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• FHEEPORT. NEW YORK. OCTOBER 27, J983
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FEEEJOHT UESOSIi'.l. J.ISSAHT
V KKXRICS BD .
FBEEfOSt K T Xl=:0 6
PMCE 2 5 * PE» COPlT'^
Ratify Freeport Teacher Contract
Panel Hears Qise
Of Baldwiii Teacher
Village Violators
Receive fines
In Milage ODurt
FREEPOirr • Several TUUge
homeownen, as well as boid-nesjpeopie
and.other piupetljr
ownen, xeedved fines In Village
Cooit last Tbarsday. October 20,
when they came before Judge;.
RilphFranco. :/' • '••:. 'M:-
Helen HanUns,' whis rents
and occupies with her ftnuly a
second stotT apartment at 302
North Main Street," received a
conditional fine of S2S0. HanUns
his allowed two women and tiieir
families to also occspjr the prem­ises
in violatioa of Village
ordinances. The fine wiH be re­duced
to St2S if the illenl
tenants are tenoved witMn 14 •
dijfs.
The corpocation owning an
tpartment boose at'200 West
Mcrrid Boad was fined the maxi-'
mam S2S0 on each of two som-monses
for renting a basement
apartment to otlier than a super-intendent/
portet.
Anthony Sacco of 404 Sooth
Ocean Avenae also pleaded
guilty to toaistiining tlnse prem­ises
with rodent harborage and
IcfesiatioD despite a coort order
(0 eiterminate against insects,
vermin and rodents. Tlie fine was
set at SiO after Sacco presented
tlie Coort with an externdna&n
contract.
Cassis Management of 100'
Brooklyo Avenae, owners of 7
Wallace Street, was given one
-weet to pay a S13S fine for nn-cui
grass, debris and rabbish
and Eularc to provide safikient
garbage cans at the Wallace
Street premises.
' Southland Corporadoa of Levit-town,
owners of the' 7-11 store on
BrooUyn Avenue, were fined
5100 for maintsining the premises
with an lllegil metal storage
building, a trailer.
A S500 cooditiooal fine wss
imposed on Richard Wegner of
91 Centre Street for storing
Prciraod in a Reddence "A"
zone vithoot the minimam three
Inches groand clearance, and for
~~' s hiring a tra<ioirtncproperty7~""
Carol Garrison,. 191 Moody
Avenae. receited a 'coaditioaal
• (Cont.onP*ge16/W)
Industrial Arts Teacher
Says He's Not GulHy
Three Year Contract Calls
For 7, 7.5, 8 Percent Hikes
bfEdSihrrmaa
the lecemly negadated. ds»^«ar teacber's rmmrt witbom besitat-lon
or ffiscasMon at its last iaeepgg,WfA<rvliy Light. October W.
The In HI\. wbocb caB for pay I v e s ca 7 percent, 7.S ^M, F^^III and 8
peii flit OTcr &c next iTiii'* ii Ti'wJ years, bad been approved by tbe
-ricxptat Teacbers ASSOCXS^OB
kyJoamDdtmty
BALD WIN • Tbe first ct foor days of scbednlcd pobBe beatings to tbe
procec^Sngs of the Baldwin ScfaoalDistrkt against tenured Industrial
Arts teacher Robert Sawyers tt»k pbce on Ta«day. October 18. at Dis­trict
Offices on Hasdngs Street. Sawyers is beiag accused o( tampeiiBg
with an air testing device "by iatiudixing a fixeiga sohstsnri' in the
macfaiiK'aintaUfilter'* and cans- *","-'-""• v-^:
ing ' deSbcxate-oontanisatiabC
Tbe penaltf, if he is found
guOty, could result in a fine.
snspenson. or £snussal. Sawyer
deides the charges.
According to Ertufatirm Law
3020a, Sawyers a entitled to a
pubEc hearing. He is represented
by attorney Robert D. dearfidd.
l lw sdxni district is reptetented
by Jeroine Eb&h ol^lht firm
Ginsberg. EbiSdi, & Rndi.
The hearing is being condocted
before a panel of three hearing.
oBicersasis required under the
law. Chairman of tbe panel is
Jonas Silver; Bsq. Tbe Board
panel member, that b the mem­ber
dMsen t>y the school district.
b Dr. Kfidiael V. Santopoio.
Tbe panel member chosen (^
the employee b Morton Rosen-feld.
Accunfoig to tbe law. tbe
third member, Sih-er. mns: be.
chusen by nniina] agreemen: at
the two. or if they bul to agree,
by ihe'commissiuaer of educaiiun
bora the Gsi supplied by the
American Aibi.'raiiaa Associa-.
lion.
Tbe first wiiucss was John
Fitzsimmons. Principal of Bald­win
Hatixv Jnniur High Sdnxil.
He described the badLgnnnd
uf the specific incideni in ques­tion
indicaiing thai lawyers had
lormaUy cxxnptaiocd lo him con-
. ceming wutfc which, was taking
place-in tbe boiler area of the
junior high school uo March 3.
1983 and which apparently in­volved
the removal of jsbesiis
covering. Sawyers curoplaincd
abiwi the unsafe cundiiims
and requesied permiuiua ;o
move hu sindems :<> amaher
ruum since lus ctassmom was
abm-e thai buQer area and be
fell there was a risk cf asbes:iis
cuniaminaiioo, Fuzsimn»xis
The qncstiainng ct ndis.
tbe next witness, cemered on the
work that was being done and
Fnchs' actiaas before and after
the eoB^daintwas brought to Us
attention. Eb^di ob^cted to
certain qarstirwiirig by dear-field
inttiiTiiing that the &JCSS of
the hearing should be whether
or iwt'Sawyers tampered with
thcr tesiing device which had
t£er been bruugbt into tbe braid­ing
to nirmne tbe air qoaSiy.
Clearfield stressed that tbe
background to the incident, knew-
. ledge of the District's prboednres
as well as other information were
necessary, noting that bb ques­tioning
would. involve pniiing
as to bias, prejudice and credibil-
•isy.
' Fochs said that he immediately
called the Disuici's aiiomeys
and spoke to Larry Reich who
advised that air ineier readings
be done and that tt)e materiab
and debrb. which were being
removed fiom the boiler area,
be taken away. Fnchs said that
there was a pile of "bricks and
mortar" as well as '"iwo barreb
ofdebrb."
. Qoes>ians bom - dearfieU
centered on the asbestos coaient
of the dcbrb. the tack cf any
(>oIk testing or air testing before
the pio)ect began or irh3e tbe
debns was in tic building, as wdl
as various EPA and occupaiianal
safeiy. procedures. Fncfas des­cribed
the District's procedures
for'smad jobs whicfa. be said,
he fell presented no hazard.
He described tbe search for a
firm to. cnodnci the air meter
tests and the cvenmal agreement
fay the contractor to remove the
barreb of debrb wtule disirict
(FTA) earfier ia the w e d fcOow-tng
threats OK a teacher wa&ont-
Most trwbris were reportedly
^•tnn#,t with &e igirr iiicBt.
HuaLvtiv.afiCT tbe vlarl board
^feezed Ihi'^igh its scsieduled
agenda for tbe escmag, km
ScWkHrantj a Trteputt Kgb
^rf,rtnl f,*ff*| itgiTir I tcacber.
- can>{iazneCfuisl tbe f f a w t cctt-
: tract was unfair to those trarfirTs
wbo are not F T A members.
"Tou arc fiocaug several doodbB
family aiemoexs. iialiawtg ny-
- sdf, to become associated widk an
MgaiilmVa iiimlted ia Begal
actrn&s." ^liiUTliiiu said, in
jppaierJ lelumix to the FTA
arid its «^ «^*f to bcid a stnke
amhorizatiaa TDK prior to scttle~
m^nf "We have DO ilf %rre to be
associated wah it.'*
Sdnldkraia. witbod acnaOy
iJenti^fing himsrif or expbsnsg
Ids reasons for makisg die state­ment,
was apparently irriiiiiig to
the ptuviaaon ia tbe if arbr i ooo-tract
calEng for nailifis not af-
CEated with the FTA to pay an
"agency fee." The fee b de­signed
to cover tbcsr representa­tion
tn both f ii'iplnjce ncgocr-uicsisand
grievances in tbe ab­sence
cf any ftlrr desgnated
crfpaazMnoa.
, Asked later about tbe identiiy
cf tbe "several iliTfrn &culty
moBbcss** to winch he lelimed "
tad las JHjStaijaiJLSi to sprak
fcr anyone but Umsdt Sddd-
\izat TCfCMtcStf ttSas/eo ^to
oBiy svf«^rfa coiii8icot>
AuuKuxB^ to FTA ptcsidcst
Jnirr WSsao, tbexe arc :?1a tbe
arigyibri.'faood of tboot 20 to 25
tcftcbezs Bct n tbe ""*"** **
Asimalibicscrf'S2Sl are collected -
fraea tbe teacfaexs.
Cizsj5c=r
•Tbe cnlj ocber tssne" to be
TifnarTir rt dazing tbe Scnoul .
B<T8fn p^^ftT^^ff 11 FiK*^I nfii 'tbe
^>u^)^^a of tlamujm size in
Fie&^jurt s ili nv iitaiy sihfKils .
Several parniTs. bteio&ig Mari­anne
Rnrto. win imsw v rwfugy
ran for school boazd last spring,
chaOesged tbe schooi board's
l"^"'"'" that "it b better now .
than it used lo be."
"t hare net seen what was pro­jected
to bare been somewhat
smaTW dasses," said Rosemary
Allwood. who has two duldren
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SWIMMINC^Y GREATI Brian OunU* and Sozann* Epctc<n rae«ivcd
th«J^layor William H. Whit* Sportsoanstaip awards at ine carfmony
marUngttwMKlaltha Sea DcvassuecMiful 1983 taatonlnttw Nassau
^ifiaPBeigiearijTSn55?r'-'-*^f^H^-^"app=«t-:tfa':ari^^ 1i»irsw«f Dc^Ti-anan^
and notified Shekfon Fuchs. and mortar. He said that the De- Ronakl Epsteifl knk on. the tropMes • « • preaentcd by Freeport Parle
the District Manager uf Flan: panment of Saniuiion had re- Commissianer Jack Cutmingbara | c ) . Mora than 75 young swinvners
and FacffiiKS. ICcnt. on Pas* 7) - panWp«!«JontJ»SeaJ)evBs^ihaFreeporlHecrB«tfan Department's -
' sutiunerswim team.'-