The-Leader_1976-10-21

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41st YEAR No. 26 FREEPpRT. NEW YORKyOCTOBER 21,1976 PRICE 15f PER COPY
Budget Committee Want Cobperoffve Center
Members Named ^ n^^ainln FreepoH
FREEPORT - Seven Freeport
residents have been named by
ftlaybr WilHanrWfaite toTseive oo"
thfl • new ntJTCTis Committee
whidJ vrin wort with the Village
Board of Trustees on he 1977-78
village budget;. RepresenBng a
diversity' of badcgrounds, the-seven
WOT offidally/appoint­ed
at the open voting session
of tlip" Village Board this past
—EREEiORTjJlie recentclosing otthcFreepprt-CooperatiYft Center
brought close to 100 residentSf dients and-eim>?»yee« of Kome of the
'hme tadimes boused there to a VUlage Board 6t Trustees piibllc meet­ing.
The South Grove Street and Sunrise Highway facility-Iiad been
closed by Nassau County when many housing, fire and sanitation viola­tions
were brought to lighf. Most of the services liave l>een temporarily
relocatd with theif parent kigendes iic Mineola, although the Center
Director and the Job Development Corps are now boused at the Roose-vdt
Cooperative Center. Freeport
Moi^iy night.
, The members of the'committee
are; Kay Benda, of Nassau Ave-"
nne, who is active in community
groups', :StiLnIey Rode/- of-East;
Beddl; Street, •. ian "engiaeerj„
Meredith Manittas, <>t Roosevdt
Avenne/;t housewife active "in
'l!TA;~Arthtt^LjTipifttpspn. faf^
T I " " J ' ' 1 " ^ ' l ' ' • I I'll ll~T^^ - • ^ j i l l l » - r > l ' l T • • Til'
r!!Ct*AYgT^W)!>|>aSg9lTltWnii-
-Head-5tartrlocated-tflJ-Ae-same—
block but in a different building,
has remained In thej village.
Those - who. addressed. the
Board on :this question appealed '
to the .Miybr to work toward a
return of Uie entire Cooplcrative-
Ceijtet, with "all its attendant
.services,. bitdc\ into. Froeport.
leaHeiteCatieti-
-such-4t-oompact—center—where-people's
problems could be easily
tended, White.said, "I do not
fully support a cooperative cente
in Freeport that' would service
oat-of-tawners...but I do support
Jceeping the services here that
,serve"our residents." .'' .
" Trustee ; Dorothy .. Storm' ex-
;;Pli4ncdi.tluitja^8Bo«dJBmi&jHe
attorney;;: :Banafd -.. Hadcr,' of.
Wilson. Placei a cdtlfied public,
accountant; 'and Julius^ Hlrsdi-feld,
of-Bninella Street,- an at-
PB<kaLJUi1ATld>f;SlMlNQ.M«mborrol Court StBltaMi^
Catholic bauflhters «! Amertca Were present4(flwri Mayor Wllilam ' north Long Beach-Avenue,; an
White signed the ProcllUnation'deslgnatlna last Sunday ja "Catholic
.Owghter* of Amfrlc(i;I>By.";ih Freeport. The members ai*..0. to-r.)
. Camerlne 8m1th,^ Alison'Hagen, peggy;Qrace,' Jeianne O'Keefe and
QertrUdeMcl^ughlliVi ^-^r-'V C':v -^ •—"^ : " ; .; - •
V filled SultiSgainrt Commit
•FREEroRT.-.In-an attempt.to datify "once and fijr all whether
school s^)p%s !Cah be constitutionally denied a diHd wliile a district
is on anstCTi^,^'ihe:;Fceeport. Board .idf Education filed iitSt last week'
against the Neif:}^rk State Commiiiiicnier of^BJoattionV Tbqr asked
the court for a judgment declaring it oncbiistxhitiaDal to deny necessary
instnictional'suppUes to'sdibol
' ddldreh^'eyen^under an a^stertty.
budget," and unconstitutional to
: bill the ^arents.of.'siuh-d^dren'
for those suppli^.-
- Harold Levine, President of the;
FreepOTt Board of Education,
, said: "We are on the horns of.a
dilemma. The CommissioneT has'
. made it impossible for hs to t)bey
the law^Hlnone breath he says
that under, austerity we. can't
tence ;addition. to the law that
would make necessary, education-
'al!.supplies' for public' sdiool
diildren' an- ordinary contingt3icy
expqise." He called upon aU.dti-zens
to write to' Stite Senator
Norman Levy and Assemblynum
Arr^d D'Amato to get this law
passed, 'T'-.--''. " - •'••
Levine went on to say: "Al­though
last week's editorial in
- buy necessary instructional sup- - this paper suggested that we fight
p^es for ooL school children be­cause
sudt-su^Ues are not an
ordinary conthigency. expense,
and in ^ e next breath he says go
ahead and buy them anyway and
try to OTllect &om the pardits.
Either "way we^may. break the '
law. We have no dioice but to go
to th'e courts for guidance. What­ever
happens— there is one
thing' we wiH not do. We will not.
short-change a single jroungster
in Freeport, who wants an ed^ica-tion,
- merely because he. can^t
pay for it; we will not.cheat our
kids out of the free public sdiool
education guaranteed-under our
constitution." ,.
Levine diarged that rather than
fliis "long, hard path of Gtiga-tionjlthe
State LejAdatnre caold
solve the problon for alTdistricts
on aasterity, "wifli a ooe-sen-the
Show Cause order so thzt-the
Commissioner of •' Education
would be forced to make a ruling
oh the validity of the property
tax as. a source of revenue for
education, this was impossible to
do nithin the'&amework of the
legal.papers filedrThere, is pre­sently
in the courts such'^ case
and, hopefully, a decision will be
fortticoming. In addition,, we
could .not deny any children, the'
materialsnecessary for an educa­tion
while a legal action grinds
tfaoo^ the courts. Our first
rcsponsibil^ is to the children."
hi confirilling the Board's
action, Donald Cosdow, Freeport
Sdtool . Snperintdident, said:.
"We really have no dunce.
We tried doing it the Comais-skmer's'
way by -billing 'the
(ConLonPageS):
hi imnouhdng . the appoint-
: ments/White said that "The
TJIBosrdjis^gratcW-to^thiese-seven—
redd^nls for-'vblunteoing' the
.. ..'.enormous' amounts of time.^ re-'
'; ' quired in ineetiog wi£h 'us cii' a "
twice-weekly - I bisis ; between
October and Jaimary^in orter to
^ e us their guidance in formu­lating
a realistic budget fat thdr •
feObw: reddents.-Not wjly their.;
professional 'ccpertise; but their
knowledge of the coiomnhity and
the JFeelings of .their ndgfabors,
win be. of inestimaiile value to
us; -I am gratdnl, too, to the :
•many, others who yolusteered
their servioe'.on the. committee. '
^Unforhmatelv,; too large a group
was deemea as being unwork­able:"
v . • : : - - - • •..-..;
Membtts of the budget com­mittee,
- have ''•••, ennesscd
a desire to b^ contacted by their
biends and 'ndgbbors on any
questions or suggestions concern'-
ing the budget.
The mtHiiripal tm(fgel.will be
the sufaject'of « public meeting
eariy in January. Copies of the
line-by-line, detailed budget to
be proposed will bt made avail­able
to the public as e ^ y as pos­sible
to allow for its study prior
to the meeting. -
Insnranrx for Contractor*
• The Board discussed cluinging
the amount of insurant coverage
now required for coottactors who
do work for the village. It had
been recommended, previously,
Inr both the village engineers and
the village'ir insurance agency
that increases t>e made. While the
Mayor and sevoal trustees noted
that some costractors do my
ytauisjtt6<te<i&wn^ifl4
SViMtTsHdli^liid beenln" ttw
with'-tljeBi j.as vlato" as '.that jilayc
Tbe^toattui Is ^at bnil<Uiig had"
not..been "the best for aiome
tirpe,'-' -TVhlte .emlained, • and
he . had ptevioosfy suggested
alternative'Freeport ,sites to
them.. "My: argument with' the.'
county," he, said, ""baa iaiways
been, doii't just^opcn up social.
"»eWice~^«nterr7bcreT^*-:He-«t-^—
plained tiiat he would prefer nich
a facility when ponpled with other
mnnidpal services,'- such'. as a .
district court: ''Don't make'us the
center on/the South-Sliore for
sodal service . fadlities,".'he.
"said. . . '.'-•...• -.' - '•'
-, White explained, in answer to a.
questira by Gregory Groover,
a Freeport High Sdwol student:
leader, that he had not.beard
about the dosing of the Center
before lie read It Jn the 'didiy
newspapers.
While many of those present
sppiu; »of fhe hnmanj needs for
AftUage "to teuialu:aAXuteHraled
ooikuliunlly K«:nritir iuiv
; tax; ba&e,u housing:' arid 'p«^le of
aU.eCQhdiUc levSt. One a.|he
: speakers, Brlah-Cart, disagreed
stathig'that "I think it would be
better to liave a cooperative
' center here tlian to wony if it is
an ' integrated., • community.**
• TWllbur McCall, former dhector
of Freeport EOC, one of the.fadr
-UtieaLhQtisedj.fai the Cooperative
'^Center'and Qow an assistanf
director for the County EOC, told
the Mayor that "this Is not the
Freepdrtllcfl two years ago." He
explained tiiat the people usually
stay at the cooperative center
no otore than two hours.
Cbnnii Randall, Freei)ort EOC
Director, pointed nt tiut many of
the 75 j(^ idots the Neidibortiood
Youth CQtpa.fiIls are wttUn EOC.
One parent credited that program
with keepin'g-faer own son off the.
streets. •. _;
- Mayor. White pointed' out.
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- A SPECtAtr^roUNQ-PEFfSOWr^rhff Frwpwt Exdiange aub'a Out-
-standJng Youth of the Month,-for October, Is April Hong. Her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Hong, were present as she received her plaque from
Exchange Club Youth Chairman Donald Costlow. Pldured (i: to r.) are
Mr; Hong, Mr*. Hong, CosUOw, April Hong, tni Exchange Club Pre*
aidant BUI Morln.
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