The-Leader_1984-05-10

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Village of
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Freeport
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FREEPORT b BALDWIN
Sclmol Board li Budget Vote
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FREEPORT, NEW YORK. MAY 10.1984
i49th-YEAHrN5r3—"
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Freeport School Budget Wins By 355
Baldwin
Piftiiislr^nord
Library Budgef Winsi
Bovlukbs, Venzen Return
Win
Libraiy^Budget FtKS&s, too
^Viilase Judge Schopf Budget Wins By 203,
Finds Fish Sales
FREEPORT - ViJlase Justice
Ralph Franco has rendered a BAIDWIN - Voters in the Baldwin School Dislricl dearly approved »
decision favoring- transient l?84:15aS school budget which would raise the avenge school taa of
rfian tinOiiiS«.« on
i>i^ dutnclresidentsby$2.47per$100ofasscssedvajuation.
reiau oosuicsscs on me xTie$32,441,305budget was passed 1323 yes voles to 1120 no'votes
on Wednesday, May Sib.' " . ..
-In a five-way race for two seals
on the Baldwin School Board,
incumbent Bernard Pitlinsky was
reelected for another three year
(erm, when he received the most
votes of Ihe five candidates seek'
FREEPORT* The local school district budget was strongly apptoved
by Freeport School District voters who trooped to the potU this past
Wednesday. May 9lh.
At issue was an anlteipaltd average tat tale increase of $ .959 per
SI00 of assessed valuation, although Superintendent of Schools JacV
Bietwirttt had previously suggest
fisb retail boslhesses village's Woodcteft Aveiiue.
The issue of transient busi-'
nesses, i.e. Ihe-selling of fish
from a boat usually in coiinectian
wilh some sheds on the dock,
has been a controversia! one this
year.
The case, "The People of the
_ Slate of New ^Yort'^ against-
Timothy Swanson,;Was tried in
Franco's court on March 15,
Tbe'three other school board
candidates, an3 tAeir (ota] vote,
were; Victor Rohe - 786, Peter
O'Neill - 770 and receiving just
> ^^ ...V ...V ^^^..'.v^.w ..^v.- 452 votes was Richard Carbonarb. ,.
ing the available seats. Pitru-.siry t Afier.the-vgles-wcre-«allied^-~3^f?.ffBg^—r
feceivea I ISCvSesTThe second School Board President Lorraine Oiolyn bchool
highest tally, 1148 votes, went to Deller said she fell that the vole
Robert Jordan. He will fill the "... was the result of nxirt by in-ed
thai • when the final equalix-alion
rale Is deiermined by the
State >. the increase could be less.
The $34,031,723 budget was
approved by the voters with 737
yes voles to 382 nos.
The votejaUy, by polling place,
was unofficially released as:
Archer Street SdTool -170 yes,
89no. .
Atkinson School - 155 yes and
47no."
Bayview Avenue School -' 146
yes, 98 no.
Cle\-eland Avenue School - 26
yes and 3 no.
Columbus Avenue School • 126
and 93 no.
Two incumbent school board
members, George Boulukot and
Calvel Venzen, were both tunning
unopposed for (heir board seals.
Boulukos garnered a (otal of 818
volts and Venien received 659
voles.
The Freeport Memorial library
budget for 1984-1985 also easily
won approval wilh 750 yes voles
lo 320 no votes. "
The third proposition on the
Freeport School Oislrid ballol
was for the establishment of a
school district parking field
opposite the Dodd Junior High
Sc(!g!)!jrhaLpropo$iliojrLJwj}.»p^
when Franco reserved decision. - - . . . , .nnr . r, .,. •„ ..—r.
- .Afier-listen«g-to the-defcnd-—»'«^»?f*"rartor-Jone^^5rT!f—fanir«J, involvea community
ant's conlenUoni that the selling James Magee. who recently re- ">="»>««-
of Esh in that spot on Woodclefl ?'8""* ^,"5"?«^""l- , , , Dr. Rolland Jonw, Schools
Avenue has been going on.for a , ^' Baldwin Library's budget Supertniendent. said be had been
lone lime, and the argumenls o^ »ls<jwon voter approval, 1432 yes concerned because of the tax rale.
VUUge Prosecutor J<«-EdWards *°*« to 922 n«? voles, library but he indicated that '. • .petyle
_ 4hat-4ke-boai—St-Petee" is a Tnmre- Barbara-J«sterr«ftwng—tmderstood-tfift vote ana me tact
temporary business and has no unopposed to succeed herself, t^at the increase U caused by
114 yes votes proved by Ihe voters, 742 lo 324.
FreepoitJSa^StlWloiiJRohhed-manded
money.
permits. Franco last week handed
down his decision which sp-oarentlv
agTfftI •mih—George-
Maislen, Swanson's attorney.
According to Franco's decision
testimony waSi, eslabljihed • to
the Court's satlsfacticAi that the
present owner/Iessot of T ic
premises IJan Kaczor] sold fish
from his boat at the same
prenuses, retail and wholesale
and mainuined his fishing boat
and used the refiigerator in the
shed as early as 1948.
Kaczor now rents the premises
lo Swanson who testified that he
sells mostly fish caught in Free-port
waters, or — when he tracts
• fish in ^tom_Massachu,ssUJ„at_
Narih Carolina, for example — it*
is varieties that during other
seasons "inhabit" local waters.
Franco based his dedsion on
' the fact, be said, that the? sale of_
the fish at the ptemises'and'ihe
use of a shed containing a refrig­erator
or an overtiead canopy,,
predated a 1966 Village ordinance
whkh prohibited them withoat
permits, and between the. bulk­head
and property lines.
Although, dioing the trial,
Edwards asserted that "yoo can't
get more temporary than a boat...
(Swanson has] essentially a
vacant lot witlname shedslon it."
. (Cont.onPaoeZO)
received 1467 voles.
ui^fienLGuidelmes—
Board VKii Meet
In rreeport
FREEPORT - The Nassau
County Rent .Guidelines Board
will meet at Village Hall in
Freeport on Thursday. May 17,
alT-JOpm.
The purpose of the hearing is Va
receive testimony and evidence
from tenants, crwners, ' their
representatives, and public of-'
ficials concerning the economic
conditions of the residestial real
esUJe_jndgsfry_jn_Eeecpart,
"Si3nding tents and income; jeal
estate taxes, seKer, and water
rales; insurance rales; _ fiiel
cosis; labor costs; costs and'avail-ability
of financing, indoding
etfective rates of Inlcresl; and the'
'supply of housing and vacancy
raies.-
The information received will
be used with other data to estab­lish
annual guidelines for rent
adjustments and--to determine
whether lhc_rpnU Jat-ftaaatig-acoomioodatkins
nzlject to the
Emergency Tenant Protection
Act of 1974 shall be increased
onder of one and two year leases
(Co(il.onPag«20)
Baldwin's small tax base."
FREEPORT - A stick-up man
armed with a knife, allegedly
robbed the Power Test - Gas
Station on Merrick Road Ln
Freeport, Saturday night. May
5.ataboul9utS-pni:'
he teen-aged gas altendant
was in the station's oSice area,
when the thief came in and de-
The employee gave the hold­up
man $103 In cash and the sus­pect
then fled on foot, west­bound
on Merrick Road,
_ -The young-eroplaye«-was-not
hvn daring the Kxhezfj.-^
The suspect was described as
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NO TROPHIES TO SPARE. The 19e3-&4 L M 0 U « Champion* of th« FrMport Community Bowling
Program pose with Jheir frophlei following the recent Awards luncheon behJ •> the Freeport Becre»-
tlon Center. Founded 27 years the program l« <o-epon*ored by the Freepoft Reaeetion Oeti*^ment.
Freeport-Baldwln Eiksfixi Baldwin Pro Bowl. Seen by the camera'* eye were <Kneeiing< I. to r.): Jim
UmyrtTCraJg Kelly, Joe Borger end Denny Borgef; (aundlng, I. «o r.) eoeeh Joan Homie, Elk* Do9
Club President Ruth Oavin, Elk* Past Exalted Ruler BUI Oavtn, MIcheel Umtre, Matthew Magnt.
Mike Walah, Deputy Mayor Dorothy Storm, Darren Anzefone, Baldwin Pro Bowt nwnager Oeorge
Van Hoeeen, PaiV Commtaloner Angle C«llln. Patty Traver*. Elk* m^nbef Lenny Kropp, Cindy
Romme*. Mitehet Sehanke, Theresa Usr»M», Rofcert Plstanl, John Mugno and Albert Neapee*.
Nespeca lathe program'* founder-,. ....... •- •