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VOL. 9 NO. 48 Entered as Second-Class Matter
Post Office. Lvnbrool., N. V. LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, April 30, 19T0 10<
Lynbrook Board Meetins
By Annette Ling Cy
The Lynbrook Board of
Trustees of the Incorporated Vil-lage
of Lynbrook held a regular
meeting at the Lynbrook Library
Auditorium on Eldert St., Lyn-brook,
Monday, April 27, 1970
at 8:00 p.m.
The Board passed aResoluticm
authorizing the installation of a
fire hydrant at Norman St. and
Roxey Place.
Mr. Frank Butler gave the
Recreation Dept. Report for
March and noted that 750 boys
and girls took apart in the Easter
Egg Hunt with prizes donated by
the Lynbrook Chamber of Com-merce,
Inc. and the Lynbrook
Elk»s Club.
Supt. of Public Works Floyd
Wilcox gave the Department of
Public Works Report.
Mayor Becker proclaimed May
1, 1970 as Law Day, U.S.A. and
praised Mr. Lester Forest, who
will once again serve as Chair-man
of the event with a speech
in the Lynbrook District Court
and some of the Lynbrook Public
Schools. Law Day is a bridge to
justice according to the theme
this year and of great importance
to all citizens in the U.S.
The Board received a com-munication
from the Building
Dept. of Lynbrook regarding a
Survey of Parking Field #12 in
Lynbrook.
Camp Tanglewood in Lynbrook
received the approval of the
Board of Trustees to keep ponies
there one day a week from 10:00
a.m. until 3:30 p.m. and in case
of rain, instead of every Wednes-day
it would be Thursday of each
week for 1970, This was
proved after consulting with
neighboring residents who might
have objections and the legal
aspect of it cleared with the
Lynbrook Village Attorney Jay
Korth.
Retiring Fire Chief Rudi
Fischer gave his Annual and last
Report to the Board from April
1, 1969 to March 31, 1970. There
were 584 ambulance calls. 53
General Alarms, 72 Still Alarms.
7 General Assemblies, 2 Mutual
Aid Calls and a total of .720
Sounded Alarms. Chief Fischer
mentioned that Mayor Becker
was given an Honorary Fire
Chief's Badge at the Firemen's
Annual Dinner and that he thanked
everyone in his department and
the Village of Lynbrook for their
cooperation and help during his
term in office. He was praised
by Mayor Becker for his excellent
job and Mayor Becker reported
that Ex-Chief Fischer was
elected Vice-Chairman of the
4th Fire Battalion of Nassau
County which takes in quite a few
surrounding fire departments.
Retired Fire Chiefs never fade
away but continue to serve and
serve just the way they have at
all times. Rudi Fischer intro-duced
new Chief Frank Hill-gardner,
First Deputy Chief Duke
Maffucci from the Lynbrook Vul-can
Company, Second Deputy
Chief Buddy Brooks from Hose
Company, and Third Deputy Chief
Pat Ricoppo from Talley-Ho En-gine
Company.
After Mayor Becker praised
Chief Hillgardner's expert hand-ling
of the fire in the Con-gressional
Building and stated
that he and his men had been
praised by both the Nassau County
Fire Marshall and other Fire
Depts., the Board passed a Reso-lution
of extreme gratification
and commendation to Chief Hill-gardner
and the Lynbrook Fire
Dept.
Next on the Agenda was the
communication from Nassau
County regarding road main-tenance
and Mayor Becker re-vealed
that Nassau County will
black-top and re-surface Ocean
Ave. and that New York State will
continue their same program
along Sunrise Highway during the
Summer months.
A communication from the
Lynbrook Library reported that
opening from 5 to 7:00 p.m. would
increase the library budget by
$6,240 and that they have a per-sonnel
problem at the present
time and must decline to try to
fill this request at this time.
A communication from the
Lynbrook Court Clerk regarding
the Nolan Case was next on the
Agenda with the Clerk reporting
that their Attorney was filing an
Appeal to a Higher Court. Mayor
Becker explained a bit of the
background on the case and re-ported
that Judge Zelby had levied
a fine of $500 and another $500
until they complied with Lynbrook
Ordinances regarding Rooming
or Boarding Houses.
May 8th and May 9th will be
Rainbow Tag Day with reliable
teen-agers soliciting funds for
the Nassau County Cerebral
Palsy Center in Roosevelt, Last
year they collected $2800 to aid
tJie fine work being carried out
there. The Board approved this
and the teen-agers will collect
funds or donations from 3:00
p.m. until 9:00 p.m. on May 8th
and from 9:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.
on May 9th.
Bids from two firms were re-jected
by the Lynbrook Village
Engineer in regard to site im-provement
at Merrick Rd. and
Lyons Place, the new location
of the new Village Hall. In answer
to a question it was brought out
that approximately $80,000 has
been ear-marked for this work
and the new date for receipt of
bids was set for May 11th at
10:00 a.m. at the Village Offices
on Sunrise Highway, One bid was
for $107,000 from Hendrickson
Bros., and the other $96,450
from another firm called
Robitello,
The Board has come up with a
4^5 per hundred paring of the
new budget and local Lynbrook
Village Taxes will not be raised
next budget year. The Board of
Trustees formally passed the new
budget and approved it. There
will be no rise in taxes in the
next tax bills.
Next on the Agenda was to set
a date for a Swimming Pool
Ordinance in Lynbrook according
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School Board Candidates
District #20
May 6, 1970
(Incumbent Member
School Board)
(Incumbent Member of
School Board)
Omar (Bud) Witmer
(For Mr. Gatland's seat)
Roy J. McClure William Dean Lemin Dr. Vinc«nt A. Joy
East RoikaWay
Does The Impossible
lowers Taxes
by Roberta Grover
At the last Village Board meet-ing
where all were present and
accounted for Resolution #8 was
the winner for the evening. The
Village Board again lowered the
tEixes 2 cents per 100 of assessed
v^uation, the present rate being
$2.17 a 100. Of course, Mr,
Rosenthal made the remark about
how they lowered the bond deficit.
Naturally if we have a $290,000
Library in the park the bond
deficit will go up again. What
really is the puzzle is why
they keep their technique a
secret. Why don't they teU the
school board, the townships, the
state and federal governments
exactly how they can and no one
else seems to be able to achieve
the same means. And with prices
in all areas going up they sure
missed their callj^g as con-sultants.
The rest of the meeting was
pretty status quo. The Fire De-
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Lynbrook Mayor Announces
**Hold-The-Line Tax Policy"
For the Lynbrook crowd at-tending
the open village meeting
at the Library oh Monday night
April 27th, there was a some-what
astonishing but very
pleasant piece of news. They
heard Mayor Francis X. Beclser
proclaim a "hold-the-line" tax
policy for the coming fiscal year.^
The Incorporated Village ofLyn-*
brook operates on a fiscal year
beginning June 1 and Village
property owners will be paying
their ^llage taxes at exactly the
same rate as they did the
previous year-$1.10 per $100
of assessed valuation.
"In the face of a galloping
economy and spiralinginflation,"
Mayor Becker noted, "we have
been able to effect sufficient
economies and appreciably
broaden our tax base in order
to relieve as much of the burden
as possible from our resident
homeowners. We feel they are
being hit with an increase in
school taxes and a bigger County-
Town tax bill, so whatever we
can do to reduce the burden
should be helpful."
He then added as an example
of a broader tax base, that in
the past year the property on
Merrick Road which had been
a junk yard was converted to a
Cadillac showroom, now on the
tax rolls for about $517,600.
(Becker was referring to the
removal of Merrick Scrap, which
was one of our first projects
after taking office. Through care-fully
planned litigation based on
a search of Lynbrook ordinances-plus
months of meetings, the
owners were finally induced to
move their business from the
Village. It is now the site of
Croasdale Cadillac.)
"Other businesses have also
been attracted to the Village
as a result of a concerted ef-fort,"
" the Mayor continued,
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