The-Leader_1979-08-23

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LEADER FREEPORT'S
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NEWSPAPER
44th YEAR No 17 FREEPORT. NEW YORK. AUGUST 23.1979 PRICE 20* PER COPY
e Wins Certiorari Battles
Board Has A Successful In Opposing
Quiet Meeting
FREEPORT - It was a quiet,
EXPECTING A NAUTICAL VISITOR. Village Mayor William H. White
l\aa proclaimed 8eptemt>er 13-17 as "Freeport Nautical Kerttage
Days." During those days, "The Young America," the 136-foot two-master
schooner of the Long Island Nautical. Festival t79. will tw
docKed at the Guy Lomtwrdo Marina..ITia: public wlUba Invited to
tjoard the aquare rifloer and cnitaea may t>a arranx?ff< i>^ yt'ip't "HH-lo-
Freeport will uuliicioe with the Tnird Annual Greater New-York
J(vWateLBoal_Show-t)elhg-held; at-the :marlna-^on-the"8amiB days.
Showing the Proclamation (I. to r.) L.I. Nautical Festival founder Luis
Bejarano. Charles PIgadls of the Boat Show Committee, Mayor White
i^idRlchardTularo, also of the Boat Show Committee. .
Doggies' Habits To Come
Under Stricter Scrutiny
FREEPORT - VHlage dog owners had best be ready to keep a sharper
eye on thier pets* "whext-aboats" or be prepared to lue "pooper
scoopers." Freepprt. Mayor WiUian White has directed that the
village's seven year old "pooper scooper" I4W be more ^gorotuly
enforced.
Village Meter Maids and the
Special Police Force have beeq.-^
directed-to strictly enforce the
local ordinance viiicb concents
"nuisance by animals." In 1972,
following a public hearing, the
onUnance was adopted on the
rcoommendation of the village's
Environmental Commissioo.
.While points out that "the
officers of the Police Department,
because of their heavy work load
in more pressing crime'preyea*
tion activtties, have oot been able
to actively enforce this ordinance
on jpatroi." Noting that "condi-tions
cannot continoe ax they are
now." White said "the ordinance
win DOW be esforced try tite other
empowered to do «o,"- -r---
: .: Tlioae isssed sommboaes h
vMatioo of fbe ortfaaoce will.be
' lequlfed to i^pear b Village
Coait when tfa^ win be Bable ior.
-fiats op to S2S0 if fonad goSty.'.
r Tlie^onSnaooe spedSes that a
dog owner diaO malK an teaaoa>
able efiiarts to prevent a pet fam
creating a nuisance in any
exterior or interior area where raple congregate. The exception
at the corbiine and then only
when the owner deans up after
the pet "in a sanitary manner"
whidi can be accomplished
throng purchased devices or
homemade receptades ("pooper
scoopers").
' The Mayor's directivefor strict
enforcement b in response to
nomeroos complaints recdred by
the village. One, from a woman
residing in an apartment boose in
iriiidi lives "at least SO Oo^,"
tt$Xe% that "to walk oot on simay
-monlng-aod-try
some.fresh^air. b . almost.
sible."The waste firta
animals coven the area and yoa
mpst watcb every step yoo take." ^
Various other viOages. audi i^
SocMDe Centre. Ma weO as tbe^
Towa of Hempstead have adopted
"poopertcoi4>er" lawis.
Be CoiisldereHd At H c ^
FKEEPQBT' A pti1>ttr t^^'i^g*tn *^ ,^^.-^^
27. to hear a proposal to citabBsh sat assessment t&strkt to pay tl»e
was a
summer-time village board meet
ing, with two of Uie trustees on
vacation, and several village
consultants and department
heads represented by their
deputies.
The Recreation Center will sUy
open Labor Day, although it is
usually dosed Mondays. Superin­tendent
of Public__Works ._Ed__
Prefer explained that the holiday
opening would benefit the resi­dents
and the cost of opening the
'extra day would be' offset by
increased attendance.
Prefer and the ParlLs and
Recreation . Commission have
suggested to the Board that two
- spedaI.M<HidayGdest Nights bic .
planned.: Invitations would • tfe
extended to residents of neigh­boring
communities.
The nse of viDage manpower
can cut the costs of repairing or
relaying sewers on the west side
of South Long Beach Avenue.
Prefer tdd the Board in a memo.
TV pictures taken two years ago,
• then showed collapsing sewers
and. Prefer noted, the situation
can only worsen. Under the FAUS
program, street repairing will be
done in that area and. Prefer
explained, .streets relald woold-only
have to be torn up again
when the sewers lieooine lixiper-able.
While a private contractor's
charges would be about $100,000
for the sewer job. Prefer feels the
village can do the job itself for
about S35,000 induding materials
and the professional connection..
This money is available b a bond
issue recently floated by the
village.
The Board directed village
counsel to draw up easement
papm for property owned by Mr.
Perkins on Goy _. Lombardo_
Avenue. Residents had~ com*
plained in the past of flooding in
the area. Perkms has offered the
easement free to the village if the
ootfall ptpe'STtia;
-ippruvBd -axrifflF
catioa by. Two Cbo^ns Fuh.
Market to construct a parking lot
.at their Wooddeft Aveooe
property. It was noted that
paxkbgoB the street has beeo a
continnbg prpblem. fipc the
. bnsiaesses there. At. the
' ttmc. jflPfTtftreflo^irt ^^
"PivM Lowjoy broogfat. Uf
buafO'a attgflaoB ~
• loBg-tem parking of tracks for
food storage oa that street. The
bda«l asked both ""
Assessment Decreases
FREEPORT • This village has established a new way of dcalitw} with
tax certioraris and, since (he Board of Trustees' appointment of Garden
City attorney Horace Kramer, in Januar)' of this year, as special
counsel, the village has saved more than $70,000 in tax refunds.
Kramer, the former vice-chairman of the Nassau County Board of
Assessors, has received approxi­mately
$8,500 in fees for the work
he has done for the village Aip to
this time. . _..
" ~Thc~alf6irncy represents the
village in tax certiorari matters
pending in State Supreme Cburt.
Previously, property owners in
Nassau County knew that, if they
filed action for a tax refund from
the county, whatever settlement
was made,;, the ,village ; Qf ^tbe
property .lay : within an' Incor­porated
village) would also accept
If. "Freeport "•*•
practice.'' ^^
has changed th'at
Kramer declared re­cently
to THE LEADER, "to
where wc arc settling it (certiorari
.mattcrslindcpcndcnilvJ'-
Tlie more than $70,000 saved •
represents the difference In
(axes, oast and present, between
what.-Nassau County recently
settled with five property owners
and what Kramer arranged as
settlements for the village of
Freeport. The difference in actual
. valuall^h' of thc'propctttes tn
question amount 10 approxl-matcly
ten times that amount and
- ;(Cont.o«Paoe12)
No Regional Fish Market
Seen For Freeport
FREEi^ORT- Residents and busmess people of Frceport's water­front
area attended a meeting Wednesday afternoon. August j^S, called
by the Nassau County Department of Commerce and Industry In order
to obtain "input" into plans for the "Jones Inlet Region."
-; County Coipmissioner Roy Cacdatore had seht out letters of invita­tion
to some: others had heard of ^ Pultoh Fish Market." Rather,
the meeting and^ concerned about cacdatorje explained, the earlier
.meetings-were designed —-as
this one was — to secure bput (or
a Jones Inlet Regional Plan.
rumors of a "Fulton Rsh Mar
ket" proposal for Wooddeft
Avenue, had called and asked to
attend. The meetings Cacdatore's
office told those who called, was
open to the public.
. Cacdatore began the meeting
by stating that "at no tiih^ was it
ever intended for Freeport or
Wooddeft Canal to be turned into
Cacdatore said of Jones btet. "it
shifts...All we want to do is get
(it) stabilized."
The commissioner also stated
tihat there was not enough
'(Cont.onPaga12)
cosu of exteadfagt'igepdnMaU adding 35 addUkmii pirkbgspaagr
The meetbg win b e ^ at 8 pm at Vmage HaB. .'
.: TUs is^^ tb(^ second proposal to add parkbg' spaces (p the. Mail/
CetOni Bosiness. District tea. . .> ^
The first one was never acted
npoa foDowug a pobSc bearbg
last year.
- The assessment district
presentiy under conslderatioa
t»-snaBer than the fhst sngges'
tion. It woaI4 mo from the
_l.I-«:onl.orTPaflaTl)
< iw rt the prcseiit
deal wnii tae protiieai and to
that they axe eiuott'cd. - -
A poblic deaioGtioo
scnfguled for 8 pm,
ooe represestmg tlM
the prDowty^at "12$^ Grand Ave-rFoQmrbg
tlie tfitimocy dt
'(ContohPaoalZ)
BLObO OONOftS. Mayor William Whita watchat<a tw^idan monitor
thy'progren of Madaima Horna a* aha givea blood at Intar-County
Blood Servicas. Tha Mayor and Mrt. Homa wara amontf the Villaga
government employaas wtto, for tha fourth oonsacuthra year, Itava
donated blood during tha:vaeatlon montha when tha araji's oiood
si/pply Isal It4 lowe$t. "