The-Leader_1979-02-15

              FREEPORT
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43rd YEAR. No. 42 FREEPORT, NEW YORK. FEBRUARY 15,1979 PRICE 2 0 * PER COPY
Taxpoyer Sues Village On Garbage
FOR THM.TEEN SCENE. At the suggestion of the Freeport Special
P&}ic8, and-with the cooperation of ttie Recreation Oepartn)fint._a
•Teen Discodanca will be held at Freeport-High School ttils Friday,
8:30 pm to ifnidoi(}ht. For grades 7 through t2. It will feature the dee-
Jay talents of ''Hot.lce." Refreshments.will t>e available for purchase.
A8ai3Uoa.^«»-tha"proiebt;lS;the M»yo^« Recreation;Program* Com-mHtee
chairwoman-. .Ann; AndBr80rt-{r,) and committee member
ChrisSareiias.: -,...••. -.\--.' -.., V-.:' :;'- .,-'"'-'
Pijibltc^HjBW^ In Village
-TRHHPUUl - iwo public heanngs will be held this evening CThots
day. Fdffoaiv 15) at Village Hall.. Scheduled to begin at 8 ptn the
hearings deal with property in two parts of the villi^e. One, which
apparentlv has aroused litile rublic controversy, calls for the abandon­ment
of Helen Avenue; the second for a change of zoning for a parcel of
land on thesoothwest comer of
Atlantic Avenue and South Main
Street. " •• •
Because the '-usual every*
Monday night open voting
sessions of the Board of Trusteei
were not held pn February 12
{liacoln'a Birthday J. and OM.will
not be held on February' 19
• (Washington's ' Birthday), the
board has
speoaT one - bt -7J30
Tborsday. February 15.
AliaiiiwiwiTiffit
Heien Aveinse
The public hearing
property owners have enlarged
that parcel they wish to build on
by the acquisition of the house
and laisd at the southeast comer
of Atlantic Avenue and Bedell
Street. As a result, this new
public bearing is^ required, to
encompass the entire.. parcel __
under consideration. . »
Teih|^nled_jhi$ _At the first hearing, _ John
pm -on DiGrazia,' chairman of the vil­lage's
Plaiming Board, reported
iaXavor of th&proposcd develop­ment
and the change in zoningv^
Residents ofihe area were almost
unanimous in opposing it...citing ,-
jlgadjtElictojgdraflkr the " cg-^-
merous automobile accidents in—•
the area, the danger to children
Pumping Station
Contracts Okayed
MlNEOLA - Contracts totalling
$2305.197 for construction of a
pumping station on Ray Street.
Freeport. and a force main were
awarded last week. Both units are
prerequisites for connecting Free-port
to the County" sewage
disposal system. The Village's
treatment plant failed to meet
Federal standards and was
ordered phased out.
The pumping station will cost
$1,321,377. The. 2.8(X)-foot long.
30-inch diameter force main,
costing $1,183,820. will ran
across. Freeport . Cipefc. under
Hanse' Avemie. arid aictosx-. the
Merridc - River to iink up - with
dbtxWt 3 pipes leading to the
Cedar Creel treatment plant,
• J, 'Die.geoend couatmctkifi. con-
-tract tartiMfjBdiapiii^^riailaa.,^**
•watdeslto^&yente Constructloa
Co.,'Inc'.of Hldxville", the lowiest
of five bidders, for $1,113,000.
Tlie 'electrical contract" was a-warded
to M & M Electric Co. of
Fanhlngdale. lowest of six
_ ^ _bldders,-^or; 3109,500.—The-heating
contract was awarded to
J. Greavey Heating St Air (Con­ditioning'Corp.
of Massapequa.
the sole bidder, for JS77,777 and
the Plumbbg' contract went to
C.F. Mentringcr's Son Inc. of
Flainview. lowest* of three bid­ders.
for$21.100.-
The force main contract.was a-warded
to Peter Scalanundre &
Sons. Inc. of Freeport. whose
$1,183,820 bid was the lowest of
four.' . ,
-Work is expected logef under
way in March and be completed
intwoyears.
Seeks To Void Confract
With Private Carter
FREEPORT - As THE LEADER went io.press Tuesday evening, h
was learned that the village will be Served legal papers Wednesday
- morning to show cause why the village's contract \vith Five
Counties Carting Corp. should not be voided. The taxpayers suit,
on behalf of Dorothy J. Green of Nassau Avenue.-Frccp^m. names
the Village, MajtJt William
White, Trustees Dorothy Storm,
Wayne Jordan, Tom. Lovelidge
and Al Sirlin. as well as Five
Counties Catting as defendants.
Green b seekuig that the court
diri^ the Village Board to vacate
its award of the cartage contract
to Five Counties Cartage, which it
the contingency plan. Welsbcrg
said that the village found that
submission, unsatisfactory and
subsequently requested a revised
operational plan, and that as of
Friday, Feb. 9, the revised
operation plan stEl had hot been
submitted to the village.
aoprovedby 4-0 vote on January WeUberg assetted'that by Uw,
^il' '^' "irthete is a matettal.variance
Th« suit ask»;that the cwitt betweerrthe W4 »&««» and the
et^olo tbe.irlllagoxfrgra entMing, bid. the contractltii authority (In
into any cpottfct with the cartage this Instance'the ivUlage) had to
irtbeceotf^AJOj *«wa^»»#rf*rTamlnBr lUture. It can be waived.
It if the duty of the court to decide
whether a variaiu« is substantial
or minor —^ and that Is what this
suit is seeking to determhie.
tbd village, then the suit asks that
the court rmlliiV^xacb contract.
The boQtt piapen to be served
on the varioui^d«tfendants on
IVednesday dlrect'that tlie village
show why the relief sought by the
"plaintiff (GiTcen) should not be
granted by the court. The village
(by its legal representative) are to
appear in answer to the summons
at 9:30 am Thursday. Feb.. IS.
.The"~t!mc and place are the same
as where the village has already
been sununoned .to answer a
SaritatleaMtn
Cootiane Afiaeacce-
Thb past Tuesday morning,
after the latest snowfall, the vil­lage's
sanlution department had
all six of its trucks out picking up
garbage...llowcver. eachof the
trucks made its rounds" with a
crew of only three men, instead of
sim'iliar suit by the CivU Serylce., the normal five-man. crews. The
Employees Association' (CSEA),'^ change in crew size was cauied
on the
abandonment of Helen Avenue b
._nrcr<<arytofotgygri3gse ggjhst^
—streetr-«tid-removc-ir~from
. maps of the village. Extendhig
from Merrick Road north to
Sunrise Highway. Helen Avenue
• runs right through the f^eart of
the 13^acre Bennington Park
parcel, and b part of the village's
Urban Renewal package that Two
Guyt are tntnested in acquiring.
Helen Avenue, at the present
time, b practically non-existent,
aa it was closed-ofT and feocof-ia
• when the village demolished all
the buildings on the Benniagtog-
Park site.
PnpMed New Stares
Regent Scholarship
Winners Named.
"vrfgUBn^fvyf^
——Tlie—second-heKii^
Tczoning of the \south sid^ of -
Atlantk Avenue between Sooth.
M^ Street and Bedell Street, is
aduuge from Residence "A" to
Business "A." A previous bear­ing
(»i thu matter , oaSei^ 18r
1978. was for.a snialler piece of
property, and resulted to a re-serviid
dedsion by the.wilUge
Board of Trustees.-, fiow, the
residing nearby, the incursion of
commercial property in a rui-dentiil
area and the fact that new
stores at.the cite will hamper the
rentdV%f vacant stores on the
FrMpottMalL
petitioners of thb zotnng
ige are George BelUsb. a
t resident and owner of an
IndfZMnal btisiness in the village
as wen as the new row pfstores
.,^ . 4>n the-southeast .comer of At-
-<==^-lantic. Avenue and Sooth Oceaii,
and Mortis Sussman, ot Sb**>
Plastic^ Freeooft's Indnstrial
which b also attempting to void
the village's award to Five
.Counties Carting.
Richard Welsberg,-a Freeport
residen^of Nassau Avenue and'an
attorney, as spokesperson for the
petitioner, explained the thedry of
the suit to THE LEADER Tuesday
evening. Webberg, said that
according to the specifications in
the bid, the successful bidder had
to, submit with hb bid an "opera-
:TJona}pi«a.'-'-Tii«i ptanrwas to
describe the routes.the bidder
would cstablbh and* to detail a
schedule -of. -aervice and the
equipment—to—be—used, • and
Utemative procedures to, be
followed in case of severe weather
or equipment failure. He furtlwr
states that the operational flan
• subinitted by Rve ~ Counties
Carting was on a separate piece of
/ j»per and if was not responsive to
fo^-tfae-:T-lS&-^Tliar propo«al -b-feMbe-devetepmeat'oC
additional store*
on the.- {Kopcity, which n^^tt-ihdtode
a sayings bank. : •
ibe -boildeis .maintam that
their dievelopmeist would bring ia
additional tax'doOan to the
village;- enhance' the loca^oir
wlu^is an entrance to Freeport
^ /, • •• > (Conx. oftPage 12)
_AIJiAlflUJChejfew YfflLStite,
~EducaQ6n Department "has
announced thb year's winners in
the RegenU College Schc^arship
Competition, and there v e ju
Freeport High School Seniors on
the list. In addition. Freeport
High has 15 studenu who have
qualified-as Ahemates. In the
event a sdiotarship winner
.dediaes the award, or b unable to
accept it for any reason,-that
.scholarship b oCfered to the next
highest ranking Alternate. \
The SdioiarsUps are effecUve
•fpf-She 1979W academic year.
andeacfa b in the amount of S250
. a year for Dp to five years of study
_a^g4^tu.ul tiiUKitiii m m" ^chedUkd-for thit day waPhot-
Thc winders of the sdioUrships. :Jjgj g ; ^ ^ 5 « g ^ ^
: The regular Mtmday night-meeting
of the. Village Board of.
Tmstees. and its usual-.'dtizea
partidpatloa session. wHl not be^
by the absence of about 12 work­ers,
and'rather than put fewer
trucks out it was deemed P'^ftr^^^
able to decrease the sire of ^&~'
crews;
Many residents, especially in
the south section of Ihc village;
thought the wont Tuesday...that
the entire sanitation department
was on a sick-out, or strike, since
there was no garbage~pick-up In
that portion-oftha viUage, How-ever,
thai b liie liuiiiiil piuoeJufe^ _ _
/on Tuesday following a Monday'
holiday—the pick-up u In the
north part of the village.
—Tlic' department antidpa
jtiU more calls on Wednesday,
since there will be no- trash col­lection
on that day, or on Feb. 21;
becaiise , again, it is the normal
routine that there are no Wed­nesday
trash pick-ups in a week
that contains a holiday.
Monday Holiday Closes Facilities
FREEPORT • .Due to. the
national boQday on Monday,
Ffhfg«fvl9 .,..~y,.»„*. „>~.tlj.'
- hraiy'a Board of Trustees meet-
' hig whkh would oonnally-fall on
JFabruiiy I9i baa alae been wifnd
-qfTthe calendar bctaute uf~tlg~
en d&er the American CcAei^
Testing Program (ACT) Assess­ment
of the College Board's
Scholastii: AbiBty Test JSAT)
pvm to November 1.1978.^Tiere
• • ' • •• ICOrtf.ciftp-afiftS) •''-••••
holiday.
-.'The Toastmaster's CTub will
meet at the library oh Tuesday.
instead of Moo<iay, beginning'ar
7:45pm.
It b safe td assume ^iaX any
otha govetsmental function that
would usually fall on this/late will
The • Freeport-" McmoriaJ'* li«'• lpikoeswtpiosen ebde. •.e ither cancelled or
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