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Freeport Due for
Revenue Sharino
' Rep. Norman F. Lent announced this week that Free-port
would soon be receiving $205,766 under President
Nixon's soon-to-he-passed Revenue Sharing bill. The South
Shore Congressman was a sponsor of the Revenue Sharing
plan in the House.
.•c? Frceport's share is a sizeable portion of the $15 million
total which\ will be coming back to Nassau County from
Washington] and the Village should be receiving its check
for the firjst six months sometime in October.
Rep. Lent hailed the Revenue Sharing plan as "an im­portant
first step in sending back to the people of Free-port
some of the tax dollars they've been sending to Wash­ington
for so long with little appreciable return."
Congressional action on the Revenue Sharing bill is
expected before the mid-October adjournment.
Freeport Mayor Robert Sweeney said at the open Vfllage
Board meeting Monday night that no discussion as to the
use of the monies had been held as yet pending final Con-
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The consensus of the 43 people
attending the public meeting of
the Village Board Monday night
was that Freeport "is going to the
dogs," be it by the November
election on a $30,000 full-time-
Mayor's post, vandalism in one
section of the northeast un­checked
by proported un-derstaffmg
of Uie Village PoUce
Department, or just by the four-legged
animals themselves. That
|Jus Jomer Rand's reference to
"paranoia" onth% part of Mayor
Robert Sweeney as well as the
charge that the official "has been
doing a di^ervice to this com­munity
for the past twelve years
just by sitting up there," would
amply describe the atinosphere
of the meeting which followed Uie
hot and heavy, but only slighUy
better attended, meeting a week
prior to air tiie matter of placing
Uie salary of Freeport's Mayor at
lainoor (up from the present
f?,0(» for Uie part-time post) as a
public referendum on the
November ballot Uius creating a
full-time position.
The "same old faces, the same
old names" who last week
questioned Uie vaUdity of Uie
circulaUoD of petitions by Uie
Vmage administration qiposlngp
Uie newly-adopted Local Law #3
in a colnplicated procedure
thou#t necessary to place the
matter of Uie full-time position
before the ;yoters in the
November electlonr heard
Monday tight Uiat it had indeed
been dtecovcrad Uiat the petitions
were not necfissary. Speaking
later to THE LEADER, Village
aerk Tom DeVincenzo explained
ttiatthe Village is guided by two
laws-- the Blunlcipal Home Rule
Law and ttie Village Law of tiie
State of New York. While the
former requires the signing of
petitions in such instances,
Freeport officials in speaking to
the County Board of Elections
and Albany experts learned late
last Thursday that the State's
Village Law supercedes in Uiis
AiUiough several in the
audience said they had been told
by the Board of Elections that Uie
Villas had already filed petitions,
DeVincenzo denied that this was
true.
Mayor Sweeney also told the
assembled group, "The people
will vote on November 7 on the
Mayor's salary. Local Law m
was adopted last week, but to
clarify the issue, Uie Board
tonight took action in special
meeting. It was resolv«l by
Trustee Orr and seconded by
TVustee White Uiat if the vote on
Uie law is affirmative. Uie salary
<rf $30,000 per year is adopted, Uie
position shall be full-time and the
holder will be prohibited from
holding any other position for
profit." He went cm to thank those
who had signed Uie peitions
"beeause evra if we don't need
Uiem, Uiey are evldaice that
people want to vote cm the issue."
Su^porteiB erf a paid, non-elected
VUlage manager were
again vocal wiUi merchant Henry
Spitzler asking why the vote
could not be in the March Village
Sections. "People might want a
Village Blanager, a full-time
Blayor or Uie present sihiation
Yoii'vc jammed this down
p ^ e ' s ttiroats." To Uils and
Jomer Rand's statement, /'I
never heard the VUlage Party,
dvlc associations or people on
Uie street say this was a burning
Issue," theISayor demanded why
the speakers "are trying to turn
this into a politicjal football?" He
reiterated again that he has no
plans to run in Uie March elec­tions
and Uie new salary would
have no affect on his earnings or
benefits.
The matter of North Main
Street vs. SouUi Main Street was
brou^t up by Rand when he
questioned the Board as to
rumors Uiat Uie ViUage was
considering requesting Weral
f!ih#for the ^mmmti.^
ceiiifaTbuslness dSlHcl. Toffiis
Uie Mayor repUed Uie matter had
been discussed in a closed
meeting of Uie Village Party but
no official action has been taken
by the Village. "However, I feel
Soutii Main Sti^et is vital to Uie
health of Freeport." a statement
to which Rand countered wiUi Uie
importance of the recently
rezoned North Main Street strip
and Uie Atiantic South Ovic
Association's proposal for HUD
development "which you didn't
even consider." The Mayor
replied it had been conslctered
and rejected.
One group of citizens, residents
of Sagamore Street, East
Seaman Avenue and Bedford
Sti*et, seemed mk too concerned
wiUi what kind of Blayor Uiey
haveas long as Uiey don't have to
continue to "Uve in a nlghtinare,
a jungle." They report con­tinuous
acts of vandalism
directed against the white
residents of the integrated area
such as car burnings,, doorbell
ringbig, bricks thrown tiirough
picture windows and ^ p against
doors.
Mayor Sweeney, who Uves
closeby to tiie area, admitted Uat
(Continued on Pige B)
rreeport-5 Code Enforcement
attorney Raymond Lavallee
reported three more recent
convictions for violations of
zoning laws, including two cases
of over-occupancy (two families
in a one-family house),
John Kruger of 57 Frederick
Avenue was sentenced to 15 days
in Naraau County jail for his
second conviction in two years,
after he failed to pay the fine
levied by Village Justice Edwin
J, Freedman.
Alvin Picens, owner of 45
Rutland Road, was fined $250 lor
an over-occupancy at that ad­dress.
James Lett was fined $150 for
violation of Section 12-43 (d) -
sewerage seepage from a fresh
air pipe, and he was also giVen a
$100 fine for violation of Section
24HS9 - failure to post name of
agent on a rental property. ITie
premises involved was 48 Har­ding
Place.
Mr, Lavallee said his office will
continue to vigorously prc^ecute
over-occupancy cases, which
cause undue burdens upon the
lawabiding taxpayers in the
village and upon Uie school
district, due to services required
for more Uian Uie number of
people provided for in Uie zoning
laws. He said anyone who knows
of an apparent overoccupancy
situation should caU Uie Code
Enforcement Office at FR 8-iOOO.
Ext. 213. Names will not be
revealed and the Information will
be kept confidentail.
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CONGRESSIMAN GRiETS NEW LEGION COMMANDER. Install
alioii^remonies at "The DuBOUt" of the Willlpm Qinton Story Post
of the American Legion, Freeport, last Friday night brou#it Congret^
man Nonnan F. ient •, and Ccwnty L«9on Commander John
Tipping to offer ciongraOilationi to new Post Commander Frank
Manx.