The-Leader_1984-01-12

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Village of
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Frecporl
&hool District
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' Baldwin
School District
MEMORIAL. LIBRARY
FREEPORT, NEW YORK, JANUARY 12,1984
48th YEAR. }<q. 38
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Hearings Continue Public Hearing "CoolI'"
As Village Hall Heats Up
FREEPORT • The smell of what one fire chief des'cribed as "burning
wood" and the presetice of a "srookey condition" at VtUage HalI'did
• not prevent the Freeport Village Boud of Trostees from holding lis
annual budget bearing Mondiy evening, January 9.
Nor did it prevent some five dozen residents from attending the
mf^ling y,r\A In th^ nvnn/< flrmr.
-U-StadiutfTCoifimittee TThree Schoof Disfiricf
Hears New Prapqsai Cases Now Being Heard
FREEPORT - Members of the
Freeport Olizens." Advisory
Commhtee; appcteted by Mayor.
YfiJBam H. Vniite to consider
VBriocs options for ine of thg
Freeport ' Monic^pal ;5tsdiutn,
will be looking at the "ptys" pending case^werefoend in &vor
and "cons'." of- the „varfcos -of the school distAit. However,
presentations they hive'already • onThnrsday, Januarys, the third
heard ._and_iWill_jneel—again-^-recent-'
Wednesday night, January 18, Baldwin" Scbod Bisect against a
prepared to discuss them. .school distritt employee was
- • 6y Joan 0«lansy
BALDWIN - In recent months, at regular open Baldi^ Board of
Education meetings, various meniben of the Board and certain
administrators have noted the increase of "spprious grievances"
against thcschod distriet-asd the resulting iiii inse tu"tegll'CiggrAr
the December School Board meeting, tl was'aimoiinced thU four
conference room as ready-for-action-
garbed firefighters swarm­ed
through Village Hall trying to
find the cause of smoke and loca­tion
of a possible fire i
-^ The Board of Trustees apparr
ently had a more successfiil night
than Freeport's firefighters.
Although the village's volunteer
"fire department contracts with tl)e
village was unanimously ap­proved
by .the Board, tne Bremen'
' didn't fare as weQ at finding a
conflagration or even- a trnoldr
the District from an approved list, ering ember.
ihi was fbimd guilty. She-haa-- -"While the public .in the con-.
r"
That. appareiitly was the
• "homework" given.to them by.
. Conihiittcc -.Ctkurman " John
DiGrazia at (heend of the group's
las\ meeting hddra Jannu;^
- At that last meeting, j'the
Committee also beard a ptesema-tion
by'three principals of a One-jear-
old firm calTed Vital Devel­opers,
which would like to tease
the stadium for a ' combined'
sportscar radng/entertainment
u s e l • • • •
While specifics of the; firm's
. proposal could not be nude
public, it can bt said that George
Donohne, the company's youthhil
presid£nl,-Slresscd the Stadium's
- possible uses as a "community
facility." . _
The firm's seven principals "
have backgrounds, Donphne.
• explained, in such diverse but
inter-related' fields -as engincv"
ering, theater, construction and
.racing.
Among the points brought out'.
. by the Vital Developers' spokes-men
was.a stress on the safety
df lie Lu.UU> iuid the faa.-lliar'
mnfileTs onradng cars-wbold pot
aoij be mandatory but that tiiil'
provision would be 'strictly
enforced.
Besides the radng, jTital
Developers* plans include''the
possible use of the Sladiom for
' sodi family entertainment as Boy
Scoot jamborees,' an Octoberf est,
setuor citizen activities and'
bicyde .racing. Doootme,
however, rejected any such
y enterprises as flea markets 'that
could ^adversely affect local
business. .
The remainder . pt the Task
Fttce'i meeting ceiilered around
v-:vrr-.'!-,;<ComijorxP»fle.13)-,>.-.
else to civu court,
whe^ written arguments liave-beuipresented.
_.
All three employeejr»- Sawyers
and Mr. and Mrs. Young — deny
the charges' against' them and
^tjfrlhtt they are being haraitad
begun
TUs latesi case is against eus-
'tbdian Wally Young'and is based
"nn Section 75 of the Ovil Serviee
Code. According to the law, the
case must be heard before a an­gle
bearing'cfficer dtosen iy the
school district^6om an approved^
lut. The officer diosen is Robert
.Zeif, fbrmeriy of the Chancellor's
Office of the Board of Education
of New York City. The attorneys v.^.^u
.'are RidiJfd'Shine foTrtbe schod—attorney.-^At-approximately—1
-^istrict and Richard Gaba for tnoon, the public hearing began
•Young,
by the District.
Although the public hearing of
W*ny.Young-was scheduled to
bepn al 11 am, the first-Jxmr
apparently involved private
discussion among the two attor­neys
and Zeif with occasional dis­cussion
between Young and his
ference room was asking queS'
tions about the S17,982.21919S4-
^985 munldpal budget, the lire-men
were using an their know-how
coupled with the latest heat-.
detecting, equipment borrowed
tiuiu Uie Baldwin Flte Depart-ment
to try to locate the origin
' of the odor and smoke. . ..
And while the Board of Trus­tees
unanlinonsly votrd to accept
the budget after an appro^malely
two hour public meeting„the fire-,
men took to the second floor, the
mid-day, began to dissipate by
the UoK {he Board's public meet­ing
was adjourned, but a watch­man
was kept at the Hall through
the night. Village sources the
next day said there was. appar­ently
stUl no clue as to the cause
of the burning smells and smoke
and—at least on the second floor
near,the Village Oerk's office—
some slight odor still remained_.
lucsuay afternoon.
In Ulowing-the public meeting
to begin at 8 pm, as scheduled, a
village .spokesperson explained
that the meeting was mtn(l«ti?ry
and that, if necessary, the meet­ing
would have had to be held on
the front stepi ol Village Hall.
-: Neithertbe Board nor the audi­ence
appeared edgy during the
meeting, although MayniJVUIiam
H. WWte did dIdtptMt with his
usual opening remarks with the
explanation, that they are the
same eath year. .
(}uestioni asked at the hearing
, ranged from the reasons for an
Increased contingency fund and
why higher telephone bills, to the
Arts Council at Freeport and
Still ongoing (s the case of the
school distrid against Industrial
Arts teacher Robert Sawyers who
has been accused of. allegedly
tampering with an air filter being
used to test for asbestos contami­nation.
(THE LEADER, Decem-
_ber.29,_1983)..
Also continuing in civil court is
the case of Mary Young, former
secretary to the Baldwin Snper-intebdent.
of School and~wife of
Wally Young. Mrs. Young was
Wtj'tnd, in a bearing before a
sit%Ie hearing officer dyjsen by'
At that time, Shiine noted that
^Young's suspension without pay
for 30 days, as allowed un6cr the
law, had been completed, tmt that
it was the 'decision of the JKhool
district not to allow Yojing to
return to work until the ^^lu-tion
of the case. - Young must,
howey^.^be^pud although~he. -
will not be allowed to return to
his position during that period
of time., .' •
In comparison to other hear-in'gs,
which have rec^Uy.taken
pUte intlie^ sctioul JiUiitt7"tfae~
attitude displayed by the patti-
(Cont. on Paged).
tower housing tlyf village's files .
and-the_raof,jrlUch Is. prese'ntly.^-aireeplmllng program..
y^-being tari;ed,i|Hecking airspaces. In response^to the first ques-eaves,
floi»and wall boards. tioner, Ou^ Rugg, president of
The odor, which was first de-' COFRONS and a resident of Biv-.
tected in VilUge Kill sometime (Cont.on Paoe20)
-a Two Public Hearings Set On^
Cleveland Ave. School Options
FREEPORT - Public meetings •
•^on thg disposition of the Freeport •
Schod District's Oereland
Avenue School btdlding wiU be
held on Wednesdap^ January 18 '
and 25. Both meetings win b ^ ^
at 8 pm and win take place in the
Chnoy of the Atkinson School,
Wat Seaman Avenoe, Freeport.
.The first of the two Ineetings
-.-irjll be followed by the Board ct,,
Education's 'tegular " monthly
pubHe meeting,
A task fbcce, appciiitid'eariier'
this year to discuss the futore
of the DOW vacant bnildiflg —
which fotmeihr • boosed the
district's prerkbdergarten pro­gram
— has Wfori mended that
"ptimarf coosidexatloa" <be.
given to use of the binlding by a
~ ,,'. , ,(pontjjoAP»^ 10) -" • •'.
A QOOD CtnzEN. FrMport High School Molor JohntJawtld (2nd I )
was honorad at a raeani niMtIng of th« Ruth f loyd Woodhull Ch*pi*r
NSDAn. Oswald, Editor-ln-Chlef of th« achobl Mwspaptf. was chosen
t>y th« loc«l DAH chapter to r*prM«(tt FrMport High School and
recelva th« yaarty "Good Ott^illiward. PrM«ntlng th« mvard w<r*
Mrs. Patar Yattyla 0 ) . th« chapttr'a Oood Otlzwi chaIrp«r«on; John
Cattarson (2i>d r.). Haw Yortc 8U1» Chairman, VMnam Vatarana ot
Amarican and gu««t *p«ak*r: and Mr>. Edward O'KMlfa, chaptar
.•,6«g^t.(S««(tMr,ps^4.)-. •:. i , \ : .•:., ..