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VOL.19N0..21 Week of Aug. 23 - Aug. 29,1984' 20 cents per copy
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The 1984-85 Nassau County School Tax Roll
shows a total taxable value of $3,713,928,758,
according to figures released today by Abe Seldin,
Chairman of the Nassau County Board of Asses­sors.
This is an increase over the previous year's
figures of $38,259,303 or 1.041 percent.
Seldin said this is the largest dollar increase in
taxable value in the school assessment roll since
1970-71 and the largest percent increase since
1972-73..
The school tax roll is used to levy school-taxes
in every Nassau County community except Glen
Cove where the school tax is part of the city tax
and based on the city's assessment roll.
Seldin attributed the increase to new construc­tion
and an increase in the special franchise
assessments. Special franchise is the tax utilities
payfor the right to string poles arid wires in public
rights of way. Special franchise assessments are
up $9 million, compared with a $3 millioin
increase last year.
New construction is up 23.6 percent for 1984-85
according to Seldin, following a 19 percent
increase the year before. "These figures," Seldin
said, "indicate how strong the Nassau County
economy is. And, he maintained, "the growth is
county wide."
"Perhaps the most important aspect of the new
tax roll is how few school districts showed a
decrease in assessment~7 compared with 18 last
year. And even in those districts where the
assessment roll decreased, the decrease was much
smaller than it has been in the past few years. No
district showed a decrease of more than 1.11 per­cent
in total taxable valuation," Seldin revealed.
"Last year, the largest decrease was 3.21 percent.
Legal challenges to commercial assessments
continue to be a problem. Without them, the
assessment increase would have been approxi­mately
$15 million higher.
Some of the new construction projects which
led to the largest increase in 14 years include office
buildings in Mitchell Field, Plainview, Hicksville,
North Hills and Lake Success, the expansion and
remodeling of Green Acres Shopping Center in
Valley Stream, and condominiums being deve­loped
throughout the county.
Fifty-five school districts showed increases in
assessment while only 7 showed decreases. The
five school districts with the largest increases in
assessments were: Uniondale 8.46%; Woodbury
5.01%; Herricks 3.51%; Syosset 3.13%; and Jeri­cho
2.93%.
The five school districts with the largest
decreases in assessment were: Hempstead 1.11%;
Lynbrook 0.69%; East Rockaway 0.62%; Rock-ville
Centre and Freeport 0.09%.
The enclosed charts provide a district-by-district
comparative breakdown of assessed
Grumman Founder To
Hall of Honor
The late Leroy R. Grum­man
olPlandome Manor, a
founder and first chairman
and president of the com­pany
that bears his name,
was recently inducted into
the U.S. Naval Aviation
Hall of Honor at Pensacola.
Fla.
His son, David L. Grum­man
of Evanston, Illinois, .
attended the ceremony, as
did George M, Skurla,
chairman and president of
Grumman Aerospace
Corporation.
Leroy Grumman, who
died in 1982 at 87, was one of
six founders-ol--t-he- com­pany.
While serving as its
iirst,president and its first'
chairman, Grumman guided
the company from its incep­tion
in December 1929 at the
beginning of the Great
Depression to its develop­ment
in the mid-Sixties of
the Lunar Module (LM) for
the nation's Apollo
Program.
Born in 1895 in Hunting­ton,
Long Island, Grumman
received a bachelor of
science degree from Cornell
University in 1916. The out­break
of World War I in
1917 prompted him to join
the U.S. Navy as a machi­nist's
nate, second class.
Shortly afterward, he app­lied
for aviation duty.
At League Island, he met
two aviation pioneers,
Albert and Grover Loening.
it was for the Leoning
Aeronautical Engineering
Company that Grumman
went to M'ork in 1920 after
leaving the Navy, first as test
pilot, then factory manager,
and finally general manager.
The company was located in
Manhattan.
Grumman and 'five asso­ciates
decided to stay on*
Long Island, and with about
$65,000-of their own money
and $30,000 from the Loen-ings,
opened for business on
January 2, 1930, as the
Grumman Aircraft Engi­neering
Corporation.
Grumman served as pres­ident
throughout the com-valuations
for 1984-85 and 1983-84. Please note
that several s.chool districts are located within two
t6wnships and that three, Amityville, Farming-dale
and Cold Spring Harbor, straddle the
Nassau-Suffolk county line.
in order to arrive at the percent increase or
decrease for a school district in two towns, it is
necessary to add together the component parts
and figure the percentages for the totals. For
example, the percent increase in the Jericho
School District in North Hempstead is 4.05%.
The percent increase in the Jericho School Dis­trict
in Oyster Bay is 2.87%. The percent increase
for the whole District is 2.93%.
Leroy R. Grumman
pany's formative years,
when it grew from a repair
shop for Loening amphibi­ans
to the premier builder of
aircraft for the U.S. Navy.
His numerous engineering
innovations resulted in the
first retractable landing gear
on a production military
aircraft and a unique way of
folding the wings of carrier-based
aircraft that ptermitted
a SO percent increase in the
number of aircraft a carrier
could accomm.pdate.
In 1946 Grumman relin­quished
the presidency, but
remained as chairman of the
board. During the next 20
years, he led the company
into the jet age and then the
space age. When he retired
in 1966 as chairman, the
company was in the midst of
building LM ~ the ship that
carried astronauts to the
moon. In 1966, Grumman
was elected honorary board
chairman for life, but con­tinued
as a director. He
retired as a director in 1972,,
becoming director emeritus
and continuing as honorary
chairman, both of which
titles he retained until his
death.
Many awards have been
bestowed upon Leroy
Grumman during his long
aviation career. For his
achievements in naval avia­tion,
he received the highest
civilian award, the Presiden­tial
Medal for Merit, bes­towed
on him by the first
Secretary of Defense, James
S/. Forrestal in 1948. In that
same year he was awarded
the Daniel Guggenheim
Medal for "pioneering in
aeronautics." In 1968, he
became the. first recipient of
the National Academy of
Science's Hunsicker Medal
"for his contributions to
aeronautical engineering."
Grumman is also enshrined
in the Aviation Hall of Fame
at Dayton, Ohio, and in the
Long Island Hall of Fame.