Lawn Watering Limited To Alternate Days
Illegal To Water 10am -4pm Every Day
The Village was required
to revise its lawn sprin-kling
regulations, adopted
in March, to conform to
those enacted by Nassau
County which became ef-fective
August 1. The new
lawn sprinkling regula-tions
are as follows:
Every day during- the
hours of 10 am and 4 pm,
"no person shall water,
hose, sprinkle or otherwise
irrigate any outdoor lawn,
field, garden, hedge or
shrub." The original Vil-lage
ordinance prohibited
watering between 9 am
and 5 pm.
Under the new County
law, residents may now
only sprinkle, etc., EV-ERY
OTHER DAY EX-CEPT
BETWEEN 10 AM
AND 4 PM.
Persons occupying resi-dences
or other establish-ments
with odd-numbered
addresses may water, etc.
on odd-days of the month
except during the prohib-ited
hours. Those with
even-numbered addresses
are limited to even-num-bered
days, except during
the prohibited hours.
Those without numbered
addresses must comply
with the even-numbered
regulations.
Violators of the regula-tions
will be subject to a
summons to court where
fines can be levied up to
Important PuMc Hearings Scheduled
Board of Trustees -
Aug. 31, 8 pm, Main
Conference Room, Village
Hall. To rezone Brooklyn
Waterworks property as
"Historic Preservation
District."
Planning Board - Sept.
10, 8 pm, Main Confer-ence
Room, Village Hall.
For public comment on
environmental review and
subdivision application for
proposed construction of
i 100 two and three bed-room
condominium units,
foot of Miller Avenue.
Abandoned Cars
Freeport, like many
other Long Island commu-nities,
is seeing an in-crease
in the number of
abandoned cars on the
streets. Complaints have
been received that it takes
too long to remove these
autos. The Police Depart-ment
is aware of the situ-ation
and acting as quickly
as possible, There are le-gal
steps required to be
taken before such, cars can
Board of Trustees -
Sept. 14, 8 pm, Main
Conference Room, Village
Hall. To zone former mu-nicipal
stadium property
as "Service Business Dis-trict."
Board of Trustees -
Sept. 28 (tentative), 8 pm,
Main Conference Room,
Village Hall. To zone por-tion,
of Department of
Public Works storage area
as "Industrial B."
*Phone Village Hall to
confirm meeting dates.
be removed. In addition,
the Village is dealing with
the sole firm willing to
make such removals. Resi-dents
can .be of assistance,
if they witness the leaving
of such a car, by calling
the police with the de-scription
of any persons
and the license plate num-ber
of any other, vehicle
involved. Your coopera-tion
and patience is re-quested.
$100 under the .Village or-dinance,
or up to $500
under the County law for
multiple violations.
Thanks to the coopera-tion
of many residents and
businesses, the Village's
efforts to reduce water
consumption have been
successful. Records indi-cate
that by the end of
June, 1986, 929 million
gallons of water had been
pumped since ; the begin-ning
of that year. By the
end of this June, 890 mil-lion
gallons had been
pumped.
Continued conservation
efforts on everyone's part
are required to insure the
quality and supply of
Freeport's water supply.
WANTED
School
Crossing
Guards
(Male or Female)
$6.72 per hour
12-20 hours per week
Uniform supplied
Must be Freeport
resident, have a
driver's license and
dependable trans-portation.
Apply in person
only, Village Hall
9am - 4pm
Equal Opportunity Employer
AUGUST 1987
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ews
A Public Information Bulletin
of The Village Of Freeport
46 North Ocean Avenue
Telephone FReeport 8-4000
Dorothy Storm, Mayor
Meet With Mayor: 8:30am - 4:00pm, Every Fri.
Public Meetings: 8:00pm, 1st and 3rd Mondays of the Month
Message From The Mayor
A Special Invitation,..
In the spring of 1787, representatives from 12 American states convened in
Philadelphia to amend the Articles of Confederation. On that September 17, 200
years ago, 39 of the delegates met in Independence Hall to sign the newly created
national Constitution, a document that laid the foundations for a democratic soci-ety,
establishing a federal government of the people, b_y_ the people and for the peo-ple.
Last month I was honored to be the first of 100 Freeporters invited to pen a word
of the "Living Constitution," as sponsored by-the Nassau County Bar Association at
the Freeport Memorial Library. This was the beginning of a time in which we will
not only mark the signing of the Constitution, but also Freeport's own 95th an-niversary
of incorporation as a Village.
Here in our community we have a special way to celebrate the Constitution's Bi-centennial
in that our Village Hall is a replica'of Philadelphia's historic Indepen-dence
Hall. As requested by the National Bicentennial Commission, I will proclaim
Thursday, September 17 as "Constitution Day" in Freeport and on that day, from 9
am to noon, "Open House" will be^held at Village Hall. Hostesses will be members
of the local Ruth Floyd Woodhull Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters
of the American Revolution. School groups and individuals are invited to tour the
Hall which includes a display of all the flags that have flown over our country, and
replicas of many national historical documents including a draft of the Constitution
with George Washington's handwritten notes. On local history, there are our incor-poration
papers of 1892, a gallery of the photos of many former village Presidents,
Mayors and Boards of Trustees, and the early handwritten minutes of the meetings
of the Board of Trustees.
I hope to see many of you on September 17. If you have a group wishing to take
the tour, please call. Mrs. Gladys Mapes of the DAR at 379-0754 for arrangements
to be made to accomodate you at a specific time.
Watch for next month's "Village News," and check the local media, for details on
the celebration of our 95th Anniversary, October 18-24.
Watch For Next Month's
Village News
oLJorotnu
Trustees:
Village Clerk: Thomas DeVincenzoT
njtti, victor Cohen. Anna J. Cacciatore
William Glacken; Treasurer: Michael Haran
Fall Recreation Programs
All summer discount
plans for unlimited ad-mission
to the Recreation
Center's Health Wing ex-pire
as of September 7.
Fall plans, good until Jan-uary
10, 1988, are avail-able
at $105 for a family,
$50 for art individual and
$25 for seniors and hand-icapped.
Annual plans are
also available at $205,
$100 and $55 respectively.
Registration for fall pro-gramming
will be held at
the Center for children on
Saturday, September 26,
Land Sale
The Freeport Board of.
Trustees has voted to au-thorize
Mayor Dorothy
Storm to sign a purchase
contract with Five Coun-ties
Carting Co. for the
sale of a 25,000 square
foot parcel of land. The
site, part of the Depart-ment
of Public Works
storage area, is on the
southern most end of the
former municipal stadium
property on the northeast
side of Buffalo Avenue
Extension, some 300 feet
southeast of Buffalo Av-enue.
Trustee Anna Jean
Cacciatore voted against
the sale.
The sales price of
$225,000 was agreed on
following appraisals ob-tained
by both the Village
and Five Counties. The
deed will carry a covenant
giving the Village the first
right of refusal to pur-chase
the, property back
with improvements, at its
fair market value, at the
end of a contract with
Five Counties for waste
collection in Freeport.
Five Counties plans to
construct a 12,000 square
foot building on the site
with the structure, colo-nial
in architecture to
conform with the other
Industrial Park buildings,
to be used for administra*-
live offices and the stor-
2 age and maintenance of
10 am - noon, and for
adults on Monday,
September 28, 7 - 8:30
pfn. Most programs are
$15 for the season with
some offered at a discount
for seniors.
Offered for children are
art, arts and crafts, baton
twirling, creative move-ment,
creative play, ballet,
jazz dance, tap, drama,
fencing, guitar, gym pro-gram,
kiddie club, swim-ming
and Tot/Toddler and
Mom Time, There are
separate reservations for
equipment. The parcel;
presently municipally-owned
and therefore un-zoned,
will be the subject
of a public hearing to
zone it "Industrial B."
Five Counties presently
leases property on Albany
Avenue and also uses a
portion of its Jamaica
yard for its Freeport op-eration.
The Albany site is
too small to accomodate
the three 25 yard trucks
recently purchased by the
firm to increase the effi-ciency
of their garbage
and trash collection within
the Village.
In announcing the
pending sale, Mayor Storm
explained that Five Coun-ties
had. purchased the
former Edsol Tire prop-erty
on North Main Street
with plans to use it for
truck storage and mainte-nance.
"I informed the
firm that such a use, with
the movement of trucks
disturbing nearby resi-dents,
would be prohibited
under North Main Street's
'Service Business District'
zoning and if they went
ahead with their plans, the
Village would have no
choice but to go into liti-gation.
I am gratified that
we resolved the matter
with the Village receiving
the sales proceeds and the
tax rateables in the fu-ture,"
Mayor Storm said.
basketball, bowling, diving
and soccer.
Offered for adults are
art, ceramics, modern
dance workout, dog obe-dience,
fencing, golf
clinic, guitary, aerobic
dancing, low impact aero-bics,
aquacise, body con-ditioning,
dancexercise,
morning workout, slim-nasties,
tai chi, westercize,
yoga exercise and swim
lessons. There is separate
registration for diving
lessons and body building.
Historical Parade
Planned • —•—
The Freeport Historical
Society is inviting all
Freeporters to participate
in a Parade of History to
be held on Merrick Road
the afternoon of Sunday,
October 18. The event will
be in celebration of the
Society's 25th anniversary,
Freeport's 95th anniver-sary
of incorporation and
the Bicentennial of the
United States Constitution.
The parade will kick off a
week of events marking
the Villge's 95th anniver-sary.
(Details in September
"Village News.")
Everyone is invited to
participate with floats,
banners, marching contin-gents,
etc., celebrating the
historical themes on which
the parade is based. Any
organization, club or busi-ness
interested in partici-pating
should contact Pa-rade
Coordinator - Robert
Raynor at 379-7656, days
or 623-5967, evenings for
an application.
Prevent Crime
Join Freeport's
"40,000 Pairs of Eyes"
FR 8-0700
FREEPORT POLICE
New Electric Rate Schedule
The New York State Public Service Commission has approved an overall in-crease
of 8.3% to Freeport residential and commercial electric customers. The
first such increase since 1975, it became effective on June 1, 1987 and is effec-tiye
on bills rendered with meter readings having one full month of consumption
after July 1, 1987.
Effective June 1..1987
SERVICE CLASSIFICATION NO. 1 - Residential Service
Rate: Per meter, per month
First 12 Kilowatt hours or less
Next 288 Kilowatt hours, per kwh
Over 288 Kilowatt hours, per kwh
Special Provisions meeting Village
specifications d signed application:
Electric Water Heating, 501-10.00 KWH
Space Heating over 1,000 KWH
Winter
Nov 1 - May 31
$2.50
6.74C/KWH
. 6.03C/KWH
Summer
June 1 - Oct 31.
$2.50
6.74C/KWH
7.07C/KWH
4.71C/KWH
4.71C/KWH
SERVICE CLASSIFICATION NO. 2 - General Service
.Demand Charge, per Kilowatt
First 5 Kilowatt hours 0 0
Over 7 Kilowatt hours $3.31 . $3.31
Minimum Charge (KWH included) $12.00 $12.00
Energy Charge, per kwh
Balance to 12 Kilowatt hours 0 0
Next 500 Kilowatt hours, per kwh •' 7.42c/KWh 7.42C/KWH
Next 1,000 Kilowatt hours, per kwh 6.51C/KWH 6.51C/KWH
Next 3,500 Kilo- att hours, per kwh 4.78C/KWH 4.78C/KWH
Over 5,000 Kilowatt hours, per kwh 4.78C/KWH 4.78C/KWH
Primary discount (excl. fuel adj.) 5% ' 5%
Average monthly fuel adjustment (SC 1&2) .1165C/KWH .1165C/KWH
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Full details of the foregoing may be secured from the Electric Billing Office
or Village Clerk's Office at Village Hall.
Propane Gas Indoor Storage, Balcony Use Banned ^
With the recent tragic
explosion in Brooklyn,
residents should be aware
of prohibitions regarding
gas barbeques. The Nas-sau
County Fire Preven-tion
ordinance states that
propane gas cylinders may
not be stored indoors, and
^mav not be used on the
balcony or roof of any
occupied building.
Therefore, gas barbeques
may not be used by
dwellers of multi-family
structures -- rental, co-op
or condo.
The Freeport Fire De-partment
explains that
propane gas is odorless'
and highly explosive. A
leaking cylinder may not
be detected and could be
set off by a match or
stove. In a multi-level
structure, the leak could
travel to lower floors.
The ordinance prohibits
the storage of propane
tanks in occupied build-ings
and their attach-ments
(i.e. attached;
garages). Storage must be
outside of the building by
at least 25 feet.
