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FBEEPORT, NEW YORK. NOVEMBER 18.1982
47t/jyEAR.No.30
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^•n e Employees To File Charge
Gourmet Buffet & ^5^^^ Claims Medical Cap
SINQEBS 86LEOfE0..8b(tMn (iMmMrt'of F/Mpbrt H^h Scheol'i.
Chora).0routM ti*va boen «el«c(ad to ptrtlelptMi in lhl« yMr.'t AII-^-
County Chorui. Th« IS will t)9 part of iht 3i(0-voiM Nassau County
chorus whicli will psrform at th« C.W. Post.Cent«r January S-«.-The -.
youngtlsrs wars Miscisd on ihs t>aalt of rigorous auditions. For F.H.S.-
Chorai Music Instructor Stsptiatt Pagano, Iha IS selected Irom Freeport
High School represent an alMlma high. They are in Drtt nnv p. fo r.)
Lita Walsh. Celeste Rampey, Susan Rsllly, Doreen Chlla, Deirdra
Fogarty: ssoond row <l. (o r,) Jennifer Warman; David Wallace, Jedrey
Qoldberg, TonI Condos; and third row 0- to r.) Mr. Pagano. KIrsten
Spada/0, Alex Devlin, Daniel Moynlhah. and Gerald Williams. Miss­ing
Irom photo are Hugh Cohen, Joshua Devlin and Cerald Melnlcic.
Baldwin Teachers Re-elect
Herrmann In "Hot" Elecfion
byJoanOe/snay
BALDWIN • Incumbent Russell Herrmson was re-elected president
of the Baldwin Tesciiers Association in a hotly contested elcxtion,
which was concluded on Wednesday, November 3. Hernnann, who has
served In that capacity since 1976, is « fourth grade tetcber tt Meadotr
School. He is a resident of Baldwin and hia desrees from Oswego
University and Hofstra. He and
his wife, Leslie, are the parents of
two boys, Greg and Christopher,
who attend Baldwin schools.
Herrmann was opposed- by
Stephen Hotowiu, a nfth grade
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Russell Herrmann
teacher at Brookside School, and
Doug Gomez, a librarian at
Baldwin Senior High School. The
main point of contention, accord­ing
to a union spokesman, was
the recently signed teachers'
contract. It appeared that some
members felt that the union
should not have settled when they
did and should have held out for
other terms.
At the end of the school year,
teachers engaged in picketing at
several schools in the district and
adhered to the "letter of the
contract" regarding extra school
help and Mgning in and out. They
picketed off school grounds at the
senior high school graduation but
they did not sfrike. During the
summer there was concern on the
part of the staff; administration
and community that the contract
Would not be settled in time for
the 1982-43 school year. During
that time representatives of the
union and school district met with
a mediator ftxim PERB in an effort
to reach a settlement. A tentative
agreement was accepted at the
end of August and teachers
ratified the contract on the first
day of school in September.
Other Ofikers
Other officers elected included
the first vice-president, re­sponsible
for secondary level
problems, Tony Lombardi. a
science teacher at the senior high
Big Band Music
Help Celebrate 90th
FREEPOKT • A goatnaet buf-fel
tttpper, utiimHvi llqiior and
the "B^ Bsnd" soniul of a 17-
^ece dance orchestra will help
Freepoctets celebrate the 90th
annivensry of. the Incwpotalion
of their vUlsge. The gala event
will take place Satnrdsy night,
Oecember 4. si the Freeport
Secreatioo Center.
Last month's village-wide pa­rade
wtt itist the' first of two
msior emstM planned Iqr the
"9nh' Birtbday C:bmmittee." a
group el business and cMc lead­er*
and '-.tp^iftds ,orgsiilaed
by - th« '.Freeport' Chsfflbet c£
Commerce and dulfed by vice-presldeirt
Mike Ocera.
The 90lb sonhrerssiy gsla will
feature the sounds of Khythm,
Heeds and Brass, It 17-piece
music group whose mode is in the
style of the tatned Glen MHVer
bsnd. Festhrities will begin at
8 pm and cotdinue throng 1 am.
Caterer Mike Ocwa has come
op with a buffet SKBO offering
foods of many of the vsrions
countries whose people have
come totbe United States and set­tled
in Freeport. Pasiicdo {s
Greek pasts) will be dished up as
win b« CUckea Frsncais and Veal
Marsala and the strictly American
carving tables with slJced^o-order
turkey, roast beef and Vir-ginia
him. Assotte4, salads and
Tclisbes and the meal's ouidnd-ing
Viennese Table Supreme wiH
also be part of the buffet-served
dinner, all-inctusive in the
$17.50 perperson price.
Many planning to attend have
already indicated they will come
wearing gay nineties-styte dress.
Tickets can l)e reserved by call­ing
the Freeport Chamber of
Commerce office, 378-7402,
weekdays, 10 am-2 pm; or Mike
Ocera. MA 3-1009.
Is Unfair Labor Practice
FSEEPORT -The local unit of the Onl Service En^layees Associa­tion
(CSEA), wfaich represents the Village of Freepert's nmtiicipal
employees, win be filing, an-impraper practice cbuge sgalnst the
nllsge, the restiH of the village's Board of Trustees' dedtion on the
1982-83 contract. —= : "
At the heart of the issue is the Board's impleaientatiaa of a cap on its
payment of its employees'
medittl plan costs.
Village employees had been
wottdng wttboot a cmtrsct since
Mardi 1,.while fheir-'represeota-fives
and the village govem-ment's
representative, focujer -'
Mayor iebcct Sweeney. caa> ,•
tinned to negotiate their 1982-83 .
contract. ' - ' ..
_ When an lnipasse.was readied,.
a State-appoliited fsct-Snder was
caUed in. After the Village Board
made a hutber offer and for a
second time the CSEA member­ship
voted it down, the Board set
November 8th for. a special
le^sUlrre sesdon when it beard
from both Sweenqr and the
CSEA's r«i>Teseiktatives — its'
attorney, Ricbard Gaba'. and local
ntut pteddent, Robert Ford —
and listened to comments from
other CSEA offidals.
At the eiul irfthat meeting, the
Board resexved dedtion. Under
the Taylor Law. mnnic^al
employees are forbidden to strike
and the final arbiters on cofrtrad
ne^iation disptites are the
employers, in this case the
Village of Freeport's Board of
Trustees, who convene as a
legislative body to bear argu­ments
from both sides.
While there were other pmids
of dispute, the cap on medical
costs has provided ,tbe most
comment. Tise village'will iasti- .
tote the cap as of Fd)nury 27,
1983. Mayor WiOiam H. WhHe's
last txuupiouilse. offer to. his
emplogrees had lieen for a. grsdu-.
aled scale of es^lqyee contribu­tions
to the costs of their medical
issartnce pluts.-presently-bom
stdely tor the; employ. The
compTOnuse woilld have provided
that en^lcryees whose annual
salaries fall below 114,999 would
pay uMng; those that make over
S24,000 a year would pay 100%
of any increases in pretmum and
employees whose salaries faU
between these two amounts
would pay on a graduated scale.
At the November 8tb public
hearing, CSEA. president Bob
Ford said, "We feel the em- .
ployees would be on a sbiMi end
of the stick ff the cap u imposed.
It would be," be said, "a grave
injustice."
DnfabPnetke
FollQwingthe village's decisioii
to institute the cap, the CSEA's
attorney, "TJaba told THE
LEADER that it is an unfair labor
practice for an employo' to refuse
to continue all the terms of-an
expired 'contrad unless the
cfaange is agreed uixin by both
(Cont.onPag«iB)
(Cont.onPagoS)
New Building To Be
Library's Officially
by Bd Sllvermaj)
FREEPORT - The long sought
Adeipbi University building at
160 West Merrick Road win soon
oSicially become Freeport School
District property.
The December 6 title closing
will formally pave the way for the
Freeport Memorial Library's
voter-approved, $1.7 million ex­pansion
plan that has been brew­ing
for close to two years. The
building was sold to the library
last spring for 1385,000, pending
the outcom.e of theSept^mJier 29
'(C6ot'. cft^agea)-'-
IN HIS MEMORY. Freeport Mayor William White shows Mrs. Trade
Re the plaque which will t>e attached to the Freeport Recreation
Center's trophy case dedicating it to the memory ol her late hu3t>and.
• Thomas Hei Mr. Re served as Parks Commission Chairman from 1971
until his death In 1981.