1971-06-03

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Thursday, June 3, 1971
MEMORIAL DAY 1971 Unanimous V dry Board Passes
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Budget With 47* Cents Hike
As a source that can inflame passions, as it has in the
past and get citizens up in arms, the Board of Trustees
of the Farmingdale Library looked pretty tame last
Tuesday night. It met to acquaint the public with its
proposed budget- the public consisting of 16 residents.
And where acrimony has reigned at times, amity shone
forth blissfully, with the result that the budget was
adopted and the meeting over in less than 30 minutes.
If as a rule budget proposals
create dissension and arguments,
this one was the exception.
Asking for $ 69,400.00 more than
last year's budget of $ 364,500.00,
no one stood up to condemn board
president Altmann and his fellow
trustees Jacovsky. Callahan and
Crocco. And although four
residents announced their can­didacy
for the two board seats
open for contention, including
incumbent trustee Callahan, no
one indulged in electioneering.
As proposed and adopted the
library board asks for a budget of
$ 433,900.00. Not all of the dif­ference
of $ 69,400.00 between the
current and the upcoming budget
has to be made up by an increase
in the tax levy, though. The
library will raise some funds
internally through fines and fees,
which are anticipated in the
amount of $ R>. 0Ou, 0O, and will use
another £ u/. c*\ ft. CH, which are on
hand already.
Last year's budget of
$ 364,500.00 included $ 11,635.00 of
such internal funds, so that
$ 352,865.00 had to be raised by
taxes. Deducting the sum of
$ 37,000.00 income for 1971/ 72
from the adopted budget of
$ 433,900 brings the amount to be
raised by taxation for the coming
fiscal year to $ 396,900.
The result of this somewhat
complicated arithmetic is a
budget hole of $ 44,035.00. And this
means a hike in the tax rate of
approx. 4M> cents, which in the
case of a home assessed at
$ 6,000.00 would come to $ 2.70 per
year in additional taxes
All four board members ex­pressed
rare unanimity in
presenting this budget. Trustee
Jacovsky would liked to have
seen a larger budget but, as he
said, realized that the public's
demands for economy had to be
heeded. Trustee Crocco warned
that there was no hidden fat in the
budget and that the board could
do nothing more but resubmit it
in its present form if it should be
defeated at the polls.
And, unanimous once more, the
board issued an urgent plea to the
residents of Farmingdale to
accept this library budget as the
barest minimum possible under
present circumstances.
ELECTION GUIDE
The vote for the school budget, the library budget, the Youth
Council budget, a 3 year transportation contract two members of
the Board of Education for 3 year terms and two members for the
Library Board of Trustees ( one for 5 years and one for one year)
will be held on Wednesday, June 9 from 10 a. m. - 10 p. m. at the
boy's gym of Farmingdale Senior High School.
Preceding the election by a day will be the z? nuAl m « v " *.*
the school board, which takes ^ the Horary boa
matters coming up for
starting at 8: 30 p. m., also at the High School boy's gym
g will be the last public hearing on all
; n^ « i ^ „ v l t is held on Tuesday,
A copy of the school budget may be obtained at the school
district's administration building, 521 Conklin Street, or at the
principal's office of any of the nine schools in the district from 9
a. m. - 4 p. m.
Anti- Noise Law Passed in Albany
Measure Sponsored by Assemblyman Ginsberg is a Historic First
For the first time in history a state legislature has passed a
measure calling for effective noise abatement measurers. Assem­blyman
Martin Ginsberg's legislation authorizing the State
Department of Environmental Conservation to formulate and adopt
regulations for effective noise abatement has passed the New York
State Legislature and now awaits the Governor's signature.
" I have been negotiating with
the Governor's office on the noise
control bill and am hopeful of the
Governor's approval." said
Ginsberg.
The bill authored by Assem­blyman
Ginsberg calls for the
designation and establishment of
areas and prescribing the extend
of noise pollution allowable in
each of them.
Several factors, he said,
demand passage of noise
abatement legislation now:
1.) More noise- producing
devices are being used in the
home.
2.) Current building designs
and techniqes are not producing
as much sound isolation as in the
past.
3.) Larger and higher speed
machinery in industries are
being employed.
4.) Larger transportation
vehicles, moving at higher
speeds, and more traffic volume
in most areas, are creating more
noise than even before.
5.) Greater numbers of con­struction
projects are adding to
the noise experienced by the
public.
Assemblyman Ginsberg said:
" A person's right to be free of
noise annoyance, for health or
just personal reasons, is just as
important as any other right.
Whether he wants a peaceful
sleep or because the noise could
be piercing or harmful to his
ears, a person is entitled to
protection under state or federal
law to be free of what is now
called ' noise pollution." This bill
is a start in that direction."
Farmingdale School Bill
In Race With The Clock
Slowly, but surely the hours are
ticking away. A restless
Legislature is squirming in
Albany to get home, kept there
with unfinished business longer
than the legislators anticipated
and desired. And part of this
unfinished business is the bill to
hold the Farmingdale school
district harmless from the
revenue loss resulting from the
take- over of the tax- paying
Kepublic Airfield by the tax-exempt
Metropolitan Trail
spoliation Authority.
Sponsored by Sen. Ralph
Marino, u bill to that end has, as
reported last week, passed the
Senate. It then was handed over
to the Rules Committee of the
Assembly where its language
was changed and enlarged upon.
As this newspaper went to
press a move was under way to
get it out to the floor of the
Assembly for a vote. Entered
already on the floor agenda as
item No. 12, time becoming of the
essence ever more. Once through
the Assembly, provided it passes
this test, and accompanied by the
Rules Committee's blessings, it
would have to be returned to the
Senate for a revote.
This, however, could be a mere
routine if the change of content in
the Assembly kept intact the
intent of the bill as originally
expressed by the Senate's ver­sion.