The-Leader_1985-12-26

              RHEt^ORT MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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FREEPORT. NEW YORK,
51st YEAR, No. 36 ..
DECEMBER 26.19&5
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On Construction
Baldwin Discipline
Ai
Proposal Suggests Waif
For New Master Plan
FREEPORT - A sii month moratorium on construction in the vil­lage's
waterfront areas and in the Freeport Industrial Park will be the
subject of a public hearing scheduled for Monday evening, January 6.
at 8 pm. at Village Hall.
The meeting was called by the Village Board of Trustees in a motion
made at 'M regular meeting this
Nassau Plans Sfofe Mandate Requires
Celebratioii To ^^^^ 7b Be "Wrfffen"
Honor Dr^ King
MINEOLA - Fre^oit resident
Julius O. Pearse has been nsmeid
Cocrfinator of the Dr. Martin
Luther ^og,.Jr.:Birthday Cele­bration
Cominitiee' of Nassao
CbmniiUee. • .
The committee will hold a First
National Birthday Celebration.
honoring'the late Dr. King, on
Monday, jamiaiy 20, 1966 at
Tillies Center for the Ferfomdng'
Arts on the C.W. Post Campus of
Long Island University. .
Dr. King's.birthday has been
. byJjanDelaney
BALDWIN • Fulfilling another of the new mandates required by the
- Regents Action Flan, the Baldwin Bdard of Edocatioa met on Wednes­day
evening, OecemberlB, to discuss and then approve the required,
written discipline code of conduct for grades K-12. Although the school
district had various policies in place relating to discipline and to a stu­dent's
tights and responsibilities.
Julius O. Pearse
proclaimed a federal holiday and
plans for Nassau's county-wide
observance were the subjects of
a recent press conference held by
the committee and the Coca-Cola
Bottling Ompany of New York.
Nassau County Executive
Francis T. Purcell, hoiioraty
chairperson of the committee,
participated in the news con­ference,
along with co-chair­persons
Bemadette Castro, Alan
Fortunoff, BasD Patterson and
other members.
The major event of the day in
Nassau County will be the varied
enlertumnent artd awards pro­gram,
in the Tillies Cbocert Hall.
The 3-6 pm program will indude
in ludio-visual portrayal of the
••Life and Times of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.," student
(CPI. '-n Page 16)
the 'new mandate required that -
these polides be contained in
one written code. . '
Partidpating in the presenta-
.tion was John O'Connor, princi­pal
of Milbum School, who served
as chairman of the committee.
;Also induded were.Jack Filz-simmons,
ptindpal of Baldwin
Harirar Junior High School;
John Diddon, Dean of Students
at.Baldwin Senior High School;
and Lou Fernandez, who repre­sented
the spedal education
students' particular needs. <
According tu Gene . Lanzaro,
Assistant Superintendent of
Schools, the "fitst cpde" is still-the
"reason and good sense" of
the teacher. These written
codes, however, were developed
"with input from parents, staff,
administrators and students at
every level. They are an attempt
tu provide, consistent disdpline
although it was noted that the
words "at the prindpal's dis­cretion"
or words to that, effect
should be included so as not to
preclude other disdplinary
action not already specifically
• described inlhe code.
According tu the mandate,
the contents of the fode must be
* publicized and explained to stu­dents
and must be provided in
writing tu all parents. Horw the
districts will do this — whether
through the school news, or in
other newsletters — was not
ye| decided. Lanzaro indicated.'
however, thai in addition to in­forming
students and parents,
the district would be providing
information to teachers along
with opportunities for in-service
training. He noted that the code
would be analyzed and evaluated
as the year goes on:
Although the written code
was not available to all of the
members of the audience (five
were present), it appears that it
includes a philosophy regarding -
disdpliiie with spedhc. applica­tion
and spedfic penalties
ascribed for certain -violations,
particulariy at the secondary
level. When asked what specific
procedures were included regard­ing
any violation of students',
rights, it was noted that there
are no such explanations con­tained
in the code, although a.
general policy .regarding such
procedures for parents is con­tained
in the school calendar
guide. - .
- The process of developing the
code began last May with meet­ings
of teachers and adminis­trators.
This Fall, meetings
continued with teachers, adminis­trators,
two raemtjers of the
Baldwin Educational Assemiijy
(BEA) Student Issues Com­mittee
and eventually input from
certain PTA Executive Boards
and students. It was noted that in
some cases students' suggestions
were a lot more restrictive than
those of adults.
Fitzsimmons noted that
the policy regarding the junior
high school is basically that under
which the school has fiincUoned
in the past. The code, hourever,
allowed them to organize' their
practices along the same lines as
the senior high school. The senior
high school's practices, basically,
were also those presentiy being
implemented and which were al­ready
contained in a student
guidebook, which was pro­vided
tu each student. Diddon
called the code "workable,
enforceable and Iri-eable."
Regarding the special require­ments
of specUl education
students, Fernandez explained a
((k'ni:-tr.-pi</*»r-V •'•'••
past Monday. December 23.
Even though January 6 is also
the date of the legally mandated
annual budget meeting of the
Board, VOlage Mayor Dorothy
.Storm sugge^ed it bt the public
hearing on the moratptiom. h
is the first possible date the hear­ing
could be sdieduled. Mayor
Storm said, urging that it be held
.as soon as posrible.
The moratorium win 'preveirt
any construction in the two areas
until iledsions are made on the
village's proposed new "Master
Plan."
Raymond, Parish, Pine and~
Weiner, the village's plaiming
agemy, bad made certain reoom-mei^
dations and outlined certain
options in s series of reporta on
the Waterfront, the Stsdiiun and
the Industrial Park, wfaidi were
the subject of a public hearing on
December 12.
(A synopsis of the reports was
published in the November 7th
Issue of THE LEADER.)
Among the issues raised and
discussed by the report were
parking in the Industrial Park and
* construction of condominium/
cooperative, multi-bmily dwell­ings
that would block the village's
"waterview corridors" and create
problems of parking, etc. due to
their high density.
At the condusion of the Decem­ber
12th public hearing. Storm
asked the Citizen's Committee,
tbat had met originally with the'
planning agency, to meet agun
and go over its findings. She set a
Mardi deadline far a final report
from both the oomouttee and the
plaiming ageiicy.
The proposed moratatiom
would prevent any oottstmrtkin. in.
the two areas under ditrnninn
imtil'the Board has a chance to .
see and ad cm the final recom­mendations.
Streets to be induded in the
proposed moratoritmi are: Guy -
Lombardo'Avenue, south of Say'
Street, and to its end; Andiorage
Way, east of Guy Lombardo Ave­nue,
and to.its end; the easterly
side of Hudson Avenue; all ot
Wooddeft Avenue; South Ocean
and Miller Avenues south from
Front Street to their ends; Man­hattan
and Kdmwiid, east of
Miller; Suffolk and Hamilton,
east of Long Beadi; the west nde
of West End, south of Atlantic
Avenue, to its end; Anchor,
VoA, Carey and Hampton, all
of them west of West End to the
canal; Westside Avenue, south of
Ca^no Stieet, to Fairview Place;
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ON YOUR TV SCREENS will be p. to r.) Freeport Recreation Depart­ment
coach (^Ivln Jackman, Senior Recreation Leader Pat Kavanagh,
Village Mayor Dorothy Storm and Freeport Police Officer Jack Kil­bride.
The four, photographed (above) on the set at Cablevision's
studio, will be featured on the next "Focus on Freeport" show on
Tuesday, January 7, at 9:30 pm, on Channel 22. Discussed on the show
are the sports programs ottered to Freeport youth and ex-Marine
• Kilt>ride's reeetrl return to Viet Nam.