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FREEPORT. NEW YORK. NOVEMBER 25.1982
47th YEAR. No. 31 V PRICE 25*PEB COPY
Redpening Of II Mall Nixed
Jfornado Gets O.K. Consultant's Report Cites
To Lease Two Guys '^
To Buiova Plant Several Drawbacks To Plan
WHAVS IN STORE (or ptrty-flo«ri Saturday avafllna, OaotmtMf 4,
« M V etptitwtabjfjohn Mb*t» O-l an ac«va Ftmtatt EnahanMiia
and fgnn«r .VanaribM of tfw Ewtao f anni Lodga «f Bona of ItalVr and
PMrCoiiit (r.t,-prMi(Mftrof (h« niitpM EiefimiKCftib. Abttatoand
Conta ara haadtra up a Irrg^'Voup oi aarvlea dub inambafa, cWIe
groupt and raaKSm'ta, who will ba attandlng tha Villaga of Fraaport'a .
oala 90lh Birthday Party at tha Fraaport Raeraatton Canlar. Showlno
off aomt o( the aourmtt eulilnt thai will ba tarvad In an alagant buHat
If Mary J^na Ocara. Tkkats ara t17.80 par parson and Induda tha
Iniamailonal bulfat, unllmltad liquor, and dancing from B pm to 1 am
to tha Big Band aounda of Rhythm and Braaa, a t7-plaoa band. Tickatf
mun ba crdarad no laiar than Wadnaaday, Oaeambar 1, from tha
Fra^tort - Chambar of Commarta ofllM, 37S-74Q2, or Fraaport
Cataring, MA>10oe, 52 Waal Marriek Road.
School Reorganization
Plan Outline Given To
Baldwin School Board
by Jotn D^ltnty,.
BALDWIN - At the specUl meeting of the Baldwin Board of Ed-.
ucation held Wednesday. November 17, the Superintendent's Com­mittee
on Reorganization (SCORE), with its chairman Gene Laniaro,
presented a preliminary outline of a plan for the reargaoization of
schools which could take effect in September. 1983 if approved by the
Board. The two year traasitioD
plan has at its basis the dosing
of Steele School, the development
of two full-time kindergarten
centers at Meadow School and
Milborn School, the reassigimient
of ail Milbum stadeats to Brook-side
School and the reassignment
of some Brooluide students (o.
Shobert School. In addition,
the PHC (Pupils with Handi­capping
Conditions) program
would be reassigned to Plaza
School. .
According to Lanzaro, the plan
is simple, yet comprehensive, and
contains options for the Board of
Edncatiofi. After several hours of
presentation and discussion, how­ever,
several Board members
questioned the extent of flex­ibility
that was available.
Lanzaro presented the plan's
background guidelines, con­straints,
and data, as welt as
sensitivities and feelings which,
he said, were developed after
over a decade of dealing with re­organization
in Baldwin. He
noted that certain fptioiu were
not accepted by the committee
because of their knowledge of
past community opposition as
wen as their knowledge of present
cotmnonity priorities. He added
that the plan was the result of
"the conditioned focusing of
experienced educators and re-organizers."
The Board of Education had
requested that the Administratioii
base any plan on sound educa­tional
and fiscal priorities, that
the plan involve the best use of
facilities and that it be developed
in time for its impact to be re­flected
in the 1982 budget and
bond.
The plan's timeline involves
a two year transition period. The
first year Steele SchoOl would be
closed and its students all re­assigned
to Meadow School, At
the same time, a half-day kinder-
(Conl. on P»0« 8)
FREEPORT • At iu Monday
evening, November 22iul weekly
meethg, tite Village Board of.
Trustees voted pnanimoosly to
authorize Mayor William H.
White to sign an agreement with '
VonuuJo, the owners ^«f the
•Two Goya" Store, allowing it
to lease it* empty building to a
Bolova watch tabsidluy for light
nusnfaetariog use.
The agreement includes a
modificatioo and extension of
time nndet the ori^al cootract of
sale witb Voraado. which dealt
whb ooastnictiaii tnr AprO. 1982
ofr<fl-addMoml.;y.OOp <yure-fbpttapfnatfkft.
v-'. r • v
UtMSeT' t!be new' agreement,
light matutfadoibig is permitted
and Villsge Conosel Joe Edwards
pointed out that. Bght manu-
' ucttttiog is also a pennitted use
under the Urban Renewal {dan,
which coatrds the entire partd.
Tbe new agteemcnt has more
fOontonf>ao*iBV
ZdA Reserves
Decision On
Waterfront Condos
FREEPORT - The Village's
Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA)
has reserved decision on an appli­cation
of the builder of a proposed
four story condominium, which
-was^on the agenda of the Board's
monthly meeting Wednesday
night, November 17.
Chairman Milton Saunders
explained that the ZBA could not
take action until it had heard from
the Nassau County Planning
Commission and received an
Envioronroenlal Impact Report.
In the interim, Saunders
suggested that the applicants.
Mar-Lin Builders, meet with
representatives of local civic
associations to explain their
plans.
The builders, who purchased
the property from Tol Gaeta,
owner of The Schooner Restau­rant
and property south, east
and west of the plaimed condo­minium,
have proposed a 152-unit
building. The property is present­ly
a vacant plot bounded by Miller
Avenue, South Ocean Avenue,
Richmond Street and Manhattan
Avenue.
The variances involve front
yard set-backs and parking
arrangements.
Julius Minti, attorney for the
applicant, asked the board for an
FBEEPORK; • The loiig-awaited.stndy oo the possibUity <rf re-opening
Frteport Mall to vehicular trafiic has been remved by Village Mayor
William H. White and it bears a mice tag estimated to be at least
5361,000. ' ^ .
Tbe opening of the downtown shopping mall to traffic bad been
suggested by varioos Mall
(Cont.onPaget2)
merchants and'property owners,
was tbe sobject of a qoestSon put
to tbe public by THE LEADER,
aadhasbccn ^scitssed at sevoal
pubBc meetings sponsored by the
Freepoct Chamber of Commerce.
Aooofifiag io local tetaBers. it Is
a eoaccpt tttppcritA. by*^ many ^
fftridents. bttstsessmefi; , fivic
gtoBpa and ^ervk!c.oyyatrlnllons^
... Alopg, with,-.the en^ryers'
report, pr^ared by Baldwin and.
Con^ns, the village'a coii-sultitig
fffgliifcta. Mayor Whlttf
also recused a meaiocandnm
baa Baymood. Parish, Fine and
Wdoei. ooBsahasts to tbe village
dnce the first days of its Com-mn^
ty Dcvelopmieitt program.
'Baymood. Puisb. Rne ik
WdiMT. noting &at there would
b« a bnilt-in infiadoo hike if
ftiading for the plan is to come
&om the village'a 1983 Com-mimity
- Developmeat - foods,
placed its cost then at about
$390,000.
Vxt coosnltast's memo oot-
Uned other qnesticas raised by
the concept of opening tlie Mall
and these -apparently ?oand .
agreement with Mayor White.
WIufe"~noted "that there - was
less and less federal money avail­able
to villages eadi year and he
couldn't chance jeopardinng
other village-wide programs tiy
spending COmmtinity Develop­ment
money on tMs project.
Raymond, Parish, Pine and
Weiner Kad noted in their memo
to White that, while HUD's
approval wasn't necessary,
Nassau County's was, if Com-mumty
Development money was
. to be used.' The village is now
part of a county consortium
for CD funds. .
ihe village's consnltast is
of the opinion that the County
would be concerned with the
effects of the expenditure on the
village's • on-going bousing
programs, such as homesteading,
rehab loans aiid grafts.
If the village's tunth year
Community Development funding
would be about SSOO.OOO to
SSSO.OOO, the amount needed for
opening the Mall would be about
71-78% of that, said Kaymond.
Parish, Pine 4 Weiner in its
memo. Therefore the amount
available for other ongoing
programs would be stgntfi^tJy
reduced from tbe levels of
preceding years.
HUD, say* the consultants,
may . be .concerned' with- the
villa;ge*s . spading nearly
SfOO.OOO to. remove improve­ments
' made with previoaslv
allotted Cmmimnity Development
fimds. Itiiad east over SI riiillion
to'dose'the'Mall for traffic, ^and '
eooatnict tlie ove^Miigs,"ceafraI "
stroctnres. fooni^isi picatings.
Getting etc.
"Spendfaig another S4OO,O0O
to dftiwiish most of the improve­ments
nndertakcn with previous
HUD fonds-may present prob-lenisibriiMleral
officials," writes
Jdm SacccnB. of Raymond.
I^uisfa, Rne and Weiner.
HtID, the memo notes', mig^
also be concerned that the mall
prt^ect nugfat r»t comply with its
criteria of benefiting, low and
moderate income groups- or -
eliminating sbms and blight.
.FituDy, the coDsuhant mentions,
tluit HUD would probably be
concerned with such a significant
reduction in the ievd of housing
rehabilitatimi and homesteading
activities.
Saccardi suggests.that instead
other activities be proposed whidi
would use portions of future
Comm'un'ity Development funds.
He lists among these rear facade
improvements, additional park­ing,
demolition of the blighted
buildings near Sunrise Highway,
rehabilitation and reuse of the
(jrant's bu'ild'mg and ceruin
promotional activities, aU of
which are eligible under the
Community Development
program.
In computing tbe .costs of
re-opening the MaH to trafiic,
Baldwin and Cornelius noted that
,all freestanding objects in the
roadway would have to he
remov^ and suggested replacing
the surface al tbe road with a
heavy-duty bituminous roadway
and new concrete curbs. While
the existing surface would
support antos, the report points to
the probability of quick deteriora­tion
trafiic would cause on such
a surface.
Other work would also have to
be done to remo\'e the lights
hanging from the metal canopies,
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