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SchoolDistfici g FREEPORT. NEW YORK. OCrOBER4.1984
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"School District 1^1 49th YEAR. No. 24
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do Land Plan
Kindergarten Study^
A Baldwin Priority
BuHder^s Plan Meefs
Opposition From Residents
. FREEPORT • At least one dvlc association has now gone on record
opposed4a rczontng the former Guy Lombardo property to allow for the
constroition of condominiam town houses, and a petition wltJi 198''
names has been presented to the Village Board of Trustees carrying'
the same sentiments.
2/3 Of Burglaries Board Says That's
Last Week
Were In NW
BEA's First Priority
FHEEPORT -: One informed
police source called this''past
week's pattern of burglaries in
Freeport "a rash," particularly
on the Woodbines and in other
parts of Freeport's northwest
section.
From Monday, September 24th
through 5unday^ September 30,
some 15 burglary or burglary
attempts were reported, of
which ten were jh the northwest
section of Freeport.
Three burglaries were re­ported
on East Woodbine Drive;
The first, on Tuesday, Septem­ber
. 25, netted a Panasonic
VCR, a Marantz cassette re-
- corder/tumtable/stereo, a val­uable
coin collection, gold cuS
links and tie dip, two wrist
watches and cash. According to
the police report, the burglar
or burglars appaiently entered
the tiouse during the day by
breaking a rear window.
On Wednesday, September 26,
alio during daylight -hours,
another home on East Woodbine
was entered iiito and burglarized.
Here entry was through a bath-
•room window and the loot in­cluded
a Sony tape dedc, Sanyo
stereo receiver, two Cable TV
boxes, a gold coin,-a cordless
telephone, VCR tapes and as-sorte4
jewelry.
The third burglary,-on- Satur­day,
.September 29, resulted in
^ the bomeinvner's UMS of a Mag-
• navox VCR. Entry waa apparent­ly
through the kitchen window.
Other burglaries in northwest
. Freeport induded one on West
Lena -Avenue during the day
Monday. September 24. The thief
apparently entered by breaking
the glass window of a porch door
and. after ransacking the prem-
- ises, left with a small amount of
cash.
A Seaman Avenue resident was
lucky. He came hotne Monday,
September 24, to find his house
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- - byJoanOelanay
BALDWIN - The Tuesday evening, September 25 Baldwin Board of
Education rueeting was somewhat disjointed and shortened to actom- '
modatea 9 pmixecotive Session for which the Disirict's aUoni<^ was'
present. But the study of an all day extended kindergarten program
was discussed.
Carol Klarikaitis, chairperson,
of the Witterfronl CbmmiUee of
the South of Sunrise Civic As­sociation
(SOSCA) delivered a
letter to the Board of Trustees at
its open meeting Monday, Octo­ber
1. The letter, which was writ­ten
with the penntssion of the
SOSCA Board, urges the trustees
not to allow the.rezoning of the .
Guy Lombardo property.
Edward Achtner delivered the
Other iteins on the public
section of the agenda, prior; to
its abrupt condusion, induded
the School Board's approval to
dispense-with the charge of ad­mission
on Band Day when all
tliree District Bands — District
Elementary Band, Junior High
School and Senior High School —
are in attendance and perform at
half time of t^e high school's
footbaU game. There was also dis­cussion
by some members of
the Board of Education regarding
their perception of the role of
the band at football games.
The Board approved by a vote
of 4-1 (with Bnnard Fittinsky
dissenting) the ' contract with
outside consultant Samuel Cohen
to update an4 coordinate Board
policies and. procedures in ac­cordance
with changes in educa­tional
law and District organiza­tion.
It was explained tliat
Cohen, fonneriy a superintendent
of schools and serving as Execu­tive
Secretary of. the Nassau
County Superintendents' As­sociation,
thiwgb retired, had
had significant experience in
this ^pe of .work. Though ruit
intended to indude any major
changes, the policy review would
be in response to the wishes of
many Board of Education mern-—
. ben in the past to have the writ­ten*
policies accurately reflect
the actual operational poBdes.
Cohen would relate the District
polides to a uniform coding sys­tem,
which is being implemented
in many districts, and would
point oat any gaps which pres­ently
exist in Baldwin's policy
outlines. The cost would not
exceed $4,000 and the pn^ect
would be completed by the end of ~
the school year.
Fbtinsky objected lo the use of
an outside consultant stressing
that the.. job,<o«ld be>.>ac>.-
complished in-house. It was.
pointed out thai many attempts -
over the years to do this hare
failed since District adminis­trators
are already performing -
their own tasks and are now being
given additional ones since the
retirement of'Assistant Superin­tendent
Howard Schivera.
Commenting that it was simply
a matter of priorities, PiUinsky.
noted that he had "no appetite"
for the study of "all day Kinder­garten"
which is a goal for this
school year. i
Board member Lorraine Deller
pointed out that Cohen's eiperi-.
ence and his awareness of the
Nassau-Suffolk School Board's
position on policy issues would
allow him to complete the task
more efiidenlly than a District
administrator who would not have
that expertise available to him.
The Board then approved sev­eral
business iteins regarding
the payment of bills for bond
work, the approval of change
orders oq bond work, and the
approval of bids for computer
equipment and software whkh
will be eventually used for
scheduling and attendance pur­poses
at the junior high school.
_ Jeffrey Smith was approved as
an impartial hearing oSicer
' at the rale of S250 per day for a
. hearing invdving the,edacatioaa]
placementof a studenk.
Before the ' adjournment - lo
begin the eiecntiye session.
Board member Ira Matelsky,
who is the Board's liaison lo the
Baldwin Educational Assembly
(BEA), brought up the concern
of the BEA with the timeline for
its charge to study the proposed
all day or extended tmder-garten.
. Apparently the BEA ihoogbt it
petition, which had circulated in
the area of the pnposed develop­ment
as wctl'u at a meeting of
a second local dvic group, Free-port
Harbor Civic Association.
Tbe one acre property in
question, the former home of the-nationally
known orchestra lead­er
Guy Lombardo and his wife,.
Ullibelle, both now deceased,
was'recently purchased by Fer-ban
Associates, who need to have
a rezoning from Residential "A"
to one that allows condominiums,
if the developers are to proceed
with their plan of constructing
ten, one-family town houses.
. The units, built in two dusters,
would consist of eight, two-story, .
two bedrooms houses; and two
. one-and-one-half story, three
bedroom homes. Each unit would
have a one car garage and
there would be another 12 park­ing
sites provided on the prop­erty.
The huge hedges now
bordering the property would re­main,
all present buildings would
come down, and there would be
one entrance and one exit into
the complex.
But, SOSCA, many of the local
neighbors, and Village Mayor
William H^ White do not seem to
favor the development.
Vfhile^Uid Klarikaitis and
.Achtner at the Monday night
meeting ttut "I have Indicated to
the developer thit I personally
am not in favor of this."
~50SCA't letter claims that iu
members aswell as the majority
of the resideiits on Guy Lombardo
Avenue and -in the immediate
area feel that this propertjr
should revuin "Residential A
'Zone." . -
As reasons, the letter notes
that "spot zoning would not be
approprule for the" neiahboc
hood" and that it would add to
: the ecological burden on the area,
as wen as to both traHic on the
"already busy street" and
"unnecessary enrollment in our
schools."
In• tet- leu«r ' for- SOSCA;
Klarikaitis also argues that "the
changing of single family dwell­ing.
to condominiums will alsn
change and affect the formal and
ei^tronment of the neighbor­hood."
The letter to the Village Board
also warns that if the property
was- rezoned, "it will ' set a
precedent for' future sales of
bouses and properly on or near
the walcrfrontarca."
' The petition argues the same
; points. "We object to the contem­plated
conslrurtion of town"-'
houses on tiiat property" says the
printed Introduction. "We feel
that the construction of town
houses is not in keeping with the
general esthetic and overall
enhancement of our neighbor­hood."
The petition also notes that the
proposed construction not only
would not increase neighborhood
property valuet, but would
eventually lead to tlicir reduction.
Mayor NVhite told the audience
at the Board meeting that the
matter must first go to the vil­lage's
Planning Board.
The Planning Board next meets
Tuesday, October 9. at 8 pm,
at ViUage Hall. THE LEADER
has been told that the proposal
nj.x)n its agenda. Public partid-pation
need not be entertained at
Planning Board meetings, but
itls open to the public.
~- While also mentioned that
there would probably also be a
public hearing by the Board of
Trustees on the matter.
Police Make
Drug Arrests
FREEPORT • VUUge police
officers .were again on Broad-
- way and nearby streets this past
week, sometime on plainclothes
detail, making arrests for pos­session
and/or sale of marijuana
' and other narcotics.
'On Monday, September 24,
P.O. Robert Piulik, on a plaln-dothes
patrol, lArserved two men
smoking handtoUed dgarettes in
Cotignola Park. Panlik arrested
Benjamin Haywood, 28, of 206
Babylon Turnpike, and Clarence
Barnes, also 28, of 297 Wash-bum
Aveijue, both Freeport.
B'j'h men were charged with
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