The-Leader_1984-04-05

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Village of
Freeporl .
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Freepbrt
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. Baldwin
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FREEPORT. NEW YORK, APRE,$, 1984
48th YEAR. No. 50
PRICE 2 5 * PER COPY
Schools Get State Windfall
Expect «2.47 ikildwin ^^^^^l:'":
'Sclroon'nrinavdse
Village Board Board Soys Fringe Benefits
"Organixes" For f^eason For Big Increase
Another Year L,jo..u.msy
FRFFPORT • Frvrrrnd Bnrtoa BXTUVVIN - Tlii proposed Baldwin SchdoT District budget fot 1984-
Pastor rf the Freeprat 85, approved last week by the Baldwin Board of Edncation.pritecti an
estimated tai rate faicrease of $2.47 per $100 of «TTft«H vaTuatiin. For
a home assessed at $7500| the $32,441 JOS budget rcpresenU,an In­crease
of S185.2S per year over last year's taxes. R>r senior citizens
with income op to $13,500, bow-
6X flhoda Ktlltr iJoan Dtltney
FSEEFORT/BALDWIN • Both the Baldwin and Freeport Sdiool
IMstricts win receive significant increases in high tax aid, acconUng to
the new State Aid to Education Budget package announced this past
week by local state legislators.
In a joint release issued by Sute Senator Norman J. Levy and
Assemblyman Armand D'Amato,
an: increase of $1,377,162 for the
Freeport School District was
announced.
In addition, under a new law
by Livy lasi year,
Uavison
United Methodist Chordi and
President of the Freeiwrt Inter-faith
Clergy, was appointed to a
tliree year term on tlie Village's
Coinniisdcm on Human Relations.
His was the only new appc^t-ment
by the Freeport Village
Board td Trustees at the Annual
Organization Night meeting held
Monday night, April 2.
Rev. . Danson will replace
Walter ligon, who is leaving the
Commission because of extensive
personal travelling.
The session began with Mayor
Wniam H. WKte's reappoint­ment
with "pleasure" pf Trustee
Dorothy Storm as Deputy Mayor
for the coming year. -
Department heads reappc^ted
were Village Board Administra­tive
Assistant and Village Clerk
Thomas DeVincenzo for
ever, a sfiding scale discount —
up to the Mghest amount allowed
by Sute law—b hi effect.
The' budget represents a 9%
increase over the current year's
sdiool budget. The amount of
the increase has b«en explained
by Sdiooi Board President Lor­raine
Deller who indicated tlsat,
even with recent increases in
stale aid, the SUte's cost of
education falls, far short of equal
responsibility. The State's share
of finandal education in Baldwin
for 1984-85 wiO be 29.2%, a drop
from 45% of the cost that the
Sute had paid in the 1960's. Dis­trict
(^Bcials have noted that
-VnCge Clerk
Henry GriunEch, one year.
Village Treasurer Thomas
Mdloy, two years; and 'Vilbge
Assessor Barry Dunn for one
year.
appcnnted Acting Village Justice
for one year.
Victor Cohen was reappointed
a member of the Zoning Board of
Appeals for five yearsand Milton
Sanders reappcnnted ZBA Chair­man
for one year.
Ladovic Long was renamed to
the Board of Ethics for five years.
John IMGrazia was reappdnted
as Planning Board diairman for
one year and Bradley Midgette.
as a member for five years.
Frank McKenna win again
serve as Chairman of the Ekictri-cal
Board. William Cbminos,
WiHiam HHI, Lndoric Long,
Frank McKenna, Brace WiOeU
and Gcdofredo Kniz de Zaiale
were reappointed as members,
aH for one year.
Phunbing Board Chairman
John Marshall win serve again for
a one ye*i term with GH Krog
and wmiam Baleman as mem­bers
for the same period.
MDlon Chester was reappoint­ed
Ch^nnan of tiie Ardutectnral
. - . • 1 • (Cont.onPage4)'
-jHO-the perttflUge" of the State's
share of funding education had .
kept pace, there would be no tax
increases. V
Sdiool officials luve attributed
the budget increase primarily
to Urge increases in the cost OSF
such fringe benefiu as medical
and dental coverage, retirement
system cliarges and the employer
share of social security cosU.
These fringes, an $856,000'in­crease,
' r^ect cfatfges which
are set by SUte, federal or other
oul^de agendes and $ti not con-troned
by the school district.
Other items indude a BOCES
increase of $207,000; the cost of
the completion of PHASE n of the
District-wide computer program
for $139,000;-and $162,000 for
the cost for the impIemCnUtion
of tlie kmg-range biulding main­tenance
program promised to the
community wlien the bond was
approved. At tliat time there was
great concern tiiat once repairs
items as concrete repair, ro^s,
etc. should be on-gouig so that
such massive repair cosU would
not occur again.
In addition, new salary sched­ules,
which have been negotiated
with various employee bargaining
uniu, are also iziduded in Jhe.
budget represent an increase cf
(Cont.onPa'geB)
yiuuiiofed"
Freeport's increased Slate Aii
to Education could soar to over
$2J minion as a result of Levy's
equalization rate chanite.
Baldwin's increase in stale aid
wm total $517,289, said Levy.
and D'Ainatd. ,
Levy'ezpUined thai the Educa--
tion padiage now bidudes a
$3,933,809 (16.8%) increase for
Nassau' County's "High Tax-tow
Wealth" sdMol districts, as
oppbsed to the Assembly's
. proposal n^ereby only five
Nassau County Scbod DistricU
, would have received any hicrease.
in high tax aid (a total Ondted to
$95,407) and the Governor's
proposal, where Nassau County
Sdiool Districts would have lost
$76,000.
Levy said that the agreed upon
State Aid package provides Free-
/Myyl nit<t<rt with . Wflh-
Nassau County School DistricU —
both of whidi-initUtives would
have had a significant negative
Impact for local schooLdlstricts
and their Oipayers." The Sute
tax aid increase of $364439.
Levy, a RepubHcan, credited
the Senate R^ubHcan Majority
with "again...preventrm^] the
Governor from. begliinmg to
complete phase-out of "Save
Harmless" and the Assembly
DemocraU from implementing a-
"High Tax Aid sUtus quo for
Senator commended the eSorU of
Freeport .Scfaod Superintendent,
Dr. John E- Bierwbth; Baldwin
School Board' president Lorraine
DeDer; and the countless con-
:csmed residenu, PTAs, board
.members, teachers, school
administrators and ttudenu who
lobbied in Albany and wnfte
letters endorsing the Hlgli Tax
Aid proposal, which was the
calalvst for the Sute's new High
Tax Aid formnU.
"Our ahn," aald Levy, "was
to briing a measure of relief to
school taxpayers in Nassau
County and other regions whUk.
are uced with higher thad
average tax rates to meet the
higher than average regional
cosU of living, and we havi
achieved Ihat.'^
- BALDWIN nOURES
Baldwin's tnereased sUte aid
came at the right time for that
school distrid. At the March 28
Board of Education meeting, a
proposed 1984-85 school budget
jof $32,441,305 wu approved
by nieml>ers of the Board. At
that time, based on known sUle
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Paul, Papali Named National
Merit Scholarship Winner
EVANSTON, nx. - Paul F.
PapaB, a senior at Freeport High
School, has beeo selected a
National Merit SchoUrship win­ner.
Papan. the Class of 1984's
Valeoictarian, was named in
the first of three annonnce-menu,
which Ihte^some IJ75
winners nation-wide d corporate-sponsored,
' four year Merit
SdioUrships.
Fapfi win receive a sdioUr-'
ship funded by the Times MiiTor.
A resident of Harding Place,
Papali has set his fiitnre goals on
a career in medicioe. K% other
honors already indude a Banscfa'
and Lomb Science Award, Free-
' pbrf Exchange Oub- Youth 'Of '
the Month, Brown Universi^r
Book Award. Freeport High
Sdxxd's Centnty QI Leagers
Program winner, and NCR .Cen­tennial
Scfaolan finalist.
Papafi has been News Editor'
of the school newspaper, "Flash-ings,"
fior two years; captain of
the sdiool Math Team for iwo
years and a member of the
County An-Star Math Team for
three years; president and treas­urer
<xtheDMSteCfab; amem-berofthe
"It's Academic" team;
a member "of the Volunteer
Tutoring Committee; and a mem­ber
of the Natiooal Hooor So-
(Cont. 00 Page 3) .
LEADINO THE FIQHt acalntt eanoar In FrMport ar* local Am«(lcan
CancM- Sodaty (ACS) unit mambari g. to r.) Jim RMd, prMld«nt,
Ba]dw)r>-Fra«port Unit; Vlllao* D«puty Mayor Dorothy Storm; Angle
Cullln, Freeport Crusade Chairperson; Lorraine Franco and Ralph
Smith. The ACS'a Cfneer Control Cruaede thia month will Invohre more
than 12,000 votunleer* on Long Wand, wtto will QO door-(o-door
collecting funda and bringing rseldent« tucd llfeeevtng Information a*
a (older on a "Oukk feef en Cencer Ri«k« for LurtgrColon and
Redum.". ? . . . ' . . ..