Bethpage-Tribune_1971-05-13

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Vol. 5 No. 27 Thursday, May 1 3 ,1971
Old Bethpage
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Makes Public Planning Survey
TOB Supervisor Burke Hard At Work
PETITIONS: Oyster Bay Town Councilman Salvatore
Mosca, right, helps Roland Rasch, president of Action
for Preservation of the North Shore of Long Island,
display petitions containing more than 30,000
signatures which were presented to state officials
recently following a march to draw attention to the
plight of the Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery. The
hatchery, which is operated by the state, was
scheduled to be closed because of cutbacks in the state
budget. Mosca and the Town Board have indicated
their support for.those groups seeking to keep the
hatchery operating.
TOB Goes On Austerity
Supervisor John W. Burke
today took steps to prevent a
major 1971 Town budgetary crisis
as a result of state aid reductions
by ordering the Town Comp­troller
to place a freeze on all
unencumbered funds and to
recommend areas where cut­backs
can be effected.
Burke's announcement came
after a meeting on May 10, 1971
with Department heads and
Town Board members in which
he explained that losses in state
aid make program reductions
essential.
"We must move now," Burke
said, "to prevent a fiscal crisis in
the ensuing months on 1971. Some
of our plans were developed on
the fact that we .would be in
receipt of substantial state aid.
The legislature voted a cut in aid
and this has set off a chain
reaction. We also have con­tractual
obligations based on
agreements with the Civil Ser­vice
Employees Association
which have a direct bearing on
gudgetary requirements and the
state aid loss."
Burke outlined the areas where
he said the Town would tighten its
fiscal belt to offset the ap­proximately
$1 million dollar loss
in state aid without reducing
essential services or laying off
present employees.
He said (A) Town beaches
would operate on the basis of a
reduced season. (B) A job freeze
has been instituted with no new
personnel to be hired or existing
vacancies to be filled except
where absolutely necessary. (C)
A major reduction in the
budgeted cost of seasonal per­sonnel.
(D) A sharp reduction in
the previously planned Town
Security program. (E) Cur-iilmenl
of the Town
Beautification program. (F) A
freeze on unencumbered funds
which will eliminate planned
equipment purchases and all
types of supplies including
typewriters, desks, etc.
The Supervisor said these
measures + would not reduce
essential services and " would
enable us to minimize the effect
of the loss of state funds.
"The alternative," Burke said,
"is deficit financing of the
operating budget and that would
lead us to eventual fiscal
disaster."
Recycling Locations
Oyster Bay Town has added
two locations'to its original ex­perimental
center for glass
recycling, according to Town
Supervisor John W. Burke.
The additional sites are at the
Town Highway Department
facilities located on Lake Avenue
in Oyster Bay hamlet and Car­men's
Road, south of Sunrise
Highway, Massapequa. The
Town has been^ operating a
reception area at 'the Town in­cinerator
in Old Bethpage since
January.
Each of the locations are
provided with barrels marked by
color. Glass and bottles must
have all paper labels and metals
removed and be free of viscous
materials. The glass should be
separated by color: flint (white
or clear), amber (brown) and
green. Aluminum cans can be
differentiated from other metals
by their seamless construction
and lighter weight.
Burke said the recycling
centers will be open from dawn to
dusk for the convenience of
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John W. Burke, Supervisor of
the Town of Oyster Bay, today
released the results of a study
authorized by the Town last
November to achieve maximum
citizen participation in the Town
Board's efforts to develop a
Master Plan.
Burke said the study, un­dertaken
at no cost to the Town,
was made by the Town planning
consultant, the firm of Raymond,
Parish & Pine, via a random
sampling of 10,000 households
throughout Oyster Bay.
Nearly 2,700 valid responses
were received from residents of
unincorporated areas, an
unusually high return con­sidering
the length of the-questionnaire,
which asked 30
separate questions and called for
as many as 53 sub-questions.
The high degree of return of the
questionnaire was emphasized
further by the lengthy answers
and letters written in reply to
some of the open-end questions.
The survey, which is a part of
the data - gathering process done
in preparation for a Master Plan,
will- provide valuable insights
into the needs and desires of
residents correlated to family
size, income, journey-to-work,
shopping habits, recreational
outlets, occupations, etc.
Burke said he thought the
questionnaire offered residents
an opportunity to participate in
the Town's planning process in a
meaningful manner. The
Supervisor said that further
participation will be welcomed in
the series of public hearings the
town will soon hold on its plan­ning
goals and objectives.
(Capsule of facts obtained in
the survey are as follows:
CAPSULE NOTES FROM THE
COMMUNITY OPINION
SURVEY OF OYSTER BAY
TOWN
The typical respondent is a
comfortable, well-educated
homeowner with two cars and a
white - collar job, who moved to
Oyster Bay 10 to 20 years ago and
is glad he did.
The typical household head is
male, in his late thirties or for­ties,
with at least some college
education; he is a professional, or
an owner, manager or official. In
general, he drives to work,
perhaps complaining about
traffic congestion if he works in
New York City.
The average household size of
4.19 is Jtikely to be somewhat
larger"' than the average size
which will be reported in the 1970
census because the questionnaire
specifically asked respondents to
include children at college, in the
armed forces, etc., a group not
included in census - defined
households. In fact, this group (of
children not living at home) is
likely to be large in Oyster Bay as
a proportionally large group of
teen-age children were reported.
Only 14 per cent of the
household heads did not complete
high school. Over 27 per cent
completed college and one in five
completed one or more years of
graduate work. Educational
attainment varied widely in
various parts of the Town. In
Jericho and Syosset - Woodbury,
over half of the household heads
had at least completed college.
Few Oyster Bay families are -
living in poverty, as frequently
defined; only 46 families or 1.8
per cent reported an annual
family income of less than $4,000.
Two out of five respondents
reported yearly incomes under
$15,000, most of these were in the
$10,000 to $14,999 range.
Most varts of the Town
reported, incomes clustered
between $10,000 and $25,000. In
Syosset - Woodbury and Jericho,
over one - third reported incomes
of $25,000 or over - while in
Plainedge, for example, only 1
per cent were in that relatively
high income bracket.
The largest single age group
•were the 35 - to - 49 year olds, tout.
the 15 - 19 year olds were the
second largest. In some districts,
however, nearly one - quarter of
the population is 50 years old-or
over — i.e. Locust Valley and the
North Shore district.
About 42 per cent work in
Manhattan - Brooklyn - Queens;
the same proportion in Nassau
County. In fact, 22 per cent work
within the Town of Oyster Bay
but only 6 per cent are employed
in bordering Suffolk.
Only eight people in the survey
take a bus to work, but many let-
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NCPA Elects Officers
Scholarship In Memory of
Edward J. Speno To be Awarded
. Holly Patterson To Be Recipient of "Grass Roots" Award
At the. April 30th meeting of the
Nassau County Press
Association, the members
unanimously accepted the slate
presented by the nominating
committee, Glory Amsterdam,
Wantagh-Seaford Citizen; Fred
Simon, Elmonitor; and Murray
Rosen, L.I. Examiner. The new
officers of the 57 member weekly
newspaper organization are;
Joseph Merendino, Farmingdale
Post, President;. Vice-presidents,
James Carr, Nassau Illustrated
News; Florence Cullem, Beth­page
Tribune; Irene Harris,
Nassau Star; George Miller of
the Long Island Graphic will
serve as Corresponding
Secretary and Emily Giblen of
the Floral Park & Franklin
Square Bulletin as Recording
Secretary; Charles Warner of the
East Rockaway Observer was re­elected
Treasurer. The outgoing
President, Martin Weiss of the
Westbury Times, was elected to
the Board of Trustees, which also
includes Nicholas Napoli,
Baldwin Citizen; Glory Am­sterdam,
Wantagh-Seaford
Citizen; Fred Simon, Elmonitor;
and Murray Rosen, L.I.
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Examiner.
The Association will hold its
annual Grass Roots Award
Dinner on October 3rd, with A.
Holly Patterson the ' recipient of
the award, In addition, to this
award, the Press Association will
present a $500 Edward J. Speno
Memorial Scholarship. Four
additional $250 scholarships will
be awarded to four seniors in
Nassau County High Schools for
their accomplishments in the
field of journalism. These 4
scholarships will be presented in
memory of deceased publishers
who were members of the
organization: Fred Bauer-schmidt,
South Shore Reporter;
Fred Noeth, Mid-Island Herald;
James Doyle, Stewart Manor
Mail; and Dorothy Ford, Port
Washington Mail.
EDWARD J . SPENO A., HOLLY PATTERSON