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. J Compoim-and Propecty Continued Village spending Continued from page Al Handel said. \We are asking everyone to not spend on anything than that which is essential to the operation. I think all the staffs are working with us. They're never profligate. in my experience.\ Perin also suggested that, to make up for the cost of overtime that village police and Highway employees accrue working - events | like community fundraisers. the board consider charg- ing user fees. He also suggested that the police department - apply | for Homeland Security grants. How ard agreed,. adding, \I just don't thinh the residents should be picking this cost up ~ Panarites sard. \We need to have some policy {that's] flexible in place. where the residents are not saddled with all of the overtime all the time It we have a flexibility and a policy in plaae we ait down with these «com munity groups that come along and we discuss it C Earher in the meeting. Northport resident Betty Koerner urged the board to cut bach spending on stems that are not ppofitics and arc not primarily con centrated on providing vital services to residents such as trying dangerous curb on the steps to Village Hall and making sure that volunteer set vices ate well provided tor - My heart aches when the tire department and the poimec department have to come down aml bey foi nceessdly cquipinmenl do sate ouf hives. sarmd Rociner. who sand het tather drowned at Crab Meadow Beach - because the clutch on a Northport tire: truch broke down \These men need certain equipment ~ Koerner later complained about the village's $1,000 contmbution in March to the Northport Arts Coalition (NAC). some members of which live and work outside the village This week. Handel addressed such contmbutions to- «community groups. sing. C) certainly hope we're tunded enough next year to continue those They're not donations In a sense we're paying tor those services that they pro vide to the agllage Obvioushy if we're in hort tinancial shape next year we have to look at exervthing ~ N AC Chairwoman Isabella Eredita Johnson also addressed spending dur- ing a phone inmerview this week She apyreed that village taxpayers' mone} should | primarily support residents rather than non residents and that sometimes spending must be scruti- nized. \You have to take things case by case,\ Eredita Johnson said. However, she added, \About 80 per- cent of [NAC] members are Northport residents.... That meager amount of money did fund a fraction of our Art, Music and Poetry in the Park. The result was, we had this beautiful gath- ering. We really filled the park up with happiness, a cultural expression of art.\ During the meeting, Koerner also advised the board of her concern that the Sagamore Rowing Association is considering Scudder Beach as a launch point. Koerner claimed that David Muntner, vice president of the Sagamore Rowing Association, said, \We have a lot people asking.\ Koerner, who has been invited to join the Allhhance to Save Huntington's Harbors, sard it wouldn't be the first time that a nonresidential group uti- the beach She alluded to the Center: Island-based group formerly known as the Cow Harbor Rowing Club that stored boats on Scudder Beach for about two years During a phone interview this week. Muntner said that neither he nor his organization intend to ask Northport Village for use of Seudder Beach. He admitted that in conversing with Koerner. he had mentioned that some members of another group which he did not name had talked about the possibility of using Northport Harbor He sud he had also, generally speak ing. cne outraged rowing as an as tivity 1 sud only that if any town has a waterway and wants to have rowing. they should. There should be more and more rowing But I never said | want to go [to Northport] ~ The Sagamore Rowing Association conausts of 500 to 600 members who use boathouses in Oyster Bay and Huntington The Huntington boathouse. at Corndre Hall, has run out of space for new members. Muntner said. but added that his association has its sights set on the proposed refurbish: ing of the Commdre Hall boathouse \The expansion of atos crucial.\ Muntner said Koerner sard she is not alone in her concerns. claiming she represents a loose group of residents she calls Friend,. of Northport Village. who uppose \ludicrous requests ~ by nontes: facilities that cost village taxpayers \All 1 want tor these village people is tairngss and justice and {village offi- MICHELE MARTIN 1028 FT. SALONGA RD NORTHPORT | {631) 261 4200 mchelemartin@alIstate.com PS. Call for a free quote. CALL ME. * YOU MAY BE | SURPRISED At | How AFFORDABLE @ ALLSTATE | COVERAGE is. mwimmm Mid-Gm“ a mafia-mu MMWCWWtfim- dents. We are in a deficit here.\ Mayor Panarites said that the board will consider any proposal that comes before it and make decisions based on whether or not it benefits the commu- nity at large. cials} are not giving that,\ she said. \Services have been cut to the village people while we provide more and more to nonresidents,\ she said. \It is not the responsibility of this small. basically two-square-mile village to provides services to out-of-area resi- hopes iin andor anit motto ont -. \Chen Galton School supply drive The Suffolk County Office of Women's Services is collecting crayons, pens. pencils. sharpeners, book covers, notebooks. scissors. rulers, glue, backpacks, calculators. dividers and dictionaries for children in shelters. as well as those served by the DSS Child Protective Services and other pro- grams. Donations may be dropped off at Office of Women's Services on the third floor of the H. Lee Dennison Building in Hauppauge (100 Veterans Memorial Highway:. or at the County Center in Riverhead (310 Center Drve) Schools reunion lunch The Northport-East Northport Schools Heritage Museum wall host its third annual reumon lunch at the Laurel Avenue School on Friday, October + : 794 - % j per person. All former students and staff are welcome but. due to space con- straints. admission will be to the first 100 people. Proceeds benefit the museum and the 2006 Scholarship Fund. Make reservations and pay ments by September 15. Call Laure at 368-2702 for more information. w wo wo ar th urm co m CALL NOW FOR YOUR INTRODUCTORY LESSON ‘LATIN SMOOTH * DISCO « NIGHTCLUB & SWING + BALLROOM GOUH£S&SFNGLES & PINES * VACATIONS | + BUSINESS EVENTS « & MORE 4747-19 Rte 347 Port Jefferson Station 331-6423 C T Cor C Por ace Joh! con be i pre ous dat fur prc col ing on vil get are Ke ust rec bet
