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Vol. 8 No. 3 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11736. Thursday, September 10,1970
SCHOOL TAX RATE
At Tuesday's meeting of the School District 22 Board of Education
the school public library and youth council tax rate for the Oyster Bay
section of the Farmingdale School District was set at $ 12.42 per $ 100 of
asessed valuation including the library, school, and youth council
assessments and $ 18,957 for the Babylon sector.
The Town of Oyster Bay school tax rate was set at $ 11,915; library
at 364 and Youth Council .141. The Babylon Town section breakdown
is 18.186 for school; .555 for public library and .216 for Youth
Council.
Trustee A. Terry Weathers, explained that the tax rate for the
Babylon area is higher than estimated since the total assessed
evaluation of the area dropped more than anticipated. A drop of
S225 ooo of taxable property, for the loss of Republic Air Field was
included in the original estimate. The total assessed evaluation in the
Babylon area dropped over $ 600,000, Weathers said.
Unless the Federal milk subsidy program is passed by Congress the
price of milk will be increased to 9 cents for the one quarter quart
container and 11 cents for the 1 / 3 quart effective October 1. The
prices were said to represent the actual cost to the school district
without the subsidies. Mrs. Cleo Green, School Lunch Manager ex­plained
that the cost of full lunches is not affected. The board also
passed a motion to have a letter sent to the area legislators to rein­state
the milk subsidy.
On Wednesday, it was learned that the scheduled four- cent milk
price increase was rescinded. An announcement by the State
Education Department stated that emergency federal funds would
allow the milk subsidize to continue to at least the middle of October.
Gerard Donolli, Director of Transportation reported that all the bus
drivers had received physical examinations and their licenses had
been reviewed and screened. Three of the drivers were disqualified
for physical reasons. In addition to the required state inspection of the
buses. Donolli and Trustee Robert Weiss had done a visual inspection
of such things as tires and seats. As of Monday the necessary repairs
had been attended to. Donolli also commented on School bus safety
precautions. He said that statistically it was 40 times safer in a school
bus than in a private automobile. Also with the present type of seats in
a school bus, seat belts have been shown in studies to be more of a
hazard than a safety factor. One example is that if a child is thrown
forward without the seat belt his chest could hit the seat in front of
him. This would be less dangerous then his head or neck making the
impact which would more likely occur with a seat belt.
There are 70 new staff members in the Farmingdale School District
according to Charles Manso, Assistant superintendent. All positions
are filled except the teacher for an advance electronics course. This
course will be covered by a qualified substitute and Manso said he
expects to have a regular teacher by the next board meeting.
The retirement of Miss Grace Miers who has taught in the Main
Street school for 39 years was accepted by the board.
There's no doubt that Regina Hagerty, age 11, of
Michele Avenue, South Farmingdale, is a New York
Yankee fan as she watches while Yankee pitcher, Ron
Klimkowski, autographs her Yank Yearbook at a
recent New York Yankee- Getty Oil baseball party in
Bethpage. Regina was one of hundreds of youngsters to
greet Ron and teammates Thurman Munson and Ron
Woods, Yank broadcaster Frank Messer, WHN sports
director Marv Albert as they stopped in four different
towns aboard a special Long Island Rail Road flat car,
answering questions and giving away prizes.
Mrs. Marge Kreussling, of Farmingdale, an em­ployee
of the Old Bethpage village restoration, gets
into the spirit of the forthcoming Long Island Fair by
practicing her needlework. The Fair, which will be
held in a large tent at the restoration grounds Sep­tember
10- 20, will feature competitions for cash prizes
in such categories as needlecraft, cooking, hobby
items, flowers and agricultural products.