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FREEPORT. NEW YORK. SEPTEMBER 11,1986
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Police Aides Plan Draws Objections
Clyde Rd. Condo Plan
Changes Offered
Qualificaiiqns, Scope Of
Dufies Draws Crifkism
FREEPORT - The Village Boardt plan to iiutitute a program of police
aides in Freepoit has met with obiections fiom-Fteepoit Police
Benevolent Association (PBA) President John Kilbride.
Kilbride, who was on vacation when'the boards proposal Has made
publieUstweek(THEl.EADER,Sept.4,Pag«J),sa)shebeUe>esthat-it
the Village was to look.deeply into
Developer Now Proposes
62 Uhifs, Plus Garages
byJoanPelaney
BAI.U\VIN-At a •nectingHilhlocalresidentshcid Wednesday evening, -
September 3, Donald Monti, the proposed bujer ("contract vendee^ of
(he Baldnin School DislrictXCIyde Road property in north-east Baldwin .
seemed to reach • compron£e agreement with the more than 100 pfopli
who attended the third of his community meetings;
At a meeting with residents held
but June, Monti promised to return
. afterheHasaskedtaseeifhecould
reduce the density of the proposed '
site development. Originaily.lhc-devclopcr's
plan called for 7S
cundo units (with a few three
bed room units) without garages.
After his second meeting, .Monti
had agreed to eliminate all of the
three bedroom units and to provide
a second ingress and egress to the
development. At this September i
- meeting, Monti agreed to reduce
the number uf units In 62 one or
tHu bedroom units .with garages.'
- . Part of the meeting included a
recapping of the original proposal
. and another presentation by -Vin­cent
Donnelly, a professional traf­fic
engineer. Once again, Donnelly
outlined the methodology whereby
"•• the number of traffic "tripv" are
determined for variotrs sites, par­ticularly
condo versus single fam­ily^
Since the main concern of mmt
people seemed to be the increased
traffic, Donnelly explained fhal
higher priced condos produce
- fewer lrip% and therefore less tramc
than do single family homes. Tak­ing
into consideration such factors
as unaller family sire and the age uf
the probable purchasers of condiis
versus.single family homes, Don­nelly
said that the 62 units in peak
time would produce one trip ttery
. one minute and 45 seconds versus
one trip ciery one ininute and IS
seconds for 48 single family homes,
the number already allowed under
the tsbting zoning.
Monti showed a site pbin fur 48
sin)^ family homes which basically
lined up the single family houses in
rows with approsimately 16 of
them with driveways facing onto
dyde Road, in contrast, his site
plan for 62 condo units would
allow for larger areas of greenery
III remain, particularly along CI) de
Road. Monti said thai single family
homes would require that the site
be stripped of greenery.
Monti stressed that at sonic time,
in the future, it is only logical to
expect that the Clyde Road property
will be developed and he again
urged residents to realize how
preferable il is lo deal with him.
because he wants to work with the
local community every step of the
way, rather than another builder .
' who migl)l not respond to such
community input, . -
lie agreed with residents that
'development is change,", but said
(hat '.'orderly development is-a
change which can be iKnencial." In
reality, .Monti said, he was not
selling Just condo units, but a
lifestyle. He described for the
residents the problem In Nassau
C'ounty of findingsuitable housing
for young coupIes,''emptynesters"
and senior citizens who do not
' want the bother of house mainte­nance
but who want to stay in the
. area. Stressing that todays market
is for con'dominiums, Monti
expressed assurance that his
S200,000 lo S225,OO0 price lag for
one and two bedroom units would
rise to possibly eveif $240,000
because of demand, for the product.
Again, he told residents not lo sell
short the area.
Monti also tCutlined the entire
approval process beginning with
-the required \uler referendum to
sell the property since it is presently
owned h) the Baldwin .School
District, fhis w ould be follow ed bj
• a presentation before the Town
Board of the Town of Hempstead
for zoning changes at which there
can be community input. He told
residents,*! amiookingto continue
this kind of dialogue with the
communit) tiery stepof the way."
He added that residents could be
assured, brcauseof strong Town
of Hempstead zoning and planning
Two FHS Seniors
Named Merit
Semifinolists
FREEPORT - Kevin Rugg
. and Craig Schlediter, both of
' Freeport, have been named Semif-ihaUsts'int&
er987 National Merit' '
Scholarship Competition.
.The two Freeport High school
seniors will rioff. be competing for.
Finalists standing and a Merit '
Scholarship award.
Rugg and Schlechtcr and more
thanone niilUon other then-Juniors
in high school entered the Merit '.
Scholarship eompetitioii by taking
the PSATs last fall and receiving
top scores. •: . •
Finalist statiding will be based
on their Scholastic Aptitude Tests
fSATs), academic performance in
school, recommendations from
high school, and school an'd com-
. munity aclivities, as well as per­sonal
interests and skills.
Merit Scholarshipsincludesome
1,800 single-payment S2,600 scho­larships,
allocated oh a stale basis;
some 1,400 Merit Scholarships (o
those who meet grantor specified
' preferential criteria; and itpproxi-mately
2,800 four-year fcholat-
' ships, offered by colleges and
univeruties to finalists who wish to
. attend the sponsoring institution.
The 6,000 Merit Scholars wiU be '
. named In April and May, 1987.
Freeporl Prug
Arrests Continue
FRF.CPORT • Village police
officers Continue their "crack -
down" on drug sales in Freeport
with several more local arrests in
recent days.
Two arrests In two separate
incidents were nude in haliwaj s at
75 Craffing Place. On Thursday
evening, September 4, at'7:50 pm.
Officers Richard Walker and
Ceorge Odwdell reportedly
observed a man dropping a clear
plastic bag, possibly containing
cocaine, on the stairs at Ihe second
floor. Tlie officers ancsted Danyl
U'albce, 25, of f02 Harrison
Avenue, Freeporl, and charged.
(police aide] programs existing in
other areas, they would find that.
police aides are essentially unquali­fied
personnel with inexperienced
backgrounds."'
As proposed by the Vilhige
Board, and awaiting action by the
Nassau Qvil Service Commi^on,
police aides wonid assist police
officers'and citizens in various.
ways. According to the Job descrip­tion,
they would answer telephones
and handle citizen inquiries, assist
. citizens at police headquarters, and
.assist' the. raiUo 'dispatcher if
needed. Aiiibng the alde\ duties
would be taking reports of petty
thefts and lost property, perform-
' i n g related clerical tasks, and
assisting stith traffic control at
traffic accidents. They would also
direcfvehicleanti pedestrian traffic .
and be assigned to school crossings
astieeded.
'Acknowledging these duties,'
Kilbride noted that presently the
Freeport PoliceDepartmeht has
ctviiian peisoniiel doing nieler'.
maid work and school crossings.
"I doh^ feel that the village can
establish police aides arid limit
their activity lo Just school cross­ings
and meter maid assignments,"
' said theJrceport P.B.A. president.
The Village of Freeport is prop­osing
12 full-time positions, with
starting salaries of S143Q5 annu­ally,
and six part-time posilions
with salaries of S7 per hour. Posir
lions would be open to both men
and women, al least 18 years of
age, and with a high school degree
or equivalent.
Presently, police aide programs
arc in effect in Ljnbrook, Rotksillt
Centre, Hempstead, Harden pty
and New York Oty.
Lynbrook, however, only has
one police aide, and that Job han­dles
purely dispatching, according
to information given to THE
LEADER; RockvilleCentrehas
- nine police aides handling primar-
.ily parking enforcement and an­swering
telephones.
Apparently the largest program
in Nassau County is in Hempstead,
which has 20 full-time and ten
part-time police aides.
' According to Gebrge Petri, pres­ident
of the Hempstead Village
P.B.A.,"we.wtre told at iitst that
the police aides would handle
parking tickets and traffic details',"
which he said were expected to
mushroom when the new District
Court opened in the tillage. Police
. aides, according to the original
pUn, Petri says, were supposed to
do "ineniai jobs so police oflicers
' could do what they sho'uld be '
doing - . We had lio problem with
that concept," Petri said recently
about the original plan in his
village, and "we would support the
program if they did it as we thought
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reqtdremtn^s,.)h4t tht propo^l a^ ,.;{4n[i,SjilhCijjntaal_Po«eirioivola
CONSTITimON WEEK. Members ol the Ruth Fk>yd Woodhull Chapter of
Ihe Daughters ol the American Revolution receive a procla.-nation lrom_
Freeport Village Mayor Dorothy Storm designating Ihe week o< Septemt>er
17-23 as t^nstitution Week," maiVing the t93th anniversary ol the lederal
document. At the-presentation were (I. to r.) former DAR Regent Gladys
Mapes. who serves as chairwoman for next year's zooth Constitution
annivecsary. Mayor Storm; Regent Charlotte McShea; and Nancy Wark,
Constitution Week Cliairwc>man. OAR members presented Mayor Storm
with a prim ol the s'tgning ol the Corulituljon which will hang in the Lobby ol
Village ttair.-' .\.' ,'••'•.