The-Leader_1988-02-18

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Village of
Freeport
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Freeport
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• Baldwin
School Oislrjcl
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fRiiPORT
BALDWIH LEABEE
54th YEAR, NO. 7 FREEPORT, NEW YORK FEBRUARY 18, 1988 PRICE 2 5 * PER COPY
Court dismisses stadium suit; Breslih will appeal
Letters exchanged between the
Village of Freeport and Breslin
Realty Development Corpora­tion
concerning the sale and
development of the Freeport
Stadium property revealed no
intent to form a binding contract,
according to Nassau County
Supreme Court Justice Angelo
D. Roncallo.
. Judge Roncallo dismissed last
Thursday .a complaint brought
by Breslin, at one time the
accepted bidder to develop the
parcel, which sought to prevent
the sale of the property to Fred
and Joseph Scalamandre of
Freeport'. But Matthew Dollin-
•gerr attorney for developer Wil­bur
Breslin, told the Leader the
firm will appeal Judge Roncallo's
decision.
"We feel Mr. Breslin'k right to
piirchaie u clearly evidenced by
writings -between- him and
Mayor Storm," Mr. Dollinger
said. "Mr. Breslin's rights were
'abridged," he continue], saying
that the Villagt conducted nego-
- tiations with tivtlScalamandres
without Mr. Breslin's knowledge.
However, Judge, Roncallo
wrote m his decision that "when
the parties have clearly expressed
—anintentionnottobeboundunt"
their negotiations have eaXdd-nateid
in the execution of a formal
contract, they cannot be held
until that event has occurred."
. He , concluded that "either
party may withdraw with impun-
, ity prior to that time."
At a meeting late last August,
Freeport's Board of Trustees had
voted to terminate negotiations,
with Breslin Realty, which had
offered $2.5 million to develop
the Stadiuih site with a neighbor­hood
shopping center anchored
by a 55,000 square foot super­market.
At .that time the Board
also directed Special Counsel to
begin negotiations with the
Scalamandres.
A'mohg the reasons given by
Mayor Storm for the Board's
decision was that the Breslin
proposal would duplicate the
proposal of Phillips Associates
for the development of nearby
Fireman's Field with a 160,000
square foot shopping center, and
that two such undertakings in
close proximity would generate
major traffic problems.
In mid-December, the Board
authorized the Mayor to execute
a contract of sale with the Scala­mandres
for S3 million for the .
development.of warehouses aad
a sports/health complex oh the
ID-acre parcel. The contract was
signed shortly thereafter. Special
Counsel Harrison ^Edwards 'told
the Leader. -'""^ • •
The sale of the Stadium prop­erty
was also the subject of vocif­erous
opposition by a number of
Freeport residents who wanted to
"ntain'the. propertyjot Bublic_
recreational iise. A suit brought
by six Freeporters to prevent.the.
Village from selling the property
was subsequently droppe'd
because, at the time, no formal
contract of sale was in existence.
Breslin'^ appeal will be heard
by the New York State Appellate
Division of the Second Part.
FORMER FREEPORT STADIUM aato was uplMld by the Nanau Suprwna Court but anothM
Baldwin board responds to social concerns
oyertones/| Dr. Lynch then went
ditto state'that "We, the staff,
students and comm&nity.'of
Baldwin have a righr- and a
responsibility to demands ;and
"provide 'a secure learning entu;-
onment at the Baldwin SHS." '''.!< ^_Cdnsultanu for.S 18,000 for con-
To achieve those aims, Dr. «" Salting services.
Lynch outlined disciplinary "..,The new modille for the senior
procedures which involve sus-'^'hig&'sehpbl'health ciifnculum'
-• byTpari Delaney
.' Three incidents which involved
Baldwin SHS students ..were ;
reported by Superintendent of
'S^hools-DrvRollaiiiid Jones at the -
.school board's ineetinjg, February
10. Dr. Jones'read a''statement
which was made by Senior High
Principal ' Peter Lynch iff a pub-. _
lie address announcement to stu­dents
on February 10..
In that statement. Dr. Lyi^ch
referried to a fight which-took;
place on Friday evening, Febtu- .
ary S, after a basketball gaine,
which ori^nally involved two
students but escalated into a fra-"
- cas involving many people. The
student responsible for initiiiting
, that incident was suspended for
five days and a Superintendent's
hearing will take place to ascer­tain
if it is appropriate thaj he be
removed permanently from the
high school as an endangermeiit
to the weliare or~students jnd _ also noted that Baldwin students
In other business. Dr. Jpnes
announced the proposed retire­ment
of iBaldwin JHS Assistant.
Principal Kenneth Wenz. In
addition, the board approved a
-contract with Regent Insurance
pe&iqn.for any student whose
actions woiilil cause an incident
similar to those which had t^ken'
. placie, with a follow-up Superin­tendent's
hearing to seek per-nianent
expulsion. In addition,
any sttident whose actions would"
prevent staff members from
resolving such a situation would
'. be suspended for five school days
and denied access to any after-school
activities for at least 90
days. Continuing, Dr. Lynch said
.that persons .with no legitimate
reasbn • for being on'. school
'grounds would be arrested. He
staff.
On Monday aflembo'n, an.
incident took place at the nearby
shopping center involving Bald­win,
students. One student was
. whose behavior causes disruption
at school-sponsored activities at
other schools would be subject to
the same type of disciplinary
action as if they were attending an
arrested for possession of a knife event at Baldwin SHS,
entitled 'fUnderstanding Sexual­ity"
was unanimously approved
with-<iQiplemeniation slated for
Septembisr, 1988. Upon ques­tions
from the audience, it was'
noted that the delay was the result
of the district's desire to have an
orderly implementation vrhich
would also involve the inclusion
of the newly State . mandated
AIDS'curriculum. Directo'r of
Health and Physical Education
Andrew ' Herman noted .that
because of the importance of the
topic and .the', desire to have it
work right the first time, there
was consideration of additional
training of teachers.' " -
Improvement of this portion of.
the health curriculum has bMn an
on-going concern among certain -
. members of the community. The
Baldwin Council of PTAs has
—and another was-teken to the— (jonciuding his-Kniarks,"Dr.—vocalized its support orpr.ograiiis
L0CALSTUDENT8 NOMINATED TO SERVlCEACADEMIESr-
Congraaaman Norman F. Laitt (Rr4th CD) conflratuUtai. hit .
noinIn«M to United StatM Sarvica AcadamlM from Baldwin .
and FrMport Th« nembMM ara wncinfl th« top itudant* in the
Fourth Co'ngrMtional DIctriet F^om M f a r a : Robert Bumpv*.
Air Forco; Sonya Henry, Weat Point; Congreasman Lent: Shawn
Calfahair, Naval.' ••• "'" •'.•.'•.'.•.• .•.'.•-'...:.•..••.".•.•.•.".••,^
First Precinct f^r prdtesthm.
On Tuesday afiemoon, Febru­ary
9, four non-studenU were
arrested • for trespasring with
' charges filed by the Dean of Stu­dents
on behalf of the District. '
Dr. Lynch'* statement indi- '•
cated that while eieh incident
began as a confrontaltdn between
students, they escalated into
,..iituations..with'i"dc(init9.tacjal
Lynch depleted the fact that the
incidents of seven studejits "des-'
troyed a major part of our
school's positive image, necessi­tated
the involvement of police
.and disrupted the instructional'
program." He stiinied; "Let no
individual test the se'rio.ushiss of
these guidelines o.r the ^solve of
the building Principal to imple­ment
them fully."
which improve understanding
and stress a positive sense of self
as a deterrent to negative behav- '
ior. In other comments. Assistant
Superintendent Gene Lanzarp
also noted that as manidat'ed, an
AIDS committee must be estab-'
lished in-pi{paration for impjf-
•ineriiSttpn oTthe mandate to •
TiicdrpQ^te the AIDS cutHcii-lum
in the district.