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Ollicial ' Newspaper Village of : Freejwrt Freeport School District ' Baldwin School District m \ltiAm SPECIAL Oak ParK Exchange Congress . 8-Page Pull-Out Centerfold Section ' '\x- . . . .VsS'S's;. •' \ .. f r- F^EErarc ^ uokia L lis ^.' h - \ C aSSnlCS RD FHEEFORT II V U5V!0' ’O , FREEPORT. NEW YOR|J, OCTOBER 1 .1981 46th YEAR. No. 22 r T Won't Change School District Lines Mt^^/rmwrn IIR H 3 C flc s z * ir j r s e t f » A tm a a Km— OUTSTANDING PLAYERS In tha Freeport Recreation Department Street Hockey Program are presented their awards by Village Mayor William White, Michael Sullivan fl.)pl the Senior Division had a r ^ d of 16 goals and 15 assists. Michael Pandalfo (2nd r.) of the Junior Divi sion had 36 goals and 19 assists. Watchingthe youths receive their trophies is Michael's mother, Mrs. Pandalfo. Baldwin Board Decides Priorities A t Meeting ' byJoanOafapef BALDVy^ - Along with the regular business items on the lengthy agenda of the Wednesday, September 23rd roeeting of the Bsddwin Board of Education, there were discussions of the energy bond issue, the budget review process and the recent fire at Coolidge School. According to Superintendent of Schools Rolland Jones, School Board presidetvt Arnold Lurie and should be paid for from regular maiotenance budgets although Dopsovic explained that certain items are state«aided when put in a package. Dopsovic also said that referen* * making up the budget for this Assistant Superintendent for Business Richard Dopsovic, the fire which was of suspicious origin did not cause structural damage and should not in any way interfere with the dum concerning the sale of the property. (See THE LEADER. September 24. for initial report of fire.) May Not Collect At its meeting, the Board authorized the Administration to hire the Independent fire adjuster firm of Sapperstein, Hochberg and Haberman, Inc. for purposes of assessing the damage and for acting in behalf of the_district in any insurance settlement. The adjuster will be paid 10% of the settlement but it was noted that, with a S5.(XX) deductible, it is year, it was assumed that certain items would be paid for through the repair reserve fund. Pirtinsky stressed that if the $50,000 were approved, one-third of the repair reserve fund will already have been spent before the winter season even began. Realistic Vs. UnreallUc Figures There was lengthy dis^sslon on the process of budget prepara tion with a “which comes first, the chicken pr the cgg“ problem seeming to occur. The Adminis tration, according to Dopsovk, « V ||U a U C U U k - t lU I C , J t IW A . r v p a \ j « f V , possible that the district will not w-ould like certain genera! finan- collect anything. According to Jones, the Nassau County Fire Marshalls' report was not yet available. No Repair! Of Heating Systems The Board did not approve the allotment of S50.000 from the repair reserve fund for repairs to heating systems at various schools. With Board members William Ryan and Victor Rohe absent and Bernard Pittinsky voting negatively, the majority needed to pass the motion was not available. Pittinsky pomted out that cenain smaller items dal and philosophical guidelines from the Board at the outset. The Board, however, seemed to feel, that general discussions of program, goals and philosophies should precede such Board guide lines. Dopsovic indicated that the detailed presentations by depart ment heads, which took place last year and which produced what the Baldwin Education Assembly (B.E.A.) Budget Advisory Committee termed “unrealistic figures,\ need not be repeated each year. Jones stressed that if .Cont cn Page S) Naflonal Congress Meeting Here FREEPORT - Representatives of racially diverse communities from as west as^Wisconsin to t ^ Atlantic Ocean and from Massa chusetts to Georgia will attend the national Oak Parir Exchange Congress in Freeport this coming Thursday and Friday, .October 1-2. In between a tteni^g wort- shops on. such topics as the • scbMls* impact on racial dhrersi- ty, the real estate industiy and. the rofe of the private sector. Congress parddpants win tour * Freeport, by land and sea, attend a banquet at a local y a ^ dab and enjoy a Fceeport-style c}am bake. The village will also be the center of much media attention, including complete coverage by Cablevision. From the time Freeport’s Mayor William H; White wel comes the delegates to the Congress and the Freeport Recreation Center to the close of the Congress^. Freeporters will be involved m every aspect. Delegates will be staying at residents' homes, or in local motels; volunteers helped get out the various nation-wide mailings; and others will be acting as moderators, panelists (Com. on Page 19) Whlfe Explains Sanitation Bid FREEPORT. - Following the recent awarding of the Village of Freeport's contract for sanitation services to Five Counties Carting (THE LEADER. Sept. 24). Vdlage Mayor William H. V^ite ex plained the reasons for giving the five year contract to the only bidder. Some 25 private carting firms had received the bid specifica tions horn the Village govern ment. The Board even extended the origthal returnable date by 10 days at the request of a potential bidder. With only one bid re- turned, however, the Board with held approval of the bid for the full 45 days allowed by law. During that time. White says be wrote each of the 25 firms ori ginally receiving the bid specifi cations to inquire if there was anything in them which had in hibited them from submitting a bid. Had that been the case. White said the Board would have Deny Plea Of Freeporters Atfendihg Roosevelt Schools FREEPORT - Residents of a north cast section of the Village of Freeport, which lies within the Roosevelt School District, have been informed that their request to have school tiistrict lines redrawn will not be granted. In a letter to them from William T; Callahan, the District Superintendent of Schools in Nassau County and the repre sentative ^ the New York State (Cont. on Page 20) Commissioner of Education, the ^sidents were informed that Callahan has ruled that he lacks the authority to act on their request without first obtmning the written consents of the Roosevelt and Freeport Boards of Education. SooaeveluHo - Fkeepotit No Aaswer According to the letter, received by a representative of the residents this past Friday, September 25, the Roosevelt Board of Education refused to consent to the change in district lines and the Freeport School Board had not indicated in WTiting theirwillingness to consent to the proposal. *<We*0Go ADTheWay” But a representktive of the residents in that approximately 300. home section told THE LEADER that her group would go “all the way\ in pursuing the matter. The first step, the spokes person indicated, would be to sit down with a “knowledgeable attorney” and have him explain the law and what the subsequent legal procedures would be. She also mentioned that this attorney should be someone “politically knowledgeable” because “I think,\ she said “ it will eventual ly end up in the State Legis lature.\ The several blocks of homes in question are located within Freeport Village boundary lines, but also are. u the Roosevelt School District. In a petition they ‘ sent several months ago to the State Department of Education, - residents of that area expressed a desire to have the school district lines redrawn to conform to village lines. This petition was forwarded by the State Depart ment of Education to Dr. Callahan on Long Uland*..^ho apparently has the sole responsibility for such a decision. At that time. Callahan said • he would be corresponding with both the Freeport and Roosevelt School Districts seeking their input as to the effects of any such change. Rooceveh Seboob Look At \Bottoniiiiie\ Dr. Ulysses Byas.^ Superin tendent of the Roosevelt School District, in discussing the matter with THE LEADER ftssue of Sept. 3, page 1) opposed any such chamge. The figure he cited as \most important\ was the S1.47 . which.-be sirid. was the amount school taxes would increase in order to make op the $340,(XX) in tax money the Rooireyelt Sdiool District would lose by the ledistricting.. Byas also suggested that residents of that area had. the same “obligations\ as . all Roosevelt School District resi dents, specifically in terms of the bond issue that had been floated in order to buDd the new-high school. Area residents listed as one of their reasons for their petition that \in the Roosevelt School District, we feel (the children] are not g e t^ g a quality education for the taxes we are paying.\ According to figures they had gathered when having ^the- petition signed, the residents claimed that 198 youngsters in thetr area were attending Roose velt public schools and about 143 admittedly were attending private or other schools. Residents also complained that it was virtually impossible to sell their homes if it was known they ■were in the Roosevelt School District. “People are walking away from their homes,\ one said, “ just abandoning them.\ Freeport's Ice Rink X)pens October 3 FREEPORT - The 1981-82 season for the Freeport Recrea tion Center's ajl-wcather ice rink is slaved to officially open Satur day. October 3. With the enclosed lighted and heated skating bubble in place, the season w*ill extend through March 28.1982. Individual admission fees for Village o f ' Freeport residents are SI for a child or senior citizen and SI .50 for an adult. Non residents will pay 51.25 and S2 respectively. Fifteen session discount tickets are also available, with resident children and senior . citizens pa>ing SIO for them; resident adults.515; rum-resfdent^hildren (ComT^ Page 19) I I U - ' 1
