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An Official Newspaper Of The Incorporated Village of Farmingdale - Serving Greater Farmingdale, Bethpage and Melville
Vol. 16 No. ? 3 Second Class Postage has been paid at Pamiagdale, N. Y. H7Sf February 6, 1969
Schools Go On Budget
Cut Back Program
The District 22 Board of Education on Monday voted to go
on a budget retrenchment program for the rest of the fiscal
year ending June 30.
The action was brought about by Governor Rockefeller's
proposed 5% State aid cut as well as an anticipated budget
deficit due to unexpected expenditures.
The Governor's state aid cut which would go into effect
on April 1, would find the school district budget with a $ 339,000
deficit, which prompted Board action to go on an austerity
retrenchment basis. With the 5% state aid slash the district
would lose $ 200,000. An unexpected $ 82,000 BOCES expense
and $ 20,000 additional cost for insurance, due to an re- eval­uation
by the company, were largely responsible for the budget
shortage. The austerity retrenchment program would result
in an $ 80,000 saving with an additional $ 120,000 coming from
unencumbered funds, would leave a shortage of $ 139,000.
If Rockefeller's cut is withdrawn, and the $ 200,000 in aid
restored, the district would then be forced to go on a Modified
Retrenchment basis with a saving of $ 25,000 and a forecast
year- end balance of $ 6,000.
The austerity retrenchment program would affect a cut
back in office supplies, temporary office help, travel by
principals, and administrators trips to conferences, athletic
and after school trips and certain textbooks at the elementary
level. Instructional supplies would be the last to be affected,
it was learned.
Farmingdale World Children's Day Will
Focus On Aid To Biafrans
The Sixth annual Farmingdale
World Children's Day, which will
take place on Sunday, February
16, with emphasis this year on
aid for UNlCEPsNigeria/ Biafra
Relief Fund, according to Pat
Schriro, Chairman.
Among the plans are programs
by the religious schools of the
Farmingdale Jewish Center, the
Farmingdale Methodist Church,
the Hollywood Baptist Church,
St. Kilian's Roman Catholic
School and St. Luke's Lutheran
School.
The children will receive of­ficial
wrappers for their
collection containers and will
solicit small coins from their
neighbors only on Sunday,
February 16. x during the early
afternoon. They will return their
containers to the East Cafeteria
of Weldon. E. Howitt Junior High
School at 4 p. m. The young people
will be served punch and cookies
purchased with donations from
various local service clubs and
business establishments. They
will be entertained in the au­ditorium
by a performance of
the St. Kilian's CYO Troupe.
$ 1.5 Million Farm Center
NEW FARM COMPLEX PLANNED:- Phase I of State University
at Farmingdale's new $ 1.5 million Agricultural Science Complex
scheduled for completion by the end of this year.
The State University at Farm­ingdale
will be the site of a
$ 1.5 million Agricultural Sci­ence
Complex for the Agricul­tural
Technology Department.
The complex will serve as a
teaching laboratory for students
seeking associate degrees in
Agriculture. It will also serve
the community as a functioning
animal and farm museum to be
visited each year by more than
30,000 children and teachers
from the public elementary and
private schools on Long Island.
The architect's drawing il­lustrates
Phase No. 1; the re­placement
of the present Dairy
Barn and Sheep Barn Facilities.
Construction of these facilities
is scheduled to begin April, 1969,
and the fully automated Barns
will be in use by the end of
that year.
They will offer a variety of in­ternational
selections of singing
and dancing. The Director is E. J.
Lamberti, Cordinator of the
Cultural Performing Arts of the
St. Kilian parish.
Girl Scout troops of the Main
Street neighborhood have been
making posters with the theme of
Brotherhood and the need for
collecting for Biaf ran young­sters.
On Saturday, February 15, a
film program in connection with
Farmingdale World Childrens
Day will offer be offered at the
South Farmingdale Library. One
film will touch specifically upon
the " Children of Africa" and
their lives and needs.
Mrs. Schriro pointed out the
cirical needs of the children in
Biafra.
Plan Emergency
Meetings On School*
Financial Crisis
An emergency general mem­bership
meeting of all 98 mem­ber
board of education of the
Nassau Suffolk School Boards
Association will be held onSatur-day,
February 22 at 10 a. m. at
the Plainedge High School, ac­cording
to District # 22 Trustee
A. Terry Weathers.
The meeting is to plan ef­fectuate
joint action programs
for Educational Conference
Board proposals and any other
action deemed appropriate by
the member boards in dealing
with what Weathers terms as
the ' present fiscal crisis'.
Weathers also stated that a
presentation in behalf of the
Farmingdale School District will
be made at the Governor's Nassau
Town meeting on the morning of
Friday, March 7.
Meetings will be held by the
District # 22 Board of Education
from April 1 to June 30 to plan
the most effective budgetary pro-
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A Roster of Clergymen to
Speak on Brotherhood
At Jewish Center
" Let's Face the Brotherhood
Issue" will be the topic of dis­cussion
at the Brotherhood meet­ing
at the Farmingdale Jewish
Center, 425 Rt. 109 on Tuesday,
February 11th, at 8: 30 p. m.
Father Basil of St. Kilian's
Church, Rev. James Corgee of
St. Lukes Church, Rev. Andrew
Lewter of Hollywood Baptist
Church, and Rabbi Paul Teicher
of the Farmingdale Jewish Cen­ter,
will be the speakers. Father
Albert Palmer of St. Thomas
Episcopal and Reverend Kenneth
Hoover of the Farmingdale Meth­odist,
will be unable to attend.
The meeting is co- sponsored
by both the Sisterhood of the
Farmingdale Jewish Center and
the Farmingdale Chapter of B'nai
B'rith. Women's groups of all
denominations are cordially in­vited.
Refreshments will be
served. Open to all, Admission
is free.
Assemblyman Martin Ginsberg, left, and Oyster Bay Town
Board Majority Leader Edmund A. Ocker look over the railroad
crossing at Stewart Avenue in Bethpage that would be, along with
other similar crossings throughout the town, benificiary of a bill
introduced by Assemblyman Ginsberg that would eliminate any
additional state money spent for railroad grade crossing elimin­ation
projects that intend to elevate railroad tracks instead of
depressing them. Ginsberg and Ocker are both in favor of de­pressed
grade crossings which would enhance the beauty of the
community, retain its residential character and improve safety.