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76th Year, No. 8 Freeport, N.Y. 11520 The Community Newspaper Thursday, February 24, 2011
African American art at the Rec Center
CELEBRATING BLACK
CULTURE: Charles
Winslow, thread artist and
Bernard' Jones," photogra-pher
are the ' featured
artists.in-the lobby gallery
at the Freeport Recreation
Center. Their work is being
sponsored by the Long
Island Arts Council at
Freeport.
Freeport school board releases 2011-12 budget
by Mark TVeske
The Freeport School District released a
proposed expenditure budget of
$149,787,547, an increase of $3,501,520 or
2.39 percent, at its February 16 meeting at
Giblyn School.
After presenting a musical performance
by the Giblyn Chorus and an unsung hero
award to Bill Gullick, Superintendent Dr.
Kishore Kuncham than prepared the room
for the difficult news by showing the same
video clip as at a previous meeting - two
circus contortionists getting into and out of
a very small box. For those not having seen
it, it symbolized all the difficulties incum-bent
on this budget:
Losses in state aid - $1.5 billion statewide,
plus $1.3 billion stimulus aid, translates to a
loss for Freeport reported at $6.9 million or
11.9%, with an expected loss of $5 million or
9%, numbers that could result in a tax levy
increase of 6.4%. Foundation aid has also
been frozen for two more years.
On the expenditure side, the chief
increases are in salaries, benefits, health
care and pension expenses. Special ed
expenses, an increase of the tuition costs for
those local students attending charter
schools, as well as the advent of the Nassau
county sewage fee, will cost money as well
for the district.'
In order to present the 2.39% increase, the
board has cut $ 1.6 million before presenting
the budget. This will come from reductions
in textbooks, professional development, and
a possible reduction of 26 positions, a large
portion resulting from a "restructuring of
the district's pre-K program. This brought
an impassioned comment from pre-K
staffer John Schreiber, who outlined the'
program's history and warned the district
against replacing this important resource
with less experienced teachers. Dr.
Kuncham responded that while he under-stood,
he had to "look at the whole district."
In summary, the budget was divided as
usual into administrative, program and
capital components. Administrative is
$17,223,766, up $498,785, or 3%; pro-gram,
$166,928,375, up $2,382,549, or
2.1%; capital, $15,835,406, up
$620,186, or 4.1%.
Each component part will be dissected in
further detail in March board meetings. In
addition to the board, school budget and
library budget, a further proposition will be
on the May 17 ballot: capital reserve fund
expenditures of $1.5 million for parking
field, sidewalk and lavatory work at
Bayview, lavatory and playground refur-bishment
at Giblyn, boiler work at Atkinson
and HVAC upgrades at the high school.
(continued on page ?)
Scholarships available
page 3
An appeal for civility
page 7
An African-American life:
Moxey Rigby
page 14
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| Title | 2011-02-24 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L & M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 2011 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | |
| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
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