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. *• QWclii Newspaper Village of Freeport . Freeporf . _ School District Baldwin School District ■U^ronv ;.::::vioruAL Lici^r^ THE LEjim FREEPORT. NEW YORK,-APRIL 10,1986 S l s tY E A R .N o . S l FREEPORT UEliORIAL-'riBRART V UERRICK RD FREEPORT ti Y U520 6 PRICE 25 * PER COPY Five Counties Only Garbage Bidder Baldwin Teacher's Case Continues Five Counties Tells Why N e w Contract Will Go Up FREEPORT • _____ . .. • When the bids were opened last Monday, April 7, for the VQlage of Freeport’s garbage collectidn for the next t ) : m or Rve years, Only one company had subthiUedarbld. Five Counties Cart* 1 9^ n Vlllft n* TTvAA- Lawyers Will File Legal Briefs On '^Timeiiness\ ing Cotp.. which has been coUectiog the village’s garbage since Free* port gave up its municipal sanitation department se%*en years a g o ,' the only bidder. - ' . ' Freeport, Baldwin To Receive More State Ed Aid by Joan Delaney .. BALDWIN - On l ^ e ^ y morning, April 1, J m m e Ehrlich; the, ALBANY • The Freeport, and attorney r e p r i n t i n g the Baldwin School D i s ti l^ and Robert Qeic-. Baldwin School DistiicU wfl] Heldrr^resenting Baldwin teacher Robert S a w y m , a p p e a l beforeV \receive more state aid to edu-: AdfflinlstntrveLawJud^RdbettJ.SHeamM asaapequa.Thepurpose .cation than «cigia'aihr proposed ‘ of the hearin'g.was to continue theIproceeding;;U'^ving Sawyers' under thrececstive b u d ^ t pro- dismmlnation complaint agidnst ■ ■*posed by Governor Mario Cm the Baldwin-Schoof District, a . , -------- '* ------- = -------------- 'case^writh-Departmenl of Labor i#oaldbe>dDe3aaaysafterallthe ....4,... , 1 . . T—s* documents are received by Clear* 6 9 d . EadriU orney would then have IS days after receipt o f those briefs to submit rebuttal- briefs. The judge would then rule on the issue of timeliness based.on the arguments within the briefs. Five Counties* bid for rear door collection, which the village has, had, came in at $1,995,500 for the first year of a three year oon* tract! #nd St,955;SS5 for the f ii^ year of a five year contract. Last year, the village paid Five ' the resii “ The would start the Toxic Act. Ibete jorisdiction under Substance Control. ___ ____ have been three previous hear ings in the case, the last'one .on' June 6 , 19U. In accord with an agrem e n t between the two attorneys, H was dejild^ fiiat Uie judge would ad* dtius only the israe of timeiihws at this point, and n o t yet proceed with the particular merits of the There was some discussion fay the attorneys concerning whether it was necessary for either Saw y e rs o f t h e Wal/Wti Srhrtnl The school distxto b a l l e ^ g that the complaint' by • Sawyers was not timely because it was hot filed within 30, d i ^ from the alleged act of disgimination and/or was not processed by the D<^artffient o f Labor accord ing-to the time .p ro v id e by statute. Sawyers, b a l l e ^ g that the school £ ^ c t did not indicate its desire to appeal the complaint within the five days provided by D istricl'tp address the issue ^ f whether the Dejurtment o f Labor processed die complaint in ~ thb year. News of the increased fitnds came thb week'from the. office of State Senator Norman j . Levy and Assemblj^oman Barbara Patton. Leyy 4 iNassau .C o u n t’s senior member on the Senate Education Committee, polnb out that as* the result of 1 ^ efforb, the Free port School District reoejve additional bottom line i n c r e a ^ of $2083,907. and the Ealdwtn School D b t ^ $765,278 in State AM igith present budget i in stairl'Up funds for a municipal year contracti ’ ' • For rear-door collectidn “ resi dential only (i.e. not picring up commercial dumpsters) — the bid .was St,595,5(>3 annually on a three year contract; $1,555,555 on a five year comract. ■Tbe'fourth option was for curb* ide collection of m identiaJ only. The b|d from Five Counties.was . $1,098,000 for the firsl'year for a three year contxact;)Sl,048,000 for a five year contract. department, if b s tead the Board o f Trustees decides to go that way This past December, explain* ing that the vilbge had received . The specs also included a new tern, requested by the village, an additional pickup each evening in the business district. - ' ' *-In subnduing their bids, Five ' induded Qiuntles comnlitats .bout garbage col- U>dr rcaaens behtad the lecUon, a .“ SanUaUon Survey\. M p’io’. r r “is:Sr^.r^ the present garbage c a r les and a J . J - of the 1986-87 Stale.BudgeL Levy again led the fight to odk the Governor’s attempt to timely fashion.- Geaifield indt* phase out and eventually .ebn^- cated that the question of that*. ate Save Harmless Operating Aid processing should be between the — ’■* •-----------* \ ------- school d l ^ c l and the Depwl- . The “case itself involves Sawyers' allegation that the Bald- - win School District discriminated against him because of hb rep* ntation as a whistle blower re garding • toxic substances. Sawyers’ attorney u seeking to show a coarse of continuous actiod of discrimination against hb dient, mduding Sawyers' suspension. The Baldwin S^ool District, bowevg, has indicated that it has not discriminated against Sawyers. h war agreed that both at torneys wodd argue thb par ticular b soe of t i m ^ e u through written legal b rieb. Since Clear field did not receive a copy o f the transcripu of the preceeding hearingf, nor were copies of the 108 documents previmsly sub mitted as evidence sent to him it was agreed that the briefr men t b f Labor and it should not be required that Sawyers defend the Department of Labor. He added, however, that one of the docu ments introduced for evidence was a letter from the Department of L a b o r.in^cati^ that the com plaint was in f ^ timelv. .Thb Department * of labor complaint regarding discrimi nation U separate from the 3 ^ A Educational Rearing in whiA Sawyers was suspended from teaching for one year a s a result which would have cost 44 Nassau school districts over S1.3 million- in Operating Aid representing nearly two-thirds ot each in dividual scbcwl district’s total budget. • As . a result of h b effOTU, says Levy, the Senate Majoritv has been able to restore $249,15 a for the Baldwin Schod DbtricU Last year Save Harmless- Opera- ting.Aid amounted to $1,557,183 or 14.79b of the Baldwin School DbtricTtotalState Aid. Levy said that the Senate- Majority was also stteeessful In enriching Nassau County’s High Tax aid whidi will p r m ^ e over Ling ^RreiEiice lu leUJu Lset door pick-up. lii' rating the service, 1,030 responded it was “ good;\ .703, \fair;\ Snd7hly 250 said H was \poor.\ (See e d i t o ^ , page'6.) ' Comparing the p resent pick-up . to the former piunicipal depart ment set-up, 303 say it's ’’better” now; 855 consider it the “ same;” and 451 think of it as “ worse.” Of the 1.948 who ans\^'ered the question on reutining back-door pick-up or switching to curb-side, a . iiule more than two-thirds (1,321) say they want to keep backnloor collections, and 627 want to switch. More than 1,500 who answered (actually 1^523) say they use the back-door; 426 re will be requiring the carter to A part of (he increase !$- also due to the village’s elimination o f allouring parting for Five'Coun ties at the scale house and incin* . ereiorlot.. With the closing of (he Merrick Undfill and the village’s prohi bition' against placing garbage' •on the curb (which, Casagrand^ . explained, has been rnet «ith fines), more trucks and men will be necessary. . * ' Casa^ande noted that the Oceanside landfill doses at 3:30 pm and there are, long wmts for trucks to 6nter (some two.to three hours). On Trash Days whQe a sponded they don’t. According to a village spokes-- * ' 5(on truck b on line, Casagrande says, back in of a deebion appealed to New $17,181,674 to 26 Nassau Ccxinty York Sute Commissioner of tax/low wealth local school Education Gordon Ambach. U d u t r i ^ , indnding an Inauaae of is.also septrste the com* 5 ^ . 4 6 7 foi tlw l Y ^ o r t School plsinl sgsinn the school d t s t r id - - 5 » “ ? issued by the office of-the At*' Sdtotd DistzlcL Cinder lomey Geners] of the Sute of •*“ “ l* Niw Yoifc Tbst complaint deslr P”\ J“ « srith various concerns, induding ° \ 'j t t^ tv e d S-l-12S,g38 snd the iliegations that the district District violiled provisions of the Right +JI08.876 in tax aid. to Know Uw. No date has as The Senste Majonty ilso re. yet been set for those pro- fiovemor’s plan to ceedings. — (Com, on Page 6) person. Mayor Dorothy Storm was “ surprised” at the survey’s . response. The Mayor said she had expected more people to ex-, press dissatisfaction, basing her feeling on the vocalness of those who bad been complaining. Ih e bid spedfications asked for quotes on four different options, with bath for three year and fhe year contracts. Besides rear-door collection, q u o i» on curbside were request- FWe Counties' bid came at $1,448,000 per year on a three year contract; $ 1,405,5^ on a five the other men could be I . .. Freeport potting the garbage on thevcurb: wjiep the trod: returns to the village it could pick it op quickly. The evening (S-11 pm) com mercial pick-up also'requires an extra crew and truck, points the Frve Gaunties representative, because during that time the dump is closed. Dumping at Oceanside has caused increased time, 'wear and tear on tires arid equipment, and while a 1989 opening date for the new incinerator plant b antici- -i- \Ccn\.on Page 16) v-.v- -j-'‘ ^
