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An Official Newspaper far the Village of Farmingdale
VOL^ TNO. 32 Second Class Postage Paid
In Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, June 20, 1974
Copyright 1974 by
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MTA Tax Relief Vetoed Again
Costing Taxpayers
$ 300,000 Per Year
For the fourth time in as many years, a bill to ease the
added burden placed on Farmingdale taxpayers by the
MTA take over of Republic airport has been vetoed by
the governor. Gov Malcolm Wilson, following in the
footsteps of his predecessor, nixed the measure on the
final deadline day of bills passed by the legislature.
f, 1 Although word has been
Saturday
EXPLOSION AND FIRE, resulting from a build- up of sawdust, ripped open the superstructure at the
Flair Fold Industrial plant on East Carman's Road last Thursday afternoon. The East Farmingdale
Fire Dept. quickly brought the fire under control. No one was injured in the blast.
[ Post photo by Bob Starrett]
Regents Cheating Gives
F'dale Students A Choice
In the light of the recent
scandal of stolen regents tests in
several high schools in New York
City, Farmingdale High School
had to revise its policy and
schedule where these state
regents examinations were
concerned. For most students it
means no tests this year.
All Farmingdale High School
Students and a small number of
ninth graders in the junior high
schools, who were scheduled to
take the regents examinations
which were discovered stolen and
the answers offered for sale in the
city school areas, will not be
required to take any tests at all.
Students who were passing the
courses in question would receive
their yearly average as a passing
grade with full regents credit.
However, if they elect to do so,
they may take a regents test at a
later date if they wish the op­portunity
to raise their regents
grade.
Students who were failing these
courses have a more difficult
decision to make. Each student
who is failing one of the
questioned subjects has been
notified by his or her teacher of
that subject by telephone. The
student was given the option of
taking a school prepared
examination and getting regents
credit for the course if he passed
or accepting the failure and
repeating the course.
A p p r o x i m a t e l y 350
examinations at the high school
fall into this category and the
same student who is doing badly
in more than one subject may be
counted in two or more of these
tests.
Junior high school students
could fall into the same difficulty
in Biology and algebra courses.
New Type Tax Relief?
| n testimony given yesterday
before the Temporary New York
State Commission on State and
Local Finances in Farmingdale,
Abe Seldin, chairman of the
Nassau County Board of
Assessors, proposed new " circuit
breaker" legislation aimed at
Soviding property tax relief for
e middle class homeowners
throughout the state.
" The little guy is getting
caught in the tax squeeze,"
asserted Seldin. " It's time to
adopt new progressive legislative
programs to help him survive
during these times of high taxes
and inflation."
Presently existing in twenty-two
( 22) states across the
country, " circuit breaker"
legislation was first proposed in
the late 1960' s. It is so termed to
protect family income from
property tax " over4oad" the
[ Continued on page 12}
Last Day
To Register
This Saturday, June 22, will be
the last chance Farmingdale
voters will have to register to
vote in the upcoming school
budget election, scheduled for
June 29.
Voters who have not voted in
the last two years in a school
election must register this
Saturday at Weldon E. Howitt
Junior High School between 12
noon and 10 p. m. Voting
registration in any other election,
village, town, county or national
does not count toward
registration in the school district*.
Voting on the revised school
budget, library budget and a
$ 115,000 maintenance proposition
will be conducted at Howitt on
Saturday, June 29, from 10 a. m.
to 10 p. m.
Tobay Plans
Compact Trash
The Oyster Bay Town Board
voted today to amend its capital
budget to make funds available
for the purchase of a high- density
solid waste compaction system
that could double the life of its
existing landfill.
Town Supervisor John W.
Burke said that the compaction
system - which will include the
latest resource recovery
equipment - will replace a bulk
burner formerly proposed in the
capital program and eliminate
the need for costly annual
maintenance repairs necessary
to maintain air pollution control
systems mandated for a bulk
burner system.
Burke said the system and the
building to house it would cost
[ Continued on page 12]
received from Albany that the
veto had been imposed, no of­ficial
veto message stating the
reasons for the governor's action
have been released.
In effect this leaves 13,000
Farmingdale taxpayers in the
position of subsidizing the state
Metropolitan Transportation
Authority owned airport to the
tune of $ 300,000 per year.
This year's bill was the mildest
of the four bills to pass both
houses of the legislature only to
meet the governor's veto after
the close of the legislative
session. The bill would have
frozen the assessment on the
MTA property at its present level
until other promised growth
materialized.
So far the state has taken over
property valued in excess of
$ 1,800,000 and has been writing it
off of the tax rolls at a rate of
$ 300,000 per year.
Under the provisions of the
Real Property Law section 545,
under which the land was taken,
the improved facilities made by
the state to the land is supposed
to equal the amount of the annual
reduction the state takes off the
local tax rolls. This is based on
anticipated growth, but the state
is under no obligation other than
to anticipate.
The law provides that the state
can remove the land from the tax
rolls at a faster rate if the growth
of the area is faster or greater
than the anticipated scale. But, it
does not provide for the reverse
... the lack of growth ... which is
true in the case of the Republic
area.
Thus far the only noted
progress to changing the
Republic property into the
transportation hub of Long Island
by the MTA is the installation of
new runway lights at the airport
and a new foul weather landing
system.
Assemblyman Philip Healey
( R- llth . dist.) had been the
sponsor of the bill in the
assembly and the driving force
behind this bill for the past four
years. This year he had help from
freshman Assemblyman Stuart
Levine ( R- lOth dist.) and Senator
Owen Johnson.