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Village of,
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Baldwin
School District
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FREEPORT. NEW YORK. DECEMBEH 16.1982 -~
47th YEAR. No. 34 ^ FREEPORT MEMORIAL UBRARlfl
PRICE 2S*PER COPY.
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Xtuaekenbush Elected Residents Oppose ^ « y « ' ' ' ^ ^ ^ ' ^ " ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ e *
Baldwin FIreCommisslonet Expansion of At Sy^; Copies Ready Soon
" " " " Rsh Marked BALDWIN • Robert QoadEenbush, the challenger in the two-man
race for the positi(» of Baldwin Fire Cbmmlssiooer. was vieiarioos at
thepodsTaesday evening. December 14.
Qnackenbtuh, • captain with tlie Baldwin Fire Department, beat
long-time Commissioner Rnssell Cooper with m vote of 71X7 to 642.
Aboqt SO absentee ballots bad not
yet been coanted when Capt.
Qoackeabiish was confirmed the
.winner, but'thieir number was
insuSicient to change tiie rtsiiits.
even if tliey bad ail bfci; cast for
inaimbeDt Cooper.
Thei heated race for fire com- .
odssloner drew more voters than -
nsual. While, the 1402 total
votes cast were onJy.attMrt B'/<^
of the mtmber of eUglbie.voters :
(about 17.000).m»««bst«atially,^
higher than tiw number of people
wbojuoaUy go to the,poUa-ia
the^deciSoh of BaMwWr^-Pire
Commissioners.
Pre^electioa beat centered
aionad two major iuues: removal
of the villagers residential fire
t>Oxes and imptemeatstlon of
FREEPORT - A public bearing
before the Village Board «t Trus­tees
on four separate apblications
concemina Capt. Ben's Fish Dock
on Wooddeft Avenue was attend­ed
on a bitter cold Monday Even- .
ing, Decemlier 13, by n^irly 50
people.' Many of those rooke in
oppositioa to.tbe applicaiwos be­fore
the meeting was adjourned
Dcariy three boors later.
Only oue of tbe many speakers
sided with .Capt. Ben's owner,'
. . . , _ ,^. -_ -# .^Oenud Biracco; his attomor,
of Brookhaven wl>o, under ques­tioning,
admitted that be iiad
not takeh surveys of the Nautical
Mile during the summer months.
Speaking in Bracco's defense
was only the last speaker. Ken-nefii
Halter, wtto identiiVed ium-sclf
as an employee of the {irm
. .. - . , - ., . and called a wood overliing, con-cited
several times for l ^ bravery _ „ „ j , e d (, B r , ^ ,0 repUce-a
under haiardous condhioos and f^jj^c canopy, helpful in keeping
lata and those withoot telephones
to use them, to notify the Bie de­partment
of emergeodet. They
also eipressed coocerh with the
way FIRECOM dispatches calls,
claiming FIRECOM dispatchers
are not as familiar with local
Bahhrifl streets as the depart­ment's
own dispatdters.
.' Soth'candidatct are long-time
Baldwin, resident*. Cooper has
lived, b
Hit
Department for 33 yeitii (nd first
woa elettioa as a Fire Commis­sioner
in 1972.
Ttie . new. commissioner,
Quackenbttsh, is • life-long Bald-win
resident. He and his wife,
Debra, have three children and
he is a cooductoc. for the Long
bland Railroad. T ~
Capt. Ouackenlmsh has been
FREEPORT - While total figures on the village's 1983-84 rondcipal
budget have not yet been finaliaed, and the Fteeport Board of Trustees
has one ipoce scheduled budget werksbop.s^ssioa tonight (linrsday,
Dec^nber 16). the Board has set Monday evning. January 3. at 8 pm.
for the aimhaItraHlgerpab& hearing. The meeting win l>egin at 8 pm-alVnUgeHaB
.One set of figures have l>een
fioaBted bowevtf.Tbe-salanes of
, Mayor WnHan H. White and the
other four members of tiie Board '
reflect a five peroeid increase.
While's annual salary, if adopt­ed,
win increase (am its present
%KJO0O to $47050: the £anr
tmsfees •• will •receive annual
salaries of S6.82S as cf Aprfl i.
.1963 rather thain'their present
$6.500leva." .- :; :
The four trustees are dected
and are . considered part-time
p<Attioas. Tb^ mayor's jpby also'
elected, has been full-time dnce
1981. Before that time, the
mayor's last annual part-time
saIatywasSI0,450.
In 1979. tlie mayor's salary was
budgeted at S9300; the trustees
at SS;00D>-4n 1980. the salaries
were S10.45O and S5.SS0. In 1981,
the first year of a fnI14ime mayw.
his salary was S42.S00 and the
trustees each received S6,000.
Tfie pobBc does not vote on
eillier the budget cc tlie salaries.
Under village law. these are mat­ters
to be considered by tbe Board
of Trustees: The Board frill also
'coodact.spiibBc beniug on Janu­ary.
3/. on. the. vijlage'*.,.yeariy ,
oontrset with tlie fire department."
.THE LEADER has been toid-ttiat
budget figures wiH be final-iied
arid prititd.' Ene-by-lioe
Imdgets'made available to tlie
public s o ^ i m e during ti>e w e d
'iietween Christmas and New
Year's Eve. Budgets are usnaSy
i obtainable at tliat time &aoi the
VilUge Clerk's office in Village
HaU.
Robert Ouackenbush
dlspatcliing fire calls by Nassau
County's Mine<Ja-b»sed FIRE­COM.
Quackcnbush's supporters
apparently favored retaining the
boxes 10 allow passing motor.
with extreme persona] risk. He
Ivas also been cited by the Pre-siding.
Supervisor. of tlve Towntrf
Hempstead and the Oiunty
Executive for his rescue of a
young girl, WIM was unconsdons
and trapped in her basement bed-nx>
m dvuing an early rooming
blare in South Baldwin. For his
action CapUln Quackenbush
was awarded the Baldwin Fue
Department's highest award, the
" L e ^ of Valor." He U also, the
lirst redpient of the 'Nassau
County Fire Commission's
highest honor, the "Class One,
Extreme Personal Risk Medal."
He also presently serves as a
fire training instructor in Ladder
Co. No. 2 and is a delegate to
the Firemans Association of the
Slate of New York.
Holiday Schedule «Kes-:
FREEPORT — Afl Village of
Freepoft offices will be closed the
.day before Christmas and the day
before New Years, Fridays.
Decerot>er 24 and 31.
The Freeport Recreation
Center will dose at 5 pm on b<jth
Christmas and New Year's Eves
and remain dosed on l>oth
Chrislroas and New Year's Days.
The two holidays will affect
garbage and trash collection in
the southern area of the Village
(from Atlantic Avenue south and
indudine all of Atlantic Avenue).
There will be no garbage pickups
on Satunlays, December 2S and
January 1. There win be garbage
collection bat no trash pickup on
Wednesdays. December .29 and
Januarys.
Hours At library
FREEPORT - The Freeport
Memorial Library will be open
until 1 pm on Christmas Eve.
December 24. and will be closed
on Saturday. December 25.
Christmis Day and Sunday.
. beccmtjer 26.
out the winter and storm ele­ments.
_
But Halter was apparently
alone in even bis slight praise for
Bracco. Residents d the south
Freeport area, businesspeople
on the Nsitical Mile, Central
Business District business-people
Lionel Socolov ajtd Sid
Ueberman. both of whom are also
village residents and involved in
real estate, all agreed that
Bracco's past business condud,
his relationship with his neigh-t>
ors, his consideration for the
rest of the viliage was poor.
As Wooddeft Avenue restaurant
owner. Bill McDerroctt, said, it is
"by far the filthiest operation on
the entire street."
Bracco's applications were on
five spedfic items: to establish
off-street, off-premises parking
across Wooddeft Avenue in
one area of what is now called
the Nautical Mall; to construct a
frame walk-in freeier and wood
canopy; to construct anotiier
wood canopy over the bulkhead:
lo maintain an existing frame
addttioo at bis soothem perimeter
for use of iisb deantng and
filleting, although that had been
spcdfically prohibited when
permission was originally granted
to build i1; and to maintain
the eristing frame structure
on the north sideof bis premises.
Bracco's traffic consultant
spoke only on the qaestion of the
(Cool. onPaoe t6)
>Treepoft School Board To Vote
On Reorganization On ianuaiy 19
FREEPORT - A t an open
workshop sesaon of the Freeport
Board of Education, the date of
Wednesday, January 19, was set
for the board's vote on the
proposed reorgaiUzation plan for
the sijiool distrid. The board win
by Ed Sllyeman -
I>e maUng its dednon as part of
its regular monthly (Jantiary)
meeting.
The reorganizatian plan, wiiidi
was proposed following a series of
public meetings by a Task Force
(Cent, on Page 9)
A CENTURY OF SERVICE. Ffepresenting over 10O yeara of aervlc^lo
ttie communtiy, several past presidents of tha Frseport Exehanoe
Club gathered recently to plan tor th« January 16 baneflt lor tha resto­ration
of the Freeport Fire Department's oldtlma pumpar "Jumtx)".
Pictured 0. to r.) are Dr. Peter-Conte ('6t), John Abbata ('68). Bin
Sabella ('70), Ed Marti^-fCO), Dr. Phil Bloom ('63), Jerry Soe-g?,
r75), and Bob Franks ('71).