The-Leader_1976-05-06

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m^: wmm 41st YEAR No. 2 FREJEPORT, NEW YORK. MAY 6. i976 PRICE: lS(t PER COPY
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\iag9 Board Meeting Board Consider^ Bonds For
FRffiPOKT- At the open- Columbus Ave. Rehovaflon
votiqg sesdon. of the Eree-
Twit-ViBage Board Monday—
n^TvIay 3; the-Tftistees-voted
fc> authotizie demolition
of the ptemlses st 79 Stevens
Street. An' engineer's report
had shown that the. building
was'mote, fiian 60% struc-tmaQyUnwond/
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- In a fcOdwup from the pre-viods.
neek's Board meeang,-
-•:ihe Board lebfeived Idefihitive^
'itii^^tfaen; %as sufficient
fionds .in. sn already!^passed
bond iasuB U> uu«ei Che wuikr
- r FREEPORT ' Before«-"standirig roomonly-audienco of rcsi--
dents and teachers, :the Freeport Board of Education last
Wednesday evening explained its proposed $18,594,000 school
budget for 1976-77. The School Board, it was explained, would
listen to comments and questions and would then be meeting
several times more to bring in a budget figure upon wliich the
residents of the District would vote on June 8. The proposed
figure reflects a $1,335,486, or ^ .• 'v . . . . -
7.7%, inci«ase over \kst Other economies proposed
year's adopted badget-and- fof ^^ coming fiscal yiearin:^-
. ain approidtaat&S1.90lncrease.
• in the school tax rate, i]
AftfT nrpTntnlng tbfi Variwin:.
USING MUSCLEj^ POWERf /«)hcenigd:'VQlunhWfiB hw^
*^r
itcr.partl0»patj9.|n
_^ . . ^ , iyAiSi ^(i&mate
IV^IJS); pirihg i^tl^r^'s^r brooms t6~VirtiB^o Hpli pafk-.
: lhglc»!iM7Grc5/o5tre8t, at 12:30 pifi.To do ishare Jn.mak-v"
IngifreepoK:: beaiittfu1r;Picture(i; atrWoi* (Lnri) jaceiC^
Kuni:^Bby:Scout}» Vihm G i ^ (TAdCA), M
(BetuitificsironJ,:V Detective - Frank; Medagiia (Youth-
Squaci),^;f)farse'.McK€«wn .(Bc^o^ Po^
(BdvPScoot),:'Ch^OTo'HoweUj' (Gtrt S^
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. FKEEPOBT-.Gloria Neviud, present^^^^
:H«epart Board of Edocltidb, has inhoanced het^ndJdacy for
: re-eJteclkHi to the'sdwol board.; First elected to ibe Freeport
Bbiard ofjEducation in 1973, Ngvard/yin be opposed by .an-nbonced
candidate John t). TLtSOyXtEE lEADERv - issue of:
Atiopn^. P2e9t)i tiinonths feo'Jru thiiies e8le eclteiocn-'
must be submitted by Friday,.
May 7, "4 pm, in the school
District Oeilc's office.
• A ' resident of Freeport for
ten years, ~Nevard has been
, active in school and com-,
montty aSaixs, here and else­where,
for over two decades.
She liad served as an elected
member . of the Wantagji
(L.I.) Board of Education uiitil
she moved' to Hong. Kong
-. when her husband-was as-:
" signed to the Faf-ea$tT«s-^
foreign corr«pondent forrtiie
-New Yort Tunes.': VThae in
Hong Kong, wiietc her tiiree
chil<&en attended the. British
schools, she was '• iq>pointed
to the Hong Kraig sduxA
_^-boacf. as_its_anly_iAmerican
member. • - • . . . .
Upon returning to "the
^ United States, after ncariy
seven years in the Far East,
the Nevard family moved
directiy to Freeport. Mrs.
Nevard has setv«I as Presi-dentof
the Frecpcfft Citizens J
Advisory Committee far'Eda-cation
and was a member of
/the Parents Consultative Com­mittee
at Freeport High
Sdiool. Cnrrentiy she serves
on the Board of Directors of
the Frocport-Communis Arts
Coundl.: ' ^r<' i :
Mrs. Nevard earned" her
Bachelor's Degree at :fihaca
CoDige and her Master of
Sdence '- Degree-, in Speech,
PathbloKT at Adelphi - Uni­versity
^^fae has worked pro­fessionally-
with handica^>ed
diOdren in Nassau, County for
the past rdne year. ./
•^oTgdoneoo thfei>ftvis Street
^^jl^^^^^^centiy iip;^
:S^XSE5?r5^^?!de-
' dded^lh^IlM; varioiis fonc-;
.tiom it flis Recreation "Cen­ter
tiiBt^^txinect 'monies (e.g.
fiar^ai-ti^) woold beqame--
'dtfts'with officers. AJQ offitv
oe^of eadi:aiid -a meimbet of
tile Beoreatbn D^artment
staff woiold subntit quarterly
finaiiMxqMMts*--.-'-. --• •
- Sinnintrhdent -of\ Public
WodaB) Ptefer's suggestion
to ahaice costs and labor witii
tiaelbtmcf Hempstesd to re-;
pair siewecs at the tip'of-S.
Grove Street; l>otij xm Village
and ToWn property,was' a-greedto.
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- At the pol^c nieeting.fol-lowing
tiie earlier session,
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: Stores To Open
Friday Night
FBEEPORT - Ahnost all
tlie stores on Freepbrt's
Saq& Main Street have al­ready
agreed to remain o^en
..tids oDoang. Friday evemng
wM 9 pm to facilitate shop-pmg
fir local residents. This
will be the. first in-a-continual
- Friday night shopping ;and
budgetary items and listening
Gloria Nevard : -
Nevard, and her husband
Jacques, have two sons,
Roger and John, who were
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DnmoUari cainpaign launched
by de Betail DivisioQ of tlxe
Reepcxt Chamber of Com-nifTOff!.
Ofiier oiedal promotions
w21-be-heM_lhronghoat_suct_
ceetfrig weeks and shoppers
are invited to stop .by Friday
nighrt fn see what they-
AfLer 6 piu,~parking meters
are no kxiger in effect and
fbete is parking as well in the
nnmidpal fields adjacent to
thestoces.
—-F/etyrt's South Main St.
is cndagoing a series of phys­ical
transformations which will
mfmrnftfe in the creation of a
pedestmn shopping mall.
no tne questHmsvimd «ugges
...ti(>o»» tfte.;Bfiiird'.a ^M«ddeiit»
.Joe MicAndresrs, tdd the rdd-deiats
tlQif it had been A'nutter,
of great.- mistration for: the
^;Board tbciit $50,000 for heipe^-
- sary improvements: to Colum-
-biis: Avenue_Sch5pl j&oin_the
budget. He : explained - that
renovations to the - school,
whidi fiadr included needed
wiring and-the- library, media -
room.bad began three years,
ago' and that the Board was J
concerned that the Sdiool
would phvadcally deteriorate
and. similar to Dodd Junior
High Schod, would eventiudly
n ^ more expensive. work.
TTierc is still a need,* he-said
stating .that the Board, is
• locking into patting up a bond
issue in. the' amount of'
$250,000, for five-years. The
': monCT for '. the ^renovations
would tfaereforei he sdd, not
-bein the general fond on a tax
rate basis,' but would lie spre-a4
out. Renovations on a com-prehenisve
.program, McAn-
'drews said, can be^state fund­ed
and the money the District
would so receive could balance
out the interest on the bonds
•that it would have to pay. .
- ' In order to.effect savings
this budget year, McAndrews
—-and-Superistesdest-^^&heoIS'
Donald: Costiow explained,
each request from every de-j)
artment in . the District's
schools .had been carefoHv
. screened. Some $52,000 will
be saved by having the depart-
_ment_ch2iniisnjnjhe_ Junior
and Senior
each teach
High Schools
one more class.
:tzerhc»<«vetri<
plained was'one aspect of the
coptractual aereement with
the Freeport Teachers' Asso­ciation
(FTA). Within that
framework, the Board has
eliminated, two elementary
and three secondary teaching
positions and one-half of an
elementary school librarian, to
save 5138,285.
dude dropping the elementary
school summer imigram, re-tainint(-
onW-teniedi&-das5ear—
and trover 5 education on the "^
•SKonaaiy. .Iciycl -.durina. ,the
summer ^atid i g t ^^ ,.
' ua^09,'!!bn^ a. i e l t j i u t i ^^
basis, there wHtbe a rednc-;,
. tioii hi sdwblrfonded dobs in
theschods, td save $4)000 and
a redaction .in •'substitute
' teaditag . allocaticms. _WIA^_
rthcse, the Increase under Ihe
teachers' salaries llne'Istill
^tn^innH to ' anore -than
•$605,000, due to stipulations .
in the teadiers' contract, now
jinitssecondyear< i .' •
. Cots were tiso made hi the
Board's proposal- for... non-certified
personnel, niere will
b<! .a cartailment of sub-;
stitate derk^ help, cats in tiie
- castodial staff adiicved by
: dosing . four. - elementary
schocds at 4:30. pfiFind the
-ium-hiring of electrical and
'-'plumbing mahitenance men.
/ There is an increase of
$307,850 in the area of fix­ed
charges,- such' as retire-mitnt,
social .security, work­men's
cotnpensation, life, dis-abiUty,
-health and dental
insurance. These arc either'
mandated or fixed under con­tract.
As covered wages in­crease,
so do these costs, the
Board explained, noting as
well 'skyrocketing' costs of
medical insurance.
—Another .cut, later -criti--
cized by members.of the audi­ence,
was the $4,540 dropped
by eliminating all class room
and field trips.
The Board and Costiow ex-plaiaed
that 'stringent mea-snres'
effected savings in
Jbx.
the areas of ^enCTarclrati1jrg~
supplies, building supplies,
/' ^ the W-brary
and media supplies,
support services and equip­ment-
In most instances, no
new equipment will be pur­chased.
The District has been hit,
the Board explained, as has
everyone, by increased uti­lity
costs, postal charges and
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