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The Freeport Recreation De-partment
reports that between
March and November of this year
676 yearly Discount Tickets for
use of the Recreation Center's
Health Wing were sold. This
compares to 371 for the same
period in 1975. The figures do not
reflect the numbers .of people
using the Center as a Discount
Ticket may be purchased for use
by only one individual or for use
by a large family. Also not includ-ed
are those purchasing single
admissions.
For the Winter season of 1976,
1,140 seasonal Discount Tickets
were sold. For Summer the figure
was 696 with Fall seeing the re-turn
to an upward trend with 826
Tickets sold. The figures for
seasonal Discount Tickets do not
include the number of yearly Dis-count
Tickets. Thus, at its peak, if
each Ticket had been purchased
for use only by, an individual,
1,777 people were using the
Center, the total of the number of
Winter Tickets purchased and the
number of yearly plans. In actual-ity,
the number is much higher
because, in addition to the daily
admissions, many Tickets are
held by families. Freeporters sur-passed
non-residents in purchas-ing
Tickets by 329.
The number of Activity Cards
sold since March of this year
totals 11,281 compared to 10,804
during the same period in 1975.
(The figures include families who
bought Discount Tickets.) Every-
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one using the Center must have
an Activity Card, however they
are also necessary for participa-tion
in Recreation Department
programming away from the
Center.
Winter Discount Tickets, good
from January 16 to June 1, as well
as yearly Tickets, are currently on
sale at the Center. The seasonal
rate is $55 for a family, $50 for a
couple and $25 for an individual.
The yearly rate, if the Ticket is
purchased in one payment, is
$125, $120 and $60 respectively.
Senior citizens pay half price.
Discount Ticket holders may use
the ice skating rink at no cost
while also enjoying the pool,
exercise room, steam and sauna
and gym in the Health Wing.
SERVICE REQUEST
Do you have a specific problem that needs attention of a Village department?
If so, please use this Service Request form to-bring it to the attention of your Village
administration. It will be acknowledged and given to the appropriate department head for
action.
We recommend that you include your name and address. It will not be disclosed to any
third party, but it will enable us to let you know what was done or why it couldn't be done.
You may conveniently send your Service Request to Village Hall by including it in the
same envelope with your Electric Bill payment.
TO:
Mayor William H. White
Municipal Building, Freeport, N.Y. 100520
Action Requested or Nature of Problem
Address or Location (Please be specific)
For Referral to:
D Sanitation
D Code Enforce
D Sewer
D Police
D Sign Shop
D Highway
D Electric
D Parking Meters
D Fire
D Recreation and Parks
D Other
D Narcotics Guidance
D Building Dept.
D Water
D Parking Fields
D Stadium
Your Name-
Address
Phone
FREEPORT MEMORIAL
WEST MERRICK ROA
FREEPORT, L I., N
Village
REFERENCE
JANUARY 1977
News
A PUBLIC INFORMATION BULLETIN OF THE VILLAGE OF FREEPORT
46. NORTH OCEAN AVENUE TELEPHONE FReeport 8-4000 WILLIAM H. WHITE. MAYOR
Public Meetings On The 1st and 3rd Mondays Of The Month. At 9:00 P.M.
1MMIIIIIIIIMIIMMIIIIIIIMIIIIII Important Public Hearings
The Board of Trustees is hold-ing
two public hearing's this
month to hear suggestions from
residents as to how the $1.3 mil-lion
in federal funds for which the
Village is eligible during the third
year of Community Development
Act projects should be allocated.
Also to be considered at the meet-ings
is the Village's application
for discretionary funds.
The first meeting was schedul-ed
for 9 pm, January 17, Village
Hall, and the second at 9 pm,
Monday, January 31. The meet-ings
are the first in a long series
of activities needed to be accom-plished
before the U.S. Depart-ment
of Housing and Urban De-velopment
will release funds.
Mayor William White's Task
Force has been, and will continue
to meet with the Citizens Commit-tee
to formulate proposals. Mem-bers
of the Citizens Committee
represent various Freeport civic
groups and organizations and
have been encouraged to go back'
to their own membership for
ideas on the third year of funding.
Using the input received from
residents at the public hearings,
the Task Force and Citizens Com-mittee
will draft their final recom-mendations
for the Board's
consideration.
Community Development
funds are currently at work in the
Village as witnessed by the com-pletion
of the modernized and
expanded parking fields in the
downtown' shopping district' as
the first steps towards a pedes-trian
mall on South Main Street,
the rehabilitation and turn over to
owner-occupants of once board-ed-
up houses in Housing Im-provement
Area #1 as well as the
loan and grant program to pre-sent
property owners in the area,
and the upswing in new busines-ses
setting up in the Village as the
result of aggressive promotion
and financial inducements with
the reopening of the vacant Finast
site on North Main Street being a
prime example.
The projects and monies allo-cated,
but not necessarily spent
as yet, for the second year Com-munity
Development plans are:
housing and neighborhood rehab-ilitation,
$300,000: North Main
Street development, $454,000
rolled over from the first year;
Central Business District im-provements,
$700,000; waterfront
area, $64,000; acquisition of his-torical
Raynor Homestead and
Everready . Hose Company fire-house,
-$50,000; administrative
costs and consultants' fees,
$125,000, -A contingency fund,
required under the law, was al-located
$100,000.
The discretionary application,
also the subject of the public
hearings, is for the monies alloca-ted
to the Nassau-Suffolk region
by HUD. Freeport recently re-ceived
an additional $300,000, the
maximum amount allowed,
in second year discretionary
funds which is being applied to
homesteading and neighborhood
rehabilitation.'
More Savings
For Electric Customers
The Village of Freeport, and
therefore all electric consumers,
will be saving $70,000 a month
through a new rate schedule
adopted by the Trustees of the
Power Authority of the State of
New York at the request of the
Village.
Although consumers have been
benefiting since September when
Freeport began receiving a size-able
amount of hydroelectricity
from Niagara Falls, the original
agreement with PASNY required
that the savings realized by the
Village be shared.with the Auth-ority.
Under the new agreement
all savings will remain with the
Village to be passed on to con-sumers.
The new rate schedule will be
reflected in bills beginning this
month. Further savings are forth-coming
when Freeport begins re-ceiving
firm, rather than interrup-tible,
energy from the Falls.
Show Your Number
For the aid of your visitors,
postmen, delivery men, taxi
drivers and police, please be sure
that -your house number is of
sufficient size to be easily visible
from the street.
Illumination of the number at
night is also suggested as well as
the cutting back of any shrubbery
which may obscure it.
Trustees: Thomas J. Lovelidge, Ralph P. Franco, Dorothy Storm. Wayne Jordan
Village Clerk: Thomas DeVincenzo-Treasurer: James J. Lyons - Counsel: Oakley Gentry Jr.
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The Recreation Department is
sponsoring an adult trip to the
matinee performance of "Fiddler
On The Roof," starring Norman
Atkins, at the Northstage Dinner
Theatre on Wednesday, February
16. The cost of $15.50 includes
lunch, transportation and the
show. The bus will leave the Re-creation
Center at 11 am and will
return about 5 pm. Advance re-servations
may be phoned in to
223-8000, ext. 10 and monies
must be received by the Depart-ment
no later than Tuesday,
February 1. An additional trip, to
the Hispanic and Indian Museum
in Manhattan, is scheduled for
Thursday, February 24, from 9
am and 5 pm. Information on
-the--trip-may--be obtained- by
calling the above number or pick-ing
up a flyer at the Center.
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The public ice skating sessions
at the Recreation Center are on
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays
and Saturdays from noon to 2 pm,
3 to 5 pm and 7:30 to 9:30 pm.
The Sunday sessions are from
noon to 2 pm and 3 to 5 pm. The
rink is closed to the general
public on Mondays and Wed-nesdays
when it is available for
charter. A spectator fee of 25$
per session has been established
in the lower skate lounge. Skat-ing
remains free for Discount
Ticket holders. For others the cost
is SO* per child and $1 for adults
per session. A 15-session dis-count
plan brings the price down
to $5 for children and $10 for
adults. Figure or hockey skates
may be rented for 55$ per ses-sion.
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It's "Ski Sunday" time again in
Freeport with the Recreation De-partment
sponsoring trips each
Sunday from now through March
depending on weather conditions.
Trips, which are for children as
well as adults, are to the Hunter,
Belleayre, Brodie and Vernon
Valley ski areas with snow con-ditions
determining the destina-tion
each Sunday. Cost is $16
per person covering transporta-tion,
lift ticket, insurance and a
lesson. Equipment may be rented
for $4. Food may be brought from
home or purchased at the ski
areas and snack stops will be
made both coming and going.
Skiers should wear loose slacks,
a light weight sweater, wind
Four new Village Police recruits, (left to right) Harry Heal, Michael
Woodward, Steven Yodfcearid George Dowdell, all Freeport residents,
listen to Sergeant Joseph King as they begin three weeks of training in
a pilot program designed to introduce recruits to law enforcement on
the Village level prior to training at the Nassau County Police Aca-demy.
Outside of direct police training, they are introduced to police
community relations, relationship to Fire Department, the role of an
officer in Village Court and the Department in municipal government.
In total, ten new officers will join the force after training.
breaker, heavy and light socks,
warm and waterproof mittens or
gloves, thermal underwear, ski
goggles and a hat with ear cover.
The bus will leave the Center
each Sunday at 6 am sharp and
return about 9 pm depending on
traffic. Those wanting the latest
information on return time should
call 223-4114 on Sunday even-ings.
All children under the age of
12 must be accompanied by an
adult and all under 18 must have
a permission slip, available at
the Center, signed by a parent.
Advance reservations may be
phoned in to 223-8000, ext. 10,
•one week prior to the trip. The fee
must be paid at the Center no
later than 4 pm on the Tuesday
preceding the trip. There will be
no refunds unless cancellation
is made before noon on Thurs-day.
All must hold a Freeport
Activity Card.
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Residents are reminded that
on Wednesdays and Sundays
after 6 pm, adults only are per-mitted
to use the Recreation Cen-ter
with its pool, steam and
sauna, exercise room, gym-nasium
and game rooms with pool
and card tables and color tele-vision.
Plastic refuse cans become very
brittle in the cold winter weather
and are prone to splitting and
cracking through normal hand-ling.
It is recommended that only
standard metal 20 gallon cans be
used. The metal cans may be-come
slightly dented, but their
use will far outlast the plastic.'
The Sanitation Department will
(.not^bCj held..responsiblci for. the,
breakage of plastic containers.
In response to the need for up-dated
information as required by
the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development concern-ing
the Village's Community De-velopment
grant, the municipal
government has recently com-pleted
an ethnic survey of Free-port
households.
The results show that 80% of
all Freeport households are oc-cupied
by members of the white
race of whom 2.6% are Spanish
speaking, 18.1% by black, and
1% oriental or undetermined. In
actual figures, 9,327 households
are white including 303 Spanish-speaking,
2,085 black and 114
oriental or undetermined. The
survey took in apartments and
rooming houses as well as one
. and two-family houses.
A wider distribution of minority
groups within the entire Village
was noted. The Village figures
cannot be correlated with those of
the School District as its yearly
survey takes in a smaller section
of Freeport and-is on an individ-ual
basis rather than by house-hold.
• In releasing the survey results
Mayor William White noted that
"Freeport is a well. balanced
community, enriched by the
various ethnic groups and diverse
national orgins and religions.
This makes us a stronger, vital
and more interesting community.
Larry Todisco, (left) manager of Tandy Leather Company's store at 11
West Merrick Road, shows Mayor William White an example of the
type of items which can be made with the kits sold at the new Freeport
store. It is the first Nassau County branch of the Fort Worth, Texas
firm which has some 300 outlets throughout the nation. Tandy located
in the Village with the assistance of the Community Development
Agency.
Want a new roof, siding, an extra bathroom, a paint job?
All who own property between the railroad and the
Village north line, Wallace Street and Babylon Turn-pike,
are eligible for:
"Loans at a low 3% interest rate
NO MAXIMUM INCOME LEVEL
"Direct grants — repayment not
required
DESIGNED FOR THOSE ON
FIXED INCOMES
Call for further information:
Freeport Community Development Agency
50 Liberty Avenue
378-4432 or 378-4350
The Freeport Homesteading
Board, having selected 13 famil-ies
to occupy rehabilitated
houses, is again soliciting appli-cations
from Freeporters interes-ted
in owning their own homes,
without down payment, and at
very low purchase prices.
Cost of a house is determined
by the cost to the Village of ac-quiring
the property and bringing
it up to code standards before
occupancy. Some properties were
given to the Village through the
federal government's Urban
Homesteading Demonstration
program, bringing the purchase
,price,down .to little. more€than_the
cost of repairs.
Successful Homesteading ap-licants
must show the ability to
pay back a home improvement
loan over ten years and meet the
taxes by having sufficient income,
a steady employment history and>
a reasonable debt picture. Home-steaders
must certify they will
occupy the house for a minimum;
of five years.
All Homesteading houses are
in Housing Improvement Area #1
(railroad to Village line, Wallace
Street to Babylon Turnpike) with
the majority in the Freeport
School District.
Priority is given to Freeport
renters and then to those renting
elsewhere but employed within
the Village. Applications from
those presently owning a house in
the Village will'be considered in
cases where the resident can
prove inability to meet large
mortgage payments or that the
family makeup has grown or de-creased
so that the house is no
longer suitable.
Those interested should contact
the Freeport Community Devel-opment
Agency, 50 Liberty Ave-nue,
378-4432. All information
will be kept confidential. Resi-dents
who have already applied
should NOT submit another as all
applications are on file. This re-quest
for new applications is
primarily for residents of the Vil-age
who may not be aware of the
program.
