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FREEPORT, NEW YORK. OCTOBER 22,1981
46th YEAR. No. 26
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• I Budget Sessions To Start
Baldwin's Milbum School "'""•'' '''^'" '* i^^Ungs Scheduled,
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CBlAoLDsWiINn - Tghe pCossibole nclossinig dof eBarldweind's M ilbum School win At Freepwt H.S. "^
be the subject of a special meeting .of the Board of Education called for
Wednesdiy. October 28, at 8 pm, at the District Office on Hastings
Street. The announced agenda for the meeting wijl include the district
administration's report on the possible dosing of the school at the end
of this school year, including the
Board action," the release stated!
•Vill be taken on the Milbum
. matter at that time."
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.:ToBeDtacaaMd
At *hc October 28th meeting,
the Schcx^Boardsill also discuss
the future use of Baldwin Jumor
High School, which is scheduled
to cloise at the end of June. 1982.
The meeting - b open to the
public.
(EDITOH'S NOTE: Baldwin
Editor Joan Oelahey was present
at the Octotter 14th meeting of the
Baldwin School Board when the
possibility of closing Milburn
school was raised. She reports
on It In this Issue of THE
LEADER. The Milburn: PTA
comments on the situation in a
letter In the "Baldwin Mailbox"
section of this week's issue of
THE LEADER.)
impact on the District of altema-live
reassignment plans for
Milbum students, if title Board
decides to close the school, and
enrollment and staff prtjectioiu if
the decision is to keep the sdipol
open. .. _ . -'
According to a. press release
issued on October lb by the
District, the discussion will also
include a projected impact on
Meadow and Steele Schools.
The report will be presented
by a special Superintendent's
committee which was appointed
by Superintendent of Schools
Rolland Jones to study proposed
bond bsue needs and. the release
states, "in response to a Board
charge to study possible school
closings."
According to Dr. Jones, the
agenda item will be for informa­tion
purposes only. "No formal
FREEPORT _- Seven Freepbtt
High School students have t^n
named in the 1982 National
Achievement Scholarship Pro­gram
for Outstanding Negro
Students.
W. Michael Bumpus, son of
William and Dorothy Bumpus of
Ray Street, Freeport, has been
declared a Semifinalist. Six other
seniors — Trudy firahaiaTCheiyl
Gray,- Mark Greenidge, Loii
Posey, Linda Furcell and Jon
Sheppard'— have been selected
as Osmmended Students.
Bumpus, who has been an
outstanding student since coming
to Freeport in 1973, is one of
1,500 Sen^nalists, nationwide.
Semifinalists must advance to
Finalist standing in order to con­tinue
in the competition and be
' considered for scholarships.
Since the seventh i grade,
Bumpus has accelerated in math,
science and language and has
taken every honors course avail­able,
to him, including English,
SociaV Studies, German and
pent, on Page 10)
FREEPORT -The VUUge Board of Trustees,wiU hold the first of a
two month series of special iheetings on the 1982-83 municipal budget
on Saturday morning, October 31. .
The Hve member board will be discussing the various budgetary
requests submitted by. department heads as well as anticipated
revenues. The meetings are open
to thb public, although no public decade.
participation — questions or _ The Saturday morning meeting
comments — are allowed. During is scheduled to run 9:30 am-,
1 _ pm. Subsequent Saturday
morning. meeting are scheduled
for the same time. Meetings are
also sdiednled on Tuesday and
Thursday cvenfaigs,7-ll pm.
Impact Of School Closings
Studied By Baldwin Board
bfJoan 0»/«/i«y
BALDWIN - Although the October 14 Baldwin Board of Education
meeting was advertised primarily as a presentation concerning the
Coolidge School sale referendum, the bulk of the meeting and the
portion that involved the greatest controversy and surprise was the
presentation by the Superintendents Committee On The Vse of
Facilities (SCUF) and the impact
of the closing of Milburn and
Steele Schools. The Committee
was headed by Gene Lanzaro,
Assistant . Superintendent for
Elemcntarl Education and
included Shubert School Principal
Frances O'Connor. Meadow
School Principal John Ryan, and
Amy .McComb. Director of
Instructional Communications.
They said that they had received
input from each principal in the
district.
Apparently this investigation
had been proceeding for some
time. According to a district
spokesperson, it developed as an
outgrowth of the Administration's
study of the energy bond needs of
the district.
The report vias divided into
three sections. The first deah
»-ith the capacity of schools
relative to classroom space and
space for music, art, physical
(-rfucation. learning centers and
special services. There was
approximately a half-hour of
discussion attempting to properly
label and understand the term
"rated capacity." Lanzaro tried
to point out the reason for the
Committee's approach while the
Board, seeking to ensure the
report's long-term use. requested
that the heading of categories be
clearer. Tfie specifying of the
track capacity of each school was
questioned by the Board and they
also stressed that if the use was
long-term, the report should not
presuppose any program in any
building forever. Lanzaro said
that the housing of the program
for t'he handicapped, which
requires six classrooms in addi­tion
to some ancillary space,
could only occur at Meadow
School. This is because Meadow
School is not only the sole school
(Cont. on Page 8)
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Nabs Two
FREEPORT - An off-duty
Freeport police officer came to
the aid of the driver of a car early
Wednesday morning, October 14,
as two hitch-hikers allegedly tried
to hold him up.
The police officer, John
Westermann, was in the vicinity
of Sunrise Highway and Guy
Lombardo Avenue in Freeport, at
about 12:30 am, when he heard
and saw what was apparently a
fight in a car.
The 24-year-old Rockville
Centre driver of the^-e'ar —
allegedly was being attacked by
the two hitchhikers whom he had
picked up on Long Beach Road in
Oceanside when they told him
they needed a ride into Freeport.
According to the police report,
19-year-old Joseph Maldona of
148 North Long Beach Avenue in
Freeport, sitting in the back seat
of tfie car, allegedly started
choking the driver and biting him
on the neck and face, as he
stopped the car to let his two
passengers out. The second hitch­hiker,
Robert Monies, 20. of 248
Guy Lombardo Avenue, wis in
(Cool on Page •< 61
these meetings, the board goes
over, on a line-by-line, item-by-'
item basis' the various depart­ment's
projected budgetary
ezpenditures.'
• Last year, the Village Board —
composed of the same five
members as this year (Mayor
William H. White, Deputy Mayor
Dorothy Storm and- Trustees C.
James Qark, Timothy Petemana
and Al Sirlin) -^ brought a
$14,323,703 budget to the public
at the annual January Budget
Hearing. That figure carried an
%t per $100 assessed valuation
tax increase and included as
revenue an anticipated profit of
$300,000 from the proposed sale
of the Public Works Building.
The 8* increase was even lower
than the figures of the year
before, when, in 1979, the Board
brought an an increase of 10* 'per
SlOO assessed valuation for its
1980-81 budget, the lowest in a
a i. 'j?H) i! ij .x,ir.: B2£3 r?.z: n-jri^x-
I B ® 3 t!ESt (SK5 ST. •""
The meeting dates scheduled
are October 31; Novemlwr S, 7.
12,14,17,21 and 28; and Decem­ber
3,5,10,12 and 17. Keminders
of eachlmeeting win be carried
vyeeUy in THE LEADER'S
"Calendar of Events," wiiich
always appears on Page two. •
The meetings are usually held
in the Board of Tmstees Confer­ence
Room on the second floor of
VUlage Hall. As thejlall U closed
evenings and Saturdays, one can
enter, through the village Police
Station.
In announcing the list of dates
this week. Mayor White said
"We are going to try to keep
down taxes whUe continuing the
services that our village residents
expect."
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BICENTENNIAL SMILES are displayed by memoers of the Village of
Freeporfs Bicentennial Committee and Hempstead Tovfn Presiding
Supervisor Thomas Gulotta and State Senator Norman J. Levy. Gulotta
and Levy presented special citations at the Village's Yorktown Victory
Ball.' Levy's cited the worV ol the Bicentennial Committee and
Gulotta's paid special tribute to the Ball's Gueat-of-Honor Edward
Smits. Showing off one ot the ciUtlons are (1. to r.) Gulotta; Committee
members Helen Paturzo and Rboda Keller; Senator Levy's wife, Joy
Levy; Committee member Elaine Stetlner; the village's BicenteiSnlal
Director Bob Raynor: and Committee members Marian Qottachalk
and Tom Moore. '