hosting golf
professional for the Pro-Am, Fat Cici of Cedar-Brook Country Club.
The 1972 debut of this golfing event proved so successful that
trophies will be awarded at all public courses this year, to both men
and women golfers, under the coordination of co-chairmen Mc-
Dermott and Lordi. Each club will have the option of running the
trophy competition any time after the Pro-Am has been played at
Cedar Brook, on Thursday, September 5th. Entry fee for the Pro-Am
is $100 for the day; the trophy competition costs $2.00 to play.
Oyster Bay Supervisor John W.
Burke has announced that David
Mafrici, Director of the Town's
Division of Environmental
Control, will attend a two-day
"Noise Workshop" conducted by
the United States Environmental
Protection Agency.
The workshop, which will be
held in New York City on August
8th and 9th, is designed to assist
municipalities with the
development of local noise
pollution control ordinances.
Study of guidelines,
measurement techniques, en­forcement
problems and existing
ordinances are among the items
on the workshops agenda.
Renovation of T.O.B.
Town Hall
With the passage of five
resolutions the Town Board today
acted to solve a critical space
shortage problem at Town Hall,
Audrey Avenue, Oyster Bay.
The Board action included
approval of a resolution to
acquire a neighboring building-a
former theater-through con­demnation
proceedings. The
theater building is in the process
of being renovated by its present
owner for use as an office
building.
Other related resolutions in­cluded
an amendment to the
Town Capital Budget to include
$1.3 million which it is estimated
will pay for the acquisition and
completion of the building and
some improvements of the
present Town Hall building.
Federal Revenue Sharing Funds
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Negotiating team for toe AdmtaisfnHf^
Iannello, Mrs. Regan; Representative to the Negotiating team for
the Operations Unit: Mr. Resnick, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Iannello; ,,
Representative to the Negotiating team for the Services Unit: Mr.
Cotton, Mr. Gorman, Mr. Resnick; Buildings and Grounds Com­mittee
- Mr. Gorman, Mr. Iannello, Mr. Resnick; Student Liaison -
Mr. Gorman, Mr. LoFaso, Mrs. Regan; Policy Committee Review -
Mr. LoFaso, Mrs. Regan, Mr. Slavin; PTA Liaison Committee - Mr.
Cotton, Mr. Iannello, Mrs. Regan; Population Trend Committee -
Mr. LoFaso, Mr. Iannello; Personnel Committee - Mr. Cotton, Mrs.
Regan, Mr. Slavin; Building Security - Mr. Gorman, Mr. Iannello,
Mr. Resnick; Co-curriculum Activities - Mr. Cotton, Mr. Gorman,
Mr. Iannello.
The Board approved the appointment of the District Negotiator for
the Teachers' Unit: Mr. DeMaria - Salary - retainer $45.00 per hour,
under current existing arrangements.
The Board set the last Tuesday of the month as the regular mon­thly
meeting of the Board - time 8:00 p.m. There was discussion
regarding the possible changing of the meeting day to coincide with
Mr. Ianneilo's working hours. Mr. Slavin polled the Board suggesting
Wednesdays or Thursdays for meeting days* but these days con­flicted
with other board members working hours and other meetings,
so the meeting day remained Tuesdays.
The re-organizational meeting was adjourned at 9:35 p.m.
Special Board Meeting
A Special Board of Education meeting was called to order. Mr.
LoFaso read a statement and had it placed in the official minutes, as
follows:
"At the last regular meeting (June 26) a letter from Mrs. Elizabeth
Gackowski was read into the minutes. It was quite apparent that the
intent of the letter was to act as a political attack to assist Mrs.
Gackowski in her attempt to defeat me for the position of trustee of
the Bethpage School District. This is apparent from the fact that the
letter was written on June 7th and the election was held on June 13th.
"It is possible, though I do not condone it, that in the heat of an
election campaign one can get over exhuberent, bend the truth,
purposely confuse the facts and in general obfuscate the issues as
Mrs. Gackowski did in her letter in the hopes that the public could be
misled into supporting her candidacy. In that sense I accept this as
one of the hazards in running for public office.
"However, it is unconscionable that in her desperation to win, Mrs.
Gackowski had the bad manners and irresponsibility to attack in­nocent
people who were not involved in her thrust for public office. It
is incredible to me that in her desperation to find an issue she chose
to strike at the General Ledger. A subject which from her letter
establishes she is quite ignorant of and boggles the mind with its
confusion. When she has the bad taste and unforgivable ignorance to
accuse the Superintendent, the past auditors, the District School
Attorney, and a past fellow Board member, of being parties to not
seeing that the general ledger was filled out. A minor problem at
worst. 1 say minor, because two State Auditors at different times did
not choose to cite it as a problem in their reports. I do not choose to
cover the details of this subject because they have been admirably
done so in Mr. Lavin's letter to the Superintendent which I ask be
made a part of this statement.
"The saddest thing of all is that Mrs. Gackowski chose to distort
and quote statements from Mr. Lavin which he categorically denies
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