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Honoring our bravesti seepages 1 5 -22 Noticias en espaAol p&g. 2 5 Freeport • Baldwin eisKYMT No. 13 Rtopoit,N.Y.11520 THE COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER TTniraday, March 30,1095 KATIE COUJNS CUTS HER CAKE 8S She retires from the Freeport Viilage Board of Trustees. She served four years, after winr\ing an upset victoiy, and with herjteparture, Reeport will have an aiknaie board. Helping her, from left, are Trustee Yir^cent Campon, who was unseated In the recent electioo, Mayor Art Thompson and Trustee Richart WIsster. Organization night Monday It wQl be a bosy agendi oa Monday night at VilUge HaU. Eraest D* Angelo and Roland Savage of the VOUge Party will be sworti in, beginning fonr year terms as village trust eca. A recanvau of the March 21 . vote bad been requested by Citizens' CoalitioD c andidate Vincent C a n q ^ and Renaire Frierson>Davis, both of whom were less than 100 votes behind Mr. Savage. Orgsmatkoal preceedinga will folow, with Mayor Aztimr Tbocnpeoa amwano w% lus appointments to various comma* sions. A lso to be named will be the depoty mayor, a position beU by Thstee Ralph Smith ^ the past fixr years. Also set are die dates for public meet* ings of the boaid, and other village bodies. A fter all appointments have been made and approved, there w ill be a public heariag on the Community Devdopmeot program for the 1996 fis cal year. The board win listen to rest* dents' input on what uses they would like to see for the expected $940,000 in federal grant money. T raditionally, the program has farinded aegnisMou o f proper* ties, residential rehabilitation, removal of ardiiteetoral banieis to the hand!* capped, and fimdmg for local agencies s u ^ as the Freeport EOC, the Freeport Youth Ootreach, the Aits Council, Jobs for Youth and the Freeport Historical Society. Woodcleft gets ready for Spring! by Jim Reed Some 50-plos interested and con cerned individaals attended a meeting of the Naulical M ile Association at Otto's Sea Grill last Thmsday. The meeting was chaired by Barbara Jagnow, and special guests. Mayor A rthur Thom pson, Police Inspector Edw ard Locke, Seperintendeol of Pnblie W orks David Lovejoy, aad Stqiermteadeat oi Ekctrie Utilities Hub Bianco, were present The first hern on the ageadh involved the Summer Festival whidi is ached- ttled to be held on June 3 and 4. Many of the coocena centered around park ing, traffic and accessibility to the Deficit tactics unveiied Spread payback over 4 years by Soe Morgan A plan to a p read payback of the Freeport School District’s $2.7 million deficit over a four-year period was approved last weeL The district will issue a \budget note,\ borrowing the entire amount to cleu the deficit and keep the schools financially sound, u id Snperinteudeni of Schools Dr. Ridurd Bonen. The process was worked out by the Freeport Schoorboard with the State Education Department, and a represen tative from hs finance sectiM, Richard Abda, was on hand to answer questions from the board and public. The first paym ent, estim ated at between $400,000 and $500,000, will cover interest only, although the inter est rate b not yet known. The payment will appear as a line titled \deficit reduction\ in the upcoming 1995-96 bndget The following three years, payments will consist of principal aad interest, retoming the diorkt to a ddx-fiee sta tus after Ac 1998-99 school year. Dr. Booen said he expected there would be a fund balance at the end of this year that would be used to pay down the defidt s li^tly. * F o r tu n a t9 s i t u a t i o n ' A \fortunate aitaation,” the State's Mr. Abola said, b the fact that the £ s- trict’s indebtedoes from buBdings win be paid up after the 1996-97 year. The dbtrict b paying of $900,000 per year on a capital bood, which can then be shifted to pay fc^ the deficit \You could expect that you won’t have had an adverse effect on the tax rate,\ he said.'The State Controller's Office would oversee the administra tion o f Freeport’s budget until the deficit b paid off. The only other alternative allowed under State law would be to pay o ft the entire deficit in the coming year, an option Dr. Booen termed unrealistic: \We cannot do what we have to do to educate oar children, and add a $2.7 million shot - not without seriously harming the district. The total deficit of $2.7 m illion includes the $2JD1,000 actual deficit at the end o f 1993-94, and a projected overezpenditnre of $386,000 coupled w ith a $279,000 projected revenue sbonfall for the current 1994-9S year. T h b year's overezpenditnre w u pared from $ 1 3 mHliofl projected for the year in November. . Since the problems occurred. Dr. Bonen said, a \fatal\ has been pro grammed into the district’s budget sys tem, to that the coo^ater will not a llw overspending of a budget Hoe. The Superintendent said the State Department of Educatioo was satisfied \that we have conected a defective budget de^gn.\ He added that he was confident the Governor and State Lepslature wonld approve the ^ e c ial (oonUrund on page 2) restaurants. Also voiced was the dissat isfaction with the U d t o f commuaka- don regarding the festival itself, atten dance at fanning meetinga, and paidct- patioD by many of those who have a stake in the snccess of the festival. It was thought much of the and inqrfementatioo seems to t e borne by a few hard-working individoab. It was suggested that the voluntary group of Auxiliary Polke have a meet ing w ith Festival planners \to see w h at’s going on,\ and to familiarize themselves with the waterfront area and snrrouadiag streets so that there could be better traffic flow aad e o n tr^ M ayor Thom pson stated that the (eovtnued en page I f FREEPORTS NATIONAL MERIT FiNAUSTS are joined by their happy guidanee courtselors. The hortored students are Michael Anzelorw (not In picture), Nafees.TejanI and Golda Poretsky, a t right National Achievement Scholar firtallst is Marirta Harrison, second from l e f t (^idartce Coimsalors are Richard Yanelli, Unda Saldei and Theodora Barnes. IZ .. t ■* — — r- ■ p ' ? { X i. \ i I ; I •i i! il ,
