1969-10-02

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An Official Newspaper of The Incorporated Village of FarminKdale- Serving Greater Farmingdale, 8ethpaKe and Melville
Vol. 7 No. 6 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, October 2 , 1969
SCHOOL TAX RATE UP;
LOWER THAN EXPECTED
The combined school, library and Youth Council tax rate in District
No. 22 was set lower than anticipated by the Board of Education at a
special meeting held Tuesday night at Weldon W. Howitt due to the
fact that the assessed valuation in the Town of Babylon sector of the
school district where there is much industrial development rose,
enabling the over all tax rate to be .251 less in the Town of Oyster Bay
and. 986 in the Town of Babylon.
The tax rate is usually set in the early part of September but was
delayed due to the question of the equalization rate in the Town of
Babylon. It was revised from 18 to 19 by the New York State Board of
Equalization and Assessment.
The school tax rate set for the Town of Oyster Bay, is $ 10,699, the
library tax rate is .367, and the Youth Council tax rate .199, for a total
of 11.185 per $ 100 assessed valuation. The Town of Babylon school tax
. rate is $ 16,330, the library rate is .559, and the Youth Council rate is
.181, for a total of $ 17,070.
Last year's tax rate was $ 9,734 for the Town of Oyster Bay sector
and $ 15,368 for the Babylon sector.
A. Terry Weathers, Trustee and Finance Chairman said that he was
grateful that the rate was lower than had been anticipated, he said
that he was most interested in a petition prepared by the Nassau-
Suffolk School Board's Association to be delivered to Governor Nelson
A. Rockefeller and members of the New York State Legislature
stating that since the property tax has become unbearable that they
petition an enactment in the 1970 legislature as an alternate way for
paying for the rising cost of public schools. He said that the PTA
would undertake the job of getting signatures.
Village Board Authorizes Sullivan Road Drainage Program
The Board of Trustees of the
Incorporated Village of Far­mingdale
this week authorized
the installation of drainage
facilities at Sullivan Road.
The contracting firm of Lizza &
Sons, Inc., were awarded the
contract as low bidder in the
amount of $ 39,160. The project
includes the installation of 13
catchbasins, 11 manholes,
alteration of water mains,
masonry excavation, 900 square
feet of sidewalk, 250 lineal feet of
curbing and 2100 lineal feet of
reinforced concrete pipe drains.
The entire village will now be
adequately supplied with
drainage facilities, according to
Hugh Newman, Superintendent
of Public Works of the Village.
Village Clerk James P.
McKenna, said that over the past
ten years, the Village of Farm­ingdale
has made extensive
improvements to the drainage
system in the southeast area by
the installation of the Harrison
Place drain basin, major in­stallations
at Prospect Street,
Staples Street as well as County
assistance in enlarging the
facilities of the Jefferson Road
Basin and drainage . facilities
installed along Melville Road.
Newman also noted that one or
two minor problems of drainage
remain. They should be
alleviated in the near future, he
said.
The contractor is expected to
complete the Sullivan Road in­stallation
within a two week
period.
Dem Candidates To Hold
Hearing On Proposed New
Structure Of Local Gov't
It's the pick of the crop at the New York Knickerbocker Farmingdale, training
camp as coach Red Holzman distributes apples ( from left to right) to Bill
Bradley, Willis Reed, Dave DeBusschere and Nate Bowman. The basketball
team is cooperating with the United States Department of Agriculture's Plentiful
Foods Program by giving apple growers a marketing assist by focusing con­sumer
attention on this year's abundant crop.
The four Democratic can­didates
for supervisor of
Nassau's three towns announced
this week that they will hold a
public hearing Thursday
evening, October 9, to sound out
reaction of government officials
and non- political experts on a
report from an advisory com­mittee
calling for major changes
in the structure of local govern­ment.
More than 100 have been in­vited
to the hearing, to be held at
the Garden City Hotel beginning
at 8 p. m., including Nassau
members of the Legislature, all
Nassau Town Board members,
village officials, members of
county and state governmental
agencies and governmental
experts from several colleges
and universities, as well as in­terested
citizens.
The announcement was made
at a joint press conference at
Nassau by A. William ( Monk)
Larson, candidate for Hempstead
Town presiding supervisor; Jay
O. Tepper, candidate for Hemp­stead
Town supervisor; Leigh M.
Medine, nominee for North
Hempstead Town supervisor;
and James A. Rousmaniere,
candidate for Oyster Bay Town
supervisor.
The detailed report, the result
of a several- month study, claims
that town government does not
perform needed services as
economically as possible, the
four candidates said, that citizens
of the unincorporated areas lack
a sense of identification and
influence with the level of
government that should be
closest to them, and that in­corporated
villages serve their
residents better in both respects.
The report recommends
amendments of state and local
laws to provide for a new class of
villages and to authorize
referenda on the abolition of town
government and incorporation as
new " Class N" villages of all
unincorporated areas.
" While we agree with the
committee's findings as to the
short- comings of town govern­ment
and the advantages of
village government," Larson
said as spokesman for the four
candidates, " we are un­committed
at this time as to its
recommendations.
" The purpose of this hearing is
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