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FREEPORT. NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 21,1985
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1st Election Debate Heats Up Race
Boaitl'sK
Vote On March 6
Mehrmann To ^ ^ r o p o s e Two Plons;
Run For Expanded And FuH
Village Justice
FREEPORT - Former Acting
Village Justice. J3iarles -C. -
Mehrmann has been. endorsed
by the Home Rule Party in his
race for Village Justice in the
:;. March 19Uiyillageelection, •-
According to the Home Rule
Party's campaign chairman, the
party's Steering Commitiee
unanimously - endorsed
-- Mehrmann, a resident 6f Free-*
•portforoverSOyears. '
- Mehrmann' announced .this
. week tha^ he will seek election to
the position,- presently rheid-by—
Ralph Franco, who^ is seeking
reelection on the Village Party
line.
' Mehrmann served as Acting
Village Justice &om 1962 to.
1982. The post is an appointed
one. . •
An«ttorney, with offices in',the
village, Mehrioann, his wife,
.,J31oilk, and-their, family live on_
'Maryland Avenue. They have six
children and four gran^iuldren.
- -A 1940 graduate-of-Freeport-
High Schcbl, Mehrmann followed
that with attendance at Mer­chants
and Bankers Business'
Schodi I.B.M. Tabulating Equip-
^—ment School, ~and the American
' UniyersityJn-Washington, D.C.,
Horn where-he received an Asso­ciate
Degree ill-Administration. .
He'later attended" Si. John's
University School, of Law, and
was admitted to practice before
Ih^-H^r «Yf I h . Clal. ^ ^ ^ York
-of the concept. . .- ...
Assistant Superintendent G<:ne
lanzaro began the :presentation
with an overview of the "histori­cal
perspective" of the idea
in Baldwin, beginning in Decem­ber
of 1982,. when a full day
kindergarten center was part oif
"a. _ reorganization plan—which..
would have dosed Steele and
-Milt)um Schools as K-6 elemen­tary
schools.
— • '
A second proposed plan in
December, 1983 included a pilot
. kindergarten'program at Meadow
and Plaza Schools. At that time,-
the bulk of the community,
opposition seemed to center on
-the-"pilot"- aspects-of-the plan--
with many residents complain-ing
about their schools' being left
therefore.
in March, 1955; to the 0;S. Dis­trict
Court for both the Southern
and Eastern Districts; and to the
Supreme Court. of _the. .United__
Sutes. • .
A U.S. Army veteran,
(Cent, on Page 4)
Arrest Closes Out
30 Burglaries
• FREEPORT - The arrest of a
26-yeafoId~Ffeepcrrt- man -ap­parently
closes out some 30 house
burglaries in the Freeport area,
many in the northeast section,
which took place daring the last
six months oiF 1934.
• Michael Silvers was arrested
(Cont.ohPage6)
by Joan Delaney
BALDWIN - Administrators presented the Baldwin Board of Educa­tion
with'additional input on the proposed expanded or full day kinder­garten
as they complied with the Board's January directive to move
into Phase U of the kindergarten time line. Present at the Board's Feb­ruary
17th meeting were approximately 50 younger parents, most of
whom it appeared were in favor
8:45 am to 11:15 am with an'hour
fprMunch -u'ntil_12:15^Jt^was
noted .that the -separation 'of
the.lunch Ume would allow the
kindergarteners to eat lunch
apart firom the upper graders.
However, in- later_ discussion,
the problem of these youngsters
..waUdng-home- alone-(as-they '-
presently do) was • considered.
An aflemoon schedule would run.
from 12:30 to 3 pm. •
the extended day time sched-'
ule showed the same morning. -
with an afternoon of full class.
participation from 12:30 to 2
-pm;—The-period-of-2-2J5 pm
would include small group in­struction
as wen as testing and
"andllaiy-servicesrTeacher- plan---
ning and preparation would take
_place_2:25z3.pniJ)ther_eilended_
day options are also possible.
The costs for these two pro­grams
as well as the status quo
half day program were outlined
and compared. Items considered
included staff salaries, Mnge'
benefits and retirement of leadi-ers,
supplies and equipment,
transportation and lunch and
playground supervision. Costs
were computed over a four year
period. IThe present program
costs S386,9S0 and is expected
to rise'to $470,000-by-.the_ 1987^
88 school year. The full day pro­gram
is computed at S608,990
-for 1985-86-up to 5729,970 by
1987-88. The extended day cost
projections aire S589,080 for 1985-
86 up to $700,772 in 1987-88.
It has been noted that seed mon­ies
are probably available to
offset a l^ge portion of the first
year costs.
A cost analysis translated the
cost of these programs into the
tax impact on homeowners.
Basing the figures on the cost for
a home assessed at $7500, the
extended day costs would range
from an $18 to $24 increase
per year over three years and
GOP Line Still Up In Air
"With Caucus On Feb. 25
" FREEPORT - The village election'sfirst — and possibly only —
major debate of the campaign fanned the election fevers this past Sun­day
afternoon, February 17, while. Freeport Republicans were still
"up in the air"-.as to who will be their party's standard bearers in the
March 19th election. :• " -
All four cajididates for mayor Cohen also spoke in favor of
and eight for trustee were present the village's Homefinder's pro-at-
the debate-sponsored by the^gram.-"! think this is one of the:
Freeport Council of Civic Associa- reasons your housing values have
tions -(COCA) at-the Freeport increased so much these past
Memorial library. Also _ given few.years.tlhe said—, .
time to speak and answer ques- Calling himself "a neophyte in
tions was Village Justice Ralph politics," Cohen described his
Franco, who at that time was the
only-announced candidate for
that position.
Each slate was gWen 15
minutes before questions were
taken from the floor. Responses
to questions were limited to one
minute for each slate.
The first person.to speak was
Judge Franco, who oplained the'
running mate. Mayor DOTothy
Storro, as"her owirperson.''
Newly appointed Trustee
Ralph Smith, who is running with
Cohen and Storm, spoke next.
Smith cited as some of his priori- .
ties' additional police officers
whose "visibility would be a
deterrent to crime," and the up­keep
and beautification of Free:
out. Ihis past year,
the School District Administration
ha$ been following the Board of
Education's directive to secure
community input with research
by a PTA co'mmitlee and . a
Baldwin Educational Assembly
(BEA) committee. Although the
BEA committee form^y en­dorsed
a resolution calling for.
some type of an .expanded or
full day concept in 1985-86 and
Jhe PTA rommittee by con-sensus
approved"fiixllier"Stndy of
the concept, there was some criti-cistii
by residents who were
-opposed-to-the-idea concerning
the one-sided approach to the.re-seareh
present^ 'to the com­mittees.
Administrators have
noted, however, that there is
no body of negative researeh on
the topic.
The February 13 Board meet­ing
centered on the financial
and'scheduling specifics d two
proposed plans.— oAe full day
and expanded day. The expanded
day plan, which was ouUined was
' said to be only one of many pos­sible
expanded programs that
could be implemented.
The fiill day time schedule
showed a-niorning period from
- woiUngs of-the court and-the--port.—part,inilarly : mentioning
imposing of conditional fines as a
means of eliminating such viola--
tions as overoccupandes.
The three candidaTi^ on^the"
. Village Party slate (who are seek­ing
the Republican nomination as
. well) spoke next - with trustee .
- candidate Victor Cohen leading
off.
A life-long- resident of Free-
. port, an attorney, and a member .
of the village's Zoning Board of .
Appeals, Cohen noted that he
;—is-cognizanl of the two-family
bouse problem and they are try­ing
to reach some solution, "not
simply~lega]izmg tliem "because
that is not a solution."
boarded-up houses and how the
235 program has met that
problem.
~^MayorDdfblhy'Storm7was the
final speaker for the Village
Party slate. "You don't want a
bunch of candidates who are in a
dream wcnld," she cautioned the
audience. She called the village's'
Homefindets and Homesteading
programs l.'innavative'l,.-and .
pointed out that homesteaders,
who sold their homes after five
years, .were . able' to. command
above $72,000, "a hefty profit."
Other successful programs,
TnehTioned Storm, were the on-
(Cont. onPagelb)
(Cont. on Page 9)
WINNING MATHLETES. Eight Freeport High School Mathletes
won awards at the Second Annual Nassau County Math Tournament
held on February 2 at Wantagh High School. Shown Qn photograph)
with Mathletes coaches Peter G. Hayes (standing, I.) and Ernest
Ruggler6 (standing, r.) are Individual competition award winners
(seated, I. to r.) Ian Handel (second place - Playing with Numbers}^.
Ronald Extract (third p'lace -Total Points Sophomore Division), Erie
Saarmaa (third 'place -' Trigonometry); (standing, 2nd I. to r.') Cnilg
Schlechter'(second place - Coordlante GeoinQijy)^ Matt Kelly ($econd_
place - Playlngwith Numbers), Adem Koupljphird place - PtayTng'wlih'"
Numbers), Lawrence Umemoto, (first place - Logarithms and
Exponents), and Anthony Scalamandr6 (second place - Trigonometry).
In addition to the Individual honors, the teamcl Ronald Extract, laii
Handel, Matt Kelly, Adem Koupi and Craig Schlechter captured the
third place trophy in the team competition.