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FREEPORT. NEW YORK. FEBRUARY 19,1987
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Elecrion Ballot Will look 'Nfferenf
BaMyimSdiQoLBd
ii-eiigtliens H.S.
Also Reschedule Clfde
Road Property Referendum
Pairings Si Party Symbok
JnJInusudlPosHions——
FREEPORT - Voters going to the polls on March
18th for the Village of Freeport's next municipal elec­tion
might find a distinctively different, if not odd,
look to at least one part of the ballot.
Faced with the legal question of a candidate not being
able to run on lines of
byJamDttauy
BALDWIN - Several requests relating'to'tlie length of
the school day at the high school and real estate were
approved by the Baldwin Board of Education at its
regular monthly meeting held on February 11 ^i
- Brookside School.
The request concerning •
real esute came from the
proposed buyer • of the
school district's Clyde
Road property, Donald
Monti of Darren Equities.
The Board's approval
resulted in a change of the
resubmission of the
referendum from March
18, to the district's regular
annual election and budget
vote on May 13. - '
W^en the . Board
originally decided to
resubmit the referendum
to the residents, h noted
that the low turnout for
the December, 1986
referendum - when the
proposal was defeated,
was their motivating
factor (for a second vote.)
It was felt that a greater
turnout would better
reflect the thinking of the
entire community and
Board President Bernard
Pittinsky spoke of a public
relations effort to better
inform voters.
It appears, however, that
Monii cffnducted his own
survey and decided that a
mid-winter vote in March
would not'be conducive to
turning out voters and so
the referendum will be
held in conjunction with
the regular election and
budget vote in May when
approximately three times
the approximately 1,000
§eople who cast their
allots in December could
be expected to go to the
polls.
Add A Period
' In business more related
to - education,- the'-Bbard-approved
the request of
Baldwin Senior High
School Principal Dr. Peter
Lynch and the recommen­dation
of the
Superintendent of Schools
RoUand Jones and his
administrative cabinet to
extend the day at ths high
school from eight' periods
to nine periods. It was
noted that the "teachers
' contract, which had' been
agreed upon several years
ago, contains provision for
this change which is
already in effect in the
jiinior high ! school; The
extra • time would be
garnered by cutting each
period from its pesent 44
minutes to 41 minutes plus
changing slightly the
beginning and ending
times of the school day.
Students with a full
schedule would . have
additional instructional
time. In addition, there
would be greater
flexibility of both student
and staff schedules.-
Dr. Lynch described the
history of the proposal
with studies in December,
1985 by both the junior
high, school and senior
high school. New
requirements, particularly
in technology, library
skills and home and career
skills, necessitated the
change to the nine period
day at the junior high
, school this past Septemner.
However, although the
Regents Action Plan will
' .(tJ«nl-JiaP»8»t2]
more than ' two political
"organiations* and pre- ,
sented with various op­tions
by Village Clerk
Tom DeVincenzo, Anna,
Jean- Cacciatore.'one'bf
the six candidates for the
two trustee positions, has
apparently chosen to have,
her name displayed on the
Home Rule Party line and
the Republican line. Both
C9nd!(kitm' Night
FREEPORT - The
•Northwest Civic Associa-
.tion.of Freeport-is-spon­soring
a Candida'tes' Night
on Tuesday, Febriiary 24,
8-10 pm, at the Freeport
Memorial Library.
Candidates running' for
election:,. n^as ~ i . . \Sllage r TOUu"^"g;dirpVhffdrdSTg^'
nated her one of their two
candidates, though each
also selected a different
second candidate.
But Cacciatore is also
one of the two designated
candidates of the Village
Party of Freeport, a
nommation she has not
declined. Instead,, while
not on the Village Party
line on the ballot (only
one nanie - Vincent Di-
Costanzo - appears on that
line), Cacciatore will dis­play
the symbol of that
political ^rganizatibn as
well as the V Home Rule
Party's symfcpl, alongside
her name oft- the Home
Rule Party »ne. While
Cacciatore's Home Rule
Party co-candUate Hycie
Vollmer is "Jk" on the
ballot and bear^only the
. Home Rule PartVs $ym-
The purpose of the__boU-GacciatorB wifWappear
town meetings I have been as "48- and will. k.that
Trustees have been invited
and all Freeport residents
are welcome. This will be
one of the few times it is
expected that all candi­dates
will be present at
the same forum.
A question and answer
period will follow the
• opening statements" byihe
candidates.
PaHon Announces
fown Meeting
In Fre^Mit
ALBANY - Assembly­woman
Barbara Patton
will hold a town meeting
in Freeport in order to
.-meet and exchange views
with the people of the
J 8th Assembly District.
- as "48** and will,
regularly hosting for the place, display the
past several years is *
twofold; first, to answer
any questions you may
have and second, to let
you "know about State b-sues
I am working on,"
said Patton.
The Freeport Town
meeting will be held on
Thursday, February 26, at
8 pm, in the library of
Atkinson School, West
Seaman Avenue, Freeport.
Anyone needing further
information, is asked to
call Assemblywoman Pat-ton's
District Office at,
m-e6ifr. ~
that
Is
of both the Home Rule
Party, which is on that "B"
line, and the Village
Party, which is on the 'C
line,
[It has been ruled that
candidates must have
equal spaces on the ballot
and, since Cacciatore
needs a larger than usual
space to display two sets
of symbols on her 'B"
line, all candidates will
have larger spaces. There
will be, therefore, no "2*
and 'i' spots, just "l" and
"4" spots on each line.]
•Oa-4he-'g liiiii. ite
Village -Party will. show
only on's candidate, Vin­cent
DiCostanzo ("IC"),
the only incumbent in the
race.
. DiCostanzo and Caccia­tore
will, however, be
paired on the first line
("A"), the Republican line,
with DiCostanzo as "lA"
and Cacciatore as "4A.*
Further down the ballot,
voters will find it easier to
Secipher'who'ls.ranmriu
with, whom,' or running
alone. The two~ Future
Party candidates, James ,
Reed and Vincent Cam­pion,
are paired on the
ballot with Reed as 'ID"
and Campion as '4t>.'
. Terrence Harris, running
alone on the Freedom
Party line, is at the bot­tom
of the ballot with the
designation of "IE,"
. Village Clerk DeVin-cenzo
iiotes, however, that
: all these numerical and al­phabetical
designations are
tentative until . after •
February 20. Candidates
have until that date to
submit their letters of ac­ceptance
of a nomination
and, he noted, he had not
yet received Caccialcre's.'
When questioned,' Di-
Vincenzo agreed that he
had never seen two party
symbols placed together,
but noted fhat it could
only happen in a' village
election. Judicial candi­dates,
' for example, who
run with more than two
party designations
(Republican, Democratic,
Conservative or Liberal)
have appeared on more
than two lines. The ban
on running on more than
two lines is for political
'organizations.* as differ­ing
from " political '
' "parties,"
One candidate, Jim
Reed, has said he is ob­jecting
to both the Re-
•publiean and Villa|^e Party
—noJHlHSTions. DiVincenzo,
••{C«nt.onPao«12)