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v o l , . 34 NO. 17 Wednesday, April 29,1987 30^ P E R COPY
School Budget Vote Set
D'-. Seiderman points out
that . T i e m b e r s of the Board
of Education, the profes-
.sional staff, and the citizens
residing in the Lynbrook
School District are aware of
the continued positive pro-gress
that the schools have
maintained in its striving for
Excellence in Education.
During the past year, 210
elementary schools through
the United States were rec-ognized
for educational
excellence by the federal
government. Two of them
were in this district and this
year, the third has already
been recognized as out-standing
by the state. "Our
share of New York State
Regents and National Merit
Scholarships continues to be
high and the achievements
of our graduates give elo-quent
testimony of the train-ing
they have received."
A defeat to the budget
would halt bus transporta-tion
beyond state limits,
instructional and library
purchases, interscholastic
sports, after school recrea-tional
activities, summer
recreational programs and
use of the school buildings
by outside groups. The
Board has the option of
removing kindergarten and
driver education. Incum-bent
Board Trustees George
Berch and Alicemarie
Bresnhihan are running
unopposed for three, year
terms, thereby canceling
"Meet Your Candidates"
Night on April 27.
Polls will be open from 7
A.M. to 10 P.M. at all three
election districts. Residents
living north of Sunrise
Highway will vote at North
Middle School, residents
south of Sunrise Highway
and north of Scranton
Avenue, Atlantic Avenue
School and residents south
of Scranton Avenue at
South Middle School. Per-sons
uncertain as to whether
they are registered in the
school district and eligible to
vote may call the Adminis-tration
Office between 8
A.M. and 4 P.M. at
887-9297
Lynbmok residents will
go to the polls on Wednes-day,
May 6 and vote on a
proposed $21,861,307 1986-
87 school budget. Although
negotiations are in progress,
the anticipated increase per
$100 of assessed valuation
for Class One is $1.23 to a
projected $31.91. Much of
the increase is due to new
environmental laws that
have made it mandatory for
the district to replace fuel oil
tanks by 1990; the cost of
which will be spread over the
next three years; and an
estimated $34,000 in addi-tional
ins-urance.
Other increases include
facilities and operations for
the district's seven buildings
with higher costs for salar-ies,
equipment and supplies,
fuel and utilities and repairs
and upkeep of grounds -
curriculum development
a n d s u p e r v i s i o n for
expenses related to the
administration of district
wide instructional programs
and programs for handi-capped
children. These ser-vices
for youngsters with
learning disabilities are
mandated by State law and
include tuitioins paid to
BOCES and other schools
providing instruction for
these pupils.
According to Superin-tendent
of Schools Bern
S e i d e r m a n , s i g n i f i c a nt
r e d u c t i o n s in original
requests for staffing, equip-ment,
supplies, and non-essential
building modifica-tions
were made. Central
administration, with the
cooperation of building
level administrators, elimi-nated
many requests from
the initial budget. During
the past four years, 19 posi-tions
have been reduced as a
result of declining student
enrollment. "The proposed
budget represents a minimal
allocations necessary to pre-serve
our present quality
educational system," the
Superintendent says.
Jack Irwin Honored
Mayor William P. Geier congratulates Jack Irwin. (Photo
by John Cribbin)
" At the Village Board
Meeting on April 21, 1987
Mayor William P. Geier
awarded a special Procla-mation
to John "Jack" Irwin
for his dedicated service to
the Irish American Com-munity
both locally and
state wide.
Jack, as Past State Presi-dent
of the Ancient order o(
the Heibernians has been
very instrumental in the
furtherance of causes that
have a direct impact on the
daily lives of Irish Ameri-cans
both here and abroad.
Jack has also been nomi-nated
as "Man of the Year"
by the IrisH American Legis-lators
and will receive and
award in Albany on May 20,
Denise Albrecht Seeks East Rockaway
School Board Seat
r-iJcmse^ Albrecht has
announced her candidacy
for the East Rockaway
S c h o o l Board. Mrs.
Albrecht is married and the
mother of three children.
Her children, Ricky, Kelly,
and Tracy all attend Centre
Avenue School. Richard,
her husband, has served as
Lynbrook Village
Board Report
1987 from that body.
Mr. Irwin is also a
member of the Knights of
Columbus St. Mary's Coun-cil,
the American Legion,
the Irish American Society,
the Irish American Con-gress,
The Friendly Son's of
St. Patrick, and served on
Governor Cuomo's Imple-mentation
of the "McBride
P r i n c i p a l " Committee
affected the Investment Pol-icys
of Americans Business
in Northern Ireland.
Being a humble man, Mr.
Irwin thanked Mayor Geier
and all the residents present
and promised to continue
his dedication to the organi-zations
he has served for
many years.
3y Annette Ling
Citations and proclama-tions
were a main part of the
Board of Trustees Meeting
of the Village of Lynbrook
at the Board Meeting held
on Monday, April 20th,
1987 at Village Hall. A cit-ation
of excellence was pres-ented
by Mayor Bill Geier to
William Robinson for his
many years of dedicated ser<
vice to the Lynbrook
Recreation Commission
and a special Citation was
also given to East Rockaway
resident John "Jack" Irwin
for community service. He is
the able President of the
Ancient Order of the Hiber-nians
and in accepting and
expressing his thanks, he
'mentioned that he claimed
dual residency in both Lyn-brook
and East Rockaway
because of his many friends
and activities in both
villages.
Mayor Geier issued a
Proclamation declaring
April 30th and May 1st as
"Flower Days" for the
benefit of South Nassau
Communities Hospital
when the Auxiliary will be
selling flowers in the village
for the benefit of the
hospital.
Mayor Geier next menti-oned
the extensive tree
planting program in Lyn-brook
as part of the over all
Beautification Program and
asked that the motto: "pre-serve
and Protect our Trees"
become publicized in the vil-lage
and issued a Proclama-tion
designating April 24th,
1987 as Arbor Day in
Lynbrook.
The Mayor issued a Proc-lamation
declaring May as
Senior Citizens" Month in
Lynbrook and presented the
proclamation to Mrs. Agnes
Gogol, who represented the
Seniors present. A request
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the first male President of
the PTA for the past two
years. The Albrecht's moved
to East Rockaway ten years
ago, and feel that although
they may not have been born
in East Rockaway, their
commitments are here. Mrs.
Albrecht is attending col-lege,
majoring in Criminal
Justice. She plans to gradu-ate
in December of 1987.
. Over the last several years
she has been very active in
the PTA serving on numer-ous
committees. She has
been involved with the
Safety Committee, Legisla-tion
Committee, Third-
Grade Committee, Play-ground
Committee, and the
Asbestos Committee. On a
District level, she is the
School Board Representa-tive
and also serves on the
District Budget Advisory
Committee.
Mrs. Albrecht states "for
the past four years I have
regularly attended school
board meetings where 1 have
watched, listened, and
learned a great deal about
how a District is run." Dur-ing
this time she has shown
the Board the need to keep
our current three third-grade
classes as three fourth-grade
classes next year for the
children's best educational
needs to be served. She was
also one of two people
instrumental in bringing the
asbestos problem in our Dis-trict
to Light.
Mrs. Albrecht applaudes
the parent's groups recently
formed, she is distressed that
things had to get to the point
where these groups are
needed to investigate the
educational problems in our
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Friend of Education
East R o c k a w a y / L y n -
brook Observer Editor John
Hambel has received the
first annual "Friend of Edu-cation"
Award from the
New York State United
Teachers Union for his
efforts on behalf of quality
education.
The award was presented
at a dinner held at the
Woodbury Country Club on
Thursday, April 9, 1987,
"in recognition of service to
the children and teachers of
our Public Schools."
It was decided by the
NYSUT to institute an
annual award to recognize
the efforts of members of the
c o m m u n i t y who have
worked to enhance the edu-c
a t i o n a l o p p o r t u n i t i es
available to the children of
the Community. Mr, Ham-bel
was chosen by the
members of the NYSUT
local in East Rockaway.
Also honored at the
dinner were local President
Peter Kilcommins for 20
years of service to the union,
and East Rockaway High
School English Department
Chairman Charles McA-nulla
for 10 years of service.
Mr. Hambel, a lifelong
resident of East Rockaway,
is a graduate of Rhame
Avenue Elementary School
and is a 1978 graduate of
East Rockaway High
School. He has served as
Editor of the East Rocka-way/
Lynbrook Observer
since 1983.