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in Farmlngdaki, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, April 24, 1975 Copyright 1975 by
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Overflow Crowd At Budget Hearing
Board Predicts Another
$ 400,000 Cut In budget
Farmingdale residents overcrowded Guilford Hall for
Monday night's school budget hearing, forcing the
Board of Education to move the meeting to the larger
High school auditorium. Although there was some ob­jection
voiced to the programs cut from the budget,
most of the taxpayers present supported the board's
position, urging further reductions in the budget and to
the tax n
THE BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION was officially opened test Friday afternoon at Mill Lane
Junior High School as the U. S. Army Color Guard lowered the SO star flag and raised in its place the 13
star flag representing the 13 original states. Students bearing replicas of various revolutionary war
flags encircled the main flag pole during the ceremony. [ Post photo by Bob Starrett]
Two More Candidates File
For School Bd. Election
Frank Ranieri, vice president
of the Farmingdale Board of
Education has announced his
candidacy for re- election to the
Farmingdale Board of
Frank Ranieri
Education;
Ranieri has been a resident of
Farmingdale for seven years and
is the father of three girls who
attend private school and the
Farmingdale Senior High School.
He is a graduate of Poly tech
Institure of Electronical
Engineering with a Bachelor's
Degree.
He is the President of the
Dolphin Green Civic Association
of Farmingdale, an organization
which performs community
service for the betterment of the
Farmingdale area.
' The reason I have decided to
seek re- election," Ranieri said,
" is because I have developed
basic knowledge and experience
these past three years on the
board and I now feel that 1 can
better understand, develop and
support our educational system.
As Curriculum Chairman, I have
been totally receptive to and have
supported innovations of
curriculum so that our students
will be better prepapred to cope
with our rapidly changing world.
" I am concerned with Far­mingdale
having the number one
tax rate of Nassau County and at
the same time ranking near the
bottom in ability to pay for our
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Loyally Day
Parade Sun.
Farmingdale's 20th annual
Loyalty Day Parade and
program, under the sponsorship
of tiie Corporal George Benkert
Jr. Post 516, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, will be held. this Sunday,
April 27, beginning at 1 p. m. at
the Ellsworth W. Allen Memorial
Park on Motor Avenue.
Speakers at the pre- parade
program will include local of­ficials
and State Senators and
Assemblymen.
The parade will then leave
Allen Park and march east on
Motor Avenue to Main Street,
proceed north on Main Street to
Conklin St., turning east on
Conklin to Cherry Street, then
south on Cherry Street to Fred
Murray Parking Lot where it will
disband.
The parade and program will
be over at 4 p. m.
Any organization interested in
participating in the parade
should contact James Buske,
parade chairman, at 293- 4486.
Youth Council
Cuts Budget
After several months of closely
scrutinizing the various requests
, of its member group of the
Budget Committee has reduced
the amount of tax funds needed
by 12,684 despite rising costs and
general inflationary conditions.
" According to Council President,
Lucille Meyerson, this reduction
was created by full cooperation of
the organizations and the goal of
providing good programs while
reducing the total budget.
The total request of $ 178,760
will be offset by special aid from
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The board outlined and ex­plained
the reductions made to
the budget" that produced the
$ 400,000 cut announced last week.
They also pointed out that
coupled with the $ 300,000 that
they saved in reserve from the
present year's budget, the board
had actually saved $ 700,000 thus
far.
One board member told the
Post that the goal of the board's
majority is to cut another
$ 400,000 from the budget, but
without further reducing any
present programs.
The objections made to the cuts
already made to the budget were
mostly to the reductions in the
Foreign language in elementary
schools and the fourth year of
social studies in the high school.
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Hardscrabble
Contest Vote
Ends May 3
The final deadline for voting for
the contestants of the Master and
Miss Hardscrabble Contest has
been set for May 3 and the win­ners
will be announced in the
May 8 edition of the Post. During
the critical two weeks of the
contest, however, all ballots
MUST be stamped by the issuing
stores or they will not be counted
in the final tally.
Leaders in the race for the $ 100
bond and $ 50 runner- up prize for
Master Hardscrabble is Robert
Meagher with 997 votes. He is
followed by Gregory Thompson
with 952, Eric Kuck with 739 and
Vincent Cote with 668.
In the race for Miss Hard­scrabble
Patricia Heckman leads
this week with 2043 votes with
Patti and Maurine Rooney and
Mary Malone tightly knotted for
the runner- up honors. Any of the
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