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41st YEAR No. 22 FREEPORT. NEW YORK. SEPTEMBER 23.1976 PRICE 15t PER COPY
atlzens lb Raise vi/loge To Ife^
Funds For School
Athletes, Music PoWce Department -
-¥REEPOK£—\Vith-th
snriNQJN Supt^'ponald Cmtlbw's i>fnc8s,'Frmpqrt parents demon­strated
for an :inv«ntciTy;^f«eh(»I.Buppne3.Seve'ra^
. Tuesday,jhrdugh"the open dooB,:told THE.CEADER they had "sat ;
..thare-through th6 nights M^WEIJ§fli3gB\yfinV;tnpri;inr,-TwMfli»y'-''"jr"o^
port School-District-on -austerity,-
more. than 100 persons met at
the Salvation Army Corps Center,
Monday night, to discuss plans to
raise funds for. the schools'
athletic . and music' activities.
With Roy .Cacciatore, of the:
Freepbrt Chamber of Commerce,
acting a& Chairman, the group i
decided to' have a . laige fund- •
raiser -Tuesday. October. 26,'
at Salty. Bay Yacht Qub. Use of;
the-Club's premises will be do­nated
free by" oiwners Fred and ,-
Joseph Scalamahdre,- for the •
7-11 pm ''RedJOevil Night." The:
RSPORy-^^illageTgstdents-will riot go tO'THe~po!irNovember.
-2. to decidc^on the-future of-police-services4n-;Frceport.—The Village
Board of Trustees, at Monday night's open voting session, unanimous­ly
voted to withdraw the proposal to submit for referendum the abolish^
mentbf the local force, and. Its substitution with a contract with Nassau
County for law ' enforcement
nigm,aiMo eight residents were prepared-to stay through another *-
night, / v : ':.:;; V^^U 1^^; • ' i .- ; .> (ALEADERphblp)
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w .FREEPORT. - SeyerarFreepbrt r«idents w«e still •engaged - in a
demonstration, in the, School District's Administratioh Bnilding.-as
THE LEADER went to press Tdesday night.,; . r - •,
. ' Led by Jomer Rand." oiihe-Freeport.Taipi^eni^Association, an
^ estinuted total of 30'parents had demrastn^ since.eaHy
Monday^ nUioriung, sitting in the.;ante-nxnh outside:Superintendent
ponaIdXostlow's"o£Rce;Mid re-i
fusing'to" leave. They were..<le-V:
manding; a .-complete record ; of rV
sJcuhloyo-l1 .s. uwphpleinie s thoen .h7a.7n0d0 apsu poilf ;.• ;
district went on an austerity, bud-..
get, ; after. having • -budgrtT pro- -
po^ls def&ated at the p ^ three '
times; According to,some of the.
demonstrators, they also insisted
upon the right to coAdnct a room :
by"f6om, storage doset"by cloiset
investigation of the supplies: in:
the district'^ schools, to diecfc ;
them off against the written list
they wanted.
'The deinonstiation; according
to soine of those dagaging in
it, was prompted by receipt of
bills by parents for instructional
.supplies-considered "consumer-able''
by the State Department of
Education. Residents were billed
S13 for each child in the elemen­tary
grade and S27 for children in
the junior and senior high sch­ools.
According to Assistant
•;. Superintendent of Schools Doc­tor
Thomas McAin, the bills were
based on a student's pro rata
share of the estimate of supplies
that would have to be ordered for
the.austerity year. Supplies, he
explained, are ordered by the
Freeport School District in Dec­ember,
as this is an "offseason"
-time and the District can com­mand
the lowest prices on bidsto'
save money.
The inventory already compiled
: and accessible is an April one,
which Rand claims is insufficient
as it does not show aH the'
supplies, he says, that were in the
building in July when the District
went on;austerity.: Both M c ^ ; .
andiCostiov.explaihied that the.
$150,000. figgre in the defeated
budget proposal)'for instructional,
supplies, .was based on:piievioiis
years* experiences. AoMrding- to
a State Education Manual in the :
Administratibh office;' the pro­cedure
used by the Freeport Dis­trict
is the one recommended by
theSUte. ,
- Several of the parents sitting in
toldTHE LEADER that their chU- :
dren . had been threatened by
thqr teachers.' They were told
^they would get"'incompletes,
fail, not receive books or be able
to keep up with their class wbrit,
three or four parents complained. -.
These cpmpUdnts, they said, were
based, on remarks their Junior
High School student children had
repeated to them. District of-
- fidals and School Board members
had explained the fee sysem prior
to the budget vote. '
Costlpw told THE LEADER
that Rxmci already "has a break­down
of the S27 and S13 fees,"
and that to have a new inventory
taken would require a great de^d
of time and manpower. He stated
that he would not allow the
parents.to check the teacher's
rooms and supply dosets as this
would be an "accusation of dis-
-honesty"of hisstaffi ——
Costlow also told .THE LEA-
. DER that sometime after 2 pm,
Tuesday afternoon, he and two
of his staff members met with
Rand and two of the other demon­strators,
Mrs. Harrington and
(Cont. onPagelO) ,
would be' about $100' for special;
de^iip, -•since,. the • volunteers;
other labor. At^lOjpefiicket J the,
grbiip hopes to iell 5,000 tidcets'
and ralie $20,000 tb.$30,000. v
-The' FreeiJort; Alliance, -as theri
groQps' is.called." is concerned;
with programs in the school -
district from Septeinber through,
June..'About $60,000.' it was ex­plained,
would be.needed to fund
athletics,..; withAneaAy another:
$11,000' needed for the music
, program; Salaries of dub advisers
are. in the .school budget.under
austerity, but the school district
cannot pay for transportation,
uniforms, etc.; Even after, the
•money-is raised,'the district,by.
law. Superintendent . Ddhald
Cbstlpw ; explained,, .cannot
get involved in; transporting
athletes and band members; to
meets, etc., but the Fathers and
Boosters Club oin. The money to
be raised 'would cover, activities
(Cent, on Page 6)
Propwal For 74
New Homes Discussed
By Planning Board
services.
Mayor William White, who had
stated at the September 13
public hearing on the referendum
that he was opposed to the
abolishment of the local force,
asked the Board for a resolution
that Local Laws 7 and 8 (covering
the referendum and the change in
polite service) not be adopted.
In his statement to the Board,
: he rcfcangdutftihw paMio^wafhte
which 30O;. persons,' ptie of the-*
"I^est t\mi6uts ever for a hear-
White repeated, "felt we owed It
to our hard pressed taxpayers to
get all of the facts on .the cost
differences Tb'etwecn County
Police and the Village force." .
The mayori explaining his oyra
position, described how the hiitial
study_undertaken by the:County
indicated -the cost difference-might
be as high as; $400,000 in
tax savings if County Police were
said, that the necessary.' legal-.
steps were taken to hold a pubHc
.ta&.in..imy^J>iea.',L attended.. t;5iaf!n8':
"There was not a single iJerson I^^^e^ « ,»<«*-. of^conomJi^ fac-^
rwjorded aass bbeeiinngg In favor of . " " was contained.-
holdiiig the public referendum on ^
the question.'-^Th'e Mayor said; •
pointing to. the "dverwhfclmlng
sentiment opposed to.'the' refer­endum,
expressed by individuals
and -'^^'represent^tives r' of local
' organizations." He'added that he
had, received "considerable' cor-resp6rideri
«*'2 :''-in support/.of'
retaining' the force aiid "not • a
single signed letter favoring the
referendum.". -.: . ;
A History iofthielsitae.
White outlined the reasons be-hmd
the original: study of the
change in police. He explained
that in November 1975, Chief of
Police Anthony Elar • told the
Board that, he.^^vould need an
additional ten then^(a' total of 90)
to "effortiveiy patrol the Vil­lage."
White pointed out that
this would have added $200,000
more" to the police- budget,
''above and beyond the increases
expected." The Vlllag;e Board,
'Si'i
;-^'We found"that the amount of .'
^potential saviiigs to the taxpayers
•was" steadily- reduced," White
said, as "more detailed cost in­formation"
'wis; received; With
. later figures showing a savings of
about.3340,000. this meant that
the tax savings to.the average
homeowner,, -as.: described ;by.
lWhite,.p'n a house assessed at
$7,000, would be about 30t per
$lt)0 assessed ''valuation or
$21-per year. This decrease in.'-
potentuil tluc savings, according
to White, "increasnl my convic­tion
that Freeport should not give .
up its own PoIice.Department."
Asking for a motion from the
Board, White called on the re­taining
of the Village Police orce
'"with the understanding that its
personnel compliment will not
exceed 80 men. and that we will
call upon bur Chief, supervisors
and officers to make spedal ef-
- {Cpnt.onPagelb)
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FREEPORT - Some 40 persons
gathered at Villagie Hall, Tues­day
night, to attend the Freeport
: Planning Board's public Jiearing
to gather public opinion on Powell
Construction, Inc. of Melville's
proposal to build 74 raised
ranch and two-stoty single family
homes, in South Freeport. The 14
undeveloped acres are bounded
by Hudson Avenue and-Grove
Street, Howard Avenue and the
bay. Approximately 11
-of the jcies-are presently zoned—
"Residence A" with over three
acres earmarked for " Marine Ind­ustrial."
With the developcr.'s
attorney, Julhis Mintz, stating
he-did not believe the developer
would establish the single-family
(Cont. on Page 10)
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IN COLLISION, on the comer of Randall Avenue and North'Main
Street, a scHool bus containing children on the way home, from Our
Holy Redeemer School and a private car resulted In the hospitaliza­tion
of the bus driver and hospital treatment of 20 of the children.
According jo school district sources, thei car's driver received two
summons, one for passing a red light. (A LEADER photo)