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43rd YEAR. No. 48 FREEPORT. NEW YORK. MARCH 29.1979 PRICE 20* PER COPY
Absentees Can Vote For School Board
First Time Such Ballofs
Permitted In Election
^ byMerldlthManltias
FREEPORT • "They can be used to vote for members of the district
Board of Education, but not for voting on the school district budget."
That is what the law. passed by the N.Y. State Legislature In 1978 says.
so absentee balloU m\\ be available to voters in the Freeport School
District election for one board member on May 23. Although it's the
law. the option as to whether or
not to permit absentee ballots is the state legislature will continue
left to the individual school its present school funding ar-districts.
and Freeport has rangcmctit. For Freeport, thh
PASSING THE GAVEL. At last Saturday night's gala Ctiamber bl Ccmmerco tnstanatlqn Dlnner-
"TDance. incomlno President Sid Lleberman (third from 1-) received hlssyiirtiol 61 oHlceTrom Hemp-ateadtown'a
Presiding Supervisor Atphonia 0'Am*to>Oahand (or the ceremony was (t. to r. J outgo-
_jng Chamber President Norman Schmellng. D'Amato; Lleberman. Chamber Citizen of the Year Con-gressmarTNorman
LentrState Senator Normaij Levy, BabbI Lawrence Colton of Freeport's Union Re­form
Tempie and Dinner Ctiairman Lionel Socolov.
New Trustees To
Be Seated Monday
FREEPORT - The Annual
Organization' Meeting of the
Freeport Board of Trustees will
be held on Monday, April .2.8 pm
at Village Hall. At that time
James Clatk and Timothy Peter-nana,
elected as Village Trustees
-on March 20. willtaie their Oaths
ofOffice. .
The meeting win also witness
White's appointments to various
village boards, commissions and
committees, and the appointment
of the Deputy Mayor and various
department heads.
Also to be designated at the
meeting are police surgeons,
p o ^ matrons, public auditors
and the depositories of Village
funds. •"
Second Candidate
For Third Assistant
FREEPORT • The annual elec­tion
of the Freeport Fire Depart­ment
on April 5 has picked up
another cafldiclate for the office of
Third -Assistant Chief. John
Provenzano Jr., an ex-captain of
decided to give it's voters that
opportunity. *
As far as absentee balloting for
-school-district budgets is con­cerned.
THE LEADER has -
learned that such a law will be put
before the State Legislature this
year. .
Applications for absentee
ballots may be plckcd-up in
person or received hy mail, from
the office of ihc School-Distria"
Clerk at the Administration Build-
. log at 235 North Ocean Avenue in
Freeport. Properly, filled out
applications must be In the
Qerk's office no later than seven
days before election day to
receive ballots by mail. They are
available up to the d/y before
election If application is made in
person.
ApplicatTbns for ballots most be
approved by the Board of Elect-
. ions for the School Board election.
.and a listing of all absentee
ballots issued will be available at
the District Gerk's office, and
posted at polling places on the
day of the election.
All ballots, taqualify for count-
. ing, must be ia the District
Gerk's office by 5 pm on election
-^dayj Mar23,1979.
• The School District Gerk's
the redreiaent of Trustee T&bmas
LoveHdge»ri» served three terms No other business wiU be
Ja total of 12 years) as a member conducted at the Annual Otgai^
<iftbe"Viaage Board. iadTiustee atioaa^Meetiagv^1>ei>ext public
j ^ n e JordiP after his fonrryear J!?»rt«>« <^ the.Bwd of Tnurteea
T«i?rt~ '~^~~ win be Monday, April 9, at 8 pra"
Tnist^3J»Hfc^pOWiiH_
at 7:30 pm.
'ofllce will answer questions and
means there- is little chance of
increase in state funding, as had
been proposed .under -Governor -.
Carey's state education funding
plan."Wc went up there with
high hopes and came back with
not much to tell you," said Board
President James Parola> "Promi­ses
were made, but you know
what promises are." ,
>' Match 21 had been set aside bv
the state legislature to jneet with
school boanl members. from all
over the state. However, before
thel>Oard members had arrived,
it was reported, the legislators
had reached an agreement among
themselves on a funding plan for
next year. Parola said the legis­lature
indicated it would propose
a plan for changing the basjs for
educational funding to be carried
out over a three-year period. In
the first year — the 1979-80
school year — the current law will
be.extended, providing, exactly
what wc have now including Hat
grants and save-harmless. "We
are told." commented Board
member Sara Holly, "that thb b
a compromise." In the second
. year, new guidelines will make
tome districts ineligible for save-
TtjarmlessTlitlhcThird^ear, save-harmless
will be phased out. _
many" of the boar^
from other school
-The new Board .of Jinstees J
^ben-act-ofi-Mayor WOOam
A great
provide information on absentee members
ballou. aryl can be rrichrA by—districts who went to Albany were"
calling 623-2100. extension 208. there In response to the Freeport
• At last week's regular School board's bringing _tpgcthcr_!L.
ijJoanljnfeliDg-fMarclCllX-lbur-^coalilion -of-schbol» who would"
of. the.board's five members have gained aid under C«rey's
JEfwL^ljag^4Boop^
FREEPORT - -.The Vinage
Board legjstattve-inoeting '.this
past Monday n i ^ . the .last one
for Tntsiees Torn XoveSdge and
Wayne Jordan, was a short, fif­teen
nunote sesstoo during whidi
an .agenda of deven iteins. tgis
- The regular Monday' Village '
Board meeting thb coning Mon>
dxf (April 2) win not be m leg^
latnfe sestion. Starting at 8 pre in-^
stead of the nstial 7:^pffl. itwiU
be (he VQIageV anima! Qrg;ant''
zatioD Night, when new' Bo«rd
new Board of Trustees.
iSchpoi Bbisrd
wrapped op. The: it£tns haedr* tineixabtn are sealed.and vxrioos
apontndoded a Tcsoiotno to float .village department hods and
.Bon) and Opital Notes *3r the comnuttee • diairnen ; wiD le^
' recbnstiiKtion of villa^- stn^sTnaesignated and approvetf by the
the prohibitioo of pariong on the - - —
ooith nde of Merrick RoadTeast
of; Goy toinlMirdd Avenoe, in
frebt of-the Christ the King Ca-
Thedrat-aMT Jhe proviffing of
parking spa^s "for" handicapped
driven in parking Gelds No. 16
and 1 8 . - - ,
Other matters acted ttpon in-dnded
the approvaT of bids for a
fire alarm nndntenanee cootract
/and special boots for the fire de-
'partneMr
llSmPrmsftztnoi-Jn':
Wide-Awake Engjne Company
' No.'1 announced last week (hat he.
.^win seek the fosrth highest posir
tim in the village's aU-vtrfnnteer
fire department. .^
' Provenzano. a 16-year active
member of the departmiettt it a
Ii£e4ong reddent of the ioDajge.
-He b the owner of J.P.. Hfine
- Matntrnamr fmniiany and main
' (enaacefoceBun at«local ootor
inn. He and Ms wife, the fonner
Diane Claili cjtWest KempcUiad.
have : to eigfrt^jfinr^«)d -':lfOB.
-Joins m^~^j-~~: .y-:^.,.-r.::' -^
_ had jost retumed from an all-day
^^^ttri^Mo Albany^jsod reported that
proposal; they had come to
. (Cent-on Page 12)
ToMeet
-FREEPORT ' The next regnlax-pid>
Be meeting of the Freeport
Board cf Edocation win be held.
library oQ West SeainaziAvenoe.'T—f (Cont.oopao«.12)
At present ProveozJino serves
as Cbatrman jisf the praaitnee^
Ptopcrty. is a wembtf oi the Firie
'Afann.ConStee'iiad a Waitlinn on
theHreCotudL
His years of service to the de-
CONGRATULATIONS. Mayor William fVMt* Mmsrfjraa among the
many who Jammad Fraaport RapubiieanrVlllaga Pamr haaeiQuartars
Election night and stayed to congratulate tha winnind Trustaa candi­dates;
Timothy Petarnana 0.) and Jamas Ctarli. Tha Tnolaaa-alact will
be installed Info Mfiea at the Annual OfBahizationjMtcllntf-of-Ot*
Board/Monday, April 2. S pm/TriMtaas ThMoaa Lovalidga and Wayne
Jordan win retirefromthaBoard at that tima. .