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PUBLICATION OF LEGAL NOTICES
As required by state law, adver-tisements
are published in news-papers
to give the public due
notice of proposed changes in
village law, zoning and building
code amendments, bid proposals,
and other "official matters. Un-der
the policy established this
year these legal notices of the
Village of Freeport appear for
four months in The Leader, for
four months in Long Island Gra-phic,
and for four months in
Long Island Kernel, The Home
Town News — the three establi-shed
newspapers in Freeport.
The legal notices for the next
four months of the fiscal year
will appear in Long Island Kernel,
The Home Town News, for December,
1967 and January, February and
March of 1968.
TO ISSUE SANITATION SUMMONSES
Sanitation Superintendent John
Marra reported that there is a
"hard core" of residents who re-fuse
to comply with the law con-cerning
the curbside pick-up of
trash on Wednesdays. No trash is
to be placed outdoors during any
holiday week, when there is no
Wednesday pick-up service and
the refuse remains outside for
days as an unsightly display.
Mr. Marra said he has no alterna-tive
but to begin issuing summon-ses
to violators, under the au-thority
given to him and his dep-uties
by the Village Board. Those
who receive a summons will be re-quired
to appear in Police Court
and will be subject to a fine of
up to $250. The next "Exception-al
Wednesdays", when no trash
may be placed outside, will be
during the Christmas and New
Year's holiday weeks. During the
regular weekly Wednesday pick-ups
no trash may be put out until
after 6:00 p.m. Tuesday.
For two years the Sanitation De-partment
has been conducting a
public information campaign, and
the great majority of residents
are now complying with the hoi it:.t
day week regulation, but there-i's
a small percentage who have ig-nored
the repeated personal ap-peals
delivered to homes by San-itation
Department personnel.
Village
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A PUBLIC INFORMATION BULLETIN OF THE VILLAGE OF FREEPORT
46 NORTH OCEAN AVENUE TELEPHONE FReeport 8-4000
News
ROBERT J. SWEENEY, MAYOR
December, 1967
PROPOSE NEW SYSTEM OF SANITATION CHARGES
The Village Board has proposed a
change in the method of charging
for sanitation pick-ups, due to
the Nassau County Supreme Court
decision in May on a suit filed
by Julius Gerzof. The change
will affect, primarily, owners
of business and apartment prop-erties,
who would be required to
contract individually with the
village for refuse pick-up ser-vice.
A public hearing on the new law,
originally scheduled for Decem-ber
11, was postponed to allow
rewriting of parts of the ordin-ance
for clarification. The law
would provide for taking sanita-tion
costs completely out of the
general tax levy, for both resi-dential
and commercial taxpayers.
Owners of one and two family
homes would receive a separate
charge for garbage pick-ups, in-stead
of having it included in
their general village tax. Com-mercial
property owners would
no longer be taxed for sanita-tion
but any who wish to utilize
the village service would enter
into a contract at rates based
upon the volume produced by each
establishment.
The problem arose when the Vil-lage
Board attempted to enact a
more equitable system of charges
to cover the cost of sharply in-creased
volume from commercial
enterprises. Commercial volume
had doubled in two years while
residential volume rose only 10#.
Home-owners pay about 70% of the
total tax load, and commercial
properties 30#.
A schedule of charges was estab-lished
for commercial pick-ups,
but this method was held invalid
by the court. The court ruled,
in effect, that the ordinance was
void because it did not relate
the sanitation charges to the a-mount
of tax paid by each prop-erty
owner, while the revenue
for all other sanitation services
was included in the general tax
levy.
Therefore the Village Board had to
provide a different basis for
charges, to obtain the addition-al
.revenue necessary for the op-eration
of the sanitation and
incinerator departments. This
was estimated at $55,000 for the
current fiscal year.
Trustees: Henry M. Altengarten, Frank W. Somers, George H. Fairberg, Thomas J. Lovefidge
Village Clerk: John J. MacDonald — Treasurer: Leonard D. B. Smith — Counsel: Oakley Gentry, Jr.
JUBILEE FINANCIAL REPORT
Expenses of $14,350 have been
offset by revenue of $14,100,
with good prospects that the re-maining
$250 will come in from
sale of Jubilee mementos during
the holiday season.
That's how the finances of the
Freeport Diamond Jubilee cele-bration
stood on Thanksgiving
Day, as reported by Clinton E.
Metz, president of the non-profit
corporation and Village Historian.
"A large number of our citizens
gave assistance in one way or an-other,
Mr. Metz said,"and we are
grateful to all of them. The
newspapers, Village News and ra-dio
stations also deserve our
thanks for informing Freeporters
about the celebration activities
and conveying a favorable image
of our community.
"We feel that our village's 75tn
anniversary celebration, achieved
the purposes of: greater civic
awareness, knowledge of the com-munity's
heritage, an economic
'lift through favorable publicity,
stimulating desire for a better
tomorrow, and two by-products,
new friendships among Freeporters
and Jubilee fun for residents of
all ages."
In thanking all who helped make
a success of the big celebration
Mr. Metz said space would not
allow the publication of the
names of all who served on the
many committees. Hundreds of
persons gave of their time.
"Bad weather plagued the cele-bration
on many occasions," Mr.
Metz said. "Several events that
were expected to raise funds
lost money instead. This could
have drowned the Jubilee in red
ink if there had not been a
hard core of officers, co-ord-inators,
committee heads and
other workers so loyal that they
refused to be discouraged.
"Often plans had to be changed,
new workers brought in, the help
of other organizations enlisted,
benefit programs added, or bud-gets
trimmed. This required close
teamwork. I think it is only fair
to cite the special services of
Vice-president Robert J. Raynor,
who devoted so much time and
effort over a period of nearly
two years."
Before the celebration began,
the Village Board provided $1500
which was used to help the cor-poration
get organized and pay
preliminary expenses until it
became self-supporting.
A GIFT SUGGESTION
Have you a problem finding the
right gift for relatives and
friends? The answer could be a
Diamond Jubilee Commemorative
Book, featuring historical infor-mation,
articles and photos of
your community, at a cost of only
$1.00. You might add one of the
"$75 Bills" souvenir certificates
which also sell for $1.00.
You may order by mail, sending
check or money order to Freeport
Diamond Jubilee, 46 North Ocean
Avenue. The Diamond Jubilee items
may also be obtained at the Vil-lage
Hall cashier windows, the
Municipal Power Plant on Sunrise
Highway, the Memorial Library on
Merrick Road, or from Jubilee
vice-president Robert Raynor at
64 South Grove St. (Steinmetz).
The Commemorative Book - illus-trated
with photos of Freeport
past and present - contains ar-ticles
that would be enjoyed by
present residents of the village
or those who have moved. It
would surely help revive old
memories for someone who spent
childhood days in Freeport.
Besides an over-all history of
Freeport, there is a listing of
most important dates, articles
on various aspects of village
life - churches, recreation,
volunteer firemen, police,
schools, and other informative
material - even poetry by local
bards.
An added dividend will be the
knowledge that you are contribu-ting
towards the expenses in-curred
in providing the year-long
celebration.
Art Carney would have been a
natural for the show, but the
village couldn't get him for the
closed-circuit TV inspection of
the sewer lines, a special pro-gram
designed to find out if
drainage water is seeping into
sewer pipes and causing an un-wanted
increase in volume at the
sewer plant. Expansion of the
sewer plant to handle increased
volume is being planned, but the
costs could be lessened if part
of the increase is found to be
caused by seepage into pipes.
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