1970-04-09

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FARMINGDALE OBSERVER
WHERE THE HISTORY OF YOUR COMMUNITY IS RECORDED WEEKLY
An Official Newspaper of The incorporated Village of Farmingdale — Serving Greater Farmingdale, Bethpage and Melville
Vol. 7 No. 33 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thrusday, April 9, 1970
TEACHER NEGOTIATIONS
REACH CRISIS STAGE
There is a possibility of a teachers strike in the Farmingdale Public
Schools, according to Kenneth Deedy, President of Local AFL CIO
Teachers Union. A meeting has been called for next Thursday when
teachers will vote whether to go on strike or not.
School District 22 teachers are presently working without a con­tract;
last year's contract expired on March 31.
In the meantime negotiations continue with meetings set for this
weekend. Negotiations lasted from 4: 30 until 10: 30 p. m. on Monday
and only 20 of the 60 demands of the teachers have been aired in the
four meetings to date, according to Deody.
One of the problems in scheduling the meetings witn the Board's
paid negotiator, Henry Weinstein is that he is also the paid negotiator
of five other school districts and one library district and he is very
busy, said Deedy. He also said that it was a shame that the Far­mingdale
School Board was not in on the negotiations but that the
Carman, Hallahan Sworn;
Mayor Zureck Back
PERB mediator, Lawrence Hammer, who also served as a past
president of the Plainedge Board of Education as did Henry Wein­stein,
was in on it and both were unfamiliar with Farmingdale. Acting
Superintendent Charles Manso sit in on all negotations it was
learned.
Contract negotations between the board and the district teachers
have been delayed a month. The bargaining had been stalled by the
teachers' demand, that selected students attend the sessions. The
plan was opposed by the board. The demand was withdrawn Friday
after L i. vt : . . . * i. Hammer of the Stale Public Employment Relations
Board nixed the idea. The teachers also were upset that the School
Board planned to use a professional negotiator and without a board
member present at the sessions. Board President Mrs. Lucille
Goulding attended the Monday session and said she planned to attend
other meetings.
Luncheon and Evening Meetings Set
for 275th Anniversary Committee Formations
Trustees Willis B. Carman Jr.
and John T. Hallahan were sworn
in Monday night for four year
terms. Each has already served
eight years on the Board.
Mayor Joseph Zureck returned
to his place on the Board after an
illness of six months. He also
returned to his work at Grumman
Aerospace Corporation in Beth-page.
Hallahan was reappointed
Depty Mayor.
Mrs. Mildred Ee Marco was
reappointed to a five year term
on the Planning Board.
Other appointments remained
the same and some of which were
redesignated as by law.
Several luncheon and evening
meetings have been scheduled
for the purpose of forming
committees for the celebration of
the 275th anniversary of Far­mingdale
dating from October 11,
1695, the date of the Bethpage
Purchase from the Indians by
Thomas Powell- The meetings set
by Mrs. Caroline Bunting Klesh,
Farmingdale Village Historian
include a luncheon meeting at the
Thomas Powell home at 33
Merritt Road, Farmingdale on
Tuesday, April 14 at 12 noon. The
cost of the luncheon will be $ 5 in­cluding
a tour. It is in a sense a
fund raising affair so that the
committee will have some petty
cash with which to operate . The
luncheon includes industry,
school and college represen­tatives.
A citizens meeting has been set
for Thursday, April 16 at 8: 30.
A businessmen's get together is
set for Monday, April 20 for Main
Street Merchants at l 00 pm.
Anyone wishing to attend these
• committee meetings and lun­cheons
should call Mrs. Klesh at
799- 1150 or leave their name at
Village Hall, Farmingdale.
The Underhill barn which was traced back to Samuel Willis is being recontstructed at
( he Old Bethpage Village Restoration. It was trasported from Syosset after having been
carefully dismatled. The barn will be on part of the Powell homestead which will be the
oprating farm at the Village. The facility is due to open this spring, according to Nassau
County officials.
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