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FREEPORT. NEW YORK, . APRIL
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Unili After Budget Vote'
BontfVotrMay 3
Bishop McGann Proposed Expansion Would
Almost Double Space
FREEFORT - Superintendent of Schools John E. Bierwirth and
George Boolulos. president of the Freeport Board cS Education, spoke
of a "zero based" school budget at the Freeport Oiamber of Com'
merce's luncheon meeting Thursday, April 21. The proposed 1983-
19&1 school budget, sud Bierwiith, shows no increase in school taxes,
but, he and B<nlu][as. cautioned,
OHR Celebration
FREEPORT - Rev. John R.
McGann, Bishop of Rockville
Centre, wiD concelebrate a Mass
of Dedication with the priests of
the parish at Our Holy Redeemer
Church Saturday evening April.
30. to-mark the ttmipletion of
the extenshre renovatiaa and res-,
toration work done on the dmrch
— andsdsni:
During the 5 pin Mass, accord­ing
\o Rev. trlsgr. Saverio C.
Mattel, pastor of Our Holy
Redeemer Church, the bishop
win tededicate . the church,
anoint the altar and walls and
bless the organ,'Tpeir~t6wer,
carillon, ramp and memorial
plaques.
The memorial plaques. Moo-sigtior
Mattel said, commemorate,
the sacrffice and generosity of the '
parishioners of Our Holy B:e-deemer
who donated to a special
restoration and renovation fund
for the church windows, vest­ments,
organ. beUs, ramp and
school windows. ~
The entire freeport community
is invited to join in the cele­bration
at the church and in the
OHR School auditorium where
light refreshments wiU be served
after the rededication Mass.'
A memorial plaque wiU ded­icate
the 1982 diurch restoration
to the Rev. Joseph Catahzaro,
who came to Our Holy Redeemer
in 1968 and served the parish
uotilhislastiQnessin 1981.
As a special memorial, the beDs'
and carSIoa are being detUcated
to Joseph Sumner, a parishioner
who served Our Holy Redeemer
all his life and who wocted tite- •
lessly to see that the restoratioa
and renovatiaa was accom­plished.
Sumner died on New
Year's morning and was p ^ an
unusual tribote oo.the Monday
evening bdote his funeral when
a speoal service was held tor
.^Jiin as he lay ia state in the
churcfar . -•• -
On Monday evening, at its
monthly meeting the Parish
Cboadlaf OorKo^ Redeemer, at
the request of Montignor Maltd.
by Joan Delmtey
BALDWIN - A proposed St.9 million bond issue, to be used for the
expansion of the Baldwin PabGe Library, win be the subject of a spedal
voter referendum on Toesday, May 3..Baldwiik Schoci district vtXers
win be voting from 9 ani to 9 pm at the Ubrary,'2385 Grand Avenue iii
Baldwin,' on a Zt-jt*t S1^934,140 bond issue, wkse tax increase win
.decrease each year from the first 1-, ^ ^ ^ . . : ^ , , 1 1
'vear'i Mghest estimated ^ tax . J * ~ y Board J * - TrmrtMS,
tacreaseof36J«per$100.forthe D«e«tor Walter Haber, Library,
-bond-issue a n d ^ l l t - p e t J i l O O - ' g g ^ - ^ P g * " ' »°*'?Ljeg-assessid
vahuUoo for ^ t i o o ardnlKt Go^STiHaTus asso-and
maintenance cosa. ciate Harold Oisen.
library ofSctals have estimated- , J^' P<"l>Bc presenUtion
that a hoose assessed- at SS.OOO indnded an update by Library
would pay a total tax increase of
less than 3M per wed during the
first year and ISt the last year at
the bond issue.
The ezpaasiaD,'Ebtai7 boaid
members explain, has been
necessitated in a targe part by the
heavy • increase in Circulation
during the last 10 years when the
library was 24tb in circulation per
capita in Nassau County. Today
it IS fourth out of the 54 libraries
in the County.'
Plans drawn by ardiitect
Ronald Goodman, AIA, of Great
Neck, can for a three level
structure whose approximately
15,000 square feet would close to
double the library's rize.It would
provide additional seating and
meeting room space., and im­proved.
faciHties for records.
<iapes. films and videoupa,
litems not even coowlercd in
' 1963 when the library was built.
• Architect Goodman says - bis
j)lan strtsse^amoog other things,
energy efSdency. A saving of-
S3,000 per year, for exampteT^
says Goodman, wUI be realized by
beating and cooCng with- beat
pumps using grnnd water
instndof'agassystemas in the
'existing structure. ,^^^
Additiooal savings arc pro-jrrtrA
by nrng nnr insnlatkll te
Board Prerident Ingiid Mahler
as wen as one by Goodman, wbidi
included specific expansion
renderings and slides.
Mahler stressed. the history
of the study of expassios which
goes back almost a decade and
she explained the altemathre
plans at wfaidi the Board kxAed.
These altematiyes indnded the
use of MDbnm School, if it
became available, or the Baldwin
Juniar High School - Prospect
School buil£ngs. Both possibiH-ties,
said Mahler, would have
been too costly. Another possibili­ty
was the coodettiution of an ad­jacent
building which, Mahler
said, would have required legal
and court procedures over-a long
period of time with an uncertain
outcome.
Mahler noted the wotic of the'
citizens' expansion committee
of 22 individuals who researched
an infdtmation and were giveS i
no constraints in their study.
With t ^ ezceptiad of only one of
its m^niliers, the. committee
approved the ezpansioa at the
piesentntecftbelibtaiy. ^
Mahler also gave some statis­tics
to support the expansioa. 9ie
noted that the Library was fourth
m usage per capita in Nassau
while only 20th bi ezpenditnres,
thm .hn»fng thf fiscal CDPSer.
it does not include any projected
salary increases for teachers, sec­retaries
or school aides.
The School District^is stin in
negotiation with eadr of these
groups .'but Biefwirth said,- he
expects — when salaiy nego­tiations
are. completed — a
."minimal increase," about S%,
or less than $1.25 per $100 as­sessed
valuation.
Freejport School District res­idents
go to the poOs on Wednes­day,
May 11. The budget on
which they win vote win be for.
.$30,162,777, slightly Ugher than .
-the presentfear's school budget r-
However, with the increase of
estimated revenues . (some
$650,000 more than the present
years, mostiy' in state aid), the
-tax increase on which residents
win be votmg is "zero." The taj
increase iriU be estimated
later, said 'Bterwirth. after con-^
tractual negotiations are com­pleted.
Residents wiU have an op­portunity
to attend a pubBe hear­ing
on the budget this evening,
Thursday, April 29. at. 8 pro, in
the high school's little Theatre.
Copies of the proposed budget
can also be obtained at the Ad­ministration
teilding or apy
sdiool office.
"Now, Cetting Some Breaks"
At the Chamber luncheon.
Bierwirth noted that this year the
school district was Jinally "get­ting
some breaks." Besides the •
dosing of Cleveland Avenue
School, which wiU save "consid­erable
money" in terms of op­erating
expense and staff. Bier­wirth
explained that fuel oQ
costs have been coming down and'
that "Albany has firully recog­nized
the inequities of the t*z
system...We-win be doing, fair­ly
wen this year," he said: "The
inequities are being; slowly ad­dressed,
so we Tare pidring up
more state aid this year/' ~
Bierwirth also spoke of class
. size,-lioting _ that JFteepgrt, .haj,.
had one of the Ugliest dass sizes
in Nassau County, averaging \2S
in elementary schwas. This is one
issue the district is obviously now
addressing as- Bierwirth said,
"we are trying to lower this^to
under 25."
> In the coveritag explanation to
the budget, prepared for the pub­lic
and now available, the School
Board also explains that the pro­posed
budget retains several -
elementary classroom teaching.
positions,, "which might have
been cut," in order to lower
, "very high dass size" on several
grade levels in some .of the dis­trict's
elementary schoois.
Other positive aspects' of the
new budget, discussed by Bier­wirth,
induded a review of the
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the walls and roof. vatismcf the Board and staff. She
MaamumUettmtabU . added that witUn recent years,
DtvtU^nneatbUbnry - tfanost 75 percent of aU of the
ExpBitmnCoal Gbrazies in Nassau aze'bnder-
The. Bbrary's Botul Informa- cotes'or have cndergooe expaa-tiona]
meeting on Tuesday; April 'uoa. ~ The present bnilifing.
19, drew an andience of 19 com- MaUer said, was designed to
mnjijty members. Present were . .
•4ls<>.•tte^five^membea••rf^el«lyv.,^VoJl»iL\^»iOrM^W^^-•'^^^
EXPLAINING THE BUDGET. FrMpoct School SuperintmdMt John.
E. Bierwirth (c.) and School- Board pmidaht George BouhAo* (2nd
from I.) ara greeted *l a Fraeport QiamtMr of Commaffii luncMon
by th« group's prasldent Larry Grablnar (2nd r.l, FIrxl Viea-Preaidant'
Charlas Baldwin (r.) and Exaculhra SecrMary Ctiaftas Mahrmann 0.).
Blarwirth and Boutukos explained tha propcaad achool ixxSgat and
pnalt>le «ff«cM.qf.cunaiU.lMd>ars'-.C(>ntn4,iMgolIatkx<t to x^cm
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