The-Leader_1985-11-14

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FREEPORT. NEW YORK. NOVEMBER 14,19S5
51st YEAR, No. 30
FREEPORT l'El!0?IAL LIBRARY-W
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Baldwin Library
Expansion Discussed
^ Residents Vofer Referendum
Comment On A/kdl / n Mid-JanUQI^
Sfart-up Fund In Budget
If Carter Is Too High
FREEPORT - After six years of private'sanitation pick-up, the Vil­lage
of Freeport is looking into what the financial picture would be like
if it decided to bring bade a municipal department.
Since 1979, Freeport's residents and businesses have had their
garbage and trash picked up. by Five Counties Carting, a private
company, which has been — after
, FREH^RT - Comments on
• condttiqns on Freeport Mall came
' from the first twa speakers at the
Freeport Village'Board's Monday
evening, November 4th public
meeting. ' ;•"-"" "
Chel Barkan, a resident and.
a store owner on the Mall, spoke,
of the improved "perception"'of
the Mall created by police visi­bility
the last two weeks. Calling -
it a "big difference," hejUianked-
^ the police department and said
there were.feweir bicydes on the
Mall, less noise and customers
'-noticidit. •
Mayor Dorothy Storm credited
the increase in available police '
officers,' noting that the new
= police recruits were temporarily
oat c{ the academy on a field
training program,
Donel Socolov, another resi­dent
and businessman, said be
. had previously spoken about the
metal overhang on the north end
of the Mall, where the stores had
been taken ifown. ."It looks
awful," said Socolov.
Storm retorted-that removing
the overhang would have an "ex­cessive
cost." She also said she
' liked' the overhang because it
gives protection to people coming
bom the parking lot.
Socolov ^queried the cost and
was told by Storm that-removal
would run S5,000-$7.(XX).
James Dowling of Lexington
Avenue asked the Board (o look
into amending the village ordi-
. nance regarding storage of fire­wood
on private property. He
also complained.about the long­standing
problem of unregistered
cars in a yard on Pennsylvania
Avenue.
.Charles Wertz, of Cordon
Place, charged that members of
the Village Building Department
had harrassed and threatened
him.
Mayor Storm indicated that she
krew about it, but alluded to half-truths
by Wertz in the past.
"Both of you lost your tem­pers,"
Storm said of the inddent.
"I don't think he should have
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byJ. Delaney
BALDWIN - On Tuesday evening, Noi-ember 5, the Ba]di\-in Board
of Education held a special meeting for the primary purpose of discuss­ing
with members of thie Baldwin Library Board of Trustees the various
alternative means of-finandng the proposed library eicpahsion. This
expansion would involve-the'purchase of'Ihe'adjicsnl'Ginnpeah
American Bank, whichhas been • ' ' " ' • ' . -
vacant since last Spring. Pres- '
enlly the libraty--Board has
enter^ a memorandum of
agreement. —; good- for 'six
rnon ths—dtmiig which time they
must anange and^present to the
voters a referendimi for the pur­chase
of the property.
By law," the Library Board .
deddes whether to put the pro^
posal to the community for a vote;
however, by law, it is the school's
board's responsibility to dedde
by what means the purchase will
be financed.
Both boards agreed that the
Library should expand by pur­chasing
the bank property.
Both boards indicated that the
two attractive means of financing
(he S860,000 . purchase, price
were either to include the entire
cost in a one year plan or to
finance the cost by-selUng a bond
maturing in five years.
Assistant Superintendent for
Business for the school district,
Lee Chapman, provided sum­maries
showing-Ihe antidpated
interest costs and the lax impact
on Baldwin residents of one,
five, ten and twenty year plans.
The 10 and 20 year plans were im-
Baldwin Updote
BALDWIN - At its Wed­nesday,
November 13th.
meeting, the Baldwin Board
of Education approved the
five year plan to finance
the purchase of the Europe­an-
American Bank building.
A series of public informa­tional,
meetings will precede
the required voter referen­dum
scheduled to be held on
January 1 4 , 1 ^ .
mediately ruled but as impractical
because of the higher interest
rates and significantly greater
interest costs over the longer
terms.
School .Board President Ber­nard
Ktlinsky invited the four
Library B'oard members who -
were present'to give their views
on the finandng. Library Board
president Leonard Melman noted
that their Board had originally
voted 3-2 in favor of the five
year plan but that their vote was
now 4-1 in favor of the five year
plan. They noted- that the five
year plan would increase the typ­ical
homeowner's cost by about
$17 a year for five years where
as the one.year plan would cost
the.average homeowner S68 for
the one year only.
The school board members
also gave their views on an un­official
basis only. They have
promised to .offidally vole at the
regular monthly Board meetings
to be held on November 13 at
Steele School. Individual school
board members discussed the
impact that a five year plan
would have the regular May bud­gets
with concern, that any debt
service on the library's- bond
would appear on the school dis­trict's
budget._All. parties agreed-that,
whatever, financing was
agreed to, it was-important that
it be cleariy spelled out to the
. voters.
When the decision regarding
finandng is made on Novem­ber
13lh, the Library may then
proceed with the required legal
advertising of the referendum
which could be expected |p be;
held in mid-January, 1986. In
addition, the Library Board,
at its own meeting, has indicated
its desire to have public forums
(Cont. onPagelS
the first year — the only bidder
for the village's contract. '
The village, which used to have
its own triicks and its own five-men
crew 'making its pick-ups,
now has Five Counties' three men
crews making Uier stops, often in
former Village'lrucks.
• Presently Mayor Dorothy
Storm and the Village trustees are
at work on a tentative; 1986:87 -
Village Budget and it is expected
that this will contain a contingen­cy
figtirc-to cover start-up costs
in case the Village -deddes to
bring back its own department as
of March 1; 1987.
The Village win be grnng to
bid in the beginning oC 1986 and,
if thej)id figures come in bighier
than the amount Superintendent
of Public" Works David Lovejoy
projects it would cost to have s
munidpal department, - money
would be needed to "gel ready''
dpring a period from Mardi 1,
1986 to February 28, 1987 when
the present contract runs out.
Lpvejqy is asking-for $$r,000
to be put in the budget, along
with the $1,067,000 that would be
needed to purchase the necessary
vehides. The money for the
trucks, however, would probably
be raised with a bund issue,
said Lovejoy.
Lovejoy explained that tjie
trucks sold to Five Counties
would probably have been
"junked by now," if the village
had kept them. By this time, "we
probably would have turned our
fleet over," he said.
The SSI,000 in the '86-'87
budget would cover costs of
personnel needed • before the
-March 1, 1987'start-up daje —
key people thai would have to be
brought in and (rained ^— as well
as isudi equipment as barrels,
radios and nmforms.
Under the village's contract
with Rve Counties, -Freeport
is paying $1,098,000 this current
year-for pick-up. This amount
wSn probably go up to'$1,148,000
if the consgrner price index rises
the antic^ated 4'A%. What the
village will be .looking at is the
figures after that year or the
1987-88 and thereafter
costs of piding up the village's
gartfage and trash.
Will it cost the village more
to do it itself than the figure Five
Counties or any other company
'Cent, en Page 16)
SUPER SALESPEOPLE. Freeport's Girl Scouts are selling the 1986
Girl Seoul Calendar as one o> their annual fundraisers. Freeport Vil­lage
Mayor Dorothy Storm 0-), a long-time Scout adult leader, pur­chases
a calendar from Junior Scout Cindy Rommel (c), accompanied
by Troop Leader Bernlce Evans (r.), Ixith of Troop 2342. Calendars
ccst $1 each and can t>e bought from any local Girt Sdjut or at the of fee
cf the Nassau Council of Girt Scouts, in Roosevelt Field.
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