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FRIEPORT
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ROOSiVELT
MERRICK
THS LEADER FREEPORT'S
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NEWSPAPER
44th YEAR. No. 48 . FREEPOinr. NEW YORIC.yMARCH 27. 1980 PRICE 2 0 * PER COPY
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Rental Permit Proposal Could Produce
Low Upheld on From s^Ula^e Refuse
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FREEPORT - After a five year
^ court battle, the Village of
" Freeport may require landlords to
obtain a penmt before renting
any homes or apartment units.
The in-and-out of court, now
it's consUtutionai now it's not,'
battle Was with a group of* apart-
. ment house owners who sought to
have the viUute's^rental permit
ordinance dedareid unconstitu*
tional. While two lower courts
had previously ruled against the
village, the AppeUafar Envision of
th^ State Supreme Court has now
reversed those rulings.
In the latest rulmg. Justice
Leon Lazar said that the City of
Mount Vernon's ordinance had
set a precedence for the Freeport
JCont.onPaoO'lor V -
.FREEPORT - Several months after an inttta) presentation-to the
Village Board of Trustees, representatives of Oppenheimer Co.. Inc.,
an mvestment Arm; Bums & Kowe, project engmeers; BMW Energy;
^nteTpnse Co.; and Five Cbuhties Cartmg again met with the board
and the village's Sewer and Sanitation Commission to -present a
proposal to produce fuel oil as an
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end product of a new garbage
disposal method. The meeting
Monday evening. March 24,
preceded the printed agenda of
the board's weekly legislative
session and was open to the
public.
Last August, the trbstees had
voted not to sell 'the village's
incinerator plant and property to
BMW. The prtmosai is to con*^
struct a modem fadlity at the^e
of the shnt-<IOwnliictnerator plant
that wotUd'house a procett'that
no financial obligations'or bur­dens
in its constraction or main­tenance.
According to Mintz's explana­tion
of the proposal, the village
would receive S224,000 from the
sale of the village-owned land and
revenue from the property tax
thereafter. It would also share in
the sale of the #2 diesel on that _
would-be produced,and would
have a ^rst^ option to purchase
such oil for itS-Owa,useAt.a low
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.TORflEEPeRTiB5CjtfAXX>RtVV«GdN8lt*^Tiw, .,
'iWteemSl to the Village by Michael Kirwan (r.), coordtnator-of the
'"•^^VfltagelsStabilization Task Force. When Eric Hemphill was appointed
" director Qf~CommUnl{y Development for.Freeport, he enlisted the
" TaakPorce'i fre^ Hqmef Inders Service to help find a house to purchase
.for his family who would t>e moving from Appleton, Wisconsin. Shown
~ moving Into-^their newly-purchased New Yorli. Avenue house are
<^0'to1r.)Eric.t)aaBhter Kim and wife Pat " ." -,
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Preiimiriary SchopL Budget Figufes-v:-
Show Few Changes in Staging
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^ FREEPORT'- Following the
recommendation -of ^ a^^ Sdiool
DistrictTadi Forcfc.'a.'prbposa] to
implement_a^^,^!ognun for gifted
and talenteo-BfiOents in 1980-81
at' the 'Atldnsoa School -. was
preseaied'to the Board of Educa­tion
'atolls' March'J9^'public
meetingT ," ^ l-'si'—'L'^-fc*^'."'''-
j-^Ttes«itch - dorie^by-.'^the^ Task
Force revealed thaftbe^majority
FREEPORT - While staffing for'bAh^nstructiomil and nbn-instric- ^SL^^^'J'^^^KS.^V^^S
tioiial'services Uke up a large part of the Freeport: S e l w l J ) i s t r i c t ' i : 1 ^ 5 ^ - ; " y ^^
j_?udwJUaitU^changes wertseiiTirom-thTs-cuiTCnt'tS^t-pn^ gi^i ' Z ^ * f o r ^ ^ S ^ Un
:"l98MUPgures. Beliuse the district i$.presenUy iii ne5btiatfoi«S»ith ^ f^^. .P^'JJ'^ Freeport to
' ^nr™^'fI2''?frii^r«^'^f'*^-'^*''*"^ - AioutSb^Atkinson School
.all cases are'the same as the .-• ^ '"^ft^ ,i»^ -.r-^- . - " xM.w^r>.t tzJik^ n^^^u- "^K-dpiounts-
paid this year. Actual -^ede^^ asrirt.ni.^ S^taik-^of f ! ^ ^ S X ' S ^ ^ t oS
costs^will be determined after Eduoition cilled^if o5e of .three - P S f f i , fflf^'5-J^?!
t. >*
~ A
' 'propoKted budget, as~ the sdiool, Bondarior ditector^of''the fre-K_
t ..<_s.t^u»3..- .u—-J 4i.« c- pn^ram, was gwng to be invited
tcT.WaishingtoDr D.C.^ to run'a
workshopronprerftprogtams. "
r According:^ fo' Cbstlow. the,
district's c9ntnbudQn of S23,953
is a small put of the ditire cost
of the program^ State aid, for
example, picks up $199^345.
. Wliile; there are slight inoeases
in the amount of teadiei^ in the K
admlnlstrition. showed the -fig
u«s to the Board 'of Edi^cation.
_and^ the public at' a jvorkshop
~m'eeting March 20, was an
'increase in the number,of staff
rnem1>ers proposed in the cate-rgoiy
of pupils with handicapping
Omditions. An increase (^
^iQOpwi^ proposed by Super-
1nienden<t V of .Sdiools ; Donald
Costldw>for!3'.»4:more. teachen.
, Cbstlow ^ed.tfae.inmasej.'alot
o{mbia<^; u d we recogtiize that.
but," he;e:ylidned,..*'we stand to.
lose state aid pirfbis tt #e are not
-iit 'coinpliaJnce..Iif there is' even
oiie ."Student 'over (mandate.
..••. Another recommendation from
the iiatefnistratiraiiiwoul^^^ .to
, add oneinoriE jps^iiiologlst to the
JjT^ntsixJnJhcjiisteict-to-give-
~ nill time 'services m all -the
schools. This would add S19,469
tothetudget-^^^^-
_ '. ;GIowiagTribates
FreejKBt's .. pre-kmdergartMi
program came io for much praise
as Cbstlow said that the^ new.
- Youn^ers will haveihe oppor
tunityjcuvoik an advanced activi­ties
tn~ sudi areas as Phy^cal
Education, Math, Art, MuskLaod
the' libraryr Specific offttings
could '^^^ Gynuastics.
Chamber M^^, Computer Pro­gramming
and Great Books.. For
p u ^ seeking other types of '
interest acdvities, siMne groups
.may be created around such areas .
.._ ' t ,.» r> _., - as Calculator MJse, Dramaticsi •
i^'^'i^SS f*f: ^ T ' ^ r " , ^ Aerodynamics. Language Arts^ .
mended ihat along with the 3% - EthnicHeritege Studi^ Cooking -
f F f ^ . - ^ S t e l ^ ^ i J ! ^ and Culture,-Lifesaving. Water-
~ * front Studies, Stamp Collecting
and Current Eviehts, Chesi,jtod.
lysis- — - ' - 0 < . " .
The advanced activi^es wljQ^
be- orgaiincd 'HJjC' Atldiisoil's-
'dieseloiL.
_iuJS5njcq-tl»o-boaKl-dediOT^;^^
trsell the property last year, one of
'the reasons was that 'the pre­sentation
did not answer all their
^luestions pertaining to,odors,
^pollution, and monies the vUlage.
would either have to save or earn.
- This time, the proponents of
the plan seemed more prepared. •
More-than'b^-dozen of Uiem
wercHhere, experts — they said^'
^ r^ in'all aspects, ranging from,the
" financial to the engineering, and
the tnitia! statements were made
by a Freeport attorn^, ^ J"''*''.r,
;Mintz;whorepresen(e<lthem. ' '
Armed with an artist's'render­ing
(tf,the proposed new jaality
and 'slides depicting how' the
pyrolysis., process works, the
group attempted to. answer,the
iKiard's questions^ "-^^^—r'-^'^
- The process, MIntz Explained
in layman!sT-terms,~ decomposes'
organic material, refiise, fit lugh
temp^tures in ' an cdor-fr^,
pdnution^free- sysiemVThe--plant
to be bnilt^ represents a SIO
million ^dollar^investment.'^with
the village of Freeport incurring
-^uoewd&ilj:_inv^b£fiinenLJiUithc^
tor pocBSAWOuid make the viUage
A
udependent in its waste removal
operations. Garbage, presently
picked up in the village by Five
Coun^es.Cardng under a munici-'
pal contract, woud not have to go
out of thejyillage, with a resultant
saving-in f^el for the ,tnicks.-In
fact, several speakers pointed out
if the Town of, HempsteU's
Black Clausen plant was dosed —
a possibility^more than hinted af ~
—the Cage's reftise might liave
tatie outed much further away,
for example New Jersey.-s^ • " ^ ~
Miniz estimated that with the' "
pyrdyns>"prdcexs. firmly'"cStai
blished in ,the village,, Freeport
could - save ' =' approximately
$150,900 annually. • » ^"^ -
' -The^ viUage'y^gnly. obligation,
according* to the *pmeQtation.~
'would t>e to'proyide garbsge.-and , *
it would never pay^more,than
95% of the then current dpping
costs^ to'have it pro^sed> The
rest of the raw materials needed;— •
would I>e 'provided 'by private'
cartefs wlio pick up in the village.
(Cont.~onPage8) , ''
the ene psyclwlogist, the IxMrd
add a fiaU librarian for the £p|fled ^
cliildreiis' program to be institut- Vsi
•edat^Af " ' ^ —
additionals^^ would mean a net
decrease • of -. only. V/i staff
meoibers.
The Board asked aiwut two of
-tlie-jiiugraMA lecommended at
earlier school t>oard meetings.
Cbstlow told them that the district
will implement Ijotli the in-school
suspension program at "Dodd
Junior. jfiglL-fehool and "the
duster program there. The latter.
. (Cent; on Page 16>
-spedalty. teachers, wliile other
faculty- members' with spedfic
inteiuUi ui uiptiillse would leaiEr
the interest area groups. -^
All activities would operate on
Wednesdays in one or two after­noon
periods otr a semester basis.;
Youngsters would select from a
list of offerings. The program
focuses on the strength of activi-
(Cbnt. on Page 5)
WITH A THANK YOU ffbm the Freeport KIwanlsrthe group's presl-sentWalt
Schinzel (c.) and program cKairman ClifljSchorer (r.).
present Robert f^aynor with a Certificate of. Appreciation. Raynor, a
long-time member o( the Freeport H'tstoricai Society and chairman ol
the village's Spirit of '76 Bicentennial Committee, presented a slide
show to ttie group at a recent Weekly dinner meeting at Hartxjr View
Restaurant. . -.; - • - > ^
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