The-Leader_1982-10-14

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Village of .
Freepoft
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Freeport
School. District
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Baldwin >'
School District
FREEFOa? UEXOSIAL LIBHART
1 MERRICK ROAD
FREEPORT il Y 11520 Z9
FREEPORT. NEW YORK. OCTOBBR
47th YEAR. No, 25
"•>teEEEPjrr f^ii^omAi- UBBABX-.
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Committee Scrubs Cleveland Sc'
Some Apartment |^^ Changes Recommended
Houses Can't Up
Renb...Yet For Dodd, High School
IT'S A MECE OP CAKE. Mayor'WOllamvyi^'tt.) ^iutt ttw'idng M>
IM "HtppfaotltWUMnHa ftmpart^fxmi^itm wfHiMrv«M KM-model
to tlMMpff "Caka" flat! wWcn vjlf t t ^ off tlw gala birthday'
par;<d«. Batidi', niarching eonifnganti u » oolortul ditplaya will parade
along Mcrrkit fUMd ort Saturday, Odotier 23, beginning at 10 am.'
General chairman ol Iha Freeport Chamber ol Commeree'a celebration
of the eoth anniversary ol the Vlltage'a Incorporation is Mlia Ocera
<2nd r.), gazing apprsclsllveiy at the ctke'a creators. Donna C ^ from
I.) and Richard Cantwelt (r.) ol Carvel's In Freeport. Mr. Cantwell has
also served at parade band eoordlnator attracting such outstanding
musical groups aa the U.8. Army Band, the Long Island Mummers and
the Naaefu County Polioa'a Emerald Society Bagpipers.
Baldwin Commiffee
Presenfs New Data
^ byJoanDtleney
BAIDWIM. New raw data-ea reoritanhattoo of the Baldwin Sdxwl
Dbtrict. was presented by the"Sapwinteu<leut'«-€onMnittee-on-fa—
organhatkia (SCOKE) for the first ttme^'at the School Board's regalar
. monthly fflceting on October 6 at Lenox School. At that time, staOitics
relating to poptuttion, {topolatica mobility, minority popolatians, and
five year population prcjections
HEMPSTEAD -Under t£e re­cent
guidelines adopted by the
Nassau County Rent Guidelines
Board .covering those ninnki-palities
which_are under the
Emergency Tenant Protection
Act, landlords who have iu>t sub­mitted
financial schedules for
their buildings cannot coflect
guidelines under
meats bcgiitaing
October 1.1982.
A Sst at these .baHdiflgs
ia the fiOafe of Rreeport baa been
Oofcfrmiea BowdTas yfll as by
the Fiieepati Tenants Assbciatioa.
These bidUings ate: 56 Broad­way,^
Broadway aad 107 Broad­way:
203 East'Menick Soad;
U6 ^sst Sunrise Hidtwav;
SO Nortb Bergea Place; and 1 lit-de
Fine Street (vacant fbUowiag a
fire).
Abo. 30 North Long Beacfa
Avenue: 135 Nottit Main Street;
4S North Ocean Aveaue; 65 North
Ocean Avenue; 148 Fine Street
aad 178 Pine Street.
Abo 75 Randan Avenue and
145 Randan AveBne^.50m}th
- !>beet:124 Smith Street; 155-161
(Cont. on Page 18)
FBEEPORT - The Long Range Planning Cbnumttee of volunteer
residents and businesspetsoes in the Freeport Sdiool District has
recommended the dosing of Oeveland Avenue SdKxil and Hat moving
of the Pre-Klndergarten Center to Cdumbus Avenue Sdrool, whkh
now bouses all the district's kindergarten classes.
Presently, Columbus Avenue is also one of the four district schools
serving dasses. in first through "*
fourth, grades. Under the
mended plan, Columbus -would
became sdeiy a pre-K/Klnder-
Jease agree-_.garten.Cteater and the Freeport
CO sad after School District would have-three
grade ooe-thmujib-four schools.
The students at Cdnmbos'would
be (fivided between the other
tiac4 .p*4^"' acboob:' .Archer,:
Bayview~aad.G9rfyn. '
The comwitfee, which had
been meeting since August,
reoomBiiended ao changes in the
AtUasoo Sdiooi «fth and riztfa
grade center, the Dodd Juidar
High Scbool's two grade (seventh
and eighth) com^gBiatiao or in
the (ooz-year high adMol.
Supetfaitendent of Scfaooia Dr;
John E. Bierwirtb sak) dw SdMot
Board would hoM pub8e hearings
on the committee's teooatmesda-tioa
somptimc in Novembet, after
notkes were sent to the etitite
community, and wouVl jm^Mbfy
make its deddon this
December or Jsmtary.
and their impact on the - total
district and individual elemeotaiy
schools were presented. '-
Assistant Superintendent of
Schools Gene Lanxaro, Chairman
of SCORE, noted that the primary
objective was "to develop a pro-po
«a] for reorganizing the ele­mentary
sdiooU" which win "be
presented in a timely fashion so
that Board decisions, relative to
its impact, may be reflected in the
proposed budget for 19&3-M and
the forthcomhig bond, referen­dum."
Laazaro added that the
Board "wants a proposal de­veloped
fay educators which
facilitates optimum' teadiing/
leandng within responsible fis^
and UaTitf lio^tioos" and
which wis be implemented in the
1983-84 school year.
Members of the committee
indttded Dr. John Ryan, piindpal
of Meadow School-, Robert
Rogers, assistant prindpal of
Meadow School; Frances
O'Coonor, principal of Shnbert
School; Thomas Hodge, prindpal
of- Steele -Scfaod; asd Richard
- -Dopsoric; Assistant Superinten­dent
for Business.
Mrs. O'Connor noted as some
of the priodples which gnkled the
commtttee's work: the develop-'-^
ment of a uniform and consistent
instructional plan for aU elemen­tary
sc)>ools; a nui^mum amcnot
of transportation; and an aware­ness
of the effect of reorganiu-tion
on such special programs as
ESL (English as a second
language), PHC (popQ with
handicapping conditions) and
PAG (program for the academ­ically
gifted.) In addition, the
committee considered the impact
of radal isolation which is legally
required, when any new recrgani- :
ration plan is developed. The geo­graphies
of the dij^rict, both in
terms of actual schools and
sections, early commnnicatioa
with staff groups for purposes of
input, and adherence to a time
frame were all priorities.
Thus far. the committee has
met for over 20 hours with
Baldwin Teachers' Assodatioa
representatives as weO as build­ing
. representatives. During
(Cont.onPa«e16)
Medical Cap Big
Issue In Village,
CSEA Dispute
FREEPORT - The village's
Boud of Trustees win sit in leg­islative
session -nest Monday
evening, October 2S, for a {mbEc
hearing dealing with its municipal
employee's contract. The hearmg
is the final step in a process ^
negotiations, which has resulted
in a stalemate between the vil­lage
and the empic^ees' bargain­ing
umt, the local CSvil Service
Employees Assodation (CSEA).
Both sides in the barguning
process, the employees — as
represented by the CSEA — asd
the village — as represented by
its attorney in the matter, farmer
Mayor R<4!ert Sweeney — wiD
present their arguments before
the Board makes its dedsioo.
One of the major areas of-.<Us-agreement
appears to be the vil­lage's
proposal to put a limit (cap)
on its contribution to its employ­ees'
medigal insurance plan.
Presentiy, the viOage pays 100%
(Cont. on page 4) ..
A sdMol could be rented, sold
or put into "mothbans." said
ffierwirth, ezplaimng that the
last t'b not a good idea."
' the ftAod district' also uses
Oevdaad .'Aveiine• -Sdwd'a
field: for-atldelic;ga»eaVaiid\ its
field boose for saraae and m^B>'-~ -
teaanceacthities. Thefidd, s ^'
Bietwirtb, is owned by the vilhge
and One adwol dbtrict,.ia any
case, would pcobaMy continue to
use both field and field faouses.-
' Bierwirth painted cot that,
under the cominittee's
meatdatioa, famines would not be
divided with yonngstets attrad^
iag dUCerent gnde ooe'thtoa^
foot acboob and students would
make one less move, firem sdiooi
to sdMoi, staying la tbe same d^
for both pre-Undergarten and
kindergatten.
^. Bierwirth called dass size "aa
The couuritteer^Mdi-beld —independent factor." The teach-its
last sessioo on Monday even­ing,
Oocbtt 11, bad been charg­ed
with discussing the problem
of future decreases in the dis­trict's
student .popubtioa. The.
members, all volunteers, had du-cussed
options ranging from dos­ing
no schools to dosing at least
one school and in retaining the
present grade level configura­tions
to such options as exchang­ing
schoob and changing the
junior and senior high grade
set-up.
EnroUment studies had project­ed
decreases in student popuU-tion
during the next decade,
which prompted the formation of
thecomtmttee.
Dr. Bierwirth ezpluned that
the SduMl Board would not make
its decision until after the ^bEc
hearing, and tiut a Septemt>er,
1983 implementatioa date b
planned. The future of Cleve­land
Avenue School, if the Board
'does decide to dose it, b uncer­tain,
because Bierwirth said the
Board has not and wiO not discuss
what to do with any sdiool natn it
defintelr decide wUA. if any.
en' contract^calb for classes of
no more than 29 youngsters is
the first thronj^ fbnrth grade
level, btit most dasses, said
Bierwirth, "are significantly
below that," averaging 23-25.
In those cases, where there are
28-29 youngsters m a dass,
parents on the Long Range Plan­ning
C:ommittee have urged that
the district consider adding a
teacher to the grade level and,
said bierwirth, the staff and ad­ministration
luve DO objections'
to that. Bierwirth intimated
that primarily budgetary con­siderations
had prevent^ such
action in the past.
"Everybody (on the committee]
seemed to recognize that it made
sense to dose a building,"
Bierwirth said, p<Nnting out tiiat
it would s»ve some money.
Bierwirth praised the commit­tee,
saying they "put in a lot of
hours" and "really did their
homework." He said he was par­ticularly
pleased with the way it
brought together a wide repre­sentation
from the coltimaaity,
WIK> worked together, liUcnxsed
•wfflbedoaed. •-. end listened to each pthef.