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Baldwin
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FBEEPORT. NEW VpRK; MARCH 4,1982
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Kelly Wril Not
Rec Center Dorbffiy Fox To Run For
Feet Increased freeporf Schoof Bbord
THEIR MUSIC HAS CHARM. nohaM F«i«rld, UM Insthimantai
Mutio imfOm at FrMport'i Qtblyn School, ha* aaiactad tba tint group
of outatandlng Inttnimaniaf muf io studanu aa th» aehooCa Playar»«f-.
tha Month for January. Stwwn with Mr. Fadarld ara'dming.t. to r.)
John Aalto Owrn), Ene Kraala^ (barttona), .fanm Cania9 ffnmipat),
Riphaai Ortiz (eallo); trtancHng, 4.to r.) Robart Qauaa .(Irombona),
Michalla Tued Qtula), VIda Waakaa Molln). Sharon Hoaatn(yioU),
TamI Martlnaz (darlnat) and MIehaM WanK \tntm), Alt tha ahidanto
aralnthafourttigrada. ' . •'
Baldwin School Bond
Numbers ixpldlned^
FBJEEFORT • Both resident and
, ooD-resideot fees at the Freeport
Recreation Center wiU increase
under tlie new plans appttived by
the Vinase Board of Tnutees
Monday mght, Maxdi 1. Soperia-te&
deot of Public Woris Ed
Prefer called the increase the firsf
in two yean.
'. village resident will find that
seasonal rates will increase frod
S6S to SSS for a family, from 530
to S40 for an individual, and front
SIS to S20 for « senior citizen.-A
.disooanted rate will,^still be
avaHabte for a third- season for
those discoilat plan hoiders irbo
hid purchased,siimmer.'asd.fill
plans. ^'^ -.... -^ t'lfit":''
Teiify" fewj.- * * -t^D*** resl-
FEEEPORT • Ellen KeOy. whose first three year term on the R e ­port
Board of Edncation win come to a dose tbU soring, has annoonced
that she wiU not seek another term. A tea year vuage resident. Doro­thy
Fox of Sooth long Beadi Avenoe will be tunning for the positioa
presently held by jkfrs. Kelly, wbea Freeport Schodf District voters go
to the poDs on May 5.
^ Ip talking of her dedstoo; Mrs.
ICelly said she "very reloctandy"
decided to not seek a se«ind
'term, but based her action on'
"personal and family coosidcia-tioni."
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.'"I coosidemi it a loog fime."
Mrs. KeOy explained, notmg tiut'
she was impressed - with the
School District staff and t)>e other
four school board members aad
^•worked wen with them."'
Mrs. Kelty noted that she'had
deno,winaS»'inciease;Creseot'.<'~-<>eoii-on the.board during the
fy.klaBdly ptMtcastiSlSSayear. *o*ra* f
ThetaereasewinbringittoSlBS. -pendent
Individual fees wUhimpfromSaO - Bierwiitii.JL'I am particolaily
to $90; seidor citizen fees from ptood." she said of her part in
S^toS4S. -— — • those activities, exprttring her
Non-residents will also be faced own" faelinp of. conadence in
with increases. Seasonal' rates Bierwirth.
win increase frontSl 10 to S12S for . . Mrs. Kdly also told THE
school teadier.and legal seAe- -
tary. has been active in the village
-in many di0erent areas. Presently
- she is' a mend>er of the Board of
Trustees of Congregation B'nai
. Israel of Freniact aiid b a'mem­ber
of its Saool Boardl; She'is
vice-preddent. of Giant Step
Cooperative. Nmsety Scbool.
seoetaiy to the Village of Ftiee-port's
. Environmeirtal ' Com-"
mission., and' cd^presidenr? of-
Arcber Street School FTA- She ,
was fotiueily .secretary' to. the.
seaxclt fot.ll:iiew,s<^o^n{ainr.':.VSage's JSnk- Cninmission and'
pendent and the Utiag^Drr)iS~Bad'been an offiov oTCJdaaibtDr'
- byJoanOalanay
BALDWIN • In an informatiooaltitesenUtiba at the Baldwin Cooodl
of PTA'a recent moathly.neeting, Asdstant Snperiatendest for
Business Richard Dopsovie preseiited autlstiea regarding the proposed
bond referendan.-Tbe presentatioa iadnded charts on the coats la the
bond aa well as the tas irnpaci thtrbood woold have oo homeowoers
~wer eacfayear of theboodr
a family; from SSS~1d~S60~fbnjr^-iEADER that-shr hoprd thrrf
Origiaauy there were 11 main.
areas ia the proposed bond.
These iadnded tooling; heatiag
and boilers; electtie and .nis-celiaaeoos;
window aad mis-ceUaiteaas:
doors.and hardware;'
cauOc and masonry; site work; fire
and accident; banlar alarm; gym
padding; and Baldwin Juniot
High SdMol heatiag conttngeacy.
After dbcsssieo by the Board
of Edaeatioa aad exaaiiaatioQ by
.the /UwhistratioB. three
arcaa'-^ burglar alarms.- m i
paddieg aad the Juider-lSgii
School 'contiwgeacy — were
totally eBwinated for a sAviags of
S3O3.000. With the exceptioa of
roefiaf. Has aad actidaat, lO
other categodea -^^oe abo^
redaced. The total cuusUuction
costs are SS.091.779.
/i^^Xn^ eoata tor ttie bood
indade aa architect's fee cf
6.9%, Kdeft of the woks' fee at
2.5%, legal aavteea at XaS%.
geoecal. a<inifnistiailye costs of
.0025% aad ka iaddestal reserve
cf appcosiBiateiy i»6% for a final
tot2flfSS.75S.664.
CaaialaEach Catccaiy
By k v and unda reoommeoda-tioo
of booifiag attorneys, the
4>oad~ts' divided into tliree cate­gories,
abboagb the referesdam
requires only one vote for the
total .package. Each s^b-total
repceaeots the allowable aouoat^
that'can be expend^ witUa e ad
category. Although moniSTCta be~
reassigned iritEin categories,
monies cannot be reassigned
from category to category.
Costs in. the first category,
which indndes roofs, windows,
caulking, nusoory, and site work,
along with" ib proportiooate
reserve eoostmctioa. come to
S3.07O,226. '^
la the second category—wUdi
iadadea heating.-boilers, electric
aad li^itiag wtth its proportioo­ate
reserve coostractioo aad iad-deatal
costs — the-total is
S2.173.728.
The tfaiid catefoty. wUdi in­dndes
fire aad acddeat items
with its proportionate reserve
construcflMiad luJdeutal eaata,-
bS511.710.
Dopsovie made it dear that
mooies allotted for each category
coold not be ^ent 'outride that
category. If costs are Ugher thaa
estimated for a parftfwUr item,
money caixnot be used from ooe
catecQcy to pay for somethiag ia
anooer category.
Tax Rata Piafeeibwa ~
riMsHirrf igj S a v ty
The timefioe of the tax npact
over the 15-yeartermaf thf bond
was displayed io a drtajVd chart
wliidi showed a projected tax rate
in cents and tbc various coo-
,siderations sadi as ptinc^nl,
.interert. estisu^ed. ^tatr.-.aid.
J.(C<»ttt»onPafla6) V'..I
individaal. aad from S27.50 to S30
for a senior citizen. Yearly rates
wiU increase from $275 to S295 for
a non-terident family; from $125
to $145 for aa Individnal aad from
$62 JO to $70 for a senior ^tizen.
CTilfhllaalM
^^ riaililaM^yOaUit-^
At the Monday night open
Icf^sbtive sesriod. the Board also
,(Conl.onPaga15) '
Freeport School
Board Meets In
Budget Seskxi
• FREEPORT - A^jiliscusskm of
projected energy casts domiaated
. the agenda at the first of a series
of Bodget Workshop SessSoos
held bT the Freeport Board-bf
EdocanoQ.
Jie meeting oo Wednesday
evemng. Februry 24, Was hdd at
the Atunson School. beg}naing at
a pm. avwin U tlx. utAt-«wa
win be good candidates coming
forth for the seat, becanse this is
a vety in^ortant time for the
school (fistiict.
ActfvfalhariaiaaKj
Dorothy Fox. wtK>'is.a former
Av'eone School Pf A. She also was
involved in several of the. village-wid#
Hoose Tours. :
MIS. F ^ and husband. Martin,'-
have three diildren. Two are in
. fourth grade at Archer Street
uScbod: the third win be entering-kindergarten
in the fall.
A graduate of Queens College.
Mrs. Fox received: her B.A. in
English in 1967 and then tanght
Eng&sb as a Second Language fM-
(Cont.onPagelZ)
HitSftmeiil Qias:. •
FREEPORT. With the owners
of at least halfKlozen apartment
booses'in tills village tiying to
convert their boSdings' units into
cooperative apartments, hun­dreds-
of tenants have been
thrown into, a tanaoS, "terri­fied."
as Ethel Donnan. preri-deut
of -the Freeport Tenants
Association, descrilies it.
Spme of these tenants, asiar tie'
THE LEADER cookLdiscover'tbis.
past week, "are just rittin^ tight —^
Tenants Band To Hock
(k)nversion To Cooperatives
sesrioos oo Mardt 3 and March some say tbeyll never buytbeir
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Section I oTSTpiOpoied 1982- - by doing nothing the w h ^ thmg
Mrs. Donnan took them throogli
a maze of laws, read them a list
of "attorneys WIM are known to
spedalize in. owperative apart­ment
law and explained their
rights. . .
When asked how many of those
present did not want to purchase
their apartments. Mis. Donnan
was met by a seeimngly nnaoi-moos
sea of waving handST"^'
The tenants, who live at lOO
Brookljrri—Avenut',—aa—83-usit'
1983 sdiool fistrid budget items
deaEng with Buildings and
GroBods aad Bntincss Adnunis-tratioB.
. One of ttie Cew energy costs
-that showed no increase H
becanse - as was
Frtepoit has a
electridty,
explained -
muiddpal electric company.
Gas and water, on the other
hand refled projected increases.
As Dr. John f. Bierwirth,
SQperintendent'~Of_Sdiaols. in
Freeport, Ssfityti the figures on.
the screeirto the Board of Edute-
' • " • ta)nt.'w»l»ao«t6)-''•"•••
win go away. Others, io at least
two of the bnildiags, have formed
associations: are seeking or have
hired legal counsel and inlend,to
fight to remain in their apart-inevts
as tenters rather tlun
cooperative owners.
At a teoants' meetiog at one of
the apartment houses fu\y this
week, Mrs. Donnan told the
people gathered that "all of you
most poll together and work to­gether
to win. Yoo have a weahby
aiid powerful adversary." Ex-
• pUining to them the time.cos^,-
'lioM:• and.- lexali jainifWaHpwr,
building, chose ' a fbor-per^n
Execotive Coimmittee with a
chairperso;n. and a three-person
Legal Coiiunitfec, whose job is
to obtain an attorney to fight
agaiust the tmildiDg otpers' plan
10 seU their apartraeots oat from
under them, as one ^tenant
plaintively said.
That 'apartmenl house, owned
by Cassis Management, is one of
two houses in the Village where
tenants have already reerived
the second "book"' in the legal
procedures that hate made con-
,tersio(i to cooperatives or condo-mintoms
such a confusion to
icnaiits. The first document