1972-06-08

              FARMINGDALE
AN OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE VILLAG
SERVING THE GREATER FARMINGDALE AREA, BETHPAGE MELVILLE
A MEMBER OF THE OBSERVEK/ TRIBUNE GROUP OF NEWSPAPERS
VOL. 9 NO. 4 2 Mcond Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y 11735 m Published by THF. OBSERVER, INC., Box 146, Farmingdale, N. Y Thursday June 8 1972
On the Line Wednesday:
Six Candidates and $ 25 Mil.
There will be slightly over 10,000 residents eligible to vote next Wednesday- to
vote on six candidates for the Farmingdale school board and the Farmingdale
library board, and to vote on expenditures for the schools, library and Youth
Council totaling almost $ 25 mil. If, like last year, less than 60 per cent of the
electorate casts ballots, then the fate of six candidates and the decision of how to
spend close to $ 25 mil. of the public's money rests with some 3,000 people.
JUDGE TO BE HONORED: Presiding Justice Howard Thomas
Hogan of Farmingdale, seen above at a reeent Cerebral Palsy
" Forget - Me- Not' pre- ball meeting in Syosset, has just been awarded
the Distinqujshed Service Medallion of the Nassau Bar Association.
The presentation will be made at the 73rd annual dinner at the
iilonit Hill, Hauppauge, on ' Rqirsday, June 15 Along with an out­standing
legal careen, Judge Hogbn has been ;: rustee u! the Y. i'
of Farmingdale from 1941 to 1947 and- nayor from i » 4/ l>( ..,.,., > ge
By far the biggest chunk,
$ 24,162,866 to be exact, is going
lor the running of the Far­mingdale
public schools. Bet­ween
the estimated revenues of
$ 10,500,700, of which $ 9,925,700 is
made up of state aid, and the
proposed expenditures yawns a
gap of $ 13,662,166. This has to be
made up by the school tax.
Last year's tax rate produced
$ 12,869,274. which this year would
be short by $ 792,892. The school
board therefore proposes to in­crease
the tax rate by 97 cents
per $ 100 assessed valuation in the
Oyster Bay part of the school
district, and by 94 cents in the
Babylon part. For the owner of a
house assessed at $ 6,000 this
would meai', $ 58.20 resp. $ 56.40 in
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School Board Revises Calendar
" Surplus" Staff Granted Leaves
The calendar for the 1972- 1973
School year adopted by the
Farmingdale School Board at
their meeting on Monday evening
includes some departures from
past custom. Next school year,
there will be school on election
day, a winter recess from
February 12 to 19 and Easter
vacation one full week before
Easter Sunday. Approximately
75 percent of the school districts
in Nassau County are adopting
this calendar for reasons of
uniformity, which is of particular
importance for students in
BOCES.
Included in the board's actions
on personnel were the granting of
one year leaves without pay to
fifteen elementary school
teachers who had been declared
" surplus" primarily because of
the decreasing in elementary
enrollment. The teachers were
granted leaves rather than given
dismissals. They now can
continue to pay medical in­surance,
contribute to
retirement, and maintain their
place on the seniority list which
enable them to be moved into the
regular substitute pool.
The resignation of school
psychologist, Dr. Gilbert
Jackofsky, was accpeted by the
board. He is leaving to accept a
position as chief psychologist at
Brunswick Hospital. Ap­pointments
of twenty five
teachers for elementary summer
school were also approved. All
costs ol this program are paid
from Federal Funds under
ESEA.
The retirements of five
teachers with a total of 152 years
of teaching were approved with
commendation. They are Frank
Cole, William Wagner and
Clifford White of the High School,
Ella Ingalls of Parkway Oaks and
Jeanette Cole of East Memorial
Trustee Terry Weathers
proposed a resolution that the
" New York State School Boards
Association sponsor and support
state aid legislation that will
combine local cost control with
commenusurate state cost
sharing." The suggested formula
would increase the per pupil
operating aid ceiling most for
those school districts with the smallest
increases in their per pupil ex­penditures.
According to
Weathers, this type of formula
would provide " a more equitable
distribution of the per pupil cost
increase burden'' and would
answer " the concern of
legislators and others that an
increase in state sharing would
result in still higher school ex­penditures."
Trustees Lucille Goulding and
Tom Lavan voted against this
resolution which a majority of the
board approved. Trustee
Goulding was opposed to the
resolution since " it rewards
a school district for what it cuts"
which could be detrimental to the
educational program.
As advertised in the legal
notices, the annual meeting will
be on June 13 at 8: 30 P. M. in
Howitt. The order of discussion
will be Youth Council Budget,
Library Budget and School
Budget.
Marilyn Hametz
The major portion goes for
salaries of teachers and ad­ministrators,
which are budgeted
at close to $ 15 mil. Costs based on
salaries make up another $ 3.5
mil.
According to Louise Proefriedt,
who is one of the candidates for
the school board, some 101 em­ployees
of the school district, a
majority of them administrators,
receive $ 18,000 or more in annual
salaries.
The next big item, amounting
to somewhat over $ 2.1 mil., is
made up of debt service. Slightly
more than $ 1 mil. of this is
repayment of the original
( principal) mortgage debt, the
rest interest payments for
mortgage and some short- term
indebtedn&.' V On the revenue
carried as earned iwVele( J>' i" o.. the
general and construction fund.
Expenditures for the Board of
Cooperative Educational Ser­vices
( BOCES), primarily for
specialized vocational courses
and for education of the retarded
and handicapped, amount to
almost $ 1 mil., of which close to
$ 600,000 are returned via state
aid. An additional BOCES income
item this year would be $ 78,000 in
line with budget proposition No.
6, which asks the voters approval
to rent Main Street school to
BOCES for a maximum term of
live years.
According to an analysis
prepared by the school board,
major increases for the coming
budget year result from
negotiated salary increases and
salary increments, increased
cost of social security, health
insurance, retirement and for
substitutes as well as various
maintenance costs.
Economies were affected by
the dropping of 21 teaching
positions, and one principal, one
librarian and one clerk. Further
personnel cuts involve one
psychologist and one
warehouseman. These savings
District Elections at a Glance
On Wednesday, June 14, residents of school district 22, will vote on the school budget, the library
budget and the Youth Council budget. Voting will take place from 10: 00 a. m. to 10: 00 p. m. at
Howitt Junior High School gymnasium, Grant and VanCott Avenues.
The annual meeting of the board of education will be held on Tuesday, June 13. at 8: 30 p. m. at
Howitt.
Other items on the ballot to be voted upon by the residents are:
Election of 2 members of the Board of Education for 3- year terms.
Election of 1 member of the Library Board for a 5- year term.
An additional appropriation for the Public Library to purchase library books in addition to the
amount allocated in the proposed budget.
A proposition to permit issuance of bonds to provide funds to install fire detection and vandalism
alarm systems in all school buildings.
A proposition to rent the Main Street School to the Board of Cooperative Educational Services of
Nassau County.
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total $ 394,627, according to the
school board's computation, with
another $ 112,000 saved by the
board's decision not to grant
sabbatical leaves anymore.
The original number of five
school board candidates has now
been reduced to four after the
withdrawal of Vincent Pullo.
Louise K. Proefriedt and Frank
V. Ranieri are battling for the
seat being vacated by Thomas J.
Lavan, and Raymond E. Parcels
is opposing incumbent school
board member Robert I. Weiss,
who is running to succeed him­self.
The other two budgets to be
voted upon appear to be mini-sized
in comparison with the
school budget- the library budget
offered at $ 440 410, and the Youth
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Pullo Pulls Out
From Candidacy
. . Where there were originally
five, there are now only four.
The field of candidates for the
two open seats on the Far­mingdale
school board was
reduced by one due to the
withdrawal of Vincent Pullo.
An employee of the school
district, Pullo apparently was
not aware that he could not
have served on the school
board even if he had been
elected.
Since Pullo's resignation as
candidate came after the
official registration deadline,
his name will still appear on
the ballot. Any vote for Pullo,
however, will be a lost vote,
benefitting neither of the
remaining candidates.
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Council budget presented at an
even lower figure of $ 172,881.
The library budget carries an
increase of $ 60,545. or 9 cents per
$ 100 assessment. In a separate
proposition voters are asked if
they want to approve a sup­plemental
expenditure of $ 50,000
for additional book purchases,
which would add another 5 cents
to the tax rate.
One seat on the library board is
contested, presently held by Rose
Foucek. who is running to suc­ceed
herself. The contestant is
Jean Looney
The Youth Council's budget as
proposed is actually $ 617 lower
than the current one The tax rate
nevertheless would have to be
increased by a little over 1 cent
because last year a surplus of
$ 2,500 existed This surplus now
has vanished and additional tax
revenue will have to fill the hole.