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RboSEVELt
MERRICK
THi LEABER FREEPORT'S
OFFItini
NEWSPAPER
•Mth YEAR. No. 25 FREEPORT. NEW YORK. OCTOBER 25. 1979 PRICE 2 0 * PER COPY
Rent Stabilization Hearing Is Set
*='*""*y f'"'1"*" Boonf To Heor Tenants.
NIx Plan For
Elks Club Site Landlords On Nov. S"*
ON TARGET. Vilfafle Mayor Wililam'H. White (With flunLfries his '
hand a) taking a shot at the lite-sized target on ihe.Freeport Police
Bertevolent Association-maintained pistol range. The target "got his"
right in Jlhe mid-section.. White, and the Bgard of Trustees, were
inspecting the range whicH was recenU/renovated by.PBA memt>ers.
All members of the Freeport Police Department use the range toi^eep
up their marksmanship. During the inspection, PBA memt>ers demon-strated
their skUls for the Board. Shown (1. to r.) are Freeport Police
Officer BryafTWhltty, Sgt. Bryon Sullivan. Trustee Al Sirlln. White.
Trustee Timothy Peternana and Sgt. John Honkanen. The officers are
firearm instructors at the range.
Poor Mafh Scores Explained
At Board Of Ed Meeting
FREEPORT - The October public inecting of the Freeport School
Board was devoted primarily to an explanation of the low scores re­ceived
by Freeport ninth graders In the 1978 state-wtdc Regents Math
Competency Test. Follo^^ing publication of scores for Nassau, Su^olk.
Queens and New York City school dbtricts in September (THE
LEADER, 9/27/79). the Board of
Education had decided to hold off
any public explanations or dis­cussions
until this meeting.
Presenting the district's %icw of
the tests, interpreting their
results, and explaining the
remedies that were taken, was a
_panel consisting of Jacob
1 ihgmjn'r'-AVs'isUuf'Snpcriiitcitf^
'dent in charge of Secondary
Educa'tibn':' William" Mcflroy,
principal of Freeport High School:
and Joe Hotbrook. director of
math for the Freeport Public
Schools.
The Figures
Reiterated
In Introdocing llie psnel«.
Soperinlendeot of Scfaoob Donald
Cottlow noted ih^ ibe faHl'had
-been gfven to BMce tbia 800'
•tadents, appradBateljr 'aiBe-
-'Ihfad af vbon had fiiSed <• pMS,
. crfbed at *^U^" (ED^OB'S
; NOIEt Freepoct'c 3ZS%wm Oim \
Mghut pcinnlagc of itStaxtM in
MuBsa CooBiy ' dbbkU thai
fcpotled. Nac- arsSable «f flie
Itae were rendia fran Hki(x*IIIe«
loaiirtK aad Weat Heaipalfad.
nnepocfa prrrentafe was aka
Ugher tbaa New -Taifc' dty'a
20^% aad Qacew* 20.9%.)
fat rrplafntng tte l o t icnhs,
Casdow '"- as w ^ as tbe soc-tfoSueti-'-
noted tfasl
the Qgnrcs attiOiuted to tbe Free-port
School District were correct,
but that a.comparban between
Freeport and other districts
should not be made because other
districts' results, In some cases,
did nollnclade (be scores of their
poorer stodenU. ^me dis-
THcar^TiOittov; "iSo-eipiaincd;-
lurre l&ree seulons 'A ninth
grade math and did not give their
ttodents (he (est antH (be end of
their third session.
. Costlow also staled (hat in
sane districts, tbe. stodents
taUng tlw lest were a small
. anjaottt of tbe actnal mnnber of
eonOed niatb graders, bat ibe
percenlage was iiased ad tbe.
-naiber ' of EaQing stadents
•giinsl _ tbe - total f iinilnieat.
He'gare a^aa rramplr a dictilct
wbfcb ^oald ba«e 500 aiatb gcade
stadcats, ghre tbe lest la ai^rlS
af tbeat, aad faavf 13 of tbase^CilL
aae faiHwg pf TC< nta^et baasMti^ •
be said* vatdd ba«e bciea Ogand.
oa abaae af SQO, for a bflag nUc
of2%. :.-.-.v-- --•/-•
Castlow's mrMagt' 'was fbal
Fre^orf laid bcca *'faoaest*T ia
fads irpoitiag aad wBest ia its
^VIBK of tbe fcsL Al stodeato ia
>hr nfcrth grade, pweaeat that day;
iu tnaslier Sjtadcntt, '
(Cont.onf>ag6lO)
FREEPORT • Ks. THE LEADER
went to press Tuesday evening,
October 23, it was learned that
the NassauCounty Planning
Board had disapproved an ap­plication
for a change of zoning
of the property presently oc­cupied
by the Freeport Elks.
The Merrick Road site has been
bought by Morris Sussman and
George Bellcsls. Their application
to change the zoning from Busi­ness
AA to Business B had come
before the. Village of Frecport's
Planning Board and had, in turn,
been presented to Nassau Coun­ty.
.
The County Planning Board
disapproved of the application
calling It '•spot zonjhg." Accord-
• log to Mr. Lister of the Planning
Board, under, the 235 L&M law,
.•which deals with zoning ques­tions,
if the County Planning
Board disapproves a change of
zoning for property within
500 feet of a county liighway or
facility, the villagers board could
only pass it wilh"a"volFbf a iiiajut-ity
plus one, i.e. four votes on the
Board of Trustees would be need­ed,
Merrick Road is a county
highway.
The County decision pointed
out that the surrounding and
contingent areas to the plot were
zoned cither Business AA, the
most restrictive business zoning
in the village, or for apart­ment
houses.
The proposal brought before
the village's Planning Board
showed plans for the building of
a McDonald'^ fast-food Opera­tion,
a two-sltffy.bank. shops and
a mini-duplet movie theatre,
as well as.137parking spaces. '
- B l o c k Association
Workshop Planned
FREEPORT - The Freeport
Association will hold- a Block
Association AVorkshop Tuesday. .
October 2fi, 8 pro, in the Dodd
Junior High School Teachers
Cafeteria,
Roger Martin, director-of the
Neighborhood Stabltzation Pro­gram
for the New York City
. Commission Dn Human Rights,,'
willrnn the training program.^.
Manjn, a Freeport resident, is a.:
member of the Freeport Assoda- .
tion's Board of Direopn.
'. -The BkxJc Association program .
b being ran in cooperatkra with
Gtibank, whose contribatiba of
finds bas- made ^ posstbie its
iBcepboQi ,
V- All Jrei^jorl residents, inter*
ested in learning bow to start ^
• block association are.'invited to.
attend the workshop.
' For infonBatioti caQ EHen
.Extract. 86W)249.
niEEPORT - In the main conference room of Village HalK the Vil­lage
Board of Trustees was holding its weekly open voting session
Monday night, October 22, with scarcely anyone obscning. Art>und
the bend of the corridor, in the Mayor's "old office." even,- scat was
taken as the village's Landlord/Tenant Committee met.
At a public meeting of the Board of Trustees the week before. Mayor
William H. White had told an overflowing crowd of aparlnicnl house
tenants, complaining of rent in
creases as high as 35%, that he
would hold open his Board's
next meeting to await a recom­mendation
from the Landlord/
Tenant Committee on the pos­sibility
.of adoption of a village
rent control law.
The committee's coordinator,
Michael Kirwan, walked back.
Into the main' ciihfcrcncc nKim
follovVtng a 'heated meeting of
his committee, which cjjnsists of
three tenants and three landlords.
He told the trustees that there
had been a tie vote on two differ,
ent motions: one recommending
a public hearing on a rent stabili­zation
law, the second outlining
the landlords' plan to try to en-
-sure voluntary compliance—
with Nassau County rent guide­lines.
Kirwan told the Board that
on the basis of the tie votes, and
the discussion at the meeting, he
personally rcct>mmended a public
hearing so that both sides could
present their case and the
trustees cimld decide whtihcr or
not they favored mandator)- rent
control.
Mayor White noted that he
"ocr^onslly concuncd with Mr.
Kirwan's recommendations,..lo
let. all v'tcrw \ be cxprciiefl'' aiuV — •
he -iuggcstcd that the" public .
hearing be held as rapidly as
possible. According to Village
Counsel Michael Solv>mon,
ten days miist. elapse between
publication of a legal notice and -
the public hearing. The legal is
in (his week's issue of THE LEA- .
PER, and the public hearing has
been sclicdutci] for—Thursdav,- —
November 8, 8 pm, in the main
(Conf.onPage t2)
FHEEPOfrr CAST MEMBERS InT tfw fortheoo^ Fratport Com-miinJt)
U:t)orai0 produetlbo of V«>owt»at" fncluda Jack Holly flop; I.),
•s Frank; Batty-Tayior (top, r.f. as Oueen£n Em^Kxi Jonas (bottom,
i.h as Joe; and Giorta Nevard (bottom M.iPartlty. Parformances of
"Showboal" met sdieduied for Friday andSilurdAy. November 2, 3. 9
and 10,8:30 pm.«] Freeport High School. Tickau ara t5. and $4 for
children 12 years ind under, with al( seats rasarvad. TickaU may be
purchased by sendinffcheekf payable lo Freeport Chorale, to P.O. Boi
413, Freeport. N.Y. 11520. A stamped, setf-addrassad envelope should
tj« included.