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ifiiiyfii FKEEPORT. NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 22.1983
l48thYEAR. No.22
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Prostituf ion Crack Down Goes On
Baldwin Class Sizes
Discussed By Board
Contract Talks Parents Erratic As
Between Freeport ^ „ ^ •.
District, Teachers Enrollment Declines
Reach Impasse
Three More Arrestee/As
Village Seeks Local Law
FSEEPOKT -'-ten two days after the anests by Nassau Coont}
po&ce of tftrrg *Besed puuitutes in Fnepott. the ViBage Board
pabdcij look a **gct toqgh" stance against the seemingly increasing
•cdnty.vtncltisaesteiedaDSaBnseHistnrayneuChanfaStieet. '
Majvr WiSaa H. Wtate. lefating to a memo be received bom
RecpQct PoBoe Ooef Anthrwy
byEdSOrerman
F8EEPOBT - Contract negotia­tions
between the Fteepoct $cfaaid
District and its more tlian'400
leachen have readied a dead-end '
as both tides are now preparing
to settle the : eight-raonth-oM
dispute with the help of a state
medialot.
Following discussions tlut
suetclied into the caity monung
hours on Friday, September iC
the adnUnistratian and tlie Free-port
Teachers Assodatloo were
unahle to *gtee on several
issues — indnding*.salary in­creases
-r— and de^ared an
impasse.
Faced with worting witboat a
contract since the previoos tliree-year
contract expired Jnly 1,
hundreds of tead^rs began pic­keting
in boot of severiJ Free-port
schools tliroaghoot the wieek
in the hopes of foiling the sdiool
board and administrattoo to settle
what Freeport Teachetx Associa­tion
president • Janice Wilson
referred to as "major" points.
"The compromises just weren't
there," Wilson toU THE
BALD WIN - Stating that the "popnlatioa in our sdMob is dynaanc,*'
BaMwfa Assistant Sgpeiintf iidenl of Sdiooh "Gene taiaaro destined
the Dcstrkt'a esroOaieat de^ae and some of Us emtie. dass SIS F«t-tems
at the September 14 Baldwfa Board of Ediralli«i .mfeiiiig. the
III si tcfUtt n If fling of the f^*"*'*^ year.. Is addiiioB to cmsOmetst-statiillrt
u d pceaentadau \j '
sererat binlding principals coa-cendsg
dass dtt patterns,
there was discosdca of pcogress
ooooemtiig the sffninf high
school's repnr of damage caused
by a sammer tscnado, as wdl as
approval of regnjar moothly
bosness items indofsg certam
sapetintendeat's rebommenda-dans,
bid awards, transpona&o
and udiitect's cootfac^.
EmoDmeat figures were ptet -
sented by Asnstant Sopeiis-tendent
Phyllis Almmoff and
then coopucd to September,
1982 enrHfaoent figures. (The
September S issae of THE
LEADER used June. 1962 enroO-ment
figures as a point of tom-parisoa.)
AlmenoB fa^ficsted that
there are S410 students earoOed
fa the Baldwfa Schotd District fa
csotrast tg th^5',733 that were en--
roQed as of Sqitember. 1982.
There axe 2,4S* students at the
demeataiy lerd (148 fewer than.
LEADER. "They're really not fbstyear);'l,ODV at the 7-8 junior
spending the money the other <Us- hij^ school (4SJewer than, last
tiicts aie spending.
Among the issues that have
gone unresolved are' dassroom
size, health insurance costs and
pay raises. The teadiets axe said
to be seeking an aaoss-the-boatd
salary hike of eight percent, not
including the regularly paid "fa-'
Increments," or graduated steps
teachers receive for yean of
experience and additional educa­tion.
However, tbeschool board has
been reported as offetfag any­where
froni a four percent to a
seven-percent increase. School
board president. James Parola
could not be reached tor comment
by press time and school district
supeiintendent Dr. John Bier-wirth
decfined to comment on de­tails
cf the negotia&ns, caUmg
them "extreme^ sticky."
"We wpuldn't have gone to an
impasse, if we hadn't had diifi-culiy
settling ttds," Bierwinh
(Cont.on>age12)'
yeu), and 2.000 at the senior
high school (130 fieinr than last
]reat). However, it was ruilainrd
that the kindergarten mmUmfnt.
over the last several yean
has remained relatively, constant
vrith the dfdining trend seemmg-lyleveBngoS.
.
At the end of the meetitm, fa
an answer to-teddent Al Fam.
as to why additiwiil eleiaentary
sdxiols aren't dosed, it was
plated out that the decCmng
trend win soon be impacting so
as to primarily aBiect the jmiior
and senior Uffi schools'and.not
the ekmeataiy schools.
Although total enrollment pro-jettioos
were only a fcw.numbers
oB the aittal enroUmest. there
wen dass sire patterns at several
dementary schoob wfaidi were
nansna] u d wfaidi caused coo-cem.
Ptesentatioos were made by
ptinc^ials Thomas Hodge tl
Steele Sdiool, Robert Babb of
Brookside School and William
(jocdoD of lenox SchooL la tbe
Letxa Sdiool kiudugaiten, (he
Btooktide Sdiodl~faadi grade,
and the Stede SchocJ first grade,
sufficient stndents for -sec­tions
were pcoiected fa June and
thioa^ioot most of ttie sanuaer.
However, an luminal pattcsa of
transfers without new students
movins fa has tesalted fa dass
stces Just iiiaVi aa aatoCBatic
dass s ^ . Piinci^ab spent
large amooiit of tune chr-*'
oa transfers and Hodge evca
noted that he caDed the owoer of
the new coodoininiams sooth of
Atlantic Avenae and vatious
local t«a!tors to see if any duMtea
were'slated to leove into the
Steele* Sdiool area, partkaatly
fa first grade.
• Ahhoog^ it was not appropriate
to tfiscass siifiifir tttkleat ptob-leas
fa a pobBc sessko. it was
noted tiiat. partkabiiy in the
case of the fasrth grade at Brook-
^de Sdiool, ia£vidna] circinn-*
stances beyond dass s i e woold
prompt a pnncspal a xecoca-nwtirtatim
to ^Bt the dass. la
that case, afanost 60% of the dass
has some type of special need diat
has bees iVn iiinriiied- and fac
which the student sssuX leceive .
speciaEzed attentiao. The Board
reserved art inn oa the cases ^r*
ing the prJncipj'H a w e d to ac-
'Cttsnilate Amiiiiftntatinii to sop-port
d u s spGts and to aOow fcr a
stabifizing of naxnbers.
b aaotlier. preseatatioa. As-dstaat
Sapetiateadent Riduid
DopSQvic. %minr Hig^ Sdiool
nmcjpil l^tcf Xyadi. Fhysdcal
Fdnrstinn Director Dee Alaa
Tyson and Assistant Director
Aileae Asti gave- an npdite
OQ the status cf the seaiar l a ^
school's repair, iasurance negoti­ations
and physical edncatioo ad­justments
fa the aftermath of the
storm damage.
Dopsovic noted that he was stiB
mectogwiih instzrance cocapaay
(Cont. on Page t)
Ear, £xecsed village coctnsd to
isTcstigate a Heaipstead VHbge
local law, wtach albws its pc&e
departnxat to arrest ptmtitatts
ando' tier osa local code,.
book diea ia- Hempstead and
bnag theia vp beCbfc tlie Vilbge
Onait. . , . .
_^ JET trite noted that pceseatlv
•BeccA'prasdusts «ii^ b « » g u !
to Nassaa Ctooaty District Court
aad asked cooasd to fcok' into a
poCTible v3age law to raa coo-currcatly
widi tiie state penal law.
"ia order." said the mayor, "to
get an the weapons we caa use."
Tbe Village of. Hetupsteadt
pnoulgated a local ormnaoce
oa Ftboary n . 1981.
I^cseatly. ia neeport. prosti­tutes'are
arrested nader Sec-tioa
230 of the State i^nal law'
and charged with a Class *'B"
' iin^ieTTif iiiiir. %luch' carries a
maTiaium 90 day sentence.
Village viobrinm. nader the law,
cany a maiiiiiam SZSO 6ne-and/
orl5daysinj*il.
b some past cases, alleged
pcosiitstcs have often beea hand­ed
oely appearance tickets,
bat teceady ooe woman, arrested
fa Fteepon, n s tried in Disnvrt
Coon and is presendy serving a
4S-day sentence, and a second —
one of three arrested this past
weekend-^ was stSn fa jail at the
beginning of the week, unable
topQstSl,000bail.
The three arrested this past
Saturday. Se^ember 17. some-tuae
after a^daigiit, were part of
a'coooerted activity by the Nas­saa
Oooaty PuBce Vice Squad.
Azvttstttt wctv Kaxra Caputo, 37,
whose address was ^veii as Ter­race
Avenue. Hempstead: Rosalie
Tales. 23'. d 171 Sobth FranUfa
Avemie. Hempstead; and Ebrenda
Buna. 27, of 125 Brodt Avenue,
Roosevelt. Oipoto was picked up
at Sunrise H^faway and Church
Street: Yates, on Hne Street,
about 200 feet v>est of Cbntcb
Street, after bavfag been observ­ed
in the OTB parking lot oa Sun­rise
Highway; and Bunn. in a
parting fidd at Wallace Street.
\Rilage Cops Brave
Blazing House
FREEPORT - Four VilUge po-
Sce officen, investigating an
alleged burglary m progress,
entered a house on fire late
(Cont. on Page IS)
CONSTITUTION WEEK has baan dasignatad by Fraaporl Village
Mayor WIBiam Whit* p.) ai Sapttmbv 17-23. WhHt pmenled a
prodamatlon to Mrs. Edward O'KnHa |c). Regent tA tt» Ruth Floyd
WoodhuH Ctiapiar of th« Nalkxial SodMy ol tha OaugMen o< the
Rawolutlon, and Mrs. Edvnrd Dvrts tr.). Constitution Waek Chair­woman.
TM kxal DAR mounlad an axhibitat tha Fraeport Mamorial
'llairary for the waak. Tha Constitution; wtilSri was drafted in 17S7 and
ratified a year laitr, irani Into efled tn 1789.'• ^ ' • ' '"