Cease And Desist Orders
Prevent Blockbusting
Freeport's Stabilization and
Affirmative Housing Task Force
urges all homeowners who have
not already done so, to sign a
cease and desist order to be for-warded
to the Secretary of State.
These orders prevent mass
solicitation of homeowners and
undue pressure to sell.
The cease and desist drive
began some years ago when
solicitations of homeowners in
the Village by a few unscrupulous
real estate brokers led to "block
busting." Discussions between
the Village and State govern-ment
led to the program whereby
residents signing and filing such
orders with the State would be
protected from unwanted solicita-tion
by real estate .brokers and
salesmen. Those realtors refusing
to obey the order are subject to
punitive action by the Secretary's
office which can lead to suspen-sion
or revokation of the license
to operate in the real estate field.
If you have never signed a
cease and desist order — or if
you have but have since moved
within the Village to another
house — clip out and sign the
form below and return it to the
Village with your electric pay-ment.
The Task Force urges all
Freepprters to add their names to
the hundreds of their neighbors
who have already afforded them-selves
of this form of protecting
their property, their Village and
themselves. The signing of the
.order will not prevent anyone
from selling their home in a legit-imate
manner by merely contact-.
'ing any reputable realtor or the
Village's Homefinders Service.
The difference is that the contract
is initiated by the homeowner
and not by a real estate dealer.
All cease and desist forms : re
ceived will be recorded by the
Village and forwarded to the Sec-:
retary of State. When you have
received an acknowledgment
from the State, you will know that
you are covered by the non-solicitation
order. If you are sub-sequently
solicited, save the post-card,
business card or other
material received, or if solicited
by phone, make a note of the
time, date and name and broker
•affiliation of the caller, and then
notify the Village's Human Rela-tions
Office at 378-4000.
Honorable Secretary of State
State of New York
Dear Secretary:
I (We), the undersigned registered owner(s) of property
located at ; : ,in
the Incorporated Village of Freeport, Nassau County, N.Y.,
do not wish to sell such property. Accordingly, I (we) hereby
revoke my (our) implied invitation to solicit in any manner
whatsoever.
I (We) hereby request you, by virtue of the power vested
in you as Secretary of State, pursuant to Article 12A of the
Real Property Law, to order all licensed brokers and salesmen
to cease and desist from soliciting the undersigned until such
time as I (we) may notify you in writing to the contrary.
Signed
Print Name
Dated:
Dorothy Storm Chosen
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to appoint her to a .vacant
Trusteeship, she had reservations
as to whether or not the Village
would be better served by a first
black Trustee rather than the first
woman. "Now I have accomplish-ed
that."
Smith has been a resident of
Freeport since childhood growing
up on Woodside Avenue and
attending local schools. He has
15 years experience in County
government and is currently
a divisional fiscal administrator
with the Nassau County Sheriff's
Department.
Smith has. been serving the
Village as a member of the
Affirmative Housing and Stabili-zation
Task Force and was instru-mental
in bringing the State
Department of Social Services'_
weatherization grant program to
, the attention of Freeport home-owners
and apartment dwellers.
He was an early member of the
North East Freeport Civic Asso-ciation
and supporter of its
Civilian Patrol. He is a member of
the General Board of Directors
of the Freeport HOC.
Accessibility
To Be Increased
Mayor Dorothy Storm has an-nounced
two new programs
aimed at giving residents and
others an increased opportunity
to meet with Village government
officials on a one-to-one basis.
Beginning immediately, Mayor
Siorm's office door will be open
each Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm,
for any resident or business per-son
who wishes to meet with
the Mayor. No appointments will
be necessary for these Friday
meetings and they will be held on
a first come, first, served, basis.
One or more members of the
Board of Trustees will also make
themselves available for such
meetings at the conclusion of
the Board's 7:30 pm legislative
meetings on the second, fourth
and fifth Mondays of the month.
The first and third Mondays are
eliminated from the program due
to the Board's 8 pm public
meetings on those evenings.
The Trustees' time will also be
limited on those Monday nights
when a public hearing on a spe-cific
matter is scheduled for 8 pm.
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FEBRUARY 1985
A Public Information Bulletin
of The Village Of Freeport
46 North Ocean Avenue
Telephone FReeport 8-4000
Dorothy Storm, Mayor
Public Meetings on the 1st. and 3rd. Mondays of the Month, at 8:00 P.M.
DOROTHY STORM CHOSEN AS MAYOR
By unanimous vote of the Board of Trustees,
Deputy Mayor Dorothy Storm has been elected to
serve as the Village's Mayor. She will hold the post,
the first women to do so, until April 1 when the win-
-ner of "the March119 'Village "election" will" take~the""
oath of office. The office of Mayor was vacated last
month upon the resignation of Mayor William
White to,accept a.position with the Town of Hemp-stead.
.
Mayor Storm was originally appointed to the Vil-lage
Board by Mayor White in 1973 when a job
transfer caused the resignation of an elected Trus-tee.
The first woman to serve on the Board of Trus-tees,
she was elected in her own right in 1974, and
again in 1977 and 1981. She was appointed Deputy
Mayor, to act in the absence of the Mayor, for the
past eight years.
Aside from her position as Deputy Mayor, Mrs.
Storm has served as liaison Trustee to the Recrea-tion
Department, Parks Commission, and to the
now-phased-out Recreation Programs Advisory
Committee which implemented activities to attract
users to the Recreation Center in its early years.
It was Mayor Storm who proposed the purchase of
the air-supported structure for the Center's ice
rink which has lengthened the skating season for
increased revenues.
Mrs. Storm has also served as Liaison Trustee to
the Police and Fire Departments, Freeport. Chamber
of Commerce, the Commission on the Preservation
"'of"the"Environment "and *to'"the~Ffee"port Housing"
Authority. In the"latter capacity, she recommended
the allocation of $5,000 in federal Community
Development funds for a landscaping improvement
program at. the Moxie Rigby Apartments complex
and worked with the tenants and youth last, fall to
see the planting partially completed. Mayor Storm
has also worked closely with the Freeport Tenants
Association. She has also been involved with the
citizens group, which meets periodically with'
State Senator Norman Levy and law enforcement,
officials concerning the Broadway-Freeport. Plaza
railroad station area as well as serving with the anti-drug
abuse group, Operation Pride, and its Broad-way
Task Force.
Mrs. Storm has been a member of .the Arts
Council Board of Directors since the organization's
founding by the Village and Freeport School Dis-trict
10 years ago. She is also a member of the Free-port
95th Anniversary Mural Committee which is
currently seeking to raise private funds to com-mission
a pictorial depiction of the Village's history
atrthe Recreation-Center'slobby to commemorate its
incorporation in 1892.
New Deputy Mayor
As her first official act, Mayor Storm appointed
Trustee C. James Clark to replace her as Deputy
Mayor. The Deputy Mayor acts in the Mayor's
absence. Trustee Clark has been a member of the
Board since 1979. As Deputy Mayor, he will act as
lialson-to the Police and Fire Departments. He was
also appointed liaison to the Highway Commission
while Trustee Vincent DiCostanzo was appointed
liaison Trustee to the Recreation and Building De-partments.
Ralph Smith Picked For Board Vacancy
Noting that the Village Board of Trustees was
meeting on January 21, the date set aside to com-memorate
the birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr., Mayor Dorothy Storm appointed Ralph Smith as
the Village's first black Trustee. He will fill the seat
vacated when Storm became the Village's first
woman Mayor.
' In commenting on Smith's appointment, Mayor
Storm said, "Rev. King's birthday is a day of special
significance for Freeport as we recall his dream of
equality and brotherhood, for Freeport,. is a com-munity
of brotherhood, where people of different
x?acesrfaithVa"nd ethmc'backgrbunds'living" together.""
This diversity should be evident at all levels of
Village life for that is what
true equality means. To-night
it is my pleasure to
demonstrate that Free-port,
is a community
where our. citizens' will
be judged not- by their
sex nor the color, of their
skins, but by the content
of their character.''
Mayor Storm also re-:
called that 12 years ago,
when she was approached
by former Mayor William
White with his proposal
Ralph Smith
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Trustees: Alfred Sirlin, C. James Clark, Vincent DiCostanzo, Ralph Smith
Village Clerk : Thomas DeVincenzo; Attorney: Harrison J. Edwards, Jr.; Treasurer: John Schmidt
New Superintendent
Of Electric
Ludovic Long Retires
Ludovic Long, Freepori's
Superintendent of Electric Utili-ties
since 1964, is retiring as of
this month. Long was honored at.
a Board of Trustees public meet-ing
for his years of dedicated
work. Also present, to honor him
.were officials from the Municipal
Electric Utilities Association
(MEUA). The Village has long
been a member of the MEUA,
and Long, for the last two
decades, has acted as liaison be-tween
the Association and the
Board of Trustees.
Replacing Long as Superinten-.
dent, after months of recruiting
and interviews, is C. Douglas
Stram who comes to Freeport
from Danbury, Connecticut,
where he was Chief Operations
Officer for the All American
Energy Company, an engineering
consulting firm specializing in
energy management program
development, and an energy con-sultant
to a large corporation.
He was formerly Vice President of
Operations for the Citizens
Utilities Company; Manager of
Utilities Engineering for Kohler;
planning engineer for the New
York State Electric and Gas
Corporation and station electrical
engineer for'the Commonwealth
Edison Company. His experience,
outside of the technical area, in-cludes
handling of electric
properties, financial analysis,
acquisitions, litigations and
power contracts, budgeting,
and power purchases and sales.
His 1964 electrical engineering
degree is from Marquette Univer-sity.
Stram, married with two
daughters, ages 18 and 15, and
a son, 11, will be making his
home in the Village. Always ac-tive
in the community, he is a
member of Lions Club Inter-national,
former President of a
local Jaycees and past Treasurer
of the Jaycees' New York State
Southern Tier, and former
Chairman of an Elks Club's
Parents Advisory Committee for
the Special Education. Experi-enced
as a builder and con-tractor,
he remodeled space for a
Connecticut YMCA and super-vised
over 200 volunteers in a
non-profit construction project,
Co-Workers Farewell To Mayor White
Seme 150 attended last mcnih's Village employees' farewell reception
for William White (fourth from left) retiring after 16 years on the Board
of Trustees, 12 as the Mayor. Gified with a leather briefcase from the
employees, an oversized Freeport Activity Card and a Sportsmanship
Award from the Recreation Department, the former Mayor also
received a Ceriificale of Appreciation from the Board members (left
to right) Trustee Vincent DiCostano, Trustee Alfred Sirlin, Mayor
Dorothy Storm and Deputy Mayor C. James Clark. Family members
en hand (from right) were son Bill Jr., daughter-in-law Liz, and wife
Austine. .
"Down On The Farm," which
preserved 85 years of Dan-bury's
heritage and at the same
time serves as a working farm for
educational purposes with some
6,000 children visiting the
facility each year.
Low-Cost Power #1 Priority
Mayor Dorothy Storm, in an-nouncing
Strain's appointment as
the new Superintendent of Elec-tric
Utilities, explained that the.
Board of Trustees had spent
many months on .the. matter of
Long's successor. "We knew that
we would have a tough time in
finding an individual who could
match Superintendent Long's
technical expertise, but the
greater challenge was to also
find someone with his ability to
work with the Board of Trustees,
and within the MEUA, on our
fight to keep our fair share of
the State's low-cost hydropower.
Mr. Stram has the experience and
recognizes that this issue is of
vital concern to the Village gov-ernment,
our residents and our
business and industry:"
FIRE HURTS I
Ethnic Groups
Sought For Festival
The Arts Council at Freeport,
in conjunction with the Recreation
Department and local ethnic
groups, is planning an Ethnic
Festival to be held Sunday,
June 2, on the grounds of the
Recreation Center.
The involvement of as many
ethnic groups as possible is being
sought for this first ethnic folk
festival. Those interested in
planning and participating, in
this event and/or in helping to
locate local people knowledge-able
of different authentic
crafts and customs of various
cultures, are asked to call the
Arts Council of Freeport office
at 223-2522. These people will
be invited to the planning meet-ings.
Entertainment, some includ-ing
audience participation, will
be presented throughout .the day
of the festival and ethnic foods
prepared by the various groups
involved, will be sold. Crafts and
traditions of various groups will
also be demonstrated and ex-hibited.
Village Tax Rate Hike Held To 3' %
Reflects Five Additional Police Officers
On January 7, then Mayor
William White proposed a 1985-
86 municipal budget which car-ries
a tax increase of 45*. Mayor
White stated "that's a raise of a
little over 3% while the national
inflation rate is generally ac-cepted
as being about 4%." The
new municipal budget was
adopted by the Board of Trustees
at the conclusion of the hearing.
The tax rate will go from -
$13.36 per $100 of assessed
valuation, to $13.81 under the
new budget. That translates to
an increase of $2.81 per month to
the owner of the average house
assessed at $7,500, or $33.75
for the year. • -
A $65,000 computer system
for the volunteer Freeport Fire
Department accounts for 8$ of
the tax hike. The system, pro-posed
for some time by the fire-fighters,
would put at their
finger tips the location of all
handicapped persons in the Vil-lage,
the sites of all hazardous
materials, the size of hydrants
and water mains near a working
fire and the nearest intersection
to an emergency situation to as-sist
vehicle operators. With the
main terminals located at Fire
and Police Headquarters and
print out systems at each of the
fire houses, all volunteers will
be quickly appraised of all ele-ments
of an emergency.
Another factor in the rate hike
is the anticipated hiring of five
additional police officers. The
Police, Fire and Building Depart-ments,
as well as animal control,
street signs and parking meters,
make up the Public Safety
category of the budget, and,
at 24.83% of the total budget,
the costliest.
Contractural salary increases
for municipal employees are also
reflected in the new budget,
and provision for possible police
salary increases as a result of up-coming
police contract negotia-tions.
the salary for the full-time
Mayor was set at $40,000, a re-duction
of $10,085 from the
1984-85 salary. The budget for
the Mayor's office carries, for
the first time, an allocation for
a car. Mayor White stated that
he felt the salary should be no •
less. "The Mayor is the chief
executive officer of a multi-million
dollar corporation who di-rects
department heads earn-ing
as much as $60,000. While
it has been my practice to use
my own car for Village business,
my successor may choose to
have the option of the use of a.
Village vehicle as do department
heads." At the time, Deputy
Mayor Dorothy Storm said she
had urged the lower salary to
follow the practice that new em-ployees
are hired at a lower
wage than those they replace.
Later selected by the Trustees
to serve as interim Mayor until
April 1, she assumed the lower
salary as of January 15.
The entire budget totals close
to $19.2 million. With $7 million
in estimated revenues and sur-plus,
$12.2 million be raised
through taxation on real property
valued at close to $88.6 million.
Drug Arrests Earn Praise
Freeport. Police Department
Chief Anthony. Elar has received
a letter from Nassau County
Commissioner of Police Samuel
Rozzi commending Detectives
Daniel Coppola,. Raymond.-
Eustace, Claude Tristian and
Gregory Turner, Police Officer
Susan Kretzmer and Special
Officer Sharon .Levy for ."the
assistance they provided to mem-bers
of this Department during a.
continuing drug investigation
within the Incorporated Village of
Freeport..
"During the course of opera-tions,
our officers have had in-numerable
needs . for .help', in
intelligence gathering, identifi-cations,
vehicle stops and ar-rests.
In every instance, the
aforementioned Freeport . Police
Department personnel responded
with enthusiasm, dedication and
professionalism.
"As a .direct result of their
individual contributions, we have
been successful in arresting 21
persons, each of whom has been,
charged with major felony.crimes.
"I and the Officers of the
Narcotics Squad wish to express
our. deep appreciation .to your-personnel
for their extraordinary
cooperation.'.'
Trustee Alfred
Sirlin To Retire
Alfred Sirlin, a member of the
Freeport Board of Trustees for
the past eight years, has an-nounced
his decision not to run
for reelection in the March 19
Village elections. Sirlin said he
had reached his decision based
on personal reasons.
Sirlin was first elected to
the Board in 1977 and was re-elected
in 1981. He has served
as liaison Trustee to both the
Building Department and the
Freeport Community Develop-ment
Agency. Involved in the
construction industry, Sirlin has
been well respected for the busi-ness
acumen he brought to the
Board of Trustees.
Both Mayor Dorothy Storm
and former Mayor William White
expressed regret over their fellow
Board member's decision while
saying "Al's contributions to the
Village government, and to our
community at large, have been
many. He will be sorely missed.
We wish him the very best for
the future."
Sirlin, who will give up his
position on April 1, the expiration
of his term, expressed satis-faction
over his eight years of
public service. "It has been
gratifying to me to have been able
to work with such people as Bill
White, Dorothy Storm, Jim
Clark, Vince DiCostanzo, former
Trustees Tom Lovelidge and
Wayne Jordan, and the late
Trustee Timothy Peternana. It
has been equally gratifying to
have come to know the Village
department heads and all the men
and women who make our gov-ernment
work. Too, it has been
a pleasure to meet and work
with so many of our residents
and the people of our business
community. We have really seen
Freeport turned towards a bright
future during these past few
. years and, as a resident for some
: 30 years now, I look forward to
continuing progress."
SHOPPING
IS GREAT
IN FREEPORT
