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• FREEPORT BALDWIN ROOSEVELT J N £ i MERRICK J BA S ^ ^ C T Y B i s s o a i c ^ t . MUSBUtt EISBHaoSER PABR IMWR FREEPORT’S ■J ■i 1 o i H i i n i - 1 F --------------- — NEWSPAPER ■ ’fi ■1 41st YEAS N q .37 FREEPORT, NEW YORK, JANUARY 6.1977 PRICE 15« PER COPY ^ew^pecHt^aiiisf Village Bui^ef 'I s F o iiyl^raents^ttw Annual Ilage- 6 udget 4 ^earihg— ^ FREEPORT • The first f w rows of the Conference Room at Village Hall were reserved for department.;head5'and members of .the lay Budget Committee, but. there was no shortage of seating space at Monday night's Annual Budget H e ^ n g . About 40 residents attended the meeting, but only six tilled out cards that they had questions or suggestions and opinions. Rve or m .other residents did . out back door garbage pickup, ask for time. to speak before QaeaUdha Ftim Realdenta ther-Vlilage-rBoald-of-Tnistees,— With thlck-copies-'of4he.budget- but ^ e hearing was.over before - ; both available in .the'back of the spirited lady-has left it, Anna - m Freeport, for she attchd- JoscpUhQ Martin.'.who. ,in her . ed a six months'course at St; ■ lifetime ; b ^ a ine_ a • Freeport' ’ John’sUniversify: :..' . “legend** died D«icmbcr' -31;in But one of her most important thevillageshelovedsddearly.; Mcomplishmcnts,. whidt'cpntri-: There were few areas in-the so-strongly to Frcepoct’a . • vfllage t ^ t did not bear J h e im- > - ' i before. The S12;525,7S8 icntative m r itHn—mW — budget would mean s 164 .per • AAfiage expenses. ' SlpO assessed valuation tax to- * - Most of the questions that did crease - for \Freeport p i o p c ^ / .' arise wen? based on those Items. The. 164 increase J ^ u l d ^ t a Several people asked questiooe - 1- . - , ---------- ^ - . - 1 he. Fire Department and White explained preliminary ..remarks,, that a Jtoc-byline breakd#Wi Mayor William WhUe pointed u rarely expected of those tbe out that the 164 i n c r ^ ‘ must - ymage purdiascslretwccs from, be compared to one nrf $1.05 last . | ^ Bagatelle, o f East Wood- .’ year and the .one^f 51.12-tbe . -binc-0rive,-*sked aboutTthe a* •year before.** He explained that mount listed under Cbntin* the village's answer to increasing ; gencies. Pointing to the $575,000 costs of government was to - figure,^gateKe said, “ My civic the • tax base” by, assodatfon (Northwest Gric) several parcels of — • • : 1 tM p a jr e r .^h ^ house - abbut the contri^' for ser> , 934per month,: ’ ^ ' , S m a r i S S *^^1* ’ In' his prelimii ■print of the Martin’s\ family civic activities and ’generosity. Anna Martin and her husband. . W ifli^ ■— before his death in 1963 — were involved in cultural, emc; fraternal, w d business organizations, tiid their tradhioir. of giving/of', themselves .was-: passed . down to_ their .'cMd- ^ Anna Martin was “ U b ^tedV .. in the same seiiie that women ' today use the term. At the same time, she was a devoted wife and companion, iovisg mother and caring grandmother- and great* ' ndmother. She'organu it held at Freeport R e c ^ tinn Gehter, Saturdays and Sundays,/ January 8 and 9, and 15 and.16. On both Saturdays, registration is scheduled. for 10 am to 4 pm, while on Sundays the .time will be lto4pm . ' ,^ c r e will be no increase from last year’s ' registration fee of SIO peri player of SIS maxithum per tomily. ' This year, there will be four age groups in baseball. The Bookies - must be 8 years old; those in the Minor League,- nice and ten years 11 I*) . industrially-zoned, . Village- owned land and offering them for sale. A figure, termed by the . .Mayor ' as “ conservative, of S440,000” was added to tbe revenue side of- the 1977*78 budget, fleetin g the negotia- ■thms that were at a stage' where : a sale would probably be realized. W ithoutih^additigqal revenue, W ife sald/m e re would have been an increase of 664 per SlOO' of assessed valuation, instead of 164. Another advantage of the . lai^d sale, according to toe Mayor, B/ill K a ' d; Ma}o«; 11 and 12 years old;' and in the Senior, league, .participants must be 13 to IS years old (boys only). and toe others' ^e a d , will be ■^ng ‘f toeoe laj ' ■ *he bee Ii to toe tax rolls. toe ad o t structure to b b id and t upon it, to sofrball, the ten to 12 year „ . old Major League will continue. Anra and Wiliam Marjln Sr. '. In addition, if there is a soffident cultural Ufe aud to the enjoyment of thousands of people, was the - program. irganized and was president of the local league of Women Voters; was presi dent of the Ladies AuxQIaty of both Meny Ho^ital, in Rockville, Centre/and South Nassau .Com-, munrties H o ^ tal, In. Oceanside; and was toe first president of toe Chaminade Mother’s OubI •. Attaining the position of pre- . . ---------- ... “sidency of an orgairization-was-a of hen many splen*— age when registering.' life-time “habit’’ for Mrs. Mart- • did hats Anna Martin would have Young persons of high school c(,» OAnAnt nF OH 3s shc attcndcd cach DCTfonTi- age, interested in working as paid founding, in 1948,'of the F ree^rf - G^mmunity Concert Association. Anna Martin remained president of the Association, for the next -25 ' musically fruitful years and was president and still actively involved when she died. Conrert gocK each year looked forward to ’ Age limits are based on a play er reaching toe minunum-age of eight before Angust~3I, 1977, and the maximnm age of IS on Augustai, 1977.' Play'ers must be accompanied ■ by a parent or guardian and must have birth certificates or proof of in. She was Grand Regent of toe CatobHc Daughters of America and president, of the Nassau County Women’s Forum in the 1950' s . She started and headed the Delphian Society, a cultural on as she attended each perform- Along with captaining all these groups, Anna Martin was an active participant- in • the Eks (Cent, on Page 8) umpires, are asked to register on the same dates. Adult volunteers for administrative and managerial positions are also urgently White also pointed to toe re duction' of the village's bonded indebtedness as a “bright spot in, our financial picture.” From a. “high” of over $25 million in 1974, it is now approxi mately $21 mUUon.. ’“The .Village is legally authorized to borrow up to $32 'mlllioa and we are well below toe lim it/’ the Mayor explained. A cutting of over S529,0CXJ in . requests from department heads was also cited by. White. “It was our philosophy that while all WUage services must be maintain^, where a cutback could be made, without a major impact on the residents, it wonld have to be made.*' The week before, in an interview with the press. White had stated that he would not be in favor of cutting cannot figure out why .you need so much.’* He said that-a one- page s b ^ available that even ing, explaialog tte amount spent thus far this y e u from the Con- tingency Fund, showed a balance of ^ , 9 1 1 . 4 2 . *'We think toe contingent stun should be re duced 5 ^ .0 0 0 to $300,000,” Bagatelle said. , . - . White e^Iained that amounts coveringYtoe • Police ' Depart ment’s pay raise had not yet bejm deducted*from Contin gency/ and v ^ l d “ drastically redure\ the balanre./O ther not ;, yet .resolved - municipal , employee’s salaries would also - have to be included in a con- tinency figure, according to White. Stating that many, of thereon- ‘ lingencies In government 'arc offset b y . insurance ! and that - when people retire, those hired to’ , take their place come in on a lower salary line. Bagatelle in sisted that the contingency, amount could be .cut. White and Village Treasurer Jim Ljmns pointed out that even when jobs are hot filled (such as in the Police Department), toe sepa ration pay due. those - retiring offsets vacant job lines. James. KnocUer, a resident of Connecticut Avenue, asked how the buying and cleaning of police uniforms could b e justified on salaries to policemen of at feast $17,000. “ It’s in their contract.” White told him. “and (Cont .on Page 16)
