The-Leader_1981-05-21

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ROOSEVILT
MERRICK
FREEPORT'S
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NEWSPAPER
46th YEAR No. 4 FREEPORT. NEW YORK. MAY 21,1981 PBiCE 20* PER copy
School Tax H ike Looks Like $1.97
Proposed BlltWill
Help Villages
FREEPORT - legislation that
would amend State village law to
alloff' a local munidpality to as­sess
fines for violations of hous-
-iflg-er building RHles-"against the
Fre^porf School Distrkf
Vote June 17, Three
Seek Two Seafs
nniMGlNG HOME THE PBtZE- Freeport Recreation Department
ItaH^iBick Lehman (r) and Ph^lUs Pullman ah<w< Village IjSayor
wn lam White the award present^ to the Village at the recent New
^ w k S R ^ r M l t o n and parks Society Conterence. The honor w «
r ^ i ^ f o r the educational exhlDU (in background which waa Judged
w ^ X he« on Ite scope of programming, creativity, original conwpt
^„H„i.,;flirfirDiav Lehman who could not vote in the udglnfl. acted as
fhairm^oH&ptayTexmllurrom all over New York State. The
F^^l^pXxhibft orphatographs. "yera and brochures can now be seen
at the Recreation Center.
Mlemorial Day Parade This
Monday Begins At 10 A.M.
property taxes of the owaefcviola-toi
has been introduced in the
StateAsseroWy by Assemblyman
James McCabe. Assenbly Bill
6SS1 provide for the assessment
against the property by the. vil­lage
when, ^ e r a guilty finding
in Village Court, a fine goes nn-
. paid for 3Srdays. .
jllie^'iegislation' was originally
proposed by Freeport ^^age Jus­tice
Ralph Franco who sought the
assistance of the'village Board of
Trustees in bringing the matter to
;^^«tteotica:^ths4tsS6J^<diIf,^'
while the Village has the power to
assess the c<»ts of lot cle»r»fte<»,
boardups, and the mstmHation of
curbs and sidewalks.. against a
property owner, it does not pres­ently
have that ptfwe'r in the col­lection
of fines for code violations.
Judge Franco pointed out that
corporatioas in particular present
a problem because there is little
that can be done to collect their
fines. As a result, said Franco,
certain j»rporations who own
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FREEPORT - A tai increase of SI .97 per JlOO assessed valuation
has been calculated for Freeport School District residents in 1981-82.
The proposed school bud£et of S26,768,678 was released this week by
the School Board. It reflects an increase or$2,442.447 in expenditures
over the current year's S24,J26,23I budget, a fact which the icnooi
Board says "may seem sub­stantial
by historical standards,"
but is in effect an increase of
only $1.76 over the past two years
or 4.1% per year, "way below
the rate of inflation and sub­stantially
less than other school
districts."
FREEPORT - The viUage*s annual Memorial Day observance will
b e S u V a parade, which wiU step off prom|itly at 10 am on Monday
wfJ B The parade route begins at Brookside Avenue and Memck
Road and ' a^s in past years - will proceed caster y on Memck Road
Wthe^viewingstandoppositetheFreeportMemonalUbwry.
tt^^l to be condurtW at the library by the Freeport Pre Depart­ment
and veterans' organi- r».„i-.
Day observance is Charles
Jackson. Among those with him
on the Reviewing Stand will be
Joseph Santroni, Commander of
the William CTrnton Story Post
#342 of the American Legion;
Past Commander Walton McDuf-fie;
USNR Commander (Ret.) Ben
Ciaravino and Richard Mitthauer.
Freeport Memorial Library
Director Wilfred Morin acted as
Library liaison and Publicity
Chairman. ,
Parade Commanders are Vito
Tarulli and Kenneth Combs,
First Division; Richard Mitt­hauer,
Second Division; Tom
Judge and Walt McDuffie, Third
DivUion; and Roger Gaynor and
Ernest Stumpf, Fourth Division.
Charles Jackson chaired the
Cemetery Decorations Commit-zations,
will honor departed
members of the department and
ihe veterans who ' made Uie
supreme sacrifice in the service
of their country." Freeporl's Gold
Star Mothers wiil be seated on the
library lawn and will receive
due recognition along with red,
white and blue corsages. ;
In the event of rain, services
will be held in the Freeport
High School auditorium.
The four" division parade in­cludes
various veteran' groups
and color guards, the Freeport
Fire Department with the Free-port
Fire Department Band,
youth organizations wJd the
Freeport school bands from the
high school, elementary and
junior high school leveU. Civic
_aiid__£tajctnal marchers wiH
P^5^^^^^?S^5^^?1^^
Holiday Schedule
FREEPORT - AD ViUage
government ofiice will be closed
Monday, May 25. for the observ­ance
of Memorial Day. The
Freeport Recreation Center
will also be closed as it is each
Monday.
Due to the holiday, the Village
Board of Trustees will also not
meet that evening.
The Freeport public schooU
and the Freeport Memorial
Library will also remwn closed.
There will be no garbage
pickup on Monday, nor trash
collection on Thursdky. May 28,
in the northern section of the
Village.
Budget Hearing
FREEPORT - The annual
Budget Hearing of the Freeport
School District will be held
Tuesday. May 26, at 8:15 pm, m
the Freeport High School Audi­torium
Copies of the budget are
"avSlKble-ai
Office. , u 1
. The proposed 1981-82 school
budget and election of two
members of the Board of Edu­cation
will be held Wednesday.
June 17.
The cunest year's budget was
along with what the Board itself
describes as an "extraordinanly
Urge fund baJance [surplusl
last year," resulted in a 21*
decrease- for Freeport School
District taxpayers.
The SI million. grant is not
repeated this year, a circum­stance
predicted- by School
Board President Sara Holly
when she announced the special
funding a year ago.
The School Board, in a letter
being mailed district-wide,
blames the proposed school
tax increase on seven specific
areas: BOCES administrative
costs, which have gone up 12.1%;
BOCES occupational education,
which has increased 14%;
BOCES education for the handi­capped,
a IS.3% hike; Social Sec­urity
increases of 17.2%; Health
insurance increases or otrzTo;
anticipated fiiel oil infftases
of 23.8%; and Retirement Fund
payment increases of 15.2%
Although accounting for only
about 22«/i% of the entire
budget, hikes in costs in these
seven areas have, resulted in
more than one-half the entire
amount of the anticipated m-crease.
Superintendent of Freeport
Schools Dr. John E. Bierwirth
has explained that the surplus
carried over to this current year's
budget was $990,000, about
SSOO.OOO more than usual. That
sum coupled with the one-time
million dollar grant offset what
would have been an increase of
about SI .40 this year. This year.
the sum is, as Bierwirth describes
it "back to the usHal...some
a break." he said
Ocean Avenue, during, regular
business hours.
Among some of the increases
listed in the budget, according
to the booklet, are: an increase
in anticipated fiiel on costs ftom
the present budget's figure
<rf ;S3JlfT?S^.«0;'vtl»e>;pr6pose<t; " •
the fact that a chart in the booklet
shows how the school district
has been conserving energy each
year and using less oil.
In som4 areas, the 1981-82
budget figures arc lower than
the current year. Telephone
costs, for example are down
from $88,500 to $45,000 because
of a new ^stem installed in the
district. Electricity costs are
also down. $230,245 to $218,245;
and insurance costs drop from
S98.000 to $95,500.
However, most areas see an
increase, due to mandated costs,
items that are negotiated by
employee/employer contract
or the inflationaiy trend. Main­tenance
of building equipment,
for example, increases bom
$63,825 to $69,780; and public
information, printing and rnajl'ing
have gone up due to increased -
postage, paper and printing
costs, which are being feU by
every private business or public
facility. : •. . _
Instructional supplies and text
books see increases on the whole,
although some departments,
such as Industrial Arts do show
a decrease and the Music Depart­ment
retains the same figure
as in the current year's budget.
Uie School District—years yoii get
This could be, as Bietwirth
explained for the music depart­ment
figures, a balancing out of
mcreased costs with a decreased
number of students.
Heavy increases are seen m
the district's costs wto the
Teacher's Retirement System,
which is provided by law and
Social Security costs. The Heal^
Insurance fosu, an item which is
the result of union/administrabon
"some years you don t.
Budget booklets, which show
"expanded item explanations"
are now available in the School
District Oerk's Office in the
Administratiott Building on North
dfegotlalions, shows -tB-met^ase—
of $264,500 to $6%,500.
The annual Budget Vote and
School Board Election will be
held on WednMday. iune 17.
(Cont.ijo Page 16).
J
Town of Hempstead Presiding
Supervisor Thomas Guiotta will
icl as Grand Marshall along with
Freeport Mayor William H.
White and members of the
Village Board of Trustees.
Chairman of the Memorial
Parade; James Durking. Ray
mond Thoniton and Mike Riza.
Collation co-chairmen; Walt
McDuffie and Fred Hager.
Limousines; and Edward Ucencc.
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