The-Leader_1988-05-19

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Newspiper
Village of
Freeport
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Freeport
School District
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Baldwin
School District
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BALDmN LEABER
54th YEAR, NO; 20 FREEPORT, NEW YORK MAY 19, 1988 PRICE 2 5 * PER COPY
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Freeport school, fibrary budgets approved
Freeporieis went to the polls
last week and passed both school
district and library budgets by a
wide margin, although less than
1,000 votes were cast.
The vote on^ the $48,760,863
school budget, which vrill raise
'taxes by 82.7 cents per $100 of
assessed valuation, was 603 in
favor ai^d 365 against. Board of
Education President Dorothy
Fox, running unopposed for
another three-year term on the
board, amassed 770 votes.
Dr. John E. Bierwirth, Super­intendent
of Schools, attributed
the low turnout in part to "a gen­eral
trend taking place in. all
communities," and also to what
he said was "a very low increase
with no controversial budget,
items."
The tax increase was held to
under a dollar despite inclusion
of estimated teacher-salary
increases and additional health
insurance costs of $981,243 due
largely to the 62 percent rate hike
levied by the Sute's Empire
Health Flan. The budget also
mduded the last major payment
on the District's' Capital
Improvement Project covering
all major projects to completion.
The- Freeport Memorial
Library budget was approved by
a vote of 594 in favor and 329
against. The library's $2,203,959
budget, will cost Freeport'S' tax­payers
an additional 15 cents per
$100 of assessed valuation. The
library faced health insurance
Baldwin budgets pass by large margins
by Joan Delaney
Baldwin's school ~and library
budgets, passed, .by, comfoctable. .
niargiM . in ek«aon«.:tadd .at '
Baldwin Seiuor High School on
Wednesday, May 11,1988. Can­didates
Victor Rohe and Tom
CarroU were elected to three year
' terms on the Board of Education.
Kevin Kamen was elected to the
five year term on the Library
Board of Trustees and Edward
Disllamonte was elected to serve
"'^the/two years remaining on the
luiexpired tern of former Trustee
ingrid Mahler who resigned
recently.
Statistics showed significant
community support. The school
district budget passed by a vote of
a vote of 1 S«7 to 7S6 and the pro­position
to bond the replacement
of fuel tanks by a vote of 1506 to
727.
Candidates for school board
. received the following number of
votes: Victor Rohe - 1286; Wally
Young - 476; Mary Young - 566;
. Robert Jordan-844 and Thomas
CarroU 1097.,
Library candidates recnved
the following votes: Edward pel-lamonte
-1020; Kevin Kamen -
1288 and William Shii«e - 844.
Superintendent of Schools
RoUand Jones who will be retir­ing
on July 1, 1988 expressed
d i ^U that thif,hti llti^budget
in Baldwin, pjasied'.' Library
Director Barbara HopldM also
expressed pleasure that the
library-budget passed. Ubrary
Trustee Kevin Kam^n indicated
that the large m a r ^ of support
fol' the library budget indicated
the community's awareness and
approval of' Ubrary plans and
.goals, particularly as evidenced in
' the on-going expansion.
Incoming. Superintendent of
Schools Gene Lanzaro also
expressed his pleasure at the
community support which he
said indicates support of the sys­tem.
He characterized the pre-vote
period.as'a "peaceful time"
Iwith^nb. real 'opposHion to the
gdate and priorities contained in
the budget. During recent years,
memben-of the administration
andjboard have attended com­munity
meetings of various
groups to explain the ichofA dis­trict
budget and the budget pro­cess.
Mr. Lanzaro indicated the
importance of community under­standing
of those parameters and
indicate that the "road shows"
were always warmly greeted by
residents.
increases! similar to the school
district's. The budget also
included higher outlays for per­sonnel
costs and adult independ­ent
learning.
Library Director David
Opalow expressed gratitude to
the voters, and added that the
budget's passage signified that
"hopefully, we're doing our job."
School Board candidate Tom
CarroU is returning to the board.
He served as a member from
1980-1985 during the difficult
period of the t«ofgaiuzation of
schools. He had as one of his pUt-form
positions the more public
discussion of. school "district
concerns. ^. /
The fmal tax rate mU be act in
..August wbed-Nassau Coimty
'ptbyides its"most recent figures
on the assessed valuation of
Baldwin. Projected revenues and
expenditures of the school dis­trict
indicated a school budget'
increase of $2.78 per hundred dol­lars
of assessed valuation.
Fj^eport Library Board
President steps down
After 15 years of service on the ' as ap adjunct Ubiary and dance
Board of the'Freeport Memonal" >studio. She noted that the corn-library,
the last 10 years as itr'_munjtt'ha^been as supportive
President, Jeaniette (JaclCteK'i^Btijr enthusiastic about the
Klempner WiU leave the board
effective May 31. Vice-president
Marvin Cohen will become
Board President ~
"I ha^ as much enjoyment out
of. doing my j6b as the library
-benefitted from' it,"-. Mrs.
Klempner4ahLT^ Leader. An
ehthtt^astic^pporter of both the_
Ub'^rjr.and her.hometbwis, she]
. 'teiimedjier ybars on the board "a
g ^ fttelding..! was able to hi a,
continuity'person close at hand"^
.'during periods of trandUon over
. the past j|6irsJ ,,
. Dnrini..^er Itenutis,-'Mrs.
Klempner a^frsaw the expansipn
of the once overcrowdeo Ubrary
through a bond issue/.This
enabled the purchase' of. an
adjoining bmlding frotb Addphi
Untvenity.fvhich had been lised
>'.','
Ubnry's growth as its board.
--Library Director David
Opatow caUed Mrs. Klempner "a
commuhity minded person aiid .
an exceUent bparil president She*
is soiheone y ou can really .depend
on." '• > ' - U_
. The process of seeking a IKW
board member u not "cut in gtait-ite*"
Mrs. Klempner said, addiiig
that diversity is important in a
cgmmuttit^ like Freeport and the
.Board'" wants . a heterogenous
group. "•:.•'
?We want' the petsbn yibo
would serve tjie ibinmunity »a,"
she«ud. , ~: . '' •.
But Mrs>KIempner will liot be
far awa;.'''I;tove this .cominun^
iiVirahe told The Leader. "ItV a
iman placfrto be • a small town
with a big town oinlopk.'!
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