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VOL. 10 No. 47 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735
Published by THE OBSERVER, Inc., Box 146, Farmingdale, N. Y. Thursday, July 12, 1973 * 15c
Teachers'
Kids Can
Cost More
It is no secret that having children can
be quiet costly. However, for some it can
be much more expensive than for others,
as in the case of one Farmingdale High
School teacher.
Mrs. Cyla Allison of 110 Merritt Street,
North Lindenhurst, has sued the Far­mingdale
School Board for more than
six months back pay she lost as a result
of the district's maternity regulation.
According to the rule, a pregnant teacher
must take leave from the fourth month of
pregnancy to six months after delivery.
Danielle Allison was born July 1971 and
six months had not passed when the new
school year began in September. Mrs.
Allison's case has been ruled in her favor
by both the District Court and the Ap­pellate
Division of State Supreme Court
in Brooklyn, calling the policy one of sex
discrimination. The East Williston
School District has recently been ordered
by the Appellate Division to pay two of
their teachers back pay in case resulting
from an identical maternity- leave policy.
Mrs. Allison teaches media and
English, primarily to juniors and seniors.
She has not taught since . June 1971 when
required to leave, until returning from
the 1972 73 school year.
The Allisons feel that the maternity
policy is hardly a good one and fail to
understand the actions of the school
board on this question that, in itself, is
not a monetary issue. Mrs. Allison claims
to have lost up to $ 7,000 in pay. Actual
compensation will be determined by the
State Human Rights Committee should
no further action be taken.
The school district can now appeal to
the Court of Appeals, the state's highest
court. However, the economics of pur­suing
any further litigations would seem
most unfavorable if Mrs. Allison's
estimates are correct. He says that it
would cost board of education more
money to carry through the appeal than
to pay the damages to Mrs. Allison.
According to Mr. Allison there is another
teacher who is planning to sue the
Farmingdale School Board because she
will not be allowed to return in Sep­tember
1973. The school board could not
be reached to comment on these
statements.
Tobay Reminds
All to Pay Up
Town Receiver of Taxes Solomon
Newborn reminds residents that
although the deadline for paying general
real property taxes for the second half of
1973 was July 1, the law allows a 40 day
period of grace leaving the taxpayers
until August 10 to get the payments to the
Tax Office without penalty.
Newborn said the payments may be
either mailed or brought to the Tax Of­fice
at Oyster Bay Town Hall, Audrey
Avenue, Oyster Bay, N. Y. 11771.
Any payment received after August
will be returned and a 1 per cent penalty
will be levied both the months of July and
August.
Newborn also reminded taxpayers that
the school tax payment will be due on
October 1st, 1973, with the second ball to
in- collected on April 1st, 1973.
Board Has Chief, But
No Vice- President
Robert Campbell was reelected president of the Farmingdale
School Board by a 4- 3 vote at the July 3 organization meeting. No vice-president
was selected since none received the necessary four votes.
For the presidency, Campbell had been nominated by trustee Frank
Ranieri. Robert Weiss, who received the remaining three votes, had
been nominated by trustee Frank Gelish.
C. RAYMOND RADIGAN has been
appointed Deputy Chief Clerk- Referee of
the Surrogate's Court of Nassau County
by Surrogate John D. Bennett. In ad­dition
to his new duties as Deputy Chief
Clerk he will continue as a Referee in the
Surrogate's Court, presiding at pretrial
conferences, making rulings and con­tinuing
to be a member of the court's
Law Department.
Radigan, of 6 Tenth Avenue, who
graduated from Brooklyn Law School
with a Doctor of Juris degree, is a
resident of Farmingdale since 1961 and is
active in manv community affairs.
In the election for Vice- President,
trustee Lucille Goulding nominated
Joseph Molloy, Weiss noinated Gelish,
and Campbell nominated Ranieri. The
vote on the first ballot and on two suc­cessive
ballots was Molloy- 3, Gelish - 2.
and Ranieri - 2. All voting was by secret
ballot by unanimous agreement of the
board.
After the third ballot for vice president
the board left the room and caucused.
When they returned president Campbell
made the announcement that there would
be no vice- president for the moment.
At opening of the meeting Campbell
1.3 Ml!, for Town Hall
With the passage of five resolutions the
Town Board acted to solve a critical
space shortage problem at Town Hall,
Audrey Avenue, Oyster Bay.
The Board action included approval of
a resolution to acquire a neighboring
building - a former theater- through
condemnation proceedings. The theater
building is in the process of being
renovated by its present owner for use as
an office building.
Other related resolutions included an
amendment to the Town Capital Budget
to include $ 1.3 million which it is
estimated will pay for the acquisition and
completion of the building and some
improvements of the present Town Hall
building. Federal Revenue Sharing
Funds were appropriated to pay for the
entire project.
The Board also hired appraiser Walter
J. Smith of Glen Head to evaluate the
land and building to be acquired and it
appointed the engineering firm of Seelye,
Stevenson, Value and Knecht to serve as
consulting engineers on the ex­pansion
renovation project.
Expansion of Town Hall facilities was
one of the recommendations of the Town
Planning Advisory Board and the
professional planning firm of Raymond
Parish and Pine, both of which suggested
the acquisition of the theater building.
Risa Schaber, winner of the Farmingdale Friends of the Library sponsored writing
contest receives her prize books from Mrs. Ruth Slansky, Secretary of the Friends. The
contest was held this spring in conjunction with the Library's year long ;> uth An­niversary
celebration.
Goulding and Bernstein were sworn in
for three year terms. The board reap­pointed
the school clerk, attorney, and
treasurer. Molloy will replace retired
trustee Terry Weathers as Far-mingdale's
representative to the School
Boards Association.
At the business meeting following the
reorganization, several bids were ap­proved.
The student approved. The
student accident insurance policy which
cover both public and parochial school
students portal to portal was awarded to
Beneficial National Life Insurance Co.
for $ 25,931. The deductible on this new
policy has been increased from $ 10 to $ 25,
but the limits have also been increased
from $ 2,500 to $ 10,000 for medical and
from $ 150 to $ 500 lor dental expense-;
The lunch service contract was
awarded to Interstate United Corp with
the low bid of $ 26,000 maximum cost to
the district. Last year with ARA the
maximum cost was $ 42,000. The bid by
ARA for the new year was a maximum
cost of $ 61,005. Lunch costs will remain at
40 cent and 45 cents. An increase of 5
cents per lunch would have eliminated
cost to the district. Interstate United
Corp. has serviced the Uniondale Schools
which have reported good service.
The next regular meeting of the board
of Education will be on Monday, August
6.
Marilyn Hametz
BOCES Checks
To $ 457,402
The Nassau Board of Cooperative
Educational Services ( BOCES) this week
distributed $ 4,554,227 in state aid
reimbursements to the local school
districts of Nassau County. Farmingdale
School District received $ 156,299.11.
making total payments for this year
$ 457,402.51.
The payment was the sixth and final
installment on $ 15,066,731 that was
distributed to the districts by BOCES
during the 1972- 73 school year and in­cluded
the facilities state aid payment of
$ 1,052,453.
This past payment, and the five made
previously, are reimbursements for
BOCKS services purchased by Nassau's
school districts and for facilities aid
during the 1971- 72 academic year Under
the BOCES state aid system, local school
districts pay tuition and fees to send
pupHs to special and occupational
education programs and to subscribe to
data processing and other sen ices
presided by the cooperative board The
state then reimburses the districts
through BOCES under a special formula
Reimbursements average about 60 per
cent of the district's original cost, and
are paid in the year after the costs are
incurred BOCKS aid payments are in
addition to the regular state aid that local
school districts receive directly from
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