Town Capital Budget Calls For Park Development, More Parking
Supervisor Michael N. Petito
and Town Board Majority Leader
Ralph J. Marino this week unveiled
a 23.5 million dollar Capital
Budget which will cover town
capital programs for the five-year
period from 1969 through
1973.
Included in the Capital Budget
is the development of a 16 acre
Community ParkonHeisserLane
in South Farmingdale and the proposed
acquisition of 2 1/ 2 acres
of land to provide parking for an
additional - 320 cars adjacent to
a present parking field near Sunrise
Highway, Massapequa,
The Community Parkplan calls
for a three- phase program, beginning
with the development of
two ball fields and a parking
field for 300 cars in 1969. Tennis,
basketball, volleyball, handball
areas would be developed in
1970 followed by a swimming pool
and community building slated for
1971. The entire project, including
the land purchase, is
said to cost $ 1,970,000. '
The 23.5 million dollar pro-
ELECT
RALPH J. MARINO
REPUBLICAN
STATE SENATOR TOWN COUNCILMAN
Elected 1965
MAJORITY LEADER
Oyster Bay Town Board
FORMER SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER
AND SCHOOL DISTRICT ATTORNEY
INITIATED TOWNSHIP PREVENTION
THRU EDUCATION' NARCOTICS PROGRAM
He knows our community and ils needs.
PAID FOR BY CITIZENS FOR MARINO & REILLY, 120 SOUTHST., OYSTER BAY, O. T. SMITH, CH.
RE- ELECT
CONGRESSMAN
JAMES R. GR0VER, JR.
Paid Political Adv. The Nassau Citizen Committee ( or James R- Grover, Jr
gram which represents a cut from
64- million dollars submitted by
various divisions of town government
is about one- half the
amount of the 1968 Capital Budget
program of 45- million dollars.
Petito and Marino stated:
" The Capital Budget represents
only the most essential capital
programs deemed necessary for
town residents in the next five
years. We have managed to
provide improvements in highways,
drainage, parks, beaches,
parking and recreational programs
while eliminating nonessential
expenditures for our
residents."
The Budget, according to Petito
and Marino, provides long- range
improvements which include new
commuter parking facilities at
the Hicksville and Syosset railroad
stations, additional parking
in Massapequa, major beach improvements,
expanded facilities
at the town marinas and new
portable lights for town athletic
fields for night football and baseball.
Also listed were plans for
a Community Center in Plainedge
and a new Community Activity
Building for the Bethpage Community
Park.
The Capital Budget also provides
for development of new
Town park facilities in Farming-dale
at Heisser's Land, in Hicksville
at Old Country and Plainview
Roads and on Route 106 in East
Norwich.
Petito and Marino, following
lengthy conferences with Town
Board members, announced ma_-
jor reductions of more than a
million dollars in non- essential
building additions and new construction.
Supervisor Petito and Councilman
Marino further stated that
the 1969- 73 Capital Budget was
drastically reduced to lessen the
capital tax impact over the five
year period, pointing out that all
projects have been undertaken on
a strict priority basis, assuring
town residents a continuance of
all essential services.
They concluded: " The fact
that we have been able to cut
this budget by 65- percent is
ample testimony to the fact that
cooperative efforts on the part
of the entire Board can result
in significant economies for the
town. While we have provided
for major improvements in the
town's recreation, road and parks
programs, true priorities have
been the guideline which have
made the new low figure of 23.5
million dollars possible."
Welfare Probe Hailed By Grover
Announcement by the United
States Department of Health,
Education and Welfare that it
would conduct an intensive review
of New York City's spiral-ing
welfare program was hailed
by Congressman James R.
Grover Jr. Grover was one of
five Congressmen who requested
the probe last May.
Grover said: " This investigation
of a self- perpetuating welfare
system is long overdue. We
must reorient, redesign and
streamline this gigantic welfare
system, perhaps even adopting
national standards which could
check the influx of the poor into
our cities.*'
The lawmaker added: " Even
urbanists and leading liberals
now agree that our welfare system
needs a thorough overhaul. Those
conducting the city study might
well look at Suffolk's highly-successful
efforts, through its
Department of Labor and Welfare
Department, to find jobs for
aid recipients and transfer them
from the welfare rolls to the
payrolls."
The city study will attempt to
determine the cause for rapid
rises in caseloads and expenditures,
the extent of payments
being made to ineligible recipients
and what efforts the New
York City Department of Welfare
is making to encourage welfare
recipients to become sel
supporting.
Kanter, Miller Elected To Board
Don Kanter was elected to the
Plainedge Board of Education last
Thursday, defeating his opponent,
Mrs. Joan Lambertson by a vote
of 541 to 326. For the uncontested
seat, James A. Miller
received 541 votes for the post
open due to the resignation of
former Board President, Lawrence
Hammer. Miller's term
will expire June 30, 1971, while
Kanter's term expires June 30,
1969.
Teachers Present Thesis
For Doctorate Degrees
Plainedge High School Assistant
Principal Milton Hapshe has
passed the oral examination on
his doctoral project at New York
University.
Dr. Hapshe's dissertation is
entitled " A Comparison of High
School Graduates in Nassau
County in Order to Determine the
Effects of Business - Education
Training Upon Initial and
Promotional Employment."
His study consisted of high
school graduates in Nassau
County for the years 1962, 1963,
and 1964. The sample included
more than 4,000 graduates of
Plainedge, Manhasset, Mineola,
Oyster Bay and Syosset High
Schools.
Plainedge High School Guidance
Counselor Sylvia Harnett
has earned her doctorate at Columbia
University.
Dr. Harnett's dissertation concerns
" Occupational Aspirations
of Normal and Mentally
Retarded Students". Dr. Harnett
has also been invited to become
a member of the New York
Academy of Science.
Marino Proposes To
Establish Colleges
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Ralph J. Marino, Republican
candidate for the State Senate,
stated this week that if elected
he would introduce legislation
giving towns with a population of
over 200,000 the authority to
establish community colleges.,
Marino, presently the majority
leader of the Oyster Bay Town
Hoard, made the proposal in
a speech before the East Norwich
Civic Association.
" Surely, any town with a population
larger than most cities and
counties in the state should be
allowed to help fulfill the growing
demands for higher education,"
Marino said. Under the
existing State law a community
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college may be sponsored only
by a city, county or school district
approved by the State University
Board of Trustees. Marino
intends to amend that law to
take in large towns.
" Our county community colleges
on Long Island are doing
an excellent job, but this does
not preclude the need for additional
facilities," Marino said.
" Oyster Bay Town has 11 public
high schools with a total of 23,000
students. Towns of our size may
be short- changing the future of
our young men and women if we
don't help provide for their higher
education right here in our own
backyard."
urs'day, October 2' 4, 1968
