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TREERORT. NEW YORK: FBBRUAJIY W, 1985"
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Baldwin S c h o o l s "epuwcans can vote FREEPORT - Under instruclioas ftom Sute Supreme Court Justice
Vincent Balletta, the Freeport Republican Organiiation has.had to
schedule a second caucus for the purpose of nominating candidates
fortheMarch 19th village election., ..
Last Wednesday,.Fehruary 6, following several days of court hear-
^ Ings, Balletta handed down a
'Tecisron whicHThrew out lEe re
Office Building,
Suggested For CBD
_ : FHEEEORTL, AiiMevelopment=-
proposal'-' by Paul Beggins. own­er
and developer of property on
JVestSiinrue. Highway in Free-port
,. was J presented to the
Village Board of Trustees during'.
its open legislative session Mon­day
evening; February 11-.
Beggins,,-who bought both
the „old_ Freeport .Theatre- and -
the vacant, diner - adjoining it
about 18 months ago, has been
in the process ot renovating the
two buildings.
lit his proposal to the Boai4 of
Trustees Beggins suggested con­struction
of ail eight story,
200,000 square" foot office build­ing
at the northwest comer of
"Sunrise Highway anH Henry
Street, which is adjacent to the
—Long island Rail RoadslaliOhr:" "-'
-^-As-. conceived by" Beggins
_aiul-his-firni,»GMG-Professional
- Sei'vlces.-'-tlHi
Sfafe Aid Loss Could
Add To Budgei Gaip
byJoanDelaney
, BAUJWIN - At the February 6th Baldwin Board of Education tneet-
|ing. Assistant Superintendent for Business Richard Dopsovic pre--
isented a status report on the proposed 1985-86 school biidget. Clearly •
stating that the statistics'were prtHinbiary,-«-"raw bndg^'/ with sig-.
nificant review and cutting still to be done, Dopsovic oatUned « docu*
ment which shows «. slightly. . .
lower lhan^Vi% increase — an,
average wmch has existed over
the Ust several yeafs ——, -.
On the revenue side, Dcvsovic .
noted the continuing declme in
the' percentage of .state 'aid.
Averaging.'the state aid figures'
found in. the Governor's pro-the
qiiesUon, i"Do we want the
program or not;': He noted that
at-some point-it i s n o l o n^
possible .10 further cut costs in-a
program but rather of actiepting
the fact that a particular program
..brings with a certairrprice tag.
Noting the importance of bring-sulis
of the first caucus held Jan­uary
23rd, at. Salty'-Bay-_Yadil„
Cub. At that caucus, recently
appointed Mayor, Dorothy Storm,
lost the Republican mayoralty
nommalion to Fred • Hager,
207-200. . •
Storm, her nmning mates —
Victor Ojhen and Ralph Smith —
and several registered Republi­can
residents of Freeport went to
thecourt challea^g the results
ofthecaucus. - < ~ /
And they woni While BalleUa
disagreed with sonie of thelrcnn-tentions
and in fact found more
votes for. Hager thaii in the origi-al
balloting, he described the.
legal notice catling for the original
caucus "at best confusing and at
worst totally misleading." .
The state law under which the
posal, the EducationaL:.Cgn:^ingJtCTeased revenues to Bald--^5^?^^ mn^ is_ fairly, recent^ Piny
f„e.r•e. nc. ;e^p-rno posaJia- H^i:F..p.jS v-•i ^-r ^w•'ihni™. iw,:ih,.i.jc™h Bi s nd.»es.mcr.i"be d rfaids nia- t ^po?l^iti!cJalf 'p Sar^ue^s Jlo'rt acaJn^oi^oatiScs itne.' well as. wwit~h.. .t..h e lorca^l .pfi. state aid; Dopsovic arrived itt .a
number which would result in a
-projeded-state-sSd- losyof^%Tind-thus
cause a "budgdt gap" of
-nm-—--^—•"-:— :—
At this pqintjunderstanding
that-estimates are" preUmlnaJry;
"high-tax-low/wealth" district
because of its lack of any signifi-j
cant iiiJu!.mal ur-.wamerd
properties which would ofiset
-the tax-burden fof-homeownersr^
DopscTvic'spbke. of the District's
political parties
village elections liiust be open to
Its of the-village
regiiter«a tn.ihat party.
JI/jVJTTt iTp^Tty rr,Tnrr,htr-FTnrn
orwomen;—r-. •,—' —-. ~-
There arc approaimately 8,000
provide for twp levels of parking
beneath'a plaza, which would
fill the site. These parking
slots would • loeet the require­ments,
said Beggins, of tenant
parking in that office tower and
in the office buUding tjeing
renovaied-^Aoni
MC-Professioaal UialesUmates are-preUBflnaJry—P^"f''° .I'fi^^lSf?"^''^^^^
tefld!,tg-^TOir^that-fiirtte-inming-my^^ Republics
- 1— '-—I .».«. i_i.i—:__ -cr—.. year as they did last -year. ^ . ^ *- ........... :
Board's
Pcbniaryr28 and it will beheld • -
Monday evening, February 25lh,
at the .Freeport- - Recreation
Center. - -
The caucus will begin at 6 pm
with..the -nominating speeches,
and the polls will dose at 10 pm.
THE LEADER was told thai Re­publican
functionaries have been
• attemptiiig : to. secure four -
machines for voters'use.
Storrn, Smith and Cohen have
already'secured the nomination
"of the Village Parly. Hager, and.
his running niates,' Lionel Socolov -
and Ed Motnroe, have the Home"
Rule Party line. •
, Both - slates are Republicans.
.While Stqri%has run with Repubr.
licah Party endorsement in her.
three'times at the polls as a
tnistee, Hager is a former Free-"
port • Republican • Executive
leader. Both want to run under^_
eagle'.is"
party. /
last Friday, February 8th.
Stoim_ and_
Nassau County Republican'
*S*lI5^!Ll9S?ESlMonde}lo,,THE^_
CEADER-learned-from -several - •"
^nntrrt that. Mrmdglln had-«skef^==
that they both "support the
"TTheater
—-jir-gaatlton u> the"
parking oh the site.
place and -that lobbying efforts
could innpreve- our., state aid)
Dopsovic's figures show -a $35
rniilion • budget which would
result in a tax rate increase of
$2.87 per '$100 of .assessed
valuation..For a home assessed
lhe-J'recport—al--S5,000Mhb—would—incan—r-
- dollar fifpite irit^'a^e of St41.«tf>
eanpcplorosexdi­mately
75 parking spaces would
•be provided on street level,
A- glass enclosed lobby,, which
would be on ground level, could
over last year. In addition,-this
expenditure budget does-not yet
include any monies for any pos-.
sible kindergarten expansion
proposal nca- does. the.revenue'
.side of ih'e'budgeL include any
Lorraine. Deller,, the
legislative liaison, and president
of REFIT, * consortium of high
'tax-low-wealth districts such as
Baldwiii, spoke-of efforts to raidw
categorical aid (aid for specific • r u y kU
ategories-«ucb-as-booksr-com^--tlllnA!l
pnters.etcJ fw Mgh Ur-dis-voted
on January 23.
Balletta stipulated that the new
caucus be conducted prici to
lean eagle" after the
caucus; in other words that the
(Cont. fro)nPage4)
tncts m addition to lobbying for
specific "high lax" aid. The com.
biiyiUon of categcxical aid, opera­tional
aid and Md for districts
labeled "tfgh tax" all workto-gether
to help ogset the tax bur-be
-used -for-suchi^i^mces-as—prcjected-monies-Tvhlclniaghr-^'""^"''"?• homedwner».--Hi
stands and coffee come to the district^ if and when _'Y"' ">« bottom Ime number of
- - the Oyde R6ad property is sdd. sute aid each year represenU a
^ExpUti«hTttTprint-out.wKiyi sffliUerBidTOiUlerpetMntage of
foUows prescribed bUdgei codet,- - »1« ^o**! •'"''8=1 •""l " .•* "4* i'*
newspaper
shops. - - , , .
—'/iso-proposed-is-a-sir-leyelr
enclosed Jiarking garage.on .the
site of the municipal com'miitir
parking lot. This tiered gargae
would provide for some 600
vehicles, far more t}ian the
433 parking spaces now utilized
for commuter use.
Beggins also noted the po­tential
use of the top level of the
parking structure for cultural
and recreational activity, com­parable
to the Westbury Music
Fair. •
In his presentation to the
(Cont. on Page e)
Dopsovic once again pcnnted ont-tremendous'.
areas of .increase
over which the district has no
control. Items such as insurance '
which increased &(m>-S86,000
to 5220,000; health cosU, fire
and safety Increases' because of
new mandates as weQ as pro­jected
increases in salaries after
negotiations were all mentioned.
In addition, -Dopsovic panted'out
that after constant cutting and.
"nickel and diming," curriculum
decisions, {ventually h^ge ;_on
creaser -whlchnBErtously affects
school: -districts like Baldwin,
which have very limited means
of raising monies except through
the taxaUion of retidenti.
Budget discussion centered on
some; ' specific codes which
seemed to show larger than usual
increases. Dopsovic explained
that when these situations.
occur, school admisixtration mast
look to other codes to ecooomize.
For example, the decision .to
jConl.onPiieie)
FUNDS FOR ETHIOPIA. The children, parent! and teachen of Free-port's
Ciblyn School were proud to send a aieat In the unount ol
$612.38 to help the people ol Ethiopia. THe very generous children ql
Giblyn brought In one penny a day ^ m e emptied their piggy bank*)
(or the month ol December. Photographed are (1st row, I. to r.) .Ray­mond
Fenher. Precious Tolbert (holdlna the check). Glenn SmHh and
John MauerA>erftr; ^landing behind, I. to r.) Prlndptf James
Qlennon, KIsha Flower*', Gloria tamb (Teacher Reprasenutlve lor
- PTA), antfEllen Pearl, the treasurer oliheOlbtynPTA.