The-Leader_1984-04-12

              Olticial
Newspapet
Village of
Freeporl
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Freeport
School Dislflcl
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Baldwin
School Oislrict
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THE
LEABER
FREEPORT. NEW YORK. APRIL 12,1984
i48thYEAR. No,5l
FBEBPbRT MEMOTllAt. 1.TOBABY
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B MERRICK RD
PRICE 25*PERCOPy
Committee Votes To Keep Stadium
Five Declare For
Baldwin I
II Bd.
Proposed School
tax Hike 95*
FREEPORT - A school I n in­crease
of 95t is the UDount Free-port
School District residents can
figure on when ihey go to the
polls May 9 to vote on the 1984-
1985 school budget.
The figure reflects the b-cteased
State Aid and new eqatl-iialicn
fonnnJa obtained for the
Two Positions To Be
On BaHpf May 9 _
BALDWIN • Five local men have announced their candidacies for
two seats on the Baldwin Board of Education.
Incumbent school board member Bernard Rttinsky, Richard S.
Carbonaro, Rc^rt Jordan, Peter O'Neill and Victor Rone win vie for
the three year seat, presently occupied by Pittinsky, and the unexpired
part of a seat vacated by the
recent resignation of James tied to the former Barbara A.
Magee. Gibney.- Three L of their four
The at-Iarge election
Secret Ballot Ends In
Unexpected Result
FREEPORT - In « "secret ballot" taken Wednesday evening,
April 4, the Citizen's Advisory Committee appointed Ust fau by Mayctf
William H. White to look into pos^Ie uses for the viHage'* Municipal
Stadium, made a surprising decision to "keep the stadium" open
rather than recommending conunerdal development,
EDaper'
John, DI Grarla, was six
for retaining the stadium, which
for }rars had been leased to
promoters for use as a car racing
speedway, and three "against.
Di Grazia, who said he would not
vote as chairman, later told THE
LEADER that village counsel Joe
Edwards subsequently informed
him that be jhoiild have voted as
part of the committee.
Ically called because, after nine
months. Mayor White had sug­gested
that they reach i deci­sion
and make • report. Di Crazia
had sent a notice to each com­mittee
member thai-a vole would
be taken at that meeting. Four
members, however, were not
present. These were Louise Simp­son,
Glen Mitchell, Richard Dina
^ . ^ . "'1 James Reed. In attendance
Di.gra.Tia later called the vote ^g„ DJ Oraiia, Edel Marone
"•comedy dr«ttir»."-'nr-£r«-,Kj, Bcnda, Jerry Gerstman
J2J million package to iu final receiving^Uie highest number of
lUj. Bcnda, Jerry^ Gerslmanj^
Carol "W66Js'. Fran Camplon._
)lnir^_
determination) as weH as as
attempt by the Sdiool Board to
use some of that money to make
long-needed repairs and pre­viously
passed-orer por«*ases.
According to Dr. John E. Bier-wirth,
Freeport's Superintendent
of Sdjools, the money to be rea­lized
by the new tquaTizatioo rate
has not yet been completely de­termined
by the Slate, but it win
b« at least 5600,000 — the
amount Joci by the Board at
this time to figuring the laz
rate — and ccmld be as much as
J U million. Therefore, the 95<
per $100 assessed valuation tax
increase win not go higher, since
there are no unresolvni contrac­tual
negotiations, but could be
decreased afier the budget vote.
Among the itenu perceived ts
long-needed by the School Board
is the teput and rehabSilation of
the hig^ school field. Some
$212,000 ha$ been aUocated for
a sprinkler system — whidi Bier-wirth
noted should have been m-stalled
when the high school was
- f ^ built—a ifieinc track, some
resodding and purchase of
bleachers. With the sprinkler sys­tem,
it win be possible to keep the
field in better shape, because up
to now it couldn't be properly
watered. Bierwirth coitimenied
that the Board probably would
have done work on the &ld even
if the added schod aid bad not
been forthoommg.
Among the items purchased
win be more mini-computers, to
acoeferate the program the dis­trict
has fisond very successsful,
and musica] instrumesu. Bier­wirth
pointed out that one of
every four yonngstera in the dis­trict'*
fourth grade plays the
vioGn, and other (burth graders,
(Conf. on Page 4)
votes win wto the three year
term; the candidate with the
second highest number of voles
win fin the term to expire June,
1985.
BEBMARDPimNSKY
Bernard Pittinsky, who de­clared
tus intention to run for
re-election several week ago,
first ran for and won election to
Baldwin's School Board in 1981.
A resident of Baldnia for the
past 17 years. Rttinsky is a
Certified Public Accountant and
time the vote was taken DI Grazia _ _
lection wiH be children are stOl to the Ba]dwto_^eonnted.^aat-lood.^»-yotes—^g^^ P<Jlack',~iarry Gteb'
-Tbe-Candid«tt—Pubfic—15chdot~^temrTbeir "for" the stadhilm, four, "a- Bradley MMgette and Jack Cun
gainst" oc for redevelopment. nio~h,nj, „ weU as the commit
Even that vote apparently aston- -
oldest daughter is a student at
St. Johns UnivtTuty.
Cart)onaro, who graduated ished the chairman and several of
the members, because U came on
the heels c^ an Informal "survey"
of thecomtoittee members! when
only four of ibem verbaDy favored
retatotog tiie stadium for "family
entertaiiunent."
"I don't know if they under­stood
the vote," Di Graila later
said of his committee members,
implytog that at least one of them
had voted cnntrary to what he or
she intended.
The meeting had been specif-tee't
MtcreiMxy who does not vote.
Di Orszla came to the meeUng
with a hand-written report sum-mariztog
the committee's ntoe
months of work. "This committee
has been fnmbUng the ball a lot,"
be remaxked, "Three months
would have been enough."
Accordtog to'Di Grazla's re­marks
to the cotmnittee, experi­enced
developers from whom
they had heard prc^xvals were
only wffltag to give the viHage
(CcnI. on Page 20)
Bernard Pittinsky
f% epaimrA in <Mgh-«Beognliay—
and finance. Presently, he is Di­rector
of Ftoance for-Yeshh'a
Unrverxity.
Pittinsky has been active with
the Boy Scouts, the Police Boys
Qub and the Baldwto Educational
Assembly, and has been a mem­ber
of the Dads and Boosters
Oub.
The present. school board
member and his wife, Janet,
ate paxeats of four sons,
Matthew, Todd, SeoU and
Larry. The family lives on High­land
Street. .
A veteran of the U.S. Army,
Huinsky served u a missile
control specialist. -
RICHARD S. CARBONARO
Richard S. Carbonaro, of
Stanton Avennej is a fifebrng
resident of Baldwin and is tnar-
Rlch&rd S. Carbonaro
from Baldwin High School in
1956, spent four years to the
United SulesMavy
in Applied Sciences, with a major
to Sales and Markettog, £rom
the University of Missouri at
Maiyvine. Presently, Carbo­naro
is employed at St. Johns
Universily to the Security Depart­ment.
A Republican Committeeman
for 20 years, CariTonaro is an
assistant coach to the Baldwto^
Bomber organization and has also
coached gjri*'soflban to the PBC.
The candidate has explained
that he is runntog for the scliocd
board because of his "concern
over the approximate 9% to-crease
to the school budget on top
of afl excessive raise last year,'
He sUted tluf'iat time of tight
money, inflation, and pbysfcal
belt tighlentog to all areas
(Coot.ooPag«9)
SMART SCHOLARS. First place DMsion II wton«n in tb« Long Island-wide
Ofymplca of Ih* Mind oorhpetltlon w«* FrMport'a Alklnsori
School Sixth ar«d« 0/ymplc* of the Mind team. The team'* victory
over 17other Ortda t4 team* wa* baaed on lu creative new ending to
the Herman MeMlle dasalc "Moby OIek," Alklnaon'e Olympic* of
the Mind team, lupervised by M*. Barbara lllio (r., In photo above)
t» an outgrowth o( the eehoot'e Qltted and Talented Program which
ttreeset divergent thinking. The team'* winning project wae |udged on
creativity, ttyte, teehnlcai merit, and (oontaiveou* problem tolvlng.
Team member* {Iron! row, I. to r,> Klmberty Melntoah, Robert Oort,
Jonathan Fox; (back row, I. to r.) BIzabeth King, Usha Reynold*,
Nicole Alston and Jennifer Volta, and Coach Barbara llllg will be hon­ored
al the April 29th Freeporl School Board meeting at Atkln*or>
School.