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GOP Primary Vote Results; 35-12
New Court Ruling
Affects Baldwin
Condo2^ne School District To Find
^i!?!!.?®.^'^?y®** Alteriiate Site For Classes
\byJoanD«lsney-
BALDWIN - Plans are being fonnnlated by the Baldwin School Dis-.
trict to comply with a coiiit ruling, which prohibits the presence of
pafaHc school teadiirs in parochial schools even though'these teachers
are providing required remedial instruction. This ruling, which aSects
all such schools in the nation, refers to programs nsin;; federal funds.
In Baldwin, federal Chapter I
Three Positions in Tie
To Be Deciared Vacant
FREEPORT - Village Republicans went to the poils Tuesday, Sep­tember
10 in what for them at least was aii unusual primary election. In
25 of the 76 local election districts, battles for COP committeepersons
were waged. Only in the-69th E.D. fin the 19th Assembly District) were
inctimbent committeepersons — Lorraine Franco and Robert Burger —
unchallenged.
FREEPORT • In a 3-0 vote, the
Freeport Village Board of
Trustees has approved a change
of zone from "Manufacturing"
•to "Marine-Apartmenl-Boatel.
Condominium and Cooperative."
The change was sought by the
present owner of a piece of
. property on South Ocean Avenue
and the prospective purchaser/
developer of a 20-unit condo^
miniuin complex..
Village Trustees Victor Cohen
and Ralph Smith abstained from
the vote taken Monday evening,
September.9,because they-were
not present at the first public
hearing held August 12.
The board had received a
report from the village's planning
consullanl, stating that a reduc­tion
to 20 units would avoid any
problems caused by too thick of
a density. At the earlier meeting,
the developer' had already pro­posed
to reduce his original
-24-unit density to 20 units.
The village also explained that
water,' sewer and electric needs
for the buildings fall within the
village's capabSilies to the year
2,000. Traffic, also, will not be
noticeably increased by "the
development.
•The 20-unit, two story condo­minium
complex will be located
on the east side of South Ocean
Avenue, south of Suffolk Street.
Arrested For
Burglaries
JEBEEPORT Jour rretport-residents
and a fifih man from
New CasseD have been arrested
and charged with multiple
' counts of burglary, closing out
niuneroos burglaries in Baldwin,
Freeport, Rockville Centre,
South Hempstead and Uniondale.
Nassau Cbunty Police Officers
'Wayne Atkins and Stephen
Schochet. of the Bureau of Special
Operations, arrested Carl Cum-mings,
a 17-year-old student
said to live at 28 Hudson Avenue
in Freeport, and Leslie Howard,
20, Uhemplo>ed, of 55 North
Cblumbus Avenue, Freeport, on
(Com. on Page 12)
fiinds are iised for remedial pro-grtuns
at the secondary levd in
the junior and. senior high'
schools, but they are also used at
St. Ouistophers' for a remedial
program. Since, -by law. the
school district must provide this
service, administrators are in­vestigating
the best and most
educationjdly sound method
of bindling the situation.
The Baldwin School District has.
requested "Chapterl funds for the
1985-86 school year amounting
to 5165,507. According to pro­cedures,
proposals are first sub­mitted
to the local stale offices —
in this case the BOCES Center,
and the district is given pre­liminary
approval of its plan and
a fiinding date. According to
school district public information
•officer Janet Neiman, the official
"funding date for Baldwin is
August 1, which means that
any monies spent on the program
after that date will be reimbursed
to the distrct even though formal
approval is usually not received
until September, or October.
However, because of the new
court ruling, each school district
was recenUy sent an addendum
form requesting information on
how the district plans to meet
" i f f f " ^ ' ^ " ' " ' ' " " " ' ' Ttut fnrm
was to be returned by September
3 in order to insure reimburse­ment.
According to Mrs. Neiman, the
district is looking into several
possible methods to meet the
requirement. The ' preferred
option is to.provide the service
as close as possible to SU Christo­pher's
perhaps with the use of a
rented van or trailer equipped for
that purpose. If that option is not
feasible, then children could be
transported to a public school
facility for the services.
At present, the District's
consultant for the program rela­tive
to the remedial work at St.
Christophers. Dr. Dorothy Ander­son,
is proceeding with dUgnostic
wo^', testing and 'meeting w|th
parents. This is allowed by law.
Teaching at the private school,-
which is hot allowed, has not be­gun
and does not usually begin
nntn October.
Funds for these programs arid
the new court-ruled changes do
not come out of the regular
school budget and do not affect
local school taxes. The Chapter I
program is strictly a grant pro­gram
funded federally. In addi­tion
to providing remedial read­ing
services for St. Christopher's
students, it also provides re­medial
reading at the senior
high'scbool and remedial writing
and math at the junior high
school. Remediation in reading
for public school students at the
elementary level is fiinded
through a different program.
In another area, two trends —
declining enrollment and student
mobility — continued as the
Baldwin School'District opened
for classes on Wednesday, Sep­tember
4th. There were 5037
students at all levels of instruc­tion
with 218 new registrani
- aiuuiig - Ul£u'i. Despite that,
however, the overall enrollment
was down approximately 116
students from June of last year.
The' new re^trations induded
29 at the junior high school,
64 at the senior high school and
125 at the elementary level.
This large number of new regis-_
trants at the secondary level'
also continues the pattern of
students moving into the Baldwin
School District later in their
academic careers, a factor fre-quently'referred
to by administra­tors
when standardized test score
results are discussed and ex­plained.
And when the smoke cleared in
what one County Election Board
offidal called a "crazy" race,
the end result was still oScially
- unclear.
The top "prize," in the primary
. is the local leadership and until
the newly constituted Republican -
Committeepersons Council
ineets to elect its Executive
Leader,' present leader Ray
Malone does :qot officially know
tbat'the party plum is still his.
Most experts, however, say
it is.-They say that if Malone
wants to retain hb post, there is
no doubt he has the votes. Voting
in the Committeepersons' Coun­cil
is weighted, with each Com-mitteepersons's
number of votes
a reflection of the number of
registered Republicans in their
election district. -
Malone's forces lost 12 com­mitteepersons,
but this is not
enough, local pundits say, to un-
° seat him.
It is enough, however, to be a
cause for unrest and ^ssension in
the Council, particularly since
these 12, who will now be seated,
are either active members of
the Home Rule Party — which
challenged Mayor Dorothy
Storm in the March village elec­tion
-t- or/and"commilleepersbhs
. "purged" by Malone- following-the
election, apparently feeling
they had supported Home Rule
Party candidate Fred Hager.
Both Hager and Storm are
registered Republicans. Hager, a
former Freeport GOP Leader,
had lost the Republican mayoralty
nomination to Storm in a nnptece-denteil
series of caucus-court
fight-caucus. He had gone on to
n i n '£;«'"«« -Sft.rm-,^T,-4),m Hjlin* -
Rule Party line, but lost at the
polls, although Storm's victory
came with the help of the Village
Party line,
Hager lost his seat on the
GOP Commiteepersons* Coundl
this week, but then so did Mayor
Storm's husband, Robert, in
his district. Malone, however,
won his E.D. more than two to
one.
Two of Hager's three running .
mates in the March election also
won their primaries. Lionel
Socolov, wlio bad never been a
commitleeperson before, and
Ed Monroe, one of the "purged"
committeemen were able to daim
victory.
However, long-time GOP com­mitteeman
Charles Mehfmann,
who was also on Hager's ticket,
IostinhisE.D.
On the other side, two of
Storm's dection campaign'lead­ers
lost their posts as committee-persons.
Bill White, Jr., who was
running in what for him was a
new district,- lost as did • Joe
Edwards. Village Counsel. -
On the Malone/Stonn side,
-victory could be claimed by sup­porters
Al Sirlin. a former Village
trustee; C. James (Jim) Qarit,
the present Deputy Mayor;
and Village Trustee Ralph Smith.
However, Village Trustee Vincent
. DiCostanzolost.
According to Malone, he lost
six of his former committeeper­sons
who we're running for.re-'
elecUon: Edwards, Storm, White.
Lenny Kropp, Robert Lent'
and George Wolder.
Seven of the committeepersons
pureed by'Malone did not keep
their positions in the election:
The seven are Vito Tarulli, Frank
Smtth,Mehrinann, George Bow­man,
Hager, Ed Harding and V.
RoyCacciatore,Jr. ••
•There were several ties. In
the 61 E.D.. (18th A.D.), whDe
Owen Brown, a Malone sup-
• porter won with 42 votes, the
other . three candidates _ —
Karoline Ibsen, Henry Cramlich
and Ken Metzgar—each had 40
votes.
In the 67 E.D. (18 A.D.), Eddie
Monroe won with 56 votes, but
the second place was a tie be­tween
Jerome Lewis and Georgia
Grice, both Malone supporters,
who polled S3.
In the 74-E.P. (18 A.D.).
Sliiil Fiailef received the high-est
number of votes, 66. Gabe
Frazier and John O'Connor tied
for the second seat with 61.
Aonrding to the Nassau Coun­ty
Board of Elections; the posi­tions
where there are ties will be
declared vacant and new com­mitteepersons
for those will be
selected in a method in accord­ance
with state law. Appar^tly,
they will be selected by the Com­mitteepersons'
CooiicB as it
existed prior to this week's elec­tion.
Unofficial election results, as
they came in election night,
follow. The lop two votegeuers
• in each E.D.are declared victors.
(Cent, o o f age 12J •